Hailing from Toronto, Lioness produces a hefty rock sound with a doom-like, anthemic feel on their new song “Clips The Wings Of Birds”. Vanessa Fischer leads with deep, dark vocals, backed by Ronnie Morris on bass and Jeff Scheven on drums. “Clips The Wings Of Birds” is off Lioness’s debut LP The Golden Killer. Read More »Lioness: Clips The Wings Of Birds (MP3)
Formerly of Here We Go Magic, Teeny Lieberson left the band to join her two sisters, Lizzie and Katherine, along with friend Jane Herships and make music under the guise of TEEN. The band’s new LP, titled In Limbo, will drop in August on Carpark Records, and on it you can find “Better”. Read More »TEEN: Better (MP3)
While I haven’t written about Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture directly, they’ve already become mainstays on both my regular playlist and on my KSVR / KSVU weekly radio show. The duo of Daniel Hindman and Sarah Versprille create quite a full pop sound for there being just two. Early on, I became a big fan of their track “Ivory Coast” off their self-titled, debut EP, out now on Father/Daughter Recordings. Read More »Pure Bathing Culture: EP
What to say about Kishi Bashi? He tours with Of Montreal and Regina Spektor. He’s a founding member of Jupiter One. A side project of his called Cop Gravy will release its debut EP later this year on Joyful Noise Recordings (the same label that put out this LP, 151a). So to call Kishi Bashi new to the music scene would be false. He is a well-versed, well-traveled, and in fact quite notable multi-instrumentalist.
Read More »Kishi Bashi: 151a 
Ian Sotzing directs this American Psycho role reversal (ish) video for Ski Lodge‘s song “A Game”, off the band’s self-titled debut EP, which dropped recently on Dovecote Records. A sultry vixen plays her role well, casually murdering lead singer Andrew Marr in his sleep while simultaneously preparing breakfast. Read More »Ski Lodge: A Game (Video)
Deep synth lines open “Make It Known”, contradicting lightly with a 70s rock percussion, guitar and bass. Then the vocals hit with a hint of soul. This is not your standard indie rock group; their influences span wide and far, making Foxygen one of the more unique and interesting new artists to surface of late.
Read More »Foxygen: Make It Known
Last weekend I did something a bit taboo. No, nothing that bad. What I did was this: I took my email inbox, and I cleared it. I archived everything — over 15,000 unread messages. It had just gotten a bit too out of control. Then, this week, I checked ALL my emails, filtered out what I wanted to cover, and pulled some select ones to add to my radio show.
Read More »Fense’s Radio Show: May 25, 2012 
All my friends are in prison. All my friends are a prism. Pyramids have risen. Covered in the resin of love. So go the opening lines of “Pyramids of Love” by Ozarks. Sung by Robbie Augspurger, wearing a sweet moustache and a turtleneck, the video for “Pyramids of Love” conjures thoughts of 60s baroque pop mixed with modern influences such as Ryland Bouchard’s The Robot Ate Me. Read More »Ozarks: Pyramids Of Love (Video)
“Fuck Off” is a somewhat departure from “Nightmare”, the first publicly available track off Grave Babies‘ debut Hardly Art EP, Gothdammit. Amidst a softly pleasant backdrop are slightly creepy, pseudo-surreal gothic images put forth by director Jordan Utley. The opening notes of the song are initially reminiscent of Bunkbed’s cover of Xiu Xiu’s “Fallen Angel II”, acting as the perfect opening tune for the new EP. After nearly two minutes, a beat kicks in, then guitars and finally vocals. This completes the cold wave circle. Read More »Grave Babies: Fuck Off (Video)
We’ve had seven sunny weekends in a row, which must be some kind of record for the Northwest. As such, it’s been the perfect time to take out the Bimmer. And in related news, Andi’s dad thought it would be a fun project to spend a weekend sanding it down and giving it a new paint job. Score. Read More »Fense’s Radio Show: May 18, 2012
