SURFER BLOOD
Surfer Blood have recently performed at Coachella Festival, released a new video and a Record Store Day album of demos. They are also at work on their third album.
"The band's finely nuanced and understated treatment of the [late 80s / early 90s] era works on Pythons. Aided by Foo Fighters and Pixies producer Gil Norton, Surfer Blood conjure college rock's feeling of youthful, nostalgic melancholy without using any of the sub-genre's gimmicks." – NME, 8/10 rating
BESTiE
BESTiE was formed in Spring 2012 in East Vancouver when friends Andrew Janczewski, Tristan Orchard, Daniel Ruiz and Rob Cameron started jamming with the goal of making a fun accessible pop band. Soon after exploring their array of world and pop music influences, they began crafting their unique sound. On January 16th 2013, BESTiE released their debut single, "Pineapple" , with a video shot and directed by lead singer Orchard, a Gemini nominated film maker whose documentaries have aired on Bravo! Television and short films played in festivals around the world. The tropics-inspired tune has had over 10k views and was featured in over 30 music blogs and media outlets in Canada, the US and abroad. The single also managed to reach the number 25 spot on the Hypem.com's popular chart and earned the group radio airplay. Two months later they followed that up with a single release party for "Asleep On The Bus" with a capacity crowd at the Cobalt in Vancouver.
Both of these tracks were produced by Digory Smallz, an emerging talent known for his work with, Young Liars, Oh No! Yoko, Jasper Sloan Yip and Joshua Hyslop. In June 2013, BESTiE were announced as one of the top 20 finalists in the renowned B.C. talent contest, The Peak Performance Project, competing for over $200,000 in prize money to further their careers. Included was a week-long boot camp in Princeton B.C. in August, with record producers, agents, managers and songwriters in attendance, followed by an autumn showcase at Fortune Sound Club and a charity event with the bands. If this wasn't enough, the group had a packed summer of festival dates at Sled Island, Music Waste, Khatsalano, The Vancouver Fringe Festival and Rifflandia in Victoria. In September 2013 BESTiE organized #Safefest, an all-ages music festival with proceeds going to Safe Amp and The Music Tree to help fund the creation of a permanent all-ages music venue in Vancouver. These groups aim to draw awareness to the importance of the all-ages scene in Vancouver and the accessibility to music for people of all ages. The festival featured over 75 acts in all genres playing 13 events over 4 days. BESTiE are now in the studio recording their debut EP with Howard Redekopp, a Juno award winning producer best known for his work with Tegan and Sara, Said The Whale, The New Pornographers, Mother Mother, The Zolas and more.
Talk In Tongues
Los Angeles foursome Talk In Tongues didn't come out of nowhere, although it sounded that way when their debut single "Still Don't Seem To Care" suddenly appeared online. And it felt that way for them at the beginning, too, when each member was a refugee from another band that just wasn't working right. Back then, they were barely acquaintances—guitarist and singer McCoy Kirgo remembers seeing his future bandmates at shows in their other bands, and then at parties after the shows. And if you looked into the music they'd already made, it didn't quite make sense for them to put a band together.
But they almost immediately found that they all shared limitless drive and direction and an unexpected common ground in several generations of psychedelic music, from the 60s Pink Floyd and 13th Floor Elevators through the unstoppable Creation Records roster in the 90s.
With production from Kevin Augunas (Cold War Kids, Edward Sharpe), their debut album, out in early 2015, links modern-day psychedelia with the foundation of early 60's experimentation—it's melody and atmosphere and noise-as-beauty captured (barely) in songs that should be blasting out of the Coachella main stage somewhere around midnight.
Hot Flash Heat Wave
Hot Flash Heat Wave is a sun-glazed rock band based in San Francisco. A four-headed fabled musical lagoon-dwelling beast, HFHW emerges from the murky depths to bring songs that combine their offbeat sense of humor with their darkest unspoken desires. They create a genre-spanning blend of dreamy guitar hooks and melodies over dirty rock 'n' roll grooves, which they aptly call “Heat-Wave”. Their newest set of tracks tells an electric story of the bohemian odyssey, spanning from the gutters of San Francisco to the shimmering west coast surf. With poolside jams and crooning group vocals, HFHW’s music finds itself swirled in youthful solace through the pursuit of love and radical individuality.
"Hot Flash Heat Wave have been one of my favorite discoveries this year; the San Francisco-based early twenty-somethings craft a serene blend of power-pop and surf-rock that manages a bevvy of punchy hooks despite the amiable nonchalance." - Obscure Sound
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Surfer Blood have recently performed at Coachella Festival, released a new video and a Record Store Day album of demos. They are also at work on their third album.
"The band's finely nuanced and understated treatment of the [late 80s / early 90s] era works on Pythons. Aided by Foo Fighters and Pixies producer Gil Norton, Surfer Blood conjure college rock's feeling of youthful, nostalgic melancholy without using any of the sub-genre's gimmicks." – NME, 8/10 rating
BESTiE
BESTiE was formed in Spring 2012 in East Vancouver when friends Andrew Janczewski, Tristan Orchard, Daniel Ruiz and Rob Cameron started jamming with the goal of making a fun accessible pop band. Soon after exploring their array of world and pop music influences, they began crafting their unique sound. On January 16th 2013, BESTiE released their debut single, "Pineapple" , with a video shot and directed by lead singer Orchard, a Gemini nominated film maker whose documentaries have aired on Bravo! Television and short films played in festivals around the world. The tropics-inspired tune has had over 10k views and was featured in over 30 music blogs and media outlets in Canada, the US and abroad. The single also managed to reach the number 25 spot on the Hypem.com's popular chart and earned the group radio airplay. Two months later they followed that up with a single release party for "Asleep On The Bus" with a capacity crowd at the Cobalt in Vancouver.
Both of these tracks were produced by Digory Smallz, an emerging talent known for his work with, Young Liars, Oh No! Yoko, Jasper Sloan Yip and Joshua Hyslop. In June 2013, BESTiE were announced as one of the top 20 finalists in the renowned B.C. talent contest, The Peak Performance Project, competing for over $200,000 in prize money to further their careers. Included was a week-long boot camp in Princeton B.C. in August, with record producers, agents, managers and songwriters in attendance, followed by an autumn showcase at Fortune Sound Club and a charity event with the bands. If this wasn't enough, the group had a packed summer of festival dates at Sled Island, Music Waste, Khatsalano, The Vancouver Fringe Festival and Rifflandia in Victoria. In September 2013 BESTiE organized #Safefest, an all-ages music festival with proceeds going to Safe Amp and The Music Tree to help fund the creation of a permanent all-ages music venue in Vancouver. These groups aim to draw awareness to the importance of the all-ages scene in Vancouver and the accessibility to music for people of all ages. The festival featured over 75 acts in all genres playing 13 events over 4 days. BESTiE are now in the studio recording their debut EP with Howard Redekopp, a Juno award winning producer best known for his work with Tegan and Sara, Said The Whale, The New Pornographers, Mother Mother, The Zolas and more.
Talk In Tongues
Los Angeles foursome Talk In Tongues didn't come out of nowhere, although it sounded that way when their debut single "Still Don't Seem To Care" suddenly appeared online. And it felt that way for them at the beginning, too, when each member was a refugee from another band that just wasn't working right. Back then, they were barely acquaintances—guitarist and singer McCoy Kirgo remembers seeing his future bandmates at shows in their other bands, and then at parties after the shows. And if you looked into the music they'd already made, it didn't quite make sense for them to put a band together.
But they almost immediately found that they all shared limitless drive and direction and an unexpected common ground in several generations of psychedelic music, from the 60s Pink Floyd and 13th Floor Elevators through the unstoppable Creation Records roster in the 90s.
With production from Kevin Augunas (Cold War Kids, Edward Sharpe), their debut album, out in early 2015, links modern-day psychedelia with the foundation of early 60's experimentation—it's melody and atmosphere and noise-as-beauty captured (barely) in songs that should be blasting out of the Coachella main stage somewhere around midnight.
Hot Flash Heat Wave
Hot Flash Heat Wave is a sun-glazed rock band based in San Francisco. A four-headed fabled musical lagoon-dwelling beast, HFHW emerges from the murky depths to bring songs that combine their offbeat sense of humor with their darkest unspoken desires. They create a genre-spanning blend of dreamy guitar hooks and melodies over dirty rock 'n' roll grooves, which they aptly call “Heat-Wave”. Their newest set of tracks tells an electric story of the bohemian odyssey, spanning from the gutters of San Francisco to the shimmering west coast surf. With poolside jams and crooning group vocals, HFHW’s music finds itself swirled in youthful solace through the pursuit of love and radical individuality.
"Hot Flash Heat Wave have been one of my favorite discoveries this year; the San Francisco-based early twenty-somethings craft a serene blend of power-pop and surf-rock that manages a bevvy of punchy hooks despite the amiable nonchalance." - Obscure Sound
SURFER BLOOD
Surfer Blood have recently performed at Coachella Festival, released a new video and a Record Store Day album of demos. They are also at work on their third album.
"The band's finely nuanced and understated treatment of the [late 80s / early 90s] era works on Pythons. Aided by Foo Fighters and Pixies producer Gil Norton, Surfer Blood conjure college rock's feeling of youthful, nostalgic melancholy without using any of the sub-genre's gimmicks." – NME, 8/10 rating
BESTiE
BESTiE was formed in Spring 2012 in East Vancouver when friends Andrew Janczewski, Tristan Orchard, Daniel Ruiz and Rob Cameron started jamming with the goal of making a fun accessible pop band. Soon after exploring their array of world and pop music influences, they began crafting their unique sound. On January 16th 2013, BESTiE released their debut single, "Pineapple" , with a video shot and directed by lead singer Orchard, a Gemini nominated film maker whose documentaries have aired on Bravo! Television and short films played in festivals around the world. The tropics-inspired tune has had over 10k views and was featured in over 30 music blogs and media outlets in Canada, the US and abroad. The single also managed to reach the number 25 spot on the Hypem.com's popular chart and earned the group radio airplay. Two months later they followed that up with a single release party for "Asleep On The Bus" with a capacity crowd at the Cobalt in Vancouver.
Both of these tracks were produced by Digory Smallz, an emerging talent known for his work with, Young Liars, Oh No! Yoko, Jasper Sloan Yip and Joshua Hyslop. In June 2013, BESTiE were announced as one of the top 20 finalists in the renowned B.C. talent contest, The Peak Performance Project, competing for over $200,000 in prize money to further their careers. Included was a week-long boot camp in Princeton B.C. in August, with record producers, agents, managers and songwriters in attendance, followed by an autumn showcase at Fortune Sound Club and a charity event with the bands. If this wasn't enough, the group had a packed summer of festival dates at Sled Island, Music Waste, Khatsalano, The Vancouver Fringe Festival and Rifflandia in Victoria. In September 2013 BESTiE organized #Safefest, an all-ages music festival with proceeds going to Safe Amp and The Music Tree to help fund the creation of a permanent all-ages music venue in Vancouver. These groups aim to draw awareness to the importance of the all-ages scene in Vancouver and the accessibility to music for people of all ages. The festival featured over 75 acts in all genres playing 13 events over 4 days. BESTiE are now in the studio recording their debut EP with Howard Redekopp, a Juno award winning producer best known for his work with Tegan and Sara, Said The Whale, The New Pornographers, Mother Mother, The Zolas and more.
Talk In Tongues
Los Angeles foursome Talk In Tongues didn't come out of nowhere, although it sounded that way when their debut single "Still Don't Seem To Care" suddenly appeared online. And it felt that way for them at the beginning, too, when each member was a refugee from another band that just wasn't working right. Back then, they were barely acquaintances—guitarist and singer McCoy Kirgo remembers seeing his future bandmates at shows in their other bands, and then at parties after the shows. And if you looked into the music they'd already made, it didn't quite make sense for them to put a band together.
But they almost immediately found that they all shared limitless drive and direction and an unexpected common ground in several generations of psychedelic music, from the 60s Pink Floyd and 13th Floor Elevators through the unstoppable Creation Records roster in the 90s.
With production from Kevin Augunas (Cold War Kids, Edward Sharpe), their debut album, out in early 2015, links modern-day psychedelia with the foundation of early 60's experimentation—it's melody and atmosphere and noise-as-beauty captured (barely) in songs that should be blasting out of the Coachella main stage somewhere around midnight.
Hot Flash Heat Wave
Hot Flash Heat Wave is a sun-glazed rock band based in San Francisco. A four-headed fabled musical lagoon-dwelling beast, HFHW emerges from the murky depths to bring songs that combine their offbeat sense of humor with their darkest unspoken desires. They create a genre-spanning blend of dreamy guitar hooks and melodies over dirty rock 'n' roll grooves, which they aptly call “Heat-Wave”. Their newest set of tracks tells an electric story of the bohemian odyssey, spanning from the gutters of San Francisco to the shimmering west coast surf. With poolside jams and crooning group vocals, HFHW’s music finds itself swirled in youthful solace through the pursuit of love and radical individuality.
"Hot Flash Heat Wave have been one of my favorite discoveries this year; the San Francisco-based early twenty-somethings craft a serene blend of power-pop and surf-rock that manages a bevvy of punchy hooks despite the amiable nonchalance." - Obscure Sound
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Surfer Blood have recently performed at Coachella Festival, released a new video and a Record Store Day album of demos. They are also at work on their third album.
"The band's finely nuanced and understated treatment of the [late 80s / early 90s] era works on Pythons. Aided by Foo Fighters and Pixies producer Gil Norton, Surfer Blood conjure college rock's feeling of youthful, nostalgic melancholy without using any of the sub-genre's gimmicks." – NME, 8/10 rating
BESTiE
BESTiE was formed in Spring 2012 in East Vancouver when friends Andrew Janczewski, Tristan Orchard, Daniel Ruiz and Rob Cameron started jamming with the goal of making a fun accessible pop band. Soon after exploring their array of world and pop music influences, they began crafting their unique sound. On January 16th 2013, BESTiE released their debut single, "Pineapple" , with a video shot and directed by lead singer Orchard, a Gemini nominated film maker whose documentaries have aired on Bravo! Television and short films played in festivals around the world. The tropics-inspired tune has had over 10k views and was featured in over 30 music blogs and media outlets in Canada, the US and abroad. The single also managed to reach the number 25 spot on the Hypem.com's popular chart and earned the group radio airplay. Two months later they followed that up with a single release party for "Asleep On The Bus" with a capacity crowd at the Cobalt in Vancouver.
Both of these tracks were produced by Digory Smallz, an emerging talent known for his work with, Young Liars, Oh No! Yoko, Jasper Sloan Yip and Joshua Hyslop. In June 2013, BESTiE were announced as one of the top 20 finalists in the renowned B.C. talent contest, The Peak Performance Project, competing for over $200,000 in prize money to further their careers. Included was a week-long boot camp in Princeton B.C. in August, with record producers, agents, managers and songwriters in attendance, followed by an autumn showcase at Fortune Sound Club and a charity event with the bands. If this wasn't enough, the group had a packed summer of festival dates at Sled Island, Music Waste, Khatsalano, The Vancouver Fringe Festival and Rifflandia in Victoria. In September 2013 BESTiE organized #Safefest, an all-ages music festival with proceeds going to Safe Amp and The Music Tree to help fund the creation of a permanent all-ages music venue in Vancouver. These groups aim to draw awareness to the importance of the all-ages scene in Vancouver and the accessibility to music for people of all ages. The festival featured over 75 acts in all genres playing 13 events over 4 days. BESTiE are now in the studio recording their debut EP with Howard Redekopp, a Juno award winning producer best known for his work with Tegan and Sara, Said The Whale, The New Pornographers, Mother Mother, The Zolas and more.
Talk In Tongues
Los Angeles foursome Talk In Tongues didn't come out of nowhere, although it sounded that way when their debut single "Still Don't Seem To Care" suddenly appeared online. And it felt that way for them at the beginning, too, when each member was a refugee from another band that just wasn't working right. Back then, they were barely acquaintances—guitarist and singer McCoy Kirgo remembers seeing his future bandmates at shows in their other bands, and then at parties after the shows. And if you looked into the music they'd already made, it didn't quite make sense for them to put a band together.
But they almost immediately found that they all shared limitless drive and direction and an unexpected common ground in several generations of psychedelic music, from the 60s Pink Floyd and 13th Floor Elevators through the unstoppable Creation Records roster in the 90s.
With production from Kevin Augunas (Cold War Kids, Edward Sharpe), their debut album, out in early 2015, links modern-day psychedelia with the foundation of early 60's experimentation—it's melody and atmosphere and noise-as-beauty captured (barely) in songs that should be blasting out of the Coachella main stage somewhere around midnight.
Hot Flash Heat Wave
Hot Flash Heat Wave is a sun-glazed rock band based in San Francisco. A four-headed fabled musical lagoon-dwelling beast, HFHW emerges from the murky depths to bring songs that combine their offbeat sense of humor with their darkest unspoken desires. They create a genre-spanning blend of dreamy guitar hooks and melodies over dirty rock 'n' roll grooves, which they aptly call “Heat-Wave”. Their newest set of tracks tells an electric story of the bohemian odyssey, spanning from the gutters of San Francisco to the shimmering west coast surf. With poolside jams and crooning group vocals, HFHW’s music finds itself swirled in youthful solace through the pursuit of love and radical individuality.
"Hot Flash Heat Wave have been one of my favorite discoveries this year; the San Francisco-based early twenty-somethings craft a serene blend of power-pop and surf-rock that manages a bevvy of punchy hooks despite the amiable nonchalance." - Obscure Sound
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