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Brook Pridemore phones it in from Lompoc, CA, combining Michigan folk-punk with New York antifolk in the most awesome way possible. We guarantee you'll have 'Chocolate Cake City' stuck in your head all damn day.Songs:Black Spot / Store In A Cool, Dry Plac... full post »
After a valiant search for a land line, once and future Moldy Peach Adam Green phones it in from the offices of Wiz Kid Management in Manhattan, NY."For now, Adam Green is a solo artist. Let's get that out of the way, because those words seems to hav... full post »
Olive Juice Music's Dave End phones it in from Manhattan, NY. Inspired equally by early 90s female singer-songwriters and Disney musicals, Dave infuses sexual politics with a sense of fun and tenderness too often absent in transgressive music, i.e., queer... full post »
Seth Faergolzia, Alex Coronado, and Gaybot phone it in from Ithaca, NY. Dufus doesn't sound like anything else. Picture the yip-yip's from Sesame Street playing passionate improv antifolk prog (order those any way you'd like) and would you be close? No! Y... full post »
Morgan Caris phones it in at 1:30am from Paris, France. In order not to wake the neighbors he had to play quietly, even unplugging the refrigerator. Fragile songs floating in a gentle sea of phone static, which lends them an intimacy and immediacy even be... full post »
Josh Hinton and Erin Morgan phone it in from Portland, OR.Nire’s somnambulistic hymns capture a gentle dreamlike state, an intimacy which seems like eavesdropping on some private moments. And it's especially so over the phone. Warm, warm, and warmer sti... full post »
Miwa Gemini phones it in from her kitchen in NYC, NY.Equal parts dirty rockabilly, broken blues, and strange, winsome folk, the phone seems to be the perfect medium for her songs, which don't sound tied to any time or place.Sez' she:"Miwa is a daught... full post »
Ross Cowman, Micah Ellison, and Danielle Chiero phone it in from the Cake Shop in Manhattan, NY, before playing a show with last week's guest, Miwa Gemini.June Madrona (actually from Olympia, WA, not Portland, OR, as I mistakenly claim)'s joyous songs exp... full post »
"Unpolished versions of polished versions of weird, beautiful, unpolished songs."Marcy Emery (The Choir Practice, Capozzi Park) and Mark Szabo (The Good Horsey, Capozzi Park) phone it in from Vancouver, BC.Szabo, an unsung legend in Vancouver fr... full post »
Cole Miller (aka Cole Moldy Milner, Cole Miller Island, Sneakypines, I Love You, etc.) phones it in from Portland, OR. The Menlo Park dude behind Stop Drop Records, Cole has toured with just about everyone on the west coast. Beautiful and brilliant pop ba... full post »
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