SongsSmiths

LIVE SESSIONS: LORD HURON - "Ends of the Earth", Live on KCRW.

Lord Huron is an indie folk from Los Angeles.

UNDER THE RADAR: WHITE FENCE - "Sticky Fruitman Has Faith".

White Fence’s trippy, distortion-laced, psychedelic pop-influenced tunes are the brainchild of Timothy Presley. On White Fence, just released on CD by Woodsist, drum rhythms stumble and recohere; chord changes are half-forgotten or blown altogether. Audio quality changes from track to track or even in the middle of a song, and so does the music’s speed. The album sounds as if it were mastered on a cassette machine with failing batteries. This whole enterprise is way, way moth eaten: the Syd Barrett/1960s Los Angeles garage-punk influences, the dirty-on-purpose sound quality, the overmodulated guitar leads.

"Awkward EP" 

Local Natives perform "Wide Eyes" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded on 9/24/10.

Host: Stevie Zoom
Engineer: Kevin Suggs
Cameras: Scott Holpainen, Jim Beckmann & Luke Knecht
Edits: Justin Wilmore

VAMPIRE WEEKEND performs "Obvious Bicycle" (from their new album, "Modern Vampires of the City") for the first time at their show for Amex Unstaged at Roseland Ballroom in NYC - 28/04/2013

UNDER THE RADAR: CHAINWAVE - "Wrap Me Up".

Chainwave is a duo composed by Ian Jacobs (vocals/guitar) and Michelle Feliciano (vocals/drums). They craft their own brand of dark, melodic rock and roll, infusing it with surf undertones and psychedelia.

UNDER THE RADAR: SWIMM - "Souvenir".

SWIMM is the music of Chris Hess, Adam Winn. The music flows in different directions, dipping into indie rock, dance, and rock n roll all with a twinge of psychedelia as the common element.

UNDER THE RADAR: THE RAMONA FLOWERS - "Lust and Lies". 

The Bristol based band excel at blissful serenity and here that mood is build upon an electronic framework and transported to a night time setting.

UNDER THE RADAR: PORCUPINE - "Witness To A Chase Scene".

Porcupine is an indie rock three piece from La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. Their music include a bracing combination of '90s alt rock riffs and rhythms -- think Dinosaur Jr, The Queens of the Stone Age and those fighting Foos -- and enough crunchy power pop to satisfy the brain's need for hooks.

Driftin Back" - from Neil Young & Crazy Horse's double-CD of NEW music "Psychedelic Pill".

LIVE SESSIONS: EFTERKLANG live @FM4 Radio Station.

The indie rock band from Copenhagen performing three songs from the album Piramida - "Between The Walls", "Black Summer" and "The Ghost".

SONG of the DAY: THE FLEETING ENDS - "Return Address".

Catchy nuggets of indie pop/rock inspired by everything from new wave to punk. Origin: Philadelphia. Genre: Indie Pop/Rock.

UNDER THE RADAR: BRASS BED - "Please Don't Go".

Brass Bed is a Lafayette, Los Angeles band playing great pop rock.

Crystal Castles - "Magic Spells" .

Created from stock amateur travel footage. New York 1920s-30s.

UNDER THE RADAR: CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING - "Lip".

Chelsea Light Moving is Thurston Moore's (Sonic Youth) latest project. "Lip" is a good example of the album's combination of rock urgency - guitar tension, punk drumming - and a beat poetry vocal approach.

SONG of the DAY: GUSTER - "Do You Love Me.

A Boston alt-rock band captures over 20 years of hits in a live acoustic setting. Origin: Boston. Genre: Alternative Rock.

UNDER THE RADAR: BE THE BEAR - "Bad Things".

Be The Bear is the project of Danish/English vocalist Christina Wehage and Swedish music producer Mattias Bolin. The duo met in Gothenburg in the summer of 2009.
The shrill vocals and the electronics are sparkly and primitive but they combine together well.