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New Music | Foxtails Brigade – Far Away and Long Ago

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-aL_EOc2Kc[/youtube] The members of San Francisco band Foxtails Brigrade are readying the release of their third album and have recently signed with Oakland-based label OIM records. What better way is there to celebrate the happy tidings than to release a spectacular new single and wonderfully creepy accompanying video? After listening to the song, and watching the video a few times, the answer is no other way. Featuring beautifully arranged strings, which waltz around lead singer Laura Weinbach’s haunting voice, the imagery in the video perfectly blends the band’s orchestral sound with the eerie visions created by Dominic Mercurio, drummer for the band and director of the nightmare.…

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Video | It Was Romance – Philadelphia

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5MM44ktu1s[/youtube] I’m posting this today for two reasons. One, this video has been out for a hot minute already and I’ve been slacking on posting it, so let’s get this show on the road, but also two, this band is called It Was Romance. You know what else is romance? Gay-marrying the hell out of someone you love. So, as you see, it’s appropriate to share this today and I’m not just super, super late. It Was Romance is the project of Lane Moore, who is perhaps one of the best and most hilarious people on the planet today. I…

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Photos + Review | Andrew Combs @ Atwood’s Tavern

Photos by Boston Concert Photography On Tuesday, June 16th the music loving folks of the greater Boston area who gathered at the fantastic Atwood’s Tavern were treated to a night of genuine country charm and twang from Tennessee troubadour Andrew Combs and his terrific band. The Texas-born singer-songwriter currently calls Nashville home and his love of his adopted city was clear on stage that night, as each song made everyone in attendance feel like true southerners for a spell. With two stellar albums, an EP, and a number of singles to select from, the setlist hit all the right notes.…

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Video | Shannon and the Clams – Corvette

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAgPZLj_sXc[/youtube] Shannon and the Clams are costumey. Shannon and the Clams are 50s-ey with shimmering surfy guitars. Shannon and the Clams are a good time, if “Corvette” is any indication. Not that the song is one big party. It’s wracked with loneliness and regret, about something that felt like the real thing but turned out to be just another sham. But the sound and the performance make me feel like their shows are riveting, and they have plenty of upbeat songs to get everyone at your dance party doing the Monkey. But let’s talk about this video. It pulls in…

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Show Preview | Hot Chip @ House of Blues Boston

[youtube]https://youtu.be/ObUwFmceBvo[/youtube] England’s electronic engineers of dance-rock, Hot Chip, will be energizing an elated crowd of Bostonians tomorrow night at the House of Blues and your mission, should you choose to accept, is to get yourself on down to Lansdowne Street and join in on what is sure to be a good time. Touring in support of the newly released album, Why Make Sense?, the band has been assimilating fans by the masses with their patented brand of hypnotically-introspective, synthesized grooves that continuously flow from stage to crowd like an astral river of energetic sound. Witness this sensory overload for yourselves…

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New Music | Trails and Ways – Jacaranda

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0KoqIG4lCo[/youtube] I’ve been combing through my Music Savage inbox opening email submission after email submission, in an attempt to find my summer album of 2015, and ladies and gentlemen I believe my search has finally ended. I present to you Oakland, California 4-piece Trails and Ways. Bandmates Hannah van Loon (guitar/synths), Keith Brower Brown (guitar/synths), Ian Quirk (drums), and Emma Oppen (bass) are set to release their debut full-length album, Pathology, out 6/2 via Barsuk Records. The latest single is the spectacularly dance-fueled, ridiculously catchy number “Jacaranda,”  a song meant for repeated listens while driving with the windows down, or…

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Video Premiere | The Zambonis – Don’t Pick a Fight With Chara

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bfp8gYAlAw[/youtube] There aren’t many things I love more than music and hockey, so when the two are combined it’s a win worthy of the rock n’ roll Stanley Cup. Sure that doesn’t exist (yet) but if it did Bridgeport, CT’s one and only hockey loving band, The Zambonis, would hoist the trophy high each and every season. Formed in 1991 by Captain Dave Schneider, The Zambonis quickly established themselves as the undebatable “Rock Lords of the Rink” with the release of their debut album 100% Hockey…and Other Stuff. The “other stuff’” indicated in the title is in fact hockey related…

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Video | Hot Chip – Need You Now

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfH5LmhvQQk[/youtube] London’s purveyors of perpetual dance beats and electro-soul since 2000 are back with their sixth studio album, Why Make Sense?, out May 19th via Domino Records. The video for the second single, “Need You Now,” is a looping time hop of mystery and heartbreak set to a pulsing house-rhythm and a sorrowfully-spiraling chorus, provided by a sampled vocal from 80’s R&B group Sinnamon, eternally calling out “I Need You Now!” Hot Chip prove time and time again that neither the bleakest of settings, nor the saddest of souls, can suppress the overwhelming urge we have to bounce around a room to a funky groove. Get…

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Video | The Speedbumps – Done Treading Water

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDrO0Sa3wF8[/youtube] Are you having a tough day? Muffin. To buck yourself up, consider bears. I’ll explain: even your best day would be a super terrible and boring day for a bear, so a bear having a bad day outweighs your bad day by a million. The Speedbumps’ video for “Done Treading Water” will prove that for you. See? Your day wasn’t so bad. The song’s gentle, folky sound belies the subject matter; sometimes everything is really the worst and you just have to get through it. It’s soothing to have pretty little tinkling keys while you reflect upon all the bad…

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