4/11/14 Diarrhea Planet

4/11 - Diarrhea Planet
Poster by Nicholas Anania
         w/ French Club

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"Separations" - Music Video

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"My experience [at South by Southwest] is a luxury you have been denied, which is unfair and I am sorry. You are, naturally, wisely skeptical...But "skepticism" and "Diarrhea Planet" cannot meaningfully coexist. They are matter and antimatter, Superman and Kryptonite. Their new album, I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams, is fun and ingratiating, and you can hear some of their joyfully fist-pumping spirit coursing through it...This is an album you yell along to, preferably into the face of someone else who is yelling back...But seriously, and I simply cannot stress this enough: if Diarrhea Planet are playing in a 100-mile radius of where you are sitting, go there. (And for God's sake, make sure you stay for 'Ghost With A Boner.') The next day, this album will be here to remind you, however faintly, of the experience." - Pitchfork, Review of "I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams" by Diarrhea Planet

3/29/14 Todd Edwards

3/28 - Todd Edwards
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3/28/14 Porches. and Little Big League

3/28 - Porches. and Little Big League
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"Never Have I Ever Walked Away When The Time Was Right" - Music Video

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"Above all, the music Aaron Maine creates as the principal songwriter of Porches. sounds dirty. Not in an exploitative way, and not because he tags it on Soundcloud as both "booty clap" and "sad pop." But more in the sense that the characters in his songs sound like they haven't showered yet today-- either because they're hungover, depressed or simply forgot to pay their water bill... It's total tears-in-your-beer stuff, but when its rumpled stagger gives way to a surprisingly warm chorus, it's time to order another round." - Pitchfork, Review of "Franklin The Flirt" off of "Slow Dance In The Cosmos" by Porches.
"If it sounds a little like mid-1990s Pac-NW indie, a little like late-'90s midwest emo, and a little like early-'00s pop-punk, chances are it's coming from Philadelphia in 2013. Such is the case with Little Big League. - Pitchfork, Review of "My Very Own You" off of  "These Are Good People" by Little Big League

 " 'These Are Good People' needs its less stressed, easier-going parts to make it work as a whole, and while they're comparative lulls amid the crushing weight of when Little Big League are cathartically expressing how desire can be a handicap, it makes for a well rounded and occasionally outright breath-taking affair. - Punknews.org, Review of "These Are Good People" by Little Big League

2/21/14 Krill and Ava Luna

2/21 - Krill and Ava Luna
         w/ Ice Cream Social

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"Theme From Krill" - Music Video

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"Genesee" - Music Video

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"One of the things I love about Krill is the way they juggle humor, sadness, hopefulness and apathy without ever making it look hard, which it most definitely is...Krill nail that balance, in the same way at the writer [David Foster Wallace], who people often forget in the midst of all his work's density was funny as hell and, above all, deeply sincere." - Stereogum, Review of "Steve Hears Pile In Malden and Bursts into Tears - EP" by Krill

 "Ava Luna are a kitchen-sink band, whose richly cluttered songs pull from a variety of influences: dance-punk, funk, doo-wop, and R&B. (They summed it up in a perfectly succinct Bandcamp tag: "nervous soul")...The last song was written most spontaneously of all, when Kauffman stepped up to the mic and started riffing on a vocal idea...the band tried to join in but they weren't quite sure what she was saying...None of the guesses amount to much sense--but damn if that mysterious hook isn't stuck in your head for days."  - Pitchfork, Review of "Electric Balloon" by Ava Luna 

2/15/14 - Swearin' and Waxahatchee

2/15 - Swearin' and Waxahatchee
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 "Swearin' are a powerful force with an ability to switch between soft and hard in a similar way to 90's alt rock heroes, The Breeders. They know exactly when to strip things back, as on the fragile 'Loretta's Flowers,' and they know exactly when to ramp things up into mini tornadoes of noise...The interaction between Crutchfield and Gilbride makes the album fizz...they spar with each other's jagged riffs and searing solos." - NME, Review of "Surfing Strange" by Swearin'

" 'Cerulean Salt' is full of vagrant wisdom and people who might once have hitchhiked across the country but were born into a moment when they could just join a punk band instead...Crutchfield has a way of delivering a line so casually that it takes a half-dozen listens to fully realize how devastating it is...blazingly honest, hyper-personal quality that places Cerulean Salt in the tradition of Elliott Smith, early Cat Power, or Liz Phair's free-flowing Girlysound tapes-- the work of a songwriter skilled enough to make introspection seem not self-centered, but generous." - Pitchfork, Review of "Cerulean Salt" by Waxahatchee, Best New Music