The blaring difference in this new offering from Best Coast is how quiet it is compared to Crazy for You, but it would be misleading to say that this new record is a departure from Bethany’s bedroom musings and Bob’s playful melodies. Lyrically speaking, it still feels as if we’re reading our younger sister’s diary …

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I loved this song when it came out as an album track on their debut record in 2008. Now Eddie Chacon and his collaborator (and wife) Sissy Sainte-Marie have re-released the tune as a single, which they’re promoting via a new bad-assed video:

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BOB BRUNO, DAVID SCOTT STONE, AND PARALLAX SCROLL ON WEDNESDAY SEP, 28TH AT HOME ROOM, 3121 BEVERLY BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 9:00PM/ $5/ ALL AGES

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Best Coast was between tours and between albums, L.A. RECORD was between issues, and I’d be damned if I was going to let a little thing like a power outage or a lightning storm prevent me from leaving without asking a few questions of singer/songwriter Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno, Eagle Rock’s most famous long-haired musical recluse. This interview by Dan Collins.

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It’s been said that Uphill Gardeners represent some kind of No Wave by way of Los Angeles, but No Wave always seems like such a New York thing that it comes off as slightly disingenuous to assign them that signifier when they’ve got so much happening on their own merits. Primitive disorienting art rock might be a better way to put it; “moody noise noir” might make even more sense, but only time will tell.

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At the end of the day, Bobb Bruno really just wants to grind corpses into the fields of despair.

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NEW SHOP ARRIVALS: FEB 1ST, 2010 -New Arrivals Nocando – Jimmy The Lock (MP3) Bobb Bruno – Dreamt On (CD) Mikki & The Mauses – The Problem With Male Sexualty (MP3) VUM – Strange Attractor (CD) Blue Jungle – Baby Don’t Cry (MP3) Jail Weddings – Inconvenient Dreams (MP3) Witch – Paralyzed (LP) Valient Thorr [...]

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