Download: Best Coast “When I’m With You” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from the “When I’m With You” 7″ produced by Fool’s Gold Lewis Pesacov and available now from Black Iris) And Best Coast is playing with Gowns, Tearist and 60 Watt Kid tonight at the Echo! (and an MP3 of Best Coast’s [...]

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Some joker even tried to mosh and was TAKEN DOWN by a bespectacled gent half his size. It was beautiful like National Geographic. Soft Pack drummer Brian plays with just as much originality and abandon as Moe Tucker, putting a jerry-rigged cocktail kit being through its paces with equal parts precision and ferocity. These guys were tight, telepathic and tuned in. I‘ve felt the same kind of tranquil delirium out on the ocean surrounded by surfers—me sponging on my boogie board—when it all just makes sense. Kids were dancing on the side of the stage, in front of it, on top of it… No poses, no frills, just rock.

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The Patterns banged loudly against each other with staccato, tinny thuds. Some issued viscous sighs as they sucked smaller pieces through themselves. Others, wedged against a million frenetic polygons, belched victorious brass shouts as they pushed their way back into the whirlwind. The boy was overcome. The Random Patterns would slow their circuit periodically, and he would be deceived into thinking the crush of color and sound was over, but then the pounding, melodious, buzzing, sizzling tornado would begin anew.

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Pearl Harbor’s music is one that connotes taking the most awesome sailboat trip of your life in the marina where Dennis Wilson drowned. Somehow his spirit floats to the top and incarnates itself into these rather young-looking purveyors who have based themselves upon that familiar sound.

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Download: Best Coast “Make You Mine” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Best Coast is Bethany once from Pocahaunted (and the fearsomely classic Pocahaunted interview—apparently she has now made peace with the ocean she once hated?) and Bobb Bruno making fuzz in the sun and they will be performing at Saturday’s Beach Dazed festival [...]

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Avi Buffalo wouldn’t be allowed to play the Echo if the venue hadn’t bent the rules and made the band’s May residency an all-ages affair. So the little ones are invading, but by the sound of their music, it’s safe to say the kids are alright and may be onto some great new wave of folky blues goodness. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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I don’t know if Bobb Bruno realizes it, but he’s the Bizarro-World Kim Fowley—an unwitting svengali who’s produced girl bands and wrote or played songs on countless other bands’ albums, but whose utter lack of self-promotion almost hints that he secretly is horrified of his own project Making It Big.

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