
Our review of FYF Fest, or, how Karen O is like an exotic punk-rock toucan
Categories: reviews | Tags: beach house, Charles Bradley, deerhunter, FYF Fest, Kurt Vile, les savy fav, metz, mgmt, my bloody valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, yo la tengo
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The Baltimore band returns to San Diego this Sunday
Categories: interviews, listen, san diego, video | Tags: alex scally, beach house, Black Cat White Cat, daniel johnston, david lynch, Emir Kusturica, Fleetwood Mac, neil young, peter bjorn and john, the beach boys, the beatles, tom petty, Victoria Legrand, wild nothing
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Makes me want to clear my throat
Categories: listen, podcast, podcasts, san diego | Tags: bat for lashes, Beach Fossils, beach house, Best Coast, Black Sands, blood red shoes, Deer Tick, devo, First Aid Kit, Jack White, Real Estate, richard hawley, robert cray, Santigold, st. vincent, Tennis, the lumineers
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The gang gets hyperbolic…again.
Categories: interviews, listen, music news, photos, reviews, san diego, video | Tags: april smith, April Smith and the Great Picture Show, arcade fire, beach house, black keys, Breathe Owl Breathe, caribou, harlan t. bobo, hold steady, josh ritter, juniper tar, kanye west, lcd soundsystem, Phantogram, Sleigh Bells, sonny & the sunsets, strand of oaks, the national, the tallest man on earth, twin shadow, wooden wand, woods, yeasayer
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On the eve of Tu Fawning’s Casbah show, singer Corrina Repp shares her influences.
Categories: interviews, san diego | Tags: arrested development, beach house, Benjamin Britten, bill callahan, Blonde Redhead, Corrina Repp, Crissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family, George Ku Trio, Grails, Irma Thomas, menomena, Mississippi Records, nick cave, nick cave and the bad seeds, portishead, Shellac, smog, Tom Tykwer, Tu Fawning, Washington Phillips
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This month’s Rumble is a doozy.
Categories: listen, o&b, san diego, video | Tags: beach house, black mamba, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., future sounds, Indigenous, Jamuel Saxon, Keith Milgaten, M-Theory Records, san diego citybeat, SD: Dialed In, sezio, the rumble, the vision of a dying world
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Owl and Bear writers’ favorite albums of 2008.
Categories: listen, reviews | Tags: avett brothers, be your own pet, beach house, best of year, blood red shoes, calexico, cloud cult, cut-copy, deerhunter, dr. dog, fleet foxes, frightened rabbit, jenny lewis, lists, man man, mgmt, pit er pat, Sigur Rós, the breeders, the dodos, the kills, tv on the radio, year-end
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