VITAL STATS
Vital Stats: ArpLine
- Hypnotic, aggressive, at times ethereal, ArpLine’s naggingly infectious psych rock is like a druggy joie-de-vivre for your ears. The five-piece―Sa...
06/23/10 - 158 comments
Vital Stats: Spring Summer
- Spring Summer—a.k.a. North Carolina-bred singer-songwriter Jennifer Furches—marries angelic, wispy vocals with a folksy, back-porch aesthetic to c...
05/10/10 - 14 comments
Vital Stats: Clipd Beaks
- Oakland's Clipd Beaks has dabbled in all sorts of nutty experimental rock, from woozy psychedelia to gritty post-punk face-melters, but their third LP...
02/03/10 - 78 comments
Vital Stats: Midnight Juggernauts
- Making a huge splash with their debut LP Dystopia in 2007 and subsequently playing at some of the world’s finest music festivals (not to mention sup...
10/28/09 - 5 comments
Vital Stats: The Big Pink
- The Big Pink have been making waves across the Atlantic (and in their home country of the U.K.) with their unique breed of anthemic synth-pop, and, l...
10/06/09 - 5 comments
Vital Stats: Valleys
- Valleys is a Canadian band that specializes in unorthodox pop arrangements, ample fuzz, melancholy melodies, and guy-gal vocals that are more Ida than...
09/23/09 - 6 comments
Vital Stats : Cymbals Eat Guitars
- Sometimes we do nothing but listen to ragged, raw 90s rock and wish we were living in that simpler, louder decade. Thankfully, bands like Cymbals Eat ...
08/19/09 - 4 comments
Vital Stats: Cale Parks
- It's probably time we can stop referring to Cale Parks as "drummer for Aloha and White Williams" and simply focus on his excellently dark, 80s-inflect...
08/05/09 - 16 comments
Vital Stats: The Golden Filter
- The Golden Filter doesn’t play by the rules. The electro-pop duo, Penelope and Stephen, wish to remain faceless, nameless (their last names anyway),...
08/03/09 - 3 comments
Vital Stats: The Big Pink
- Sometimes it only takes one song to break a band and frankly, The Big Pink pretty much nailed it on the head with their first single, “Velvet.” Th...
07/22/09 - 19 comments
