2012

Televised Tune: On The Tube This Weekend

Australian singer Wally De Backer, aka Gotye, will make his Saturday Night Live debut tomorrow on an episode hosted by Josh Brolin. Goyte has blown up in America this year

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The Mother Hips: The Compound, Phoenix, AZ 3/22/12

To borrow the description from their fan site The Grotto, The Mother Hips are known as “progenitors of California Soul, songwriting riff-layers, and harmonizing mood-swayers”. These Northern California harmonizing riff-layers brought their roots rock act to The Compound Grill in Scottsdale and gave this intimate crowd a good night of California soul music.

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Herzog: Cartoon Violence

Herzog are a new band (much like Surfer Blood) that swims in the same waters of late 90’s indie guitar rock made popular by Modest Mouse and Built To Spill.  The guitars are layered and textured at times reaching arena ready levels while the grooves always seem incredibly bouncy.  The lyrics are secondary and at times buried to deep but focus on heartbreak or distance without ever becoming bitter. 

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