Murs said it best after performing his hit, “L.A” on the Mojave stage. Several of us from The Audio Muffin made the trek from Southern California’s coastline into the blazing desert for Coachella 2008, not to be disappointed. The desert attracted its usual unique crowd, from hippies with faces painted cruising shoeless, indie loyals with […]

The Avett Brothers make me swoon. They’ve been a fancy for some years and all my Carolina homeboys love them. I’ve dorked out in the car singing at the top of my lungs and spent some time with Topher and his guitar trying to nail out our own rendition of “Distraction #74″.
But this Friday night’s […]

Nabokov would be proud (…well maybe, who knows what kind of music that guy liked). Lolita is a jam though nonetheless. Someone on iTunes stated these guys reminded them of The Kinks. If you add in some neo-electronic synth sounds then I’m in agreement. Throw Me the Statue hails from Seattle, WA and is headed […]

Nick Harte’s mother used to play My Bloody Valentine for him when he was a tot. Apparently when she gave him 1991’s Loveless, that pretty much cinched it, and he began experimenting with his own sounds. Only 22, his current project that he writes and records himself, Shocking Pinks, borrows heavily from a […]

If You Go To Toronto, They Will Come. This seems to be sage advice in indie rock land these days. You roll in a tour bus with Hot Chip and The Hidden Cameras and you are off to a good start. It also helps if you have a catchy sound, a song titled Kurt Vonnegut, […]