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The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — They say you have your whole life to make your first album. That hasn’t changed, but no one makes first albums anymore. Bands make MySpace demos and Bandcamp EPs and limited edition tapes and Soundcloud embeds, half-ideas sketched on a laptop in h... read more »

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The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — I want to apologize to Brooklyn fuzzmakers Telenovelas for my earlier review of “One and Only” – the product of blog fatigue and a faulty sense of humor. We’ll make this one more straightforward. The band’s latest MP3, “Bloody Mary,” sounds like d... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Download them from Pop Tarts Suck Toasted. Quite the collection. read more »

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The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/14364946?portrait=0" width="588" height="250" frameborder="0"></iframe> A Classic Education – “Gone To Sea” from Jamie Harley on Vimeo. Some noteworthy inside-baseball for you: A Classic Educa... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — The music of Seapony’s not exactly nautical — more The Pains of Being from Seattle — but the twee trio may leave your eyes a little wet. On the Seapony EP, they share coy female vocals, major-key lead guitar lines, “Be My Little Baby” two-and-one ... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Photo by David Greenwald Remember these guys? Because they don’t. Watch the “My First Kiss” video after the jump, or do yourself a favor and don’t — shit’s depressing. In it, 3OH!3 (with help from parental nightmare/endearing self-parody Ke$ha) ... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Sick. Busy. See you on Monday. Did you jam that Anthony Rochester album yet? read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Ed. note: Somehow, this never made it out of draft and I’m too sick to write about indie rock. Enjoy. As a child of the ‘80s and a now-20-something embroiled in the pop cultural nonsense of the ‘00s and ‘10s, Hot Tub Time Machine seemed as custom... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Meeting of Important People may not be as major as their name implies just yet, but they certainly play like it — the Quit Music EP offers quiet/loud guitar deliveries straight from Tommy-era The Who, filtered through classic indie rock shyness. Y... read more »

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The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Let’s chat. Jumping off points: Witch house: a real genre? NME’s top 50 new bands list: Do we need a list of 50 new bands? Can we have a list of five good ones instead? Have you totally forgotten about Spoon and Beach House? Has there been a sing... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Garage rock retro Best Coast “Be My Little Baby” Dum Dum Girls SXSW lo-fi Beck 2.0 Bandcamp Altered Zones Hype Machine blogosphere CMJ guitar tones Brooklyn sunglasses Twitter cute lead singer Time magazine Gorilla Vs. Bear Telenovelas – “One and ... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Photo by David Greenwald Dirty Projectors are in that glorious mid-career period of being able to do no wrong. “I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine” is the latest turn on their victory lap — less dissonant than their Bjork team-up EP from earlier this... read more »

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The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Pals, for the last week or so I’ve been getting my feet wet at the Los Angeles Times’ Brand X, where I’m the brand-new blog editor. I’ve been blogging (of course — last week, I talked to Division Day about the band’s new singles series) and writin... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Here’s what the Arcade Fire’s chart-topping 156,000 in first-week sales tells us: I think it’s logical to make a correlation between obscurity of taste and volume of music piracy; in 2003 or so, I would’ve made a link to intelligence/nerdiness as ... read more »