Review: La Sera ‘Sees the Light’

Posted on May 16, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Well, it’s sorta a review. Playlisted, more of an introduction. Read at A.V. Club.

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SPIN Visits the Hidden Bunker Where Liars Recorded Their New Album, ‘WIXIW’

Posted on May 15, 2012 by | Leave a comment

WIXIW is a shoo-in for our top five albums of 2012, so it was a particular pleasure to visit the strange space where it was created — well, at least in part. There are a few tiers to this story, and a decent amount of subterfuge, but the stuff that keeps us guessing is the stuff that keeps us coming back. Furthermore, WIXIW happens to be the most accessible work in their catalog to date, so find out what osmosis and singing underwater has to do with it. Read at SPIN.

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Aural Standards Picks Music for Hudson Jeans

Posted on May 14, 2012 by | Leave a comment

We’ve been working with our director pal Matthew Desotell, handpicking music for the webs shorts he’s been making for Venice Beach-based denim demigods Hudson Jeans. More to come, but first up is a trio spots featuring the music of Superhumanoids and Sumsun (x2!), two of our favorite unsung artists.

13 Principles, with “A Crowded Hour” by Superhumanoids


TURBOTECH Experiment, with “Disco Mane” by Sumsun


TURBOTECH Inspiration, with “Capella pt1″ by Sumsun

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140 or Less: Nick Waterhouse and Dot Hacker Reviewed! (via SPIN, Twitter)

Posted on May 11, 2012 by | Leave a comment

We’ve joined SPIN’s Twitter reviews team. Watch us completely dismiss or irresponsibly champion an album in 140 characters or less! This week:

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Review: ‘New Multitudes’ Alt-Folk Dream Team Reinvents Woody Guthrie’s Los Angeles

Posted on May 10, 2012 by | Leave a comment

A strikingly beautiful record from some strikingly bearded men: My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Son Volt’s Jay Farrar, Centro-Matic’s Will Johnson, and Varnaline’s Anders Parker. Read all about it at the A.V. Club.

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AURAL STANDARDS PRESENTS: The Jesse Miller Talk Show with Musical Guest Bart Davenport of Honeycut on FRIDAY! (Also: Eric Andre, Jason Nash)

Posted on May 9, 2012 by | Leave a comment

FIVE DOLLARS! Come out Friday night for AT LEAST five dollars worth of entertainment (maybe SIX!) brought to you by your boy Jesse Miller, talk show host extraordinaire. Guests include Eric Andre (one of the funniest dudes in L.A., as seen on Apt. 23 and The Eric Andre Show) and Jason Nash of Atom Films. As always, Aural Standards books the music for the show, and we’ve wrangled a very special fella: Bart Davenport, the singer of Honeycut, who’s got a new solo 7-inch out for the songs “Someone2Dance” and “Cheap Words.”

Meet Bart:

Meet Jesse:

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SPIN Hits the Studio with Linkin Park, Talks Hybrid Theories, Laughs About the Past

Posted on May 8, 2012 by | Leave a comment

So we did this. In the same week that we hung out with Liars in their makeshift music bunker, we hightailed it to NRG in NoHo where we were greeted by walls lined with platinum packs from such luminaries as Hoobustank and Papa Roach, and–as it turned out–a couple of the nicest, most sincere dudes in the music biz. The men of Linkin Park are good men indeed. They follow golf and basketball, and geek over old stories about performing with Stone Temple Pilots or banging on Rick Rubin’s SP1200, and are excited to play you their new songs. Head on over to SPIN to find out what they’ve been up to. And here’s this:

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