San Francisco’s shoegazers Teenage Sweater recently released their debut “Kewl EP” via These Are My Friends Records and are touring the West Coast to promo the EP. The band is currently working on their first full-length due out in early 2013.
Watch the video for Oceans and Seas via YouTube below.
You can also stream the “Kewl EP” on Teenage Sweater’s Bandcamp page.
Tour Dates:
10/21 – Seattle, WA @ Vermillion
10/23 – Portland, OR @ Valentine’s
10/24 – Sacramento, CA @ Bows And Arrows
10/25 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Storey House
10/26 – Woodland Hills, CA @ Twin Lemons
10/27 – Los Angeles, CA @ ADC Warehouse
10/29 – Murrieta, CA @ The Dial
11/10 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
More about Teenage Sweater?
Mario Ruiz is the main brain trust behind northern California shoegaze pop band Teenage Sweater, writing the songs and doing quadruple duty on vocals, keys, percussion and some sequencing. The Teenage Sweater formula contains notes of classic new wave-Joy Division and New Order are easily heard in the nuances of their songs-and a healthy dose of its modern incarnation, chillwave. Teenage Sweater is cheerful music for introverts, and with their first EP, Kewl, they are keeping things light. With songs like the diaphanous, waves-crashing-on-the-beach-while-you-snuggle-your-prom-date tune “Coconut Water,” and the slightly less upbeat “Oceans and Seas,” which brings to mind a slightly overcast day at an amusement park, with it’s tinny synths and far away vocal mix, the EP is a noisy pop stunner with enough heart to last way past the summer.
Brooklyn-based electronic / dream pop duo Blue Foundation have announced their new album, In My Mind I Am Free, which will be released on May 22nd through their own label, Dead People’s Choice Records. The band has shared the first track from the new album, ‘Lost’ (f/ Sara Savery from Ghost Society and People Press Play).
Today, Farewell Republic released their debut LP, Burn the Boats. After a year-long writing/pre-production process, Burn the Boats was recorded during July 2010 at the Chrome Attic in Crystal Lake, IL and the Thunderdome in Ann Arbor, MI. The band holed up in their home studio and spent more than 9 months mixing the record after relocating to Brooklyn. The resulting LP captures a sound that is best described as atmospheric post-punk with a nice bite of shoegaze thrown in. Burn the Boats was recorded by Michael Coffman, produced by Farewell Republic members Sivan Jacobovitz and Brian Trahan and mastered by Fred Kevorkian (White Stripes, The National) at Avatar Studios in NYC.
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