After long or short trips to and from (and perhaps at) Austin Psych Fest, many of the attendees and bands have found themselves safely, and maybe a bit post-festival sickly, at home and in bed. For some, however, the festival was just a stop on a long and seemingly endless road. Such is the case for the Australian quartet, The Laurels, who (after playing a stellar set at Psych Fest on April 28) have continued their tour and landed in…

NYC dream folk band Brazos recently played a residency at Cameo Gallery, chillin out every Tuesday night for a whole month. They’re gearing up to release a brand new album, Saltwater, on May 28, and they recently released a video for “How the Ranks Was Won,” so the band has a good momentum of new material going for them. I caught their first night of the residency with Snowblink, when they played to a pretty low-key, but strong crowd of…

There’s something pure about seeing a three-piece band rock like they’re playing in their garage or rehearsal. Yes, many of the big outfits over the years have been quartets, but that doesn’t take away from the stripped down simplicity of a three-piece. Last week at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, RNDM, a trio hailing from all over, but for the sake of this piece are based in Seattle, played their second of three dates of their short tour. They reinforced…

This year has seemed to be dubbed the Year of The Remix. Not many tools have been as effective to get your band’s name blasted into the blogosphere--especially if you connect with the right artist to rework your music--and some groups specialize in remixes, choosing to re-imagine others’ work instead of creating their own. Little Daylight started off as one such project, remixing the likes of Freelance Whales and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, but 2013 sees the Brooklyn-based…