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Los Angeles singer-songwriter Mia Maestro is excited to reveal her extraordinary video for her song "Blue Eyed Sailor." The video is a groundbreaking collaboration merging the worlds of film, music and art like few music videos have done before. It was directed by media-artist Juan Azulay and Oscar-winning cinematographer Guillermo Navarro (Pan's Labyrinth) and is based on the beautiful camouflages of artist Cecilia Paredes, with striking cinematography that brilliantly captures the spirit of Mia Maestro's unique flavor of experimental pop.…
Partisan Records is thrilled to announce that Deer Tick has confirmed a three-week residency at Brooklyn Bowl in December, playing a different album and EP in full at each show. Deer Tick will play Born On Flag Day and More Fuel For The Fire EP on December 5th, The Black Dirt Sessions and Holy Shit It's Christmas EP on December 12th, and Divine Providence and Tim EP on December 19th. Prior to these shows, the band will play the Rolling…
Skinny Lister are proud to announce the 5th November, 2012 release of the Forty Pound Wedding EP on Sunday Best Recordings. Forty Pound Wedding was written by Lorna and Max’s dad George Thomas aka ‘Party George’ and is a rip-roaring folk stomper that is a sure-fire fans favourite! The EP also includes the waltzing Seventeen Summers (above), a song about moving from a northern seaside town to the dirty delights of London. In addition to these two gems, the EP…

FIDLAR Premieres "Cheap Beer" Video

Written by Friday, 02 November 2012 08:57
FIDLAR is Zac Carper, Elvis Kuehn,  Brandon Schwartzel, and Max Kuehn.   Elvis and Zac met at Kingsize Soundlabs in LA and recorded a ton of demos with the band before playing a live show.  Their first show was on a FMLY bike ride at a skatepark in Culver City. Three years later the band has played with Black Lips, OFF!, Japanther and toured with The Hives.  They've released two EP's and just got back from touring Europe. Listening to them,…

 

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