TRACK/MP3: Moon Duo – “Sleepwalker”

While your typical band next door records in a studio or a basement, Wooden Shjips side-project MOON DUO do their time inside of a mountain cabin in Colorado. Stemming from that session is the pair’s upcoming sophomore LP and the record’s opening number, “Sleepwalker”, a drifting psych jam that calmly waves for your attention below. San Francisco two-piece Moon Duo will release Circles on October 2nd via Sacred Bones   Read More

PROFILE: The Men (SXSW 2012)

As one mind put it: THE MEN are “more composers than musicians”. Any band blazing off a trail of singles or a singer-songwriter with more self-released tapes than a dude that runs a record shop in Portland can say they’re composer, but there’s also a DIY ethic. That mentality where creations are built from sweat, blood and raw emotions cut from the heart, not taken from radio pop songs that go hand-in-hand with chewing gum.... Read More