Hard Place - Get Your Hopes Up (World Famous In San Francisco)
This album is awesome. And I don’t say that just because Elton Tom and Jeremy Smears are the ones releasing it on their label named after this blog. This is really strange, crunchy, bad-80s nostalgia music that you can’t get anywhere else. It’s very colorful and unique for something so ironic. All the songs are good - they actually seem to be about something - and they all sound like singles. My favorite song at the moment is Last Goodbye. I highly recommend buying the physical copy of this record.

Hey Willpower - P.D.A. (Tomlab)
This is a really cohesive collection of mid-tempo modern sounding r&b-dance songs. I think it’s a really pretty record. I like it.

Woman of Color - Are You a Woman of Color? (Man Dagger)
After listening to this album I realized I am not a woman of color. This album lives up to its name in a way: it doesn’t sound at all black, but it does sound dark. It has this Native American sounding pow-wow rock song at the end I like.

Fierce Perm - Fierce Perm (Man Dagger)
Cesar from Man Dagger gave me this CD a couple weeks ago at one of my shows in LA. I first played it in my middle aged Cuban ex-boyfriend’s Lincoln Aviator. He and his SUV totally hated it. If it doesn’t sound like Celia Cruz, a Broadway musical or a CD you can buy at Restoration Hardware or Crate and Barrel, he and his SUV totally hate it. So I guess that’s a good thing right? This band has plenty of great optimistic guitar riffs. But it is very easy to pinpoint who Nadia, their singer, is influenced by. I will keep my faith in this band as long as the next album sounds different and they do a reinvention tour.

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There is lots going on tonight!

Tonight Donuts celebrate their one-year birthday.

Also Black Dice, TITS and Fuckwolf play at 12 Galaxies!

And Jennifer Herrema and her band RTX are going to be on Cobain In a Coma on West Add Radio 93.7FM at 8pm.

What are you gonna do?

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