Good Old War-Just Another Day
Pulling double duty as Cast Spells' backing band, they were still able to pull off a pitch perfect performance. I'm usually not a fan of the singing drummer, but I keep adding exceptions to that rule everyday.

This is off of their recent full length "Only Way to be Alone".
Posted in Live on December 11th, 2009
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Paul
Despite an awful trip down to the city, we had a pretty fun time recording this. At first I was really skeptical about the cans, but I think it came out incredibly unique sounding, with just a touch of crazy.

Paul's Grandfather hails from Fredonia, NY and they have a new EP out that you can buy from...
Posted in Pink Couch Sessions on December 9th, 2009
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Brainworms-Brainworms II : Swear to Me
Brainworms takes the best parts of Les Savy Fav; the angular guitars, intricate drumming, and merges it with energy and grit of RVA hardcore. The guitar work attacks you like an angry swarm of bees, darting in and out of your speakers. Greg Butler, the singer, sounds insane as he rants, screams, and protests through these ten songs. ...
Posted in Recommendations on December 8th, 2009
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Grown Ups-Songs
I've been sitting on this record for the better part of 4 months, never realizing how great it was. In the meantime, a couple of thousand people have went to their myspace and discovered it for themselves.

Grown Ups combine the tappy heartfelt fun of Algernon Cadwallader with the heart and singalongs of Latterman. You can...
Posted in Albums on December 7th, 2009
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Franz Nicolay-Dead Sailors
Franz is a busy man. Between playing in The Hold Steady, World/Inferno Friendship society, Anti-Social Music and on a million different records, he has found the time to release a solo album.

He came over here and blasted out 3 songs in a row. It was actually pretty amazing how quickly we were done. Now what do I do...
Posted in Pink Couch Sessions on December 7th, 2009
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Liz Prince-Punk rock is ruining my teeth
Maybe you didn't know, but punk rock music is as bad for your teeth as little debbie snack cakes and rock candy combined; I should now, considering I just spent the better part of my day waiting for my mouth to regain feeling after a procedure to fix the plane of my back teeth. I've all but rocked them right...
Posted in Comics on December 6th, 2009
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Holiday Shores-Now is Better than Before
I first heard about Tallahassee's Holiday Shores from their session with Greenpoint's Chocolate Bobka. After viewing the high production values of that video, it only made sense to have them sit on my droopy, lumpy couch.

Unfortunately we didn't have enough guitars or percussion instruments for everyone, so we settled on cover originally by Jonathan Richman of the Modern...
Posted in Pink Couch Sessions on December 2nd, 2009
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