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Saintseneca just released the official video for “Sweet Nothing,” the second single from their forthcoming album Highwalllow & Supermoon Songs that will be released on October 31 via Lame-O Records. The band also announced they will support Bright Eyes on tour later this month, marking a full circle moment as they reconnect with Mike Mogis who mixed the new album.
About the song, frontman Zac Little explains: “On my honeymoon, years ago, I found this little riff. It seemed to lead somewhere, but the edges rolled off into nothingness - a faded out map. I’d find fragments and try to line them up to no avail. Disparate states that just almost match up - but not quite. Like how you can tell the continents used to touch. I laid it in the drawer to sleep.
The big heavy things - transcendent, effervescent, crushing, or crushing. It’s hard to find a tune buoyant enough to carry them. Then Patti Smith’s dream cowboy paid me a visit - straight off the M Train, and blessed me with a chorus. ‘I’m sure I could write endlessly about nothing. If only I had nothing to say.’”
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The latest offering from LA indie rockers Dear Boy is a barn burner. "After All" (featuring Alithea Tuttle of Rocket) is just out, and reunites the band with producer Aron Kobayashi Ritch (Momma, Been Stellar, Snail Mail). The single also serves to announce the arrival of their sophomore album, Celebrator, set for release on October 17th via Last Gang Records.
With its swirling vocal harmonies, louder than life guitars and Ben Grey’s distinctly clever yet emotional wordplay, "After All" captures what makes Dear Boy so beloved in Southern California, while pushing the band into new sonic directions. The sound is reminiscent of 90’s Brit Pop and Alternative, but is also on the bleeding edge of modern rock and roll. And for lead vocalist Ben Grey, the track is a long-overdue addition to their catalog: "It is crazy to have been a band for this long without contributing a primal-teenage-bedroom-rock riff. Happy to finally right a wrong."
The collaboration with fellow LA alternative band Rocket brings a layered vocal chemistry that elevates the track into dream-soaked territory. The partnership stems from a genuine friendship that runs deeper than music. "We first played with Rocket on New Year's Eve a few years ago and became fast friends. We're both from the Valley, went to the same pre-school, a tale as old as time," Grey explains. "But truly, they're an important band, and I think Alithea has one of the defining rock voices of this generation. We feel so honored she sang on After All. It's the Catherine Wheel/Throwing Muses moment we've always dreamed of."
The lyric-forward single is bittersweet in its captivating breakdowns and emotional hook, with the track moving through powerful dynamic variations and catchy melodies. The words, somehow both contemplative and untamed at the same time. “I feel everything / It’s better than nothing / I want coffee rings / On my future coffin.” With a stadium sized anthemic chorus and the song’s shoegaze-kissed textures, "After All" channels the moody pulse of '90s Britpop and fuzzed out Alternative through a modern LA indie lens—a perfect fit for fans of alt melancholia with a nostalgic edge.
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Today, Sons of Sevilla the UK duo have released "Street Light Moon" the title track of their upcoming album, out on September 6 via Ubiquity Records. Produced by GRAMMY-winner Adrian Quesada (of the Black Pumas), "Street Light Moon" is an eclectic piece that paints the tripped-out picture of a nighttime sky, who's moon has been replaced by a burning street light.
Charting their own musical geography, the duo of brothers drew from an entire world’s worth of influences: the family-owned British pub where brothers Henry and Reuben Smith grew up, watching their parents sling drinks as songs by John Prine and J.J. Cale played over the speakers; the marina in Gibraltar where they spent three weeks aboard an old fishing trawler, writing the album's songs as waves splashed against the dock; to the recording studio in Austin, Texas, where they recorded Street Light Moon.
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This is all we know, so this is all Beehive Candy can tell you (beyond we think this is a fabulous song). Alex Krawczyk is a singer-songwriter from Toronto, Canada.
Her debut album Le Olam came out in 2022. She has released several singles and is working on a new album.
Love Through Sound is her newest single and is was written as a thank you song to the Grateful Dead for their many decades of inspiring music.
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