Deadpan Distro

Bookends hail from Santa Cruz, where the wind blows strong off the ocean. This is folk, without the punk. Well, mostly. A mixture of guitars, violin and drums, the arrangements vary from sparse, airy cliffside poems to upbeat dance songs with a hint of Irish flavor and can wind back around to well thought out [...]

There is a voice found in one’s defeat that is both loud and mute. It is a voice typically left unrecorded. With the release of The Rosa Maria EP, DAVID WONG, a singer-songwriter from Corona, California, documents this voice in an effort to redeem and reconcile it. Informed by country and folk traditions, this troubadour [...]

Milo Fairweather is the name of a project born out of a never ending stream of songs which were less suited to that of singer/songwriter Daniel Olivas’ rock band, Dronen. While the band was on hiatus in early 2005, Daniel decided to keep busy by working on song ideas that he felt were not Dronen [...]

Everyone knows that it’s a cold world, and these guys are certainly not the first one’s to point that out. But with a little bit of laughter it ain’t so bad. They are The Depression Party: Un-poetic and blunt, that’s the way they like it. One tends to find warmth and optimism through the Depression [...]

The debut release on Astro Magnetics, the new label co-founded by Geoff Rickley of Thursday. “The Valley Arena are masters of the creation of dynamic tension in their tracks… The Valley Arena is one of the most interesting and innovative bands of this new year.” -neufutur.com Track Listing: To The Bitter Amputees Into The Lion’s [...]

Both bands have an interesting sound, even if the home recordings aren’t top notch, as TFCTE recorded in their living room, and Lanterns recorded in their garage, respectively.  Lanterns, have their shoegazer take on postcore – coming off as Interpol meets the Deep Elm School of Emo. This Flood Covers the Earth is more of [...]