01. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls [Slumberland] Veronica Falls succède à Male Bonding, on a beau se plaindre régulièrement de l'état moribond de la scène anglaise, il y a toujours quelques disques qui nous attrapent et ne nous lâchent plus. Morose l'Angleterre peut-être mais capable encore du meilleur comme avec Veronica Falls, sauf que généralement on préfère mettre des trucs plus anodins en avant. On suit le groupe depuis pas mal de temps maintenant, Etienne avait chroniqué le premier 45 que nous avions plébiscité dans notre top single l'année dernière, ce disque est la suite logique, il confirme ...

As with every oncoming new year, we take the end of December to reflect on the people we should've kissed, the phone calls we shouldn't have made, the opportunities we squandered, the surprises we relished and, most importantly, our favourite music of the months past. While these Best of 2011 lists are admittedly overwrought and a little pointless, I can't help but throw my hat into the ring, compiling my top tracks of twenty-eleven, many of which you've already read about here... Just like last year, I'm hosting all 25 MP3s, which you can grab ...

PropertyOfZack is thrilled to be bringing you a brand new 10Of’11 feature from Doghouse Records/Working Group Management that includes Breathe Electric, Jowls, Keyes, Romance On A Rocketship, Ocean Is Theory, and David Conway and Matt Pullman from Doghouse Records/Working Group Management.  Check them out below and make sure to check back every day for more! From Breathe Electric: Penguin Prison - Penguin Prison - Don’t Fuck With My Money Crystal Castles - (II) - Not In Love Innerpartysystem - Never Be Content - American Trash Patrick Stump - Soul Punk - Spotlight (New Regrets) Teddybears - Devil’s Music - Rocket Scientist Pendulum - Immersion – Witchcraft  Justice ...

Les Nodzzz reviennent avec un second album Innings sur Woodsists après un premier lp sur What's your Rupture et le 45 "true to life". Ce trio américain fait de la pop, minimaliste mais non dépourvue de finesse. La prod est très simple, lo-fi mais pas caricaturale, le disque semble avoir été enregistré avec beaucoup de spontanéité. Les guitares s'entrelacent avec beaucoup d'aisance, et malgré l'apparente simplicité les compositions ont souvent ce petit truc en plus pour les rendre fascinantes sans que l'on sache au juste pourquoi. Peut être que 14 morceaux d'affilé ça fait ...

Innings is the second full-length from garage-pop trio Nodzzz and their first for New York imprint Woodsist. Its simple title is a nod to their origin: songwriting core Anthony Atlas and Sean Paul Presley met playing baseball in Olympia, Washington, and started Nodzzz upon relocating to San Francisco.  The album offers fourteen discretely memorable songs

It seems like Woodsist Records can do no wrong, at least as of late. So far this year we’ve been treated to an astounding album of burbling folk in Ducktails III and an exciting approximation of the tape warped pop of the mid 60s in White Fence’s Is Growing Faith , not to mention several other great efforts from Ryan Garbes and Nodzzz. It seems appropriate then that the creators of the label would jump in with something of similar quality and with Sun and Shade , Woods has done just that. For the most part Sun and Shade is ...

What the Ramones are to punk, Andrew W.K. is to metal, and Ke$ha is to dance-pop, San Francisco’s Nodzzz tries to be for lo-fi indie-rock on Innings . Young, dumb, and full of irrepressible goofiness, Nodzzz takes 23 minutes to nonchalantly bang out 14 songs on Innings , using about as many brain cells in the process. Innings doesn’t call out for penetrating analysis: “Fear Of Advice” is about being afraid of advice, “I’m Not A Wanderer” is about someone who isn’t a wanderer (at least not anymore), and “Primitive” is, yes, a primitive 93 seconds ...

FUCK I LOVE NODZZZ THEY ARE A REAL COOL BAND FROM SAN FRANSICSO AND THEY HAVE THAT LO-FI JANGLE POP GARAGE POP SOUND GOING ON WITH SLIGHTLY ANNOYING VOCALS BUT IT REALLY WORKS! SOMEHOW! THEIR FIRST 7″ ‘I DON’T WANNA (SMOKE MARIJUANA)’ HAS BEEN CALLED ‘ONE OF THE BEST SONGS OF ALL TIME’ BY MEDUSA, [...]

Nodzzz were a strange gateway band in to my San Francisco life.  I stumbled across their gawky, angular power pop in the rushed moments before I moved my entire life, and their buck-toothed squalor seemed to fit my own awkward transition.  After the sheer joy of their self-titled 12″ on What’s Your Rupture, it’s been [...]

NODZZZ – “Time (What’s It Going to Do?)” Innings is the excellent new album from SF trio NODZZZ, out today on Woodsist. The record’s nervy, poppy jangle feels timeless in the best possible way. If you’d discovered Innings as a cassette 20 years ago, it would’ve sounded great, and I think someone discovering it 20 [...]

Nodzzz return to the fold with their longest release to date, packed full of their delightfully itchy brand of jangle-pop. Adjusting their horn rims securely on their noses, the boys pick out 12-string nerd rock odes to therapy, relationships, second hand clothes and anxiety that squirm comfortably in their power pop shoes. Its hard not to be charmed by Nodzzz, they seem the most unlikely of rock stars and that familiarity is exactly what draws them closer on each listen. They get in, get out and get stuck in your head all under 2 minutes. Download: [MP3] Nodzzz - Heyday Past ...

Following what seemed like the world’s shortest LP ever (I’m pretty sure it clocked in at the fifteen minute mark), San Francisco garage poppers Nodzzz has a more lengthy — albeit still not a standard length LP — follow-up, entitled Innings that’s getting the Woodsist treatment. One of the first cuts to hit the [...]

(The traditional gift for a third anniversary is leather. If you must, just buy me a drink instead.) Three years and a few days ago I posted my first podcast. In that time I've done 73 podcast and played hundreds of bands. 541 to be precise. And here are all of them: AC Newman The Action The Addicts The Adverts AK-47 Alan Milman Sect Alternative TV Alice Cooper American Music Club Angry Samoans Animals and Men Anti-Band Apache Dropout Arc In Round Art Attacks Article 58 Babylon Dance Band Bad Posture Babies Barbara Manning Bardo Pond Bare Wires Bartlebees ...

by Evan Hanlon The f-word gets tossed around a bunch when talking about Nodzzz. Fun, that is. They have always written insanely short, catchy pop songs in the modern idiom, and, for those looking for the one line post mortem, Innings doesn't just not disappoint, it delights. It also introduces another... Read More

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