When I think of Denver, Colorado, I think of lumberjack shirts, the Rocky Mountains and John Denver (though he was born in Roswell). One thing I certainly didn’t expect was that it would inspire the kind of sunstroke sounds that have come from Denver resident Tim Perry under his fucking awful moniker Weed Diamond. It’s great that you smoke loads of dope and everything, but unless you’re Afro Man, you look like a dick telling everyone. Fortunately the music’s fucking great.
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Off to the Best Coast
Bethany Consentino and Bobby Bruno are Best Coast, and they make the music that Brian Wilson’s kids really should have made instead of forming famous Californian singers’ sprogs supergroup Wilson Phillips. They are drop-outs who hung around on the beach all day getting stoned, listening to My Bloody Valentine, Guided By Voices and, yes, The Beach Boys. There isn’t really much better preparation for starting a band. Read more »
