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Read my Yours Truly Letter to Pure Bathing Culture
My first post for Yours Truly came out today. I wrote a letter to a band I have been championing since last summer, Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture. Their debut EP drops tomorrow, and it’s just incredible. I hope you enjoy my letter about Hey Dude! my first crush and music that just makes me feel like a kid again.
Read the original article over at Yours Truly.
Pure Bathing Culture - Ivory Coast
by Pure Bathing Culture
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Pure Bathing Culture Ivory Coast
Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture is one of those acts that I have been scowering the internet since LAST SUMMER looking for downloads for the handful of fantastic 80s inspired pop anthems they have released. Well the wait is over. This May Pure Bathing Culture make their debut with their first EP out via Father/Daughter Records.
It’s as if The Carpenters, Kool and the Gang, and a twist all their own made a baby and called it Pure Bathing Culture. The duo’s sound is super groovy in this late 70s, get ready for neon, big remotes and feathered hair 80s vibe that is just so infectious. This Richard Swift produced 2012 release is something I’m really looking forward to. The artwork alone is killer. Be sure to check their West Coast tour dates below too.
SHOWS
April 3 – Valentines (Portland, OR)
April 18 – Holocene (Portland, OR)
April 21 – Barboza (Seattle, WA) w/ Caveman
April 22 – Mississippi Studios (Portland, OR) w/ Caveman
May 4 – University of Montana- Top Hall Lounge (Missoula, MT) w/ Fruit Bats
May 5 – The Bell Tower (Pullman, WA) w/ Fruit Bats
April 18 – Holocene (Portland, OR)
April 21 – Barboza (Seattle, WA) w/ Caveman
April 22 – Mississippi Studios (Portland, OR) w/ Caveman
May 4 – University of Montana- Top Hall Lounge (Missoula, MT) w/ Fruit Bats
May 5 – The Bell Tower (Pullman, WA) w/ Fruit Bats
DOWNLOAD ”Ivory Coast” for free HERE.
Pure Bathing Culture s/t EP is out 5/22 via Father/Daughter Records PRE-ORDER HERE.
Pure Bathing Culture | Bandcamp | Facebook
Hat tip to TMDS for first introducing me to PBC last summer!
Silver Shore's Lake
by Pure Bathing Culture
album pure bathing culture
Pure Bathing Culture Silver Shore’s Lake
I cannot wait for Pure Bathing Culture to release some new tunes. Until they do, this track will be on repeat, like it has been…for months. The band just played a sold out show at Doug Fir in Portland with my pals Radiation City, so felt the need to revisit this jam. This duo in general, but this jam in particular reminds me of The Carpenters mixed with Kool and the Gang, which inherently reminds me of my childhood because that’s all my parents listened to when I was growing up. Images of those moving ocean clocks that would change colors come to mind. Oh nostalgia.
I have a hunch PBC is putting some tunes out on either Secretly Canadian or Fat Possum, and for reasons I can’t reveal, possibly Domino, sometime this spring. The duo are also in the San Francisco indie rock outfit Vetiver, which is on Sub Pop. Guess we’ll have to wait and see. Love speculating though.
The Live Show: Six Acts to Catch In 2012
I’ve been thinking a lot about this topic. The live show. Does it still matter? With so many, many bedroom projects that never (physically) see the light of day, but produce these incredible recordings, I can’t help but feel a bit cheated when they actually do emerge and can’t live up to the hype. All of the bands below are serious performers that really wow’d me with their live show.
Also, in case your not into 24/7 chilled out sex beats and streaming flows of consciousness, here are the six acts I really enjoyed in 2011 and have a hunch will be doing big things in 2012, with special emphasis being placed on their live performance, which for me, makes all the difference.
NO The New Zealand born, now Echo Park based five-piece band, that immediately draws similarities to The National, have played only a handful of live shows, but impressing the right people just about every time causing quite a bit of buzz in Los Angeles already. To walk into a venue and see the 8:30pm opener opener perform the way these guys do is really something. Extremely talented musicians and performers.
NO | Website | Facebook
ABADABAD
Having only a few singles out despite making a number of year end lists as well as NME’s ‘100 New Bands for 2012,’ Abadabad has already picked up a remix by Keep Shelly in Athens in addition for opening for them in Boston and NYC, and will be opening for King Krule this Friday, all of this of course building up to their anticipated album release this spring. They are the closest thing we will get to the Beach Boys, with a southern pureness that is so infectious, it hurts not to love them.
Abadabad | Bandcamp | Facebook
Lands & Peoples Lands & Peoples - Everyday (Live at the Metro Gallery) by Gluttony Is The New Black
The once foursome, for the time being, duo of Caleb Moore and Beau Cole really have 2012 wrapped around their little finger. These guys have some serious lungs on them, and bring a luscious vintage rock feel, that they create so effortlessly by weaving beautiful harmonies and an intricate array of instruments, into a sound that is so powerful, it actually moves you. With one of the most powerful live shows out there right now, once L&P’s album (due out on Everybody Taste’s Analog Edition Records just about any day now), expect to hear their name buzzing all over the place.
Lands & Peoples | Bandcamp | Facebook
Radiation City Having already opened for Youth Lagoon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., being named one of the acts to catch at CMJ 2011, landing countless features, along with a stellar Daytrotter Session and signing to Portland indie label Tender Loving Empire, it’s safe to say, this band is only going to get bigger. In sports they say you’re only as strong as your weakest member, well this band doesn’t have a weak link. Bringing this vintage, bossa nova lounge sound revival, with a live act that will melt your soul, Radiation City are here to stay.
Radiation City | Website | Facebook
ILLLS
With only two incredible garage-psych songs, wielding a slightly du-wop, pop exuberance, released thus far, I am shakin’ in my boots with anticipation for more tunes. If the rumors are correct, ILLLS is made up of musicians from local Oxford, MS bands Slow Talk (Steven Ross) and Young Buffalo. Which makes sense as the two songs fall in vein of these bands, along with other Oxford faves Dead Gaze, and Dent May. They sound a bit like Portland’s Nurses too. Whoever they are, this newly forged exploration into southern-soaked, experimental gaze is insanely infectious.
ILLLS | Bandcamp
Races
I have to admit, I wasn’t sold on this band based on their recordings alone, but once I was nestled into my chair at their live show, I was blown away. They really shouldn’t be on this list, as they recently signed to French Kiss Records, but with only a handful of songs released, and about a 1,000 Facebook fans, more people need to know about Races. Their live show is an experience in complexity. So many pieces coming together to create a rich sound with so much depth. Plus having a hot girl front and center never hurts.
Honorable Mentions: Acts that are on the cusp, and there is no doubt that will be big, they just need the timing to be just right.
Nick Waterhouse, Fidlar, Secret Mountains, Pure Bathing Culture, Fantasy Island, Cuckoo Chaos, Holiday Shores, Stay Cool Forever
Please Note: This list is not complete as I live in a bubble and can’t/won’t ever be able to read the entire internet. Just some thoughts on what’s to come in 2012.
Silver Shore's Lake
by Pure Bathing Culture
Pure Bathing Culture Silver Shore’s Lake
Man you said it. Exactly what I think when I listen to this jam. So hot…
Pure Bathing Culture
“Silver Shore’s Lake”
I love this. It’s intoxicating. So evocative of times past, yet so fresh. I imagine David Gilmour and Christopher Cross were in the studio at the console.
I actually know that it was Richard Swift on the desk because Pure Bathing Culture are comprised of my good friends Sarah and Dan. They recently left my beloved NYC for greener pastures in Portland, OR. Looks like the pastures are coming up pretty green.
