[Locals Only] The Long Beach band deliver heavy, sweeping shoegaze you can actually look up to
The opening scene of Highland's music video for "Railroads" centers on singer/guitarist Scott Holmes' slow immersion in a dark beach cave in which moving shadows and other stoner hallucinations abound. Surrounded by the band's waves of slowly mutating soundscapes and washed-out distortion, subtle ha ... More >>
It's no secret that Tuesday afternoons can drone on pretty badly after your lunch has settled. So we're glad that today we can use the word "drone" in a slightly more uplifting context, thanks to an afternoon song leak by the psychedelic shoegazers, Highlands. The Long Beach quartet just dosed us wi ... More >>
​Now that Coachella set times are FINALLY out, we can map out our weekend without tearing our hair out. So which days are we running across the Empire polo field to catch 10 minutes of which act? What time of the day will we be snoozing outside the Sahara tent? When are we doing potty breaks and e ... More >>
Life gets in the way of Stars' music-in a good way
www.myspace.com/surferblood​[via Pitchfork]Last week, Surfer Blood and the Pains of Being Pure at Heart played a gig in Florida--and members of both bands collaborated on a cover of Fullerton-based band Lit's 1999 hit, "My Own Worst Enemy." Chris Principe from Hooray for Earth also joined the tw ... More >>
