Wand Magic Got Our Head Floating

A Wand wand*** (That wand looks awfully familiar.)

We've been enjoying and buying L.A. band Wand's conjurations for a couple of years now and were entranced/blown away by their four-song performance posted at KEXP last week. Here's our favorite, but all of them did the trick. Go to the KEXP post to see the rest.

***See Amber Knecht's excellent Flickrpics here.

Captured in the Great Northwest: Animal Camera

We first encountered these Seattle/Burien psychpoppers at KEXP Blog and were so "turned on" as to sample every song they've encaged at Bandcamp. Below are our favorites. We encourage you to visit that KEXP post to hear/maybe download their newest number, "French Girls." You can 'book 'em here.




We also particularly liked Friends #4 & 6.

Courtesy of KEXP: The Foetals - Malted

Free download here.

You can kind of tell they're from England (Manchester, to be precise) by the spelling of the bandname. We say "they," even though the band is the project of Jolan Lewis of The Pink Teens (formerly a faveband of ours monikered Temple Songs).Their debut LP, Meet The Foetals is due to drop December 4 on PNKSLM Recordings. KEXP Blog served up the tasty "Malted" as today's Song of the Day and has it available for free download, for which, many thanks.