Asides

Catching up on e-mails after being on vacation for a week, I was introduced to Irish trio Kopek. It’s interesting how my frame of mind is different than others – I hear a modern sounding glam rock band which makes sense considering these 20-somethings are influenced by the likes of Zeppelin, Hendrix, The Stones. But others are comparing them to Alternative Press-type bands like The Exies and My Chemical Romance. Either way, it’s all good fist-pumping rock and sounds like something custom-made for driving around in the summer with the windows rolled down.

You’ll be able to buy White Collar Lies digitally beginning June 29.

Elsinore – “Yes Yes Yes”
Modern Skirts – “Rebecca St. Claire”
Son of the Sun – “Get Together”
Lille – “Tall Shoulders”
Canby – “Rat”
Oh No Ono – remix of Efterklang’s “Modern Drift”
Efterklang – remix of Oh No Ono’s “Icicles”
Trentemøller – “Sycamore Feeling”
The Canon Logic – “Nights at Armour Mansion”
Versus – “Invincible Hero”
Woods – “I’m Not Gone”
White Fence – “The Love Between”
Cotton Jones – “Glorylight and Christie”
Ty Segall – “Caesar”
Mystery Jets – “Flash A Hungry Smile”
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – “Sink / Let It Sway”
ArpLine – “Fold Up Like a Piece of Paper”
Places and Numbers – “Waking the Dead”
Lou Barlow + the missingmen – “Losercore”
Japandroids – “Younger Us”