Liverpool’s China Rats turn up the punk for “Deadbeat”, the newest offering from their upcoming ‘Don’t Play with Fire‘ EP. Besides being an incredibly awesome suite of google-able words… china, rats, dead, beat (again we warn, proceed at your own risk), “Deadbeat” refreshes a stale amalgam of too oft try-hard indie rock trends with what else but the timeless blare of guitars and a quality tune.
China Rats 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.1
Rock duo Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards a/k/a Deap Vally will soon gig through their hometown of Los Angeles in support of their new debut album Sistrionix. The way we like to put it, their sound traverses a familiar territory of high intensity vocals and riffs that at times sounds like “The Female White Stripes” and at others like all hell is breaking loose. These ladies have been making noise touring recently with the likes of Queens of the Stone Age and have also been catching ears at major festivals like Glastonbury and Lollapalooza to name a few. This homecoming gig at the world famous Troubadour next Tuesday, August 13th is not to be missed.
B3SCI will be giving away a pair of tickets to this coveted show to one lucky reader! To win just email us here and let us know you’d like to be entered in the Deap Vally ticket drawing. Our winner will be picked at random from the pool of submissions by Sunday 8/11, so keep an eye on your inbox (one entry per person). You can get additional details for the show, as well as purchase tickets for the show here. Good luck!
The Troubadour 
(Tickets and Info)
Deap Vally (Facebook)
We’re digging the gritty minor-keyed rock and roll of Brooklyn band Raccoon Fighter (incredible band name). The Papercup Music band will be releasing their debut Z/L LP October 1st of which lead single “Santa Tereza” is a part.
Raccoon Fighter 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.2
Bay Area rapper Iamsu breaks off a little something fresh for the ladies (and our R&B cooler loving dudes too) w/ the new Tank-featuring “Let Go”.
Iamsu (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
23 year old Northern Irish songwriter Daniel James channels the rhythmic and meldoci structures of gospel and spirituals on new track “A Lonely Man”. In writing “A Lonely Man” James wanted to convey struggle and how his personal notion of it relates to its historical context; he had this say about the track, “‘A Lonely Man’ is based on parallel stories. One part expresses my own struggles with everyday life and another part expresses my imagination of what ‘struggling’ actually entails. Researching old reference books and documentaries, I focussed on the struggle of the slaves in chain gangs in America in the nineteenth century. I tried to harness old slave/gospel type vocal rhythms in the track to reflect the parallel story. ‘A Lonely Man’ is a story of one man’s battle, both real and imagined.”
Daniel James 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.5
