L.A. band Dark Furs drop new single and new video “Concrete Corners”. The minor-keyed stomper is highlighted by singer Suzanne May’s skilled & quite emotively affecting melodic lines & choices. Dark Furs are playing the Bootleg two weeks from tonight (Sept. 24th) w/ Porcelain Raft. Be like b3sci and be square or be there.
Dark Furs 
(Facebook)
Rating 9
“Let It Roll” L.A. band Wake Up Lucid’s wrested straight from the viscera b-side to their new joint 7″ for Near Mess Records. Produced by Icarus Line/Buddyhead bro Joe Cardamone, “Let It Roll” is the Southern California blues rock/hammer prime mover; just the quanity of guts and reality in this one track alone could with relative ease level/decimate/crush interminably lesser bands of its genre and otherwise. Of the track, band member Ryan Baca said, “”Let It Roll” is a mood. It’s when you’re in the room with the band, working out a new song, and you don’t give a fuck about anything else. We weren’t worried about having a hook or catchy chorus or anything like that, we just played loud, tight and heavy and the song took shape.” Pick it up September 24th on Near Mess Records.
Wake Up Lucid (Facebook)
Rating 8.1
L.A.-based producer Rambo Hollywood constructs his latest mix, a vibed-down mid-80’s-styled of Portugal. The Man’s “Purple Yellow Red & Blue”, around Spandau Ballet’s oft-sampled 1983 single “True”. And while the sample is more famously the instrumentation around P.M.’s 1991 Billboard #2 “Set Adrift On Memory Bliss” (“Christina Applegate you gotta put us on”), we can’t help but hear Andre 3 stacks’ Whole Foods-ref’ing masterwork verse on Lloyd’s “You” remix (not that this is a bad thing!) every time we spin this Rambo mix. So excuse while we get thee to the B3SCI Ableton control panel now, thx. Great mix.
Rambo Hollywood (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
“Hunting” is the third single from Canadian band The Darcys upcoming Warning LP on Arts & Crafts. An engaging mix of visceral, punch-you-in-the-guts rock and roll immediacy and more artful bits contained in the neat harmonic voicings across the tune and in the instrumentation. The anticipated Warning is due Sept. 17th on Arts & Crafts.
The Darcys 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.3
Today marks the North American release of The 1975’s self-titled debut and full-length album. The album has been a favorite of ours at b3HQ (you can stream the LP here), therefore when the band asked us to take part in their series of artwork premieres (there is a different piece of artwork for each song on the album) for their song “An Encounter”… of course we were more than obliged. “An Encounter” is a sort of compositional adhesion that, while short in length, paints a bridge of allure between musical statements. As frontman Matty Healy best puts it…
“An Encounter” acts as cinematically paced scene change that ushers in the album’s second phase, our personal ode to an eighties movie. Symbolising the moment the two characters from “Robbers” meet for the first time, “An Encounter” is a hopelessly romantic soundtrack to our Bonnie & Clyde’s first encounter …
The 1975 
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