Alterbeast : "Vile Remnants" (via Earsplit PR/ Decibel Magazine /Soundcloud) Ought : "The Weather Song" (via Rarely Unable/Soundcloud) Small Black : "Lines of Latitude (feat. Frankie Rose )" (via Jagjaguwar, Gorilla Vs. Bear /Soundcloud) Pink Mountaintops : "Ambulance City" (via Jagjaguwar/ Noisey /YouTube) The Afghan Whigs : "Algiers" (via Sub Pop/YouTube) Dum Dum Girls : "Too True To Be Good" (via Sub Pop/ V Magazine /YouTube) Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

Between Frankie Rose and Katy Goodman ’s solo project, La Sera , O.G. Spector -worshippers Vivian Girls have really saturated the scene with melodic, lo-fi garage and Shangri-La pop groove. Spawning the solo and collaborative dabbling of Rose and Goodman, both of whom are putting out new albums in the next month or so, you do have to wonder how many more albums Vivian Girls have left before the sound is completely exhausted. Moving in a proactive manner, the starry-eyed nuances often associated with this sound are seeming to fall by the wayside. Rose, in particular, seems much less enchanted with sounding enchanted, taking on a cleaner edge and hardening the otherwise softness of her music. You could even cite The Smiths or The Cure as a basis for Interstellar , her upcoming new album. There’s jangling riffs and synthesizers, electro-tinged percussion. Certainly a throwback sound, but now twenty-years later than her last throwback sound. Frankie Rose - Gospel/Grace fro...