Wild With Mickey Avalon (@ Saint Rocke - Sat. 7/14)

Want to get filthy drunk and party like a rockstar?  Go to Saint Rocke this Saturday night and sing a schwasted version of "My Dick" with Mickey Avalon.  With a colorful canvas of experience to draw from (Mickey's the son of a pot peddling mother and heroin addict father), Avalon shows are certainly an experience worth indulging.    Buy your tickets here.

Sexy girls and dirty lyrics are par for the course when it comes to the notoriously "Loaded" artist.  And his show is an event you need to witness at some point - so we've got a few free tickets to sweeten the deal.  Reach out to contest@supergoodmusic.com or tweet @supergoodmusic @saintrocke and @mickeyave to enter.  Winner will be chosen on Friday afternoon.

Wild With Mickey Avalon (@ Saint Rocke - Sat. 7/14)

Want to get filthy drunk and party like a rockstar?  Go to Saint Rocke this Saturday night and sing a schwasted version of "My Dick" with Mickey Avalon.  With a colorful canvas of experience to draw from (Mickey's the son of a pot peddling mother and heroin addict father), Avalon shows are certainly an experience worth indulging.    Buy your tickets here.

Sexy girls and dirty lyrics are par for the course when it comes to the notoriously "Loaded" artist.  And his show is an event you need to witness at some point - so we've got a few free tickets to sweeten the deal.  Reach out to contest@supergoodmusic.com or tweet @supergoodmusic @saintrocke and @mickeyave to enter.  Winner will be chosen on Friday afternoon.

New Hipster Music Exposure Vehicle: HBO's GIRLS

The increasingly funny and clever HBO show GIRLS isn't just good for visual entertainment and humor - its proving to be a pretty good vehicle for exposure to new indie music.  Take The Echo Friendly for instance.  Had you heard of them?  Or there "Same Mistakes"?  We admittedly had not.

I'm not boasting that "Same Mistakes" is infectious.  Its not.  But its good.  A solid time piece that makes a point and captures that post-college or post-grad school early adult crisis angst in a lo-fi indie rock pocket.  All the more reason why it was a perfect song to use on Girls.   The track resonates because we all feel or have felt that angst (or for our younger readers - will feel it sometime in the future) and despite trying to sort it all out - we still end up repeating bad behavior and/or making the same mistakes.  Its a cycle.  Sometimes a vicious one...but one that at least gets young artists to make palatable music.    

The Echo Friendly's video is lo-fi, with some cool effects.  Nothing visually outrageous to melt your face, but it compliments the music well.  Enjoy....

New Hipster Music Exposure Vehicle: HBO's GIRLS

The increasingly funny and clever HBO show GIRLS isn't just good for visual entertainment and humor - its proving to be a pretty good vehicle for exposure to new indie music.  Take The Echo Friendly for instance.  Had you heard of them?  Or there "Same Mistakes"?  We admittedly had not.

I'm not boasting that "Same Mistakes" is infectious.  Its not.  But its good.  A solid time piece that makes a point and captures that post-college or post-grad school early adult crisis angst in a lo-fi indie rock pocket.  All the more reason why it was a perfect song to use on Girls.   The track resonates because we all feel or have felt that angst (or for our younger readers - will feel it sometime in the future) and despite trying to sort it all out - we still end up repeating bad behavior and/or making the same mistakes.  Its a cycle.  Sometimes a vicious one...but one that at least gets young artists to make palatable music.    

The Echo Friendly's video is lo-fi, with some cool effects.  Nothing visually outrageous to melt your face, but it compliments the music well.  Enjoy....

Pu$$y - Iggy Azalea

Dirty subject matter. Check.

Kid with mad swagger. Check.

Gratuitous shots of kittens. Check.

This video is a winner and I'm actually impressed with Iggy Azalea. Her raps come off casual, smooth and effortless. As long as she is better than Kreayshawn live - I'm down.

Pu$$y - Iggy Azalea

Dirty subject matter. Check.

Kid with mad swagger. Check.

Gratuitous shots of kittens. Check.

This video is a winner and I'm actually impressed with Iggy Azalea. Her raps come off casual, smooth and effortless. As long as she is better than Kreayshawn live - I'm down.

T. Mills - Ready and Fired in 2010, Exploding in 2011

Local resident Travis Tatum Mills may not yet be on your radar, but that will probably change soon. And he might already be if you've heard of the artist T. Mills. The 21 year old hip-hop-R&B-electropunk hybrid phenom is already a force on the internet and, after seeing one of his performances, I can attest that he is one on stage as well.

The Riverside, CA child sites influences from Wu Tang Clan to Blink 182 to Bone Thugs N Harmony - to recent additions to his playlist like Rusko and Wiz Khalifa. Embracing his multitude of tastes, T. Mills has already reached to a multitude of markets. In 2010, T. Mills could be seen all over the place - from his release of the "Ready, Fire, Aim!" EP to Bamboozle to the Warped Tour to his constantly growing online presence.

Earlier in 2011, I witnessed T. Mills headline and sell out an all ages show at The Troubadour. Not only were teenage girls grabbing for the pierced young hearthtrob's crotch on stage, they lined up to the edge of Doheny and Santa Monica at the end of the show screaming for a photo opportunity. Mind you, they'd been invited by the artist to do so after the show. He took the time to embrace each one of his fans willing to wait in the line while their parents waited outside to pick them up...

With plans to release a mixtape in April featuring production from J Hawk, Matt Squire, Colin Munroe, Hit Boy, The Stereotypes and more - T. Mills won't be resting anytime soon. Plus, with over 46,000 Facebook likers, where he happens to be giving away a free mp3 - http://www.facebook.com/ilovetmills?sk=app_4949752878 - almost 22,000 twitter followers http://twitter.com/#!/search/%40ilovetmills and over a million views on MySpace - his identity is going to keep penetrating the internet. With a swagger lick a rockstar for and songs like "Just My Luck" coming too - his hybrid-pop sounds will probably begin and keep penetrating your head too...

Facebook.com/ilovetmills
Twitter.com/ilovetmills
Myspace.com/ilovetmills

Martin Solveig - Hits in 2010 and 2009

You know Martin Solveig? The guy who's got that song "Hello" that sounds like "Paper Planes" remixed that people have been spinning and gushing about for the last few months?

Martin Solveig feat. Dragonette - "Hello"

Well, he had a hit in 2009 called "Boys & Girls" too that sounds wholly original and is pretty damn catchy. I dusted it off for my end of the year shenanigans and think you should too. Here's the music video...the girl in it kind of looks like the actress from Tank Girl, right?