Dream Diary is a band from Brooklyn, NY that plays jangly pop songs inspired by the Smiths, Lloyd Cole, the Supremes, and everything in between. They formed as a quartet in late 2009 and released their self-recorded debut album, 'You Are The Beat', on Kanine Records in 2011.

They are described by Brooklyn Vegan as "NYC's answer to The Pastels/Field Mice" and by Allmusic.com as "ultra-sweet, C-86-loving indie pop".



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Last Fall, Dylan Baldi-- the young, bespectacled face and brains behind Cleveland power-pop outfit Cloud Nothings-- was gearing up for two simultaneous releases: a delicious new 7" single and a wide-release compilation that wrangled together nearly every other hook he had burned to cassette, vinyl, or CD-R in the year before. While both shared remarkably strong songwriting, said single was recorded without much of the fuzz and distortion that enveloped his work up until that point. The difference was huge. Baldi's home-recorded hooks had never been hard to hear, but out in the open, free of that lo-fi asterisk, they thrived. Breaks were crisp, turnarounds hit like boomerangs, and every sweet, tightly coiled melody could be savored in full. In the lead-up to this, his first full-length in wide-release, Baldi hinted that he'd continue to clarify his recordings. He stuck to his guns.
The result is another fantastic step forward, though not without some growing pains. In the transition from basement to studio, one component has yet to come into full focus: Baldi's voice.

Myspace page - http://www.myspace.com/cloudnothings

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Fluffy Lumbers is Samuel Franklin the lumberjack from Ridgewood, New Jersey. His debut EP, "Police Cruisers" was released by Weird Hug Records. In October 2009 Group Tightener released a 7" called Harry Doland's.

http://www.myspace.com/fluffylumbers

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Free Kisses is Karen from Toronto [+ band]. On first listen she's that girl at school who everyone makes fun of a bit [because she's shy, likes books and that's how these things go] who one day she enters the singing contest and IS AWESOME. Next thing you know she's in NYC playing shows for "hipster kids" and people in the UK are saying how "gorgeous" her music is just because it's autumn and they get to wear mittens again. Somewhere along the line the school hottie wants to go out with her and those "plastics" flick their hair, pout and flounce off to the library. All the dudes rejoice because they didn't even like "those sort of girls" anyway, they were just pretending because that's how they thought things rolled.

On second listen that's doing her a disservice. Free Kisses isn't a saccharine tween hit. Her music is more like Grouper and the poised sound of Inca Ore. They're Unrest, not The Moldy Peaches. Detached vocals are lifted above icy plucking and her fed-back sounds melt into one another. She's plays with echoes and stylistic subtleties. Instead of strumming along like some mysterious loner she got a band and played tours with guys like San Francisco's Brave Horatius. He's got a song about erm, Mittens but they sound pretty cool.


No superficial cheery endings here. It's heartbreak. It's joy. Minimal style.

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