The What Youth 2015 Our Top 5 Music Videos of the Year
These are the music vids that had us exercising the “Replay” button on YouTube all year long. Good tunes and great...
Listen to Thee Oh Sees’ “Fortress” A tasty, racing new single just in time for holiday cheer
Back in May, when Thee Oh Sees released Mutilator Defeated At Last, they left a pretty special track on the...
Watch Cass McCombs’ “I Cannot Lie” The song from that Dylan Rieder part now has a music video
Cass McCombs released his long-awaited collection of songs A Folk Set Apart: Rarities, B-Sides & Space Junk, Etc. today on...
Watch Levitation Room’s “Crystal Ball” “Flowery Los Angeles Psychedelia”
“Sometimes when you trip you fall looking through a crystal ball.” In the new video for “Crystal Ball,” off their...
Mac DeMarco Unveils New Website And a fan club, for all things Mac in case you need that in your life
Mac DeMarco, our favorite gap-toothed jokester, announced today more show dates to his 2016 North American Tour. More importantly, Mac...
Listen to No Parents And prepare to feel alive again
Punk rock is a highly subjective musical genre. So when a band comes around flexing “punk” vibes, it’s hard not...
Watch Tracy Bryant’s “Subterranean” video An exclusive premiere music video from the frontman of Corners
Tracy Bryant, frontman and founder of LA’s post-punk experimentalists Corners, debuted his first solo effort in 2014, the split cassette...
Listen to Drug Cabin New folk psyche for your cruising pleasure
I saw Drug Cabin play a couple weeks ago in Bandit Town and they really blew me away. I mean,...
Conversation With: Billy Changer Salty mutant pop from the bassist of Corners
We’re big fans of the dudes over at Crap Eyewear. They make great shades, sponsor our parties like a bunch...
Watch Deap Vally’s Video “Royal Jelly” Starring extra sexy Georgia May Jagger
Badass uber babe rock duo Deap Vally — yes, intentionally misspelled, get over it — premiered their video for “Royal...
Listen to Will Ivy In an exclusive What Youth song premiere of “Scrap Plastic”
Will Ivy has been making music since he was a teenager. He’s contributed to a bevy of bands – Dream...
Night Beats Release New Track “Sunday Mourning” off forthcoming album Who Sold My Generation
If you don’t know who Night Beats are, get to googling. The Seattle-based, Texas-bred group released their last full length...
Conversation With: Death Valley Girls “Rock ‘n’ roll is how you say I love you.”
Death Valley Girls look like they moonlight as a biker gang and sound like a combination of riot grrrl attitude...
Watch Winter’s New Video For “All The Things You Do”
Winter, the self-proclaimed “dreamy star-projecting” band fronted by Samira Winter, is just what the hangover doctor called for this morning...
Listen to Walter Featuring members of Meatbodies, Ducktails, and SadGirl
If there weren’t enough fuzzy garage quasi-proto psychedelic bands popping up in the musical stratosphere already, let me introduce you...
Watch Wand’s Sensory Bending Video For “Sleepy Dog,” off their new album, 1000 Days
Wand, the LA heavy hitters who sloshed through 3 albums in 13 months since their creation last year, premiered a...
Watch Deerhunter’s New Video “Living My Life” A psychedelic liquid visual hallucination directed by Bradford Cox
The new video for Deerhunter’s “Living My Life” is, well, for lack of a better word, trippy. Directed, photographed and...
Cass McCombs Announces New Album Out December 11th on Domino Records
Cass McCombs remains, as ever, an enigma. No one’s ever really sure what he’s up to, or where he’s living,...
Stream Summer Twins new album “Limbo” Out now on Burger Records
The babes of Summer Twins look like angel babies who like ice cream, roller skate rinks and Lisa Frank stickers...
Listen to The Garden Orange County’s ever evolving punk crusaders
The Garden will most likely hate being referred to as punk crusaders, but since their birth as a band in...
Watch White Fang’s New Video “Bong Rip” Directed by Workaholics’ Kyle Newacheck
Portland heroes White Fang unleashed a hilarious ripping video for “Bong Rip” a couple weeks ago, to go in hand...
Listen to Chastity Belt Cool chicks making good music
Chastity Belt started out as a “joke band” in college, playing house parties for a bunch of drunk bros and...
Listen to METZ Noise rock from Toronto
Editor’s note: Those of you who have What Youth Issue 11 will remember METZ from Chris Cote’s very LOUD interview...
Listen to CG Roxanne and the Nightmares And catch them live at Echo Park Rising tonight
Tired of all the jangly, bubble-gum pop and shoe gaze indie amalgamations cluster-fucking their way into the music scene like...
Fuzz Announces New Album And Leaks Two Teaser Songs
Fuzz, the heavy psyche proto-inspired creation of Ty Segall, Charlie Moothart, and Chad Ubovich, is releasing a new album this...
Listen to: DRINKS’ “Laying Down Rock” A New Song From New Duo Tim Presley and Cate Le Bon
Yes, that Tim Presley, of White Fence fame, and that Cate Le Bon, the Welsh singer/songwriter who played with White...
The Growlers Played A Secret Benefit Show And announced the Beach Goth 4 lineup
On Tuesday night at the Constellation Room in Santa Ana, the Growlers played a “secret” show for a bunch of...
Lolipalooza 2 Glitter and Cavities For All
“Just woke up and I’m covered in glitter and lollipop wrappers,” said photographer David Evanko post Lolipalooza, the second annual...
So Much Modern Love We saw Jonathan Richman…again.
Okay. So we’re a little obsessed with Jonathan Richman, founder of the Modern Lovers, the Velvet Underground-inspired protopunk band that...
Conversation with: Cosmonauts Live from The Echo, with a Hollywood Video reference!
“I’m gonna go hide for a while.” It’s almost 1 a.m. The Cosmonauts just finished slaying the Moon Block show...
Listen to Dope Body Trash Rock Freaks out of Baltimore
Baltimore band Dope Body is releasing their second album – Kunk – in August, and I’ve bet you’ve never even heard of...
Growlers Unleash New Music Video There’s No Way To Give Her a “Love Test”
Our favorite surfer beach goth dudes The Growlers released their latest video for “Love Test,” off their 2014 album Chinese Fountain....
