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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...
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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...
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What Youth Mixtape: Halloween Please take one

The air is finally crisp, combo swell is bouncing off the sand banks, the time change is this weekend and...
Death Valley Girls, Music, Conversation With

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...
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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...
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Stay Tuned: Tanner Rozunko Playlist 023 presented by D’Blanc

God, he’s good. At most things, really. Surfing. Skating. Playing the bass guitar. He’s even really nice. And now we...
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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...

The Black Lips brought the swamp And their signature soul blues punk sermon to CA

Punk is not dead. It lives in Atlanta. And the proof was right there at The Black Lips show, where...
Wand, Music, Band

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...
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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...
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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...
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Watch Keith Richards: Under The Influence Tonight’s Netflix and chill

Keith Richards. The legend, the human riff. He’s responsible for some of the best guitar writing in musical history. Not...
Childbirth, Women's Rights, Music, What Youth Recommends

Listen to Childbirth, “Women’s Rights” Political and hilarious girl punk

Whatever happened to gritty girl power punk rock? Bands like Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Huggy Bear and Babes in Toyland rocked...
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Misfit Lefts and Rights Taj Burrow vs. Dion Agius set to The Misfits

Every day it seems to get harder and harder to sift through the endless web clips to find something that makes...
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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...
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Afternoon Interview: Lily Meola Episode: 032 On touring with Willie Nelson and recording her first album

We first met Lily Meola when we went Maui to visit her aerial cowboy brother Matt. During our stay, Lily...
White Fang, WY Recommends, Music

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...

Watch new Froth video “Nothing Baby” directed by Riley Blakeway

Riley Blakeway has directed another musical masterpiece for the band Froth. We already saw the music video he did for...

Listen to: Emotional More bliss for your ears, ’cause summer aint done yet

Summer is showing no signs of stopping. The water is beyond warm, the surf is fun and our popsicles fully melted....
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Listen to: Zombi A dark-synth punch to the brain

Zombi is an instrumental heavy prog rock band who for the better part of the last decade has been playing...

New Songs from DIIV and Deerhunter 2 ways to make this day a lot better

Our music guru Maya Eslami is out of town right now, which means I get the keys to your ears today,...
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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...
what youth recommends metz band

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...
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Stay Tuned: Johan Stuckey Playlist 021 Presented by D’Blanc

Johan Stuckey wears glasses. That much is obvious. The other things that make him fantastic are his parts in Cosmic...
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Dead Moon goes off Berserktown II in Santa Ana, CA

After getting kicked, my glasses flying, earring pulled (lol, I know right), beer splashing on my camera and tons of...

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...

Conversation with: Meatbodies On Sabbath, Opera, Martinis and more with a good rock band

 Chad Ubovich has been a musician almost all of his life. He grew up surrounded by instruments – his father...

Listen to Dick Diver New Music for your morning/noon/night

Get your minds out of the gutter. The name of Melbourne, Australia band Dick Diver is based on the main character...

Watch: Brixton Broadcast Barcelona 7 Bands, 2 Nights, 1 amazing city

You can’t just buy a movement. You have to sweat, rock, drink, swerve, stay out all night and let it...
what youth recommends day wave music

Watch: Day Wave’s new video “Drag” New music vids are always fun

Check out Day Wave’s new jam “Drag” above and definitely grab the whole album on iTunes here. Because we want you...

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