There's a larger dose of videos this week, since we took Friday off for the holiday. And the best videos this week are varied -- there's a new, interactive clip from Au Revoir Simone, another…   Read Story »

Active Child and School Of Seven Bells exchange remixing duties on a forthcoming split 7". Side A finds Stereogum40 alumnus Pat Grossi leaving his fingerprints on SVIIB's "Heart Is…   Read Story »

With fall on the horizon, we're escaping a slow summer and shifting into that final, fertile phase of the music year's release cycle. Which makes it a ripe time to get some perspective on the year,…   Read Story »

Princeton spin-off project Kisses announced themselves with "Bermuda," sounding something like Jens Lekman taking a drive down the Pacific Coast Highway and getting caught up at a daytime disco…   Read Story »

Pat Grossi, aka L.A.'s Active Child, takes us on another icy electro-pop outing with "Wilderness." This time he and his falsetto even mention it's "so cold" before offering up (or at least hoping…   Read Story »

Pat Grossi is a Los Angeles resident with an icy falsetto who records under the moniker Active Child. When we posted his "Voice Of An Old Friend" I said sunburst MySpace photos suggested he was…   Read Story »

Judging from his sandy photos and sounds, Los Angeles resident Pat Grossi, aka Active Child, is another of these beach-combing bedroom-atmospheric types, though he adds more than enough personalized…   Read Story »