Fresh off of releasing their Grand Jury debut, dog eyes are back today to lend a hand in celebrating our 10th year in business. Back in May, we unveiled Samia’s take on the Twin Peaks barnburner “Making Breakfast,” a touchstone track from their 2014 album Wild Onion. Today, dog eyes spin their own version of “Joy,” a beautiful & gentle moment from the 2021 Hovvdy album True Love.

The track is the second in our 10th Anniversary project, where we’ve asked a handful of our bands, old and new, to tackle songs from the catalog. We’ll be back before the end of the year with tunes from TOLEDO, Haulm, & Jordana.

In the meantime, you can grab a 10th Anniversary limited edition tee over on our Bandcamp, designed by longtime GJ friend Vance Wellenstein.

Lively Premonition is Jordana’s fourth album, but as usual it’s also her first. Her first in her new skin. Recorded over 2023 with Emmett Kai , Jordana sets up shop at the intersection of Laurel Canyon golden folk and Yacht Rock glitz and glitter with this new LP. After a move from NY to LA the evolution makes perfect sense.  Here final teaser for the album arrived earlier this week: “Raver Girl” showcases that 70s soft pop vibe perfectly. Like “Anything For You” before it, the video was directed by Justin Taylor Smith. Tune in next week for tour dates, and check out what press is saying about the album:

“Jordana is anything but a one-trick pony, and Lively Premonition sees her taking sonic risks that pay off tenfold.” – Line of Best Fit, 8/10

“Lively Premonition glows with self-discovery.” – Consequence

“A record that evokes the past in a blissfully optimistic future.” – Dork, 5/5

“Endlessly lyrical pop songs that shimmer at the edges with jazzy harmonies and a surprising number of disco-era bass grooves.” – All Music, 4.5/5

“Refitting the yacht rock and Laurel Canyon sounds of the ’70s and ’90s country for the modern bedroom-pop era, the songwriter’s willingness to experiment keeps her fourth LP interesting.” – FLOOD

“Jordana has never sounded so radiant.” – Consequence

The first pressing of Lively Premonition is available on serenity blue vinyl everywhere you get records & limited edition opaque blue vinyl is over on Bandcamp. Cassettes are also available on Bandcamp. Art by the wonderful Avia Lamm. Album art, tracklist and all order options available below.

01 We Get By
02 Like A Dog
03 Heart You Hold
04 This Is How I Know
05 Multitudes of Mystery
06 Raver Girl
07 Wrong Love
08 Anything For You
09 The One I Know
10 Your Story’s End

“Anything For You” is the new single & music video from Jordana. A literal star-crossed love story brimming with astronaut cowgirl heartbreak. It was directed by Justin Taylor Smith. It follows “Like A Dog” & “We Get By,” the two previous singles released from Lively Premonition, due on October 18th. Like the songs that preceded it, “Anything For You” is Jordana stretching her creative wings and finding inspiration in Los Angeles in the form of Laurel Canyon folk and glitzy yacht rock. While this tune is more subdued than the upbeat numbers that came before it, the songwriting is every bit as accomplished.

The first pressing of Lively Premonition is available for pre-order now on serenity blue vinyl everywhere you get records & limited edition opaque blue vinyl over on Bandcamp. Tracklist and pre-order options available below.

Tracklist:

01 We Get By
02 Like A Dog
03 Heart You Hold
04 This Is How I Know
05 Multitudes of Mystery
06 Raver Girl
07 Wrong Love
08 Anything For You
09 The One I Know
10 Your Story’s End

Pre-Orders:

It took exactly one listen to Sex Week’s first single “Toad Mode” to convince us to track down Richard Orofino & Pearl Amanda Dickson and sign them ASAP. Once the ink dried, we discovered they were sitting on a trove of equally incredible material that we’re pleased to release to the world today in the form of their debut EP, fittingly-titled: Sex Week. From the evil pop vibes of “Angel Blessings” to the lethargic beauty of “Kid Muscle,” there’s something sinister and beautiful going on here. But there’s an innocent playfulness to a lot of the proceedings too, exemplified in that fateful first single and in the just-released “Naked,” whose Bachelor-lampooning video arrived earlier this week.

All of this is just to say: we love this band. And we feel very lucky to be delivering this music to you today.

Today marks the release of holy friend, the latest full-length from Oakland duo dog eyes. It’s a project that overflows with warmth and compassion. Mini-epics of lo-fi bedroom pop ambition, sleepy Americana and studies in slowcore abound across the ten tracks here. The band celebrated earlier this week with the release of a music video for final single, “drive,” a hushed indie folk number that arrives early on the album. A hometown East Bay Express profile landed earlier this week ahead of last night’s release show at Bottom of the Hill in SF.

Join us in welcoming this wonderful record into the world.

01 crush
02 firsts
03 rusty, my dog
04 drive
05 fair
06 moment
07 nothing at all
08 go together
09 ties
10 holy friend
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Today Jordana announces her new album, Lively Premonition. If you’ve been following the 23-year-old Maryland-born songwriter for long you know to expect the unexpected. When she dropped “We Get By” earlier this summer it hinted at a new direction, and today’s single “Like A Dog” all but confirms it. Having relocated to the Golden State in 2023, this is unequivocally Jordana’s LA record – sailing a glitter covered yacht right through Laurel Canyon.

“Like A Dog” lands today with a truly wonderful music video. Jordana reuintes with “We Get By” director Otium to transform herself into a literal dog (watch for the iphone screen cameo of her own pup Ducky) awaiting her hit-making mama’s return from a very cursed day in the studio.

The first pressing of Lively Premonition is available for pre-order now on serenity blue vinyl everywhere you get records & limited edition opaque blue vinyl over on Bandcamp. Album art, tracklist and pre-order options available below.

Lively Premonition Tracklist:

01 We Get By
02 Like A Dog
03 Heart You Hold
04 This Is How I Know
05 Multitudes of Mystery
06 Raver Girl
07 Wrong Love
08 Anything For You
09 The One I Know
10 Your Story’s End

Pre-Orders:

Last month Brooklyn duo Sex Week announced their self-titled debut EP. Today they return with another taster from the release: “Kid Muscle.” It’s a slowcore slowburn, replete with the band’s quickly-materializing calling card of hushed whispers and submerged shrieks clinging to the underbelly of a patient pop song. The track is paired with a video set in a rainy black box, with Sex Week’s live band performing an off-kilter, soaking wet version of the song while Pearl writhes, prances, and bewitches the band and the viewer.

Reminder that the limited edition CD version of the EP is available at Bandcamp right now.

In other news, the band will be playing a handful of NYC shows over the coming weeks – starting tonight at Elsewhere in Brooklyn supporting Pile. They’ll celebrate the release of the short-player at Union Pool in August with Why Bonnie? All dates & tickets over on their artist page.

More soon.

dog eyes, the lo-fi Oakland duo of Davis Leach and Haily Firstman, want to talk about friendship. 

holy friend, the pair’s sophomore release – announced today & their first for Grand Jury Music– is a gentle 10-song ode to all types of relationships, an examination of the effect we have on the most important people in our lives.  It’s a cornucopia of hushed & humble mini-epics. Across the record, there’s ethereal twee on “fair,” patient slowcore on “rusty, my dog,”  mossy indie folk on “drive”  and economical bedroom pop on “moment,” available everywhere today. 

As Firstman puts it, “the ‘Holy Friend’ as a concept, creates an ideal person from scraps of perfection/the divine we find in flawed places. Hopeful, yet grounded, the “Holy Friend” is a testament to the idea that age brings nuance. Something bigger than the sum of its parts that helps guide us, rooted and reflected in the nuance of friendship.”

The band wasn’t nearly as conceptual with their debut, good, proper send off, which they self-released in 2022. “Our vision for ‘good, proper sendoff’ was a lot more pared down and simple,” says Leach. Where good proper send off was a record filled with field recordings, fuzzy radio static and fragile folk, holy friend levels up the ambition and expands the sonic horizons. On August 16th, Grand Jury will release that document, a limited edition cassette featuring holy friend on the A-side and good, proper send off on the B-side.

01 crush
02 firsts
03 rusty, my dog
04 drive
05 fair
06 moment
07 nothing at all
08 go together
09 ties
10 holy friend
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Today Sex Week unveil their new song “Cockpit,” a terminally climactic masterwork that is the centerpiece of their freshly-announced self-titled EP.

The seven-song release is coming on August 30th. Pre-saves and a CD pre-order are available now over on Bandcamp. The short-player features previous released singles “Toad Mode” and “Angel Blessings,” alongside a collection of nightmarish pop and surprisingly dynamic slowcore the band has been honing over the past few months.

Pre-Save / Pre-Order

01 Bluff
02 Shady Sadie
03 Angel Blessings
04 Cockpit
05 Kid Muscle
06 Naked
07 Toad Mode

More soon.

“I don’t think I’ll ever settle on a specific sound. I’m just a chameleon.”

True words from our very own Jordana Nye. So it should come as no surprise that her thrilling new Emmett Kai-produced single, “We Get By,” is a rollicking golden folk epic sprinkled with shimmering yacht rock glitter. The standalone left-turn seemingly ushers in a new Laurel Canyon era for Jordana, who in between tours with Local Natives, Remi Wolf, TV Girl & Wallows, has been working on material with Kai since 2023. The Otium-directed video is a delight, cycling through vignettes of a day in the life of our violin-playing protagonist.

There’ll be more to share soon. Stay tuned.