KEXP Seattle — Highlights for this sleepy summer week include the debut from Toronto-based band Alvvays (pronounced “always,” if you were wonderin’). KEXP Music Director Don Yates describes the release as “a promising set of hazy, surf-inflected dream-pop. ... more info

Time — The Canadian pop band's sunny debut puts lead singer Molly Rankin in fine company more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Amanda Hatfield; words by Bill Pearis Protomartyr / Alvvays Back up to a robust eight weeks of live music, the 2014 Seaport Music Festival kicked off this past Friday (7/11) with a strong, if disparate, double bill of... more info

NME — Acts including Sophie and Alvvays join Andrew WK and The Fat White Family on line-up more info