We All Want Someone To Shout For — Chris Chu of the benders made a summer playlist called EchoMix1 for blog Sam Mayday. It includes songs that gave Chris good summer vibes. He even offered up his own cover of Joanna Newsom’s “Have One on Me”, played over J Dilla’s “U-Love”... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — The Morning Benders frontman Christopher Chu made a summery mix for music blog Say Mayday, with the following directive: "If you put this mix on backwards and play it while you eat a bowl of cereal, you'll see your entire future." Early results are ... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — A few people have been asking for an mp3 for the morning benders performance of “Stitches” for my pals, Yours Truly. I can’t blame, them. The performance is special, and I think it would be a worthy addition to any late night drive with the win... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — Lots and lots of good albums released this month. Here are my picks of the best...The Drums - The DrumsAriel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (album of the month)Delorean - SubizaDrake - Thank Me LaterKele - The BoxerPulled Apart By Horses - Pu... more info

The Culture Of Me — Taken from the same December 2009 session that birthed the exceptional and stunning “Excuses” rendition from The Morning Benders and The Echo Chamber Orchestra comes “Stitches”, the penultimate song from Big Echo, the Berkeley group’s lates... more info

Nialler9 — From the same Yours Truly session that brought us the wonderful live version of ‘Excuses’. it features a big bunch of The Morning Benders‘ mates aka The Echo Chamber Orchestra. The Morning Benders – Excuses more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — It was way back in February when we posted a Yours Truly-filmed clip of San Francisco indie-popsters the Morning Benders performing the Playlisted "Excuses", from their BNM'd sophomore effort Big Echo, with a bunch of Bay Area music notables and frie... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — We can all agree that Yours Truly session for “Excuses” was incredible, and helped create a lot of attention for The Morning Benders. Well it turns out that they also recorded “Stitches” that same day, and they just released the video. Yeah, ... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — The Morning Benders performance of “Excuses” on Carson Daly‘s late night show is now available to watch. The band sounds top notch, and the direction for the video is fantastic. They filmed it in colors that gave it a vintage feel, a perfect fi... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — The Morning Benders show at Governors Island this past Saturday was pretty special. You can read my recap post here. They covered Fleetwood Mac’s classic “Dreams” at the show, which was one of the many reasons the show was so special. Their cov... more info