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  Hear Bleached's Disturbed Earworm 'Dead in Your Head'

  March 26, 2013 – Bleached sisters Jessica and Jennifer Clavin cut their teeth with surf-tinged noise-punk posse Mika Miko, but their new focus channels their former freneticism into powerful hook-work and production value. …
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  Watch Bleached Actually Tattoo Their Friends in 'Next Stop' Video

  February 26, 2013 – Bleached were but a budding SPIN Best New Artist a year ago when they released their first music video for "Searching Through the Past." The sisters Clavin have since built up their pop-kissed punk sound In the Studio and emerged with the forthcoming full-length Ride Your Heart, due April 2 on Dead Oceans, and delivered us one sunny strummy gem called "Next Stop." Now that song has a video of its own, and the Los Angeles  …
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  Hear Bleached's Sunny, Punky 'Next Stop'

  January 8, 2013 – When Los Angeles' leading ladies of gnarly party-punk Mika Miko called it quits in 2009, fans of the city's burgeoning DIY scene seriously lamented the loss. …
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  Bleached Promise More Pop Than Punk on 2013 LP

  November 27, 2012 – "What we really wanted to do," says Bleached's Jessica Clavin of her sisterly duo's recently recorded full-length, "was explore. We've been doing this since we were teenagers and we have a certain sound on our last three seven-inches, but we wanted to show some variety. This new record has songs you'll be familiar with, but there are also things that will be a surprise. …
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  SPIN's 5 Best New Artists for February '12

  February 2, 2012 – WILLIS EARL BEAL Who: An idiosyncratic, Chicago-based antifolk belter whose cassette-recorded debut, Acousmatic Sorcery, drops on April 3 via XL Recordings' new Hot Charity imprint. He's set to open some U.S. …
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  Video Premiere: Bleached's Sun-Streaked 'Searching Through the Past'

  January 19, 2012 – Three months after we heard Bleached's latest song for the very first time, "Searching Through the Past" still sounds so good. For the single's sun-streaked, Molly Schiot-directed visual, the sisters Clavin (Jessica and Jennifer, formerly of L.A. punk outfit Mika Miko) got the hell out of town, rode horses, chased tumbleweeds, and snuck into a graveyard. We repeated, the band snuck into a graveyard to shoot this thing. …
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  First Spin: Hear Bleached's 'Searching Through the Past'

  October 14, 2011 – Months after beloved L.A. art-punkers and Smell disciples Mika Miko called it a day in late 2009, sisters Jessica and Jennifer Clavin dove right back into writing and recording together as Bleached. While they've definitely taken their sound in another direction (splenetic guitar moves have been swapped out in favor of softer, strummier, far stickier fare), the energy's not so different at all. …
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