Feel-Good Music

It's February in Los Angeles and it's raining, cold, and just generally unpleasant. That means that it's time for some feel-good tunes to lift our spirits and keep us dancing. What else was Indie Pop created for?

The LA-Based group Sean Na Na definitely fits the feel-good bill. They've released one album on Dim Mak records, with a couple others released in the early 2000s - but this is the first I had heard of the group before learning that Sean Tillman is also known as the artist Har Mar Superstar. Tillman has mentioned that the Sean Na Na moniker allows him to make more serious and reflective music than his previous Har Mar ventures - but I wouldn't call his tracks very serious. The song "Photo Booth" has some catchy Americana elements tossed in to make an all-together exciting track that you'll be singing along to in no time. Check it out here.

Anhorse [pictured] are performing in San Francisco's Noise Pop festival in late February. The band is a rock duo stationed far far away in Australia. They've opened for Deathcab for Cutie as well as one of their most noticable influences, Tegan and Sara. The band echoes Tegan and Sara's simultaneously simplistic and irresistable style. Listen to "Horizons" here.