Girls Like Me

VINYL FORMAT. Limited to 500 copies. TV Girl is Trung Ngo and Brad Petering, long time friends who grew up skating the streets of San Diego and dissecting pop music in each other's garages and bedrooms. Ngo threw himself into TV Girl when his previous band, party rock band Da Bears, disbanded. TV Girl's unique sound comes from the combination of Ngo's sweet voice and subtly twisted lyrics over Petering's lushly arranged beats, built from samples of everything from Dylan to Tracy Chapman to, as Petering puts it, "some obscure 60's garage rock song" downloaded haphazardly off the internet.

TV Girl is a quintessential post-modern pop band, gleefully appropriating the best parts of disparate genres but not beholden to the trappings of any of them. Somewhere in the TV Girl mix, you can hear the ear-candy of golden age pop, the word-play and driving back beat of hip-hop, and the sonic exploration of electronica, all spiked with the emotional kick of a singer-songwriter. This is reflected in the band's stated influences, which range from the aforementioned Nilsson and Costello, to The Magnetic Fields, J.Dilla, Leonard Cohen and Animal Collective.