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Makin
Waves
by Bob Makin
Record Roundup with The Vaughns,
Frank Lombardi, and Stella Mrowicki
Like Nirvana, The Vaughns are
exceptional at mixing gnarly grun-
ge and delicious indie pop. In the
wake of two EPs, they’ve never
done it better than on their debut
full-length, “FOMO,” which they
wisely left into the crafty hands
of The Front Bottoms bassist Erik
Kase Romero, who’s also pro-
duced Deal Casino, Well Wisher,
Sonic Blume and many others.
NJ STAGE - ISSUE 60
The 11-song collection opens
with the surf-adelic instrumental
“Learning to Surf” and then con-
tinues a surf theme with “Kow-
abunga,” a funny dis of Baltimore,
which is compared to hell (I guess
The Vaughns don’t care if they
play there again). Fueled by ’60s-
style psychedelic guitar a la The
Yardbirds and early The Who, the
entertaining tune alternates be-
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