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I met Jenna through my friend Judah. He asked us to play in his band Manneqin. Jenna played keyboards and I played guitar. We hit it off after playing in the band together. I immediately fell in love with Jenna’s art work. Her work ranges from xeroxed out flyers/abstract pieces to lovely paintings. She has a style that feels very thought out and it is something that she owns so well. -- Drew from

Judah is my best friend in the whole wide world. It is pretty inspiring to always be able to hear what he is working on. He likes to hop around in terms of genre/style with his recordings. Sometimes he is working on breakneck punk rockers and other times he puts out beautiful gems like this. The guy is really on to something. -- Drew from Hoops

I first “heard” this song only a few weeks ago. My friend Derek spun this at a show he was DJing last week and it was instantly recognizable. The synth melody paired with the flutes immediately rang a bell in my head. I had heard this song a very long time ago but had not remembered up until last week. Anyway this is a great song. I’m sure you have heard it before. -- Drew from Hoops

This is a nice playlist of songs that I made. Its the perfect length and it will put your ass to sleep. If it doesn’t the first time around just start it over! That’s what I always do. There’s a little bit of everything on this playlist. Ambient, pop, house, jazz and more! Enjoy :~) -- Drew from Hoops

This is just a very strange and funny video. Seems like something I would maybe try one day. Maybe. After you watch part one find part two. -- Drew from Hoops

Hoops' debut LP Routines is officially out today on Fat Possum, and to celebrate the release of one of our favorite records of the year so far, we've asked the group's Drew Auscherman to run things here on the site all day. Drew will be sharing some of the stuff he's into at the moment, and you can stay up on all of his posts right here...

Bloomington's Hoops share the video for their blissed-out new single "On Top", one of the many highlights from the group's forthcoming debut LP Routines. The gently warped and sweetly inspirational Kevin Krauter-penned jam gets a fitting vintage VHS public access vibe, courtesy of director Jake Huber...

That Prince-inspired demo from HOOPS' Drew Auscherman that we posted up a couple weeks back gets a no-budget video. "Company" will appear on a tape that Drew is releasing later this year. Vid by Sean Albert.

Bloomington's Hoops share the first glimpse at their stellar forthcoming debut LP Routines, and the group stays pretty true-to-form in the best possible way with the typically melodic, blissed-out and easy guitar pop gem "Rules", which I believe floated around in solo demo form for a bit last year...

With a new HOOPS LP somewhere on the not-too-distant horizon, the group's ever-prolific Drew Auscherman has shared a couple of promising solo demos on his soundcloud page. Unfinished and lo-fi funky AF, his diamonds-in-the-rough tend to be better than most of the stuff in the same vein that's being hyped these days...