San Francisco musician Edmund Xavier has released a new EP entitled San Clemente under his moniker FWY! The EP is available on cassette tape through Moon Glyph Records , and it's also available for digital download through FWY!'s Bandcamp page . Named after the southern California beach town, San Clemente is a healthy offering of ambient tracks audibly intended for moments on the open road with stretches of long highway ahead. Some of Xavier's other projects include the now-defunct Art Museums [...]
The 7-inch single has been around since 1949. That’s 62 years and counting! In my humble opinion the 7-inch single is still the essence, pinnacle and acme of pop perfection. Optimally, it’s one song, one side (Some try to squeeze on more). That’s no room for screwing up. You always hear that releasing a 7-inch is a money losing proposition, but that thankfully, doesn’t keep pop geeks from doing it. In honor of true blue pop geek vinyl junkies out there, here is the second installment of the annual Finest Kiss top 40 7-inch singles countdown. [...]
Have I mentioned that we live in Providence now? So I went to see Black Pus for free at the RISD Art Museum on Thursday. I didn’t bring a camera, but it looked kind of like this: …his setup. It wasn’t actually in the museum, but tucked away in this pleasant little covered terrace, kind of under and behind the museum. There was almost no one there when Brian started—promptly at eight—after which, guided assumedly by the megaton-decibel-blast funneling out into the streets, the [...]
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Other Times Dancing With A Hole In Your Heart ( previously on CWR) It's with a heavy hand that I finally get around to posting about the disbanding of San Francisco's The Art Museums in July...very shortly after the release of a new 7" on Slumberland Records . It appears to have been due to 'creative differences,' and to not have been the most amicable of splits based on the band's Facebook . It's a shame given the [...]
The three songs from the San Francisco band (a partnership of Glenn Donaldson and Josh Alper) sounds like some of the most perfect pop out of New Zealand, their lo-fi bedroom pop conjuring up visions of the Chills and the Clean. ‘Dancing With A Hole In Your Heart’ has simple arrangements – erratically jangling guitars and basic drum machine patterns – and is roughly recorded but the rock’n’roll spirit radiates. ‘You Don’t Want to Live Like That’ is sketchy and unfinished but has great psych-pop effects and the single generally is heartstoppingly simple and affecting indiepop.
I have been amassing a ton information that has come to the tipping point where I have to let it out. Some of this may have been tweeted, but who remembers anything they read on Twitter? You possibly have heard half of it, but then maybe you haven't. Here's the mid-summer digest of the finest kiss music news. Allo Darlin' set to release new single Last week Allo Darlin' announced the release of a brand new single due in August. You can hear it and pre-order it over at their [...]
Judging by the above Facebook comment, it appears that local synth-pop band The Art Museums have broken up, just on the heels of releasing a new 73 on Slumberland Records . DANCING EP by ART MUSEUMS The band left behind some great songs and were really fun at the recent Slumberland show at Popfest, and we'll definitely keep you posted on future endeavors. If you were counting on seeing The Art Museums at the Woodsist Festival, know that they have been replaced by [...]
Mp3: The Art Museums - Dancing With A Hole In Your Heart
Saturday night's Slumberland Records showcase at the Rickshaw Stop was a mini-festival within SF Popfest 2011, like a set of Russian nesting dolls, or like something that's a smaller thing within a similar but larger thing other than a set of Russian nesting dolls. Promising ten bands in eight hours, the show offered prospective attendees a sampling of one of indie's most vital labels, but I'll confess to harboring a little bit of fear about the undertaking too. With a genre like indie pop, which often, and not altogether unfairly, gets derided [...]
Royal Baths - "After Death" The Sandwitches - "Joe Says" If you are at all familiar with DIY arts, crafts, or design, you probably know Kelly Malone , the creator of Indie Mart and Workshop SF . Malone has given a great deal to SF arts and culture, and now, faced with an advanced stage of cancer, she needs our help : This past April, Kelly was diagnosed with an advanced stage of cancer that had spread to non-localized areas as [...]
Mike Schulman is the owner of the Oakland-based label Slumberland Records , which has hosted a select indie pop roster for over two decades, including now-legends like Black Tambourine and current indie pop darlings like The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. This Saturday at the Rickshaw Stop (5pm, $15), the label's throwing a showcase as part of this year's SF Popfest , featuring a variety of great Slumberland bands. We spoke with Schulman about what's going down at the showcase, and have come up with five great reasons to [...]
Dancing With A Hole In Your Heart Phone Calls, Prayers, or The Weather Sculpture Gardens ( previously on CWR) The Art Museums released one of my favorite LPs from last year , Rough Frame , and they're back with the release of a new three track EP, 'Dancing With A Hole In Your Heart,' June 28 on Slumberland Records ( pre-order ). If physical, tangible items aren't your thing you can download the whole thing at their [...]
It's been a while. One of my favorite Bands of 2010, and besides the first group this blog has ever written about, has finally readied a new 7 inch. Art Museums ' three-track Dancing EP will be dropped June 28 via Slumberland , and the fine folks over at RSTB are absolutely right when declaring this "an essential single for 20113. This is summery, very 80s-leaning new wavey pop (even The Cure come to mind occasionally, barring the singing), cut short simply perfect pop music. Below, listen to the wonderful, digital-exclusive [...]
The Art Museums – Dancing With A Hole In Your Heart 7" The combination of Slumberland and The Art Museums seems almost too perfect. Donaldson and Alper still have a stranglehold on the pastel swirls that their brand of paisley pop via post-punk DIY strummers evokes. The title track inspires just as much sunny day dancing as their standout single "S.H.O.P.P.I.N.G." from last year (which has just recently made its way to vinyl as well). Rounding out the single with a couple more cuts that don't stray far from the happy valley of [...]
This coming Memorial Day weekend (May 25th - 29th) marks another wonderful line-up with the always original San Francisco Popfest . The great thing about SF Popfest is that every show boasts an impressive and nearly unfamiliar mess of bands from all over the world. The true indie rock fest will be featuring bands from the UK's C-86 movement, K Records of the Pacific Northwest, SF/DC indie-brainchild Slumberland Records. Even our own Blackbird Blackbird and The Mantles along with rising VA duo, Eternal Summers . Needless to say, [...]
Tweet If today finds you searching for something jovial and upbeat, this new song from the Art Museums fits the bill - "Dancing with a Hole in Your Heart" is a quick one-two punch of warm indie pop and post-punk. DANCING EP by BURUNDI CLOUD MUSIC "Dancing with a Hole in Your Heart" is one of three songs on the new Dancing EP, out on April 15th via Slumberland [...]
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According to the Burundi Cloud bandcamp , San Francisco's post-punk pop band The Art Museums will be releasing a new three song EP on Slumberland Records sometime this month. Stream one of those tracks below. DANCING EP by BURUNDI CLOUD MUSIC via[ No Fear Of Pop ]
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We meet Fluffy Lumbers/Big Troubles member Samuel Franklin during our "epic" trip 2 America back in October and were pretty bowled over by his encyclopedic knowledge of both amazing/lost 90s pop gems and more esoteric visions alike. His is our last guest 2010 list for 2010 and also includes a little "stocking stuffer" of fifty-one YouTube videos (both old and new) for yr random persual. Merry Christmas! "2010 had an embarrassment of riches in the reissue department. [...]
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