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Artist : Averkiou Title : The New Imperative EP Label : Sound Study Recordings Release Date : February 10th BUY IT You might be forgiven for taking one look at Averkiou's "The New Imperative" EP and running a mile. The EP's cover is an adorable picture of a cat? There are exclamation marks in the song titles? It's stoner [...]
Like a lot of the previously featured towns in the Area Codes series, Gainesville, FL has a rich history as a music scene, going back to the '70s when some guy named Tom Petty ran ramshod in town. In the '90s, No Idea Records, and its associated bands, became a major magnet for Florida's youth culture, with acts like Against Me!, Hot Water Music, Jawbreaker and others in wrapped up in No Idea's fold. While hints of that punk spirit can still be detected in the modern music that Gainesville is putting out - pop-tinged punk and hardcore [...]
Buckets o' new stuff on SoundCloud from Averkiou, Grinderman, Manor, Averkiou - "Fuzzy Photograph" from The New Imperative (EP) out 2/10 on Sound Study Fuzzy guitars? Reverb-drenched vocals? Should I be stumbling out of a bar following my afternoon classes? This Gainesville (FL) quartet takes us back to those halcyon days of old (or at least my early college days), as they serve up a grunge-tinged dose of shoegazing that recalls My [...]
I didn't stumble across Averkiou until earlier this year I think when I sat down to listen to their debut album Throwing Sparks that was released in 08 through Clairecords. Initially I thought they were based in a different country and it was kind of surprising that they were actually a group of guys operating out of Gainesville, Florida. It being one of the last places I would think for a shoegaze band to sprout from. Anyway, this here single recently put out on Sound [...]
So, according to this especially brutal thread on Hipinion (complete with a bunch of not particularly relevant photos of Ryan Schreiber), it was Pitchfork that leaked Joanna Newsom's Ys , three months in advance. The thread also alleges that the non-protected directory included numerous albums, including Tapes 'n Tapes , the unreleased Blood Brothers , and MC Hammer , as well as all 200 songs used in the Pitchfork Best of the 1960s Feature. Probably not good for them at all. Moving on... [...]
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