Finnish band Black Twig have just released their first album Paper Trees on Soliti . It's a tour de force through the back pages of big sounding guitar rock, conjuring the brilliant ringing guitars of early House of Love , the overwhelming power of the Catherine Wheel and the intensity of Bailter Space . Singer Aki Pohjankyro has a voice that sounds slightly whispered, but still strong which gives the songs an unearthly quality which really isn't necesarry since the twin guitar attack already lifts them pretty [...]
Filed under: The Hit List There are more than 60 artists on Matador Records' 'Matador at 21' six-CD retrospective. There are 26 playing the New York indie label's birthday concerts in Las Vegas Oct. 1 through 3. When you've put out nearly a thousand records, not every band can make the cut. Every longtime Matador fan can name at least one artist that they wish was [...]
OK, I'll admit that I did a cartoonish double take over my Thanksgiving leftovers when I read that THE JESUS LIZARD ARE REUNITING "for a very limited series of live dates in 2009," according to the band's former label Touch & Go, which will also be reissuing four classic albums from the group. This [...]
"Come back, fun! How did you leave me within 30 seconds?!" - Tom, delivering the punchline to his classic sitcom joke "Mike said he was donating to the Pharoah Sanders Fund." -- Tom, questioning his Associate Producer's suspicious "charitable contributions" to the jazz saxophonist via Tunes in Hoboken "I don't think there's anything wrong with the idea that this person would fall out of the sky and be the running mate of the oldest President in history." - Tom, lending his support to upstart politician Sarah Palin "I'm [...]
Remember when you wanted to add that classic indie song to your Myspace, but after a quick search discovered the artist was so old and unpopular with the kids those days that YOU had to create a fan page and then YOU had upload the songs your damn self just to link a single track back to your profile? New Zealand's the Clean totally needed one of those fan pages. Real bad. Clean guitarist David Kilgour seemed to agree, and eventually sent a request for ownership of the new fan "sight" (that's how David [...]
Another surprising comeback: Bailterspace have been quiet for the last few years but are now back - or at least they are in the States. For the rest of us, we'll have to make do with the YouTubes:
Just when you think you have everything then comes along this Web site called ' Shoegazer Alive 2 .' Not sure why there needed to be a sequel, but this blog has thousands of tracks covering many genres/sub-genres/movements from over the past two decades; space-rock, shoegaze, post-rock, ambient, etc. Many of these releases are impossible to find anywhere or have been out of print for years. However, the blog also features fairly new material and is updated regularly. I finally found a digital copy of Bailter Space [...]
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