Advertisement for Beat Happening's Dreamy album from Option: Music Alternatives magazine no. 37, Mar/Apr 1991. Apologies for the content free posts. I happened across an old copy of Options magazine and was struck by how many awesome ads were in it. I just felt like somebody should scan and share, and why not me?
Welcome to the first installment of Aux.Out. Book Club, where a group of us tackle a new or renowned book of the music canon and lay out some of our thoughts. For our first book, we wanted to pick one that many people were familiar with, so we chose Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life . Please join us in the future (our next book is at the bottom). Our clutch of readers are: - Jeremy D. Larson, managing editor of Consequence of Sound - Matt [...]
Breeders, los primeros 3 de los Wipers, un poco de las Slits, el Generic Flipper , y hasta favoritos personales como Half Japanese, en fin.. La lista de Kurt es una maravilla. Llena de joyas atemporales y muchas otras que sólo podían pertenecer a la infame década de los noventa, este pedazo de papel ahora convertido en una imagen de 600 x 995 nos dice mucho de lo que pasaba por los oídos (y cabeza) de uno de los íconos más prominentes en la historia de la música.
You kind of knew when you heard This Many Boyfriends ' song I Don't Like You (Cos You Don't Like the Pastels) that they were a band with a geeky sense of humor, an ear for a good slogan and had spent a good amount of time in record stores digging for lost classics. Having spent time getting to know the classics has given the band an indelible songwriting ability to emulate them without repeating them. Their debut album that came out earlier this month on Angular over in the UK is a [...]
For your streaming pleasure, here is our eighth installment of Friday Night Vids for the year numbered 2012... Streamable: You Turn Me ( Beat Happening Cover) (youtube) by The Vandelles Downloadable: You Turn Me (Beat Happening Cover) (mp3) Streamable: And I'm Up (youtube) by A Place To Bury Strangers Streamable: Down Low [...]
Douglas Martin also pondered the deeper meaning of "The Birthday Song" yesterday. The great conundrum about You Turn Me On is that we’re still basking in its relevance after twenty years, even though it sounds like it took twenty minutes to record. It’s kind of weird to picture Bret, Heather, and Calvin- the latter being the unwitting inventor of indie-rock and possibly the most celebrated man-child of his generation- as anything more significant than an intentionally under-rehearsed trio who sang songs about redheaded girls and hot chocolate boys. But occasionally, in [...]
As a teenager, music was often a solitary activity. No one liked the bands that I liked. The Internet was still in its nascent (and expensive) stage. So to acquire new music, I read catalogs from my favorite record labels and I took chances on 7-inch singles. I would spread out on my bedroom floor, studying the catalog, making lists, and trying to get the most I could with my paltry allowance. When I finally decided, I would forego the form, and instead write out my order on loose leaf ripped from my Sharpie adorned binder. I would doodle in [...]
Will Schube interviews Mark Baumgarten, author of Love Rock Revolution.
Pinch me - am I dreaming? For all I knew, I was watching the The Ramones in a world where CBGB was in Olympia, Washington and it's 1983. It was February 2012 and I was at Death By Audio in Brooklyn watching the Woollen Kits . The garagy punkers hailing from Melbourne, Australia had me at their feet without even trying, as the cartoon likenesses of the late Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone peered over their shoulders off the muraled wall of the venue. It was nearly impossible to resist singer [...]
Most pop songs are about love - falling in it, basking in its glow, getting sick of it, mourning its death, searching anew for it. Considering how much of our emotional energy is devoted to those things, this makes some sense. But what about feelings that have nothing to do with romance? How can those of us who prefer to treat our psychological excesses with music - rather than, say, talk therapy or medication - revel in nostalgia or beat an acute case of anxiety? We've made our prescriptions after the jump; be sure to take two, call us in [...]
I worship at the church of karaoke. The parishoners and I are there to confess and meditate, to feel welcomed by a community, to hear a good sermon or two, to perchance see someone speak in tongues and have the words of the Lord Bon Jovi be channeled through a mere mortal. And, of course, to have some drinks and venture to make complete fools out of ourselves. Karaoke exists in a vacuum of taste, where anomalies and exceptions always seem to arise and mess with my preconceptions. Maybe, like me, this is the only time you can really tolerate a Billy [...]
Stuarto and I talked a lot just before my show began and in the minutes after it started about the radio station he's been building at his house. He's dubbing it 1020Radio, and you can check out the (right now) super minimalist site he's running over at 1020Radio.net . You can also find it on Facebook . It's been a long time coming; the station is nearing completion and just about to hit the Internets. All goes well, and time permitting, [...]
Sea Lions frontman Adrian Pillado may sing about how he wishes he was Lou Reed but his band’s brand of garage indie pop is essentially more Jonathan Richman or Beat Happening — frisky, shambolic songs themed around social neuroses that seldom (never?) breach the three-minute mark. And perhaps the peculiar poignancy of a song like “I Don’t Wanna Go Out” is something that not only the reserved personality types can readily identify with. I just love how the angular melodies jaunt along blissfully to Pillado’s deliberate funny-serious singing to evoke scenes of afternoon idleness and the discreet charm of [...]
Baltimore-based Dead Mellotron recently unleashed its superlative new number "Stranger" on the Internets. Fronted by Josh Frazier, who is abetted by mysterious backers CC, Aimee and Faith, the group's contemporary take on good 'ole chugging shoegaze rock accomplishes a lot with a relatively straightforward approach. The first 30 seconds of the cinematic "Stranger" -- which will feature on Dead Mellotron 's forthcoming third album Glitter -- relies on a facile electronic drum pattern that clatters behind a gorgeous curtain of reverb and auto-tune effects. A simple distorted guitar emerges and applies a steady rhythm that [...]
I honestly thought I was done with politics. Watching us commit genocide in Iraq despite the protests across the entire country, and then watching the Lib Dems spinelessly capitulate to the rapacious, craven Tory lizards once they got their little sniff of power just sickened me. Right, I thought, I am done with this shit, it is just a gigantic waste of everyone's time. However, the Tories haven't just been shit, they've been a repellent disgrace, governing with a sort of vindictive, cackling glee generally reserved for people in plastic armour in the Star Wars movies. [...]
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Tweet As the story goes, when Frànçois Marry arrived in Bristol, England from France in 2003, he wrote a note accompanied by a picture asking for people to make music together with, taped it in his window, then proceeded to check out local car boot sales for instruments. Starting out with a hodgepodge of found instruments (including a keyboard he played with his foot), Frànçois began playing live in Bristol in early 2004. 2005 - 2007 saw him collaborating with various local [...]
Words by Rick Moslen I recently overheard some old lady on the bus spew some nonsense about how 2012 marks the end of the world. Maybe she’s a Glenn Beck fanatic or the wife of some cult leader, but she was more-than-likely confusing “end of the world” with 2012’s other important event: “the 30th anniversary of K Records”—obviously. Avoiding aging traits like receding hairlines, bedwetting, and excessive ear hair, the graceful label still holds its charm thanks to an array of hip songwriters ( Karl Blau, Mirah, Atlas Sound, Jeremy Jay ), [...]
Just in time for Valentines Day, you can pick up this incredible reissue of the Tronics classic Love Backed by Force . Sure, it came out decades ago, but you can definitely throw it right into the current mix, and it would fit right along side bands like Beat Happening or Television Personalities -both solid bands in my book. The good people over at Whats Your Rupture will be releasing the album February 14th for all you fans of art-pop, [...]
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