
After the suffocating doom and gloom of yesterday’s selection, I figured I’d lighten things up with some bouncy, upbeat indie pop befitting the festive side of the Halloween season. Man (or woman) does live on morbidity alone. Well, some do, like those elderly aunts who pass their time going funeral-hopping, but are they really role model material? Today’s track is “ Secret Vampires †by bis from 1995's Secret Vampire Soundtrack EP , and is representative of the band’s early disposable teen-pop/indie pop sound. It may sound insubstantial compared to the [...]
Comics blogger (and more recently, comics writer) par extraordinaire Kevin Church is celebrating his birthday today, so I thought I’d offer him a handful of musical birthday offerings. It begs the question: What do you get the mean, Silver Age Superman-obsessed drunk who thinks the sun rises and sets by the Pet Shop Boys’ back catalog? Altered Images â€" Happy Birthday (from Happy Birthday,

It’s another Belle And Sebastian post. That’s a little premature, I hear you cry, there was one recently. Well yes, there was, but I’ve been listening to Belle And Sebastian a lot recently. Deal with it. Fact is, when I purchased The Life Pursuit , I just might have been opening up a can of worms, a veritable Pandora’s box of Glaswegian indie-pop if you will. For it’s rare that a band can inspire me to buy another record of theirs, let alone prompt thoughts of buying the whole catalogue. I’m always a little jealous when someone [...]