
mp3: east river pipe- all you little suckers [buy] my favorite older record that i picked up this year has got to be east river pipe's 1999 album the gasoline age. i happened upon it due to an indirect recommendation from soltero's tim howard, who i had heard talk the thing up on more than one occasion. and he wasn't kidding... it is a brilliant album, even more impressive when you consider [...]

Here are two of FM Cornog's early NY-apartment-recorded 4-track songs, from the Bring on the Loser 7", released on Merge Records in 1995. "Sleeping with Tallboy" predates Sleeping States' similarly lovely "Rivers" by a good decade, so Booyah to East River Pipe. "Fan the Flame" is a short instrumental that works well as an appetizer for the main course. Side B - Fan the Flame [3 stars mp3] Side B - Sleeping with Tallboy [5 stars mp3] The A-side song "Bring on the Loser" is compiled [...]

As promised, I am beginning my new feature today that will be ongoing until I post my "albums of the year" list around Christmas. Being the not-so-creative guy I am, I will be calling it the "Remember This Band?" feature. So anyways, on to the good stuff... I feel pretty silly not having heard of East River Pipe's 2006 release What Are You On? till just the other day. In fact, when I first [...]