What happens when you wait 3 years to release a follow-up to a little heard gem of a power pop debut? You wind up # 16 on some doofus blog's year's best list. This is the skinny tie hearbeat perfected by the likes of 20/20, Richard X. Heyman and The Knack -with a jittery, Red Bull buzz upping the ante. Using the time honored trick of delivering bad news and bad breaks with a cotton candy coating, Leaving Atlanta is the missing link for anyone who pines for Poptopia and swallows Yellow Pills [...]
Certains désespéraient, d'autres trépignaient, mais la patience est aujourd'hui récompensée : Infrasons publie un nouvel article ; le premier depuis plus de quatre mois. Un rythme de sénateur, me direz-vous ; mais un contenu toujours aussi impérial puisque vous trouverez, comme en 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 et 2011 , une sélection des meilleurs chansons de l'année 2012 ! Trêve de blablas, place aux morceaux. En ajoutant simplement trois remarques : [...]
(1-25) 25. Gulls - Down The Hatch Gulls - "Wild" - mp3 Gulls - Bandcamp | Facebook . . 24. Cheers Elephant - Like Wind Blows Fire Cheers Elephant - "Leaves" - mp3 Cheers Elephant - Bandcamp | Facebook | Website . . 23. Those Lavender Whales - Tomahawk Of Praise Those Lavender Whales - [...]
Well the end of 2012 is drawing to a close and we've run down the albums that got the most play around RSTB this year. To avoid the list just being a mass of Ty Segall albums Twins (a personal fave of the bunch) takes the place on the list but the other two would have easily made the list, especially the collab with White Fence which got plenty of play around here as well. Some really great releases this year and a banner year for both Drag City and Sacred Bones with some heavy inclusions in our list. [...]
Here it is. I know you'll hate it; I know you'll disagree, but that's not the point in making an arbitrary list. We here at ATH worked really hard to fit in the tastes of the four of us, and when we decided upon our Top 50, it really boied down to simple math. What albums did we love when they came out? Do we still enjoy spinning those records months later? If they're in the Top 50, then the asnwer is probably yes. I mean, our Top 2 records came out in January, and still play a vital part [...]
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In my never-ending quest to right my wrongs from 2012, I bring you a hastily worded and poorly thought out review of Gentleman Jesse's Leaving Atlanta. I was on emusic rounding out my collection with Elvis Costello's Blood and Chocolate. To the right was an article titled, Who Is Gentleman Jesse? I figured through the wonders of technology that there might be a connection between Elvis and Jesse. Turns out that those smart bastards at emusic knew what they were doing. I'll put it even simpler - if you were a fan of such classic albums as [...]
Date Monday, November 19th Location Red 7 Doors 9:00 PM Tickets CHEAP Personally, this is one of the best line-ups I've seen in some time, with two of my favorite bands blasting into town to rock it out at Red 7 on Monday night. Kicking off the night are Bad Sports , featuring a line-up split between Austin and [...]
If you like top-notch power pop, you better head to the Hemlock Tavern tonight, where Atlanta's Gentleman Jesse & His Men will be joining locals Midnite Snaxxx and Cocktails . Gentleman Jesse's latest album, Leaving Atlanta , came out earlier this year on LP via Douchemaster Records and, just this week, as a Burger Records tape. Related Posts: [...]
Live This Month: November 2012 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #291) In Live This Month , we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. Who would have expected November to offer a slew of new releases from Bay Area bands? The month promises long-awaited new records - and local shows - from Maus Haus and Social Studies , as [...]
Honestly, you would think Taylor would have the hang of this by now. But no, instead it once again falls to me to fill in the gaps left by his recent Best Albums of 2012 (So Far) list . To his credit, my Rest of the Best list is significantly shorter this year, but these omissions are still pretty unforgivable. I don't even know why you guys listen to him anymore. You all need to ask yourselves: How can someone with no interest in music run a music blog? Chairlift - Something [...]
Editor's Note: Matt (on behalf of musicforants.com) contributed this list to Nerve.com's Five Albums series this week. Check out his list / remarks below! Allo Darlin’ - Europe At first, Allo Darlin’ seem like any number of cloying indie-pop bands, good for a few spins until the next identical thing comes along to fill the girl-playing-ukulele void. But throughout Europe, Allo Darlin’ rises above those cutesy trappings and displays the kind of pathos often lacking in their peers. These are [...]
Jesse Smith, of Gentleman Jesse , was walking through an Atlanta parking lot when he spotted a group of teenagers struggling to swap out a flat tire. A self-proclaimed “gentleman,” Smith was the kind of guy who’d help you with a flat. He was also the prime target for a mugging. Smith woke up in an ambulance — the last thing he remembered was getting clubbed in the face with a table leg. He spent the next month recovering in a bed. Then his father died. It had been a couple years since Smith’s 2008 debut, [...]
Blogophilia 36 A monthly mix of promotional mp3s from The Dadada and other music blogs March 2012 Gapless mix ripped @ 320 kbps Download all in one zip file Tracklist 01. Mark Lanegan Band - The Gravedigger's Song 02. Tyburn Saints - Broken Bottles 03. She Makes War - Exit Strategy 04. Dare Dukes - When the Sky Breaks [...]
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Jesse Smith didn't have the best year last year; he was mugged while helping strangers in Atlanta. You couple that with the title of the album, Leaving Atlanta , and you figure that the record might be a bit of a bummer, giving us songs about one man's struggle to leave his favorite town. However, all tragedy aside, Gentleman Jesse seems reinvigorated, leaving us with his best offering to date. "Eat Me Alive" in its title prepares [...]
What Did I Do Frostbite Gentleman Jesse and His Men [...]
Not a lot has changed stylistically since Gentleman Jesse and His Men released their 2008 self-titled debut - and that's a good thing. In the four years between the debut and the new LP, Leaving Atlanta, two good, but far from great 7”s were released on Hozac and Douchemaster Records; neither of which hinted at [...]
What Did I Do Frostbite Gentleman Jesse and His Men blew our power pop minds with the debut LP release in 2007. Jesse has [...]
Welcome to one of my very favorite songs of 2012: the driving thumping bass and giant sing-along chorus of Gentleman Jesse's "We Got To Get Out Of Here." After a mugging and beating by way of a table leg landed Jesse Smith in bed for a month, the guy was getting seriously fed up with Atlanta. But instead of lashing out, Smith channeled all his frustations into Leaving Atlanta , a 13-track honey-coated power-pop classic that jangles, grooves, and most certainly rocks. "We Got To Get Out Of Here" is the record's anthemic finale: a blazingly upbeat rocker that [...]
Hey, y'all. Here are a list of albums I wanted to review this month, but I didn't get a chance to, unfortunately. These are the albums I touch on for a bit in this video: LIL B- GOD'S FATHER CEREMONY- ZOO ANAMANAGUCHI- SINGLES + REMIX COLLECTIONS GENTLEMAN JESSE- LEAVING ATLANTA DJ PREMIERE & BUMPY KNUCKLES- KOLEXXXION LEE RANALDO- BETWEEN THE TIMES AND THE TIDES BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN- WRECKING BALL ZEUS- BUSTING VISIONS SIGH- IN SOMNIPHOBIA CANNIBAL CORPSE- TORTURE WATCH THE Y U NO REVIEW
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