Warm en zonnig is de muziek van Greater California uit Long Beach, Californië. Het derde album van de band heet All the Colors. Het verschijnt 7 april. Gitaren, piano, Hammondorgel, diverse soorten percussie, trompet, marimba's. En fraaie samenzang. Wat een heerlijk album. MP3: Greater California - Disappearing Greater California op MySpace Subscribe in a reader
Warm en zonnig is de muziek van Greater California uit Long Beach, Californië. Het derde album van de band heet All the Colors. Het verschijnt 7 april. Gitaren, piano, Hammondorgel, diverse soorten percussie, trompet, marimba's. En fraaie samenzang. Wat een heerlijk album. MP3: Greater California - Disappearing Greater California op MySpace Subscribe in a reader
Hailing from the burghs of Long Beach, the band Greater California bring us a whole new distinct sound on their third album All the Colors . Produced with Ikey Owens (Mars Volta, Crystal Antlers) and includes an impressive list of guest musicians (most notably percussion genius Steven Hodges of Tom Waits), All the Colors is a summertime landscape likened to the works of Brian Wilson, the Zombies, Harry Nilsson, the Velvet Underground and the Byrds, full of jangly 12-string guitars, rich vocal harmonies, a big bag of percussion, vibraphones and marimbas, a stray trumpet, and [...]
As I am writing this the countdown for the Virginia Tech show featuring our loveable locals The Dance Party opening for the infamous Girl Talk has begun. The writeup will be forthcoming after all parties involved have recovered. Until that time here is your weekly mix. Enjoy! Papertrigger - Move The Ground (via SXSW.com ) Shout Out Out Out Out - Guilt Trips Sink Ships (via sixshooterrecords.com) Max Tundra - Which Song (via forcefieldpr.com) Great Northern - Houses (via eeniemeenie.com) Eleni Mandell - Artificial Fire [...]
Whenever I'm working my way through the mailbox I always get the impression that half the world's population must be making music. And the second half is busy promoting it! I mean; Boy do I get many promo mails and if I receive this number despite the fairly small size of my blog, how many do the bigger blogs receive a day then? As always I approach the mails with both curiosity and anxiety. Will it be pure torture or a pleasure listening? I've learned from experience that most of the stuff will be bad. Some of it will probably [...]
Download: Greater California "It's Great" (shea M gauer remix) (from Trust Us on Fidotrust) Download: Devon Williams "A Truce" (from "Elevator" 45 on L.A. RECORD ) Download: Thee Makeout Party "Slack" [...]
emily rose Download: Devon Williams "A Truce" (from "A Truce" 45 on L.A. RECORD ) Great press for Devon to advance my show at the Prospector tomorrow. ( THAT'S DEVON WILLIAMS AT THE PROSPECTOR IN LONG BEACH TOMORROW NIGHT!!!! CLICK HERE FOR MUSIC AND REASONS TO GO!!!! ) Full fun below. Ellen was [...]
emily rose Download: Devon Williams "A Truce" (from "A Truce" 45 on L.A. RECORD) Devon Williams is playing a show with us on Sat., Oct. 25, at the Prospector in Long Beach with fellow cover alums thee Makeout Party and Greater California. He did an interview for the Long Beach paper that you can read here: What drives [...]
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Via L.A. RECORD . Excited as my neighborhood turns into my record collection. It's like Soundwalk Private Reserve. Greater California will be playing a show I'm doing at Prospector on Oct. 25 (with Devon Williams —his first-ever time in Long Beach—and thee Makeout Party! ) and if you'd like some background on this event, link to my feature is here . Here are the set times for the Schooled in Song event we [...]
sean from new fidelity Download: Blank Blue "All The Shallow Deep" (from Western Water Music Vol. 2 on Ubiquity) Download: Greater California "It's Great" (shea M gauer remix) (from Trust Us on Fidotrust) [...]
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