
Time for another edition of our Friday Mixtape. Only this time around, in celebration of all of this weekend's festivities, we included a few Lollapalooza related tunes along with the normal packages of goodies you can expect each and every week. Speaking of Lollapalooza, be sure to check back to Consequence of Sound all weekend long for recaps, interviews, and live blurbs. We have stocked up on caffeine and batteries, ready to prepare you with the best coverage on the web! [...]

" Jordan Geiger comes packing a sturdy CV - singing and songwriting in Minus Story , playing trumpet and keyboard for Shearwater - and the Hospital Ships material shows it." – Stereogum ( LINK ) "Think Flaming Lips , heavy moog bass, fuzzed vocals and lo-fi psychedelics" – Indie Music Filter Jordan Geiger , songwriter of Minus Story , trumpet player for Shearwater , guitarist for The Appleseed Cast , and resident of Lawrence, Kansas, brings you his bedroom-pop solo album, [...]
Already called a "Band To Watch" by Stereogum, Minus Story offshoot Hospital Ships set to release debut Oh, Ramona this fall on Graveface Records, home of Black Moth Super Rainbow. "Jordan Geiger comes packing a sturdy CV - singing and songwriting in Minus Story, playing trumpet and keyboard for Shearwater - and the Hospital Ships material shows it." – Stereogum (LINK) "Think Flaming

Hospital Ships' Geiger counter For two weeks in a row now, tastemaking indie music blog Stereogum has featured Lawrence bands in its Band to Watch segment. As the blog itself says: As we pass saturation point for press coverage of Montreal, Portland, Brooklyn and et cetera, it seems Lawrence, Kansas is poised for its coming turn in the music media trend piece carousel. At least from what we're hearing; this marks two straight BTWs from the burgeoning midwestern artistic oasis. The fallacy here, of course, is the [...]

He could have saved himself some time and reprinted "Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)," but White went ahead and penned his own verses to prove he bears no ill-will for the Motor City, even though he relocated to Nashville a couple years ago, has criticized the music scene as being stifling in some interviews ("I couldn't breathe anymore in that scene," last month in Rolling Stone ). He told the Detroit Free Press he hoped his versification would show "my feelings about the city itself, and how strong I believe it to be," [...]

Who : Hospital Ships from North Lawrence, Kansas. What : Check out this amazing track by this band lead by Jordan Geiger ( Minus Story, Shearwater ). Think Flaming Lips , heavy moog bass, ' fuzzed vocals and lo-fi psychedelics '. It's off the first effor, Oh, Ramona out in October on Graveface . Song : I Want It To Get Out (via Stereogum ).