[TL; DR: DOWNLOAD HERE ] We suppose to begin at the beginning would be to report that in the summer of 1993 we were driving with the windows down one afternoon in Ardmore, PA, the radio was dialed to Princeton's WPRB, and then we first heard "Claire Hates Me" by Lilys . The tune is a rush of dense guitar and gently modulating melody with an impassioned vocal, so nice it was released twice: first as one side of a split 7" as part of Simple [...]
>> More music taste-makers should look past the gloss and acknowledge the spiritual connections between all types of music; they're never as different as radio programmers and the guys who magic marker shelf dividers at the record store would have you believe. This idea is reinforced by Merge's recent release of William Tyler 's Impossible Truth , a tasteful and gripping collection of solo guitar compositions. The double LP, released March 19 in the U.S. and April 29 abroad, avoids the pitfalls of virtuoso showcase; instead, the pieces are restrained, structured and brim with thoughtful layering and emotive [...]
>> One marvel of the modern age is the speed at which technology continually reinvents ways for artists to conceive, collaborate and record music together. Case in point: Boston's new dream-pop concern, Winter . The band's terrific new EP Daydreaming is a collaboration between Infinity Girl fronter Nolan Eley and singer and songwriter Samira Winter . "She would write the songs, and send me demos she recorded on her iPhone. Then, I would arrange and produce them, record all the instruments and have her come [in and] sing," Mr. Eley told us late last [...]
Man, what a thrilling year of music we had. So many surprises, and so many favorite bands making some of the best music of their careers. It was gratifying to sit and listen to it all go by, to see and feel the shows we were able to make it out to see. But there can only be 10 favorites in our list below, and we're super pleased to be able to share them with you below. We'll reiterate our position: music is important. This thing we all share, the fandom, the making, the considering, the camaraderie of being out [...]
2012 provided another year of incredible music, from both Boston bands and the wider world. Music continued to transport us, to provide opportunities for celebration and for solace. Our simple mantra, that "music is important," drove us to engage with it in more and deeper ways, and -- not coincidentally -- our care and attention consistently was rewarded by bands finding new methods of knocking our proverbial socks off. And so we arrive at the end of the year, where we cast a long look back, we take stock of our ITunes playcounts, we think about the songs that occupied [...]
In less than a year, Boston's Infinity Girl have formed, delivered a solid full length called 'Stop Being On My Side' and now (six months later) have a new EP. This level of productivity puts the rest of us to shame. It wouldn't bother me so much if the music was mediocre, but its not. The noise poppers have delivered 'Just Like Lovers' featuring 'Taking Nothing' and clearly the only thing Infinity Girl rushed was the artwork (sorry guys). If you want to read up on these guys, check out The Phoenix . Infinity Girls 'Just Like Lovers' is available [...]
It's time for finals again for college kids around the country. Considering college age readers are the life blood of this blog (and most others), I feel a bit of an obligation to them. It doesn't hurt that I am one as well, if not in age then at least in profession (is student a profession?). Infinity Girl is a band from Boston that are Sirens alums , themselves. Some time back I reviewed their first release, Stop Being On My Side , and said "it’s the kind of sound you would put on when you wanted [...]
Boston shoegaze behemoth Infinity Girl with its latest EP of cacaphonous dream pop puts a big exclamation point on a break-out year for the quartet. It's easy to forget that a year ago the band was just getting off the ground, and as recently as seven months ago few even knew who these guys were. But with the unexpected materialization of its brilliant full-length debut Stop Being On My Side last spring, Infinity Girl began a meteoric rise into the vanguard of the city's guitar bands. Just Like Lovers , given the relatively [...]
Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. A lot of people, places and things made this show happen, and they are, in no particular order: Carl Lavin; Kerri Lavin; Joe McMahon; Rafi Singer; Michael Marotta; Jeff Breeze; WMBR; Jed Gottlieb; The Dig; The Phoenix; The Boston Herald; Adam XII; RadioBostonDotCom; Anngelle Wood; WZLX; Nick Lorenzen; Tracy Gibbs; Tim Leahy; Sarafina Scapicchio; Gareth Dobson; Reuben Bettsak and the unearthly Guillermo Sexo ; Sadie Dupuis and Speedy Ortiz ; all the guys in Infinity Girl , who are the nicest dudes you'll ever meet; superheroes [...]
It is hard to believe, but after a year of planning, the date is almost upon us. This Wednesday -- no matter if tomorrow the guy we love wins the White House of the guy we hate wins -- is Clicky Clicky Music Blog's most important event of the year, a benefit show for the terrific and important local charity Community Servings . In case you missed our original announcement in August, Community Servings is a Jamaica Plain-based organization that delivers 395,000 free, home-style meals to 1,300 people per year, persons who are too sick [...]
As we've stated previously, but are reiterating now because HEYCOOOLNEWPROMOVIDEORIGHT?, Clicky Clicky Music Blog is presenting a bill for the ages, four of the best bands *anywhere*, Wednesday, November 7, performing at Great Scott in Boston to raise money for one of the worthiest charities in all of the Commonwealth, Community Servings . Guillermo Sexo _//_boston, ma [ web site ] Johnny Foreigner _//_birmingham, england [ web site ] Speedy Ortiz _//_northampton, ma [ web site ] Infinity Girl _//_boston, ma [ web [...]
Here are the songs we played whilst manning the figurative decks tonight/right now/last night in the booth at the fabulous River Gods in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Avail yourself of all the relevant linkage; if you have any questions or want to know more, hit us on Twitter or drop a comment. We may or may not do Spotify playlists of these sets in the coming days and post links here; watch this space. Also, please click over to Bradley's Almanac and check out Brad's playlists for the 9PM and 11PM hours, which we expect will be posted [...]
This bill. It's too insane. It's the product of some smart people saying, hey, we've got two great bills in the Boston area on Sept. 28, why not graft them together, like, say Rosey Greer and Ray Milland in "The Thing With Two Heads?" It's the product of event planners thinking like music fans, which in this case of course they are, and which is why Friday night's Tiger Mountain dance party is going to be a knock-out. You've got the first area appearance of Baltimore's Golden Gurls , riding high on the strength of [...]
Photos from the final two sets of last night's amazing four-band conflagration at TT The Bear's Place. We arrived during Soccer Mom 's final song and spent the entirety of out-of-towners' Naomi Punk 's set grooving to the Olympia, Wash.-based act's angular, percussive, dare-we-say Karp -esque jams. Which is to say, we didn't get any photos of that action. But we were down front and center for Infinity Girl and Young Adults , who together created an exhilarating finish to the evening. Wish we had the energy to tell you more now, but alas. [...]
Just look at that bill. Just look at it [ here's the Facebook event page ]. Leaving aside that this may in fact be the final time Boston fans will be able to see scene pillars Young Adults perform live (reason enough to see this for sure), the value proposition of this bill is astronomically high. Allow us to run it down. First, upstart shoegaze geniuses Infinity Girl will log what may be its, we don't know, maybe tenth show ever? It certainly can't be more than 10, but the quartet's meteoric rise has been astonishing; [...]
SIDE A 1. Merchandise - Time.mp3 2. Tame Impala - Elephant.mp3 3. Black Marble - A Great Design.mp3 4. Silver Firs - Ghosts Of The Sea.mp3 5. Elvis Depressedly - Daughter Of A Cop.mp3 6. Magic Trick - Invisible At Midnight.mp3 7. Family Band - Moonbeams.mp3 SIDE B 1. Seatraffic - Crimes.mp3 2. The XX - Angels.mp3 [...]
It's that they make it look so easy, that's what initially enticed us to approach the chaps in upstart Boston shoegaze unit Infinity Girl for an interview. With almost zero warning, the foursome issued in May a very impressive full-length debut, Stop Being On My Side , which we reviewed here last month. There were no singles and very few shows to serve as harbingers for the set, making the band's sudden leap into the vanguard of the city's expanding shoegaze scene all the more surprising. With its remarkable debut out, a personnel change brought [...]
It's time to check out a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. Listen. Downloadables: Hate Your Teachers (mp3) by Unnatural Helpers Violence Now (mp3) by Milk Music DILLONAERO (mp3) by DOPE BODY [...]
Boston based Infinity Girl create noisy soundscapes with driving guitar and dreamy vocals, imbuing them with a sense of vastness that belies the fact that this is their very first album as a band. I received their debut Stop Being On My Side and I am definitely impressed. It's just the kind of rock that I've always loved. When you hear "By Now" and it's combination of slowly chugging rhythm and amazingly beautiful riffs that just seem to extend further and further into the sky, you'll be instantly hooked. It's six minutes of shoegaze bliss, for those of you into [...]
Upstart Boston quartet Infinity Girl last month quietly released a dominating debut, a seamless collection of 11 shoegaze songs that evidences a remarkable facility for recreating the cacaphony, exhalation and swirl that are hallmarks of the genre. The great paradox of apparent success for shoegaze adherents is that successfully emulating the sounds of its most prominent forebearers doesn't afford contemporary bands the opportunity to establish a singular personality upon which to trade. But on its long-player Stop Being On My Side , Infinity Girl with some regularity fearlessly steers into the genre's margins, where listeners [...]
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