Als die australischen Depri-Chamberpopper von Sodastream vor einer Weile das Ende ihrer Band bekannt gaben, sorgte dies für so manch feuchtes Auge. Doch nun dürfen die Tränen getrocknet werden, denn Sänger Karl Smith hat mit seinem neuen Projekt Lee Memorial einen würdigen Ersatz gefunden. Zusammen mit Musikern von Gaslight Radio und The Nation Blue weist das Debütalbum «The Lives of Lee Memorial» sowohl die typischen Sodastream-Ingredenzien auf, insbesondere Smiths wehmütigen Gesang, aber auch Elemente, die man im Sodastreamkosmos bisher nicht entdecken konnte. So erinnert mancher Song gar an Bands wie Destroyer. Nicht immer leicht [...]
Admittedly not much of a fan of his type of music, I feel compelled to at least acknowledge the passing of Michael Jackson and his immense contribution to music and dance. His personal demons notwithstanding, it was too soon an ending to a life that started with so much promise and a career with so much talent. Actually, it was kind of a sad week all around with the passings of Ed McMahon and Farrah Fawcett. Americana losing icons is always difficult in the sense of saying goodbye to yet another part of one's adolescent past. The writers of [...]
If you listened to the FS radio show today on WOXY, you heard a debut in the HOT 5 from a new band that's the hottest thing from Perth, Australia since Luc Longely called LEE MEMORIAL and the track, " Long Days In Bed ". (mp3) The song has been owning me for about a week now, now you're infected. The drummer was in SLEATER-KINNEY, and many of the others were in SODASTREAM, but it's about the here and now [...]
Like a good, plain simple piece of guitar pop? Maybe check this out from Lee Memorial . Founded by Karl Smith, half of Sodastream , Lee Memorial is named after a guesthouse in Kolkatta, India where Karl's family used to stay when he was a child. (Karl lived in Bangladesh and India until he was thirteen). Smith wanted to try something different to Sodastream with his latest project and the desire was to present his new songs with a full band. Recruiting Laura MacFarlane, one time drummer with [...]
Lee Memorial "The Lives Of Lee Memorial" out this summer Karl Smith, half of the ex-Rough Trade signings, Sodastream, has created a new project dubbed Lee Memorial . The full band is completed by Laura MacFarlane, one time drummer with Sleater-Kinney and founder of Melbourne outfit Ninety Nine, Tom Lyngcoln from Nation Blue (lead guitar), Madeline Spawton on the clarinet/cello, and bassist Matt Bailey (ex-Paradise Motel). Download the track " Long Days In Bed " here .
FREE MUSIC! Don't you just love it when you find free and legal MP3s you can download and listen to without any concern of the FBI or RIAA banging on your door five minutes later? Us too. Below is a selection of MP3s that have come our way in the past week. Some are EAR FARM favorites, some might be more your bag than ours, all are free for you to enjoy... just click the band name for the band's site and the song name for the MP3. EAR FARM: giving you more of [...]
Remember Sodastream? No, no, come back, I'm not about to cue in a YouTube video of Jamie Theakston talking about Spangles and trying to "remember" the words to the Friends theme song. The band Sodastream? Evening Session-flavoured Australian relegation-zone indie pop? Well, Karl Smith out of Sodastream is back, back, back, doing a band called Lee Memorial. You can find out what they sound like - if you can't guess - with a download of Long Days In . The set-up for the band is actually more intriguing than "one half of Sodastream" would suggest; [...]
Lee Memorial – All These Things Terse, volatile rock with that grandiose sound The Walkmen are so good at. Sounds like it could shatter any moment in a cloud of bitterness and blue ruin. Lee Memorial are one of the more immediate bands to come out of Melbourne in recent times; it occasionally seems like you can link every musician from that city by six degrees of Kes, with the results often being songs that are obscure in the right ways but not necessarily that rewarding. Lee Memorial features a few well-known names, like [...]
Per scaricare la compilation di marzo cliccate qui. 1. Elfin Saddle - Temple Daughter 2. Holy Oak - My Baby With Her Castanets 3. Southerly - Close To The Crime 4. Lee Memorial - Berlin 5. Clues - Perfect Fit 6. Spiritual Mansions - The Sweeter Side 7. Beads - Evil 8. The Curse Of Company [...]
Karl Smith, cantante e chitarrista dei Sodastream, torna a far parlare di sè a due anni esatti dallo scioglimento del gruppo australiano tanto amato qui in Italia. E lo fa presentandosi con una nuova band, Lee Memorial, formata insieme a Laura MacFarlane (Sleater-Kinney, Ninety Nine), Tom Lyngcoln (Nation Blue), Steve Thomas (Zond), Matt Bailey (Paradise [...]
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