I recently received the debut album from New York City's Murder Mystery . While Are You Ready for the Heartache Cause Here it Comes didn't change my life in any way...it did provide 32 minutes of enjoyable listening. I was a little puzzled after reading their bio and press reviews and not seeing a single reference to Stephen Merritt or Magnet Fields. Maybe it's too obvious? Listen to their song "Love Astronaut" and tell me if it wouldn't fit perfectly on 69 Love Songs . Regardless, I like it and hope you do too. [...]
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Last year I posted a few words on the EP by NY quartet Murder Mystery and now that the band has released their debut album, it's time to post a few more. The name of the 12 track album is Are You Ready for the Heartache Cause Here it Comes and perhaps it's a bit on the short side with a running time of just 33 minutes. But all 12 tracks are little pop gems (I used that description the first time round as well) and certainly no [...]
Hey everybody! It's Muder Mystery! MP3: Murder Mystery - What My Baby Said OK, this is going to be one weird "sounds like," but stick with me through it. With this song, I picture something like an indie rock episode of Archie and Jughead, where someone makes fun of Interpol for always ...
It seems like every time I open my e-mail these days I get news on some awesome new indie-pop band. My cup runneth over with handclaps! Anyway the latest is a New York band called Murder Mystery. Their début album Are You Ready for the Heartache Cause Here it Comes has all the indie-pop trappings of a Mates of State or Bishop Allen along with a healthy dose of Buddy Holly (especially check out What My Baby Said). Half of the band is brother and sister team Jeremy Coleman (vocals, guitar) and Laura Coleman (drums, vocals). The other less related [...]
We've been everywhere lately. We eulogized one Kurt Vonnegut . There was our continuing coverage of the massacre at Virginia Tech, and the place of art therein. I am not a NRA nut, and I used to be strongly in favor of gun control, but using this incident as a pretext for gun control is absurd. (I was in favor of gun control before I realized that everyone dies, eventually. After that, I was like, What's the point?) We talk about all the [...]
Sunken Treasure , the record label run by music blogger Robert Duffy of Donewaiting.com , has two albums scheduled for fall release. Singer-songwriter eric Metronome , best known for his "52 Cover Songs in 52 Weeks" project, releases You Should Be Happy on Halloween. Megan Palmer adds Forget Me Not to the label's discography on September 26th. eric Metronome : "Call It a Day" [mp3] from You Should Be Happy (out October 31st) eric Metronome : "Time to Destroy" [mp3] from [...]
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