While Spectrals may owe a sonic debt to garage rock and early rock n' roll ballads, frontman Louis Oliver Jones may be one of the least overtly rock n' roll seeming guys out there. An unassuming, low key demeanor was on display from the beginning of the band's set opening for Cults . After announcing "We're very excited to be here, " he added, "That didn't sound very sincere," recognizing the fact that he wasn't quite at "Hello Cleveland!" or "Scream for me, Long Beach!" levels of enthusiasm. He was, however, definitely genuine and sincere, although there's very little pretense involved with his [...]
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Photo by Erik HessCults First Avenue Minneapolis Monday, April 16, 2012 View a slideshow from the concert here.With upbeat melodies and sweet, clean chorus lines, the New York-based Cults were as ea
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Live This Month: April 2012 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #276) In Live This Month , we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. In curating this podcast, we got the nagging feeling that April is a little slow on the local album release front. We're not sure why that is - Festival fatigue? Buildup for a big summer? - but it's likely only a momentary blip. A number of [...]
Long before I arrived in Austin, I had worked out a schedule for each day that I expected to pretty much adhere to. Scheduling ahead, I'd already earmarked most of Friday and Saturday so I could be stationed at Latitude 30, starting with the Performing Right Society of the UK ( PRS ) Foundation brunch early Friday. (Early by this point of SXSW is getting out of bed and on your feet before 11 AM, which I somehow managed to do for all 5 days…) After the Polarsets interview at B.D. Riley's [...]
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Filed under: News , Exclusive , Q + A Tell All Your Friends Louis Jones, aka Spectrals , is a 21-year-old British rocker visiting America for the first time. He's doing SXSW , as any rising retro popster would, and supporting Cults on a coast-to-coast tour. By rights, he should go libertine and return to Leeds with a brined liver and stories involving Texas sheriffs. Instead, the soft-spoken singer-songwriter is hoping to leave [...]
3/16/12- Friday's featured mp3s are; The Underground Youth; Midnight Lust Bishop Morocco; Old Boys Lotus Plaza; Strangers Spectrals; Friend Zone
Spectrals has released a new single "Friend Zone" that does not appear on his debut album, last year's Bad Penny . Check out the new song as well as tour dates with Cults below. Read more »
Orlando is a city in a constant artistic struggle. Nestled in between the Touristopia of Disney/Universal and dense suburban sprawl, is the real Orlando: Audubon Park, Mills 50, The Milk District, Little Saigon – older buildings, posh intermingling with grunge, eclectic food, and a clutch of authentic venues and businesses devoted to being purveyors of local culture. In the past, art and music movements have flared up in this town and then just as rapidly dispersed, but now things are changing. Something has stuck. The culture scene in Orlando is flourishing. With the Festival Republic's recently-launched Orlando Calling [...]
There's an array of British and Irish up and coming talent heading over to SXSW Music Festival this month! SXSW Music and Media Conference have spent 25 years being one of the world's leading musical showcases, and returns in 2012 to continue the tradition. SXSW showcases roughly 2,000 musical acts from around the globe, representing well over 50 different countries. Each year the finest musical exports from the UK head over to Austin to perform on this platform, showcasing to an international audience of music lovers and industry bods. We've compiled a list of the most up and [...]
We've got good stuff coming out of our ears - quite literally at the moment. So here is the latest in our somewhat ad-hoc "of the best" feature comprising a trawl of the in-box and favourite blogs to bring you eight corking tunes to help get your Friday night off to a suitably energetic start. We have Swedish punks Holograms and the clattering b-side to new 73 single ABC City and another from paisley garage band White Fence with a taste from forthcoming album Family Perfume Vol 2 called King [...]
"You're really great but... I just don't fancy you." I've been told that a few times and boy does it suck. You don't want to be nice, or fun to be with, or great company; you want to be fucking sexy. Instead you feel the opposite: debilitated as someone who slow and stumbly, as erotic as a calculator, destined to always be platonic. Judging from his beguiling new song Friend Zone ( mp3 ), it sounds like Spectrals has suffered similar agonies. I especially like the tinkly guitar at the end, and the sort of shoulder-shrugging, "oh well"-feel [...]
Nach einem eher bizarren Weihnachtssong meldet sich die One-Man-Band Spectrals zurück. Hinter dem Pseudonym Spectrals verbirgt sich der britische Singer/Songwriter Louis Jones aus Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire. Bereits im Jahre 2009 hat Jones eine erste 7" namens «Leave Me Be» veröffentlicht, das erste Album «Bad Penny» folgte letztes Jahr auf Slumberland . Nachdem Jones zwischenzeitlich mit einem sehr unkonventionellen Weihnachtssong ( It's Christmas and I've Got Everything I Want ) von sich reden machte, kann man sich nun seinen neuen Titel «Friend Zone» anhören, der mit seiner [...]
Slumberland Records soldier Spectrals , whose Bad Penny is one of the stronger unheralded lo-fi releases from last year, last put out a bizarre Christmas song , but now Louis Jones has posted a new track, "Friend Zone," a fuzzy, longing slow number dealing with a subject matter I know too well ( long sigh ). It's down below and available for download. Read More...
This weekend sees Subb-an playing at the launch of, Gist , a brand new deep house and techno night in Chelmsford, Essex. It's not often We Are Not A Rockband ventures outside London town but with one of the masterminds behind Gist being DJ Mag's Adam Saville, we thought it worth investigating. With Birmingham's Subb-an one of the residents for groundbreaking night Below in his hometown and one half of label One Records with Adam Shelton, we caught up with him to quiz him on playing Essex, what's new on his label and what one record he [...]
Spectrals Bad Penny Slumberland Records [2011] Fire Note Says: Spectrals offers up a solid debut of indie croon that will win you over. Album Review: Bad Penny is the debut album from 21 year old Louis Jones aka Spectrals. Hailing from the UK, Spectrals offers a bit of everything here with pieces of soul, doo wop, pop and garage while paying homage to many [...]
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