Humour over email... It's always difficult to pull off, as our slightly confusing exhanges with From The Sticks will testify to. Hailing from the Fens, they opened with a line about having "only just got electricity" which worked well enough, it was the next one regarding the fact that they "made some instruments out of stuff lying around the house" that led to aformentioned confusion... Upon listening to their music, it's pretty evident that they're not playing graters and elastic bands but have instead done a fine job of making innately catchy music (with a DIY feel) using [...]
"I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be ever'-where - wherever you can look. Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad - I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise, and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too."
Woods - "To Clean" (MTV.com says "tight and beautifully lighthearted ghostly folkish songs") Future of the Left - "Arming Eritrea" (ex-Mclusky) Ear Pwr - "Future Eyes" (Blistering thumpers with infectious melodies, Disco chants with wild-eyed electro anthems) Ganglians - "Lost Words" (pure naive headphone acid pop to drive to) Phenomenal Handclap Band - "15 to 203 [...]
Hartless Hind Records and MVD Audio have announced the release of "Up End Atom: A Tribute To Atom And ...
Hartless Hind Records has recently released Up End Atom: A Tribute to Atom and His Package . Atom and His Package may have been the world's most unlikely rock star. A chubby kid with a high voice on stage armed with nothing but a musical synthesizer and a good sense of humor played his way into the hearts of many. His contemporaries pay tribute to him on this record. Showing the breadth and width of his influences, artists such Popwreckoning favorite Golden Bloom [...]
mp3: Steinbeck - Possessions (Not the One By Danzig) mp3: The Emotron - Me and My Black Metal Friends last week hartless hind records released up end atom: a tribute album to atom and his package . i previously posted atom and his package's tribute to the mountain goats in a cover of the week spot... so it's cool to see the spotlight on atom this time. tracklist is below. 1 Steinbeck "Possessions (Not the One By Danzig)" 2 mcchris "Punk Rock Academy" 3 Math [...]
Welcome to 2009! For anyone still trying to sleep off the shame and regret of a New Year's gone awry, here's a story from Gringo Star that will put your escapades to shame... Gringo Star : Magic Mushroom Mayhem . Blood, fear and pain make for excellent stories. My top three stories to tell at a party are when Fred Durst threatened to kick my ass (really), when I got bit in the face by a dog and when I spent two weeks on a [...]
The Grizzly Owls Genre: Indie / Gothic / Country From: Bakersfield, California United States The Grizzly Owls (first featured on the Devil's blog back in December 2007 ) are back with a new EP that keeps faith with the unique sound of their debut album 'By Night On My Bed' conjuring [...]
I love me some cover songs. Beck - Your Cheatin' Heart (Hank Williams cover). Beck's take on the classic is kind of a mellow, echoey, multilayered pop song, with just enough of a country touch to bring the original to mind. Buy Timeless: A Hank Williams Tribute. Blanket Music - Red Right Ankle (Decemberists cover). I just downloaded this from Cover Me 's excellent Decemberists post - the Patti Smith cover of "Here I Dreamt...." is amazing. So, yeah, [...]
I posted a few days ago about the TMF tribute album, 21 Love Songs . A couple of things, since I've had the chance to give it a few spins: I would say about half of the songs are pretty successful at keeping key aspects of the original while interpreting it according to the band's personal style. I can't say the same about the other half of the album. There are a bunch of songs that really just destroy the delicacy of these songs and turn them into [...]
Oh sweet merciful Christ and--oh wait, this is actually a really good compilation. Can you believe it? We couldn't at first, seeing as how covers most times make us cringe, but we've seen the light. Stephen Merritt would be so proud of all of the artists who've gone ahead and paid tribute to him in this endearing, outright astounding mixtape. Tell me you couldn't fall in love with this project and we'd call you a liar. Tracklist: 01 Monica y Carlos - [...]
The Note Books series features musicians discuss their literary side. Past contributors have included John Darnielle , John Vanderslice , and others. Inspired by John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and commissioned by the Actors Theatre of San Francisco, Ray's Vast Basement's new album Starvation Under Orange Trees is as ambitious a project as it is well-executed. In its review of Starvation Under Orange Trees, Stylus wrote, "Jon Bernson has the uncanny talent of having a voice like [...]
The Note Books series features musicians discuss their literary side. Past contributors have included John Darnielle , John Vanderslice , and others. Inspired by John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and commissioned by the Actors Theatre of San Francisco, Ray's Vast Basement's new album Starvation Under Orange Trees is as ambitious a project as it is well-executed. In its review of Starvation Under Orange Trees, Stylus wrote, "Jon Bernson has the uncanny talent of having a voice like [...]
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