I am not cold in the sense that the temperature is all that low, more in the sense that I have been just a little too chilly for a few hours now and it is really starting to get me down. Moan moan. Song, by Eeyore etc etc. Anyhow, Cellar 35 in Aberdeen was excellent last night - what a top wee space. It is basically just a scruffy basement, but they've got a couple of carpets down and sofas and the atmosphere is really, really nice. It helps a great deal that the staff were [...]
Domingo 03.01.2010 Radio Duna 89.7 23:00 hrs. En la edición de este domingo, comenzamos nuestro ciclo veraniego nostálgico y el primer programa va dedicado a bandas pop emblemáticas de las últimas décadas: The Left Banke (foto) – There´s Gonna Be A Storm (Reedición, 1992) ABC - The Lexicon of Love (1982) The Lilac Time - The Lilac Time (1987) The High Llamas - Hawaii (1992) SUPER 45 RADIO Todos los [...]
The London folky four-piece Noah and the Whale made huge waves last year with their well-received debut album Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down and memorable singles "5 Years Time" and "Shape of My Heart". Earlier this year in Hoboken, New Jersey, the band laid down the tracks to their follow-up, tentatively titled First Days of Spring , which drummer Doug Fink noted to me in a previous interview that the album will have a more electric feel than their first. So I was eagerly awaiting to hear how [...]
in my formative indie years, i.e. ca. 1990, i was short of money and long on a thirst for this new music called indie. before then i had never really concerned myself particularly with genres and record labels and all that stuff. no, i was too busy listening to queen, eurythmics and def leppard to care about that. but then the stone roses and ride came along and kicked the shit out of all that. and suddenly i was wide awake, eyes wide open, legs spread, arms outstretched (you get the idea) for more. so being a skint [...]
Let the sun shine indeed. This track, the first single from Pelle 's upcoming third album, The Lilac Time , is another witty, woeful, wanting poem we've come to know and love about this singer-songwriter from the town of Uppsala. If all things are equal, it'll be another sunny, immaculately twee record from one of Sweden's finest. The speak-sing part beginning at the song's middle is so good it hurts your mouth to smile that much. More pretty, sort of solitary anthems to come for sure when the record drops in August. [...]
Oh how we loved The Lilac Time back in the day! Formed by Stephen Duffy and his brother Nick, they took their name from Nick Drake's "River Man." The Lilac Time wrote these ridiculously catchy and artsy Brit-pop songs; often Stephen Duffy's solo career went parallel with The Lilac Time's. But since their self-titled debut in 1987 through their last studio album together last year, the band has delivered some great pop records. Skirting similar territory as Prefab Sprout, the Dream Academy, Lloyd Cole & The Heartbreakers and even The Church - dreamy, seductive [...]
A spot of trippy, bleepy early-nineties-vintage Lilac Time today, with, for me, one of Stephen Duffy and co's finest, Dreaming . I remember being quite taken aback when I first heard this track, as all their singles I'd heard up until that point had been pleasantly enjoyable folk-pop, as you might expect from a band who'd taken their name from an old Nick Drake lyric. But Dreaming had more in common sonically with turn-of-the-nineties electronic acts such as Electribe 101 and The Beloved than any ill-starred folk troubadors from two decades earlier. I ended up loving [...]
Rhino's cool "alternative" box set of 2007 is The Brit Box which I wrote about back in August. It's in stores this week. As I said then, it does a pretty admirable job of documenting the cool music coming out...
For a time in the mid to late 80's I spent all my miniscule pocket money on 7" singles. Every Friday without fail I could be found flicking through the stacked plastic circles until one caught my eye. I can clearly remember breaking the heart of the kindly record store clerk in my search for Stephen 'Tintin' Duffy's newest single 'Unkiss That Kiss'. At that point I had found a new hero, his '
Song, by Toad
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PopWreck(oning)
the blackened air
THE CULTURE OF ME
Some Velvet Blog
Too Much Apple Pie
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Bison - Quill
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
SABRINA JOHNSTON + TIEFSCHWARTZ
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American Idol Finalists: where are they now?
