Click here to view the embedded video. Video: Indietracks 2009 in 7 Minutes by LastNightFromGlasgow The Indietracks lineup seems to be pretty much complete now (though a few more bands are still to come) with Everybody Was In The French Resistance... Now and Slow Club both being added to the bill. Perhaps more excitingly though, the day by day breakdowns have now been announced, giving us a festival that looks something like this: Friday [...]
Now that London Popfest is out of the way, it's time to turn our attention to this year's Indietracks festival, which will take place 23-25 July at the lovely Midland Railway Centre in Derbyshire. Last year we covered the event quite extensively, and this year will be no different. Previews of the bands in the run up to the event, followed by reports and a shit ton of photos of the weekend itself. I'm not exaggerating when I call Indietracks the highlight of my musical year. Where else can you get a non-stop indiepop while surrounded by (and [...]
This past weekend was my first experience of London Popfest, an annual event that aims to bridge the gap between Indietracks' for indiepop kids. Taking place over four days in deepest London, the world's finest indiepop bands descend on tiny venues to " indiepop 'til we drop ". For various reasons I only made it to the Friday and Saturday days of the weekend, but the weekend still managed to be the highlight of the year so far. Friday // Buffalo Bar What a tiny, tiny venue. Little more [...]
Ein Knallerevent für alle Freunde des gepflegten C86-/IndiePop/TweePop-Sounds steht den Hamburgern ins Haus – am Samstag, den 17. Oktober ab 21 Uhr findet in der Hasenschaukel die Cloudberry Night statt. Neben einem Liveauftritt der französischen Band The Sunny Street wird anschließend allerfeinster Indiestoff aufs Parkett gelegt, u.a. vom Cloudberry-Records -Betreiber Roque höchstpersönlich, der eigens aus den USA angereist ist! der Eintritt kostet 5 €, was bei dem Programm mehr als fair ist. MP3-Download The Sunny Street «College» MP3-Download The Pains of [...]
Five songs as soothing as tea: The Brunettes - Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks The Sunny Street - Cyclists Secret Owl Society - If Only They Could Turn Around The Library - TomKat The Pastels / Tenniscoats - Vivid Youth Song lyrics of the week: [...]
Time for another giveaway. This time it's all indie pop all the time with Volumes 3 & 4 of the Searching For The Now split single series from Slumberland Records . Deets on Searching For The Now 4 are here . It features The Pains of Being Pure At Heart and Summer Cats . Maybe you checked out The Pains mp3 I posted here . Deets on Searching For The Now 3 are here . It features A Sunny [...]
This might be old "news" for some of you, but I just had to write some words about the wonderful "Searching for the now" series from the fine Slumberland records . It's originally a series of split 7-inch singles, but all of the releases in this series has now also been made available digitally on some download-shops (amazon and emusic has all of them). The singles are also available directly from Slumberland (link above). The latest two releases in the series (3 and 4) was released mid june, and included great [...]
Hoy voy a romper el esquema que viene siendo habitual en este blog, y en lugar de hablar sobre un grupo en concreto, lo vamos a hacer sobre una serie discográfica que está llevando a cabo el sello Slumberland Records . Se llama "Searching For The Now", y cada entrega consiste en un disco en formato de vinilo de 7" en el que comparten protagonismo un par de grupos por disco, uno por cada cara. En cualquier caso, los que no hacéis uso del formato vinilo, no os preocupéis, porque la idea del sello es publicar un recopilatorio en [...]
465 - The Sunny Street "465" is a pop instrumental. You know, no words. Yeah, I can guess what you're thinking: Pop songs aren't pop songs without the baby babys and the bah-bah-bahs. Furthermore, pop songs aren't pop songs in 2007 without the ululations, the melisma, the hip-hop cameo. Alright, fine. "465" isn't a pop song. But it is an instrumental track by a French pop duo (Delphine and Rémi). And if you think you can find your way through [...]
A pesar de mis prejuicios iniciales contra myspace, he de reconocer que últimamente me está sirviendo para conocer grupos que me gustan. Así me ha sucedido con the sunny street, me encontraba viendo el myspace de uno de mis "amigos", más concretamente de California Snow Story , y ví que estos a su vez tenían a este otro grupo en la lista de sus amigos, con lo que me dije "los amigos de mis amigos son mis amigos" y me dispuse a escucharlos. No necesité más que la primera canción para darme cuenta de que el grupo merecía la [...]
Wer sagt denn, dass locker-fluffiger Gitarrenpop heutzutage nur aus Skandinavien kommen kann? Das Duo The Sunny Street , das aus Frankreich stammt, aber inzwischen in London lebt, beweist uns, dass man auch andernorts fröhlich janglen kann, und der Name der Band ist wirklich Programm. Der Sound liegt irgendwo zwischen Club 8, Sarah Records und Lucky Soul. Passenderweise sind sie bei dem SCHWEDISCHEN Label Lavender unter Vertrag, auf dem dann dieses Jahr ihr Debütalbum erscheinen wird. Die Band war so nett, mir schon mal vorab eine 10-Track-Demo zuzusenden - allesamt wunderbare Songs, keiner länger als 2:55 Minuten. [...]
Some more tracks from my iTunes that I should have posted months ago. I created a smart playlist of songs that had been added to my iTunes this past summer, trying to get reaquainted with music I added, but lost track of over time. Here are 9 of those mp3's: Bells (Featuring Linda Lamb) - Vitalic Bob Dylan, twenty years old Greasy Crisps - The Sunny Street (Otra vez en) Monte-Carlo - Voltura [...]
Recently I posted about "Don't Be A Stranger" , a band from Sweden that I don't know anything about. Nor does Google, Amazon, or the Hype Machine. Hopefully, I will be bringing you some detailed information about them soon, as I am in contact with them via email and have asked them about 28 questions. And that brings me to the The Sunny Street. Yet another band that is super secretive. No photos up at MySpace, no bio info, no links, just a note that says "........&....play home made pop songs. Hope you like [...]
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