You know you're in trouble when the most interesting thing about a band is its name. And it's only interesting from the perspective of either, "That's a great band name for a fictional band" or "We came up with this while drinking." Wait. The Telepathic Butterflies is a real band?! Oh, dear. Well, let's set this aside this and move on to the its new record Wow & Flutter! ... ... And we're in too deep. Most of Wow is bland, mod-inspired, Britpop-infused, power pop slag. Sure, the tracks here are catchy but [...]
The Telepathic Butterflies - Circle Man mp3From their Rainbow Quartz release,Wow & Flutter!It's hard to believe their fellow/sister countrypersons will have had to wait until June 15 for the release of this superb LP, but so I was told in an email from Killbeat. (Thanks, Jesse!) I spent some of my hard-earned on bunches of songs from the Winnipeggers' LP many months back and in particular have
If you want to feel like a kid rooting through your dad's old record collection, look no further than Winnipeg's the Telepathic Butterflies . There are traces of Elvis Costello and the Who in the band's fourth album, Wow & Flutter , due out June 15—six days before Father's Day. Coincidence? Lead single "Circle Man" channels the spirit of 1965, its simple, catchy melodies and psych rock harmonies evoking the Kinks and the Beatles . mp3: "Circle Man"
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alejandro Escovedo : "Street Song" [mp3] from Street Songs of Love (out June 29th) other Alejandro Escovedo posts at Largehearted Boy Cap'n Jazz : "Little League" [mp3] from [...]
A man has been arrested in northern Greece for allegedly growing marijuana on the median strip of a highway. Police say the 35-year-old was caught in the middle of a six-lane highway linking Athens with Thessaloniki, harvesting 42 marijuana plants up to 1.8 metres tall. Ganja Babe (Live) - Michael Franti The Sea Life London Aquarium says its tactic of piping Barry White's music into a shark tank to encourage breeding has paid off. The ''Walrus [...]
It's Friday. Not only is it Friday but it's Friday! Come on people! I don't know why, but for some reason this week was just entirely too long and so this Friday feels better than usual. Why The Telepathic Butterflies? Because there isn't enough about them for me to really want to write a whole post. But the music is different and interesting enough that I wanted to mention them in passing. This is what you're getting from me today. The Telepathic Butterflies have a lot of great claimed influences including The Kinks, The Beatles, [...]
Girls, Girls, Girls!!! One more time, in case we still have visitors. (Hopefully you haven't noticed our recent AWOLitude.) Here's what we've been up to. How 'bout youse? Teenage Head - Top Down mp3 The Girls - Transfer Station mp3 from Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes, No - Thanks to Pitchfork.The Ettes - Marathon mp3 - off the forthcoming release Look At Live Again Soon - Thanks to Alyssa Kleven at
The Telepathic Butterflies Breakfast in Suburbia Rainbow Quartz, 2008 The Telepathic Butterflies - "Telescope" | download [See post to listen to audio] One thing is made clear from the opening track of Breakfast in Suburbia: The Telepathic Butterflies (what a name!) are rooted in a 1960s pop aesthetic, their apparent influences a combination of the usual suspects: The Beach [...]
A lot of bands have claimed the Beatles as influences, but I've seldom heard any that have done it as well as The Telepathic Butterflies from Winipeg have done on their recently released CD Breakfast In Suburbia . Rejean Ricard (guitars/vocals) and Jacques Dubois (drums) incorporate memory-tickling inflections of the late 60's/early 70's British invasion sound while updating it for the alternative-rock palate. These 14 catchy tunes constitute a tantalizing trip back to rock as it was before the White Album. From Breakfast In Suburbia (2008): A Scathing Report [...]
Sunday, August 3, 2008 This past week has been rather hectic for me on all fronts. I'd been out of town, living in Dallas for most of the summer, and now I'm completing my transition back to Austin. That means furniture up on Craigslist, expensive trips to the grocery store, and a mailbox overflowing with new albums, all of which has been somewhat overwhelming. On top of all of that, my computer is in the shop, so I'm having to bum computer time off other people. But enough about my moving woes, here [...]
I heard this track a while back and it is really starting to make the rounds on the blogs, so I post. Downloadable: "Where Do You Run To" (box.net mp3) by Vivian Girls If you missed them last night here is the info for their next Todd P show: |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||| Wednesday August 20th @ DEATH BY AUDIO :: Vivian Girls :::: BEST FRIENDS FOREVER --> http://myspace.com/bestfriends foreverandfriends [ DEATH BY AUDIO ] 49 S 2nd St btwn Wythe & Kent | [...]
Another summer weekend, another 4 great tracks to get you by. This week, I am offering up the Telepathic Butterflies and Cinderpop CDs as giveaways, so if you're interested, just drop me a line at contests {at} quickbeforeitmelts {dot} com with "4 for the weekend vol. 41" in the subject line and your mailing address in the body. Enjoy! The Telepathic Butterflies "Telescope" "Pyschedelic, furry, fuzzy pop." myspace : hype machine [...]
Scientific American Q&A's "movement researcher" and bona fide Batfan E. Paul Zehr on why Batman could exist (he already does, duh!): The difficulty for Batman is he's going to be trying to sleep during the day . He's going to be really tired, actually, unless he can shift himself over to just being up at night. If he were just a nocturnal guy, he would actually be a lot healthier and have a lot better sleep than if he were doing what he does now, which is getting some light here and there. That's [...]
The response to last week's Big Bloc 1 posting of selected mp3s from SXSW 2006 was vast, although largely invisible but to the practiced eye. Here's a list I put together of three dozen songs I like from SXSW 2005 . Again, if you find yourself wanting more, click on the two SXSW's above. As I did for Big Bloc 1, I am retaining original spelling, deleting "mp3" so as to make it easier to browse the list, and [...]
The Line Of Best Fit
Powerpopulist
Chipped Hip
largehearted boy
It All Started With Carbon Monoxide
Bring Me Up
MusicGeek.org
speed of dark
Side One: Track One
GIMME TINNITUS
Quick Before It Melts
A Bulldozer With A Wrecking Ball Attached
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Bison - Quill
SABRINA JOHNSTON + TIEFSCHWARTZ
American Idol Finalists: where are they now?
