
One of my favorite breaks since The Casket Lottery's "Code Red," I think. Thinking Machines - Never Reach Us Now We subscribe to circumstance, take no action take no chance We're off to haul the mast, they'll never reach us again It's up the avenue, it's just a block from here What was has disappeared, you'll see nothing up ahead.
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I've recently discovered Philadelphia-based indie rockers who go by the name Thinking Machines (probably got the name from Dune). I've instantly fell in love with their new album, Work Tapes. They play the kind of music inspired by Dinosaur Jr, Pavement, Guided by Voices and other giants of American indie. This means heavy and screaming guitar noise, disharmonic feel, creative drum patterns and the vocals which sound dry and honest, burned-out, desperate and full of tragedy without anything cheesy. They cleverly move along the borders of shoegaze, lo-fi and post-hardcore (I especially love how they [...]

While most of the music world was converging on Austin, Texas for the SXSW conference, Philadelphia was still asserting it's place as a music city to reckoned with last night at Johnny Brenda's . First up in a preview of next month's Bag Of Songs night April 20th at The M Room were the Thinking Machines with an amazing set of songs from their brand new cd, A Complete Record Of Urban Archaeology . A guitar oriented rhythmic sound sound I can best describe as sort [...]

Well I hope everyone had a good and safe New Years. With all the holiday stuff out of the way for awhile, hopefully I can get back into the swing of things around here. To kick off things for '08 will be for a record I have been spinning quite a bit over the past week from the Philadelphia based trio of Thinking Machines . The band is prepping to release their third album and first through TMvFM Records. The album, which is called A Complete Record of [...]