yellow fever's the culver city ep Austin's cutest band, Yellow Fever , is set to release the extremely limited new The Culver City EP 7" on hugpatch records . Hugpatch calls the band " a perfect mixture of Stereolab and the Young Marble Giants - confident, forward-thrusting, yet minimal and patient ." Here's the A-side, and stay tuned for an exciting Yellow Fever -related announcement right here in about an hour: mp3: Yellow Fever [...]
Yellow Fever Since the once unstoppable Voxtrot have now fallen into a bit of a boring slump, the fate of pop music in Austin, Texas, in my opinion, now rests on the shoulders of the very excellent Yellow Fever . I've read a few reviews of that band noting their sound as being mostly unclassifiable, which, to me, doesn't quite make sense. Sure, they've got a pretty unique sound, but I don't believe it's too much to assume that their influences may lie somewhere in the 60s mod/garage/girl-group [...]
I love The Breeders. After the Pixies disbanded it was not Frank Black's career I followed with great interest, but Kim Deals. Austin's Yellow Fever sound a bit like Pod era Breeders, and "Katcatcher," the first song off their self released EP, had it's hooks in me from the get-go. If you listen to [...]
There are a few songs this year that I would describe as my Top 40. Much like how commercial radio works, these top 40 have been on repeat so much you forget that they were ever on records. Camera Obscura isn't the new Fergie or Shakira but the Phil-Spector-esque "If Looks Could Kill" might be my equivilant of my hips or junk or truck or humps or whatever mainstream sings about. Though listening to singles fades their connection to albums, Let's Get Out of This Country is an amazing record. [...]
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