Labor Day weekend, folks. Party it up, you've earned it. Here in New York, we've recently weathered earthquakes and minor hurricanes and other inconveniences. So fire up the grill, put a cold beverage in your hand and turn up the mildly twee indie pop jams on this week's mix. Cover art photo was taken by Kate Bryant at the Friends With You inflatable sculpture park which is at the upper end of the Highline park. While Labor Day is seen as the end of summer, Summer Fridays mixes will continue to the Autumn Equinox... so you get two [...]
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The most important thing about the recent mob bust in New York is not that crime doesn't pay, but what great nicknames these guys have. I can just imagine the conversation: "Yo, Vinny Carwash. I need youse to grab Baby Shacks and go whack Junior Lollipops." "Yes, sir, Tony Bagels." Zumpano - She's A Full-blooded Sicilian
findley brown last christmas julian casablancas i wish it was christmas today the ethipians ding dong bell the turtles santa and the sidewalk surfer jill barber the christmas song the merry macs christmas cha cha of montreal my favorite christmas in a hundred words or less vince guaraldi trio christmas is coming banu gibson & the new orleans jazz band i'll be home for christmas the awkward stage christmas time is here [...]
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How many other artists have as consistently a good pop catalog as Carl Newman ? Choose a random song he wrote off any of the albums by Zumpano , the New Pornographers , or solo and it's likely a great song. Compiling a single disc "best of" is going to be difficult - it might have to be a box set. Get Guilty is no exception. It's another solid collection of pop gems. I'm not sure how Newman decides which albums should be New Pornographer songs and which he should do [...]
Sub Pop, my most beloved record label, is celebrating their 20th Anniversary this year. Co-founders Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman started a radio show in 1979, which turned into a fanzine, later to become the official Sub Pop Records we've all come to love. It's hard to say exactly when Sub Pop "started" because in a decade it morphed from strictly a passion to a business. Sup Pop is partially responsible for surfacing the 90's grunge scene in Seattle, releasing albums by Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mudhoney. The label is now shaping the sound of indie music, signing bands [...]
I bought the new issue of The Big Takeover over the weekend. (REM's on the cover... am I the only one that thinks Peter Buck kind of looks like Bea Arthur these days?) I'm always anxious to tear into it -- it's always good and one of the few music magazines these days that takes longer than an afternoon to read -- but I was specifically looking forward to this one to read the second half of editor Jack Rabid's interview with New Pornographers' AC Newman . The first half, in the last [...]
REELING Stew The Naked Dutch Painter and Other Songs Image Entertainment : 2002 [Buy It] JEEZ LOUISE Zumpano Look What the Rookie Did Sub Pop : 1995 [Buy It] Gift horse, mouth: I bitched about spring in my last post and got a week of rain and chill in return. But now the weather may be turning. There's a chance that it'll be the springest spring that every sprang, as the homeless [...]
Hello, Newman Although Carl Newman 's musical career has taken off since the formation of The New Pornographers , the band/collective he co-leads with Dan Bejar , Newman's work with his lesser-known previous band, Zumpano , is a mine of semi-precious gems worth seeking out. Here's the opening song from their first album, Look What the Rookie Did . Those of you who still wait for that "difficult" leader of The Left Banke to make a comeback should pay particular attention. Inordinate fans of Jimmy [...]
** To explain Challengers , I first feel the need to give some background on what makes the New Pornographers the Canadian sensation they are. With Twin Cinema , the New Pornographers seemed to have became more comfortable with more subtle hooks and more drawn out climaxes in a way they'd never been before. *** Electric Version and Mass Romantic were somehow both subversive and almost garish; as a teenager I was drawn to them because I saw them as being more sophisticatedly rebellious than the music my peers listened [...]
The New Pornographers Carl Newman has been very open, if not obsessive, about his influences and here's a great sounding audio example. This is the band Carl sang in before the New Pornos were formed, Zumpano, doing a CBC radio session of all Burt Bacharach covers back on January 26th 1999. These songs will sound familiar to many, even if you don't recognize the song titles, these songs have entered the collective musical conscious due to the simple fact that Bacharach is a genius. 1 Intro 2 twenty four hours from tulsa 3 Interview 4 anyone who had a [...]
For as long as I can remember, I've spent way too much money on music. The only thing that's changed over time, other than sheer volume, is that today, thanks to the wonders of the internet, I tend to have an idea what I'm buying before I buy it. Maybe the album doesn't always live up to the song or two I find on the net, but it's rare that I ever buy something and hate it. Unless, of course,
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