Sleigh Bells - "Comeback Kid" So yeah, the most perfect bubblegum thrash pop duo Sleigh Bells are back on February 21 with "Reign Of Terror", their sophomore album. "Comeback Kid" is a thrashing, bubbling, beautiful mess of double-bass-drums and cooing cheerleader romps, with Alexis Krauss looking like the most dangerous version of your BFF from next door. Godspeed!
Mother-daughter vocal duo harmonize on country-tinged modern pop Singer-songwriter Jaymie Jones is known as part of the sister harmony pop act Mulberry Lane. Signed to Refuge/MCA, they released a trio of albums and charted with the original song "Harmless." Jones' latest project is another family affair, but this time as a duo with her 14-year-old daughter Kelli. Produced by Don Gehman, and backed by top Los Angeles session players (including the rock solid drumming of Kenny Aronoff), the songs range from the twangy "River/White Christmas" to the bubblegum pop-rock "All I Need." What ties [...]
Mother-daughter vocal duo harmonize on country-tinged modern pop Singer-songwriter Jaymie Jones is known as part of the sister harmony pop act Mulberry Lane. Signed to Refuge/MCA, they released a trio of albums and charted with the original song "Harmless." Jones' latest project is another family affair, but this time as a duo with her 14-year-old daughter Kelli. Produced by Don Gehman, and backed by top Los Angeles session players (including the rock solid drumming of Kenny Aronoff), the songs range from the twangy "River/White Christmas" to the bubblegum pop-rock "All I Need." What ties [...]
It's hard to believe that the bubblegum group that hit with "Simon Says" and "Indian Giver" also produced one of the greatest Phil Spector tributes of all time, "When We Get Married." Their last single for Buddah, it barely bubbled under at #118 in 1969, and marked their last chart appearance. But 40+ years later, it still packs an incredible Spectorian wallop thanks to Richie Cordell's take-no-prisoners production. MP3 | When We Get Married 1910 [...]
Plastic Plates is back at it again with his seemingly endless supply of disco-funk beats. His newest target is Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away," and he's accomplished the incredible feat of making the bubble-gum pop queen sound even catchier. If you're in LA, catch him tomorrow night opening for Little Boots at School Night . MP3: Katy Perry - "The One That Got Away (Plastic Plates Remix)"
If the press release is to be believed for For all the Girls , the one-man band is actually Provo, Utah-based Damien Fairchild, a guy who can't drive yet and spends his days "playing Call of Duty " and making "retro-folk love songs", probably at the same time as he's "texting seven different girls at once". Oh yeah, and he's apparently thirteen (with a birthday that falls on Valentine's Day, no less), clues which combined with his somewhat mature-leaning voice and the even more questionable fact that we can't find a pic of him anywhere [...]
Deer Park Avenue "Stop and Go" A pair of Californian sisters (Sarah and Stephanie Snyder) named the band for a street they lived on during childhood in Long Island, NY. The duo performs a combination of melodic rock and pop (fans of Jana Perri take note) the harder rock stuff starts off first with "Hey Maria" full of driving guitar chords and strong chorus. More subtle is the mid tempo "Darkness Hides Me" as it slowly builds, getting louder as the mood and lyric become more defiant. "Millionaire" is another slow builder but with a [...]
Pink Skull - Hot Bubblegum The quips one could make about the sticky business of this song are too easy. But if you're looking for a little energy to boost yr day, grab some Juicy Fruit the taste the taste the taste that's gonna move ya and click play. These Philly dance maven/part-time DJs have their new record Psychic Welfare out now on RVNG INTL .
Photo by Kelly Turso From NPR Music : Continuing in the tradition of alternative dance-pop exemplified by The Dandy Warhols in the late '90s and early '00s, Pink Skull stakes its claim in effervescent electronic noiseplay. Philadelphia DJ-and-producer duo Julian Grefe and Justin Geller, known for their adventures in mixing and remixing, have expanded into a live band for which "programming" still plays a necessary role. Traipsing gleefully through styles like disco-punk, acid house and psychedelic tropicalia, the group's recent Psychic Welfare finds Pink Skull showcasing a [...]
Once again the almighty Afrojack pulls off another insane track! Not sure how old this tune is, but hot damn does it hold its' own even in todays club scene. I don't know how this guy produces so many tracks that are all just flat out bangin', and Bubblegum is no exception. I've got mad respect for this 24 year old prodigy, I wonder what kind of genre he'll be into when he reaches his 30's. Support Afrojack here! [...]
Iconic TV theme and an album of soft-rock nostalgia Truett Pratt and Jerry McClain were introduced to one another by the producer Michael Omartian, and after some success recording commercial jingles (under the name Brotherly Love) they signed with Reprise. Their real break, though, was being selected in 1976 to record the theme song to Happy Days . Written by successful television composers Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, the theme song replaced the show's use of Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock Around the Clock," and promoted with weekly airings, the single peaked [...]
TV's Ralph Malph steps through the screen and tiptoes onto the record chart To a large extent, actor Donny Most's 1976 solo album is the archtypical celebrity cash-in. Though no stranger to music - Most had played in Catskills bands as a teenager - his shot at pop stardom was entirely the product of a staring role on Happy Days and the show's #1 rating. His label secured performing slots on Dinah, Mike Douglas and American Bandstand, but even Happy Days fever could only push the sugary pop single "All Roads (Lead [...]
We won't call out some of the obvious one's in this playlist but we will say this weather channel business is really put the scare in the upper North East. The sheer scale of it has people literally running for the hills to seek higher ground. Anyway this play list goes out to user @daanvanrossum because he asked me what was on my Hurricane playlist and i just told him I daho's You Were A Dick was a good rain record and walked away. That was sort of rude but I told him I'd work on [...]
So continuing on the Native Tongues series, we have Black Sheep who I first heard in my later years of high school through a an older more musically savvy friend. I slept on it for a little while, then one day in a record store and P's to spend I saw 'A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing' at a bargain price so I copped it and from then on much love for that. I remember walkin away feeling quite smug about my crafty purchase (sometimes I'm a cheapskate). Anyways usual drill so lets get down to it. The group [...]
</embed> Recently, a lot of lamestream wannabe alts have asked me, " Carles , have u heard the song PUMPED UP KICKS by Foster the People?" I have listened to the song. It seems 'catchy', 'indie', 'trendy', 'lame', 'kewl', 'fun', and the type of song that you'd imagine a group of suburban girls driving around suburbia blasting while they pour vodka into their Sonic slushies. It is interesting to think about how a song that is 'catchy' in an 'indie' kind of way inspires resentment, as opposed 2 the 'we so excited' vibes that a song would [...]
It took now Deftones member Sergio Vega to distill mathcore into the sound of 2011. The rudiments of the Dillinger sound that remain in the track come off a bit like Big Black, in a way the mix feels of the sort of records Big Black would make if they were coming up today. Imagine a most tightly wound center of power, rage or stress, etc, something very compressed, very constricted. Sergio Vega has morphed "Black Bubblegum", changed it, beat DEP into smallest of spaces but with all that power, rage, stress still intact. [...]
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Tweet We at LBYB try our very best to be arbiters of quality music... so I'm not surprised if you're scratching your head at the appearance of a Hellogoodbye album on this blog. It's true, they got their start making horrible bubblegum pop on a laptop in somebody's living room. It used to be that the band's only fans were white Californian girls under the age of 16, or other people who wished they were white Californian girls under the age of 16. Not true anymore. "Would It [...]
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