Tagged: sparksmusic

Though our friends at PopMatters had the exclusive on the premiere for the vide o, "Domino", but we had to spread the word about the Spiral Beach crew as we are quickly becoming fans ourselves. Their new album, The Only Really Thing , drops September 22 on Sparks Music/Tommy Boy and this young Canadian band is really hitting the road incredibly hard, having already toured with Spinto Band, Sloan, The Hidden Cameras & Tokyo Police Club . Video and mp3 "after the [...]

• Spiral Beach - Domino

To be honest, despite a medium amount of hype surrounding the last album by The Lonely Feathers , I never really got into it. But their upcoming Fantasy Of The Lot is definitely not Hind Hind Legs , and so it's not succumbing to a similar fate. Primarily, opening track "Lowiza" catches the listener in its grasp, and from there, you simply cannot stop listening. What does it is the immediate presence of multiple vocal parts; it's not harmonic, rather the compounding of the same melody at the same pitch sung by several [...]

You know how The Rolling Stones and The Beatles traded identities? The Stones acted like they were working-class hooligans, when in fact they were middle-class private school kids, while The Beatles were legitimately low-rent but played (at least at the front end) into white-collar expectations about youth, class and language. In a vacuum, John would be bloodying Mick's nose in response to a snobby insult as he (Mick) tried to crawl back to his dad's Volvo. In 1964, you'd not have sold a lot of people on that argument. To a degree, this myth-making on the part of both bands [...]

• The Lovely Feathers - Lowiza