"To Live and Die In The Airport Lounge" by My Teenage Stride , very well might be one of the best songs of the decade, and believe it or not, the rest of their songs are pretty great too. For years Jed Smith, the mind behind MTS, has been writing pop songs influenced by the Velvet Undergroud, The Four Seasons, Television Personalities, Pink Floyd, and the Supremes that are unendingly catchy and even transcendent. Now, with a new backing band consisting of Tris Mcall and two members of psychy-indie band I'm Turning Into [...]

Here at the Color Awesome, we're all about indie pop and we love supporting local artists. So you can imagine I'm ever so happy to tell you about the San Francisco Popfest 2009 , May 21-24. Details via All Shook Down : "San Francisco Popfest hosts over two-dozen bands of the "melodramatic popular song/indie/pop" at venues intimate enough to keep the prices reasonable. The bills aren't solely Bay Area focused, with talent coming from the UK, Denmark, and Canada (a special solo performance from the Hidden Cameras). Between May 21 and the 24th, you can hit [...]

The page above comes from indie-rock lifers mag, Magnet , who love the third band on our Friday Neon Lights extravaganza ( Glasslands in Brooklyn, BTW) enough to include My Teenage Stride 's record Ears Like Golden Bats in their "Top 20 Albums of 2007." They are far from the only ones smitten by the sharp ties and tunes of songwriter Jedediah Smith. A brief roll call of admirers includes tasteful bastards such as Idolator , Pop Matters , Coke Machine Glow , the L Magazine , [...]
I know I'm probably the only person on this blog who will find this news exciting, but a partial lineup has been announced for this year's NYC Popfest . Take a brief look at their list thus far: The Besties (NYC) The Cannanes (Australia) Dent May & his ukelele (MO) Friday Bridge (Sweden) From Bubblegum to Sky (NYC) The Hermit Crabs (UK) Mahogany (NYC) My Teenage Stride (NYC) Oh! Custer (Sweden) [...]
Naturally we heard more than 40 great songs in 2007. And so before we get to the top two slots, here are 10 tracks that might have made it into our list of awesomeness on another day, from Radio Disney to Brooklyn art-rock to Euro-techno to Britney: The Jonas Brothers - "Still In Love With You" Unlike America's angrier teenage girls, I find it impossible [...]
It's nice to have this visual/aural reminder of a super record that came out earlier in 2007. My Teenage Stride's video for "To Live and Die in the Airport Lounge" was directed by Nara Garber, and the song is from the album Ears Like Golden Bats . The British label Becalmed Records released the record earlier this year, and it's been in heavy rotation here at The Cropper ever since.
It's nice to have this visual/aural reminder of a super record that came out earlier in 2007. My Teenage Stride's video for "To Live and Die in the Airport Lounge" was directed by Nara Garber, and the song is from the album Ears Like Golden Bats . The British label Becalmed Records released the record earlier this year, and it's been in heavy rotation here at The Cropper ever since.
Wouldn't we all like to find a doctor who could protect us from zombies and the CIA within those long, eye-glazing "health service provider" directories handed out by HR departments across the land? In this clip for My Teenage Stride's "To Live And Die In The Airport Lounge"--one of their standout songs, it's a bit of C86-recalling cheer that'll have you singing along with its boisterous chorus by the second go-round--the bandmembers all have odd problems (the aforementioned zombies, an "opacity disorder," a weird thing where slices of pizza get turned into pieces of meat) that get miraculously [...]