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Maplewood – Maplewood (2004)
22/07/10
Maplewood is a low-key indie rock supergroup with members of Champale, Koester, Cub Country, and Nada Surf gathered together in the spirit of ’70s canyon rock. Their self-titled debut brings back hazy memories of groups like America, Bread, and CSNY. The kind of groups who always seemed ready to break out their acoustic guitars and serenade the sweet hippie chicks around campfires and in hazy bars with heartfelt lead vocals and harmonies, ringing open-chord strumming, lazy tempos, and occasional pedal steel for added melancholy. There are also echoes of more modern bands like R.E.M. on “Darlene,” Lambchop on “Bright Eyes,” and Teenage Fanclub on the chiming “Morning Star.” The spirit of Matthew Sweet also hovers over the proceedings, as he’s been treading these light rock boards for quite a while. So there you have all the influences and connections, all of which don’t mean much if Maplewood can’t deliver the songs. Luckily, they do. Tunes like “Indian Summer,” “Little Dreamer Girl,” and the quiet epic “Desert Queen” sound like they were taken right off a Time/Life Sounds of the 70′s comp. The rest are solid and memorable too. They escape being mere revivalists by investing their hearts into the material. There is no winking or obvious lifting of melodies. They create the feel of the sensitive California ’70s with an easy, sweet manner and plenty of laid-back soul. Not bad for a bunch of short-haired, East Coast fellas. Line them up next to the lovely Autumn Defense and let the ’70s begin again. ~ Tim Sendra, AMG
My Rate: 8.8/10
Áudio de “Indian Summer”
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VA – 2nd Fanfare for Elephant 6 (2010)
14/07/10
My Rate: 8.5/10
Tracklist:
DISC 1:
01. Yesterday’s World (Circulatory System) — General Oglethorpe & the Panhandlers
02. (iv) (The Gerbils) — tiny folk
03. A Song of Love (The Gerbils) — radiowires, theaddingmachine, & DaveKent
04. If I Were You (Nesey Gallons) — Sally Seen Nog
05. Little Birds (Neutral Milk Hotel) — The Curiously Strong Peppermints
06. Fooled With the Wrong Guy (Beulah) — Lou Nathanson
07. Love Athena (Sunshine Fix) — Impaled Peach
08. Lucky Girl (The Gerbils) — Carton Sonore
09. The Shower Song (Chocolate U.S.A.) — The Voyages
10. Me and Jesus Don’t Talk Anymore (Beulah) — Carnival Bird
11. King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 (Neutral Milk Hotel) — Dead Canaries
12. King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 2 (Neutral Milk Hotel) — Tall Building
13. Sun Is Out (The Apples in stereo) — Velma Spaghetti
14. Pyramid Landing (Marbles) — Zombie Girlfriend Hospital Attack Force
15. Rue De Lis (The Essex Green) — Mayor Byrne 3
16. Glue (The Gerbils) — Sea Shoes
17. She Did a Lot of Acid (Neutral Milk Hotel) — pitaburd
18. Hank the Yankee Dalmation (Chocolate U.S.A.) — Champagne Khampagne
19. Sinking Ship (Neutral Milk Hotel) — Daydreaming in the Forest
20. You’ve Got a Gift (of Montreal) — Akryllic Love
DISC 2:
21. The Arrow Flies Close (Elf Power) — Stomach Ulcers & Jason
22. The Piece That Fits (Madeline) — Madeline Ava
23. There Won’t Be Any Crows (Nesey Gallons) — ufoinkushiro
24. The Past Is a Grotesque Animal (of Montreal) — Freemdoom
25. The Secret Ocean (Elf Power) — Fig Mints
26. To Hell and Back (Madeline) — Stomach Ulcers
27. Gravity Car (Olivia Tremor Control) — Thosedamnbuckets
28. Aurora Borealis (Nesey Gallons) — The Garrats
29. Lysergic Bliss (of Montreal) — Ace Azzameen & officeparty
30. Big White Limo (The Gerbils) — EllertMichael
31. Hideway (Olivia Tremor Control) — Lou Nathanson & Impaled Peach
32. Psychotic Feeling (of Montreal) — lenn9o9n
33. Calm Go The Wild Seas (Beulah) — Stomach Ulcers, Lou Nathanson, & lenn9o9n
34 A Baby for Pree (Neutral Milk Hotel) – Chapman’s Friend and the Glorious League of Imposters
35. Bunny Ain’t No Kind of Rider (of Montreal) — Nick Fraelich
36. A Peek (Circulatory System) — Zakk Zielke
37. Engine (Neutral Milk Hotel) — Jo Rose & Liam
Lê Almeida + Fotograma + Your Favorite Songs | Sexta 04/06
01/06/10
Flyer por Laurindo Feliciano.
Aê, pra você que estará em São Paulo nesse feriadão, vai rolar Sexta, 04/06, shows do Lê Almeida, Fotograma e Your Favorite Songs na Livraria da Esquina (Barra Funda). Os shows são organizados pela Foggy Glasses, produtora do Gilberto. Compareçam!
Segue o release:
Foggy Glasses apresenta:
LÊ ALMEIDA – 1:00 h
http://www.myspace.com/lealmeida
Pela primeira vez ao vivo em São Paulo, o carioca Lê Almeida celebra
bandas ícones do lo-fi, como Guided By Voices e The Apples In Stereo,
mas com aquele tempero nacional que lembra consagradas bandas do indie
carioca, como Pelvs, The Cigarettes e Second Come. Com um compacto em
vinil 7″ e diversos EPs em CDr caseiros na bagagem, Lê Almeida é
diversão garantida para amantes da boa música despretensiosa.
FOTOGRAMA – 00:00 hs
http://www.myspace.com/fotograma
Percorrendo os caminhos do folk rock de Fairport Convention e Donovan,
mas adicionando influências da música brasileira, em especial o Clube
da Esquina de Milton Nascimento e Lô Borges, o Fotograma lançou
elogiado álbum de estreia ano passado e para esse show prometem hits
do mesmo, como a excelente “Anda, Corre, Voa!”, além de novas canções
que serão tocadas ao vivo pela primeira vez.
YOUR FAVOURITE SONGS – 23:00 hs
http://www.myspace.com/ourfavourite
Uma das melhores bandas de indiepop do país, o Your Favourite Songs
abre a noite com singelas canções que lembram The Softies e The
Legendary Jim Ruiz Group. Formada por Fernando a Selene Alge (pai e
filha), nesse show a banda conta com a participação de um baterista e
lança oficialmente o tão esperado primeiro EP. Chegue cedo, não perca
essa ótima revelação paulista!
DJs: Babee, Klaus e Gilberto Custodio
Dia 04/06 – sexta-feira
Livraria da Esquina
Rua do Bosque, 1254 – Barra Funda
Tel: (11) 3392-3089
Porta: 22h / Shows: 23h (pontualmente)
Preço: 10 reais
Segue o release: Foggy Glasses apresenta: LÊ ALMEIDA - 1:00 h http://www.myspace.com/lealmeida Pela primeira vez ao vivo em São Paulo, o carioca Lê Almeida celebra bandas ícones do lo-fi, como Guided By Voices e The Apples In Stereo, mas com aquele tempero nacional que lembra consagradas bandas do indie carioca, como Pelvs, The Cigarettes e Second Come. Com um compacto em vinil 7" e diversos EPs em CDr caseiros na bagagem, Lê Almeida é diversão garantida para amantes da boa música despretensiosa. FOTOGRAMA - 00:00 hs http://www.myspace.com/fotograma Percorrendo os caminhos do folk rock de Fairport Convention e Donovan, mas adicionando influências da música brasileira, em especial o Clube da Esquina de Milton Nascimento e Lô Borges, o Fotograma lançou elogiado álbum de estreia ano passado e para esse show prometem hits do mesmo, como a excelente “Anda, Corre, Voa!”, além de novas canções que serão tocadas ao vivo pela primeira vez. YOUR FAVOURITE SONGS - 23:00 hs http://www.myspace.com/ourfavourite Uma das melhores bandas de indiepop do país, o Your Favourite Songs abre a noite com singelas canções que lembram The Softies e The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group. Formada por Fernando a Selene Alge (pai e filha), nesse show a banda conta com a participação de um baterista e lança oficialmente o tão esperado primeiro EP. Chegue cedo, não perca essa ótima revelação paulista! DJs: Babee, Klaus e Gilberto Custodio Dia 04/06 - sexta-feira Livraria da Esquina Rua do Bosque, 1254 - Barra Funda Tel: (11) 3392-3089 Porta: 22h / Shows: 23h (pontualmente) Preço: 10 reais
Shed Seven – A Maximum High (1996)
21/05/10
ALLMUSIC Producing five massive U.K. singles, Shed Seven’s sophomore effort is the band’s most consistently engaging album. Borrowing more from trad-rock than many of their peers, Shed Seven essentially created an album full of inspirational anthems — three of the album’s singles seem to deal with achievement of some sort. This is no drawback, however, as many of the songs on A Maximum High are excellent shout-along, arena-ready numbers. The set as a whole is far more consistent than their spotty debut and contains very little filler. While Shed Seven scarcely explore any unfamiliar territory, A Maximum High is a very consistent and listenable disc of mid-1990s mainstream rock & roll. [by Jason Damas]
My Rate: 8/10
Vídeo de “Going For Gold”
Nobunny – Love Visions
03/04/10
Genre: Garage / Lo-Fi / Punk
Based: US
Label: Bubbledumb
Year: 2008
My Rate: 9/10
MySpace
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POPMATTERS The story of Nobunny is the story of a mysterious bunny-masked stranger from Tuscon, Arizona who began his strange career as an attempted Animal Elvis Impersonator. Touring the mock-Presley circuit as Elvis Bunny, and busking on the street as No-Money-Bunny on the side, Nobunny eventually made his way to Chicago, where he debuted his own material on stage the very day that Joey Ramone died (the set was dedicated to his memory). In his always unpredictable live sets, Nobunny has been known to pass the mask (and attendant duties) off to others on the occasion of losing his voice, strip down to his underwear (though the mask always stays on) and to schedule conflicting show dates staffed with Nobunny imposters. On one notable occasion, he was even assaulted and robbed while performing on the streets of Philadelphia.
Complete with a cleverly Ramones-mocking album cover and the “Land of a 1,000 Dances”-aping lead off track “Nobunny Loves You”, Nobunny’s barely-full-length debut (12 songs in just under 23 minutes) is a quick and dirty blast of lo-fi garage rock that would feel right at home on both a Nuggets compilation and a late-70s NYC punk club. Staffed with an array of pawn shop instruments—a ‘60s-style organ on “Not That Good”, a cheapo drum machine on “I Am a Girlfriend” and “Tina Goes to Work”—and all performed in Nobunny’s authentically shouty and nasal vocals, Nobunny never strays far from garage’s bubblegum roots. The result is an album that is fun and catchy, but which leaves the lingering impression that Love Visions is still only a fraction of the Nobunny experience (…) [By Jer Fairall]
Vídeo de “Boneyard”
King Khan & The Shrines – What Is?!
29/03/10
Genre: Garage Rock / Lo-Fi / R&B
Based: Canada / Germany
Label: Hazelwood
Year: 2007
My Rate: 8/10
MySpace
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TREBLEZINE.COM When done poorly, garage rock is usually still not that bad. The very nature of the genre lends itself to sloppiness and imperfection, and the rawer, the better, in many cases, but without good songwriting, a lot of garage rock records tend to blend together in a big mess of static and power chords. When garage rock is done well, however, it can be the most exciting music on earth. Even the most traditional rock `n’ roll bands can be an explosive affair with the right touches, just look to Black Lips or Rocket From The Crypt for a prime example of stage presence and ass kicking material. Though not yet to either of those bands’ level of notoriety, King Khan is one such artist who makes garage rock transcendent with a combination of flashy, and sometimes barely there, stage getups and truly amazing, I’d even say classic, songwriting.
Though part of the time, Montreal native Khan performs with Mark Sultan as duo King Khan and the BBQ Show, he truly reaches his potential as a showman and songwriter with What Is?!, recorded with his other band, The Shrines. On top of Khan’s manic, raspy vocals and power chords galore, the band’s sound is densely fleshed out with fiery organ licks and a horn section that could have been pulled straight from a Stax session. What Is?! is somewhere between The Stooges and James Brown, with a dash of Love for a psych-folk effect, and Sun Ra for the group’s most truly out there moments.
Opener “(How Can I Keep You) Outta Harm’s Way” has the sound of a long lost garage 45, its triumphant stomp and ultra-catchy riffs the stuff that music geek obsessions are made of. The incredible “Welfare Bread” is smooth and soulful, with some of the fuzz pushed aside in favor of a lovely, summertime groove. “Land Of The Freak” kicks into high gear with all cylinders firing and Khan wailing like the Godfather of Soul himself, and “I See Lights” swirls like a trippy outtake from Forever Changes. Khan even vocally sounds like Arthur Lee, a similarity that carries over into the lush standout “69 Faces of Love.” On “Cosmic Serenade,” the Shrines turn to an exotic, jazzy, and somewhat dissonant sound (here’s where the Sun Ra comes in) to magnificent effect, and closer “The Ballad of Lady Godiva” is a fuzzy, yet endearing dirge, closing the album with a distorted sort of calm.
As many ’60s style throwback garage rock records are released each year, it’s encouraging to know that there are artists like Khan, striving to make it fun again. King Khan and The Shrines have the complete package—a big, bold sound, a charismatic frontman, and a stage presence that could catch any ambivalent hipster in its good time, high energy tractor beam. There may not be anything all that new about what King Khan and the Shrines are doing, but nobody else has recorded a straight-up rock `n’ roll record this good in ages. [by Jeff Terich]
Vídeo de “I Wanna Be a Girl”
Rose Melberg tomorrow live in London!
03/03/10
Thursday, 04 March 2010 @ The Cross Kings.
ROSE MELBERG (USA)
She is an indiepop royalty. Played with Tiger Trap, Go Sailor, The
Softies and Gaze. Released three wonderful solo albuns, last one in
2009 on K Records. Expect touching, sweet and cute folk songs.
THE MIDDLES ONES
This used to be London’s best indiepop secret, but now, with the
release of their debut 10″ vinyl, everyone is talking about how
charming their incredible harmonies and simplicity are. Two girls and
lots of love.
MARTHAS & ARTHURS
Two guys and two girls singing lovely harmonies and playing accordion,
flute, ukulele and some soft percussion for our pleasure. Please,
don’t confuse with electronic duo Arthur & Martha!
FOX
Fox is the alter ego of Simon Fox, a guy who sings and plays intimate
melancholic folk songs backed by swirling and mesmeric noises that
will appeal everyone who who likes that something more on a
straightfoward folk pop song.
DJ: Camila from WeePOP! playing 7″ records!
The Cross Kings: 126 York Way, N1 0AX, London, UK.
Tube: Kings Cross.
Tickets £5 adv / £6 door
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/69898
Sweet Wild Side
02/02/10
Hey everyone! Please score my Threadless design, Sweet Wild Side, to help it get printed. Thanks in advance! =]
Hey! Play POP!
27/01/10
