A little Leap-Year Magic! I just happen to have found another band about bears and, whooo-whee, this one sounds like a spacier Ratatat or a geared up Depeche Mode. Bear In Heaven is a Brooklyn based band and manages a rare release every once-in-a-while, the latest of which, I Love You, It’s Cool, will be released on […]
Category: Rock
Plants and Animals: The End of That
Tomorrow, February 28th, 2012, marks the end of a year long recording process by the band Plants and Animals culminating in the release of their third full length album, The End of That. The End of That bridges two distinctly discordant styles, drifting between heavily distorted post-grunge and Canaian style pop effervescence, toss in occasional quiet introspection […]
Little Wings: Made It Rain (Cassette)
Deep within the shady annals of Hipsterdom one can find a single, shabby, college-ruled sheet of paper. It’s scribbled on with blue & red ink, the tome is exclusively devoted to the resurrection of cassette-tapes for the purpose of media distribution and tucked into the vinyl front pocket of the “Formatting” trapper-keeper. In addition, look for the […]
Tom Waits: Frank’s Wild Years
See, this is the kind of weirdo music I could get behind. I think Tom Waits is actually insane. He is the musical manifestation of the instant when deliciously aged bourbon is spilled from a crystal tumbler, is soaked up by a vomit stained bar-rag, and is transformed into the smoking wick of molotov cocktail […]
Orgone Accumulators: An Aleatorial Mathematical Approach to Deciphering the Radio Broadcasts of Ancient Astronauts
All this Penguin talk reminded me of another kooky band that covered Walk Don’t Run, the Orgone Accumulators. As some of you may know, the Accumulators don’t actually make music, they mearly capture and translate alien signals being broadcast from the Sirius constellation to a “shadowy creature lurking in the depths of Loch Ness”. Consider […]
Wilco: The Whole Love
I don’t have much time, but I want to post something about this album. Towards the end of last year (Sept. 2011), Wilco released The Whole Love and it is stunningly pure. Normally I would debate the merit of industry based awards – however this album, and Wilco in general, manage to tame my raging […]
Randy Newman: Good Old Boys
The deeper I delve into Randy Newman’s discography, the more I am struck at the incredible extent of his talent. February 1st, 1973: Newman recorded a heavily annotated, 13 track demo for a new concept album he was interested in producing, the kernel being the life and thoughts of a (deep) southern everyman named Johnny […]
British Sea Power: EP 1 & 2
The indie-rockers British Sea Power have put together a few nice EPs lately, they seem to be an ongoing series. I am a big fan of these EPs, as they are a little sampler platter. Nothing wears your ears out too much because they are just short enough. And, if you love them (the way […]
Islands: A Sleep & A Forgetting
It’s true that I have been craving some new Islands music since posting about Cuff the Duke at the beginning of January. Finally, the Canadians have come through for me. This Valentines Day they will be releasing their fourth album entitled, A Sleep & A Forgetting (for some reason I have yet to pick up Vapors, their […]
The Rosebuds: Night Of The Furies
I recently rediscovered this band. I can’t figure out why they ever left my regular rotation, too much other music to play I guess. The Rosebuds are another North Carolina band, we’ve had a few of those on here lately. There must be something in the tobacco down there. Formed in 2001, they sound a […]
Wildfire: Smokin
Yesterday I started looking into a bit of the early Laguna Beach, California rock scene, deciding about 9 hours later that this was a huge mistake. I first stumbled on to a band named Wildfire. This band was made up of musicians Randy Love (cousin to Beach Boy Mike Love), Donny Martin, and Denny Jamison. […]
Atlantis: Self Titled
The Germans gave us many things in the early 1970s, the BMW 2002 (still a very cool car, although terrible on Forza 4), the miniature plastic toy boats that I used to play with growing up (manufactured in West Germany), Gerd Müller (the leading goal scorer during the 1970 Mexico City World Cup), and – […]