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Thursday, September 25th, 2008Planet Mondo: By George This Is Good:
It’s 75% Beatles - written and produced by George Harrison, with Macca on bass and Bongo on drums. Has guest appearances from Clapton at at his British blues-grinding best and the happy honky-tinking piano of session king Nicky Hopkins. It conforms to all the codes and conventions of classic [...]
Kevin Shields Talks New LP, Old Sessions, Price of Noise
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Kevin Shields Talks New LP, Old Sessions, Price of Noise
As our news editor Amy Phillips noted in her ATP New York review today, My Bloody Valentine frontguy Kevin Shields sat down with The New York Times over the weekend at Kutsher’s Country Club to gab about the band’s recent tours, the plans for that forthcoming [...]
Drowned in Sound - Reviews - Album - Underground Railroad
Thursday, September 25th, 2008What is it that makes French musicians so damn cool? Serge Gainsbourg was a drunk pervert who never found his musical niche, yet still managed to snag English Blow-Up beau Jane Birkin and earn himself the title of the ‘20th century Baudelaire’. Justice are one of the hottest names on the electro house scene. Sébastien [...]
Swervedriver to release 3 remastered albums with bonus tracks
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008SWERVEDRIVER
RAISE ● MEZCAL HEAD ● EJECTOR SEAT RESERVATION
RELEASED 3RD NOVEMBER 2008 UK, 2009 USA
Following their recent reunion and a very successful US tour earlier this year, Swervedriver are back after 10 years away.
One of the finest bands to emerge from the so-called ‘shoegaze’ scene in the 1990s, Swervedriver signed to Creation Records with whom they [...]
Monotonix, The Lumerians, Late Young
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Local band Lumerians are playing on Tuesday night at the Hemlock. I really did their new EP.
Monotonix, The Lumerians, Late Young
Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk St., San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Lumerians - “Organ Grinder”
Lumerians - “Corkscrew Trepanation”
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Fleeting Joys, (shoegaze bliss) new album due Sept. 1st
Thursday, August 14th, 2008http://www.myspace.com/fleetingjoys
http://fleetingjoys.blogspot.com
The Fleeting Joys, from Daffodil Hill, California (where the hell is that?), released one of my favorite albums from 2006, “Despondent Transponder”. They are releasing a new album, Occult Radiance, next month on Sept. 1st.
Fleeting Joys - Occult Radiance preview/medley
Fleeting Joys - “Patron Saint”
Recommended if you like: My Bloody Valentine, Velvet Underground, [...]
Mezzanine Owls - ‘Lightbulb’ lyrics
Sunday, July 27th, 2008The chorus for this song has been stuck in my head for 3 days now. Thanks to Jack from the Mezzanine Owls for providing the lyrics to me!
Mezzanine Owls - “Lightbulb”
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counting boats out in the harbor
i was content just doing that
they kept multiplying time and again
setting out and coming back
then the days started getting [...]
another mp3 music search site (mixturtle)
Friday, July 25th, 2008http://www.mixturtle.com/
Crystal Antlers
Friday, July 25th, 2008myspace profile
Crystal Antlers - “Vexation”
Crystal Antlers - “A Thousand Eyes”
Mezzanine Owls
Thursday, July 24th, 2008http://mezzanineowls.com/
myspace profile
Recommended if you like: Jesus and Mary Chain, The Doves
Mezzanine Owls are opening for Rob Dickinson of The Catherine Wheel tomorrow night at Cafe Du Nord. (7/25/08)
Mezzanine Owls - “Light Bulb”
SPIN:
“A haunting Jesus and Mary Chain rattle filtered through an anthemic guitar line as driven as something from another avian outfit, Doves.”
USOUNDS:
“Dreamlike, [...]