Boat – Setting The Paces
By • 01/03/2012
Boat – Setting The Paces [Magic Marker/2009]
Youthful Exuberance! Come and get it. You’ve heard hundreds or even thousands of indie-rock tunes like those found …
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Sleeping In The Aviary – You And Me, Ghost
By • 09/09/2011
Sleeping In The Aviary – You And Me, Ghost [Science Of Sound/2011]
From Minneapolis via Madison, Wisconsin comes another band to disrupt my ignorance. This …
The Wrong Words – The Wrong Words
By • 07/03/2011
The Wrong Words – The Wrong Words [Trouble In Mind/2011]
As always I’m a bit out of the loop, though being 3000 miles away might …
The Ugly Beats – Motor!
By • 02/15/2011
Ugly Beats – Motor! [Get Hip/2010]
This Austin, Texas’ combo is back for a third go-round. They’ve gone whole hog this time with the Univox-sounding …
Bobby Emmett – Learning Love
By • 01/09/2011
Bobby Emmett – Learning Love [D.I.Y/2010]
Bobby Emmett spent a few years in the earlier part of this decade playing his Hammond organ, and for …
The Sights – Most Of What Follows Is True
By • 01/09/2011
The Sights – Most Of What Follows Is True [Alive/2010]
It’s been five years – that’s over a generation in rock and roll years — …
Surfin’ Lungs – Full Petal Jacket
By • 01/08/2011
Surfin’ Lungs – Full Petal Jacket [Wild Punk/2010]
(Disclosure) The Surfin’ Lungs and me go back some 25 years. In all that time their focus …
Outrageous Cherry – Seemingly Solid Reality
By • 07/01/2010
It’s been a good 15 years since Outrageous Cherry and I first crossed paths. There has not been a lot of change, other than people, between their eponymous debut and this album. To a degree, over that time, mastermind Matthew Smith has pared things down further, particularizing them. On that first go round the sound was more typically rock-band-out-in-the-garage. Here he’s still painting with echo and spinning intuitive melodies. But the component pieces are laid out more distinctly.
Gavin Guss – Mercury Mine
By • 03/23/2010
It’s been a baker’s dozen of years since Tube Top’s one and only album, Three Minute Hercules, came out. While one of the two singer-songwriters of that band, Brian Naubert, was a bit familiar from Pop Sickle and subsequently Ruston Mire, Mr. Guss has pretty much remained a mystery to me as the day 13 years ago I got the “Love Germ” single in the post.
Adrian Whitehead, Bryan Estepa & Danna & The Changes
By • 02/05/2010
The latest batch from Oz’s Popboomerang label includes these very delightful platters from three pop-rock oriented singer-songwriters. Mr. Whitehead leads with his piano and a (solo) Lennonesque singing style and sense of arrangement. Which makes it kind of easy to look at Mr. Estepa as falling on the (early ‘70s) McCartney side of this, admittedly small, scale: what with various such instrumental touches as well as more of an openness to his vocals, but it would probably only be in juxtaposition. Jumping off that analogy, the surname less Danna hails from the Victoria provinces but vocalizes and arranges like a cornfed Midwesterner.
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