Music of the Sphere: Static Daydream, EZTV, La Luz, Wavves, Dante Elephante, Widowspeak, Explorers Club, The Oohlas

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Words cannot express the gratitude we feel toward these hostingpostingbloggers, so we won't even try. ("Cop-out, pp, cop-out." "STFU, pp, STFU.")

Static Daydream - More Than Today - Magnet Magazine Blog

EZTV - Trampoline - Still in Rock
La Luz - Weirdo Shrine - Still in Rock
Wavves - Way Too Much - Still in Rock

Dante Elephante - Never Trust A Junkie - Side One Track One
Widowspeak - Dead Love (So Still) - Side One Track One
Explorers Club - Last Kiss - Side One Track One - in a "one blog wonders" kind of post; Beach Boysesque, as we said before
The Oohlas - Small Parts - Side One Track One - in that self-same "obw" post; We long ago posted our personal fave by TO, and it's just below here. And, oh, wow, we just noticed "Small Parts" or "small parts" is offered with four more songs at Bandcamp for nyp download. (nyp = name your price, duh)

Music of the Sphere: Fresh & Onlys, GbV, Twilley, Fannies, L7, Ride, Chapterhouse, Wild Nothing, JAMC, Johnny Boy, TPoBPaH, Elvis C., et. al. . . .

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Lord have mercy but these favebloggers are pouring it out! Thanks and blessings to them. Sorry we haven't found more for you.

The Fresh & Onlys - Endless Love - The Passion of the Weiss - Scroll down to #36.

Guided by Voices - Echos Myron - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good

Montana - Good Goes Bad - Peter's Power Pop

Dwight Twilley Band - Looking For The Magic - Art Decade

Generationals - Trust - Rollo & Grady

L7 - Hanging On The Telephone - Star Maker Machine - also has versions by Blondie and The Nerves

The Thermals - I Don't Believe You - CYSTSFTS

Redtrack - Wait Around - Mojophenia

Stormy Mondays - Nothing On My Radio - Indie Rock Cafe

Celestial - Dream On - Sweet Indie Tunes

The Ramones - Pet Sematary - All Eyes And Ears

Ride - Eight Miles High (The Byrds cover) - Chromewaves
Chapterhouse - Pearl - Chromewaves

Wild Nothing - O Lilac - IndieBall
Midlake - Roscoe - IndieBall

King Charles - Love Lust - All Things Go
The Young Veins - Take a Vacation! - All Things Go

The House Of Love - Destroy The Heart - The Vinyl Villain
Teenage Fanclub - God Knows It's True & Alcoholiday & So Far Gone & Long Hair - Vinyl Villain - These Peel Session recordings have a fantastic live presence.

Ringo Deathstarr - Imagine Hearts - RCRD-LBL
The Rentals - Honey Life - RCRD-LBL

Thee Headcoatees - Teenage Kicks - Pogo A Go-Go
Voodoo Queens - Supermodel Superficial - Pogo A Go-Go
Buzzcocks - Promises - Pogo A Go-Go

"Or is that too many for one post?" we muse. We actually have a baker's dozen more, all from the same site. Should we post them now or put them in another post? Ah, what the heck, let's do it, mainly because we don't know how long they'll be available.

Taylor over at Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good has a fantastic three-part series on songs that begin with the incantatory "Boom! Boom-boom, cha!" beat of The Ronettes 's Spector-produced "Be My Baby." These are our favorites; maybe you'll prefer some of the other 43.

The Opening Salvo
The Ronettes - Be My Baby - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good
Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Gentle Sons - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Hand In Hand - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good
Jay Reatard - An Ugly Death - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good
Johnny Boy - You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good

V2.0
Brendan Benson - The Pledge - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good
Jesus and Mary Chain - Sowing Seeds - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good
The Explorers Club - Forever - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good
Kenickie - Millionaire Sweeper - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good
Sally Seltmann - Harmony to My Heartbeat - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good

V3.0
Wild Nothing - My Angel Lonely - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good
The Lucksmiths - Great Lengths - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good

Music of the Sphere: Shins, Fannies, Lush, T. Sprout, Who, Hollies, I Love Math, Sherwood, Explorers', Grapefruit, Pains, Vetiver, Vile, Misophone, YJ

A tempting table of tuneage is here spread before you, thanks to the generosity of our gracious hosts and hostess. It was excruciating trying to decide which order to put these in, so please pretend they're all first.

The Shins - Pressed In A Book - AWmusic
Teenage Fanclub - Jesus Christ - Bag of Songs

Lush - Ladykillers & Ciao! & 500 (Shake Baby Shake) & The Childcatcher & Light From a Dead Star - a PLAGUE of ANGELS

The Who - I'm a Boy - Pretty Goes With Pretty

The Hollies - Carrie Anne - Milk Milk Lemonade - an outtake or something but still neato

Tobin Sprout - The Last Man Well Known To Kingpin - Art Decade - former Guided by Voices, but then, you knew that

I Love Math - Too Many Demons & Only Clowns Are Scary - a PLAGUE of ANGELS

Sherwood - Snowing in Seattle - Speed of Dark

The Explorers Club - Last Kiss - Pretty Goes With Pretty - Beach Boysesque, as previously noted

Dissensous has posted his faves of 2008 over at Raven Sings the Blues, and as you would expect, the board groans with goodness. Here are some of ours of some of his, plus a few others.

Grapefruit - Ain't It Good & Elevator - Raven Sings the Blues - under the influence of Beatles

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Raven Sings the Blues - Scroll down to #4, svp.

Vetiver - See You Tonight - Raven Sings the Blues

Kurt Vile - Freeway - Raven Sings the Blues - Vile but in no way vile. Or Weill. - #8

Yussuf Jerusalem - We Ain't Coming Back - Raven Sings the Blues - The production is maybe too fuzzy for some pure poppers, but there's pure pop in there nevertheless.

Misophone - Grey Clouds - Raven Sings the Blues

Music of the Sphere: Smithereens, Pogues, Game Theory, AC Newman, Babyshambles, Broadfields, Dreamend, Explorers' Club, Ruby Suns, et. al. . . .

I'm pretty damn passionate about these. I hope it shows. Thanks to the hosts.

The Smithereens - Christmas (The Who cover) - Bag of Songs - two of my favorite bands
The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York - Barely Awake in Frog Pajamas
Game Theory - 24 - Tsururadio - Ahhhh!
AC Newman - The Heartbreak Rides & Like a Hitman, Like a Dancer - Tsururadio - two more from The New Pornographer's forthcoming Get Guilty. I previewed it here, with three A.C. and three NP songs included. BTW, sometimes its AC, sometimes A.C. Please don't let it bother you.
Peter Walker - 39 Stars - Tsururadio

Dreamend - If Only for a Day - Obscure Sound - I posted "Are You Waking" here.
The Explorers' Club - Forever & Don't Forget the Sun - Obscure Sound - Scroll down to No. 26. - Beach Boysesque
The Ruby Suns - There Are Birds - Obscure Sound - Scroll to No. 38.
Love Is All - Movie Romance - Obscure Sound - No. 37 - I don't know why, but Munchkin girl voices often do it for me. I'm not sure I wanta.

East Hundred - Plus Minus - Milk Milk Lemonade
New Madrid Faults - Cities - Milk Milk Lemonade
The Would-Be-Goods - The Camera Loves Me - Little Hits

Broadfield Marchers - Rightness Of Commands - 5 Acts - Every time I hear these guys from Kaintuck I get excited. (It happened again yesterday in the car.)
The Panics - Get Us Home - 5 Acts

Babyshambles - Beg Steal or Borrow - Dead Flowers - included w/ Mike's excellent interview of Babyshambles drummer Adam Ficek

Music of the Sphere

Wunnerful, wunnerful stuff. Thanks to the kindhearted hosts.

Adorable - Vendetta - Dead Flowers
Stereolab - Wow and Flutter - Dead Flowers
Elastica - Waking Up - Dead Flowers
Swervedriver - Wrong Treats - Dead Flowers

The Rolling Stones - It's All Over Now - Dead Flowers

The Black Hollies - Whispers Beneath the Willows & Under a Winter's Spell - Obscure Sound - We love and previously posted "Paisley Pattern Ground," so check it out where'er you like.
The Quarter After - Sanctuary & Turning Away - Obscure Sound - We love and previously posted "See How Good It Feels," so check it out where'er you like.
The Explorers Club - Don't Forget the Sun & Forever - Obscure Sound
Needers & Givers - The Last Time I Saw You - Obscure Sound


The Who - I Can't Explain & My Generation & The Kids Are Alright, etc., etc. - a PLAGUE of ANGELS - Part 1 of Molotov's three-part retrospective of The Who
The Guess Who - Undun & No Time - a PLAGUE of ANGELS - plus six more
Supertramp - The Logical Song & Give a Little Bit - a PLAGUE of ANGELS - plus two more


The Who - Pictures Of Lily - Star Maker Machine
The La's - There She Goes - Star Maker Machine

Klaus & Kinski - En la cama - Hits In The Car - beautiful

Canadian Invasion - Juvenilia - Bag Of Songs
Mates Of State - Get Better - Battle of the Midwestern Housewives

SXSW 2007: Big Bloc 4

It's always exciting when South by Southwest announces its schedule and posts songs by many of the bands that will be appearing at the festival. I just spent several--okay, six--pleasant hours making my way through the entire list from Aa to zZz (I skipped +/- because they didn't provide a sample mp3). I admit I didn't listen to every single song. Certain categories didn't really interest me, not yet at least. But I did give ear to everything labelled rock and pop that I didn't already know, plus a few others. I actually want to go back and listen to a few more categories, but I've compiled a list of a couple hundred tunes that I liked. The eternal question at a blog: to post only a few at a time or post the whole lot? I know it's daunting to see a long list, so if you're interested, you might only want to sample a few at a time. Hopefully they'll be here for awhile. SXSW seems to leave them posted semi-permanently, as I showed with my recent posts for SXSW 2005 and SXSW 2006. Anyway, enough chatter, let's to the tunes. I begin with the ones that comport most closely with two of the three terms at the masthead of this blog: powerpop and indie. I've got a bunch more, especially of the indie variety, but most of those have pp tendencies. I'll be posting some of them over the next couple of days. Here are a stingy baker's three dozen. Links are provided to the SXSW band sites.

Air Traffic - Charlotte mp3
The Apples in Stereo - Energy mp3
The Ark – One of Us Is Gonna Die Young mp3
The Awkward Stage – Heaven is for Easy Girls mp3
Bang Gang – Find What You Get mp3
The Breakup Society – Robin Zander mp3
Broadfield Marchers – Kingdom for Lions mp3
The Capitol Years – You Can Stay There mp3
The Comas – New Wolf mp3
The Dagons – It Flies Out mp3
E>K>U>K – KeMo Thera-P mp3
Electrico – Love in New Wave mp3
Elemeno P - 1157 mp3
The Ends – Nice Quiet You mp3
The Explorers Club - Forever mp3
Fernando – Howard Hughes mp3
Future Clouds and Radar – Quicksilver mp3
The Gear – Eight Arms to Hold You mp3
Going Home – Act 7, Scene 8 mp3
Goldenboy – Summer of the Evening mp3
The Jellydots - Bicycle mp3
The Little Ones – Lovers Who Uncover mp3
Los Abandoned – a la mode mp3
Luminous Orange - EverySingleChild mp3
The Moog – I Like You mp3
Paul Collins Beat - Helen mp3
Patrick Pike – Beautiful Thing mp3
Pop Levi – Sugar Assault Me Now mp3
The Procession – Major and Minor mp3
Starky – Hey Bang Bang mp3
The Sterns – Supreme Girl mp3
The Teeth – Trumpet Blared mp3
Winterpills – Broken Arm mp3
The Yoko Casionos – Loose Cannon mp3
The Zebras – You Look Ready mp3