Friday, March 28, 2014
From The Active Listener's Latest Activation: Sunchymes, Dandelion Seeds, Green Tambourine Band, Red Plastic Buddha, Earthling Society
Shall we do our usual riff on just how freaking active Nathan Ford is over at Active Listener land? We-e-e-e-l-l-l-l-llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll . . . no, let's not, not this time; maybe next, though, promise. We do declare, however, and quite boldly, that TAL Sampler 18 is chockfull of fabulous psych and powerpsychpop. Below are a few of our favorites. The whole sampler is available for name-your-price download at Bandcamp, and for that we gratefully thank Master Nathan Ford.
Coasting with Bill Pritchard
Click downarrow to download.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Mikal Cronin's Soul In Motion
We've been spurting celebratory cyber about this San Francisco rocker for several years now and were delighted to find a new release available for name-your-price download at Bandcamp. It's the latest installment in Famous Class's Less Artists More Condos (LAMC) series. "Soul In Motion" starts off kind of funky but quickly finds its groove. BTW, here's an article from SF Weekly we enjoyed reading last year and you might, too.
Labels:
Famous Class,
LAMC,
Less Artists More Condos,
Mikal Cronin
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Music of the Sphere: Oil Boom, Blank Realm, Rain Refrain, Hospitality, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, White Lung, Guided by Voices, Temples, The Casket Girls, Audacity, Real Estate, Angel Olsen, RADKEY
Here are some recent finds hosted and posted by some of our favebloggers. Be sure to thank them, as do we.
Oil Boom - 45 Revolutions Per Minute - NPR Music
Blank Realm - Reach You On The Phone - Polaroids Of Androids
Rain Refrain - Girls Girls World - Cloudberry Cake Proselytism V. 3
Hospitality - Rockets and Jets - Austin Town Hall
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Simple And Sure - Side One Track One
White Lung - Drown With The Monster - Side One Track One
Guided by Voices - The Littlest League Possible - Indie Rock Cafe
Temples - Mesmerize - Indie Rock Cafe
The Casket Girls - Same Side - Indie Rock Cafe
Audacity - Couldn't Hold A Candle - Rollo & Grady
Real Estate - Talking Backwards - Rollo & Grady
Angel Olsen - Forgiven/Forgotten - Rollo & Grady
RADKEY - N.I.G.G.A. (Not Okay) - Rollo & Grady
Temples - Jewel of Mine Eye - Rollo & Grady
Oil Boom - 45 Revolutions Per Minute - NPR Music
Blank Realm - Reach You On The Phone - Polaroids Of Androids
Rain Refrain - Girls Girls World - Cloudberry Cake Proselytism V. 3
Hospitality - Rockets and Jets - Austin Town Hall
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Simple And Sure - Side One Track One
White Lung - Drown With The Monster - Side One Track One
Guided by Voices - The Littlest League Possible - Indie Rock Cafe
Temples - Mesmerize - Indie Rock Cafe
The Casket Girls - Same Side - Indie Rock Cafe
Audacity - Couldn't Hold A Candle - Rollo & Grady
Real Estate - Talking Backwards - Rollo & Grady
Angel Olsen - Forgiven/Forgotten - Rollo & Grady
RADKEY - N.I.G.G.A. (Not Okay) - Rollo & Grady
Temples - Jewel of Mine Eye - Rollo & Grady
Saturday, March 22, 2014
CreaturoS' Digital Delights
Much More Than Swell Are Violet Swells
Little Racer's Vanessa
Wrong pic, but it suits us.
Free download here (or click the downarrow)
***/*We've seen it both ways.
Friday, March 21, 2014
Freaky Friday with Psychomagic
More pictures, please.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Zombies of the Stratosphere
We were intently choosing and listening to a bunch of lovedtracks (Beatles, Plasticland, Brandos, Book of Love, Ether Aura, Jesus & Mary Chain, Midnight Oil, House of Freaks) – documented here – when a momentary diversion let our ituner take over and randomly select a song by these NYC psychpoppers. And man/woman/whatever, are we glad it did, as you can see/hear/download below. It's kind of a retroish way to return from a two-week, non-sxsw-related hiatus, but so wot, what? We've got some more-recents queued up for posting, but for now . . .
Free download here
Friday, March 07, 2014
Gettin' Sloppy with Cocktails
We imbibed, with pleasure, Austin Town Hall's interview with these San Francisco sloppoppers (they also use "power," so calm down, purists) and are enjoying their music even more. They'll be playing some Father/Daughter Records showcases at the SXSW Festival in Austin next week and seem pretty darned excited about it. More info and streams here and here.
Free download here
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Weak Nerves' Strong Slack
Free download here
This London trio slacks vox to the point of indecipherability, but you know what, so what? We love the big sound. Grab another song at SoundCloud and info and such at Facebook. If you prefer Bandcamp, click it. Slack post.
La Sera - Losing to the Dark
Goodman (L) & bandmate Todd Wisenbaker (R)
Pastel Colours - She Can't Decide, . . .
Okay, who's missing?
. . . but we sure can, and it's definitely ten thumbs up. Many thanks to Exeter label Art Is Hard for cluing us in to this Falmouth (Cornwall) quintet's latest/excellent poppsycher. See, hear, feel, read, and download more here and here.
Free download here
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Monday, February 24, 2014
The Sharp Things' Playing The Benelux . . .And More
You might've noticed this fun little slab 'o bytes over in our Songdrop widget (glance to the right, or, if it's now one or more posts later, to the upper right). We liked it so much, we included it in our most recent eMusic purchases. Now we find the Brooklyn chamberpoppers' November 2013 LP, The Truth Is Like The Sun, is available for name-your-price download over at Bandcamp. So how does that make us feel after having spent our hard-earned on same? Good.
Speaking of Songdrop, you might enjoy paying a visit to our homepage there. We're enjoying our own playlists as well as those of Songdroppers we're following. In addition to our Currents playlist, embedded here at the blog, we've got playlists of current Powerpop, Early Powerpop, Indiepop, Shoegaze, Psych, Garagesurfpunk, Alternative Heyday, etc., etc. Songdrop has a free app, should you want to listen on a portable device.
Friday, February 21, 2014
From the Archives - Into 2010, Part 2
We continue with our series of archived favesongs, as promised. Listen via the exfm widget and download by doing the right click/save maneuver. Click here to visit all previous From the Archives posts. We hope you find some things to like. We'll mention again that we are hosting some of these songs with previously given and never revoked permission. If conditions have changed, we ask bands, labels, etc., to let us know, and we will remove the links.
Apteka - Blackout Hearts mp3
The Botticellis - Up Against the Glass mp3
The Charlatans - Bad Days mp3
CHOO CHOO - A Little Wiser Now mp3
Darker My Love - Talking Words mp3
Drakes Hotel - Broadcast to the Addicted mp3
Fever B - Please Operator? mp3
The Firekites - Good Times mp3
Golden Triangle - Neon Noose mp3
Hot Silk Pockets - Body Clock mp3
I Love Math - I Remember When I Loved Her (Zombies cover) mp3
I Was a King - Norman Bleik mp3
The Krinkles - Gimme Gimme mp3
The Lovetones - City Meets The Stars mp3
Magnapop - Bring It To Me mp3
The Motion Sick - 30 Lives mp3
The Orchid Highway - Next World mp3
The Paparazzi - Hi mp3
The Raveonettes - Suicide mp3
The Sky Drops - Now Would Be mp3
Tall Dwarfs - Meet the Beatle mp3
The Telepathic Butterflies - Circle Man mp3
the Warm Fuzzies - Space Invaders mp3
the Young Sinclairs - Girl I'm For Real mp3
Apteka - Blackout Hearts mp3
The Botticellis - Up Against the Glass mp3
The Charlatans - Bad Days mp3
CHOO CHOO - A Little Wiser Now mp3
Darker My Love - Talking Words mp3
Drakes Hotel - Broadcast to the Addicted mp3
Fever B - Please Operator? mp3
The Firekites - Good Times mp3
Golden Triangle - Neon Noose mp3
Hot Silk Pockets - Body Clock mp3
I Love Math - I Remember When I Loved Her (Zombies cover) mp3
I Was a King - Norman Bleik mp3
The Krinkles - Gimme Gimme mp3
The Lovetones - City Meets The Stars mp3
Magnapop - Bring It To Me mp3
The Motion Sick - 30 Lives mp3
The Orchid Highway - Next World mp3
The Paparazzi - Hi mp3
The Raveonettes - Suicide mp3
The Sky Drops - Now Would Be mp3
Tall Dwarfs - Meet the Beatle mp3
The Telepathic Butterflies - Circle Man mp3
the Warm Fuzzies - Space Invaders mp3
the Young Sinclairs - Girl I'm For Real mp3
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