Music of the Sphere, Still in Rock Edition, Installment 3: Warm Soda, Matthew Melton, Jacco Gardner, Pretty Greens, Meatbodies, Madcaps, Numb Bats, Broncho

Here's our third and final salvo of initial finds at the excellent, new-to-us blog, Still in Rock. We've already encountered a ton of great music at Thibault's lair and look forward to ever more discoveries over the days and centuries to come. You'll be seeing them in our periodic Music of the Sphere offerings. The first two posts can be found here and here. With grateful hearts do we say, "Thank you, SiR."



Warm Soda - Young Restless Hearts - Still in Rock
Warm Soda - Tell Me in a Whisper - Still in Rock
Warm Soda- Lola & Jeanie Loves Pop - Still in Rock
Warm Soda - When Your Eyes Meet Mine & The One I Need - Still in Rock - Post has an excellent interview with bandleader Matthew Melton
Matthew Melton - Outside of Paradise & Promise It to Me - Still in Rock - Our humble little Matthew Melton retrospective is here. That Snake Flowers 2 ditty is still downloadable, in case you were wondering.

Jacco Gardner - Find Yourself & Hypnophobia - Still in Rock
The Pretty Greens - First Time - Still in Rock
Meatbodies - Disorder & The Master - Still in Rock
The Madcaps - High School Trouble Maker & I Knew It All - Still in Rock
Numb Bats - To Do - Still in Rock - Scroll down to #72.
Broncho - It's On - Still in Rock - Scroll down to #52.

Those last two are from Still in Rock's Best Tracks of 2014 post. There are several more great ones we've already posted (e.g., Meatbodies' "Tremmors" and Wand's "Flying Golem"), so please do check out the entire list.

Music of the Sphere: Warm Soda, Pleasers, Triptides, Beck, The Midgetmen, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Heart Strings, Timbre Barons

Darned excited we are to see Still in Rock leveraging its special arrangement with Matthew Melton of Bare Wires, Warm Soda, Snake Flower 2, and new band, Pleasers, fame. You might have noticed our having Songdropped last week the new Warm Soda single as well as the single from Pleasers, both hosted now at Still in Rock. So thank you, SiR, and of course abundant thanks to the other faithful bloggers hosting songs below. (Btw, you can still get that Snake Flower 2 song at our little post from way back in November of last year.)

Warm Soda - No Place To Fall - Still in Rock
Pleasers - Reject Teen - Still in Rock
Triptides - Hideout - Still in Rock

Beck - Dreams - Side One Track One
The Midgetmen - Titus Mollard - Side One Track One

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Line On You - Indie Rock Cafe

The Heart Strings - Beautiful Abyss - Rollo & Grady

Timbre Barons - Automatic - KEXP Blog

Music of the Sphere: Morgan Delt, Warm Soda, Axxa/Abraxas, Wild Smiles, Dune Rats, Dum Dum Girls, Pillar Point, Evil Arrows, Real Estate, She Sir, Frowning Clouds, Paul Messis, Persian Claws, Sufis, Tomorrow Tulips, Veronica Falls

What if they met up with Wild Smiles? Wow.

You might wanta go to the SOTOs first, as some of them've been up almost two weeks now (and you know what that means). Many thanks to ALLLLL the blogging entities for posting these bytes of pleasure. BTW, use your 'balls and you'll notice a trio of sightsongs. Kinda spooky.

Morgan Delt - Obstacle Eyes - 3hive

Warm Soda - Young Reckless Hearts - Austin Town Hall

Axxa/Abraxas - On The Run - Austin Town Hall

Wild Smiles - Life Builds You Up - Rollo & Grady

Dune Rats - Pogo - Rollo & Grady

Dum Dum Girls - Rimbaud Eyes - Side One Track One

Pillar Point - Eyeballs - Side One Track One

Evil Arrows - Jennifer Kills The Giant (Once A Week) - Side One Track One

Real Estate - Talking Backwards - Side One Track One

She Sir - Condensedindents - Side One Track One

From Infrasons' Excellent Best of 2013 Post:

Frowning Clouds - Much Too Much Too Soon - Infrasons

Paul Messis - Sowing Seeds - Infrasons

Persian Claws - Clever Way to Crawl - Infrasons

Sufis - Turn Around - Infrasons

Tomorrow Tulips - Flowers on the Wall - Infrasons

Veronica Falls - Nobody There - Infrasons

Warm Soda - Busy Lizzy - Infrasons

Music of the Sphere: Jonly Bonly, Warm Soda, Steel Phantoms, Best Coast, Gap Dream, Kinks, Crocodiles, Bubblegum Lemonade, La Luz, Tropical Popsicle, Of Montreal, FANS

Tasty licks.*

We've been throwing some longish lists at you lately, but no one seems to object. (Of course, no one seems to flutter either, but c'est la guerre. Admittedly, we kind of shrivel putting our dinky little lists up against the likes of Rollo & Grady's Brobdingnagian Top 100 Songs of 2013. Long list envy? Oh, yeh.) Anyway, we thank the blogger elite for hosting and posting the following.

Jonly Bonly - Never Thought I'd Die - Austin Town Hall

Warm Soda - Spell Bound - Gimme Tinnitus
Steel Phantoms - Matt LeBlanc - Gimme Tinnitus

Best Coast - This Lonely Morning - Indie Rock Cafe
Gap Dream - Fantastic Sam - Indie Rock Cafe
The Kinks - Better Things - Indie Rock Cafe - one of our all-time favesongs by one of our all-time favebands

R&G have enhanced by 20% their aforereferenced Top 100 Songs of 2013 list, to our incalculable awe. (Thanks, R. You too, G.)

Warm Soda - Someone For you - Rollo & Grady - #119
Crocodiles - I Like It In The Dark - Rollo & Grady - 109
Bubblegum Lemonade - This Is The New Normal - Rollo & Grady - 120
La Luz - Morning High - Rollo & Grady - 117
Tropical Popsicle - Havana - Rollo & Grady - 115*
Of Montreal - Fugitive Air - Rollo & Grady - 112
FANS - Another Way - Rollo & Grady - 105

Music of the Sphere: Turf War, Teen Machine, Warm Soda, Wire, Peach Kelli Pop, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, The Band In Heaven, Legs, Roomrunner, Shark?, Mikal Cronin, White Fence, Kurt Vile, The Lovely Bad Things

Sometimes we wait too long to post songs we find at our faveblogs. This isn't one of them. Thanks, fb's, for that thing you do.

Turf War - Born to Run Free - Austin Town Hall

Teen Machine - I'm Gonna Steal Your Boyfriend - Peter's Power Pop

Warm Soda - Busy Lizzy - Indie Rock Cafe
Wire - Love Bends - Indie Rock Cafe

Peach Kelli Pop - Stay Away - Rollo & Grady
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - The In-Between - Rollo & Grady
The Band In Heaven - High Low - Rollo & Grady

Legs - Two Colours - Gimme Tinnitus
Roomrunner - Spinning - Gimme Tinnitus
Shark? - California Grrls - Gimme Tinnitus

Mikal Cronin - Weight - Side One Track One
White Fence - Fragility - Side One Track One
Kurt Vile - Never Run Away - Side One Track One
The Lovely Bad Things - Hear or Anywhere - Side One Track One

BTW, we bought that entire Warm Soda LP over at Bandcamp. Unprecedented? No, but just about. But then, they are, at least in part, ex-Bare Wires.

Warm Soda - I Wanna Go Fast

Just yesterday we prontodropped faveband Warm Soda's excellent new one into some of our Songdrop mixes. Just now we found the excellent Side One Track One has made it available for download. So should we wait until we've got five or eight tunes for a "traditional" Music of the Sphere post? Na. So thank you, SOTO, thank you, Jennifer, thank you Matthew Melton, for making some of our favorite music of the past several years. The new Warm Soda LP, Symbolic Dream, drops May 4 on Castle Face Records.

Music of the Sphere: Warm Soda, Peach Kelli Pop, Mujeres, Talk In Tongues, Thee Oh Sees

Warm's hot.

'Skinda slow at the moment, but quality over quantity, wot? Muchos spasibos, posterhosters.

Warm Soda - Cryin For A Love - KEXP Blog - Still in Rock's got a nice concert review here.

Peach Kelli Pop - Heart Eyes - Polaroid

Mujeres - Lose Control - Still in Rock

Talk In Tongues - She Lives in My House - Rollo & Grady
Thee Oh Sees - Turned Out Light - Rollo & Grady

Music of the Sphere: Shoes, Warm Soda, Peach Kelli Pop, Ty Segall, Guided by Voices, The Babe Rainbow, The Conquerors, together PANGEA, Mikal Cronin, Martin Courtney, Thee Oh Sees

Still in Rock's been burning down da house of late, easily taking pride of place in this episode of MotS. (And we're not yet even including his fabulous Bestof2015:Best Tracks-Top 77 (Meilleurs Titres) post, which you should most definitely go check out for your ownself. Many thanks to the righteous Thibaut and the other coolbloggers noted below.

Shoes - Now and Then & Three Times (See Me/Say It/Listen) - Still in Rock
Warm Soda - Find That Girl - Still in Rock - from T's excellent 20 Best LPs post, as is the next
Peach Kelli Pop - Princess Castle 1987 - Still in Rock

Ty Segall - Elemental Child (T. Rex cover) - Still in Rock

Guided by Voices - Deaf Dumb And Blind Girl - Still in Rock - plus 3 more
The Babe Rainbow - Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forest & Love Forever - Still in Rock
The Conquerors - I Don't Know & I See You - Still in Rock
together PANGEA - Blue Mirror & River - Still in Rock

Mikal Cronin - Made My Mind Up - Side One Track One

Martin Courtney - Northern Highway - KEXP Blog

Thee Oh Sees - Fortress - Rollo & Grady - The singing starts at 2:00.

Music of the Sphere: Chemtrails, Waxahatchee, Teksti TV-666, Warm Soda, Dream Machine, Teenage Fanclub, Crazy Bones, White Bleaches

The "sphere" of blogs that post non-widgeted free downloadables has narrowed since we began this series "many" years ago. Fortunately, some highly valued bloggers continue to leverage their artistic contacts to y/our benefit. So many thanks to the following faveblogs for making the following songs available. (Click to be transported.)

Chemtrails - Deranged - The KEXP Blog

Waxahatchee - Silver - The KEXP Blog

Teksti TV-666 - Silmat kiinni ja kadet ristiin - The KEXP Blog

Warm Soda - I Don't Wanna Grow Up & Game of Undefined Love - Still in Rock

Dream Machine - I Walked In The Fire - Still in Rock (pic)

Teenage Fanclub - Don't Look Back & Neil Jung - Still in Rock

Crazy Bones - I Am The Sun - Still in Rock

White Bleaches - Mystery Child - Still in Rock

Music of the Sphere: Alvvays, Tristen, Shake Some Action!, Superchunk, White Reaper, Faith Healer, Langhorne Slim, Ages & Ages, Pinact, together PANGEA, Wand, Wyatt Blair, Basketball Shorts, Soaked, Warm Soda, TH da Freak

It's been awhile since we've done one of these MotS things, which makes this an almost optimal time to do so. We like some of these songs so much they made it onto our 2017 Powerpopulist Faves playlist. Many thanks to the two blogging entities for making them available.

Alvvays - In Undertow - The KEXP Blog
Tristen - Glass Jar (feat. Jenny Lewis) - The KEXP Blog
Shake Some Action! - Waiting for the Sun - The KEXP Blog
Superchunk - What A Time To Be Alive - The KEXP Blog
White Reaper - The Stack - The KEXP Blog
Faith Healer - Light Of Loving - The KEXP Blog
Langhorne Slim - Zombie - The KEXP Blog
Ages & Ages - How It Feels - The KEXP Blog

Pinact - Oh & Separate Ways - Still in Rock
together PANGEA - Friend of Nothing - Still in Rock

The following are from SiR's 100 Best Songs of 2017 post. The numbers indicate rank and are proffered to facilitate quickfind.
54 - Wand - Bee Karma - Still in Rock
52 - Wyatt Blair - Jesse's On Fire Again - Still in Rock
38 - Basketball Shorts - This Summer - Still in Rock
24 - Soaked - Backseat Heat - Still in Rock
23 - Warm Soda - I Don't Wanna Grow Up - Still in Rock
09 - TH da Freak - Morphing - Still in Rock

Polyvinyl Celebration 3: Warm Soda, White Reaper, The Rentals, Saturday Looks Good To Me

So, yeah, this should do it for the little impromptu Polyvinyl celebration thing we've been doing today. You've probably noticed by now, though, that we left approximately a jillion free and legals over at the Polyvinyl Bandcamp zone, so you take it from there. Or here.

Warm Soda are one of our very favorite current bands, as we've made fairly clear. In fact, their 

Symbolic Dream was also on our list of Favorite LPs of 2015.

Facebook   Bandcamp

Facebook   White Reaper    Bandcamp

The Rentals    Facebook   

Facebook    Saturday Looks Good To Me    Bandcamp

It's been a pretty busy Saturday around here, but, yeah, it does look pretty good, to us at least. If you didn't find anything to like, then . . . we'll just keep trying.

Music of the Sphere, Emergency Rollo & Grady SXSW Edition: Cloud Nothings, Gap Dream, Holy Wave, Jacco Gardner, JEFF the Brotherhood, The Memories, Moon Duo, Tweens, Wand-, Warm Soda, Will Butler

We visit L.A. bloggers Rollo & Grady pretty much every day and were getting kind of worried by their more-than-one-month hiatus from posting (February 15, 2015-March 16, 2015, to be exact (and a 15-day lacuna BEFORE THAT!!!)). But, phwewwwww ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '*, they're back, and with a copacetic vengeance, a 120+-song SXSW playlist replete with muchos downloadables.

Our faves are below, and they're all at the same post. We omitted a few we've recently posted, but by all means, go and draw deeply from the well of delight they've dug and we dig. And, OF COURSE, thanks, Rollo. You, too, Grady. Glad to see youse're back.





Again, click here to go to the post. The songs are posted at R&G in alpha order by artiste.

Cloud Nothings - Didn't You
Gap Dream - 58th Street Fingers
Holy Wave - Albuquerque Freakout
Jacco Gardner - Clear the Air
JEFF the Brotherhood - Bone Jam - the first one we ever posted by the Bros. Sigh. Oh, wow, it still lives.

The Memories - Dancing In My Dreams
Moon Duo - Sleepwalker
Tweens - Be Mean
Wand- - Flying Golem - one of our favorite songs of recent memory
Warm Soda - Someone for You - another faveband/man
Will Butler - What I Want

Their Spotify playlist of the songs is here. We don't really like Spotify all that much, but so what?

*simulated sweatdrops, flicked

Music of the Sphere: Tame Impala, Nice Boys, Francisco The Man, Rat Columns, Evol, Allah-Las, Wild Smiles, Punks On Mars, New Pornographers, Big Country, After The Fire, Young Evils, Blonde Summer, Ringo Deathstarr, Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin, Warm Soda, Lace Curtains, King Tuff, Young Boys, Vandelles, Fang Island, Thee Oh Sees, Total Slacker, Widowspeak, Hunters

That we are posting this on the first day of the seventh year of our little music blog is strictly coincidental. We're nevertheless celebrating by putting every band in the post in the postitle. Thanks to Blogger for recent changes that let us do this and to the neato hoster types for posting the following. And hurrah for your visiting and for Karamazov!

The Nice Boys - Teenage Nights - Requiem Pour Un Twister

Francisco The Man - Tiger - We All Want Someone To Shout For

Rat Columns - Death Is Leaving Me - The Finest Kiss

Evol - Unlucky Guy - Raven Sings the Blues

Allah-Las - Don’t You Forget It - Austin Town Hall
Wild Smiles - Tangled Hair - Austin Town Hall
Punks On Mars - Showers of Pain - Austin Town Hall

The New Pornographers - The Electric Version - Peter's Power Pop
The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed - Peter’s Power Pop
The New Pornographers - All For Swinging Around - Peter’s Power Pop
Big Country - In A Big Country - Peter’s Power Pop
After The Fire - Der Kommissar - Peter’s Power Pop

Tame Impala - Elephant - Indie Rock Cafe
The Young Evils - When Sally Walked In The Rain - Indie Rock Cafe
Blonde Summer - Slow Days, Fast Company - Indie Rock Cafe
Ringo Deathstarr - Rip - Indie Rock Cafe
Ty Segall - The Hill - Indie Rock Cafe 


Tame Impala - Endors toi - Rollo & Grady
Allah-Las - Tell Me (What’s On Your Mind) - Rollo & Grady
Warm Soda - Reaction - Rollo & Grady
Lace Curtains - Police Brutality - Rollo & Grady
King Tuff - Anthem - Rollo & Grady
Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin - Pop Song - Rollo & Grady
Young Boys - Fell From Grace & Runaway May - Rollo & Grady


The Vandelles - Into the City & Lovely Weather - Gimme Tinnitus
Fang Island - Asunder - Gimme Tinnitus
Thee Oh Sees - Lupine Dominus - Gimme Tinnitus
Total Slacker - Psychic Mesa - Gimme Tinnitus
Widowspeak - Harsh Realm - Gimme Tinnitus
Hunters - Melting - Gimme Tinnitus
Throwing Up - Toothache Mastered - Gimme Tinnitus

Flowers, Wires, Soda, Matthew Melton, Pleasers: Some Past, Present, and Future Incarnations of . . . Matthew Melton

Not sure if you noticed Matthew Melton's excellent new solosong, "Painted Sign," over there in our Songdrop Currents mix, but if you're into any of the Tennessee-to San Fran-to Austin pleaser's other bands - Snake Flower 2, Bare Wires, Warm Soda, or the forthcoming Pleasers - you might wanta check it out. (Click on all those green artist names for further exploration.) A little research at the Southpaw Records SoundCloud page turned up a handful of freebies we're posting below. We might not be evincing sufficient emotion here, but we've been absolutely loving this guy's music for several years now. Oh, one other thing: we put another Snake Flower 2 song in our Currents mix even though it came out around five years ago. If offended, please shoot us (email, comment, finger, whatever).








Free download at Southpaw Soundcloud page (Scroll down.)


Free download here.

Emergency MotS Post: Matthew Melton @ Still in Rock

Yes, no sooner do we send you to Still in Rock for a happy glut than wily Frenchman Thibault follows through with another certified winner. We've mentioned a number of times how much we love the music of Matthew Melton, he of Bare Wires, Warm Soda, Pleasers, Snake Flower 2, and wtf knows whom else*** fame. Fortunately Thibault shares our love and just today posted two new ones by MM. You can sample them below and, if you like, pay Still in Rock a visit to download.

***Not an actual bandname (so far as we know) . . .

Walkies - 22.ii.17: Diamond Hands, Crocodiles, Warm Soda, Andy Ketch, Listen Lady, Milk Maid, Low Doses, La Luz, SMUT, Tape Waves

Berto was with us in spirit, if not in person.

Please join us for the musical portion of today's matutinal ramble. The below randomly shuffled onto our playah as we randomly shuffled down the avenue. The Andy Ketch and Listen Lady tunes are available for name-your-price download at Bandcamp.

Music of the Sphere: Pleasers, Flat Worms, Nude Party, Prissteens, Sun Days, Spook School, Bad Sports, Field Mouse, Happy Diving, Joanna Gruesome

Definitely Pleasers.

We sincerely thank these fabloggers for posting the following downloadables. We love them all but are particularly excited to see M. Thibault continuing to post the outstanding pop of Mr. Matthew Melton, he of Bare Wires, Warm Soda, Snake Flower 2, and his latest band, Pleasers. Feel free to check out our previous posts on these popalicious incarnations by clicking here and here.

Pleasers - Leading Me On & Here Comes My Girlfriend - Still in Rock

Flat Worms - Sovereignty & Red Hot Sand - Still in Rock

The Nude Party - Time To Go - Still in Rock

The Prissteens - Oh Billy! - Still in Rock

The Sun Days - Don't Need to Be Them - KEXP Blog

The Spook School - David Bowie Songs - KEXP Blog

Bad Sports - Living With Secrets - Side One Track One

Field Mouse - The Order Of Things - Side One Track One

Happy Diving - Don't Be Afraid Of Love - Side One Track One

Joanna Gruesome - Pretty Fucking Sick Of It All - Side One Track One

Update: Longtime visitor John B. Goode wrote that these links weren't working. We checked and sure enough, left-clicking does not work for some reason. They do seem to work, though, if you open them in another tab. Try one of these three ways:

Click with the scroll wheel.

Ctrl-Left click

Right click-Open link in new tab

Hope these work. Please let us know if they don't. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Thanks, JBG!

3 #s from The #1s

We found this fab Dublin band while exploring a fellow/sisterly Warm Soda fan's Bandcamp collection. They made our State a good deal better than Sorry. We're even including a vid. Gasp, spit, say WHAT?

Faves of the Faves - June & May 2017: Superchunk, Wellingtons, Johnny Kills, Alvvays, Triptides, Ride, Wesley Fuller, Warm Soda, Primitives, Well Wishers, Violet Swells, Bopp, Pinact, etc., etc., etc. . . .

  

In addition to the Currents 2 Playlist in the upper right-hand corner of this page, we've also been keeping monthly playlists at Playmoss since early this year. For the past several months we've been going through them at the end of each month and curating our very favorites for each month. Below are our Faves of the Faves playlists for June and May of this year. You can see the full lists for each month by clicking the following: June 2017 & May 2017.

As sometimes happens with Playmoss, some of the artists are not identified in the widgets, so we've done so further below. The songs in each playlist are listed in the order we found them each month. We hope you find lots to like or love, 'cause we sure did.

May

#20 - Black Sonic Revolver - So Many Ways