Free download here.
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Milkpunch Make (Our) Junk Pop
Free download here.
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Music of the Sphere: Pleasers, Flat Worms, Nude Party, Prissteens, Sun Days, Spook School, Bad Sports, Field Mouse, Happy Diving, Joanna Gruesome
Definitely Pleasers.
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.
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Hope these work. Please let us know if they don't. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Thanks, JBG!
Thanks, JBG!
Monday, July 11, 2016
Whyte Horses - Promise I Do to Pop Or Not
Big mwah to The Finest Kiss for the headsup on superb Manchester psychpop collective Whyte Horses. The band is composed of Dom Thomas, Jim Noir, and members of Doves, Belle & Sebastian, and The Go! Team. Read all about it at TFK and download/listen below.
"Promise I Do" is a great big WAV file, so you might want to convert it after downloading. You can hear more Whyte Horses songs at the CRC Records SoundCloud page and buy the excellent May 2016 release Pop Or Not here, here, here, or here.
Sunday, July 10, 2016
Streamers: Honey Radar, The Black Delta Movement, Bubblegum Lemonade, Teenage Fanclub, Flyying Colours, GØGGS
Honey Radar, of course.
These wouldn't drop at Songdrop, so we're streaming them below. Kind of a frantically eclectic mix, so you're warned and welcome. Of course we love 'em.
Friday, July 08, 2016
Melody Fields - "Morning Sun"
Taking The Cotton Mather Pledge to Celebrate the Death of the Cool
The band's first LP in 15 years, Death of the Cool, is due to drop July 29 of this year. Read here, if you haven't already. We've heard it and loved it and are pretty sure you'll want to make the register go "Ka-ching" for the I Ching.
Basketball Shorts Are Hot and Ready Indeed
Austin poppunkers Basketball Shorts drop their excellent brand-spankin'-new LP, Hot and Ready, this very day via Austin Town Hall Records and Fleeting Youth Records. You can download the first track, "Looking," via the SoundCloud widget below and listen to and buy the whole caboodle via the Bandcamp widget under that.
Incidentally, we just checked and found the various free and legals we posted back in 2013 are also still available, should your clickfinger(s) not be exhausted.
And speaking of SoundCloud, it might be that their primitive equipment has not caught up with our computers' state-of-the-art technowizardry (or vice versa), but we've been noticing at this and other blogs we visit that SoundCloud widgets have been taking a long time to load in of late. So be patient, if possible.
Saturday, June 25, 2016
OUTTACONTROLLER, Double P's, & Quad P
We also rather dig #'s 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 12, & 14, fwiw!!!!!
I think we found the following up in Pop Geek Heaven, so most of you have probably already seen them. This blog being what it is - or isn't - though, we're embedding them here, too, just for, you know, the historical record. They got us deeply involved in The Best Show for a good bit of the past year, much to our bemusement.
And since the voice of the caller is that of Superchunk's Jon Wurster, we feel compelled/inspired to play our favorite tune by the 'chunk. Whattasong.
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Jangle Till You Dangle with The Blurries
Whoa, HITW's where we saw LeRoi Brothers! Coo.
Do you enjoy these little background stories we tell? No? Coo, so just skip down to the songs.
Anyhoo, listening to a little playlist we'd put together called "Built to Pop," we were delighted by "Sunlight," a song by Janglecorers, The Blurries. After minimal searching, we found it available for free and legal action at Bandcamp. (See below.) The Dallas band were inspired by sounds wafting from other places, specifically, Hoboken, California, Liverpoo, and Athens (Ga., not Gr., WE THINK). Paper Cuts has bled for almost five years now, so you cutting edge POPPERS might not be interested.
As we entered HITW, the band were setting up. We asked Joe (or maybe Steve),
"Could you play 'Are You With Me Baby (Say Yeah)'?" and he said,
Xmas & Baseball with Vista Blue
Every teenboy's dream.
Damned if this jaunty little number didn't (and possibly damned if it did) get us in a yuletide mood, and only six months to go!
Perhaps more seasonally apropos (in the USA) is this collection of baseball-themed poppers at the Nashville cats' Bandcamp.
Thanks to the excellent Faster and Louder for the batterup.
Black Liquid Drop Drop The Drop
Whoaaaaaa, Faultless Spray is our brand, too!!! Coo.
We love the driving, jangly psych through which these Austinites aim to keep their native city weird.
Waitress - Delay Our Time
Really nice gaze by these Saskatoonsmiths. The URL at their Facebook page includes the number "666," so look out.
Monday, June 06, 2016
Streamers: Arvidson & Butterflies, Cool Ghouls, Pale Lights, Tiga Lilly, Jim Younger's Spirit, Broncho, The Phantoms, Flamingo, Avers, The Lees of Memory
Fantastic powerpop from these Gothenburgers, courtesy of Ice Cream Man Power Pop and More Records. We also especially fancied #s 6 & 8. Thanks to Powerpopaholic for the headsup.
Friday, June 03, 2016
Riding With the Big Fish (and Walrus): Paul Hayworth, The Deathrettes, Crocodile Deathspin + The Tall King Dogs, Walrus, High Mountain Bluebirds, The Grand Illusion, My Expansive Awareness
Walrus
Psychgazer's just done a couple of those monster posts of hisorhers, so we remora attach and cruise on The Big One's back. We checked out all 50 recommendations in Psychgazer .108 June Psych Playlist, and post first our favorite downloadables.
We deeply dug this former fluffer at Titanic Hotel Liverpool's oeuvre and look forward to further explorations of his bountiful riches. On Coastal Legends, we also favored #s 3, 5, 7, & 11.
Now let us travel way down south, 'round the Cape.
We keep heading east toward (we're guessing) California?
Although we've already Songdropped these below, let us draw further attention to:
Walrus - Wearing It
More from Halifax here.
High Mountain Bluebirds - Peter Fonda I Love You
Bunch more tweedly-dee at SoundCloud.
The Grand Illusion - Shake Shake
Face off with the Warrington band here.
My Expansive Awareness - Do You Wanna Be Rich?
They are from Zaragoza, the luckies.
Thursday, June 02, 2016
Music of the Sphere: New Boss, Manhattan Love Suicides, Blanche Hudson Weekend, Acapulco Lips, PJ Harvey, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Desert Mountain Tribe, Golden Daze, Peach Kelli Pop, White Lodge, Dinosaur Jr., Speedy Ortiz, Brand New, Thee Oh Sees
Many thanks to these ace bloggers for providing the following. We're beyond thrilled to be reprising "Skulls," even though it accompanies a bit o' bittersweet, squirrely news. And, yes, you knew it was coming: since we're talking TMLS & Polaroid, you will most definitely want to click here to grab the incandescent, if lo-fi, "Kessler Syndrome." We love that new one down there (Thanks, SOTO!!) by longtime faveband Dinosaur Jr.. We just checked and sure enough, our longago post still has a viable mp3 of the fantastic "Almost Ready." (Just click the songtitle to the left and you can hear/download.)
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