annie stevenson's glasgow goodness

annie stevenson - Get Off The Street mp3

annie stevenson - Freedom Town mp3

I was delighted when Nick Scroggie of Glaswegian foursome annie stevenson pointed me toward their last.fm page on the chance I might like what I'd hear. Nick was as right-on as the four excellent free and downloadables from the band's EP, 2010. I'm posting my favorite from the EP, plus one more I heard and loved at the band's MySpace site. You know where to get the rest. Many thanks, Nick, and all bests! Oh, and btw, do not under any circumstances capitalize a single letter of their bandname--highly improper, and I know what that means to my "readers."

Liked and Found: SSLYBY, Monster Movie, Golden Triangle, David Vandervelde, Elephant Stone, Indian Jewelry, Sonny & The Sunsets

Here are some songs we've recently
1) found;
2) liked.
You've now taken Step 1. We hope that should you proceed further, you will conclude likewise.

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Sink/Let It Sway mp3 - from Let It Sway, due 17 August - MySpace

Monster Movie - Silver Knife mp3 - from Everyone is a Ghost (2010) - MySpace

Golden Triangle - Cold Bones mp3 - from Golden Triangle/Fresh & Onlys Split - MySpace - If you like, please check out our recently posted Golden Triangle song here.

David Vandervelde - Wave Country mp3 - from Learn How to Hang - MySpace

Indian Jewelry - Oceans mp3 - from Totaled, released 11 May - MySpace - We previously posted some Indian Jewelry songs here and here. Other neato tuneage awaits you there, too.

Elephant Stone - Strangers mp3 - from The Glass Box EP - MySpace - A previously posted Elephant Stone song is still viable here, along with some nice ones by Rishi Dhir's former group, The High Dials.

Sonny & The Sunsets - Too Young To Burn mp3 - from frontman Sonny Smith's 100 Records project - MySpace

Music of the Sphere: Let's Say We Did, Dave Clark, Tame Impala, Radio Birdman, Nakatomi Plaza, Someone...Yeltsin, Woods, J. Hanson, Darlings, et. al.

Thanks to all the fabulous favebloggers for the following. (Click to visit.)

Let's Say We Did - Straight Back to You - 3hive

Nakatomi Plaza - Bomb Shelter - CYSTSFTS

The Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over - Peter's Power Pop
Radio Birdman - New Race - Peter's Power Pop

Tame Impala - Half Full Glass of Wine - Rollo & Grady - superb, Creamy psych
Tame Impala - Runway, Houses, City, Clouds - Big Stereo

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Cardinal Rules - The Catbirdseat
Jeff Hanson - This Time It Will - The Catbirdseat
Woods - The Dark - The Catbirdseat
Darlings - TV - The Catbirdseat
The Hidden Cameras - Death of a Tune - The Catbirdseat

Hollows - Walkaway - Raven Sings the Blues
Wild Nothing - Summer Holiday & Chinatown - Raven Sings the Blues
Shel Naylor - One Fine Day - Raven Sings the Blues
The Majority - One Third - Raven Sings the Blues
The Monocles - I Can't Win - Raven Sings the Blues

Miss Sell-a-Knee: Strawberry Whiplash, Sad Day For Puppets, The Fresh & Onlys, Hollerado, The Motion Sick, It's A King Thing

Trying to catch up on recent, recentish, and not-that-recent finds, we offer the following.

Strawberry Whiplash - Picture Perfect mp3 - from 2009 Strawberry Whiplash EP - MySpace

Sad Day For Puppets - Again mp3 - single from Cloudberry Records - MySpace

The Fresh & Onlys - Diamond in the Dark mp3 - from August In My Mind EP - MySpace

Hollerado - Juliette mp3 - from Record In A Bag, released 9 February 2010 - MySpace

The Motion Sick - 30 Lives mp3 - from 2008's The Truth Will Catch You, Just Wait - My Space

It's A King Thing - Mush Mouth mp3 - from Philly band's Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, downloadable for free here. - MySpace

Music of the Sphere: Church, Dramarama, Soft Pack, Thin Lizzy, Ruling Class, P. Hood, Skybox, T. Segall, Rayon Beach, Woods, Iration

As some of these might be disappearing soon, we feel the need for speed. Hope you like. Thanks to the thoughtful hosts.

The Church - Metropolis - Barely Awake in Frog Pajamas
Dramarama - Work For Food - Barely Awake in Frog Pajamas

The Soft Pack - C'mon - Pampelmoose
The Ruling Class - Sleeping Beauty - The White Noise Revisited - We posted a nice one by The Ruling Class here. Some other fine songs are also still viable at that post.

Thin Lizzy - Hollywood - Star Maker Machine
Patterson Hood - Burning Hell - Star Maker Machine - R.E.M.'s is good, too.

Skybox - In A Dream - Tsururadio - Some of you won't like this. Some of you might. Such is life.
Iration - Time Bomb - AWmusic - Caucasian reggae, mon.

Woods - Suffering Season - Raven Sings the Blues
Ty Segall - Caesar - Raven Sings the Blues
Rayon Beach - Memory Teeth - Raven Sings the Blues - As usual, dissensous puts it in terms we can only dream of devising: "fuzz pummeling stomp mixed with space dripped psych" - Inducement or warning? Your call.

The Baseball Project Batting 1.000

The Baseball Project - Cubs 2010 mp3

from Broadside Ballads

All-star sluggerrockers Steve Wynn, Linda Pitmon, Peter Buck, and Scott McCaughey return for their second at-bat, pitch, inning, game, or something (choose your favorite baseball analogy). It's quickly apparent that if it's batting you choose, they're two-for-two. If it's inning, you can replay the first one here at Powerpopulist or steal over to Bandcamp or Yep Roc Records or ESPN. One nice thing about those other sites is that they'll do an infinitely better job of explaining wth's going on here. Maybe a "blogger's" not supposed to do this kind of thing, but I would like to dedicate this song to my dear friend chadio, a diehard Cubbies fan. Of course, I hope you all like it.

MySpace | Amazon mp3 | eMusic

Velvet Davenport, Pink, & War

2 x 3 + 2 = 7

Velvet Davenport featuring Ariel Pink & Gary War - Get Out mp3

from 7" single Get Out, released 30 March

on SHDWPLY Records

L.A. freakpunk Pink and Brooklyn annihilationpleader War join Minneapolis psextet for psychically engaging tuneage, man/woman! Thanks to Tyler Stover at Banter Media. We found through Tyler that the flip side, "Run," is over at Stereogum. Psychy vid there and here.

My Space | iTunes | Purchase at SHDWPLY

The Lodger Make A Move

Looks just like my hip cohort! Sigh.

The Lodger - The Back of My Mind mp3

from 27 April Slumberland release

Flashbacks

We previously posted and are still very much enjoying the following by this Leeds/London/Berlin outfit.

The Lodger - Many Thanks for Your Honest Opinion mp3

The Lodger - My Advice Is On Loan mp3

The Lodger - Kicking Sand mp3

MySpace | Amazon mp3 | eMusic

The Future Looks Bright Ahead

The Futureheads - Struck Dumb mp3

from Sunderlanders' fourth, coming release

The Chaos

on Dovecote Records

If this first song is any indication, 1 June can't be too soon!

MySpace | Bandsite | Amazon mp3

Thanks to Jesse Hector at Goldest Egg.

Weezer's Cuomo Jams With Grrrrls

Um, over here, grrrrrrls.

Rivers Cuomo with The Cathy Santonies - In The Garage/Heartsongs Medley mp3

This is so two months ago, but I recently read at Glorious Noise of an intriguing appearance by Weezer frontperson Rivers Cuomo on Chicago Public Radio's Sound Opinions. Cuomo was backed unrehearsedly by Windy City rockpunkgrrrls, The Cathy Santonies. Obviously I liked what I heard, else it wouldn't be up there. You will find four more songs at GloNo if it clicks with you, too, and you're up for more clicking.

Photo Credit: chops

Music of the Sphere: Rubinoos, Sloan, Beatles, M. Crenshaw, Mats, Dictators, Byrds, Ramones, Prisoners, Aloha, Happy Birthday

Favebloggers been berry berry good to pp. . .and u. Thanks, favebloggers. (Click anything below in a color other than white to get to the songs.)

The Rubinoos - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend & The Girl - Another Aging Hipster - plus one other

The Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing - Peter's Power Pop

The Prisoners - Better in Black & Maybe I Was Wrong & Threw My Heart Away & Come to the Mushroom - Overlooked Gems of My Lifetime

Marshall Crenshaw - Cynical Girl - Barely Awake in Frog Pajamas - my favorite by MC
The Replacements - Bastards of Young - Barely Awake in Frog Pajamas

Sloan - Take It Upon Yourself - Fluxblog
Happy Birthday - Girls FM - Fluxblog

Aloha - Blackout - 5 Acts

The Dictators - Who Will Save Rock & Roll & Avenue A - Boogie Woogie Flu
The Byrds - Wasn't Born to Follow - Boogie Woogie Flu
The Ramones - I Don't Care - Boogie Woogie Flu

Even Knock Me Off Keel And I Feel Really Good About It

Even - I Am the Light m4a

from Even

Don't let my unruffled Apollonian surface fool you: this song drives me wild with pleasure. Like, Dionysianally or something. I discovered this Melbourne band a couple of years ago and bought a bunch at eMusic. Last week or so I was cyberwindowshopping and noticed with pleasure a bunch more of their albums are now available there and also here. On a whim I surfed over to their website and found "I Am the Light" shining forth, along with a couple of others available for your perusal. If you have trouble with the m4a format, Peter's Power Pop kindly posted an mp3 recently, so do what you need to do. According to their MySpace site, they are putting the finishing touches on their forthcoming LP, In Another Time. Hubba.

MySpace | Bandsite | Amazon mp3 | eMusic

More Good News from Gospel Gossip

Gospel Gossip - Sippy Cup m4a

from Northfield trio's EP,

Drift

First came Sing Into My Mouth, then Dreamland, and now Drift, yet somehow they seem more focused than ever. Enjoy the cuppa?

MySpace | Amazon mp3 | eMusic

P.S.: Please let us know if you have trouble with the m4a format, and we'll see what we can do about it.

Teenage Fanclub Release First Song from Shadows

Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee mp3

from forthcoming LP

Shadows

due out 31 May in Glasgow, Europe, Australasia and Japan
and 8 June on Merge Records in North America

Everything flows as the pulse quickens and more than a shadow warms the visage in anticipation of this latest goodness from one of our very favorite bands.

Here's one we previously posted, in case you missed it.

Teenage Fanclub - It's All In My Mind mp3

And surely we can't be faulted for reposting a video for one of the five best songs of the 1990s.

MySpace | Bandsite | Amazon mp3 | eMusic

Music of the Sphere: Icecream Hands, Undertones, Ted Leo, Quasi, Nothing People, J. Browne, Channels, Sajama Cut, Team Me, RNRM

Many thanks to the ever gracious favebloggers for hosting the following. (Click 'em to visit 'em.)

Icecream Hands - The Way She Drives - Peter's Power Pop

The Undertones - Here Comes The Summer - Star Maker Machine

Quasi - The Sword Of God - Pretty Goes With Pretty

Nothing People - Marilyn's Grave - Raven Sings the Blues

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Even Heroes Have To Die - Bradley's Almanac - Scroll down to March 2010.

The Channels - Don't Come Over - Bradley's Almanac

Sajama Cut - Paintings/Pantings - I Guess I'm Floating - Scroll down to Indonesia.

RNRM - Zsa Zsa Zsu - Swedesplease - Scroll down to Indonesia.

Team Me - Weathervanes And Chemicals - Swedesplease - Scroll down to Norway.

And now for something completely different.

Jackson Browne - Ready or Not - Star Maker Machine