02/22/2008
The Perfect Tune for a Snowy Winterland: White Hinterland's "Dreaming of The Plum Trees"
Currently, it is snowing gently outside in perfect rhythm to the sounds of White Hinterland - a Boston-based troupe of lovely, willowy folksters. Besides describing their collective visage, lovely and willowy also describe White Hinterland's del ...
Read MorePosted by Robin on 02/22/2008 1:08 PM EST in Folk, Lo-Fi | Permalink
02/12/2008
There Are Still New Bands Out There That I Like! Hurray for Art Lord and the Self Portraits!!
Wandering about the interweb today, I happened upon Art Lord and the Self-Portraits after browsing through the links page on Dan Deacon's website. If you read the Walrus, you may know that new music isn't usually my thing and frankly, I can't li ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 02/12/2008 4:59 PM EST in Indie-Pop, Lo-Fi | Permalink
02/06/2008
Hey J. Gray, Keep Playing Those Sad Songs
As Emily pointed out in her previous post, it is unusually warm here in Philly today. Despite (or in spite) of unseasonable warmth, the skies are becoming gray...perfect for some lo-fi, mellow music. J. Gray, a new Devendra Banhart meets Elli ...
Read MorePosted by Michael on 02/06/2008 1:58 PM EST in Folk, Lo-Fi | Permalink
01/22/2008
The Better Beatles Make The Beatles Better
Omaha, Nebraska has always been (in my mind) a breeding ground for Mid-Western abstraction. Whether it is something in their Omaha steaks, or their air, I don't know, but there must be an explanation as to why the same city produced Manheim Ste ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 01/22/2008 11:13 AM EST in No-Wave, Lo-Fi, 80's Punk | Permalink
01/09/2008
Classic DIY: Dusting Off The "Hits"
Did you know that the Scrotum Poles got their name from the situation where a group of men need to form a makeshift totem pole, thus also forming a "scrotum pole?" Clever, no? This group of Scottish punks were clever enough to pen the catchy 19 ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 01/09/2008 12:04 PM EST in Garage Rock, Lo-Fi, Punk | Permalink
12/06/2007
It Was Easy, It Was Cheap, Go And Do It!- An Introduction to the Desperate Bicycles
Once again, this post features a band introduced to me by the encyclopedic Roland Woodbe. DIY 70s punk is a sound I hold dear to my heart for its honest, tenacious, backbone. These bands were not in the game to make it big, rather they were mo ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 12/06/2007 10:56 AM EST in 70's Punk, Lo-Fi | Permalink
11/13/2007
Alexander Skip Spence: Literally Schizophrenic Psych Rock!
If mental-illness induced psychedelic rock is your thing ala Syd Barrett, or Daniel Johnston you need to know about Skip Spence. Originally from Windsor, Ontario, Spence first appeared on the radar as a guitarist in the Quicksilver Messenger Se ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 11/13/2007 3:05 PM EST in Experimental, Rock, 60's Psych, Lo-Fi | Permalink
11/07/2007
A Fuzzy Theme: Lo-Fi Ohio Bands
Ohio is arguably the best state in the union for underground, lo-fi, DIY, poppy, rock bands. Allow me to illustrate with three appropriate examples.
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