Space Ark
The chaotic dust cloud is coming. We must prepare the Space Ark and head to Andromeda. (Just kidding.) This is the second time in two weeks I've seen a thread on a message board started by someone who has read one of these "World Weekly News" articles and freaked out. The bad part is the stories aren't even funny.
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As Mr. Newman pointed out in the comments yesterday, The Spinto Band are definitely good. They write melodic pop songs with affected vocals, some nice synths, and all the requisite guitar hooks. I don't have a lot of additional information on the band, although Allmusic has a quirky bio on guitarist, Jon Eaton. Music For Robots covered them a little while back; thanks for the heads up:
The Spinto Band - Did I Tell You
The Spinto Band - Oh Mandy
The Spinto Band - Brown Boxes
The Spinto Band - Crack The Whip
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Last night I had a chance to check out another of Arts & Crafts' latest signings, New Buffalo. She sang over top of pre-recorded backing tracks, just herself on stage, sometimes accompanying the recordings with her guitar or Farfisa. She was very cute up there: the songs were cute, her awkward banter in her Australian accent was cute, and her little dances were cute. The last four tracks of her set were good, and even managed to impress Stuart Berman, who compared her to someone else -- but of course, I can't remember who it was. Maybe he'll fill me in when he guest blogs again (next week, right?). Anyway, I bet it's kind of irritating when the first thing anyone says about you, is that your husband is in The Avalanches.
Speaking of Stuart Berman, he gave the new Sigur Ros 3.5 stars out of 5 in his latest set of reviews, when it clearly deserves a 4.
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As of today, I will be doing weekly reviews for Cokemachineglow. They run a great site, and I'm happy to be a part of it. I'll continue contributing to Vancouver's Terminal City (who's music editor, Jason Grimmer is an awesome guy and member of both The Christa Min and Nasty On).
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Shout outs to the nice people at Friendly Fire Recordings, for hooking me up with The Faunts, and to Kat Burns for linking to this site. Organ Grinder Records, the label behind Pontiak, also hit us up this week.
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The interestingly titled blog, Last Night An MP3 Saved My Wife has given Are You Familiar? a permanent link. Nice tunes -- check them out. Word.
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As Mr. Newman pointed out in the comments yesterday, The Spinto Band are definitely good. They write melodic pop songs with affected vocals, some nice synths, and all the requisite guitar hooks. I don't have a lot of additional information on the band, although Allmusic has a quirky bio on guitarist, Jon Eaton. Music For Robots covered them a little while back; thanks for the heads up:
The Spinto Band - Did I Tell You
The Spinto Band - Oh Mandy
The Spinto Band - Brown Boxes
The Spinto Band - Crack The Whip
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Last night I had a chance to check out another of Arts & Crafts' latest signings, New Buffalo. She sang over top of pre-recorded backing tracks, just herself on stage, sometimes accompanying the recordings with her guitar or Farfisa. She was very cute up there: the songs were cute, her awkward banter in her Australian accent was cute, and her little dances were cute. The last four tracks of her set were good, and even managed to impress Stuart Berman, who compared her to someone else -- but of course, I can't remember who it was. Maybe he'll fill me in when he guest blogs again (next week, right?). Anyway, I bet it's kind of irritating when the first thing anyone says about you, is that your husband is in The Avalanches.
Speaking of Stuart Berman, he gave the new Sigur Ros 3.5 stars out of 5 in his latest set of reviews, when it clearly deserves a 4.
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As of today, I will be doing weekly reviews for Cokemachineglow. They run a great site, and I'm happy to be a part of it. I'll continue contributing to Vancouver's Terminal City (who's music editor, Jason Grimmer is an awesome guy and member of both The Christa Min and Nasty On).
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Shout outs to the nice people at Friendly Fire Recordings, for hooking me up with The Faunts, and to Kat Burns for linking to this site. Organ Grinder Records, the label behind Pontiak, also hit us up this week.
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The interestingly titled blog, Last Night An MP3 Saved My Wife has given Are You Familiar? a permanent link. Nice tunes -- check them out. Word.
Greg @ 12:48 AM
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