indie pop: Vinny Peculiar - Growing Up With…
Genre: Britpop / Brit Rock
Based In…: UK
Label: Shadrack & Duxbury
Year: 2004
My Rate: 9/10
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Growing Up With… é o quarto disco do cantor/compositor de Manchester, Vinny Peculiar. O cara é uma figura! Esse é meu favorito. Ah, ele tem disco novo lançado este ano, se chama Sometimes I…
indie pop: The Family Cat - Tom Verlaine 12"
Genre: Indie Rock / Britpop / Indiepop
Based In…: UK
Label: Bad Girl
Year: 1989
My Rate: 10/10
O super aclamado primeiro single do Family Cat. Clássico!
Tracklisting:
1. Tom Verlaine
2. Gabriel’s Wings
3. Octopus Jr
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indie pop: Review: Webstirs "So Long"
indie pop: The Dentists - Dressed
Genre: Indiepop / Jangle Pop / Post-Punk
Based In…: UK
Label: Homestead
Year: 1992
My Rate: 10/10
Sendo considerada a primeira banda de britpop, o The Dentists surgiu em 84 e obteve maior destaque com o fantástico primeiro álbum, Some People Are On The Pitch They Think It’s Over It…
indie pop: Julian Cope - Floored Genius: The Best Of Julian Cope And The Teardrop Explodes (1979-1991)
Genre: Post-Punk / Indie Rock / Britpop
Based In…: UK
Label: Island
Year: 1992
My Rate: 8/10
Review from AMG, by Ned Raggett:
A convenient enough stopgap release that turned up in between Peggy Suicide and Jehovahkill, the pun-titled Floored Genius provides a fine one-stop spot for those new to Cope’s work, starting…
indie pop: That pesky list…
Happy New Year, and all that. Hope yours went well–I worked, then had a snifter of the bourbon I received from my brother for Christmas (A.H. Hirsch) and then headed home. I’m never much of one for drinking on “amateur…
After more than two years (since “Under the Iron Sea”), UK pop trio Keane releases their third major label album, “Perfect Symmetry” today, October 14, in the U.S.
Here’s a sample tune (”Spiralling”):
They’re known for their “no-guitar” group configuration, only rarely using…
It was great seeing a lot of short acoustic performances packed into one night. Hotel Cafe is really tiny and somehow they managed to fit in a huge list of musicians (and one “poet” though he seemed more like a…
I went shopping this morning at the annual Wasabi Jewelry sale in Pasadena. It was at a really nice house up on a windy mountain road. The house was really modern and well decorated and the jewelry was nice and half…