indie pop: Vinny Peculiar - Growing Up With…

April 9th, 2009

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…

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indie pop: The Family Cat - Tom Verlaine 12"

April 9th, 2009

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

Read the original post on Take The Pills!.

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indie pop: Review: Webstirs "So Long"

April 9th, 2009


On hiatus since 2001, Chicago-based pop rockers The Webstirs return with their fourth release entitled, “So Long”. Indeed, 8 years is a long time, but the songwriting talents and performance skills of The Webstirs have only gotten better with age.

Songwriters Preston…

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indie pop: The Dentists - Dressed

March 26th, 2009

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…

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indie pop: Julian Cope - Floored Genius: The Best Of Julian Cope And The Teardrop Explodes (1979-1991)

March 18th, 2009

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…

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indie pop: That pesky list…

March 18th, 2009

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…

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indie pop: Keane - Perfect Symmetry (drops today in the U.S.)

March 18th, 2009

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…

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britpop: BUDDYHEAD’s HOLIDAY PARTY @ HOTEL CAFE DECEMBER 21st 2008

March 18th, 2009

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…

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britpop: Wasabi Jewelry, Painting, Web Design + M83 Review!

March 18th, 2009

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…

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britpop: Moodio.FM

March 18th, 2009

My birthday is coming up on the 21st and this day is also when the new BlackBerry Storm comes out! It’ll cost $199 with 2 year contract on Verizon Wireless, which is too bad because my family uses Sprint and…

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