Category Archives for Toons
The Mountain In My Ears – Vital sounds
I’m sure this is a fairly controversial pick of a band, but I’m specifically thinking of their demos and b-sides album, Extras. Without the sometimes cheesy or naff production that accompanied their album output, the songs on Extras still stand …
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29. December 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: 2012, Sound & Vision, Toons |
Tags: burning sky, demo, disenfranchisement, extras, free, growing up, liza radley, no one in the world, paul weller, small town, society, the jam |
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Where the hell did The Sleepy Trees come from? It’s like they emerged fully-formed like some bastard son of Pavement & Uncle Tupelo, rocking up twenties years later to remind Stephen Malkmus of a drunken night and an indiscretion with a Fender amp.
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15. October 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: 2011, Sound & Vision, Toons |
Tags: alt country, johnston, my idea of fun, pavement, pennsylvania, plateau grass plateau, stephen malkmus, the sleepy trees |
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You’re likely to have seen that the Sony DADC warehouse in Enfield was burnt down, with great losses to the independent labels that use Sony’s distribution channels. There is already a LabelLove campaign (including Twitter hashtag) that allows fans to …
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10. August 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Sound & Vision, Toons, Truth, Truth & Lies |
Tags: adam green, aerial m, animal collective, aphex twin, arcade fire, autechre, battles, beat happening, belle and sebastian, big dada, bill callahan, black dice, blk jks, blood red shoes, bonnie prince billy, boredoms, brian eno, british sea power, broadcast, brokeback, calexico, califone, calvin johnson, clouddead, coldcut, crystal antlers, david pajo, derek bailey, destroyer, diplo, dirty three, domino, don caballero, drag city, east africa, elliot smith, extra golden, fat cat records, faun fables, fennesz, flying lotus, flying saucer attack, fourtet, gastr del sol, ghost, giant sand, glenn jones, half japanese, independent labels, j spaceman, jack rose, jagjaguwar, jason molina, jeffrey lewis, jens lekman, jim o'rourke, john fahey, london riots, loose fur, magik markers, magnolia electric co, man or astro-man?, maps & atlases, mi ami, mice parade, mogwai, mouse on mars, neil hagerty, ninja tune, nobukazu takemura, oneida, oval, owen pallett, papa m, pavement, plaid, polvo, prefuse 73, pullman, quasi, real estate, red stars theory, rodan, roots manuva, rough trade, scout niblett, seam, sebadoh, secretly canadian, set fire to flames, shellac, shipping news, sic alps, sigur ros, silver jews, sir richard bishop, slint, smog, songs: ohia, sons and daughters, sony, spiral stairs, squarepusher, stephen malkmus, sufjan stevens, sun city girls, television, terror twilight, the black heart procession, the dylan group, the fall, the fiery furnaces, the fucking champs, the jicks, the kills, the moldy peaches, the pastels, the red krayola, the sea and cake, thrill jockey, tom verlaine, tortoise, touch and go records, trans am, tricky, tunng, tv on the radio, vincent gallo, wall of sound, wooden shjips, yeasayer |
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Don Caballero are responsible for one of the best ever instrumental records: American Don
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16. July 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Sound & Vision, Toons, Unfamous |
Tags: american don, cassettehead, details on how to get iceman on your license plate, don cab, don caballero, math, math rock, the peter criss jazz, world class listening problem, you drink a lot of coffee for a teenager |
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Go Tell Fire To The Mountain is WU LYF’s new album. Here’s a review, plus the review I published with BlogCritics.
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11. June 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: 2011, Sound & Vision, Toons |
Tags: bats, dirt, frank black, go tell fire to the mountain, isaac brock, jonathan fire*eater, love you forever, michel gondry, modest mouse, nme, pere ubu, protest folk, spitting blood, spitting it concrete like the golden sun god, the lost boys, the teardrop explodes, tupac shakur, vampires, world unite lucifer youth foundation, wu lyf |
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Last Summer is being released on July 12th 2011. It’s been pretty quiet from the Fiery Furnaces corner since Take Me Round Again, an album of alternate takes.
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08. May 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: 2011, Sound & Vision, Toons |
Tags: charmaine champagne, eleanor friedberger, featured, last summer, merge, my mistakes |
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Arthur Russell was one of the original electronic music experimenters, as well as an extraordinary cellist who accompanied Allen Ginsberg, and worked with David Byrne, Ernie Brooks (of The Modern Lovers) and Philip Glass.
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27. February 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Sound & Vision, Toons, Unfamous |
Tags: allen ginsberg, arthur russell, david byrne, disco, ernie brooks, grizzly bear, joan of arc, lambchop, love is overtaking me, matt wolf, philip glass, the modern lovers, the velvet underground, touched by the lord, what it's like |
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A Wordle of all the Desert Island Discs record choices from 2003 to 2010…
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20. February 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Geekery, Toons |
Tags: concerto, desert island discs, love, major, minor, movement, piano, records, symphony, wordle |
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Named after Scott Walker’s fourth album, this band of electronic cowpunks were active from the late ’90s to mid ’00s. When live they had a band with as many as 11 members, but the core of the group was Scott …
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06. February 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Toons, Unfamous |
Tags: east london, electronic cowpunk, hallo doctor, indie electronica, philly's song, scott 4, scott walker, unfamous, your kingdom to dust |
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Ghosts and Vodka are yet another spin off project from the mighty Cap’n Jazz. The Chicago scene would look very different without Cap’n Jazz at it’s heart, especially with the contributions of the Kinsella brothers (not in this project), Sam …
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21. January 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Toons, Unfamous |
Tags: andrea loves horses, capn jazz, chicago, ghosts and vodka, joan of arc, kinsella, mike kinsella, owls, sam zurick, tim kinsella, victor villareal |
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