Videoteca Bodyspace did it again. Watch solo acoustic guitarist Steve Gunn perform the song “Bossman Medley” in the streets of Porto below. This post does not contain the word “Fahey”.
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Breton Parks’ debut album, Whelk, was criminally overlooked when it was released last Summer. He’s currently recording his yet unnamed sophomore record that should sound just about as good as the first one, judging from the sample he has just sent me for you all to listen. “Figure It Out On My Own” is the first song off it, a plain steady 90’s-infused indie rock song, the perfect song to kick off your first day of work of 2012. You can listen and download it below on the SC widget, and you can also listen to and download Whelk for free on his Bandcamp.
Breton Parks-Figure It Out On My Own by Breton Parks
Bolachas has been on and off the radar for the last couple of months due to countless factors. That’s a fact. But then again, sometimes our mailbox is hit by sentences like Do brief bursts of melodic lo-fi noise excite you? 90’s tape-hiss indie a la Guided By Voices and Shrimper Records? and that’s the moment we realize we gotta do something.
Those words equal Graham Repulski. The mysterious fuzzy rock act from Weehawken, NJ has a new 7" coming out on Big School Records and they were kind enough to give away a couple of mp3s off it (“Mommy’s Dreaming” is the highlight here). Get your Archers of Loaf worn out shirt ready for this and give it a spin. You can pre-order the 7", out 13th December, on the Big School Records’ webstore. Here. Stream it on the widget below.
Download mp3: “Mommy’s Dreaming” // “Everyone Likes My Three Dollar Shirt”
Our label Cakes and Tapes has just returned with its 17th installment. Yay is the debut album from Crystal Shipsss, a sideproject of our favorite Danish songwriter Jacob Faurholt, who released one of the best albums of the year earlier on. Yay leaves all that quietness behind, drenches itself in reverb, it even tries to stab you at times in all its low fidelity glory, but it’s still infected by melodies that’ll stick in your head for hours. Mastered by master James Plotkin (Khanate, OLD, Jodis), Crystal Shipsss is quite the antithesis of Faurholt’s solo work but that doesn’t make it less interesting. Discover it below.
Yay is now available on digital and limited edition cassette (50 white C30 tapes) formats. Streaming is free, of course.
The best European festival is back in style: after announcing a second installation in Porto, Portugal in 2012, Primavera Sound has just announced the first acts who will play in both editions. Among them is Codeine, one of the quintessential American indie rock bands of the beginning of the 90s who are reforming – original lineup! – to play a series of selected shows in Europe next Spring and reissuing their back catalog. Guided by Voices (Barcelona only), Jeff Mangum, Yo La Tengo, Björk, Other Lives and Neon Indian are the other bands who’ll play Primavera next year. That’s quite an impressive early lineup, isn’t it?
