Virna Lindt The Windmills Of Your Mind Virna Lindt The Dossier on Virna Lindt Virna Lindt Attention Stockholm The Woodentops Get It On Before Portishead and other vitamin-D deficient Anglophone producers set to a wholesale plundering of the work of film composers  John Barry and Bernard Hermann , in turn giving the world the unwelcome gift of Trip Hop and the adjective "cinematic" as a critical term denoting the addition of vinyl pop & hiss sounds and postmodern ennui - the equivalent of a sepia filter (or hey, Instagram!) - a relatively gorgeous Swede translator by the name of Virna Lindt  infused the icy cold archness & languid irony of Cristina and Amanda Lear (ex-models' musical output, a genre unto itself) with human warmth and her own appreciation of the big-room orchestral pop of soundtracks gone by. The three songs here don't accurately represent the range of Ms. Lindt's output - the lumbering cover of Michel Lagrand's The Windmills of Your Mind , the absurd dead-eyed naivete of  The Dossier on Virna Lindt , and  finally, her Tot Taylor-produced debut single, Attention Stockholm -  virtually a template for 3/4 the output of  Belle and Sebastien ...  Great songs, yes, but there are other songs, more adventurous, sort of like Sparks and Yello Magic Orchestra, especially on 1985 Play/Record, which was, predictably, a hit in Japan. Had Lindt's influence been felt more deeply, Trip Hop might have a more noble pedigree and not reached its nauseating limit in the studied melancholy of Mono's 1996 sap-fest Life in Mono   The song, a barely concealed rewrite of The Windmills of Your Mind , was a prominent part of (the not-unloveable overwrought) fever dream melodrama of Alfonso Cuarón 's film adaptation of Great Expectations .  Or not...  Who knows if we would have been spared the existence of Black Box Recorder - an ignoble and wholly reprehensible musical clusterfuck that has forever tarred the name of Jesus & Mary Chain 's John Moore .  (The wholly calculated effort to get famous and to get into Sarah Nixey 's pants succeeded on one count, at least.) But Trip Hop will continue to live on forever, along with drum & bass, in the scores of police procedurals on American network television, and in the dusty CD-piles buried in the back of a closet by Unmarried Women of a Certain Age. Note: When I think of Dickens style of writing, I think of the Book of Mormon, a tedious a Holy Book as I've ever read...  An entire post-Christian mythology written by a group of autistic people sitting around a table playing Exquisite Corpse - and so it came to pass, and so it came to pass, and so it came to pass... I've spent countless hours, if not days, searching through the Trouser Press , dollar bins and the back-alleys of Discogs.com , and it's very rare that I come across a chart-topping song or artist in the new wave/post-new wave pop genre that I've got no familiarity with.  (Even rarer that I actually enjoy the song).  In this case, I came across the Woodentops in Oliver Assayas ' 1986 film Disorder - a film that presents with weightier issues than those that make up a subgenre of post-punk trainspotting films- the Clash's  Rude Boy , Penelope Spheeris ' Decline of Western Civilization and Suburbia .  As anthropological curios & points of reference for context-hungry teens they serve their purpose -  as an illuminating or even halfway interesting piece of art, not as much.  Assayas' meditation on the corrosive of guilt and murder without consequence , each in their own way, are Cliff-notes Dostoevsky for their respective class/subculture. This song shares the same manic urgency of  The Feelies  or  Human Switchboard , but has more adventurous production and instrumentation.  The obvious touchstone for Rolo McGinty's brashly confident voice is Echo & The Bunnymen 's Will Sergeant. Alright, it's back to R&B; for a little while, so I don't end up investigating bands that shared bills with the Housemartins .

Future Loves Past , c’est un nom un peu étrange on vous l’accorde pour un groupe de folk. On a découvert le groupe de Phoenix avec leur premier EP éponyme. Les six américains proposent une musique simple mais très agréable. C’est une rencontre entre le son rock des années 70 ( The Feelies par exemple) et la folk moderne que font des groupes comme Noah and The Whale ,  The Leisure Society  ou Real Estate. Les chansons sont riches en mélodies.  Chez Vocododo , on aime!  ф  Future Loves Past , what a strange name for an indie folk band. We discover ...

by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: The Trypes - (From the) Morning Glories (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Trypes - Belmont Girl is Mad at Me (MP3) The Feelies at Prospect Park 2011 (more by Tamara Porras) The Feelies, who recently played The Bell...

Album titles can be a big clue as to the actual content of an album. There are loud, in-your-face titles, romantic titles, or just plain what-on-earth titles, a perfect example being the bizarrely named concept album Odgen's Nut Gone Flake from Small Faces. And then there are names like Music For Neighbors . It's nice, it's polite, it's considerate, but it does nothing to prevent the album from being something that you wouldn't look twice at. However, appearances can be deceiving. Behind the dull beige artwork, this sensibly titled album is in fact an appealing one ...

Recommended Show: FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012 COLD CAVE @ GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM 1071 Fifth Ave New York, NY 10128 $27, 8:30PM This show seems to be the talk of the town tonight. Maybe it's just when a band like Cold Cave plays a place like the Guggenheim. Xenia Rubinos @ BAM Cafe Jack White @ Webster Hall Yann Tiersen @ Irving Plaza The Feelies @ The Bell House Hess Is More @ Mercury Lounge Malcolm Mooney @ Santos Party House WU LYF & Willis Earl Beal @ Bowery Ballroom Mon Khmer, Fantasmas, & Lushes @ Cameo Gallery Darlingside & Jamie Kent and The Options @ 92YTribeca Clouder, Bridges and Powerlines, & The Aye ...

by Bill Pearis Allo Darlin' Hope you all survived Record Store Day. I didn't find most of what I was looking for (most of which was UK only) but I did get that great Lee Hazlewood comp on Light in...

Brooklyn's Ex Cops ' (Brian Harding and Amalie Bruun) double a-side debut single 'You Are A Lion, I Am A Lamb/The Millionaire' is out tomorrow (April 24th) through Other Music Recording Co. Their 7" has actually been stamped with OM-001, as it's the first release om the label ran by the Other Music record shop, which has recently announced its partnership with Fat Possum, with plans for a broad catalogue of new artists and reissues. Stream out below 'You Are A Lion, I Am A Lamb', which perfectly sums up the duos wide range of influences, moving from ...

I wanted to give you a heads up about an exciting looking reissue coming out tomorrow. The Trypes' Music For Neighbors is being released on LP and as an MP3 download on the Acute label (sorry CD lovers, your time has passed). I posted about this Feelies related act and their lone release, The Explorers Hold EP, six years ago. Music For Neighbors collects all four songs from that EP, adds "A Plan Revised" from the Coyote Records Luxury Condos Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon compilation LP, and tacks on six previously unreleased tracks. The MP3 includes an additional seven ...

Hey we're called Being There . We’re a pop band from London. Our first album is coming out on Young and Lost soon, keep your eyes peeled. Read Part 1 of our 'Artist Picks' here . 
Listening to: 
S: Brian Eno – Music For Airports, Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo, Ducktails – Arcade Dynamics, Gas – Pop, The Feelies – The Good Earth. 
Reading:
 S: JG Ballard – Empire of the Sun
Jame: Mark Kermode - The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex. 
Watching: 
 S: Re-watching season four of Mad Men in preperation for season five (nerd).
 J: Master Chef has just finised but ...

Although New Jersey's Real Estate do not possess a great name, the four-piece makes up for it with rock and roll that's engaging and reflective. The band's 2011 sophomore effort, Days, refined their sound just enough to earn them critical acclaim and, like fellow New Jersey outfit The Feelies, Re...

My original vinyl copy of the delightful Crazy Rhythms - on the legendary Stiff label - being all but worn out, I just had to replace it. And guess what: the fairly recent cd reissue on Bar/None and Domino comes with a download code for access to a couple of bonus tracks, two of which are pre-album demos recorded at Carla Bley's studio in the spring of '79. Here's the best one, with that trademark neurotic guitar work and hypnotic percussion already firmly in place. The Feelies - The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness (demo version)

Hello. I am very excited about this latest volume of Aural Canapes. In fact, so excited it took me three weeks to write it. Two of these tracks are definitely in my favourite tracks of the year box. Crazy Rhythms by The Feelies also makes the...

(Detailed playlist , with listening links.) 1. RANA - "Buy Sell or Break" 2. The Ex - "Keep On Walking" - Catch My Shoe 3. The Wizards - "I Need Your Love" - Love & The Needing of It: Jesse's 2012 Marathon Premium [$75 gets a Premium! 19 version of different songs called "I Need Your Love"! Everybody ] 4. The Fugs - "Group Grope" - The Fugs II [$75 gets in the running for Heady New York prize pack feat. Ed Sanders' memoir, "Fug You!"] 5. The Feelies - "Fa Ce La" - Crazy Rhythms [$15 to enter drawing for "Here Before" by The Feelies on COMPACT DISC!!!] 6. Suicide ...

Galaxie 500 are a hard act to pin down. Emerging as the eighties was beginning its close, they did not fit easily into the various musical movements to which they were broadly contemporary. Furthermore, they only stuck around for about four or five years, hardly enough time to make an impact. And yet, there is something both unique and familiar about this, their best album. Familiar, because the sort of lo-fi production, the simple musical structures and the occasionally off-key vocals. Unique because this was perhaps the first time in a long time, perhaps since the punk era of the ...

a good country mile is a historic collaboration between longtime friends and musical cohorts kevn kinney (drivn’ n cryin’) and Anton Fier/The Golden Palominos (Feelies, Pere Ubu, Bob Mould Band) made in a spirit of mutual admiration and respect and an abiding belief in the transformative power and purity of rock ‘n’ roll. Conceived over [...]