I started collecting vinyl in January of 2008.  Here is what I have amassed. (updated January 2012) AC/DC Back in Black American Football American Football Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha Band of Horses Everything All the Time Infinite Arms Battles Gloss Drop Mirrored The Beach Boys Endless Summer The Beatles 1962-1966 1967-1970 Abbey Road Hey Jude Let it Be Magical Mystery Tour Rubber Soul Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beck Modern Guilt Odelay The Bee Gees Best of Bee Gees Vol. 1 [pre-disco] Saturday Night Fever Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five Blackalicious A2G [EP] Blazing Arrow The ...

'Saxfixed' from Yalls is pretty beautiful. It manages to mix dream-pop and chillwave in a sort of Washed Out meets SSLYBY type way. It's indie, but people won't be singing along to it in a club. It's chilled out, but it's not bandcamp fodder. New genre alert: Interesto-pop. You heard it here first.

all listen buttons jump to Spotify Rarities / Subscriptions 05.) Stephin Merritt - Obscurities Compiling rarities from the 1994-1999 Merge Records years, this collection spans tracks from Stephin Merritt, The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, Gothic Archies, and Buffalo Rome...basically all things Magnetic Fields, Merrit's solo work, and band side projects.  Instead of spending ridiculous amounts of cash on Ebay for these rare 7"s or out of print cassettes, you get everything your heart desires for under twenty bucks.  Even though the track order scatters the various groups/solo works, amazingly, the album works from start to finish and never ...

SSLYBY are by far one of my favourite Polyvinyl artists. Resonating from Springfield Missouri, the group started when Philip Dickey and John Robert Cardwell met in 2002 during their freshman year of college. After releasing their own split EP in 2004, they signed to Polyvinyl Records some time later in June 2006. You won’t want [...]

Next week New Yorkers Dear Lions unveil their new EP, Lying To My Lies , and to celebrate we're premiering the first single from it, entitled 'Exactly The Same'. This song represents everything that is good about this band - with the track progressing seamlessly from the SSLYBY style indie-pop verses, into the more romantic (Smiths?) style choruses. Have a listen and let us know what you think.

Rarities compilations are almost always tricky business. On the one hand, they offer a band the opportunity to show a more adventurous side to themselves that may be lacking on their more polished final efforts. However, they can also contrarily be a mass of middle-of-the-road outtakes that are decent enough but don’t really merit shouting about. There is, after all, a reason these songs have remained unreleased. With all that in mind, Tape Club , a collection of b-sides, non-album tracks and studio demos from ridiculously-named Illinois indie-poppers Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin , poses a serious question: does a ...

(this is the prize) IRR and Polyvinyl are giving One Lucky Winner a limited cassette tape and vinyl record for SSLYBY’s, Tape Club; the bands new 26-song album. The cassette tape was hand-made by the members of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, and that makes it extra awesome! To enter leave a comment below with your Top 10 favorite SSLYBY songs. Good luck and when you are done read our Tape Club album review. About Tape Club: “The album’s [...]

1.  Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - "Yellow Missing Signs" (Super-poppy synth-driven track shows another side of the band.  Released today on Polyvinyl Records, Tape Club is their 2-disc, 26-song collection of B-sides and home recordings archived over the band's 10 years together.  You can stream the whole thing here: www.sslyby.bandcamp.com/album/tape-club ) Download: http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/dl.php?id=0884031207280714 2.  Turf War - "For The Last Time" (Super-catchy and energetic, punk-flavored garage rock band hails from Atlanta whose debut, Years of Living Dangerously , out now on Old Flame Records, was produced by the like-minded ...

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Tape Club Polyvinyl Records [2011] Fire Note Says: The 26 b-sides found on Tape Club highlight why you should be checking out Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. Album Review: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin is one of those bands that I have always expected to break out but never seem to achieve a larger success with their catchy power pop. Tape Club puts an exclamation point on my first statement, as it is the new double album that features 26 unreleased and hard to find tracks from SSLYBY that didn't make ...

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - 'Tape Club' (UK Release: 17 Oct '11) // Words: Simon Opie Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin come from Springfield (Missouri), and yes there are 22 towns named Springfield in the USA but the band’s name alone surely qualifies them for a residency at Moe’s Tavern. They’ve been making music since the turn of the century, which puts them near the beginning of the indie pop fashion for simple song-making with sparse instrumentation and alt-folk melodies. 'Tape Club' which follows 2010’s well-received 'Let It Sway' is a kind of taking stock ...

How many great songs does SSLYBY have to release before they become a regular part of that Best American Bands of The 2000’s conversation? Tape Club is a triumph. By deliberating staying away from their most popular tracks, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin has released a compilation equally representative of their talents, [...]

With the undisputed best name in musical history, SSLYBY are back with a new release of a 10 year career-spanning album. Whether you’ve heard of them before now or not (you’d probably remember if you had) this is the album for you. It’s a great introduction to a great band and means that after one listen you’ll be able to trick your friends into thinking you’ve been championing the Missouri band from the very start. Read more..

One of our favorite albums of the year, Tape Club by SSLYBY, is set for release on October 18th and has been streaming on Bandcamp for weeks.  It's a collection of forgotten tracks from the band and includes twenty-six stunning tracks.  We're extremely lucky to be giving away something special: a very rare original tape from SSLYBY long out of print tape subscription club.  I want to keep it, but it has to go to one of you lucky readers. If that's not enough, Polyvinyl is also throwing in your pick of a vinyl (black pressing) or ...

I started collecting vinyl January of 2008. Here is what I have amassed. (updated Sept. 11) AC/DC Back in Black American Football American Football Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha Band of Horses Everything All the Time Infinite Arms Battles Gloss Drop Mirrored The Beach Boys Endless Summer The Beatles 1962-1966 1967-1970 Abbey Road Hey Jude Let it Be Magical Mystery Tour Rubber Soul Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beck Modern Guilt Odelay The Bee Gees Best of Bee Gees Vol. 1 [pre-disco] Saturday Night Fever Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five Blackalicious A2G [EP] Blazing Arrow The Craft ...

Have we ever spoken about how much we love Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin ? I'm sure we have. Just in case we haven't, let us tell you now, we really do love this band. What Tape Club represents is just how good much talent this band has. Essentially it's a 26 track collection of rarities/unreleased material etc, but 100% full of brilliance, and very much worthy of your time. If you're a SSLYBY newbie, stick this on and be prepared to spend the next few days on spotify obsessing over their studio records. Tape ...