A Place To Bury Strangers release Onwards To The Wall, their debut EP on Dead Oceans February 6 on CD/12"/Digital formats. The EP contains five brand new, pummelling tracks. Lead song "So Far Away" takes all the pure pop perfection of The Box Tops' "The Letter" and shoots it through with a...

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Medium Cool featuring Alex Chilton : Like Someone In Love [ purchase ] When I think of Alex Chilton, I think of at least half a dozen different voices. There's the horny teenaged, weary beyond its years, husky voice of the Box Tops' “The Letter.” In the famous Big Star years there was the vulnerable, love-struck voice of “I'm In Love With A Girl,” the joyous, giddy voice of “September Gurls,” and the burned out, utterly despairing voice of “Holocaust.” In his early solo years there was the sleazoid, sex tour guide voice of “Bangkok.” Later there was the winsome but ...

In 1970 Alex Chilton was fed up with is role in the Box Tops and still a year away from Big Star. The music he made that summer was a bridge to the future

In 1970 Alex Chilton was fed up with is role in the Box Tops and still a year away from Big Star. The music he made that summer was a bridge to the future

A Place To Bury Strangers are proud to announce their Dead Oceans debut release, Onwards To The Wall. The EP contains five brand new, pummelling tracks that will melt the smile off a listener's face. "So Far Away" takes all the pure pop perfection of The Box Tops' "The Letter" and shoots it...

Ever since I stumbled upon a Big Star CD at a now defunct record store, I fell in love with their jangly guitars, catchy lyrics and Alex Chilton.  The singer first gained fame a member of The Box Tops, but in the 1970s he formed one of the greatest powerpop bands of all time: Big Star. [...]

"Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance..." If you like your Americana way raw, you'd better start reading Donald Ray Pollock's The Devil All The Time right away. Unputdownable's the word. True 666 soundtrack below. Palace Brothers - Idle Hands Are The Devil's Playthings Sam Collins - Devil In The Lion's Den The Box Tops - I Must Be The Devil Prince Arky & The Westerners - 10 Horned Devil Tampa Red - Worried Devil Blues ...

1966-1974: Rodd Keith - My Pipe Yellow Dream by Clifford Allen on 11-29-2011 A lot of fantastic talents were part of the studio musicians’ circles in Los Angeles from the 1950s onward – figures from both the jazz and classical worlds – and as incidental and film music advanced with the complex, psychedelic 1960s, so the introduction of soft psych, pop, and exotic flourishes became part of the environment. I guess one could loosely call composer-arranger Rodd Keith (1937-1974) part of that scene, but his situation was a bit different. A multi-instrumentalist who had a strong desire to compose classical music, Keith became ...

by TMT Staff • July 2011 Half of the year is over, and we're so excited about how 2011 is shaping up that we wanted to share our favorite 25 albums of the year so far. Unlike with our year-end lists, this list was compiled with no official tally; whoever wanted to speak up about their favorite albums spoke up. Consequently, there's no order here, just a list of albums accompanied by text taken directly from our reviews. In cases where we had no review — shame on us! — we either embedded full-album streams or wrote fresh blurbs, as in ...

Thee Oh Sees Castlemania [In The Red; 2011] by Tamec Rating: Thee Oh Sees' newest record Castlemania kicks off with "I Need Seed," a ragged, bouncy number that's evocative — both in form and content — of nothing more so than Gary Young's 1994 novelty hit "Plant Man." It's a curveball, sure, but it's tough to be surprised by anything from John Dwyer and co. these days. After transitioning from the blissful weirdness of The Cool Death of Island Raiders and Sucks Blood into straight-ahead garage rock with 2008's The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending a ...

Je suis toujours un peu circonspect quand il s'agit d'écouter le nouvel album d'un gars qui a 35 ans de carrière musicale derrière lui, il y a cette petite appréhension d'être déçu et que cela vienne même jusqu'à faire déprécier des disques que l'on a tant aimé C'est vrai que ce doute est peut être encore plus valable en concert où les groupes qui ont enregistré à 20 ans affichent maintenant deux ou trois fois plus en âge , en kilo, mais pas en cheveux. La pochette rappelle la fameuse couverture du numéro de ...

Gotta put on your go-go boots for this one. The still mighty Drive-By Truckers expertly cover nearly forgotten white soul singer and guitarist Eddie Hinton's Everybody Needs Love on their brand new album, and I bet you're just dying to know what the original sounds like. "There are moon beams we can dream on, when our working day is done; there are stars we can wish upon, at the setting of the sun; there are sunsets we can cry over, put our troubles on the run..." Eddie Hinton - Everybody Needs Love MP3 Drive-By Truckers - Everybody Needs Love MP3 ...

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“…calling to mind those anthems U2 wrote when they still had big hair and little wallets.” - My Old Kentucky Blog +++ +++ PLAY, POST & SHARE “Coy Trap” is the latest single from the self-titled debut by Invisible Hand. [STREAM + WIDGET]: http://official.fm/track/184746 [MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/theinvisiblehand/mp3/invisiblehand-coytrap.mp3 +++ Invisible Hand Live 12/14 Washington, DC @ Black Cat 12/15 Charlottesville, VA @ Jefferson Theater Invisible Hand ’s 12/15 show at Charlottesville ’s Jefferson Theater is the first installment of the band’s “Amateur Hour, Variety Hour” – a live musical variety show that showcases Charlottesville 's thriving local music, comedy, & theater scenes. Taking its inspiration from the rowdy, gaudy variety shows of the 60s and 70s, the inaugural “Amateur Hour, Variety Hour” features rock band Invisible Hand , funk band No BS! Brass Band , and popular folk/jazz singer-songwriter Devon Sproule in short sets, followed by painfully investigative interviews and interspersed with experimental sketch comedy segments. Watch the “Amateur Hour, Variety Hour” auditions here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci9YsRTkg4M . +++ More About Invisible Hand Adam Smith and his Invisible Hand have been producing some of the best punk-laced pop gems to come out of Charlottesville, VA for the past four years. Musically, the band cites influences from decades past, including Velvet Underground , The Box Tops and The Kinks . With big choruses and fretboard theatrics, Invisible Hand is more reminiscent of Born To Quit -era Smoking Popes coupled with the calm, collected lyrical desperation of The Wrens . Standout tracks include “There’s Room In My Will,” ( MP3 ) which could of easily have been left on the cutting room floor during The Replacements looser glory days and the lumbering haze of “Coy Trap” ( MP3 ) which feels like it could fall apart at any moment amidst a mountain of starts, stops and guitars. Alienation, regret and anxiety are all expressed throughout the album but the Hand is skilled at glossing over the sordid with the sugar. The album offers 12 addictively timeless songs; boasting a dreamy voyage through youthful hopefulness and longing. Invisible Hand is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information. +++ Invisible Hand Invisible Hand (Funny/Not Funny – Out Now) Track Listing 01. Two Chords 02. There’s Room In My Will ( MP3 ) 03. Coy Trap ( MP3 ) 04. (Aubade) 05. Four Seasons 06. I Want to Win 07. Catch 22 08. Don’t Wait For Your Third Eye 09. This Morning Was… (Aubade Reprise) 10. Black ...