After a nice 3 week break, a long weekend at ATP and then 2 weeks in New York/Boston/New Haven for New York popfest and other assorted pop shows means I have a mountain of stuff to blog about. I came back from the USA with what felt like a suitcase full of CDs/7″‘s and [...]
In the helter skelter world of indiepop you’ve got to be paying attention or you might just miss something important. And it seems I wasn’t 100% on the ball. Why? Read on:
Last year, one of my favourite records was a 7″ called ‘Blue Genes’ on Slumberland by a band called The Champagne Socialists – I [...]
Word Atlas
World Atlas. A band from Brooklyn, New York. So come May they’re gonna be one of the home town bands at the Popfest. Saying all this I hear the not so distant echoes of a Scottish pop combo running deep through their souls. Belle and Sebastian anyone?
They also feature Fred Thomas. That’s the [...]
Gold Bears
Gold Bears are another band that are playing New York Popfest in May. I also hadn’t heard of them before scanning the line-up. Infact they are so new as to not have released anything yet. Their debut 7” single is set for release in early 2010 via Magic Marker Records, followed shortly thereafter [...]
Well, I’ve finally taken leave of my senses and bought myself a plane ticket to New York in May (20th-23rd). I’m off to the New York Popfest. And there are a whole host of bands playing who I love: Horowitz, The Smittens, Allo Darlin’, One Happy Island, Brown Recluse and Bunnygrunt. To name just 6. But [...]
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