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Returning home with some Gold-Bears

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 [...]

New York Popfest: Neverever

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 [...]

New York Popfest: World Atlas

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 [...]

New York Popfest: Gold Bears

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 [...]

New York Popfest: Sweater Girls

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 [...]