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Solid States
VÖ erst 01.07.16 (180 Gramm LP) Die Power Pop-Legende kehrt zurück: The Posies! Die Band wurde 1987 in Bellingham, Washington von Ken Stringfellow und Jon Auer gegründet.Die Power Pop-Legende kehrt zurück: The Posies! Die Band wurde 1987 in Bellingham, Washington von Ken Stringfellow und Jon Auer gegründet. The Posies lieferten schon zu einem Zeitpunkt sagenhaft großen College-Rock als an Nada Surf & Co noch nicht zu denken war. Dabei handelte es sich beim missachteten Meisterwerk von1993 bereits um ihren dritten Longplayer, der dank des großartigen Sängergespanns Jon Auer und Ken Stringfellow nie im Mittelmaß hätte landen dürfen. Leider zerstörten interne Querelen regelmäßig die Erfolgsspur und warfen die Band kommerziell zurück, doch zur Trennung kam es nie. Auch wenn es ordentlich krachte, riss sich die Combo immer wieder zusammen und konzentrierte sich auf das Wichtige: Die Musik. So entstanden sechs gemeinsame, durch und durch famose Platten und obwohl Ken Stringfellow und Jon Auer zuletzt Solo unterwegs waren, kehren die beiden nun mit der Band im Schlepptau zurück. Ihr neues Werk haben The Posies auf den Namen Solid States getauft. Einen Vorgeschmack auf das am 29.04.16 erscheinende Album Solid States stellt das Label Lojinx hier zum feien Download zur Verfügung: soundcloud.com/theposies/squirrel-vs-snake TRACKS: 1. We R Power 2. Unlikely Places 3. Scattered 4. Titanic 5. Squirrel Vs Snake 6. March Climes 7. M Doll 8. The Definition 9. The Plague 10. Rollercoaster Zen 11. The Sound Of Clouds 12. Radiance- Shop: odax
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I Only Want What I Can't See
Secret Fires formed in the fall of 2006 with the agenda to perform sincere and stripped-down Rock and Roll music influenced by the finest deviants of the genre's checkered past. Travis Sargent howls over a driving back-beat provided by Dallas Thompson (drums), Stefan Duret (bass) and James Stewart's damaged guitar lines. Secret Fires bridge the gap between slash-and-burn punk rock, dirty blues, and 60's pop. It's honest and urgent music that harkens back to the sounds of the Birthday Party, Replacements, Wipers, and Black Flag - Rock and Roll in it's most stripped down and primitive form. Secret Fires formed from the ashes of some of Edmonton's best and brightest: The Wolfnote, Fractal Pattern, The Last Deal, and totheteeth/tothehilt. Bands who collectively toured North America, recorded several full lengths and ultimately imploded before you had a chance to remember their names. With a handful of scrappy demo recordings making their way onto local radio charts, the band was profiled for Radio-Canada before venturing south into the hostile climes of Calgary for a few days of recording. I Only Want What I Can't See was recorded live off the floor to 2' magnetic tape over a two-day session punctuated by rainstorms and allergy meds. The result is '...the finest record in their musical careers ...it's got that early 80's punk style that you don't hear enough of anymore. [Beatroute Magazine--Best of 2007]. 'Aggressive, messy and seriously fun...the more you hear, the more you want.' [Edmonton Sun, 2008] Playing to sold-out crowds at all ages show and seedy bar alike, the band has also been found performing at art galleries, dirty basements and even a small town Alberta Junior High school, playing a surprise show when DJ's refused to show up at the school dance for less than a grand. Secret Fires have shared the stage with the likes of Fucked Up, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Ladyhawk as well as the best and brightest in every Western Canadian city they've visited thus far. 'Secret Fires specialize in revitalizing the attitude and sounds of some of the greatest icons of punk rock - a welcome arrival in a scene dominated by arm-crossed, tweed-sweater-wearing Hipsters. Punk isn't dead, folks, it's just having an identity crisis. Secret Fires are the slap in the face.' --Eamon McGrath, SEE Magazine, 2007 'Secret Fires are loud, pure, unadulterated punk rock -- not a single drop of either that fluffy emo stuff or over-produced pop' --Francois Marchand, Edmonton Journal, 2008.- Shop: odax
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Toys to Lovers
After several years of musical partnerships between Ross McVie, Roddy Wilde and Alan Morton, in 1989 Roddy "abandoned" his home country for the warmer climes of France. But there was still a desire between Roddy and Ross to continue their partnership via a crazy long distance plan to form a new band in Scotland and tour France the following year. Hence Intimate Strangers was born. Tracks whose beginnings were still smouldering in the Sound Café studio were completed as more band members were recruited and the "Something to Believe In" cassette album was released. The band set off the following summer (1990) for a tour of Brittany, joining up with Roddy, and playing numerous gigs over 2 weeks, one highlight being in front of the city walls at St Malo when the pavement floodlights came on under the drummer's throne! The decision was soon made to repeat the experience. Dee joined on guitar and a new album "From What's Gone Past" was recorded with the release of a number of singles. Roddy came over occasionally to record his parts and the band continued playing around Edinburgh. In 1991 another highly successful 3 week tour of France was undertaken. In 1993, Intimate Strangers went their separate ways, but in 2012 re-united (with the exception of Alan M who was by that time in the USA) for another gig. From that came plans to reissue the tracks that the band had recorded in the early 90s. The decision was made to make no changes to these tracks except for re-mastering and the result is this new CD/digital download. Although the band have no plans to play any gigs at the moment, we do hope to record new material over the coming year.- Shop: odax
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Cinco de Star-Oh!
While D.C. Bloom doesn't exactly relish the label, he understands why one might call him a "late bloomer" on the Texas music scene. Yes, D.C. will admit, it took him a little over four decades to even get to the Lone Star State, despite the fact that he has occasionally cited the ghost town of Nix, Texas as his birthplace. But no, D.C.'s really an Ohio native, who spent years inside the D.C. Beltway and a stint in the chilly climes of New England before finally putting his boots on the ground in Texas. And even then, it was another two or three years before he cranked out his solo debut, Simpler Times A-Wastin'. So D.C. Bloom as the quintessential late bloomer is more than a little legit. D.C.'s journey from the Black Swamp land of northwest Ohio to the Texas Hill Country is as circuitous as his musical evolution. He left the Buckeye State in his rear-view mirror in the late '70s to travel to the nation's capital for a job with the FBI, where he began as a humble data entry clerk and ended up writing speeches for the Director. Bloom next took his growing family to Boston, heeding the siren call of the private sector's bigger paydays and earning a Master's degree in Speech Communication from the esteemed Emerson College. A return trip to D.C. four years later put him back in the business of putting words in the mouths of policymakers and movers and shakers in banking and housing finance. It wasn't until the late '90s, when - on a whim and the suggestion of a co-worker who detected a lack of true passion in Bloom's false calling - that he signed up for a songwriting workshop at the Kerrville Folk Festival and began to string words and chords together in a format more to his liking than the day job 30-minute PowerPoint presentations that paid the mortgage. Bloom next took his growing binder of original songs to Geoff Pemble, who played in the praise band at the church D.C. attended in Vienna, Virginia. Pemble invited D.C. to join the God's house band, which he did somewhat reluctantly, because contemporary Christian music didn't necessarily ring his chimes. But after the weekly rehearsals in the church sanctuary, Bloom and Pemble stayed on to work on D.C.'s secular songs, some of which probably never should have been sung anywhere near an altar. In any event, the two soon formed an Americana band called The Dog Waggers and self-produced a CD called "Chasin' Tales," which the good Lutherans of Northern Virginia scarfed up like fresh dog treats. And some of them even figured out that the title was more about pursuing posteriors than posterity. As his alphabetized binder continued to expand, Bloom dreamed of landing a cushy corporate gig that would finance his move to Texas and put him within easy driving distance of the sacred grounds of Kerrville. Lightning finally struck in early 2003, and the headhunted D.C. would bid adieu to the Dog Waggers and travel south by southwest to San Antonio with his beat-up Tacoma guitar and a new dream - to get out there and perform on his own ... and finally put out a CD all by his lonesome. A little mishap on a mountain bike and a goat farm that resulted in a broken left wrist and pins being inserted in same slowed things down a bit, but the recuperation time also allowed D.C. to pen more tunes to his new home state. "I have long wanted to be a Texas singer-songwriter," Bloom acknowledges, "and I figured the best way to do that is to write a song about every town and city in the state." With atlas and guitar in hand, he added to the repertoire that would form the basis for many of the songs on STA-W. Bloom's songs are chock full of witty wordplay and hand-hewn humor. "It may not seem like it," D.C. notes, "but I really do work at this silly stuff, ya know?" Because not unlike the spin and obtuse soundbites that emanate from the real D.C., there's often more than one way to interpret D.C.'s lyrics. Bloom paraphrases another fella who had a keen eye and an ability to masquerade truth in satire, saying, "Yep, I never met a double entendre I didn't like." The songs on Simpler Times A-Wastin' (STA-W) bear out D.C. Bloom's unique way with words. He sings of a headturning gal from Texarkana who much prefers men from Texas because when she's with Arkansas guys "she can't get her Little Rocks off." There's the delightful "Ballad of Boerne and Alice," which chronicles the on-line romance and the less-than-satisfying in-person hook-up of two residents of two Texas towns whose names sound a lot like where they're from. He takes a playful jab at the business community of the Alamo City on "I Can't Forget the Alamo," ticking off the real and imagined names of San Antonio enterprises that can't resist the temptation to call themselves Alamo something-or-other. And on the jazz-boiled "Small Potatoes," which features the beautiful acoustic guitar work of Maestro Aurora, D.C. offers homage to the virtues of organic farming, "diesel-powered cats in greasy trucker caps," and the noble pursuits of common women and men. The CD also includes two tracks with his former bandmates, the Dog Waggers, including "Ice Box on the Fritz,' a bouncing Sir Doug-inspired romp about a refrigerator handyman with more than repairs on his mind. But while it's D.C.'s light-hearted cleverness that draws the listener in, there's also a reflective, thoughtful side to his songwriting that touches on universal themes such as family or longing for deeper connections. On "Acres to Plow," which features the harmonies of Terri Hendrix and the steel guitar of Lloyd Maines," both of whom he first met at that defining Kerrville workshop, D.C. reminisces about his dairy farming father who would joyfully sing on his tractor all day long. And on the haunting and sobering "Neon Signs," which has been featured on KGSR's "Lone Star State of Mind" radio show, D.C draws the parallel between those once-buzzing storefront artifacts from earlier days that have "lost their way and their will to shine" and broken down people who cling to false hope and memories of bygone and fading love. D.C.'s newest musical offering, a 5-song EP entitled "Cinco de Star-oh!" is set for an April 16, 2010 release. Recorded in Austin, TX at the Byrd House Studio, the EP features an array some of of the city's finest players and singers, including Lloyd Maines on dobro, Warren Hood on fiddle and madolin, Chip Dolan on piano and accordion, Tom Robinson on saxophone, Greg Whitfield on lead guitar, Michael Rubin on harmonica, Elizabeth Wills on vocals, and Chrissy Flatt on background harmonies.- Shop: odax
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