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SOTD #749 – Big Bill

SOTD #749 – Big Bill

The new 7” Every City / Food Chain by Austin, Texas, spazzo-nerdcore good-times-every-time-all-the-time “it’s a TV Party” band Big Bill is easily the product of a band of misfits that must have been locked in a room in the 80s with only Urgh! A Music War VHS on loop and nothing but Capri Suns and […]

 Mike Turner

SOTD #747 – CaStLeS

SOTD #747 – CaStLeS

There seems to be this revival of the 90’s right now, and the new single “Amcanu” by Castles (which is actually CaStLeS, but that’s way too much work to type) might be one of freshest takes on that era. I’m hearing traces of the krautrock of Can and Neu! (both had reissues in the 90’s […]

 Mike Turner

SOTD #745 – Croque Madame

SOTD #745 – Croque Madame

As summer winds down and the weather begins to chill, Croque Madame give us one last trip to the coast, the lake, the river, or even the local pool. We have no information about this band or who they are, reminiscent of Stereolab, Stereo Total, April March, and the Lucksmiths all at once, yet not […]

 Mike Turner

SOTD #742 – Conformist

SOTD #742 – Conformist

“Komputer Jenerated” is a super-short track at 2 minutes and 54 seconds but I want it to loop for hours on end. At the time of writing this piece and forming my thoughts and trying to think of ways to describe what I am hearing, the track has played over and over easily 15 times. […]

 Mike Turner

SOTD #740 – Soft-Hearted Scientists

SOTD #740 – Soft-Hearted Scientists

There are times when the mood of music is enough…times where some weird sound can carry you through. Cardiff’s Soft Hearted Scientists know how to make eerie soft electronic psychedelia. The space between the notes, the light drums, the watery keys, the hardly hard-enough strumming of the guitar. On the first listen I just wanted […]

 Mike Turner

SOTD #739 – Hologram Teen

SOTD #739 – Hologram Teen

I had this one kid that worked for me at my label ages ago who listened non-stop to French electro-pop and Italian disco. He now works at a major electronic label working with some of the biggest electronic acts around. I never could understand all the stuff he was so into at the time. I […]

 Mike Turner

SOTD #730 – Kellar

SOTD #730 – Kellar

Kellar is Andy Pyne. Kellar is Dan Cross. Kellar is seismic in relation to the music making you move around it. Kellar is propulsion in relation to pushing you to engage with what you are hearing. Kellar is there because it needs to be, and it is up to you how you deal with it. […]

 Mike Turner

SOTD #728 – Ani Glass

SOTD #728 – Ani Glass

Have you ever seen the movie Rad? It’s a movie about a small town boy that makes good on his BMX bike while he is constantly kept down by a corporate BMX company which is worried that if he races he will win. Anyway, there is a scene about a quarter of the way through […]

 Mike Turner

SOTD #727 – Big Bill

SOTD #727 – Big Bill

Big Bill hail from Austin, Texas and sound like nothing else that has come out of the town that SXSW has devoured. Tons of guitar twang with just the right amount of bending and swagger, that somehow brings to mind the super cool non-solo solos of the Dead Milkmen and the peckin’ party stomp and […]

 Mike Turner

SOTD #726 – Foxtales

SOTD #726 – Foxtales

Sometimes you find yourself in this weird place where you are looking for stuff but stuff finds you. I’m not a writer, and yet somehow I’m on a bunch of press lists. Like an insane amount of press lists. I have 30,000+ unread emails in that inbox, but then I’ll check that email and something […]

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