Song of the Day #721 – The Orielles
The Orielles might call Halifax (which is as middle England as you can get) their home, but their hearts sound deeply rooted in California. Replace the cobblestone hilltop roads with miles of flat asphalt running alongside the beaches and piers, replace the woolly sheep with dogs wearing sunglasses, replace the nonstop rain and overcast skies […]
SOTD #704 – The Migrant
Photo by Mads Hartmann The Migrant is pretty much this one dude Bjarke Bentsen from Denmark hiding under a band name that trades in super chill vibes all around with songs that kinda stay mid tempo and float in this spot between British folk-psych and Americana while never fully latching on to one or the […]
Song of the Day #700 – The Orielles
I have been to Halifax, UK and the last place I’d expect to find a band that sounds like the Orielles would by far be Halifax. I was drawn to this by the masterfully done hand lettering of their band name that I kept seeing all over the internet. I instantly checked out their soundcloud […]
Song of the Day #695 – Carriages
Sometimes the best moments, the best ways to find something new, the best opportunities in which you find yourself surprised and wonder how you’ve missed something so good, happen when a friend says, “Hey, check this out.” Instantly you fall all over again. Your head is over your heels, you’ve fallen head over heels, you […]
Fevered Dreams – Mike Turner’s Top 10 Albums of 2014
Above: Witching Waves @ the Hello Goodbye Show. I had been working on this year end list for what seems like weeks. I’d been fighting off this nasty bug since Thanksgiving. It finally caught up with me and I spent what seems like ages in a fevered state so I can’t really feel too bad if […]
The Challenge #1 – Gretchen Lyme
(By the by. If you haven’t guessed by now, I am a self-styled sidekick. The Tails to yr Sonic. The Watson to yr Holmes. The Bullwinkle to yr Rocky. You get the idea.) So I was sitting with Mike again, behind the counter at Wuxtry, when the other bloke working puts on this shouty ramshackle […]
Single Of The Week – Dark Beach – Scream Queen (Dark Beach Records / Unicorn Power Schema)
Bay area surf-trash-garage duo Dark Beach are parts the Mummies, the 5,6,7,8’s, Shonen Knife, and a dash of Blast Off Country Style. Dark Beach have all your B-movie fetishes covered from “Scream Queen,” “UFO,” “Swamp Girl,” and “Shark Attack,” they know their audience well. Melissa Dale on drums and Faith Gardner on guitar and vocals […]
Mike Turner’s 2014 Mid-Year Top Ten
2014 has been a super busy year for me and I kinda stopped following as much of what was going on and the up and coming buzz bands than in years past. My top ten picks of 2014 seems to be made up of older bands making a return or bands that just were just […]
Song of the Day #686 – John Mouse
The new John Mouse record “The Death of John Mouse” on the Crocfingers label does it’s fair share of Britpop worship, but it’s the track “Ilka Moor” that stands heads and shoulders above the rest of the album. The album is single after single after single playing out like an album version of ‘Putting on the […]