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 Lee Adcock

Athens Popfest, Day 2 – The Dance

Athens Popfest, Day 2 – The Dance

Punisher of drums for Deerhoof (and fellow introvert) Greg Saunier, shot by the lovely folk of Gauche. All videos by Jason Seiple. Thursday, August 11, 2016 T-Shirt for the day: Melt-Banana tee, grey. Acquired back in April after seeing Melt-Banana open for Melvins (in 20 minutes or less). You cannot force the dance. The dance […]

 Scott Creney

The Only Apple Music Article You Need To Read

The Only Apple Music Article You Need To Read

By Scott Creney So when you first join up there’s all these goddamned floating circles and you’re supposed to pick your favorite genre of music from a bunch of categories that are so broad & vague as to be meaningless: alternative, electronic, pop, rock, oldies, etc. But you can’t see all the bubbles at once […]

 Lee Adcock

Girls Rock Athens! – Live Review Of a Free Youth Concert

Girls Rock Athens! – Live Review Of a Free Youth Concert

When you fall in love with Tunabunny, you fall in love with this notion of freedom – dontcha? And when you watch the videos, and you read that this whimsical place of light and paint is Athens, Georgia, you connect the two, and believe that some happy magic in the soil must nurture this pink […]

 Everett True

Song of the day – 671: King Champion Sounds

Song of the day – 671: King Champion Sounds

I use the word blast. I refer to the bursts of clarion-call brass that punctuate this uplifting, insurgent noise. I refer to the chiding, aware vocals.

 Everett True

You can’t judge a book by its cover. Or an album. Or can you?

girl punk; electronic; 60s girl group; teenage schoolgirls; something to do with the beach; grunge; surf pop; surfer punk; late 70s/early 80s DIY post-punk

 Everett True

Song of the day – 437: Prinzhorn Dance School (+ 5 wonderful obscure old school ‘awkward pop’ videos)

Love the silences between the vocals. Sure, we’re talking Gla*o Babies.

 Everett True

Song of the day – 370: The New Sound Of Numbers (a love song to Athens GA, part four)

Is that a cow bell? No.

 Everett True

Song of the day – 363: Supercluster (a love song to Athens GA, part one)

This sound is so glorious! It’s like if (early) B-52s and Pylon remained the best-known bands from Athens instead of … goddammit, what was that band’s name again? Coldplay?

 Everett True

Song of the day – 231: Tunabunny

Bangs wept. This music makes me deliriously happy. It clatters, it splatters, it shatters, it matters. I’ve listened to the album front to back, back to front, sideways, length ways, every which wrong ways, adored the New Order steals, the slices of unrequited Bikini Kill/Skinned Teen screaming, the tributes to the female Captain Beefheart, the […]

 Everett True

Song of the day – 163: Las Kellies

Let’s begin with a video. I’ve posted it before, but you’ll forgive me, right?