While there has been some cool stuff in his Girlfriend-and-after period (I won’t go into the earlier synth/digital epoch), my general view of Mr. Sweet has been that he’ll take a good 2’ 30” tune […]
This is a curious package. Capitol passed on the last two albums, which were picked up by Island. Yet here they are again. The band has placed ten singles in the Top 20 in the […]
This set commemorates a Pop Fests in Sydney called Lost Weekend. I don’t know if they only put it on bi-annually or just release the companion CD every two years, but a few of you […]
Fancey are masterminded by one Todd Fancey, a Vancouverite who has done time in Limblifter and the New Pornographers, thus the presence of Kurt Dahle as his right-hand man on this project (with his left-hand […]
On their own Zip offers this sampling — 11 bands — from the environs around their Australian office, the very warm (all right, let’s just say it, “it gets damn hot there”) coastal city of […]
This one also dates back a bit. Sweden’s Yesterday Girl label has, as the volume number in the title implies, been doing a series of these built around little scenes. The previous volumes were Minnesota, […]
– A Salute To Teenage Fanclub – At 24 cuts in over 79 minutes this thing is so stuffed that the last tune, Near You via Joyride gets cut off after the first 30 seconds, […]
Anyone aware of the L. A. power-pop scene of the last ten years or so must be familiar with the name of Tony Perkins, hiding behind the Martin Luther Lennon monicker, which then again, just […]
A man with more drive and stamina than I’ve ever demonstrated is Jerker Emanuelsson. He’s been putting out these compilations, the more recent ones being double disc sets too, plus the other odd releases, for […]
This is another one of those LONG overdue re-releases, and also being the first ever compiling the complete works of these Glasgowian beatsters. All it took was an enthusiastic fan, which happens to be the […]
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