Articles by David M. Snyder

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, […]

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 trio from St. Louis have a wee bit of Bolan in them, à la track #1, Devil — with its wee, nasally, semi-falsetto part in the choruses. The song itself is a rambunctious rocker […]

Every region probably could claim one. Dallas’, via southeastern Oklahoma, the Five Americans could be thought of as a real life Wonders, not in being “one hit wonders” but in the wake of the Beatles […]

These imprints were one of Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller’s multiple dabbles as record company moguls. They existed between 1962 and 1964 and encompassed just eleven singles, all of which are found here; in addition […]