Minutos Musicales: Bubblegum Lemonade

Estimados,
hoy tenemos una clase musical de pop en mayúsculas.
1 CD y 2 EPs en su carrera bastan para ver lo bueno que es este grupo: Bubblegum Lemonade.

Laz (ver foto) es el lider indiscutible de esta banda, aunque también lidera el grupo Strawberry Whiplash ( http://www.myspace.com/strawberrywhiplash ) junto con Sandra. Trabajan con el sello Matinée Records, una referencia más para este grupo de Glasgow.

"Bubblegum Lemonade is a 60's influenced 12-string Indie-Pop affair based in Glasgow, Scotland. A fondness of the Byrds and the Mary Chain comes across on such songs as 'The Tomorrow People' and 'Unsafe At Any Speed'. Laz from Bubblegum Lemonade also moonlights with Strawberry Whiplash.

The band name is inspired by Mama Cass Elliot's 1969 solo album 'Bubblegum, Lemonade & Something for Mama'."

Grupo: Bubblegum Lemonade
Disco: Ten Years Younger
Año: 2008
Web oficial: http://www.myspace.com/bubblegumlemonade
Canciones destacadas: Unsafe At Any Speed, Ten Years Younger, The Tomorrow People y That Thing You Do!

Y si podéis, echadle un ojo a este tema subido a youtube.
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=jzMU5G4R-Ns

Minutos Musicales: Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin

Estimados,
canciones frescas para este año 2008. Este es un grupo de nombre curioso (SSLYBY) que hace referencia al primer presidente de Rusia - Boris Yeltsin, con una carrera muy cortita.... este es su segundo disco y por ahí además tienen un 7" con un par de canciones adicionales.

"Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, a band, couldn’t list a single music blog until their lo-fi MP3s and low-res JPEGs made them worldwide icons of Blogdom in 2005. Their debut record, Broom is an expertly crafted indie pop gem. Spin magazine read an SSLYBY blog, downloaded their music and declared the Missouri band “could succeed The Shins.” Then a slew of bloggers ranked them ahead of Wilco and Iron & Wine in Leafblower’s annual “Top Bands of America Today”.
“Internet fame doesn’t make sense to us,” says drummer and main songwriter Philip Dickey. “I don’t think our lead singer has an e-mail address.”

All members were babies in the early 80s. A mutual ex-girlfriend from high school introduced the original members of the band. And that’s also where the name comes from—high school. “I thought of it when I was at the mall with my mom,” Dickey says. “We’re not good at naming things or planning ahead. We only tried to make people like us a couple years ago.”

SSLYBY’s hometown used to be a beacon of pop music in the 50’s. That’s when The Ozark Jubilee was broadcasting live country music from the downtown Springfield, entertaining millions of viewers every Saturday night on primetime NBC. “We think about that show a lot,” Dickey says. “Our little town was the third highest origination point for national television…third only to New York and Hollywood. We want to bring the spotlight back here. Moving to Brooklyn or LA would be copping out. We’re not that sad about living in Missouri.”

The band released their debut album, Broom, originally in March 2005. Broom was recorded in an attic and a living room on Weller Street, Knauer’s home. The band’s ambition was simple- to make the “Local Releases” bin at CD Warehouse. However, it turned into a classic rock ‘n’ roll record: the kind where pop perfectionism meets studio experimentations and each track flows effortlessly. Relatively tame pop songs are molded by happy accidents of fate, sometimes involving unexplained swarming sounds and doubled drums tracks.

The band posted Broom MP3s on their website, and that’s how the blogging boom began. Then the San Francisco Weekly wrote a love letter to the band—literally.

“Dear Unknown Band from Middle of Nowhere Missouri, How do I love thee? …your debut is one of those rare albums where every song is crafted, delicious, and essential. This is disgusting, really, given the fact that the oldest member of your band is only 22. Yours truly, Chris Baty”

And the infatuation hasn’t ended. It’s impossible to find a reviewer or blogger that isn’t lovesick over Broom, even with omniscient help of Google.

The band is in the process of following up Broom at incessant pace. Each month SSLYBY releases 30 minutes of analog recordings to subscribers of their prolific “Tape Club”. And they proved they were a real band when they toured with Secretly Canadian’s Catfish Haven in February. The Columbia Tribune called it one of the best shows of the year….“Springfield up-and-comer doesn’t yet realize the gifts it possesses - a scary thought.”

Also scary: the reviews barely scratch the surface of SSLYBY’s virtues. Listen to what Pitchfork labeled the “Basement MP3’s”. Scour the internet. Feel the love poured into each song. And watch Google completely debase the way we discover our new favorite bands."

Grupo: Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin
Disco: Pershing
Año: 2008
Web oficial: http://www.morawk.com/boris/ y http://www.myspace.com/boris
Canciones destacadas: Modern Mistery, Dead Right y Some Constellation

Minutos Musicales: Good Shoes

Estimados,
menuda semana esta de eventos.... !Un no parar!

Hoy toca presentaros un grupo de Londres (como tantos otros) de 4 miembros que inició su andadura por 2004 aunque hasta la fecha sólo han publicado el disco que hoy os presento.

Su lider Rhys Jones y el guitarrista Steve Leach solían tocar y escribir música como hobby hasta que un día decidieron, a raiz de tocar un par de temas en un festival, que debían formalizar este hobby y crear una banda en condiciones. Por ello se unieron Tom Jones (hermano del lider) y Joel Cox (amigos del resto). A partir de aquí comienza su trayectoria dando conciertos en 2005 y el hecho más destacable es la publicación de su único disco en marzo de este año.

"The band started looking for gigs in January 2005, their first gig was put on by a friend at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge University on 1 February.[citation needed] Their second was at a secret party on Eel Pie Island with Mystery Jets and from then on they played as many gigs as possible in and around London. This led to them playing the Artrocker clubnight in August put on by Artrocker Magazine. At this gig, the band were recommended to their current label, Brille Records by a member of the band FC Kahuna, and after playing In The City music festival in Manchester they signed with Brille in November 2005. John Kennedy (a DJ at London-based radio station Xfm) started to give the band airtime based on a demo which was recorded in the bands shed[citation needed], and a new demo, recorded at Southern Studios started to get the band recgonition from stations like Radio 1, 6 Music and other mainstream radio stations, with both Steve Lamacq and Zane Lowe playing the demo.

The band travelled to Malmö, Sweden to record their first album, called Think Before You Speak, with Per Sunding at Tambourine Studios. It was released 26 March 2007.

On 28 May 2007, the band performed a secret free gig at Morden Park bandstand. The bandstand and other landmarks from the local area are featured in the video for their next single "Morden", released on 11 June 2007."

Grupo: Good Shoes
Disco: Think Before You Speak
Año: 2007
Web oficial: http://www.goodshoes.co.uk/
Canciones destacadas: Blue Eyes, Nazanin, Morden, Photos y In the City