18 months after their debut LP, Big Cats Can Swim, Athens, GA’s Eureka California have slimmed down to a bassless duo for their second collection of fuzzy, in-the-red songs. To be clear, Crunch is no White Stripes schtick. Guitarist/vocalist Jake Ward and drummer Marie A. Uhler can actually play their instruments quite well, immediately setting them apart from the overrated defunct Detroit duo. Rather,… Continue reading Eureka California at Big Takeover
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Tunabunny at Innocent Words
Having turned in three albums in just as many years, it should surprise few that year four has brought the Tunabunny’s fourth album. And what a beauty this one is. The 14 songs that make up ‘Kingdom Technology’ are a little more pop than some of their earlier efforts, but still crammed with plenty of… Continue reading Tunabunny at Innocent Words
Eureka California at Austin Town Hall
Once in a blue moon you stumble across an album that defies the odds. You might recognize bits of various genres within this sort of album, but every song sounds completely refreshing. You’ll get precisely this when you listen to Crunch, the newest album from Athens’ Eureka California; they’ve created a pop rock record that doesn’t give… Continue reading Eureka California at Austin Town Hall
Cosines at Fear and Loathing in Long Beach
Missed opportunity, waiting in line, and life brutally speeding by while you lie awake disheveled in the middle of the night. Minutes and hours lost to minutia. I don’t know what to say. What will she say? I just can’t speak the language and I don’t know the “code”. The fevered feelings of frustration and… Continue reading Cosines at Fear and Loathing in Long Beach
Cosines at Bloodbuzzed Jukebox
‘Disclosed Stories’ featured on a playlist from Bloodbuzzed Jukebox. [Link]
Casper & The Cookies at SoundsXP
A band from Athens, Georgia who’ve been around since 1998, this is their fourth album of smart, hooky pop. The “Casper” of the name is Jason NeSmith, who was part of the touring band for Of Montreal around Satanic Panic in the Attic, and the Elephant 6 connection that this suggests is partially confirmed when… Continue reading Casper & The Cookies at SoundsXP
Tunabunny Video Debut at Clash Music
Hailing from that esteemed corner of humanity known as Athens, Georgia,Tunabunny are now onto their fourth album. Mull that over for a second. In this time of music industry crisis, a band as bizarre, surreal, colourful and wonderfully different as Tunabunny have mustered up the pennies to record not one but FOUR studio albums – and… Continue reading Tunabunny Video Debut at Clash Music
Eureka California at Wondering Sound
There’s knowing your audience and then there’s knowing your audience, and the Athens, GA band Eureka, California definitely know their audience. Why else would they package the deluxe edition of their new albumCrunch with a mock 33 1/3-style book about the record’s creation, if not to appeal to the very sorts of people who would freak out over… Continue reading Eureka California at Wondering Sound
Close Lobsters at Big Takeover
After a recent reunion, now we have the first new recordings by this C86 era band. It sounds like they haven’t lost a step in the 25 years since their last recordings and in particular this release reminds me more of their earlier stuff, particularly their 1st album Foxheads Stalk This Land. Another thing about this… Continue reading Close Lobsters at Big Takeover
Close Lobsters at When You Motor Away
Of course I’m passionate about music, or I wouldn’t be writing for an indie music blog (no, the salary and stock options are not sufficient by themselves). But some genres and bands extract an extra measure of my passion. And in the upper strata is the Close Lobsters. The Paisley, Scotland band issued two albums and… Continue reading Close Lobsters at When You Motor Away