Saturday, December 28, 2013

Wool - If They Left Us Alone Now

We mentioned Wool last week, but in case you don't know them, you really should hear this, their signature song. Happy Holidays!

Monday, December 9, 2013

The Rattles and Wool

Never not surprised by the seemingly random connections made on Youtube. Like why would Wool, from Syracuse, and better known for soul influenced folk rock like "If They Left Us Alone Now" or "Love Love Love Love" cover Hamburg's The Rattles hit, "The Witch"? Aside from commercial reasons, we mean...

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Friday, November 29, 2013

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Frantic Elevators - Holding Back the Years

original version. Kinda miss the "I'll Keep Holding On" part, though.

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Homestead & Wolfe - Beat Of The Drum

This peculiar offering comes to you from Cupertino, California, by way of LA's famed Gold Star studios and sounds like the Dedrick's tougher West Coast cousins. But stop reading and just listen.

Friday, October 18, 2013

Ottowan - Tes OK

The pieces keep falling into place.

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Dexys - There There

In the olden days, people rebelled against fashion the same way they would rebel against the government. Seen and Heard.

Friday, October 4, 2013

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Earth & Fire - Memories

Who is more beautiful than Jerney Kaagman in this brief and fleeting moment?

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Sunday, September 15, 2013

CMU - Dream

Our man in Stockholm, drummer extraordinaire Bjorn Bjornsson, strikes again.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

IASOS

"I am functioning as a step down transformer to recreate these patterns in the physical dimension".

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Michael Bundt - Neon

thanks to Phuong Dan for turning us onto this

Friday, July 26, 2013

Gary Scruggs - Gentle When You Say The Word

It only takes half a day of hanging out in Stockholm for someone to play us this incredible piece of psychedelia which name-checks the last two cities we've been in in the last week, just for good measure.

Friday, July 19, 2013

Marc Capanni - I Believe In Miracles

If we posted this before, surely it is time to post it once again. Happy summer, weirdos.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Four Flies on Grey Velvet

Our man Daniel Collás has written a new, Goblin-themed score for this neglected Dario Argento classic, and will perform it live with his new side project, Yello Magi.

Monday, May 27, 2013

Space Art - Welcome To Love

We're only a little disappointed by the new Daft Punk record.

Monday, May 13, 2013

The Right Track - Baby I Love You

It'll be summer soon. Time to start staying up much too late.

Saturday, May 4, 2013

The Turtles - Outside Chance

An early, unsuccessful attempt by the Turtles, featuring the sublime vocalizing of Kaylan & Volman.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Little Grants & Eddie - Rudy's Dead

This peculiar record got played a lot at rocksteady and soul dances back in the teenage years. Only just realized it was actually Eddy Grant. It's becoming easier to name records from back then that he wasn't involved with.

Monday, April 15, 2013

Joy - Two Different Things

It took forever to find this, and now that we're listening, maybe not as good as previously remembered. But definitely still worth a post, especially after all the effort that went into procuring it.

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Feminine Complex - Hide And Seek

Our good friend Sarah turned us on to this a few years ago, and it just came up in conversation after finding the record in Tokyo, of all places.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

The Masters Apprentices - It's Because I Love You

Yes, "Catty" has that break, and yes, they are kind of an Australian version of Budgie, but all of that aside, this song rules.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Ago - For You

Our recent trip to Japan reminded just how great this song really is.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Ruthann Friedman - Windy (original)

The demo that went on to become The Association's signature song.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

The Lost Generation - Talking the Teenage Language

From the vocal group that featured Larry Brownlee (writer of "Michael the Lover") and Lowrell Simon (yes, that Lowrell), Young, Tough, And Terrible was the (apocryphal) follow up to The Lost Generation's hit LP The Sly, Slick, and the Wicked which included this slow burner, a top contender for #1 in the psychedelic soul canon.

Friday, February 8, 2013

Aphrodite's Child - Break

Cannot get enough of these Greek weirdos lately, especially this 666 album. If you have a spare one hour and eighteen minutes, you should listen to it, beginning to end. Lead vocals by their incredible drummer, Loukas Sideras (with the white cardigan and striped strides, no relation.)

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Wally Badarou - Endless Race

thanks to our friend Finn for the heads up on this incredible piece of electro hi life.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Solange - Losing You

This has been rattling around in our heads since we first heard it late last year. Nice work, gang.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Dum Maro Dum

featuring Charanjit Singh on the transichord.