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SLAUGHTER BEACH, DOG – ” Birdie “

Posted: October 30, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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As the band Modern Baseball headed towards an extended hiatus, Jake Ewald — one of the band’s primary two primary songwriters has been investing more energy into his Slaughter Beach, Dog side project. He started it a couple years ago to release a handful of demos but picked it up in earnest last fall with Welcome, a charmingly low-stakes concept album about a fictional town called Slaughter Beach inhabited by characters that shared Ewald’s familiar sense of suburban disillusion. The project’s freedom from pressure and more freeform aspirations blossomed with the Motorcycle.jpg EP and Birdie LP this year. His newer tracks take cues from folk standards and confessional diaries, and they rival the great work he did with his main band, solidifying him as one of this generation’s most talented and adaptable young songwriters.

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KATIE ELLEN – ” Cowgirl Blues “

Posted: October 26, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Every now and then an album comes into your life that utterly wrecks you. It resonates with you on a level where you can’t tell if it’s easing the knife out of your wound or if it’s twisting it more. But you keep coming back even if it’s destroying you because as painful as it might be, Katie Ellen’s ‘Cowgirl Blues’ is one of those albums. From The Ashes of the band Chumped , their first and last album Teenage Retirement, Now comes Anika Pyle’s aka Katie Ellen first solo foray.
Its great Alt-Indie Pop/punk flow with the same biting lyrical content that made her former band a joy to behold with just enough edge to keep things real.

Anika Pyle was a songwriter with much to say and an electrifying way of saying it. She’s extremely good at writing about her personal life in a way that feels vital and universal. Fortunately, although Chumped are dearly departed, Pyle and former Chumped drummer Dan Frelly have relocated to Philadelphia and reemerged as Katie Ellen, a new project for a new phase of life. On their debut album Cowgirl Blues, her old charged-up tales of quarter-life romantic longing and disillusionment give way to more measured tempos and an overall more bleary disposition,  Despite the darker shading, her songs remain remarkably catchy and alive  perhaps painfully so,

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Anika Pyle – Vocals, Guitars
Anthony Tinnirella – Guitars
Dan Frelly – Drums
Eric Sheppard – Vocals, Bass

All songs written by Anika Pyle

HARMONY WOODS – ” Nothing Special “

Posted: October 26, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Sofia Verbilla adopted the Harmony Woods moniker when she began releasing music last year, allowing for a deflective distance from her vulnerable and big-hearted songs. Her debut full-length, Nothing Special, is demarcated by a series of numbered vignettes that split up the songs “proper,” but really all of her songs are vignettes of a sort, snapshots of worry and distance and ache. Verbilla’s smoky and powerful voice belies the insecurities she lays bare in her writing as she confronts the unstable ground that life is built on. It’s a contrast that works wonders, and Nothing Special’s title even begs you to contradict it, to assert that, of course, she’s certainly doing something very special indeed.

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All songs written by Sofia Verbilla
Vocals/rhythm guitar/keys by Sofia Verbilla
Lead guitar by Brendan Lukens 
Bass by Sophy Kelsall 
Drums by Jeremy Berkin 

RADIATOR HOSPITAL – ” The Songs You Like “

Posted: October 21, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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This album was recorded May 1st-4th 2017 at Uniform Recording by Jeff Zeigler. It was mastered by Carl Saff. Jeff Bolt played drums. Sam Cook-Parrott sang and played guitar. Jon Rybicki played bass. Cynthia Schemmer played guitar and sang. All words written by Sam Cook-Parrott except “Sycamore” which is a song by the band Martha. Front cover art by Jason Roy. Back cover photo by Catherine Elicson. Layout by Mikey Cantor. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to Jeff, Carl, Jason, Catherine, Marco, Mikey, Eloy, all our housemates for putting up with loud practices, everyone who ever booked us a show, everyone who has supported our music.

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SPORTS – ” All Of Something “

Posted: September 10, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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SPORTS is a 4-5 piece basement rock band based in Philadelphia, PA. The band’s second album titled All of Something was recorded in Philadelphia with celebrated DIY producer and musician Kyle Gilbride, and was described by Rolling Stone’s Jon Dolan as “full of smart, sweetly slashing indie-rock that recalls peers like Swearin’ and Waxahatchee.” The band’s sophomore album unfurls like a flag outside a midwestern bedroom window, lifted with the air of uncertainty of those first, confusing steps of adulthood. Perry’s freckled voice, equal parts longing and hopeful, carries through with damning drums and tickling guitar solos. Each song jangles on, sometimes releasing declarative, fighting words and other times as careful as notes left on the fridge. All of Something is out now on Father/Daughter Records.
The music here is immediately recognizable right? A bunch of us who care about indie and it’s various offshoots have heard this a dozen times over and over again and that realization is weird when the first song is really slow and brooding and it might be a better anthem than the songs about crushes???

Absolutely thrilling record. The energy is wild and cute. This track specifically just has such a good chorus and some of the cutest lyrics favorite track: Getting On in Spite of You.

Songs catchy and deep at the same time, with a driving beat and a vocalist who telegraphs all the feels. Other favorite track: Get Bummed Out.

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Band Members
Misses Carm & Cathro, Jimmy, Beggie, Jacko

SPORTS – ” Making It Right “

Posted: September 7, 2017 in MUSIC
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Basement rock band, SPORTS has reunited in Philadelphia, after completing college in the place where it all started for them — Gambier, Ohio. Forming in 2012, the band’s first official recordings began as a collection of demo songs recorded for Kenyon College radio station, WKCO. The demos were late redone to become their first official album, “Sunchokes” which was released in the spring of 2014.

After a period of touring beyond the Buckeye State, SPORTS went on to release their second album, All of Something in the fall of 2015 on Father/Daughter Records. The release was recorded in Philadelphia alongside noted DIY producer and musician Kyle Gilbride (Waxahatchee, Girlpool, Swearin’), and featured a fuller sound for the band. The album received critical acclaim, with Rolling Stone  calling it “full of sharp, sweet insight and heart-tugging hooks.”

Nearly two years since the release of All of Something, SPORTS is making their return with a 7” split alongside Father/Daughter label mates, Plush, out on October. 20th. The split features members Carmen Perry (vocals and guitar), Jack Washburn (guitar and vocals), Catherine Dwyer (bass) and Benji Dossetter (drums). Singles, “Making It Right” and “Calling Out” are punched up, energetic moments of sincerity, with SPORTS taking the innermost emotions that others are keen to keep rolling about in their heads and hearts and putting them to song. Fuzzy, earnest and declarative, these singles are the perfect way to hold fans over as SPORTS continues work on future new material.

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BEACH SLANG – ” Here, I Made This For You ” (Beach Slang Mixtape Vol. 2)

Posted: August 24, 2017 in MUSIC
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Beach Slang returns with the second installment of its covers mixtape series.
The mixtape features five songs originally by The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Adverts, The Modern Lovers, Tommy Keene and The Candyskins.
released February 10th, 2017

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BEACH SLANG – ” We Were Babies & We Were Dirtbags [Quiet Slang] “

Posted: August 24, 2017 in MUSIC
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“I suppose we’re all chasing something that resembles salvation, something that calms our bones. Maybe this is some small slice of that. Maybe it’s not. Maybe it’s chaos in soft clothes. Maybe it’s frightened. Maybe it’s fearless. Maybe it’s both. Or maybe it’s nothing. I don’t know, but I think about this: one day I’m going to be dust. And when my soul splits, maybe this will be the thing that sneaks me through the gates. If not, well, those are the breaks.”
—James Alex [Quiet Slang]

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The DISTRICTS – ” Out Of Town Film ” Session

Posted: August 14, 2017 in MUSIC
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Our good friends and local Philadelphia favorites, The Districts, recently played a pop-up show at our headquarters to a intimate crowd of 50 or so fans. We got so many requests for tickets that we had to close the RSVP within an hour of posting about it. The guys played a full set that night and we filmed three songs.

“Hounds, Bold, Heavy Begs”

 

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