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KISSISSIPPI – ” We Have No Future, We’re All Doomed ” EP

Posted: December 3, 2015 in MUSIC
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Kississippi

Philly’s Kississippi were formed after Zoë Allaire Reynolds and Colin James Kupson who met on Tinder in 2014 (true story), and a few months later they dropped the I Can Feel You In My Hair Still EP. This week they’ll release its followup, We Have No Future, We’re All Doomed, which they recorded with Modern Baseball’s Jake Ewald. It comes out on Soft Speak Records and can be pre-ordered here. It’s indie rock that has folky qualities but certainly would never be called “folk music,” and Zoe’s likable voice is no small part of what makes this good. You can check it out for yourself, the full EP.
Kississippi were in NYC earlier this month for a Bronx show with Diet Cig (anyone catch that?) and their only upcoming dates at the moment

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In August of 2014, Zoë Allaire Reynolds put out a 5-song EP under the moniker Kississippi, and later that month, Colin James Kupson moved to Philadelphia to attend The University of the Arts (for Music Technology). The two began collaborating on music together after meeting on Tinder(!) They honed their output, and went in to the Drexel studios in January 2015 with Jake Ewald from the band Modern Baseball. The record, named after a friend whom scrawled “we have no future, we’re all doomed” across a class picture of Zoë and themselves, is a 6-song exploration into what the duo were capable of. What comes of the creative foray is a magnetic, multi-faceted output that sees the marriage of the two’s musical backgrounds; featuring Beach House-like synth harmonies, syncopated beat manipulation, and Drop C basslines. After playing many months of shows as a 2-piece, they decided to approach friends to help flesh the performances out, creating a weighted and significant live show, which exemplarily demonstrate the duo’s goal to create “amp worshipping pop/popviolence,” or an amalgamation of heavy energy and theatrics with pop hooks and dreamy haze.

Sometimes you’re introduced to a song at such a pointed moment in time that it physically hurts you to hear it. Kississippi’s “Indigo” did that to me when I heard it. There’s a loneliness in Zoë Allaire Reynolds’ voice that curls up next to you when you find yourself in the same emotional space so you can keep each other company. Kississippi’s exquisitely-produced EP,  We Have No Future Were All Doomed, is a moody and open-hearted collection of songs about love overcoming physical and emotional distance, and the fallout that ensues when it doesn’t.

KISSISSIPPI – ” Ivy Forest Dew “

Posted: December 3, 2015 in MUSIC
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In August of 2014, Zoë Allaire Reynolds put out a 5-song EP under the moniker Kississippi, and later that month, Colin James Kupson moved to Philadelphia to attend The University of the Arts (for Music Technology). The two began collaborating on music together after meeting on Tinder(!) They honed their output, and went in to the Drexel studios in January 2015 with Jake Ewald. The record, named after a friend whom scrawled “we have no future, we’re all doomed” across a class picture of Zoë and themselves, is a 6-song exploration into what the duo were capable of. What comes of the creative foray is a magnetic, multi-faceted output that sees the marriage of the two’s musical backgrounds; featuring Beach House-like synth harmonies, syncopated beat manipulation, and Drop C basslines. After playing many months of shows as a 2-piece, they decided to approach friends to help flesh the performances out, creating a weighted and significant live show, which exemplarily demonstrate the duo’s goal to create “amp worshipping pop/popviolence,” or an amalgamation of heavy energy and theatrics with pop hooks and dreamy haze.

 

PALM – ” Trading Basics “

Posted: November 27, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Palm

Quadratic equation rock performed by malfunctioning, sputtering appliances, For Fans of: Oxes, Bellini, Guerilla Toss .Like a Beefheart made for loft shows, Philadelphia-based fractal-rock quartet Palm’s sounds improvisational while being rooted in utter precision. On their debut, Trading Basics, guitar parts deconstruct themselves in real time; bass lines dart and duck; drums propel the action while also seeming to comment on it. Vocalist-guitarists Eve Alpert and Kasra Kurt’s vocal harmonies add more tension to this outfit’s heady mix. Palm are wrapping up a nationwide tour and are already preparing to head back into the studio and record album Number Two.

They Say: “For the most part, our music starts with a seed, and then we all come together and add our own elements to it,” says Alpert. “It’s important that we’re all doing something, that the song is all of our parts. A lot of times, we like when the rhythm section takes the foreground of a song. We like to deconstruct what a pop song could be, and we like to be pretty jagged in our sound.”

The lurching, churning “Garden” shows off Palm’s ability to create gorgeously realized chaos from ragged pieces.

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STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN – ” Transmission Impossible ” 3 cd set

Posted: November 19, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Despite his mainstream career only lasting seven years, terminated by the tragic helicopter crash that killed him along with four others in 1990, Stevie Ray Vaughan had played the clubs and bars of Texas for nigh on 15 years before his big break at 1982 s Montreux Festival, and his appearance on David Bowie s Let s Dance album the following year. But once he did take off there was barely any stopping him and across this short period he built an enormous following from both blues fanatics who had been bereft of a true guitar hero since Jimi Hendrix had passed on more than a decade earlier, and from younger enthusiasts tired of the plastic synth scene that was concurrently tearing up MTV and the Billboard Charts. He had released five studio albums during his short career and tour religiously – interrupted only by his months of rehab in 1986, and for a two year period between 1987 and 1989 when he was unable to record or compose for legal reasons, while his divorce to Lenora Bailey was going through. This 3 CD collection features a triumvirate of live Stevie Ray shows, all taken from FM Broadcasts, performed throughout the period when his star was shining brightest.

The Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
August 17th, 1984
King Biscuit Flower Hour Broadcasts
Soundboard recording

The first of these, on DISC ONE of this set, is the early show played at the Spectrum in Montreal, Canada, on August 17th 1984, a few months following the release of his second album, “Couldn’t Stand The Weather”, and thus featuring a number of cuts from that record, but mixing it up too with earlier songs and covers. It should be noted this is a completely different show to that now featured on the Deluxe Edition of Couldn’t Stand the Weather, which is the late set, albeit performed on the same day

01 – Love Struck Baby [00:00]
02 – Tell Me [03:15]
03 – Texas Flood [06:32]
04 – Wham! [15:19]
05 – Stang’s Swang [21:17]
06 – Lenny [24:26]
07 – Pride And Joy [35:37]
08 – Rude Mood [40:04]

The second show, on DISC TWO, is Stevie s complete set played at the Chicago Blues Festival on June 7th 1985, when “Soul To Soul” was all but in the can awaiting release in September of that year. The set list this time however only features a couple of tracks from this forthcoming album, and the selection played is more varied, not unusual when performing in front of a festival crowd.

01 – Testify 02 – Say What 03 – Ain’t Gone ‘N’ Give Upon Love 04 – Voodoo Chile 05 – Mary Had A Little Lamb 06 – Texas Flood 07 – Come On 08 – Pride And Joy 09 – Life Without You

On DISC THREE, perhaps the most interesting of all, features Stevie s complete New Year s Eve show 1986, performed at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, shortly after he d completed rehab and was back in defiant mood and making the party go with a swing. Joined for a couple of cuts by fellow guitar legend Lonnie Mack, this gig is often acclaimed as one of Vaughan’s best ever.

STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN – ” Rood Mood ” June 30th 1987 Mann Music Centre, Philadelphia

Posted: November 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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Stevie Ray Vaughan literally came out of Texas like a Texas Whirlwind in the mid-eighties although by that time he had more than paid his dues in various bands and playing back up for artists like Marc Benno. The band Double Trouble came into existence in 1978, but at this stage the band was not the line-up that would go onto massive commercial success, bassist Tommy Shannon would not join until 1980 but when he did the formula was complete. A record deal with Epic Records was signed in March 1983 and the band recorded their debut album for the label, Texas Flood which was released in June 1983. Following the release of this album which would reach the top forty in the Billboard charts and go on to eventually sell over half a million copies, the band toured relentlessly whilst releasing further albums including “Couldn’t Stand The Weather” and “Soul To Soul”. In 1985 Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble released the live album Live Alive. The concert this album is sourced from comes from the Live Alive tour in 1987 at the Mann Music Center in Philadelphia on June 3oth. This radio broadcast captures the band on fire and promoting the Live Alive album, which at this point had peaked in the Billboard Chart at number 52. Stevie Ray Vaughan would go on to record more studio albums including “In Step” in 1989 and an album called Family Style with his elder brother Jimmie Vaughan who himself had experienced success with his band The Fabulous Thunderbirds. Sadly Family Style would be the last album Stevie Ray Vaughan would record because just one month before the album’s release Stevie Ray Vaughan was to die tragically in a helicopter crash following a concert with Eric Clapton at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy Wisconsin on August 27th 1990.

Tracklist

01 Scuttle Buttin’ 3:16 02 Say What? 5:19 03 Lookin’ Out The Window 4:46 04 Look At Little Sister 5:01 05 Mary Had A Little Lamb 5:55 06 Ain’t Gone ‘n’ Give Up on Love 9:03 07 Superstition 5:04 08 Cold Shot 6:14 09 Couldn’t Stand The Weather 8:06 10 Life Without You 14:00 11 Come On (Part III) 5:06 12 Love Struck Baby 2:57 13 Rude Mood 4:38 Total Time 79:25 Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, PA. June 30, 1987 WMMR FM Recording

HOP ALONG – ” I Saw My Twin “

Posted: October 20, 2015 in MUSIC
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This Philly-based quartet of Mark and Frances Quinlan, Tyler Long, and Joe Reinhart push accessibility’s boundaries on their sophomore LP “Painted Shut”, which seamlessly skirts the middle ground between fuzzy guitar-pop and vertigo-inducing rhythms. Even more jarring (and appealing) is Frances’ octave-swinging, hair-raising vocal rasp.

With only two albums to their name, Hop Along have only just begun to hit their stride as a band.

“I Saw My Twin,” a gently loping Painted Shut standout track about finding your doppelgänger at the Waffle House

BEACH SLANG – ” American Girls And French Kisses “

Posted: October 20, 2015 in MUSIC
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Beach Slang are eternal optimists who skip the lyrical platitudes and instead insist with clear-eyed determination tinged with the bands wisdom and experience, that hard times, broken hearts, and hopeless situations are manageable, temporary stumbles. This Philadelphian band cements this glass-half-full mindset with uplifting, Jawbreaker-meets-Replacements (with maybe a slice of the Psychedelic Furs) rock righteousness.

Although Beach Slang consist of music-scene vets, they’re still early in their career: The band merely has two EPs to date under their name, and their debut album, “The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us”, isn’t even out until October 30th . But with a UK tour planned early in the new year , they will be playing at the Bodega Social in Nottingham.

listen to “American Girls and French Kisses,” from the Cheap Thrills On A Dead End Street EP.

SHEER MAG – ” II EP “

Posted: July 30, 2015 in MUSIC
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Sheer Mag’s style brings to mind the loose, glam-inflected garage rock of the ’70s, but their music never sounds like it actually comes from that decade. Unlike bands like  T. Rex, or Big Star,  the Philly band records crudely and (one hopes) cheaply, capturing the essential details of their sound without sweating the fidelity. They are lo-fi in the purest sense and their quick-and-dirty 7″/Bandcamp M.O. is firmly in the punk tradition, as are lyrics about hard times or making your way in a corrupt capitalist world. But the most impressive thing about their two 7″s so far is that they are pure ear candy, with relentlessly catchy guitar parts and an undercurrent of sleaze in the swinging rhythms. This turns out to be the ideal accompaniment to Christina Halladay’s voice, which sounds pissed off and vulnerable simultaneously, a fuck-you sneer .  Sheer Mag have no illusions about ever hitting the Top 40, their music calls back to a time when grimy, riff-mad rock’n’roll still had currency in the pop world and at any given time might be found leaking out of an AM radio somewhere in your vicinity.

HOP ALONG – ” Waitress ” Live on World Cafe

Posted: July 2, 2015 in MUSIC
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Hop Along performs “Waitress” for a World Cafe Session with host, David Dye. Recorded at WXPN/World Cafe Studios on March 19, 2015.

The Philadelphia band Hop Along started out with a folk sound back in 2004, when singer-songwriter Frances Quinlan began recording during her senior year of high school. Hop Along took on more of a rock edge in 2008 with the addition of her brother on drums; the group later added bassist Tyler Long and guitarist Joe Reinhardt.

As part of World Cafe’s Sense Of Place: Philadelphia series, Hop Along performs songs from its new album, Painted Shut.

 

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