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Didn’t know where to put this and it didn’t really need its own thread, but anyway: The Last’s lost album Look Again is getting an actual release later this month on digital and vinyl.
(I just got a near-mint copy of their first SST album Confession which I’ve been spinning much of today, and saw that no one had shared that here, but the band is virtually ungoogleable so…)
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 7 November 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
Early Rundgren was a huge thing for Alex Chilton. he even wondered aloud on a radio show (tape very eventually incl. as Big Star bonus track a few years ago) if they weren't getting derivative of him (way to sell the new album, AC), So yeah check Runt--The Ballad of Todd Rungren and all that early stuff, the earlier the better wouldn't hurt. Ditto w the Shoes, esp Black Vinyl Shoes. Also the Bangles, Blue Ash (a twofer reissue, on Collector's Choice, so 2000s), the aforementioned Redd Kross have a bunch of fairly recent reissues also. But as far as good lesser-knowns, here's an Ohio band I wrote a show preview for in '08:
Tin Armor
Saturday @ Rumba
Columbus-based Tin Armor’s music gets tagged as “power pop,” a term that seems to have first appeared in the early ‘70s, when attempts were made to revive the spirit of the mid-‘60s Beatles. Many power poppers are merely nostalgic, but the struggle with emotional regression is Tin Armor’s tried-and-true subject. Two new songs on their blog are demo versions, but post-relationship insights and flashbacks are already getting stress-factored into tight (never claustrophobic) structures, as on 2007’s full-length “A Better Place Than I Have Been” and their 2008 self-titled EP’s thunder, lightning and eerily clear night skies.
These guys were pretty good sometimes too:
The Friday Night Boys
Thursday @ The Basement.
The Friday Night Boys’ 70s-based power pop is a style born to dance with terminally adolescent temptations. “Chasing A Rock Star” eventually talks some possibly seductive sense, as a jealous guy learns to rival the music’s sinfully merry spin. More typically, the Boys scavenge tasty symptoms and specimens of overt obsessions, especially in the festively forensic tracks following “Chasing…” on the 2008 EP, “That’s What She Said.” Hopefully, they’ll chop their sometimes overcooked full-length debut, “Off The Deep End”, into a crispy crazy salad for their live audience.
and
The Smith Brothers
It's not really surpising to learn that the Columbus-based Smith
Brothers recently played with some of their early power-pop
inspirations, such as Wings' Denny Laine, Badfinger's Joey Molland
and the Smithereens' Pat DiNizio, who joined the Brothers for a
rousing "Tonight," by Cleveland's Raspberries. The Brothers, who also
contributed to a forthcoming, four-disc Squeeze tribute, always hold
their own with wit and dedication, on catchy classics and supple
originals.
05/12 @ Skully's, 1151 N. High St.
9 p.m
related:
Rooney
Saturday @ Newport Music Hall
Rooney are party professionals, working for the weekend like hand-clapping, guitar, piano and nerve-jangling, table-clearing, pool-cleaning, JetBlue emergency chute-opening slaves. They’ve got the built-in anxieties of power pop’s perpetual adolescence, but they’re still learning the best ways to burn some endless summer. If the future’s a bill too big to pay, that’s another gap that even non-ID-carrying sounds can fill for a minute. They like lovers’ quarrels, because they want you to school them. With no disrespect to power pop’s dads, the Beatles, “I don’t wanna let it be.”
Free Energy
The core of Free Energy barely contains brothers Scott and Evan Wells, plus their bro’ Paul Sprangers, who have found vinyl-shiny Philadelphia freedom from their native Red Wing, Minnesota, coincidentally home to a locally legendary juvenile detention facility (Bob Dylan wrote “my school song” about it). Ecstatically declaring ”I wanna make out with the wind”, they keep it winsome, bouncing off power-pop echoes of arena-rock awesomeness, and staying forever young.
8/27 @ The Summit, 2210 Summit St.
9 p.m.
Beyond the usual names, anyway.
― dow, Sunday, 8 November 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
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