not minding this brave irene ep. nice to hear rose's voice again. and weird to hear this sort of record in 2011, not smothered in reverb..
― fried egg on my mind (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually just got it yesterday as well... nice, full sound & really dig the organ. Funny how this literally feels like a bridge between Tiger Trap and Go Sailor... a little more dynamic than the latter, but not so riot-grrl (ish) as the former.
Didn't get the cream vinyl tho which made me go wtf til I realized that was probably an online exclusive.
― yeah (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link
tiger trap is super awesome. i've been going through all of rose's stuff lately; haven't really gotten into the softies yet, and go sailor are kind of boring, but i really really love gaze's first album mitsumeru. the second is decent but that debut is where it's at, man. <3
the brave irene ep is really good too.
yeah rose melberg is a beast.
― marc iv, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
With Go Sailor it's all about "I'm Still Crying" for me. Played that one to death.
― Wandering Boy Poet, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
I love TT so much but I am surprised I never got into her other groups. I would prob dig them.
― your mom the burrito (ENBB), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
Sour Grass off the 10-inch was my jam in college
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0voDonqtBVY
― dmr, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
about half of my favorite Melburg songs are on the Softies' Winter Pageant, but yeah "Sour Grass" is my #1
― Jess, it had a little too much garlic (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKepe2tAm1E
sometimes this one feels like a novelty, but other times it really hits
― Jess, it had a little too much garlic (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
The Softies were fantastic. I probably like them more than Tiger Trap, but only because TT only released one album.
― righteousmaelstrom, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
I'm pretty sure Brave Irene is already a done deal. I most recently saw Rose playing bass in a quite boring Vancouver indie band called Bleating Hearts.
― everything, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
I've been waiting for ilx to come back online to post this. It's a nice article about Rose from a Vancouver-centric blog which rounds up various folks' opinions of her.
― everything, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
Nice. Meanwhile guess who finally actually GOT the Tiger Trap album for the first time after all these years -- and only a dollar via Amoeba clearance in SF.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
That's a good one dollar disc that one. I don't have it myself any more - it was in a box of "all good stuff" cassettes I gave to a friend a few years back.
― everything, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
I saw the Bleating Hearts and really enjoyed it. Rose is the Kim Deal of the band. Plays bass, does significant backing vocals and takes the lead now and again but is not the band leader. They are indie and have a horn section.
― everything, Saturday, 9 June 2012 08:00 (eleven years ago) link
Recently saw Rose in another great new band called "Puppies" but I think they are now called "Pups". It's Rose on drums/singing with two girls about half her age on guitar and bass/singing. Very much more in a Tiger Trap vein than the previous and very enjoyable.
― everything, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like the Rose street-team here but I'm truly not. But it does feel like she has been playing so much recently - solo, and in at least 3 or 4 bands - that she's reaching some kind of peak as a musician and a performer. Anyway...Pups are playing tomorrow night in Vancouver (@ Pats) if there are any local ilxors jonesing for that kind of thing. As I mentioned above, they are very good and worthy of her legacy! Plus two other all-women bands who are pretty popular here so it oughta be a good scene.
― everything, Friday, 16 November 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
New EP out this Friday. I think the tags say it all: #Vancouver #jangle #jingle #dreampop #Rosehttps://soundcloud.com/#greenburritorecords/pups-pop-song
― everything, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
THIS IS SO GOOD. So weird and good!
― maura, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
Right on! Phew, I was begining to feel lonely on this thread. I'm not sure if this release will make much of a splash. The label seems like a shoestring operation and as I mentioned upthread a couple of years ago, this scene continues to be rigorously low-key which is to me irritating. The Pups show I saw a while back was in a room behind a shop. The other time was in someone's garage. That one was great. Anyway, it's a split with another local all-girl band, Movieland who are superb fun. Finally saw them a couple weeks back in a real venue with proper amps and lights and things and it was raging.
― everything, Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
i like that
― gila free (electricsound), Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
Caught Rose playing in a duo called Imaginary Pants. Usual story - I had no idea this band existed and was just randomly checking out one of those multi-band local shows having no idea what most of it was about. Saw her in the audience and think "oh that's nice she's here supporting the youngsters" then shortly after she's getting up on stage and hammering out 20 mins of what is generally termed "blistering indie-pop". A lovely surprise. She's singing and mostly on drums (she's good!) and there's a feller on guitar and a little keyboard who does harmonies. They have a tape out which doesn't quite do them justice IMHO - not as forceful as they are live. They're doing some dates in California next week. http://imaginarypants.bandcamp.com/
― everything, Monday, 12 May 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
ooh
https://februaryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/constant-and-true-a-tribute-to-the-songs-of-rose-melberg
also, rose's newish band knife pleats is a+
https://knifepleats.bandcamp.com/
― maura, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 14:36 (seven years ago) link
I think Winter Pageant was her peak
― seafaring funnyman Jacques Custos (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
knife pleats are so good!
― seafaring funnyman Jacques Custos (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
here's a 1993 show at the middle east:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYzxGN3SSNA
― maura, Friday, 11 August 2017 16:04 (six years ago) link
Awesome! Loved when Rose made appearances at Chickfactor a few years ago.
― Evan, Friday, 11 August 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link