Blondie eating ice cream with kim wilde, while duran duran's first record is playing. Then phoenix arrives and zoot woman brings some milkshakes. Piano club takes a picture and puts its own painting on it....
Gift Of Gab (Tim Parker) and Chief Xcel (Xavier Mosley) met at John F. Kennedy High School in 1987 in Sacramento, California and formed the group in the early 1990s. They released their first recording, "Swan Lake", on solesides records. The Solesides Crew consisted of the duo, as well as other friends of theirs they had met at University of California - Davis, including DJ Shadow, Lyrics Born and Lateef The Truth Speaker. The single was an underground hit, but label trouble prevented the duo from immediately capitalizing on their fame.
"Mineral" could refer to at least four bands, an emo band from Houston, Texas, Armenian rock music veterans from Jermuk and another one from Boston. 1) Mineral formed in 1994 and like other young bands, they toured constantly, virtually living in their van. The band's first release, the 7 inch "Gloria"/"Parking Lot" 7", was released on Audio Concept by Kerry McDonald from Christie Front Drive (the record was later re-released by Caulfield Records). Through a few rabid fans, that 7" found its way into the hands of crank! and Mineral later decided to release their records on the label.
Aberfeldy are in the new school of scottish indie pop in the vein of Belle & Sebastian. Formed in Edinburgh in 2002 they were signed to Rough Trade to release their first album, Young Forever, in 2004. The follow-up, Do Whatever Turns You On, was released in 2006.
Slow down, Molasses began over the summer of 2006. At first it was just a few quiet songs and daydreams of lost blues and ocean songs. What was initially a solo project, quickly evolved into a 6-piece band, backed up by an ever changing cast of characters ready to stop by whenever it might work. As a result the live show is an continually evolving affair, with some shows ending with 8 or 9 people onstage...
Formed in 2002, Park Ranger is an indie pop/rock trio from the Hudson Valley region of New York. The band began recording soon after the indefinite hiatus of their previous effort as members of Doghouse Records' artist Joshua, who had released 2 LP's, several EP's and toured extensively in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan. Following years of shows and demoing, Park Ranger prepared to record their debut full-length "Safe Without Sound", released on indie label Parrot on a Porch Records.
The Blanche Hudson Weekend are Caroline and Darren formerly of The Manhattan Love Suicides and feature a bunch of "Weekenders" including Sasha, Chris Shake, Pete Bee, Rocker, Matt and Lee. According to their MySpace page they play "noise, fuzz, melody, dissonance, rawness, killer tunes and buzzsaw pop". From Squirrel Records: "Take a bit of 1960s girl group sounds, mix with Girls In The Garage type ramshackle production...
Numerous artists share the name Miles. 1) Miles Whittaker is one half of Demdike Stare and Pendle Coven and has recorded in the past under the aliases Millie and MLZ. After almost 15 years writing music, "Facets" is the first release Miles is putting out under his own name and marks a turning point of sorts in his production style, or rather, in its sequencing. It brings together different ends of his production style...
There have been several bands with the name The Bees. In a roughly chronological order they are: 1. The Bees was a San Gabriel Valley garage band that released one single in October of 1966, "Voices Green And Purple" backed with "Trip to New Orleans" as the B-side, on the Covina, California-based Liverpool Label. No other singles by this band were issued. 2. Quirky New Wave/Punk band from New York with three releases starting in 1979.