Sebadoh.

Sebadoh is an indie-rock band fronted by former Dinosaur Jr. bass player Lou Barlow.






III






Harmacy






Bakesale






The Freed Weed.



Bubble & Scrape



The Sebadoh



Smash Your Head On The Punk Rock

c u r s i v e - m a m a , i m s w o l l e n (2009)

This came out yesterday and I havent even heard it yet. But here it is. enjoy (hopefully).

We're going to hell.

Spoon.

For Uzi-El descendant of Krypton:
"The Austin, Texas-based Spoon began as an indie rock band heavily influenced by the jarring melodic dissonance and loud-soft dynamics of the Pixies, but by the early 2000s had developed its own sound and style owing as much to angular British punk-era bands like Wire and Gang of Four as to the music of the Nineties alternative boom. The band is known as much for its heroic perseverance in the face of major-label abandonment when it became a mainstream success after moving back to an independent record label." -[Rolling Stone]


Telephono. ('96)


A Series of Sneaks. ('98)


Girls can tell. ('01)


Kill The Moonlight.('02)


Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga ('07)

Theres a reason why I skipped gimme fiction.

Liars.

They threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top.


Drum's not dead.


They were wrong, so we drowned.


Liars.


House Clouds.(single)

"Liars were conceived in November 2000 after two friends and ex-Los Angeles art students, Aaron Hemphill and Angus Andrew, reunited in New York City. They responded to a "musicians wanted" ad posted in a local record store by two Nebraskans, Pat Noecker and Ron Albertson. The lurching Aussie Andrew took on the vocal/frontman duties while Hemphill became their guitarist and drum-machine programmer. Bassist Noecker and drummer Albertson make up the Liars rhythm section. Combined, they write music -- surprisingly formulated after the beats are laid down on the drum machine -- exhibiting fundamental elements of punk rock. Synthetic keypads, vocal modulation, and interspersed prearranged compositions, mixed with their guitar-bass-drums equation, create angular yet melodic songs. Liars are reminiscent of U.K. groups that embraced dance music during the late '70s/early '80s (A Certain Ratio, Gang of Four, the Slits) -- bands that are all known for insidiously adding danceable rhythms to punk.

Only months after forming, the group played its first show. Liars' debut album, They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top, was released on independent Gern Blandsten Records in October 2001 and was later reissued by Blast First/Mute. The album was recorded in just two days by producer/engineer Steve Revitte, who's best known for this work with the Beastie Boys and Lee "Scratch" Perry. Late the following year, Noecker and Albertson left the band and percussionist Julian Gross was recruited as a replacement. The trio began recording the second Liars album at Andrew's house in the forests of New Jersey with friend and co-producer Dave Sitek. The results, They Were Wrong, So We Drowned, which was inspired by experimental electronic music and German legends about witchcraft, arrived in early 2004. After moving to Berlin, Liars got even more ambitious on Drum's Not Dead, a concept album revolving around creativity and doubt accompanied by short films by the band and other filmmakers. The band took a much more stripped-down approach for 2007's self-titled album, which featured more structured songwriting and a harder-edged sound." -[AMG]

One of my favorite bands.

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash (2008)

BAPZ!

Teenage Fanclub - Catholic Education

Everything flows is without a doubt one of my favorite songs...EVER! And im very apprehensive in saying things like that, but really, its just great.

"Hard to believe now, but Teenage Fanclub first attracted critical attention for a record far removed from the sparkling power pop on which their fame largely rests -- with its gloriously sloppy and sludgy sound, their debut album A Catholic Education instead prefigures the emergence of grunge, its viscous melodies and squalling guitars owing far more to Neil Young than Big Star. With not one but two songs dubbed "Heavy Metal," it's pretty obvious where A Catholic Education is coming from; the title track (also here in duplicate) is a surprisingly snarky attack on the church (at least for a band not exactly renowned for its political agenda), while the great "Everybody's Fool" is a merciless scenester put-down without any of the gentle sarcasm that characterizes similarly themed efforts like Bandwagonesque's "Metal Baby." Regardless, for all its glaring differences in attitude and approach, there's no mistaking the effortless melodicism that remains the hallmark of all Teenage Fanclub records -- in particular, the opening "Everything Flows," for all its meandering abrasiveness, is still as good as anything the band ever recorded, and that's saying something."

I'll never know which way to flow, set a course that i don't know.

The Embarrassment - Heyday (1979 - 1983)

Call me trite, but whenever i see the words "the best band you never heard of" I am instantly sold.


Reasons for this band being note-worthy:
1.They borrow the name from the novel Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut (one of my all-time favorite authors).
2. They shared the stage with none other than Iggy Pop, William S. Burroughs & John Cale.
3. They were one of the original bands in the now seminal record label Sub-Pop.
4. They're rocking the thick rimmed glasses way before it became the norm.
5.They draw influences from all the right places, amongst them: The Feelies, Mission of Burma & Gang of Four.

BAM! SOLD!
This whammy of a double record spans their 4 year career.

still not scurrying to find the download link?

"It's hard to say the Embarrassment were ahead of their time: they were OF their time, as soundly and fundamentally as a band can be."

one & two.

why - oaklandazuasylum (2003)

why? is the bastard son of indie hip-hop label Anticon, but it is anything but. I can't quite pinpoint their sound, cuz they just seem to go everywhere without going too far, really great stuff. The opening track "ferris wheel" sounds like a Jeff Magnum b-side, then they seem to go into some nonsensical lo-fi electronica and some indie-folk here & there. Also the album cover is one of my fav's, highly recomended for the eccentric lot.

we all put our pants on one leg at a time

Dungen - Tio Bitar (2007)

This is a psych-rock beast!!!!! "Dungen (Swedish: “the grove”, pronounced [ˈdɵŋən], or roughly “DOONG-un”) is a Swedish rock band based in Stockholm. Often classified as psychedelic rock, Dungen is also influenced by Swedish (and other) folk music, classic rock, progressive rock and indie rock."

purple drank