#00s indie

[blackmarket-playlists]

Lost shoegaze - forgotten bands, great songs - PART 13:

• Artist: When The Sun Hits (Nottingham, UK)

• Release: Immersed Within Your Eyes (2017)

• Strangely enough, the brilliant title track is not on this anthemic six song EP, released by Saint Marie Records (Texas), apparently only on a Static Waves compilation.

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• Artist: Drowner (Houston, Texas)

• Release: Drowner (2012), You’re Beautiful, I’## Forgive You

• Also here: Two of their best songs are only on the Stativ Waves compilations, but ’Stay With Me’ (2013) is also a banger. A Saint Marie Records band, too.

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• Artist: Jetmann Jet Team (Seattle, Washington)

• Releases: Three albums on Spotify (2013/ 2014), ‚We Will Live the Space Age‘ is the debut

• Info: Formed in 2011, pych-gaze, another Saint Marie Records band

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• Artist: Les autres (Rennes, France)

• They released two 7", a split 7" and an album, compilation ‚Backward‘ on Spotify by Jigsaw Records.

• Info: noisy-pop and shoegaze band from 1991 to 1995.

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• Artist: Windermere (Copenhagen, Denmark)

• Releases: The World Is Here (2004), No One Wins (2006)

• An epic song

• Artist: Lyca Sleep (South Yorkshire, UK)

• Release: Closer In (ep, 2005)

• Info: Formed in late 2001

• Artist: Foxtail Somersault (San Francisco, California)

• Releases: Fathom (2007) & Reflection (2010)

• Info: Formed in 2004

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• Artist: The Sorry Shop (Rio Grande, RS, Brazil)

• Releases: Bloody, Fuzzy, Cozy (2012) & Mnemonic Syncretism (2013) & Softspoken (2017)

• Info: Formed in 2011. They are 2 different artist profiles on Spotify, but it is the same band.

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• Artist: Pink Playground (Houston, Texas)

• Releases: Destination Ecstasy (album, 2011)

• Romantic pop-duo

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Playlistcover: OLD MAGICK PELLAS from Brasil (just remastered their great album Pull Me Daisy)

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[soundslivemagazine]

Review: In Kingston, Bedouin Soundclash Are Home

Queen’s University alumni and former Kingston, ON residents Bedouin Soundclash returned to town on Sunday, 26 January to finish an intimate run of dates in smaller Canadian towns and cities, playing acoustic shows to sold-out halls and clubs.

Singer-guitarist Jay Malinowski and bassist Eon Sinclair met in 2000 when the two lived across from each other in residence at Waldron Tower as first-year students at Queen’s. Bonding over a shared love for reggae music helped Jay find his place in Kingston and at Queen’s, a university that had felt decidedly a little too hipster for him at times. Changing his mind about transferring out to somewhere else, Jay instead started Bedouin Soundclash with Eon, playing to modest but enthusiastic local crowds in dimly lit student pubs and at open mics.

They soon added percussionist Pat Pengelly to become a trio and their debut album Root Fire came out the following year, taking the band across Canada and beyond, playing to delighted audiences, all while the band still juggled midterms and assignments with their rockstar commitments. By the time they had graduated in 2004, released their acclaimed second album Sounding A Mosaic and moved base to Toronto, Bedouin were truly on their way to becoming one the best-loved bands of that ’00s Canadian indie music scene.

They have gone on to see it all— the Vancouver Olympics, CBC children’s television, #1 records, JUNOs, being darlings of BBC 6 Music, seas of fans, festival headlines and adoration from all over the world. It was a refreshing change of pace for them then, to bring it back home to where they began, in small, relaxed and lively rooms where the invisible barrier between artist and audience slowly disappears.

The band played songs from their latest album, the 2022 release We Will Meet In A Hurricane, such as the spirited ‘Walk Through Fire’, and classics celebrating 20 years of Sounding A Mosaic, both eagerly received by the crowd, who sang along and never made it feel like there were only two music makers in the room. Malinowski also took to the stage alone to perform some of his solo work as he plans to release an album later this year. There were some protest folk songs and other tender personal moments like his song ‘Deepest Blue’, written about his love for his son, all while lifting the curtain behind some of his and Bedouin’s best-loved work, revealing the Kingston streets he was walking down as he wrote their early songs (as well as an infamous foam party at Queen’s, where he and Tony Rabalao first met in passing).

More than anything else, the evening with Bedouin Soundclash was filled with a comfortable warmth and a sense of love, togetherness and community. Just before leaving the stage for the last time, Jay said to the crowd, I hope you all felt love tonight. Looking around the content room of Kingston fans, I can only affirm that they did.

In the chorus of their globally-loved 2004 single, the band sing, when the night hears my song, I’ll be home. On Sunday night in Kingston, ON, Bedouin Soundclash truly were home.

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[no-tengo-ojos]

There's this one bit at 1:50 onwards that I've got on a loop. I'm going to play it until I'm sick of it

[aeolianblues]

Hi????

This is simultaneously great and so, so unexpected! Calvin Harris with a full band, performing at Radio 1's Big Weekend in 2007 up in Preston. To think he could have gone down the indie rock band route!

This is also why I think of his early days as most adjacent to LCD Soundsystem rather than dance and EDM musicians. It could've been fun, too bad he doesn't quite associate with this anymore and requested it be taken down.

[sustancy]

[venusplanetofloveee]

[cinematicmasterpiece]

blood tea and red string (2006)

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[blackmarket-playlists]

PART 11 with forgotten treasures of the shoegaze/dreampop genre and closely related styles. This time there's a deep dive into the 90s...

Artist: The Spiny Anteaters Country: Ottawa, Canada Highlight song: 10 Years Ago (1994) Info: A Kranky Records (Chicago) band

Artist: Snowpony Country: London, England Highlight song: Easy Way Down (1996) Info: Initially formed in 1996 by Katharine Gifford (Moonshake) and Debbie Googe (My Bloody Valentine)

Artist: A.C. Temple Country: Sheffield, England Highlight song: Miss Sky (1989) Info: Active from 1985 to 1991

Artist: Maids Of Gravity Country: California, US Highlight song: Moon Spiders (1995)

Artist: Here Country: Czech Republic Highlight song: For My Star (1993) Info: Three shoegazing albums, a John Peel favourite band

Artist: Toyen Country: Czech Republic Highlight song: Last Free Swans! (1992) Info: Formed in 1989

Artist: Whipped Cream Country: Gothenburg, Sweden Highlight song: Observator Crest (1992) Info: Active from 1989 to mid 1990s

Artist: Snapper Country: Dunedin, New Zealand Highlight song: Gentle Hour (1993) Info: Active from 1989 to 1996. Band of Peter Gutteridge (1961-2014), pioneering the Dunedin sound with The Clean and The Chills

Artist: Llala Farmers Country: Greenwich, England Highlight song: Yellow (1999) Info: Formed in 1997

Artist: Alison’s Halo Country: Arizona, US Highlight song: Dozen (1994) Info: Active from 1992-1998, 2009-today (they’re still on tour, and maybe there will be new songs sometime....)

Playlistcover: Old Magic Pellas (Brazil) – just remastered their brilliant album „Pull My Daisy“ from 1995.

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[no-tengo-ojos]

Spot the difference

[aeolianblues]

Poses with Nicholaus Arson | The Hives, North American tour 2024

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[venusplanetofloveee]

fall in love again and again