The Seldon Plan- The Collective Now www.theseldonplan.com, www.myspace.com/theseldonplan Magnatune Records (www.magnatune.com) Indie-pop that will move your hips to the jig and bring you back to the good ol’ days of when whining was an acceptable way of expression. The Seldon Plan’s new CD, The Collective Now, leaves one with a feeling of disappointment. With...
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Archive for November, 2007
Seldon Plan Review
Runny – Talent Kills Music Dead
Runny – Talent Kills Music Dead www.runnylove.com, www.myspace.com/runny Brutal, chaotic punk rock with lyrics that will shock your mother Warning: The following is a musical litmus test designed to determine your capacity to become very, very offended. If the lyrics “I’m bleeding, I’m bleeding, I’m bleeding, I’m bleeding…I’m bleeding out of my f*cking vagina!”...
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Rob Poppy – Box of Laughs
Rob Poppy – Box of Laughs www.myspace.com/robpoppy BMI – (www.bmi.com) Happy-go-lucky pop offerings that will put a goofy grin on your ugly mug I first listened to Box of Laughs, the new album from Norman, Oklahoma’s Rob Poppy, while cleaning my room, attempting to get an initial feel for the unfamiliar musician while simultaneously...
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Ringer T – Around the Bend EP
Ringer T – Around the Bend EP www.myspace.com/ringert Self-released Gritty Americana that delves deeply into sadness without going overboard into cheap theatrics and wasted songs. I hate it when artists beat sadness to death. There is power in an admission of complete brokenness, but a whole album about the subject inevitably comes off as...
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Raintime – Flies & Lies
Raintime – Flies & Lies http://www.raintime.com Bieler Bros. Records (bielerbros.com) Raintime evokes confusion with latest album, but brings home heavy metal in the end. Raintime is a very strange band. In one sense, they are a hard-core metal band ready to annihilate with mean guitar solos and head banging fury. On the other hand,...
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The Pet Ghost Project – The Great Satisfactory
The Pet Ghost Project – The Great Satisfactory www.petghostproject.com, www.myspace.com/thepetghostproject Sheer musical creativity and willingness to take risks separates this Indie-experimental rock from the field If Justin Stivers’ Pet Ghost Project were a band, the ghost portion of its title would have to apply exclusively to his band. That’s because this densely-layered, polyvocal mash...
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Palaris- The Pros and Cons of Redemption
Palaris- The Pros and Cons of Redemption http://www.myspace.com/palaris Blue Duck Records (www.blueduckrecords.com) Catchy, up-tempo pop wrapped in a rock package This debut from the Connecticut pop-rock band Palaris shows they are quite serious about delivering catchiness. With irresistible hooks and choruses meshing with energetic, forceful guitar riffs, The Pros and Cons of Redemptions is...
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Orchard Drive – One Year EP
Orchard Drive – One Year EP www.myspace.com/orcharddrive, www.orcharddrive.com Orchard Drive exudes straight-up, epic rock with a kiss of keys and hopeful lyrics Do you remember when rock bands could mine a major key, hit and hold a crisp vocal note with panache and wax epic without reiterating every preceding reincarnation of the genre? If...
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World Class Tour Guide
World Class Tour Guide It’s 3 a.m., and Matt Jim is clicking away at his computer, periodically swigging from a monstrous mug of Double Dog pale ale. He’s trying to solidify the booking for the latest band tentatively scheduled to play at Studio 360, a recently opened underground music venue in Norman, Oklahoma. Using...
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Lo-Fi is Sci-Fi – We Were Wrong
Lo-Fi is Sci-Fi – We Were Wrong www.lofiisscifi.com Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority I will use beverages to help me out with this. I am a big coffee person. I prefer the fancy vanilla latte verses the average cup of joe, and I don’t drink tea unless there are no other options. This 8-track album is...
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