Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop
Just a quick but extremely important news entry. The New Tigers debut album was released today by Soliti. It’s often fuzzy, sometimes dreamy and always excellent. There’s also a new video for the song Velvet Jam, which you can see below.
The New Tigers – Velvet Jam from appu jasu on Vimeo.
Australian pop hero Joe Algeri introduced Hurricane Fighter Plane to me and I was immediately hooked. If you happen to be into 60s pop/garage/powerpop and spend your days reading the wonderful Shindig! magazine, I think this might be your new favourite band. They come from Fremantle/Perth, their new self-titled EP has just been released and you can buy it from their bandcamp. Extremely highly recommended I would say and I will definitely buy it myself once I figure out do I settle for the download or buy a physical copy. Just listen to this song called It Won’t Last. This is just bloody brilliant.
There’s couple of cool videos as well. This first one is also the great opening track of the EP.
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The world tour of power pop classics takes me back to Australia. The Sunnyboys from Sydney released their debut album in 1981 and it is a classic and full of great songs. Especially the singles Happy Man and Alone With You are friggin’ awesome. This is the first single Happy Man and it’s definitely one of those songs that easily qualifies to the “hey, this must be the best song ever” -list.
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There’s still 23 minutes left of september 17th, so there’s still time to mention that this was One Chord to Another’s 10th birthday. I didn’t forget the thing, but I spent a couple of nights in Stockholm and just arrived back home tonight. This is Sloan and The Good In Everyone from the album One Chord to Another.
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