Everything, Alright! #20

Hello again, a longer than normal dose to cover my absence -

  

1••••1•• Things You Tell Me - Secretly French
2••••2•• I Can Never Be - The Colleagues
3••••3•• Nightschool - Ancient Times
4••••4•• Things To Look Forward To - Falling Trees
5••••5•• Telephone - Alpaca Sports
6••••6•• Out Of Touch - The San Diegos
7••••7•• Someway - The Saturnettes
8••••8•• Can You Keep A Secret - The Birthday Kiss
9••••9•• PSBTV - Roman à Clef
10••••10•• What Do You Know - Venlo
11••••11•• Dry Your weary Eyes - Venlo
12••••12•• Dress Up, Make Up - Boyish
13••••13•• Tonight - Popits
14••••14•• Nytt - Verdensrommet

15••••15•• Higher & Higher - The Fireworks
16••••16•• Marmalade - The Manticores
17••••17•• Marionette - Hotel
18••••18•• Shades - The Humberts
19••••19•• Front Porch - Gloss
20••••20•• Night Rats - Flower Drums

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Back on the scene after a while away, and starting with Secretly French from Stockholm, who we played last time, and since I was away so long in the interim they have actually split - according to their Soundcloud they only existed for 6 months and played one gig only....and are no more. They left behind a bunch of great ( and raw ) songs on their Soundcloud page for all to enjoy.
Then it's The Colleagues from Bandung in Indonesia, from a song from their ep out now on Dufflecoat, then an upcoming release on Soft Power from Brighton ( UK ) based Ancient Times and "Nightschool", which will be one side of a double-A on that label.

Also from the UK ( Devon ) are Falling Trees, who have released an album called "The Memories That Hold Us Together" via Pastime Records. ( produced by Andy Fonda of The June Brides )

Alpaca Sports need no introduction I'm sure, Telephone being from their split 7 on Dufflecoat / Luxury with Acid House Kings ( sold out already apparentely !! ), though it is still available to buy as a download at Alpaca Sports bandcamp ( where they still have tote bags for sale btw - ultra cool and highly recommended for the stylish and smart shopper ) or you can even get it on iTunes if you're that way inclined.

The San Diegos are from Amsterdam in The Netherlands. 

The Saturnettes is an alias of Jann Wilde from Helsinki and "Someway" is a preview track from the upcoming ( 2nd ) album.

The Birthday Kiss have released a 7" on Death Party Records, a double A ( which seems to have sold out as well ! ).

Then we're onto Roman à Clef - a collab between Ryan Newmyer from A Sunny Day in Glasgow and Jen Goma with Kurt Feldman as producer. Waay cool, I love this sh*t. Not sure how or where this will be released yet....

Two songs follow from Venlo from NY, from an album they put out late last year called "Forever Lost" and an an earlier single called 'What Do You Know".

Then Boyish from Japan, who are upcoming on Cloudberry with a 7" ep as well as having recently released an album called "Everything You Say".

Staying in Japan for the Popits, then we are over to Bergen ( via Skien ), Norway for Verdensrommet, with an ep called "Sidelings" they've released on a label called Nabovarsel.

The Fireworks ep came out last month on Shelflife, while The Manticores are a 2 piece from Atlanta, stuff has been coming out from them this year and you can grab the songs over on their bandcamp. Staying in the US for Hotel and their album called " !!!", The Humberts are Finnish and Gloss are one of the impressive roster on Manic Pop! Records and finally today we're over to Perth in WA for some homegrown sand-groping dream-pop from Flower Drums.

you know the drill, please enjoy :)

Everything, Alright! #19

Back with a newie -
  
1••••1•• Crystal - Hiro
2••••2•• Save Me - The Choo Choo Trains
3••••3•• Hilma - The Choo Choo Trains
4••••4•• Black Ribbons - The Apartments
5••••5•• Erika K - The Understudies
6••••6•• Young Alive - The Ships
7••••7•• Observations - Melted Toys
8••••8•• Snow Is Falling - Secretly French
9••••9•• Just Go - Mini-Dresses
10••••10•• Daydreaming - Winter
11••••11•• A Pattern Recognition - Sea Pinks
12••••12•• Ge Mig Allt - Tiger Tape
13••••13•• Gypsy Blood - The Delaplains
14••••14•• Bull Ring - Gorgeous Bully

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Kicking off with Hiro ( alias Morgane Mace ) from Dijon in France and then its 2 songs from London 3 piece The Choo Choo Trains; you can still grab their self titled cassette here on their BC but they're about to put out the song "Save Me" on a 7" via a newish label called Manic Pop! - a few other 7's coming out on that label are featured today, The Mini Dresses ( who I mentioned a couple of mixes back ) & 2 Mancurian bands The Delaplains & Gorgeous Bully.

The Apartments is, yes, the former Brisbane band (of course ), the legendary Peter Milton Walsh, "Black Ribbons" an awesome 7" released late in 2011 on Chapter Music and you can still grab it from their website.

"Erika K" is a preview track from an upcoming album from The Understudies, due sometime in 2013. The Ships are from Nagoya, Japan & Melted Toys are from San Francisco and have a bunch of demos up on their Soundcloud

Secretly French are from Stockholm, with former members of The Mare & we.thepigs  - songs apparentely only at the demo stage but already soundin' good :)

( Samira ) Winter is a Bostonian, Sea Pinks are Belfastians ( and are up to their 2nd album "Freak Waves" ) & Tiger Tape are some more Swedes - previously known back in ye olden times as Moo Catfish, who I'm sure you remember :)

go for it !!

"Other Projects" moved to a new page

I have moved the recent info about Everything, Extra! to a new "Other Projects" page to try and keep this blog simple.

There will be info on the new page about some other projects I have planned for this year, so if you're interested please check over at Sideroom Other Projects.

Some other things starting up via that blog are

more eps of "Everything, Extra!" - on a purely ad hoc basis
"Besides, B-sides are Better..." - dedicated to B-sides of 12" & 7" singles ( "thematically" )
"Outside The Trains" - a currently secret "in the works" project exclusively looking at UK Indie bands ( more revealed soon )

Everything, Alright! #18

Ears are slightly better so back on the scene...here's what we have this time
  
1••••1•• Just Pretend - Fireflies
2••••2•• Happy Nice Day - Northern Portrait
3••••3•• Boxes - Beat Mark
4••••4•• Just Another Sunday Song - cornerBoy
5••••5•• Beneath The Skin - The Rainyard
6••••6•• Heavy Heart - Tripping The Light Fantastic
7••••7•• 20th August 2010 - Goodly Thousands
8••••8•• B Line - Pale Man Made
9••••9•• Runner - Go Violets
10••••10•• 1+1=26 - The Vanities
11••••11•• When People Like You Filled The Heavens - French Films
12••••12•• Honeysuckle ( Home Demo ) - Twangy Twangy
13••••13•• Kid Sister - Northern Spies
14••••14•• Ununiversalizable Us - The Very Most
15••••15•• Skink- A Riot Of Colour

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Some old and new today - obviously with the lay off a few things to catchup on....firstly a preview of the "upcoming" / "any day now" new Northern Portait out on Matinee, a Soft Power cassette by Beat Mark ( France ) & one of 2 x new Dufflecoat's - cornerBoy ( the other one is from The Arctic Flow ).

Shelflife are up for it with preorders for the Goodly Thousands 7" ( as well as Pia Fraus and When Nalda Becane Punk ). Also up for preorder from Cloudberry is the 7" from Tripping The Light Fantastic ( Germany ), plus Alpaca Sports & Flowers 7's ( wow !! ).

The Very Most is the latest Little Treasure and Northern Spies ( Sweden ) is the latest from Eardrums Pop, The Vanities have an awesome new ep from Ano(t)raks. 

Go Violets are from Brisbane and thus far haven't released any "physical" product...thus far :)......correction : just opened my Cloudberry fanzine 407 which just arrived & low and behold Runner is on the CD ( aaah that Roque is a year ahead of me !!!!!!! )

Ok...now onto the not so new...The Rainyard ( Perth ) song is from their great comp ( which came out a year ago ! ) of their awesome early releases called "A Thousand Yards". The Pale Man Made track herein is a single from their Red Box Secrets album ( which came in June 2012 ) via Odd Box. French Films are from Finland and the song today is from a 7" ( released last year as well ).

Riot Of Colour is from their self titled 12 and of course Lisle...we all know and LOVE Lisle, "Just Pretend" does nothing to change that.

cheers :)

meantime here's clip for an "early demo version" of The Vanities  1+1=26

inner ear infection

just dropping in to say I have had some weird ear infection ( inner ear something ) and been as "deaf as a post" and unable to put anything together at the moment...it's not long term and soon as it clears....

see you soon.......

Everything, Alright! #17

Hi again :) 

First up a clip by Alpaca Sports

firstly with the exciting news there will be a Cloudberry release later in the year for Alpaca Sports ( including "She'll Come Back For Indian Summer" ) but also a timely reminder of their current 7" "I Was Running" being out now and available from 3 labels - Dufflecoat, Luxury & Susy Recs.

On today's mix we start off in Austin, Texas for Mini-Dresses ( a semi hush-hush side project of another band with the same duo, whose identity I'm sworn to secrecy on..., but I will give you a clue, the name begins with an "S" ). A trip over to their bandcamp will sort you out with a 2 track single and 5 track mini-album - well worth the journey indeed :)

We have a a few from Japan today - Jolie Joli ( a 3 piece girl group ) with a Lush cover, Civic, and Old Lacy Bed ( aka Tomomi Sadakata ) & Homecomings, (  quote - 'kyoto,girls,indie,guitar pop' - unquote), the last 2 from an absolutely brilliant comp of Japanese bands out from Ano(t)raks called "Soon VA", you can get the comp from their bc.

A few of my countrymates in Some Jerks ( Brisbane ) a track from their upcoming album called "Buddy Rich Made Me Cry" album & Greyjoy ( Perth ), from a forthcoming ep of theirs.

Some French bands - Judy ( from Reims ), who have a free d/l album called "Maquette Maison" available on their bc & Soft Pastels ( Dijon )

Flowers I hope you know & love - and if so I'm sure you'll be watching out for their upcoming 4 track ep on Cloudberry, in the meantime there's a little interim gem of a download from them to be discovered on their bc.

Calm As The Colour are from Fife in Scotland and their latest release is an ep called "Tomorrow Belongs to A World Apart", again pop on over to their bc to get this one.

Triads are a 3 piece from Georgia & Star Horse are from Stockholm and have a 4 track ep out any day now called "Crush", pre-orders and preview track for those ordering from..yep..you guessed it, their bandcamp.

Orca Orca is the alias of Jimmy Hewitt outa Boston, who has a few releases up on his bc, todays' track "South Carolina" from the latest ep called Remnants.

And finally another tres-excellent release coming up on Dufflecoat is a brilliant track from Some Gorgeous Accident, sounds awesome.

here ya go - enjoy :)

•• Post Office Girls - Mini Dresses

•• Breeze - Jolie Joli

•• Day Off - Triads

•• Sometimes - Calm As The Colour

•• Never Know - Some Jerks

•• Origin - Soft Pastels

•• Coastlands - Old Lacy Bed

•• You Never Kiss - Homecomings

•• Marybelle - Star Horse

•• South Carolina - Orca Orca

•• When You Die - Flowers

•• See You Shine - Some Gorgeous Accident

•• Distance - Greyjoy

•• Sealeste - Judy

•• Toilet Paper - Civic ( Japan )

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Everything, Alright! #16

Ya, me again, kicking it off with The Glow Cats from Copenhagen and then a track from the upcoming 7" from Dublin's September Girls I mentioned last time as coming out soon on Softpower Records - also from Dublin are Death In The Sickroom ( a bunch of great demos on their bc page ). Softpower are also taking pre-orders now for the Silver Fox "Capital Kiss" 7" release ( their page says released tomorrow - Sep 10 ).

Then it's Melbourne three piece Pop Singles, the title track from their All Gone album and Post Modern Team and a track from their free d/l ep ( "Where The Action Is" ) from Canata Records ( Japan ).

Secret Beach are a NY 2 piece ( Matt Magelof and Nicole Zumpano ) who have lots of stuff up on their bc.

Grand Resort as far as I can figure is a one-piece ( Andrés Pichardo) formerly of the Dominican Republic now a Brookylnite. Twinkle Twinkles is Nana Fukumura from Osaka.

Olympic Swimmers are from Glasgow and released their "No Flags Will Fly" album in June of this year, and speaking of the Olympics I can't let the opportunity pass to say well done to Australia's Paralympics swimming team, an awesome effort in the 2012 London Paralympics ( as opposed to our Aussie Olympics swimmers who were WELL below par ).

Spook School is a 7" coming soon on Cloudberry ( who also have a Strange Idols comp and a new fanzine in the works ). 

We Can't Help Ourselves are more NY-ers, a track today from their "Make a Mess Of Sacred Ground" which you can grab via iTunes

Afternoon Talk are from Indonesia and today's song is from their self titled ep, which you can grab for free from Hujan! Records.

Another one piece is Twin Cabins an alias of Nacho Cano a Mexican expat now living in San Diego, some nice goodies to download from Twin Cabin's soundcloud.

And finally the beloved Garlands with a sneak peak from their forthcoming Shelflife album.
As always enjoy the mix and please remember to support bands & labels and buy as much music as you can :)

•• I Get Something Done (Finally) - The Glow Cats

•• Green Eyed - September Girls

•• All Gone - Pop Singles

•• Billy No Mates - Death In The Sickroom

•• She Does Something To Me - Post Modern Team

•• Kiss Wink Emoticon - Secret Beach

•• Night Is Dark - Grand Resort

•• Cinderella - Twinkle Twinkles

•• Knots - Olympic Swimmers

•• Waves On In - Silver Fox

•• Here We Go - Spook School

•• Get On The Situation - We Can't Help Ourselves

•• So Far Away - Afternoon Talk

•• I'm Sure - Twin Cabins

•• Open Arms - The Garlands

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Everything, Alright! #15

Hi back again with some great things to buy and preorder this month, firstly as mentioned last time Hobbes Fanclub coming out via Shelflife, but also a new Bart & Friends, both available now as pre-orders,

LA's Summer Abroad have  a blissfully wonderful ep "High Tides" by  available to buy from their bandcamp.

Also via bandcamp you can grab a 3" cd by Men Only  ( Leeds ), a 7" from Fountains ( UK ) on the Beautiful Strange label, who also released the first Model Railway Exhibition cassette, speaking of which they have just released their 2nd ep on CDr ( as played last time here on mix #14 ) called "Lets Make A Vow", which you can grab from the M.R.E. bandcamp.

Golden Grrrls have an awesome new split 7" with Sea Lions via Night School/Static Shock, nice. Alpaca Sports have an equally awesome new song via Luxury/iTunes, also via the Tunes ( & Google Music, Amazon, emusic ) is Rat Columns ( Aussie expat in San Fran ), they have an album called "Sceptre Hole" out via Smartguy Records. 


One of my fave labels Little Treasure have a new compilation out called "Springtime !", featuring Fireflies, Some Gorgeous Accident, Special People Club, The Pipers, Cassolette, The Royal Landscaping Society & There is Thunder in Our Hearts. Lovely !! 

Softpower Records ( Scotland ) bring us the Big Wave cassette/ep "The Roots Of Love Come Tumbling Down" ( you'll have to hunt it down via some shops ) and also the ace September Girls ( new 7" coming ) amongst other treats.

Some other Soundcloud treats - Winter Sports ( Manchester ), The Vanities ( Japan ), Pocket Fox ( Canberra ) and Apple Club ( Indonesia ) who come via Pug Records ( Brazil ) and of course Tender Objects ( a Swedish version of their April Showers song )

The track by Ever is from an unreleased ep called Carousel; kindly supplied by Joel from Portugal - I played an Ever track from a flexi disk on my other blog ( Sideroom 7" Singles ) and lamented not hearing more from them; Joel helped me out there ( thank you Joel ) so had to include some in today's mix.

As always enjoy the mix but please support the bands and labels and buy music where you can :)

•• Freshly Painted Flowers - Summer Abroad

•• Utah - Men Only

•• She'll Come Back for Indian Summer - Alpaca Sports

•• Out Of Luck - Winter Sports

•• I Don't Want You Anyway - Golden Grrrls

•• I Was - Bart & Friends

•• Easily Led - Fountains

•• Wednesday - Ever

•• Mr Wee Hours ( demo ) - The Vanities

•• Swedish Song - Pocket Fox

•• How Long ? - Special People Club

•• Opaque Eyes - Rat Columns

•• Circumstance - Big Wave

•• Wish - Apple Club

•• Sommar Skyfall - Tender Objects

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