If you haven’t lately, why not stop by our links page? There’s a few of the usual suspects as well as some sites you may not be familiar with. Lots of good stuff to discover, like this gem I found via You Ain’t No Picasso. What I like best about Oh No! Oh My! is what they don’t put in their songs. They use their white space well. Not that there’s empty spaces in the music, it’s just that every instrument counts. No filler. The best way to describe them is clap your hands and say yeah. I’m not talking about the band. Imagine if that was a sound, a genre: clap your hands and say yeah. That’s where you’d file Oh No! Oh My! Listen to “The Party Punch” and you’ll get it. I bet they’re a ton of fun live. A total jam band vibe…if by jam band I meant The Boy Least Likely To instead of Phish.
Charles Kamm tonight on KUCI
Peter Walker
Mr. Walker’s connected. For his first album he tapped REM’s drummer, Beck’s bassist and Wilco’s guitarist/keyboardist. Then he caught the attention of Earlimart’s Aaron Espinoza and Grandaddy’s Jim Fairchild. The three holed themselves up in Elliott Smith’s studio to record Young Gravity. Peter Walker sure has a lot to live up to and really it’s unfair of me to name-drop so liberally. I’m positive Walker wants his music to speak for itself. So I’ll let it do just that. Ask me though, and I’ll tell you he makes good use of his friends.
Dudley Corp. Rhapsody
The Streets
Drop this one in your bunny basket—the first taste of Mike Skinner’s biting, British, bubblegum bounce.
Even More DK Music: New Tigerbaby MP3
Envelopes
In a perfect world I’d be able to feed you free music everyday, all day. Toilet and lunch breaks included, please. It just seems like I’m always playing catch up. Like the old saying goes, so much [great] free music, so little time. My other wish I have today is that my three children will grow up and form a power trio that cranks out music like the Envelopes: sugar-hyped jangly guitars, boy/girl vocals brimming with pop-tude and lots and lots of hooks. Kick me, hurt me, make me write bad checks, make me listen to that song ONE MORE TIME! And by the way, I have an extra copy of this CD (I tried to share with my compadres in 3hive, but they slept on the offer) for a random commenter who correctly divines the order and gender (girl, girl, girl? boy, boy, boy?) of my future power trio. Hit them comments! Good luck on ya.
Dúné
Nothing is rotten in the state of Denmark. Musically speaking that is. Something’s very, very good actually. First Figurines and now Dúné. These Danes add the friskiness of Blur to the dancey moments of The Cure. Neither reinventing, nor redundant they’re definitely bringing a tasty plate of treats to the block party.