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Lost in the Grooves
Garland
Submitted by kim on Mon, 2008-04-14 18:51. GarlandGarland's self-titled debut CD is a featured Lost in the Grooves release. Click here to sample the music or purchase.
Garland was recently selected by store staff for Amoeba Music's Homegrown series, where a a notable local act is promoted with in-store displays and ads in local papers. With their stunning vocals, shoegaze guitar shimmer and fragile electronic ballads, Garland's sound is rich, emotive and distinctively its own.
You can visit with Garland on MySpace here.
Juviley - How to Miss The Ground
Submitted by kim on Mon, 2008-04-14 17:38. JuvileyJuviley's debut CD How to Miss The Ground is a featured Lost in the Grooves release. Click here to sample the music or purchase.
Juviley is the project of Israeli musician Or Zubalsky, who toured widely with Israel's leading indie acts Shy Nobleman, Geva Alon, Daphna & The Cookies. At 21, he began writing his own songs, and revealed a tender, delicate sensibility far removed from the stereotypical dumb drummer. Inspired by the chamber pop of Brian Wilson, Nick Drake and Belle and Sebastian, on his debut album How To Miss The Ground Or plays nearly every instrument himself. With its heartbreaking simplicity, bittersweet melodies and thoughtful arrangements it creates a unique, dreamlike atmosphere. Once the record was completed, Or moved to New York City, where he plays regularly, in clubs and on the streets.
The critics love Juviley's How To Miss The Ground. Palebear muses, "I sort of needed this album to right my sanity... beautiful, pastoral... equal parts Kings of Convenience, Mojave 3 and Belle and Sebastian." And Caroline Leonardo says it's "an articulate collection of songs sure to warm your soul with pleasant melodies and story-like lyrics... an acoustic dream with the kind of tunes that'll lift your spirits during a rainy day... [it] is one of those rare debuts that carry a lot of clout. This well orchestrated album comes off gentle and well meaning without being pretentious or overbearing in the way that it's so simple and true. Indie pop has never sounded so good."
You can also visit with Juviley on MySpace.
Mike Appelstein
Submitted by kim on Fri, 2006-03-17 03:33. Mike AppelsteinBirth. School. Work. Music. Mike Appelstein's life in St. Louis.
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Check out my website.
Check out my blog about Judaism.
Lost Grooves newly released for June 10, 2008
Submitted by kim on Tue, 2008-06-10 16:58. alice cooper | arthur lee | beach boys | Kim Cooper/ LITG | Love | lydia lunch | warren zevonThis is a big week for Beach Boys freaks, with the release of the ginormous US Singles Collection Box collection (1962-65), a 16-CD limited edition set of early A & B sides, live and alternate takes, with a 48-page hardbound book of photos, all wrapped in a hotrod inspired box with wood, foam and foil inlay.
Two early, deeply weird Alice Cooper Band albums see the light of day anew with Rhino Encore's reissues of Pretties for You and Easy Action. This is the Alice we like to talk about on the Esotouric Where the Action Was rock history tour, hanging out at the Landmark Hotel getting his eyes did by Miss Christine of the GTOs. Also new from Rhino Encore, Warren Zevon's Mr. Bad Example, from 1991.
Collector's Choice issues a couple of mid-period albums from Arthur Lee's Love, Out Here (with the remake of "Signed D.C.") and False Start (with a Lee-Hendrix collaboration).
Then there's the Lydia Lunch video compedium Hysterie - 1978-2006, just the thing to celebrate this week's Teenage Jesus & the Jerks reunion in NYC.
1000 Songs to Change Your Life
Submitted by kim on Fri, 2008-06-06 20:32. exotica | Kim Cooper/ LITG | time outI've contributed an essay called "Small World," on the suburban sociology of exotica music, to a new anthology from Time Out, 1000 Songs To Change Your Life.
This assignment was the pleasant side effect of lunching with editor Will Fulford-Jones on his recent research trip to L.A. for the new edition of the city guide. Ostensibly we met to fill him in on the various Esotouric bus adventures that Richard and I lead around the city, but I ended up being asked to contribute a variety of sidebars in the forthcoming L.A. guide (Bob Baker! Charles Fletcher Lummis! graveyards of East LA! weird desserts! secret gardens!), and this neat little essay, which conveniently coincided with writing (in collaboration with David Smay) the liner notes for a big bunch of Arthur Lyman reissues.
I don't pretend to be an expert on instrumental music, but I'm quite interested in the intersections between postwar American culture and imagined versions of the exotic, and all the sex/death associations that the tropics carried, and I like how this piece turned out.
Also included among the inventive, thematic essays in 1000 Songs To Change Your Life are Douglas Wolk on broken hearts, Dave Rimmer on "Gloomy Sunday," editor Fulford-Jones on home, Robert Forster on The Only Ones (too brief!), Chuck Eddy on Nashville's fascination with Mexicana, Michaelangelo Matos on non-bubblegum food-themed pop, Kimberly Chun on drag, Philip Sherburne on urban themes in electronic music, Sylvie Simmons reacting to Janet Reno's rah-rah Americana compilation, Bob Stanley on distinctively British sensibilities, Burt Bacharach on songwriting, Colin Irwin on murder ballads, Geoff Carter on film soundtracks, and a whole lot of genre hopping, thought provoking pop crit. There's also a truly stunning photo of Kris Kristofferson playing a Stratocaster, so peel an eye for it at your better bookseller.
Ruthann Friedman at Amoeba and on the Esotouric bus 6/28/08
Submitted by kim on Fri, 2008-06-06 16:31. amoeba | esotouric | Kim Cooper/ LITG | ruthann friedmanLost Grooves newly released for June 3, 2008
Submitted by kim on Mon, 2008-06-02 16:01. argent | cat stevens | colin blunstone | Kim Cooper/ LITGJust released in the UK is Zombies and Beyond, compiling a mix of classic Zombies music with some solo Colin Blunstone dreaminess and a smattering of Argent. Then there's the rarities-packed Cat Stevens career spanning box set, with some unfortunate cover art, but there's inevitably some baggage where Cat's concerned. Such sweet, sweet early tunes, though...
Here Comes Summer.....
Submitted by garypiggold on Thu, 2008-05-29 21:55. beach boys | Fantastic Baggys | Gary Pig Gold | Jan and Dean | Nooney Rickett | Zuzula
Sure,
every time this year,
as temps and spirits begin to rise
and the time gets right for doing
something in the street,
we could So easily get
laid back and lost within the usual grooves
of those Beach Boys,
Jan and/or Dean,
Fantastic Baggys (!!!)
or even Los Nooney Rickett Four.
but,
If you’re ready for a brand new beat instead
all this summer long,
May I suggest you tune on, log in,
turn up and hang at least 10dB
right over there at
Gary Pig Gold dot com,
thanx to our very hot pals
dba Zuzula, that is.
Listen !!
Lost Grooves newly released for May 26, 2008 - P.F. Sloan edition
Submitted by kim on Mon, 2008-05-26 16:59. Kim Cooper/ LITG | P.F. SloanJust released by Big Beat in the UK, Here's Where I Belong - The Best of the Dunhill Years 1965-1967, a long awaited compilation of Phil Sloan's two scarce mid 1960s Dunhill albums, plus singles. Included is the stunning "Karma," a song it's impossible to spin once.
Track Listing
| 1. Sins Of A Family |
| 2. Take Me For What I'm Worth |
| 3. What Exactly's The Matter With Me |
| 4. I'd Have To Be Out Of My Mind |
| 5. Eve Of Destruction |
| 6. This Mornin' |
| 7. I Get Out Of Breath |
| 8. This Is What I Was Made For |
| 9. Ain't No Way I'm Gonna Change My Mind |
| 10. All The Things I Do For You Baby |
| 11. (Goes To Show) Just How Wrong You Can Be |
| 12. What Am I Doing Here With You |
| 13. From A Distance |
| 14. The Man Behind The Red Balloon |
| 15. Let Me Be |
| 16. Here's Where You Belong |
| 17. This Precious Time |
| 18. Halloween Mary |
| 19. I Found A Girl |
| 20. On Top Of A Fence |
| 21. Lollipop Train (You Never Had It So Good) |
| 22. Upon A Painted Ocean |
| 23. City Women |
| 24. A Melody For You |
| 25. Sunflower, Sunflower |
| 26. Karma (Study In Divinations) |
| 27. I Can't Help But Wonder, Elizabeth |
Lost Grooves newly released for May 20, 2008
Submitted by kim on Tue, 2008-05-20 16:28. Kim Cooper/ LITG | velvet undergroundJust released by 4 Men With Beards, vinyl reissues of several Velvet Underground records, including The Velvet Underground & Nico, White Light/White Heat and The Velvet Underground.














