Disintegration Revisited • 2019

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TBTCI ends here and now, and our last adventure simply doesn´t need presentations, after all Disintegration is a masterpiece in block letters. For many, The Cure´s the best record, but it doesn´t matter, what really matters is that we all love it unconditionally, and that is enough. 

Best of 2018 - Say Sue Me - it's just a short walk!

One of my favourite cover EPs of 2018 - so simple so sweet so listen to it!

Fittingly for a band that often sounds as if they’re piecing together various corners of pop history, the song selections and aesthetic of the EP span decades. In a press release, frontwoman Sumi Choi mentions that they at first considered covers by their favorites, Yo La Tengo and Pavement. Instead, they went back to some of the older, legendary bands and decided to try to render those songs through the lens of indie bands Say Sue Me grew up on. That means the ’60s pop charge of the Velvet Underground’s “Beginning To See The Light” gets ruptured with angular ’90s breakdowns, or that they might tweak the Beach Boys’ “Do You Wanna Dance” and the Ramones’ “Rockaway Beach” with a shimmery modern haze.

Reverse Play: C86 re​(​dis​)​covered - 2018

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The idea for this one was be a “C86” theme! Not strictly C86 as to what was on the tapes, but more as a genre in (twee)music. Think bands like the Wake, BMX Bandits, Brighter, Heavenly, McCarthy etc. 

The bands that were involved are indie's "hidden gems" and each of them brilliant in their own way, some more recoginised than others, but part of an extensive indie music network online that shares a devotion for music like no other…. 

Adult Mom Sings Walter Etc - 2018

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lotte kestner - collection of radiohead covers - 2017

An angel sings Radiohead songs!

Rogue Wave - Cover Me - 2017

www.roguemusic.com

01. Rescue (Echo And The Bunnymen)

02. In Between Days (The Cure)

03. Let My Love Open The Door (Pete Townsend)

04. That’s All (Genesis)

05. Bette Davis Eyes (Kim Carnes)

06. Sharp Dressed Man (ZZ Top)

07. She Sells Sanctuary (The Cult)

08. Under The Milky Way (The Church)

09. Talking In Your Sleep (The Romantics)

10. In A Big Country (Big Country)

11. Love My Way (Psychadelic Furs)

12. Money Changes Everything (Cyndi Lauper)

Various Artists - Dressing Up - The EPOP Covers - 2014

EARDRUMS POP is a net-label closely related to the music blog Eardrums. We love warm and melodic music of all kinds, we believe in beautiful things you can see and hear, and we believe in working together, helping eachother and getting good music and good art out to the public. We do not believe in money, so all our releases are given away for free.

the songs of Will Oldham - a slowcoustic cover project - 2014

Check it out here

thanks McArc... nice find!

Playlist Covers

DISC 01

01 - The Arctic Flow - If You Need Someone (The Field Mice)

02 - Beach Fossils - Alison (Slowdive)

03 - Another Green World - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths)

04 - Tape Waves - Age Of Consent (New Order)

05 - Blouse - Pale Spectre (The Wake)

06 - The Gentle Isolation - Sea Horses (Blueboy)

07 - Golden Gardens - Pale Shelter (Tears For Fears)

08 - Foxes In Fiction - Heaven Or Las Vegas (Cocteau Twins)

09 - Soft Shadows - French Disko (Stereolab)

10 - Broken Little Sister - A To Fade In (Adorable)

11 - Memoryhouse - When You Sleep (My Bloody Valentine)

12 - Stumbleine - Fade Into You (feat. Steffaloo) (Mazzy Star)

13 - The Spectors - Femme Fatale ( The Velvet Underground & Nico)

14 - Worries - Space Age Love Song (A Flock Of Seagulls)

15 - Keep Shelly In Athens - Just Like Honey (Jesus And Mary Chain)

DISC 02 

01 - Coma Cinema - I Wanna Be Adored (Stone Roses)

02 - The Secret Goldfish - Come As You Are (Nirvana Cover)

03 - Tinsels - Tell Me How It Feels (Sweetest Ache)

04 - Warpaint - Ashes To Ashes (David Bowie)

05 - Four Visions - 40 Days (Slowdive)

06 - The Sleepyheads - Feeling Called Love (Wire)

07 - White Ring - Hey Hey, My My (Neil Young)

08 - Hammock - Black Metallic (Catherine Wheel)

09 - Ghost Animal - Brand New Life (Young Marble Giants)

10 - Pure Bathing Culture - Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)

11 - Typsy Panthre - Pretty In Pink (Psychedelic Furs)

12 - Swiss Alps - Summershine (The Sea Urchins)

13 - The Garlands - Forever Live And Die (OMD)

14 - Mondrian - Manic, Magic, Majestic (Band Of Holy Joy)

15 - The Go Find - Pink Frost (The Chills)

16 - Bathing Beauty - Christmas Tears (The Hit Parade)

Check it out over at For Ex-Lovers

orange cake mix - tripped up : a tribute to the jesus and mary chain - 2012

A tribute to Jesus and the Mary Chain can never go wrong and these dudes get it! Awesome little 5 song EP highlighting music that is classic already. Love this!

Playlists #3

My instalment of playlists from blogs I love continues. Today I want to give props to a great blog called Friends With Both Arms. 

Every month they release a great playlist from the tunes their site highlights. 

This one is definitely to checkout.

Secret Mountains Mixtape Tracklist

1. Lia Ices-Love is Won

2. The Morning Benders-Mother and Child Reunion (Paul Simon Cover)

3. You’re Jovian-Sentimental Doubt

4. The War on Drugs-A Pile of Tires

5. Vetiver-Sister

6. Swiss Alps-Summershine (The Sea Urchins)

7. Surfer Blood-Anchorage

8. Deep Time-Clouds

9. Heatmiser-See You Later

10. Conner Youngblood-Australia

11. Tame Imapala-Apocalypse Dreams

12. El Perro Del Mar-Change of Heart

13. Twin Steps-Wave of My Emotion

14. Wye Oak-Remember,Above (Daytrotter)

15. Mountain Man-Dog Song

16. Bibio-Lovers’ Carvings

17. JJ-Are you still in Vallda?

18. Bodies of Water-Open Rhythms

19. Grooms-3D Voices

20. The Babies-Breakin The Law

Pick it up on their site

Indie Covers Twenty

I'm at twenty already... Either I am getting older real fast or I lost my marbles years ago. Here is the 20th instalment of my indie covers posts; I probably have another 20 or so before I start lacking covers from some of our most endearing indie artists.

North Star by Graveface Records & Curiosities - Weary Engine Blues - 2013

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Tribute to Jason Molina

From William Schaff:

"Back in January of this year, I received a message from a friend of Jason's, Tara Samaha. Like so many of us were, she was concerned. She was concerned for his safety, mental and physical health after receiving an alarming email. She felt he needed a map to help him through these troubled times and then asked that I make him one. I did. Sadly we were never able to land a concrete address for Jason, where we knew he would get the map. I know that he had lost things important to him over the past few years, for various reasons, so I wanted to be sure this got into his hands, and no one else. That said -- sadly -- the map was never delivered to him" graveface

Eddi Front - 2012

"It took a long time for me to not hate the sound of perfection," says 27-year-old Brooklyn-based songwriter Ivana Carrescia, who records as Eddi Front. Ever since she was a kid-- an only child, Vegas-born, who moved around constantly with her restless mother-- she has gravitated towards dark, murky sounds.

The violin that her conductor father gave her when she was five was too shrill ("I thought it sounded like a whiny cat… especially if you kind of suck"); she wanted a viola or cello instead. Her favorite music as a teenager followed a similar pattern: the gloom of the first few Cat Power records, the cassette hiss and dark humor of Liz Phair's self-recorded Girlysound tapes. These were the albums that inspired her to create her own brooding, decidedly unpolished bedroom recordings. "I was sending around demos which I thought were a finished product," she laughs. "Some of my friends were like, 'Maybe you should try to record these in a studio.'" pitch

My 2012: Angus Stone - Broken Brights

Genre: Indie folk pop

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Broken Brights generally feels laid-back even in its rockier electric moments. Its easy-on-the-ear rhythms call up Dire Straits, while Stone’s sporadic distorted guitar solos evoke Neil Young in his Crazy Horse era, especially on songs like “Bird On A Buffalo” and “Only A Woman”. It’s hard not to admire his skill as Stone adds brightness and color to even his downbeat tales. On “The Blue Door”, tremolo guitar and flute mirror the cautionary lyrics with Western ambience, and he sprinkles tiny sound effects over the guitar-woven space oddity “Apprentice Of The Rocket Man”.

Touches like these lift Broken Brights above the mundane, as Stone demonstrates production skills worthy of an addition to his resume. Superficially, this album could be filed as “easy listening”; and to some extent, it is. But it redeems itself by demanding careful listening: There’s always something unexpected around the corner.

Christmas Vol. 1 [2012]

A collection of holiday music to inspire and coat with the season's joy!

Winter Wonderland  -The Rainbow Collections

Just Like Christmas - Low

Let it Snow - Her Space Holiday

White Christmas - Mark Kozelek

It's Christmas Time - Yo La Tengo

Little Drummer Boy - Laurie Berkner

Amazing Grace - Sufjan Stevens

Christmas - Death Cab for Cutie

2000 Miles - Coldplay

Jinglebell Rock - Arcade Fire

Happy Christmas - The Polyphonic Spree

You Are My Joy - The Reindeer Section

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Silver Bells - The Pines

It's Christmas  - Frightened Rabbit

Jeff Buckley - Amazing Grace

Merry Christmas - Renee & Jeremy

Pixies' Covers Vol. II [2012]

Enjoy Vol. II

Velouria Weezer

Tame Local H

Allison Eve 6

Cactus Nathan Gepper

Letter To Memphis Ice Cream

Gigantic Animal Husbandry

Silver (club mix) Mike DiSanto

Blown Away Avelimp

I've Been Tired New Retros

Monkey Gone to Heaven Elk City

Motorway to Roswell KNife and Fork

Where Is My Mind John P. Strohm

Indie Covers Vol. 18 [2012]

Enjoy!

17 days (Prince cover) Dam Funk

Climbing Up the Walls (Radiohead cover) The Twilight Sad

Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead cover) Stumbleine ft CoMa

Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode Cover) Black Sheep Boy

Tunnels (Arcade Fire Cover) Meklit Hadero & Quinn DeVeaux

Small Town Boy (Bronski Beat Cover) The Machine Room

Ask (The Smiths Cover) Brothertiger

Holocene (Bon Iver) KNESSET

Power of Love (FGTH cover) Fossil Collective

Wicked Games (The Weeknd Cover) Coeur de Pirate

I Follow Rivers (Lykke Li Cover) Band Of Skulls

In God's Country (U2 cover) The Infamous Stringdusters

Please Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths) Pickering Pick

Pixies Covers Compilation [2012]

There are just so many Pixies tribute albums out there, I was truly amazed at the sheer quantity and quality that exist. I have been gathering these songs for some time and don't want the playlist to be too extensive so I am ready to send it out into the world. Enjoy!

1. Where is My Mind                Derek Olson
2. Wave of Mutilation               Joy Zipper
3. U-Mass                                 Ottomen
4. Monkey Gone To Heaven    The Cut*off
5. Kim You Bore Me to Death Grandaddy
6. I Bleed                                  Harpo J. Saul
7. Here Comes Your Man        Mislead The World
8. Havalina                               They Might Be Giants
9. Gouge Away                        Mogwai
10. A Good Man is Hard            duplodeck
11. Gigantic                                Ok Go
12. Debaser                                Mother Universe
13. Cousin Corona                     Yuck
14. Caribou                                Sense Field
15. Ana                                      Morning Theft

VA - Songs I Like To Sing [2012]

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