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49 S 2nd St
Brooklyn, NY 11211Pepi Ginsberg
Pepi Ginsberg had a good childhood, a bit wild, and slightly irregular. She went to a private school, a public school, and then college in Philadelphia, where she found warehouses to play in, parks to meet in, and many a neon color to be amazed by. During this time Pepi wrote and misplaced a novella entitled No Name Colorado, and wrote and recorded songs, which came to be her first album, Orange Juice Stephanie/Stephanie. Pepi recorded her sophomore album "Sometime Momma/Sometime Babe" in her apartment bathtub in Brooklyn, NY.
Upon returning home from a tour in support of "Sometime Momma/Sometime Babe," Pepi found a bottle with a note in it at the foot of her apartment door. The return address was from Philadelphia musician Scott McMicken (Dr. Dog) who had written to Pepi asking if she would like to record a song with him and RED was born...
Pepi moves along the parabola, understanding the craft of song to be a glorious and perpetual nearness to the thing it is, that which we are and can be. In a time where you cant say it that way anymore Pepi Ginsberg makes it new.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available unde [Read more]
Upon returning home from a tour in support of "Sometime Momma/Sometime Babe," Pepi found a bottle with a note in it at the foot of her apartment door. The return address was from Philadelphia musician Scott McMicken (Dr. Dog) who had written to Pepi asking if she would like to record a song with him and RED was born...
Pepi moves along the parabola, understanding the craft of song to be a glorious and perpetual nearness to the thing it is, that which we are and can be. In a time where you cant say it that way anymore Pepi Ginsberg makes it new.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available unde [Read more]
Pepi Ginsberg had a good childhood, a bit wild, and slightly irregular. She went to a private school, a public school, and then college in Philadelphia, where she found warehouses to play in, parks to meet in, and many a neon color to be amazed by. During this time Pepi wrote and misplaced a novella entitled No Name Colorado, and wrote and recorded songs, which came to be her first album, Orange Juice Stephanie/Stephanie. Pepi recorded her sophomore album "Sometime Momma/Sometime Babe" in her apartment bathtub in Brooklyn, NY.
Upon returning home from a tour in support of "Sometime Momma/Sometime Babe," Pepi found a bottle with a note in it at the foot of her apartment door. The return address was from Philadelphia musician Scott McMicken (Dr. Dog) who had written to Pepi asking if she would like to record a song with him and RED was born...
Pepi moves along the parabola, understanding the craft of song to be a glorious and perpetual nearness to the thing it is, that which we are and can be. In a time where you cant say it that way anymore Pepi Ginsberg makes it new.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
Upon returning home from a tour in support of "Sometime Momma/Sometime Babe," Pepi found a bottle with a note in it at the foot of her apartment door. The return address was from Philadelphia musician Scott McMicken (Dr. Dog) who had written to Pepi asking if she would like to record a song with him and RED was born...
Pepi moves along the parabola, understanding the craft of song to be a glorious and perpetual nearness to the thing it is, that which we are and can be. In a time where you cant say it that way anymore Pepi Ginsberg makes it new.
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Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez
When we first met Baltimore resident Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez a couple years ago he was playing stripped down electro-pop (60s French chanteuse style) in the exceptional yet short-lived band Cache Cache. Lesser's wide-ranging musical projects also include playing guitar in the drone-tinged country-folk group The Tall Grass as well as an electronic side project called The Ruby Stallion Ensemble.
It should therefore come as no surprise that Lesser's first solo record, "Why Is Bear Billowing?" is just Lesser and his acoustic guitar crafting some of the prettiest folk tunes you'll hear this year or any. A testament to the beauty of simplifying your life, Lesser delivers his songs with a sense of whimsical earnestness, and has garnered comparisons to Nick Drake, John Fahey, and Donovan.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
It should therefore come as no surprise that Lesser's first solo record, "Why Is Bear Billowing?" is just Lesser and his acoustic guitar crafting some of the prettiest folk tunes you'll hear this year or any. A testament to the beauty of simplifying your life, Lesser delivers his songs with a sense of whimsical earnestness, and has garnered comparisons to Nick Drake, John Fahey, and Donovan.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
When we first met Baltimore resident Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez a couple years ago he was playing stripped down electro-pop (60s French chanteuse style) in the exceptional yet short-lived band Cache Cache. Lesser's wide-ranging musical projects also include playing guitar in the drone-tinged country-folk group The Tall Grass as well as an electronic side project called The Ruby Stallion Ensemble.
It should therefore come as no surprise that Lesser's first solo record, "Why Is Bear Billowing?" is just Lesser and his acoustic guitar crafting some of the prettiest folk tunes you'll hear this year or any. A testament to the beauty of simplifying your life, Lesser delivers his songs with a sense of whimsical earnestness, and has garnered comparisons to Nick Drake, John Fahey, and Donovan.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
It should therefore come as no surprise that Lesser's first solo record, "Why Is Bear Billowing?" is just Lesser and his acoustic guitar crafting some of the prettiest folk tunes you'll hear this year or any. A testament to the beauty of simplifying your life, Lesser delivers his songs with a sense of whimsical earnestness, and has garnered comparisons to Nick Drake, John Fahey, and Donovan.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
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Steel Phantoms
"Dual vocals bring spirited pop, stripped down new wave, and galloping rock into the two-thousand-and-tens."
Steel Phantoms are Aaron Harris (drum,vocals), Yos Munro (keyboard/vocals), Adam Fisher (bass), and Jesse Newkirk (guitar). Harris and Munro are high school friends who first played together in their hometown of Pittsburgh before both relocating to Montreal to study music at McGill University, hunkering down in the eye of the storm that was the media's endless fascination with everything Montreal in the mid-2000s. Harris in particular experienced the Canuck craze firsthand, taking over drumming duties in Islands in the wake of founding member Jaime Thompson's sudden departure from the band in 2006. Several tours and a few years later, Harris and Munro relocated yet again with the promise of a new musical project. Now, named after a roller coaster in Pittsburgh, utilizing many of the same pop idiosyncracies that defined the Montreal music scene, and headquartered amidst the endless hustle of Brooklyn, Steel Phantoms is very much a product of the past ten years of the duo's friendship and collaboration.
The songs are a wonderful blend of spiky pop music that shifts [Read more]
Steel Phantoms are Aaron Harris (drum,vocals), Yos Munro (keyboard/vocals), Adam Fisher (bass), and Jesse Newkirk (guitar). Harris and Munro are high school friends who first played together in their hometown of Pittsburgh before both relocating to Montreal to study music at McGill University, hunkering down in the eye of the storm that was the media's endless fascination with everything Montreal in the mid-2000s. Harris in particular experienced the Canuck craze firsthand, taking over drumming duties in Islands in the wake of founding member Jaime Thompson's sudden departure from the band in 2006. Several tours and a few years later, Harris and Munro relocated yet again with the promise of a new musical project. Now, named after a roller coaster in Pittsburgh, utilizing many of the same pop idiosyncracies that defined the Montreal music scene, and headquartered amidst the endless hustle of Brooklyn, Steel Phantoms is very much a product of the past ten years of the duo's friendship and collaboration.
The songs are a wonderful blend of spiky pop music that shifts [Read more]
"Dual vocals bring spirited pop, stripped down new wave, and galloping rock into the two-thousand-and-tens."
Steel Phantoms are Aaron Harris (drum,vocals), Yos Munro (keyboard/vocals), Adam Fisher (bass), and Jesse Newkirk (guitar). Harris and Munro are high school friends who first played together in their hometown of Pittsburgh before both relocating to Montreal to study music at McGill University, hunkering down in the eye of the storm that was the media's endless fascination with everything Montreal in the mid-2000s. Harris in particular experienced the Canuck craze firsthand, taking over drumming duties in Islands in the wake of founding member Jaime Thompson's sudden departure from the band in 2006. Several tours and a few years later, Harris and Munro relocated yet again with the promise of a new musical project. Now, named after a roller coaster in Pittsburgh, utilizing many of the same pop idiosyncracies that defined the Montreal music scene, and headquartered amidst the endless hustle of Brooklyn, Steel Phantoms is very much a product of the past ten years of the duo's friendship and collaboration.
The songs are a wonderful blend of spiky pop music that shifts and careens from start to finish in a very focused and mature way, unlocking melodies and progressions you probably didn't expect but are damn glad got your attention. It's a mix of the sweet and sour, the brash and the playful, a sinewy rope of rhythmic muscle allowing lighter pop flourishes to ebb and flow throughout; think Wolf Parade meets Leonard Bernstein and the picture starts to make sense. In turn, the two trade vocals from song to song in a way that accentuates these varying components of their music, Munro's baritone croon recalling Jonathan Richman's earnest swagger and Harris's kerosene-edged melodies flagging the sinister vibes running beneath.
-Ear Farm
Music available for purchase at http://steel-phantoms.bandcamp.com.
http://www.myspace.com/weresteelphantoms
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
Steel Phantoms are Aaron Harris (drum,vocals), Yos Munro (keyboard/vocals), Adam Fisher (bass), and Jesse Newkirk (guitar). Harris and Munro are high school friends who first played together in their hometown of Pittsburgh before both relocating to Montreal to study music at McGill University, hunkering down in the eye of the storm that was the media's endless fascination with everything Montreal in the mid-2000s. Harris in particular experienced the Canuck craze firsthand, taking over drumming duties in Islands in the wake of founding member Jaime Thompson's sudden departure from the band in 2006. Several tours and a few years later, Harris and Munro relocated yet again with the promise of a new musical project. Now, named after a roller coaster in Pittsburgh, utilizing many of the same pop idiosyncracies that defined the Montreal music scene, and headquartered amidst the endless hustle of Brooklyn, Steel Phantoms is very much a product of the past ten years of the duo's friendship and collaboration.
The songs are a wonderful blend of spiky pop music that shifts and careens from start to finish in a very focused and mature way, unlocking melodies and progressions you probably didn't expect but are damn glad got your attention. It's a mix of the sweet and sour, the brash and the playful, a sinewy rope of rhythmic muscle allowing lighter pop flourishes to ebb and flow throughout; think Wolf Parade meets Leonard Bernstein and the picture starts to make sense. In turn, the two trade vocals from song to song in a way that accentuates these varying components of their music, Munro's baritone croon recalling Jonathan Richman's earnest swagger and Harris's kerosene-edged melodies flagging the sinister vibes running beneath.
-Ear Farm
Music available for purchase at http://steel-phantoms.bandcamp.com.
http://www.myspace.com/weresteelphantoms
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
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