Bostonist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photo of Theater District tagged "Bostonist" by Antydiluvian . Boston's worst live music venue, the Wilbur Theatre, on the left. Is there a shittier live music venue in Boston than the Wilbur Theatre? We hope not. Let's just say that it takes an advanced level of suck to cancel out the awesomeness that is a Sonic Youth-Feelies concert and that the Wilbur Theatre managed to conjure it. We...
I ♥ MUSIQUE (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
It was The YOI's most successful night at 93 Feet East last week and I got lucky and happened to be behind the decks for some of it. I'd chosen to go down the indie/rock route and it seemed to go down well, suiting the kind of club that 93 Feet East is. Here's what I played, in a slightly random order (and it was a two and a half hour set so it's quite a big list)... Passion Pit - Sleepyhead The Virgins...
Pete Lit (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
When I'm downloading from my record collection to my iPod, I rarely download albums in their entirety. Even though I've only tapped one-fifth of my iPod's storage capacity so far, I'm hesitant to download entire albums because, quite frankly, few...
SoundsXP (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms If Domino continues to invest its Arctic Monkeys millions in remastered re-releases like this pair, I’ll have no complaints. Looking at my much-cherished vinyl copies I’ve always thought that these should be released in additional formats and my prayers to the god of pop have finally been answered. Hailing from suburban New Jersey, the Feelies are clearly inspired...
Glorious Noise (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A particular style of American punk from the 80s gets a [dumb] name.
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
by Kevin Cole To paraphrase the band Pavement, bands are reuniting each and every day… (Hey, even the band I just paraphrased!) But one of the reunions I’ve been most excited about is seeing New Jersey legends The Feelies back together. Taking their name from Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, The Feelies did indeed enter [...]
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The Feelies, whose enduring cultural legacy is inspiring the covers of increasingly terrible Weezer albums, were always a victim of geography. If they had moved to New York City, they might have been as popular as their nervous punk and post-punk contemporaries. Instead, they were from Haledon, New Jersey, which is as good as saying you’re from Wichita, when it comes down to it. Instead, languished...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
It’s not often that a look at two album covers by the same band make it possible to figure out the musical differences between them, but in the case of the Feelies’ The Good Earth and their debut album, Crazy Rhythms, it’s almost too easy. Crazy Rhythms’ sterile cover lets you know it would be full of sterile music (which isn’t meant as a slight), and The Good Earth’s...
Bearded Magazine (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
On a post-punk evolutionary scale, The Feelies sat fittingly between Talking Heads and Mission Of Burma; encompassing the giddy neurosis of the former and the kinetic, rhythmically insistent propulsion of the latter. Pointing towards the indistinct melodicism of REM's Murmur , the bright yet oblique Crazy Rhythms makes for an impressive missing link.
The Quietus | All Articles (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Glenn Mercer and Bill Million’s brilliant Feelies have long been unfairly overlooked in histories of New York’s punk and new wave era. Expressing neurosis where the similarly influenced Jonathan Richman had indulged in infantilism, the New Jersey natives played up the suburban weirdness to the extent that crack drummer Anton Fier was renamed ‘Andy Fisher’ and bassist Keith DeNunzio...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The Feelies were one of hundreds, if not thousands, of bands influenced by the Velvet Underground. Over four albums, the Feelies proved that they were one of the greatest VU-influenced bands ever to plug in. Bar/None ’s recent reissuing of the Feelies’ first two LPs, Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth , offers fans a good reason to revisit their special breed of rock and makes it easy for...
Pampelmoose (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
It’s a testament to how the nomenclature used to define music in a technology-driven market when an album as clear and punchy as this, the debut release by Harlem Shakes guitarist Todd Goldstein, is slapped in reviews and in press releases with the modifier “lo-fi”. It’s also a testament to just how easy it is for [...]
life is a thrill (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18) : Thao with The Get Down Stay Down (27) The Mountain Goats (24) The Feelies (19) Built to Spill (15) The Sadies (14) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Buzzin Music Blog (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Domino Records are about to re-release two classic albums by eighties college radio darlings and indie rockers The Feelies. The New Jersey rockers will re-issue Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth on October 26th, the first time that both albums have been available for more than a decade. The Feelies debut album Crazy Rythms is considered [...]
Matablog (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
(Kim photo by Kirstie Shanley) Hand in hand with their recent appearance on Gossip Girl, be sure to check out Sonic Youth’s “Star Power (Acoustic 09)” which is, as guessed, an acoustic version of the EVOL classic. This exclusive single comes coupled with “Antenna” (The Eternal version) via iTunes. Speaking of which, for a limited time [...]
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