Blister Pop: a bad name for a great genre
Glorious Noise (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A particular style of American punk from the 80s gets a [dumb] name.
The Feelies
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The Feelies return!
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 [...]
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The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms
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...
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The Feelies: The Good Earth
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...
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The Feelies - The Good Earth / Crazy Rhythms (Domino)
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.
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The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms & The Good Earth (reissues)
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...
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The Feelies’ Crazy Rhythms & The Good Earth
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...
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Album Review: ARMS – Kids Aflame (Gigantic)
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 [...]
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18)
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
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The Feelies to re-issue ‘Crazy Rythms’ and ‘The Good Earth’ on Domino Records
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 [...]
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Sonic Youth – “Star Power (Acoustic 09)” Exclusive Single
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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TML Monthly Review - Episode #35
The Music Lovers Monthly Review (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
The Ettes - No Home from Danger Is EP Times New Viking - Move To California from Born Again Revisited Girls - Summertime from Album Big Star - I Got Kinda Lost (Demo) from Keep an Eye on the Sky (Box Set) The Feelies - Fa Cé-La (Single Version) from Crazy Rhythms (reissue) The Apples In Stereo - Tidal Wave (Radio Remix) from #1 Hits Explosion The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You from I and...
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What I Listened To On My Way To (And From) Work Today (and Yesterday)
Pete Lit (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Latest in an occasional series... Morphine, "Wishing Well" Typically moody and lush, the kind of tune that Mark Sandman could practically toss off in his sleep back then. Big Dipper, "Nowhere To Put My Love" Previously unreleased track which escaped...
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Nostalgia for a More Simple Time
The Stu Reid Experiment (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Retro fashion is back these days no matter what circles you inhabit and in music its no different. The 80s continue to be a goldmine of synth goodness for current artists, but many other musical aspects of the 80s remain overlooked. Rather than get all complex here, we're going to look back at a more simple 1980 with The Feelies and their perfectly carefree first album Crazy Rhythms . The tracks are...
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C&L's Late Nite Music Club with R.E.M. (Exclusive!)
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
DOWNLOADS: (26) PLAYS: (58) R.E.M. Live At The Olympia is a double CD and DVD packed with 39 songs from their "rehearsal shows" in Dublin from 2007, where they played to smaller crowds over five nights at the Olympia Theatre. The band used these shows to test-drive material from the album Accelerate before recording it and to treat fans to classics from all stages of their formidable career....