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Joel’s Hit Show, Episode 69, 27 June 2010 Playlist

June 27, 2010

The Secret History, Our Lady of Stalingrad
Kathryn Calder, Castor and Pollux
Boyskout, You Act Strange
Fabriclive 51, Portishead/Machine Gun
Crazy Mary, Way Too Freaky
The Crazy Ivans, My Favorite Song
Cate le Bon, Digging Song
The Salteens, All We Want Is What You’ve Got
The Living Sisters, How Are You Doing
Crystal Castles, Fainting Spells
Black Tambourine, Throw Aggi off the Bridge
Quitzow, Magic
Undersea Poem, Come So, Morre So
Night Driving in Small Towns, Barstool
Horse Feathers, Thistled Spring
The Struts – Keep Your Hand Outta My Pocket
The Shocks – More Kicks
Gardening Not Architecture – If You Only Knew
12 Steps To Nothing – Bad Choices
Face To Face – Road of the Righteous
Vitamin Party – Over the Counter
Donnas – Don’t Wait Up For Me
The Uglies – Shakedown
The Bronx – False Alarm
Consumed – Something To Do
White Barons – Suicide Mission
Rancid – Born Frustrated
Whiskey Avengers – Leavin’ You
Teenage Harlets – Not Me
Eddie Haskells – Human Race
Electric Frankenstein – Fired Up For Action
Emanuel – Breathe Underwater

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Black Tambourine “Black Tambourine”

April 30, 2010

They definitely belong on Slumberland; there’s no denying that. Part C86 and part noise, this act joins other up-and-comers such as Brilliant Colors in resurrecting one of my favorite scenes. “For Ex-Lovers Only” gets this record off to a great start and makes me want to grab a Crystal Pepsi and rock out. “Black Car” has the guitar of old Nada Surf or Velocity Girl. (Indeed, a former member of Velocity Girl is in Black Tambourine.) I want to drive into the middle of nowhere so I can blast this as loud as I can.
I’ve always wondered whether Velocette named themselves after Velocity Girl, but “Pack You Up” definitely makes me think more of the former. (The difference in sound between those two bands lies in the singer anyway.) “I Was Wrong” ventures more into the Marine Research side of things, and it’s just as good. “Throw Aggi Off the Bridge” has hints of Fastbacks; I feel like I am describing a wine. “We Can’t Be Friends” sounds like Talulah Gosh, although it’s really splitting hairs to say that, isn’t it?
It’s just come to my attention that this band was only around between 1989 and 1991. Well, no wonder. Clearly they paved the way for a lot of the other acts mentioned thus far. And it also explains why this band reminds me of the Vaselines as well.
There are also a couple demo versions of two of the tracks on here. There’s just all kinds of fun loaded onto this one.

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