The Meanest Boys (www.myspace.com/themeanestboys)
The Meanest Boys - I'll Take Whatever It Takes
Elaine Palmer (www.myspace.com/elainepalmer)
Skygreen Leopards (www.myspace.com/skygreenleopards)
.. >....>
Influences
from... Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Donovan, Pentangle, Incredible String Band, Alexander 'Skip' Spence, Ed Askew, Garry Higgins, Sid Barrett, Vashti Bunyan, Michael Hurley, Leonard Cohen, Jefferson Airplane, Fairport Convention, The Byrds, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers, Neil Young, The Seeds, Moby Grape Fence Collective, King Creosote, Lone Pigeon, Pip Dylan, Skygreen Leopards, Pictish Trail, James Yorkston, It's Jo and Danny, Aidan Smith, High Plane Drifters, Herman Dune, Little Wings, Viking Moses, Josephine Foster, Jack Rose, Marissa Nadler, Elaine Palmer, PG Six, Tower Recordings, Espers, Six Organs of Admittance, Chris Corsano, Vetiver, Currutick County, Akron/Family, Dianne Cluck, W-S Burn, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Bonnie Prince Billy, Micah P Hinson, Daniel Johnson, Adem, Hush the Many, Edith Frost, Belle and Sebastian, Beta Band, The Aliens, Coco Rosie, The Decemberists, Neutral Milk Hotel, Red House Painters, Mojave 3, Of Montreal, Broken Family Band, Whysp, Apothecary Hymns, Dianne Cluck, Dooley Wilson, The Earlies, John Stammers Spacemen 3, Soledad Brothers, The Beatles........ Labels: Domino Records, Fence Records, Sketchbook Records, K, Jewelled Antler, Track and Field Organisation, Gentle Electric, Drag City, Locust Music, Young God Records, Analogue Cat, Garden Sticks, Twisted Nerve.... THE GREENMAN FESTIVAL !!!!!!!!!!
LATEST RELEASE!!!! BUY NOW EXLUSIVELY DIRECT FROM US AT COSMOS
The Sky Green Leopards
Gorgeous Johnny CD /LP . Release Date : October 5th
"Gorgeous" Johnny was a fringe member of the Skygreen Leopards in the group's early days; he didn't really play anything but neither could anyone else. Described by most as a phony and a self-confessed dandy, the band kept him around for his undeniable fashion sense. He would often quote Coco Chanels' views on Modernism and affected a British accent though he was from Orange County. This was a huge influence on the Donaldson/Quinn songwriting team. Eventually he moved to the south of France and no one has heard from him since except for a postcard that read: I'M STILL IN THE VAN! MUCH LOVE, JOHNNY. Anyway, his name's not really Johnny -- that's just a dick joke.
It's been 8 years since the 1st SGL's record was released. Since then the boys have maintained their singular aesthetic while managing to dabble with faux-folk, avant garde pop, reverb-drenched lofi psychedelia, plastic country and blurry ballads. This latest effort finds them collaborating with Jason Quever (Papercuts) to create a melancholy world overflowing with itinerant dandies, urban streets, suburban teens, and more girls' names than I care to count, all set to melodic shuffles featuring harmonies, frail piano, and romantic guitars.
As always with the Leopards the rhythms refuse to be bridled, the boys resist the urge to jam, and they won't ever learn to sing properly. This will frustrate the expectations of some. Others will find a sweet shadowy hiding place in these songs -- 3 minutes to hang out with girls who race horses, boys who never learned to dance, and a dirty uncle who steals your cigarettes.
EXCLUSIVE TO RELEASE, SPECIAL PRE-RELEASE PURCHASE, YOU CAN BUY IT NOW! for £10.00 inc Postage in the UK or £11.50 inc Postage in Ireland and Europe
The Woven Project have now a dedicated page on face book, just incase you don't use myspace that often, join our face book page. Please click on link below and 'become a fan'.
This is the first set from the slightly tweaked Beach Fuzz line-up with Fliss Horrocks now playing guitar alongside Tom Settle and Nick Mitchell. Seven tracks of clattering drums, chugging and wailing guitars, screaming keyboards, mellow, lilting pastoral improv and moaned vocals.
Pay by Paypal to goldenlabrecordings@hotmail.co.uk
JAMES YORKSTON & THE BIG EYES FAMILY PLAYERS with MARY HAMPTON and DAVID A JAYCOCK
JAMES YORKSTON, resident of the East Neuk of Fife and core member of musical family The Fence Collective, for a special night of folk music in the company of The Big Eyes Family Players.
James plays in support of his new album Folk Songs - released on Domino in August, which features traditional songs from the length and breadth of Great Britain & Ireland and one tune from Galicia in Spain. After a decade which has seen folk music morph into nu-folk, mobile phone-ad folk, mortgage-folk, smoothie-folk and so on, Yorkston has reached back into the tradition of song and place and drawn a line in the sand.
This month we mostly have Catie Curtis (with a Richard Thompson cover), Lindsay Fuller and The Cheap Dates (and who amongst us isn't?), Josh Fix with a track from the well-titled album This Town Is Starting To Make Me Angry and the rather lovely Red Rooster.
Also,
Ohio noiseniks Times New Viking will be playing The Basement in York
on the day their great new album 'Born Again Revisited' is released
on Matador. Support from Banjo Or Freakout and Missing Kids. Ticket
purchase recommended for this, only a hundred of em.
ach.........................alright. why not. me and a pal are driving down on the fri eve. should get there around 2 or 3 am. if we can find it. we got hoplesly lost last year.
Want to let you know that I write in the Even in the Future blog with some friends of mine from around the world & if you would like to send us some releases for review in our blog please write me back. The blog is right here if you’d like to read it http://eveninthefuture.blogspot.com
Four more little sonic gems for your August pleasure are now available on the site. Blitzen Trapper, Boulder Acoustic Society, Jay Brannan and The Wiyos. Yet another fine quartet even though we say so ourselves as picked them out.
http://stereogum.com/archives/band_to_watch/artist-to-watch-john-carpenter_090861.html
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=251914960&blogId=491174543