The Carter Family, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, The Who, The Hollies, The Small Faces, The Monkees, Allen Toussaint, Bob Dylan, The Band, Harry Nillson, Captain Beefheart, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, T. Rex, David Bowie, Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Devo, The Modern Lovers, Lee Perry, Television Personalities, The Fall, The Buzzcocks, Lilliput, The Talking Heads, Ghost, OOIOO, Wilco, The Shins, White Magic, Dios, Silent City, TK Webb, BOTW, Enon, Tris McCall, The Negatones, Franz Ferdinand, The Fiery Furnaces
"When the touring company of The Fiery Furnaces swapped out Toshi Yano for ex-Sebadoh plucker Jason Loewenstein, they sacrificed a bit of swagger and versatility (Yano was second-chair keyboardist)... qualities were transferred to Yano's new band Kapow!, whose comic-book sound-effect name foreshadows their era-influence of choice, (but) avoids being nostalgia-drunk by DeLoreaning a blippy synth into the garage; harmonized bored-slur vocals and isolated feedback bursts cloud up the sunny-day lyrics. A reminder that pop always saves the day, and indicates Yano absorbed more than a little bit about playfully skewed refractions of rock history from his former employers." - PITCHFORK
"IRRESISTABLE."
- Jon Pareles, The New York Times
"A wall of sound that'd give Phil Spector shivers."
- Jersey Beat
The great Carnival Of Souls archives amnesty continues …
Check out our musical tributes to ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ and ‘Terminator’!!!
Also this week:
An industrial remix of ‘Hang On To Your Id’ …
Three jams, including one featuring Lee KJD and Bishop Dante …
Three studio tracks from the 2007 Kore sessions …
And, from way back in the nineties, ‘In Amorata’ – the first EVER Carnival Of Souls studio recording, featuring George Apsion on 12-string guitar and lead vox, Andy Overend on violin, and Harriet Mallinson on backing vocals …
Check it out! I wrote a free book on music production! It's for total beginners, but if you aren't new to music production, maybe you'll still learn something... at least you can send it to your friends who always want to ask you a billion questions about music production! It's totally free too; my goal with this is to accumulate as many BFF's as possible.
