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Flashback Friday: The Dismemberment Plan

14/07/11 at 9.22am   /   by deepster19   /   0 Comment

Let’s put a lid on EMO week once and for all.

The Dismemberment Plan 2The Dismemberment Plan is an indie dance-punk band that hail from The Nation’s Capital. Some may argue that The D-Plan are EMO (Jenny LSQ), while others cringe that the dreaded EMO label is attached to the band. There, EMO twice in one sentence. The Washington D.C. based quartet formed in 1993, and have been able to keep the original line-up together with the exception of founder Steve Cummings, he departed after recording the debut album. The band is named after a line from the 1993 movie Groundhog Day.

From 1993-2003 the band released four studio albums and toured extensively. In the early 00′s they broadened their fan based by touring with Pearl Jam, and then later with Death Cab For Cutie. The critically acclaimed 1999 release Emergency & I, was named by Pitchfork Media as the #1 Album Of The Year and #16 Album Of The Decade. Upon the album’s release, Pitchfork scored it a 9.6 on a scale of 10, which I believe is supposed to mean it’s good, Jake Fogelnest would know better.  The band’s 2001 album Change received similar attention by the same publication, as it was recognized as the #14 Album Of The Year and #97 for the Zero’s.

The band split in 2003, but later reformed briefly in 2007 to play a few charity shows to raise money for the sick son of J. Robbins, frontman for the fellow D.C. based band Jawbox. The Plan reunited again in 2010 in support of the Emergency & I reissue, and have been together ever since. Their fifth studio album Uncanney Valley was released last October.

Studio Albums:
! (1995)
The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified (1997)
Emergency & I (1999)
Change (2001)
Uncanney Valley (2013)

The group’s influences include Fugazi and Jawbox, while they’re known for adding R&B and a hip-hop element to dance-punk. They’re an instrumental influence on some of the indie dance rock that surfaced in the early zero’s such as LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture (recently broken up), Radio 4, and !!! (Chk Chk Chk), not to be confused with the debut album by The Dismemberment Plan with only one Chk.

Check out some tunes from The Dismemberment Plan below:

“Waiting”

“The City”

“Time Bomb”

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Flashback Friday: Swervedriver

13/12/15 at 9.50pm   /   by deepster19   /   0 Comment

swervedriverSwervedriver is an English alternative rock band that formed circa 1989. The Oxford based band is best known for their influential contributions to the British shoegazing movement of the early nineties. Initially, the band was active between 1989-1998 having multiple line-ups and releasing four studio albums. The two mainstays are singer/guitarists Adam Franklin and Jimmy Hartridge.

The band debuted in 1990 with a series of three critically acclaimed EP’s prior to releasing their full-length debut Raise in 1991. Each EP produced a single; Son Of Mustang Ford, Rave Down, and Sandblasted, all would eventually be included on Raise. The album Raise is a brilliant piece of early nineties British rock that should be on everyone’s wall of sound.

After a lengthy U.S. tour supporting Soundgarden, they experienced a line-up change before releasing two more EP’s and then their sophomore album Mezcal Head in 1993. The well-received classic album fuses a mix of Shoegazing and grunge with a hint of American indie. The album produced two alternative rock singles “Duel” and “Last Train To Satansville.”

Due to a palethra of record label issue, the band’s third album Ejector Seat Reservation was never released in North America. Going against the band’s request the label chose “Last Day On Earth as the lead single. The idea was to capitalize on the popularity of Btitpop at the time. because the song sounded as close to Oasis as they were going to get. The band’s poorest selling album is still held in high regards with the critics, but still remains an import-only in the States.

Shortly before breaking up in 1998 the band signed a three-album deal with DGC Records. In typical Swervedriver fashion that deal went to hell quickly for a number of reasons. They were able to get their final record 99th Dream released through an independent source, along with two more EP’s before calling it quits.

Franklin went on to record as Toshack Highway and later collaborate with Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino in Madnetic Morning. Longtime members Graham Bonner and Adi Vines formed Skyscape.

After much-spectulation Swervedriver reunited in the Fall of 2007, citing the success and positive reaction the Pixies had received since 2004. The band kicked-off their reunion tour at non other than the Coachella Music Festival in AoPril of 2008. Now I don’t consider myself a “Swervie” but I was extremely excited about the event….. I ran from the beer garden to the Mojave to ensure my spot on the rail. Eventually, the rest of the deepsters arrived on the scene and at that point I finally turned around to see there wasn’t anyone else in the tent. How embarrassing! ….. not for me, for America.

This week the band released their first piece of recorded music in nearly 15 years. The song “Deep Wound” first surfaced on Jimmy Fallon back in 2012. The new single was made available on iTunes this past Tuesday. Listen to the track below.

Swervedriver’s 4 studio albums include:
Raise 1991
Mezcal Heal 1993
Ejector Seat Reservation 1996
99th Dream 1998

Watch the video for the new song “Deep Wound ” here:

Watch the video for Rave Down” here:

Watch the video “Duel” here:

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Flashback Friday: Guadalcanal Diary

13/09/21 at 8.55pm   /   by deepster19   /   1 Comment

guadalGuadalcanal Diary was an alternative rock band that formed in 1981 in Marietta, Georgia. Fortunately for the band, they were lumped into the American college radio music scene from Athens, Georgia. Athens was the birthplace of well-regarded bands such as The B52′s, Pylon, Love Tractor, Dreams So Real, Flat Duo Jets, and of course R.E.M.

Prior to changing their name to Guadalcanal Diary, the band was known as the Emergency Broadcast System. The four piece consisted of Murray Attaway (lead vocals/guitar), Jeff Walls (lead guitar), Rhett Crowe (bass), and John Poe (drums).

After making a name for themselves in the Southeast, the band was signed to DB records out of Athens. In 1983 the band released the EP Watusi Rodeo, and a year later their debut full-length Walking In The Shadows Of A Big Man. The LP was produced by Don Dixon (Dumptruck), who is best known for his work on co-producing the critically acclaimed debut full-length “Murmur” from R.E.M. After receiving positive vibes, the band signed with Elektra in 1985 and the studio rereleased WITSOABM along with the single “Trail Of Tears,” while the band worked on their major label debut Jamboree. Unfortunately, the 1986 release Jamboree was not well-received so the band went back to work with Don Dixon moving forward. The result was the 1987 masterpiece LP 2X4, which produced the modern rock hits “Litany (Life Goes On)” and “Get Over It.” Prior to disbanding in 1989 the jangle rocksters released their fourth and final album Flip Flop. The album is known for its catchy alt-hit “Always Saturday” (sing-along with the video below… I known you want to).

The band reformed in 1997 and toured until 2000, while self-releasing a live recording At Your Birthday Party in 1999. In 2011 they temporarily reunited to celebrate their 30th Anniversary at Athfest (an annual festival held in Athens, Georgia to promote local music). Band members have remained busy throughout the years with solo work, producing, and family life.

Guadalcanal Diary released the following albums during their career:
Walking In The Shoes Of A Big Man (1984)
Jamboree (1986)
2X4 (1987)
Flip Flop (1989)

2X4 is an album that should be part of everyone’s wall of sound. If you can grab a copy of the expanded remastered release, even better. The album has shown up on a few of those fun best albums of the eighties lists. I remember having the tune “Litany” on repeat back in 1987. Luckily, it was the lead track on the cassette tape so it was easy to find.

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Check out the video for “Litany (Life Goes On)” here:

Sing-along with the video to “Always Saturday” here:

Flashback Friday: Eve’s Plum

13/08/31 at 9.42pm   /   by deepster19   /   0 Comment

Eves+PlumEve’s Plum was an alternative rock band that formed in NYC in 1991. The band’s members included frontwoman Colleen Fitzpatrick (vocals), Michael Kotch (guitar), Benjamin Kotch (drums), and Chris Giammalvo (bass).

The band was known for it’s driving punk pop sound, but better remembered for their band name. Eve’s Plum was named after actress Eve Plumb, best known for her role as Jan Brady on the 70′s hit show The Brady Bunch.
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Flashback Friday: Flesh For LuLu

13/08/24 at 9.34pm   /   by deepster19   /   0 Comment

ffl3Flesh For LuLu are an alternative rock band that formed in London, England in 1982. Their alternative sound incorporates a blend of goth and new wave. The original members of FFL included: Nick Marsh (vocals/guitar), Rocco Baker (guitar), Glen Bishop (bass), and James Mitchell (drums).

In 1980 Rocco Baker was in the band Wasted Youth, a New York Dolls/ Stooges influenced project. The band was short-lived, only releasing one LP and a handful of singles. After disbanding Baker hooked up with Marsh, Bishop, and Mitchell and launched Flesh For LuLu. The band’s name is derived from the title of a cult horror movie.

Flesh For LuLu released four studio albums:
Flesh For LuLu (1984)
Big City Fun (1985)
Long Live The New Flesh (1987)
Plastic Fantastic (1989)
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Flashback Friday: The Afghan Whigs

13/08/16 at 9.47pm   /   by deepster19   /   0 Comment

1343222804-the.afghan.whigsThe Afghan Whigs are an alternative rock band that formed on Halloween night (allegedly) 1986 in The Queen City, USA. The band is comprised of Greg Dulli (vocals/guitar), Rick McCollum (lead guitar), John Curley (bass), as well as multiple drummers throughout the years, most notably Steve Earle and Michael Horrigan. Dulli, McCollum, and Earl met while attending the University of Cincinnati, at the same time Curley worked as a photographer for the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper. The quartet would soon form the punk band Black Republicans, and then later change their name to The Afghan Whigs, a name borrowed from a Florida-based Muslim motorcycle gang.

In 1988 the Cincinnati, Ohio based project, independently recorded and released their debut album Big Top Halloween. The band developed a strong local following in the mid-west and positive word-of-mouth landed them a record deal with Sub-Pop. Soon after, the band was supporting grunge pioneers Mudhoney. and their careers were off and running. During the Sub-Pop period the band release two albums, Up In It and Congregation. The Congregation LP produced two singles that were well-received on college radio and MTV, “Turn On The Water” (my fave Whigs tune) and “Conjure Me.”
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Flashback Friday: Ride

13/08/09 at 9.52pm   /   by deepster19   /   2 Comments

ThuJan191332282012Ride were a British shoegazing band from Oxford, England. The band formed in 1988 and stayed active until 1996. Its members included Mark Gardener (vocals/guitar), Andy Bell (vocals/guitar), Steve Queralt (bass), and Laurence Colbert (drums).

Ride, along with My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive were the main acts associated with the shoegazing scene in the U.K. in the late eighties and early nineties. The British press, particularly N.M.E. and Melody Maker named the musical style shoegazing; simply because the band stood still and stared at the stage the entire performance. The heavy use of effect pedals in this style of music also contributed to always staring at their shoes.

The Oxford four piece began recording together when they were teenagers and released a self-titled EP in 1989 and another EP Play in 1990. Both recordings were well-received by the British press and the band began to form a loyal following due to their loud and intense shows. Later in 1990, Ride released their critically acclaimed full-length debut Nowhere, and then another EP Fall. The album Nowhere charted well and produced the single “Vapour Trail,” all while the band continued to grow a passionate fan base. Nowhere is an indie classic that showed up on almost all best of the nineties lists and also made it into the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

The band followed-up their success by releasing Going Blank Again in 1992. At this time Ride was starting to receive world wide praise and the singles “Leave Them All Behind” and “Twisterella” were in heavy rotation on alternative rock radio and MTV’s 120 Minutes.
By 1994 the band decided that a change in musical direction was in order and it was time to lose the shoegazing style for more of a conventional psychedelic rock sound. The lack of commercial success along with the negative reception of the third LP Carnival Of Light led to tension within the band. This tension continued throughout the recording of the fourth album Tarantula and Ride disbanded in January 1996.

Ride released 4 studio albums:
Nowhere (1990)
Going Blank Again (1992)
Carnival Of Light (1994)
Tarantula (1996)

Post Ride has seen Andy Bell go on to become the bassist for the band Oasis and is currently a member of Beady Eye. Mark Gardener went on the form the band The Animalhouse and is currently working on a solo career. Mark on occasion will include Ride tunes in his solo sets and back in 2011 celebrated the 20th anniversary of Going Blank Again by playing the album. The band has always dismissed talk of a reunion throughout the years while Andy Bell has said a Ride reunion “would not live up to expectations.”

All I can say is we’ve seen stranger things happen…

Visit the new Ride website here:
http://ridemusic.net/

Check out the video “Vapour Trail” here:

Check out the video “Leave Them All Behind” here:

Check out the video “Twisterella” here:

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Flashback Friday: The Ocean Blue

13/08/02 at 8.36pm   /   by deepster19   /   0 Comment

The Ocean Blue Seattle BW_MedIf it wasn’t for the chocolate bar… The Ocean Blue would be Hersey, Pennsylvania’s pride and joy. The indie pop band consisting of David Schelzel (lead vocals/guitar), Steve Lau (keyboards/saxophone), Bobby Mittan (bass), and Rob Minnig (drums and vocals) formed in 1986 while in high school.

The band was signed to Sire Records in 1988 and released their debut self-titled studio album just months after high school graduation in 1989. Continue reading →

Flashback Friday: Simple Minds

13/07/26 at 9.24pm   /   by deepster19   /   0 Comment

Simple_Minds_01Simple Minds are an alternative rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. The band originally formed as a punk rock outfit in 1977 called
Johnny & The Self-Abusers. The band was short-lived and only released one single before half of its members formed The Cuban Heels and the other half formed Simple Minds. The band took its name from lyrics in the David Bowie song Jean Genie.
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Flashback Friday: The Cult

13/07/19 at 10.16pm   /   by deepster19   /   1 Comment

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GoINDEEpMusic presents Flashback Friday featuring The Cult.

The Cult are a British hard rock band formed by Canadian Ian Astbury in 1983. The band’s origin is traced back to 1981 when Ian moved to England and formed the gothic rock band Southern Death Cult. The critically acclaimed band enjoyed immediate success and praise when opening for Bauhaus and Theatre Of Hate. Record labels lined up for a chance to sign the up-and-comers, but before they could
put pen to paper Ian broke up the band 16 months into it. While on tour Ian met Billy Duffy from Theatre Of Hate. The two joined forces and formed the band Death Cult, hoping to cash in on the success of the former band’s name. By 1984 the band realized that if they were to going have success in America they needed to drop the gothic connotations and they truncated the name again to simply The Cult.
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Flashback Friday: Galaxie 500

13/07/12 at 9.40pm   /   by deepster19   /   0 Comment

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GoINDEEpMusic presents Flashback Friday featuring Galaxie 500.

Galaxie 500 are a well-regarded indie band from Boston, Ma. that formed in 1987. The band consisted of frontman Dean Wareham (vocals/guitar), Naomi Yang (bass), and Damon Krukowski (drums). The three met at high school in New York in 1981, but it wasn’t until college that the they started playing together while attending Harvard University. Interestingly, early on Damon didn’t own a drum kit and needed to borrow fellow Harvard classmate Conan O’Brien’s kit who recently had given up on the drums. Conan would later go on
to a lucrative late night television career and appear regularly in the GoINDEEpMusic Indie On TV section.
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Flashback Friday: Peter Murphy

13/07/05 at 10.39pm   /   by deepster19   /   1 Comment

GoINDEEpMusic presents Flashback Friday featuring The Godfather of Goth, Peter Murphy.

Peter Murphy is an English alternative rock solo artists and more importantly the lead singer of the legendary highly influential gothic rock band Bauhaus. The term “gothic rock” has been around since that late sixties however, it wasn’t until the late seventies post-punk gothic movement that the scene began to explode in the U.K. Bands that established and sparked this movement included Joy Division, Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Cure, Echo and The Bunnymen, and Bauhaus. During the movement dark raincoats hit record breaking sales all over the world.
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Flashback Friday: Ned’s Atomic Dustbin

13/06/28 at 10.03pm   /   by deepster19   /   0 Comment

nedsGoINDEEpMusic presents Flashback Friday featuring Ned’s Atomic Dustbin.

Ned’s Atomic Dustbin are an alternative rock band from Stourbridge, England. Their music is described as a post-punk rave funk that oddly uses a double bass and falls into the category of “grebo.” The UK “grebo” subculture movement was short lived and included bands such as The Wonder Stuff, Pop Will Eat Itself, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, Jesus Jones, and Ned’s. The “grebo” fashion style was dreadlocks, partially shaved heads, baggy clothes, boots, and eccentric hats and scarfs.
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