Not much news on my side today. I was reading about a book called “La Entusiasta” by Gala de Meira that came out last year. It is in Spanish only as far as I know, no translations yet. I was thinking about trying to find a copy. Book Depository has it for $27! Expensive. But I am interested as it is the story of a groupie in the times of Spanish indiepop. I read that there are stories about La Casa Azul, Los Planetas, among others. I wonder if anyone has read it and can recommend it?

Comet Gain: a new collection of rare tracks from Comet Gain! “The Misfit Jukebox Vol 2 – Paintbox Aliens” is up now on Bandcamp with whopping 25 songs! All of these songs were recorded at various studios, flats, rehearsal rooms, radio stations, and more. The time period for these are from back in 1993 to 2020. Wow! Wish these collections of tracks were released at least as CDRs!

The Photocopies: Three new songs by this nice solo project by Sean Turner from Michigan (though originally from London)! Upbeat and fun like a ray of sunshine, “The Not Knowing”, is a great track. With it he adds two more for this digital single, “You Used to Tell Me Everything” and “Zine Queen”.

The 1981: this Oakland duo likes the 80s. And that’s good! Their latest release is a tape titled “Variants” that includes 6 covers. Among them 2 that indiepop fans will surely love. One of it is “Heroes and Villains” by The Pooh Sticks and “Billy Two” by The Clean!

The Muldoons: I am a big fan of the Paisley band. They make wonderful, perfect pop songs. Jangly and classy. Their latest digital single is one of their best songs for sure. I would love for it to be on a 7″. What a song. It is called “Audacity” and it seems to be only available as a digital release. And if you like it, remember I interviewed these Scottish heroes in the past.

Man Behind Tree: “3” is the new album by this Berlin combo that knows how to make some nice brand of noise/janglypop. The limited edition album is out now on CD. Limited to 100 copies, just about 10 are available. 12 songs of fuzzy pop out now on Subjangle Records.

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I wasn’t aware of a Soundcloud account for the Manx Bands Archive. That’s great. I wonder how many good discoveries can be made here. There are tons of songs by bands that hailed from the Isle of Man.

I ended up here as I was looking for info about a band called Angels Arc. The great tastemaker that stoneeyedkiller is on Youtube had shared the song “Gina” by this band.

Sadly on the Soundcloud account there is no information whatsoever about them. There is no bio, no band members names. The one thing that they have shared is a photo of the band. Four guys. And they look from the 80s or early 90s.

In general all the songs uploaded don’t have info nor photos. So I hope whoever was running this Soundcloud two years ago could shed some light.

I thought looking for info on a website called Manxmusic. But I couldn’t find anything there either.

Google is not helpful, keeps giving me results about a band called Arc Angels from Texas who seem sort of famous but I am not interested.

Other than that, who knows… where does their name come from? Where in the isle where they based? Douglas?

Hopefully we’ll find out more about them in the near future.

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Angels Arc – Gina