I can say that the fanzine is almost done. Just missing answers from one of the bands to be interviewed and two songs for the CD. I am hoping I get this sometime this week and I can finish laying out the pages this weekend. Then I just need to set up the pre-press and it should all be good to go! Very very exciting!
In the meantime here are some great new finds for everyone to enjoy!
Baseball Gregg: this superb sounding band from Stockton, California, is releasing an album called “Calendar” on February 28th! The album will be released on vinyl and cassette by the Slovakian label Z Tapes. There is also a companion book that you can get for $15 which is a good deal. Right now we can only preview the song “Young” out of the 12 that will be in the album and I must say it is very very good! Can’t wait to listen to the rest!
Don’t: Another new album that coming out soon is “Lightning Slow” from this Detroit band I just discovered. Again we can only preview one of the tracks, “I Don’t Care”, out of 8, but it is sufficient to get an idea of how good this could be. Female vocals, upbeat melodies and catchy choruses. That’s what the Fort Worth label Dreamy Life Records will be putting out on CD, cassette on March 6!
Operations: continuing in the US, now we head to Milwaukee. Operations does let us listen to the whole album they’ve released digitally called “Fog Museum”. It was released just a few days ago, on Valentine’s Day, and it has 11 songs of dreamy pop. The band is formed by Charles Markowiak, Alisa Rodriguez, Sam Gargulak and John Schoneman!
Shiny Times: remember the great Tape Waves from Charleston? Kim, one half of the duo, has been releasing music on her own as Shiny Times. I have featured her music in the past, but I feel it’s been a while! Happily she just released a new song called “Too Young” that is gorgeous slice of bedroom pop!
Chemical Club: it seems today I only featured bands from the US! This last one comes from New Mexico. They are a bit of a poppy post punk band, kind of like the Marionettes. They have released a 5 song EP on Valentine’s Day called “Mutual Psychosis”. And well, it sounds great! Hope it gets released properly!
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Just found out about this German band on my friend Heinz’s Youtube channel. I had never heard about them before and I was quite surprised by the song Heinz had uploaded, “Time to Get Away”, which turns out to be the 2nd song out of a 3 song CD!
The other two songs were “La Guardia” and “Behind the Fence”. I wonder what is the “La Guardia” song about. Is it about New York’s airport of the same name? Or something else? Maybe it just means the guard, as that what la guardia means in Spanish. Would be interesting to find out.
All three songs had been recorded at the CELLAR Studios in Gütersloh in Germany. Where is that? It is in the North Rhine-Westphalia region in Germany, and it seems the closest big city is Bielefeld. Maybe the band hailed from there? Or Paderborn?
This CD was released in 1991 and it was self-released by the band. But that’s not all, there is at least one compilation appearance on a German CD called “72 Minutes” that the label Pigs Can’t Fly released in 1993. There the band contributed the song “Time To…”. On this comp I recognize just another band I had featured in the past, the wonderful Die Wurzelsepps.
Sadly I can’t seem to find any other information. Discogs lists the band as a goth rock band. Maybe they other songs are more goth-influenced. The one I listen, “Time to Get Away”, sounds great to me!
Anyone know anything else about them? Maybe they could be included in a second volume of the German Leamington Spa series?
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