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• MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f645b0dd-86f2-41dd-a3d0-bcf0760233b0

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• Official homepage: https://www.garbage.com/

Gather all around, there's a new clown in town / He's preaching for a change but there's nothing going down / So bring all your gold and forgiveness will be sold / And if you're number seven he will send you straight to heaven.

Waaaah!

Waaaah!

Waaaah!

Waaaahaaaaahh!

Waaaah!

I just noticed a new Eels album came out in June. This is the opening track. It's delicate, existential and introspective. I am listening to the rest of the album, as I type this.

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I have been exchanging music recommendations with a friend. She recently sent me this track. The internet tells me that I had already listened to a few times, but it had slipped my mind until my friend's email. Having just listened to the whole of the Versions Of Modern Performance album, I like the sound that this young Chicago band makes. That's probably because it sounds like we're back in 1996 again.

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Who's listening to the new NGR EP?

This is some list.

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From The Tragically Hip's first EP.

For those who observe it, have a nice Canada Day.

• MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8de5700e-668a-41f5-8859-573a7021abaf

They are no longer his creations

NPR has a story about them today which reminded me of this song from the mid-90s.

you know my love is sweeeeeet!

• Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/2000825-The-Antikaroshi

Familiar now strange

Just posted today, recorded last year.

Last fall at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur our show was rained out. The sky cleared just as dusk fell & someone said: let’s go into the forest. So in a grove of redwoods we played a few songs for the hermit thrushes and spotted owls. Thank you Mark Satterthwaite & crew for filming it.

I loved them before and I love them now.

It's a Saturday night/early Sunday morning in 1994. You've just returned home from a gig, stopping off for some junk food, to soak up the booze, on your way. You flick on the TV, adjust the antenna because the signal isn't that great sometimes, and switch on an overnight music video show.

As the cathode ray tube warms up, this music video comes on and you think, "They sound like a cross between Curve, Lush, Cocteau Twins and The Telescopes. I wonder if they are on 4AD or Creation?".

The room starts spinning. You eventually regain consciousness, flat on your back, on the cold floor. You realise it's not 3am on Sunday in 1994. It's actually 2024 and Austin, Texas band, Blushing, have released an album called Sugarcoat, that this is the title track of.

Slapping yourself, you get back to distracting yourself from real work, looking for more indie bands you haven't heard yet, on the internet.

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The first in a series of bands with terrible names (with decent tunes, in this case). Do you have any other examples?

Apparently this Japanese band chose their name by combining random words that the founding members liked. Despite the absolutely terrible name, they have some good sounding songs.

They are going on tour in N. America in Sept.

• Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/8230550-Rote-Augen
• Bandcamp: https://roteaugenmusik.bandcamp.com/

As Guided by Voices’ resident mad scientist, Robert Pollard churns out songs at a rate that makes the speed of light seem slothful. From homegrown four-track fuzzfests to comparatively high-tech stints with famous producers, GBV’s dozens-strong discography defies easy listening. With Pollard as the only constant, the Dayton band toiled in ‘80s indie rock’s sub-basement obscurity before emerging as the surrealist kings of lo-fi land in the mid ‘90s.

Today, they’re a scrappy but stalwart alt-rock institution. At each album’s core are Pollard’s delirious dream-logic lyrics and miniaturist mania, with songs sometimes ending after a single verse. “I’ve tried to write epics, but I’ve got a short attention span from working with kids for 14 years,” the former schoolteacher told SPIN.

It's Propeller, right? The best GBV album? Yeah, OK.