tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35264692009-11-18T22:33:42.902-05:00Little ElpeesDiscovery Is Everything.Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-84151331294758486142007-03-07T15:25:00.000-05:002007-04-17T14:58:36.330-04:00DIBIDIM "Riders"CHRIS & COSEY "Take Five"I got completely floored today. I mean blindsided. So I did what any good blogger did and rushed to get this posted. Like within 15 minutes of hearing the band for the first time. Gosh, I hope it holds up well next week. You haven't heard of them before. They aren't playing SXSW. The only thing I know about them is that they are from the UK and theJackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-64231072146868534572007-03-05T11:41:00.000-05:002007-04-17T14:25:01.885-04:00SILVER LAKES "The Great Pretenders"FIONN REGAN "The End Of History"Continuing with our "bands who are appearing at SXSW" theme, Little Elpees today presents you with two distinctively different artists who at least share one thing in common: gorgeous gorgeous melodies.Silver Lakes are from Atlanta and is the creative offering of Steven Satterfield, one time singer for Too Pure band, Seely. I've Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-62548469937885789582007-03-03T01:37:00.000-05:002007-04-17T14:13:53.550-04:00A very rare late night post from the Little Elpees, but it's a world premiere. Maybe not, I'm sure some eager blogger has beat me to the punch. I'll have more to say later about Chapel Hill's Rosebuds, but let me plainly state this: I absolutely love to see an indiepop type grow up into a big ole dance party monster of a band. By late spring, people will be uttering the word "rosebuds" in Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-26698252342884728852007-03-02T11:15:00.001-05:002007-04-17T14:14:40.851-04:00THE HAZEY JANES "Hotel Radio"HOODOO GURUS "Stoneage Romeos"HOODOO GURUS "Mars Needs Guitars"Is anyone still debating what is "alternative" music or not? It's a pretty banal conversation to have, but one thing I've noticed is, the word "indie" has taken the place of "alternative". As long as you slap "indie" on there, you're different. Pretty soon, real unknown underground stuff will be called "Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-22875357597463726312007-03-01T12:11:00.000-05:002007-04-17T14:15:06.887-04:00THE BEES "Octopus"OTIS REDDING "The Soul Album"I hate that I'm only posting once a week now. I'm also hating that this post is like 3 months overdue. I'm supposed to share with you and I've been lame. Wait, bloggers are supposed to talk in the third person, right? Little Elpees is very very ashamed of themselves. Bad Little Elpees! K, now, get ready to be blown away.According to my nifty Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-64517079878523302832007-02-22T08:57:00.000-05:002007-04-17T14:15:31.323-04:00THE SEA AND CAKE "Everybody"Whoa. The Sea And Cake have made a classic rock album. Parts yacht rock, parts dueling guitars, parts bouncy 60s pop, Everybody is certainly for everybody. I'm smitten after two listens. What grabs you is the actual sound of this record, a little different from their previous offerings. My favorite song so far is "Middlenight", almost like a slowed down "Too YoungJackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-55003995229901680932007-02-14T09:21:00.000-05:002007-04-17T14:15:53.947-04:00THE RESEARCH "Breaking Up"MOI CAPRICE "The Art Of Kissing Properly"I'm about to say something really deep. Not, really. Every song ever is about love. There you go. Seriously. So, this is the day that we are told we are supposed to be in love or show our significant other how much we love them. Thankfully, mine let me off the hook this year because she wants to go to a party instead. Good, Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-88763616986155892202007-02-08T11:48:00.000-05:002007-04-17T14:16:10.973-04:00ACE "Five-A-Side"AL STEWART "Time Passages"Doing a lot with very little. That's the theme of today's Little Elpees post. Also, it reveals what many people know about me. I am a complete pussy. Today I present to you, two very ace songs. Get ready to board the yacht, I have some Harvey's Bristol Cream waiting.OK, grab your bass guitar. You don't have one? OK, grab a rubberband. Now, pluck Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-17509565719953755892007-02-06T12:56:00.000-05:002007-02-06T13:04:56.802-05:00FIELD MUSIC "Tones Of Town"YES "Time And A Word"My pal Liz is going to have a fit over today's post, but she totally saw it coming. Hit her Headphones On blog after you read this, she's got some lovely songs to warm you up during this arctic bullshit.So quickly, as I'm hungry for lunch.... Field Music are a super trio from Sunderland, UK who maintain that they love Squeeze. I think they are Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-44703448955422879702007-02-02T12:25:00.000-05:002007-02-02T12:52:43.466-05:00BOURGEOIS TAGG "Yoyo"THE SECRET STARS "The Secret Stars"I may have gone a little too far today. But I don't mind at all. Since I'm back on board with my iTunes library and sexy Seagate 300GB hard drive, I've been creating all sorts of playlists. For example, one's called Crazy Covers, and holy shit, it's crazy! But I wanted to make an 80s one, because I was kind of out to prove a point: that Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-47227341332770902222007-02-01T08:31:00.000-05:002007-02-01T08:47:00.231-05:00PAUL WILLIAMS "Someday Man"THE AMERICAN BREED "Lonely Side Of The City"Some oldies but goodies today on Little Elpees and finally a return to my vinyl collection, albeit a little cheating. When I was at the peak of my vinyl buying days, I would go through little phases. One such phase was collecting any record with a cover of "God Only Knows" on it. That's definitely another post or fifty. Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-36457707246194757002007-01-26T13:29:00.000-05:002007-01-26T13:44:50.157-05:00THE ASSOCIATES "The Affectionate Punch"hollAnd "The Paris Hilton Mujahideen"I picked both of these songs before I knew what kind of angle I was going to use or what I was going to say at all. Sometimes I have a good idea of why I'm posting music, but also sometimes, like when I DJ or make mixes for people, I have no idea why I'm merging songs/artists/moods, it happens without effort. I don't Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-81718620333110582302007-01-25T06:50:00.000-05:002007-01-25T07:10:29.286-05:00 DEAN & BRITTA "Back Numbers"A big big big shoutout to Data Rescue II (Electric Bugaloo) for managing to save 31,000 songs off my failed to mount LaCie 160GB drive. Thing is, once I erased that drive, it was fine. I was panicky that 4 years of burning my cds and lps (and subsequently getting rid of some (trust me I have too much music)) had amounted to zero. So, don't be Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-16081579751890971722007-01-23T15:10:00.000-05:002007-01-23T15:11:29.024-05:00 ROGER VOUDOURIS "Get Used To It"This guy is outta control. I wish I had some coke. Update to my hard drive woes coming soon, but I have two people to thank.... Roger isn't one of them.Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-30402356559587743622007-01-18T12:12:00.000-05:002007-01-18T12:16:37.284-05:00 FIONN REGAN "Be Good Or Be Gone"I lost 31,000 songs when my LaCie 160GB hard drive filled with music failed to mount yesterday. My computer finds the drive in Disk Utility and Disk Warrior, but can't manage to mount the drive. And that, my friends, sucks a big bag of dicks, because I spent the better part of 4 years burning my collection, etc. So I can't share with you rightJackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-34152687118531471662007-01-10T11:42:00.000-05:002007-01-10T13:26:40.785-05:00 LONEY, DEAR "Loney Noir"I was trying to think of some grand articulate way of stating the following: I hate twee, I love boys who sing like girls. Does that make sense? I love orchestration. I love when you feel someone has put very much of themselves into a piece of music. I think that Swedes and the Japanese can get away with using cliches in music because sometimes they Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-1168287439969684902007-01-08T15:02:00.000-05:002007-01-09T15:19:24.083-05:00 CHARLOTTE HATHERLEY "Behave EP"UPDATE: Hey, sorry, tried to post this, hours ago, but for some reason my Fetch wasn't working. Don't be surprised if there's a new post very shortly after this...I discovered Ash very shortly after their first single or two dropped. A friend from Minneapolis raved about the teenaged Northern Ireland punky trio and I bought in. "Kung Fu" was Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-1167421668674290812006-12-29T14:33:00.000-05:002006-12-29T14:47:48.690-05:00 MEGA CITY FOUR "Sebastopol Rd."What was the absolute best record of 1992? No, it wasn't Nevermind. It wasn't Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend. Besides both of those were technically released in 1991 anyway, so I was tricking you. Ahem. No, the absolute best record was Sebastopol Rd. by the very underrated Mega City Four. They precursored emo. They implemented gorgeous melodiesJackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-1167340413523096332006-12-28T16:06:00.000-05:002006-12-28T16:13:33.536-05:00 THE ACORN "Tin Fist EP"I'll tell you where I've been later. I've barely had time to catch a breath for the last several weeks, but there's some good stuff in store this winter. For now, enjoy a song from Ottawa's The Acorn, a totally gorgeous new EP that you should immediately seek out. It's been the perfect soundtrack to a warm autumn and even more perfect for these days Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-1161887469681525472006-10-26T14:16:00.000-04:002006-10-26T14:31:09.700-04:00 THE POSTMARKS "The Remixes EP"Back in the '03, Little Elpees had a label that released the best unheard record of that year. A little band from Miami full of sadness and sunshine called See Venus. They came to CMJ that previous autumn, armed with vibraphones, tambourines, and sassy melodies and pretty much left everyone in the audience in awe. Even Harvey Williams. The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-1161882782732573722006-10-26T13:02:00.000-04:002006-10-26T13:13:02.750-04:00 BILLY BRAGG "Don't Try This At Home"Recently, over at Gorilla Vs. Bear blog, Austin LaRoche volleys up the top 10 saddest songs he's ever heard. Hmmmm. I wondered how my list would compare, because I consider the sad song, amongst the most appealing. There's nothing like feeling like you are going to have a total cry your eyes out festival from just hearing a chord Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-1161716932722348192006-10-24T14:45:00.000-04:002006-10-24T15:08:52.740-04:00 DIVISION DAY "Beartrap Island"Let's face it. You either have to a huge sack of balls to name your band after an Elliott Smith song or you have to be plain stupid. The cynic in me wanted to believe this was another misguided California emo band with aspirations of MTV and Warp tours. I mean, shit, it's like naming your band The Nick Drake, isn't it? I'd scanned a few blogs Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-1161368286051177082006-10-20T14:05:00.000-04:002006-10-20T14:18:06.200-04:00 CORNELIUS "Sensuous"I loved indie kids' fascination with Japanese pop music that spiked around the year 2000. While Shonen Knife paved the way for the broken engrish pop sensations that broke through to some degree at the turn of the millenium, Cornelius really slamdunked the whole thing with Fantasma. Fantasma was an eclectic and fascinating magical journey, crunchy cut & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-1161298419882682532006-10-19T18:45:00.000-04:002006-10-19T18:53:39.910-04:00 BADLY DRAWN BOY "Born In The U.K."Hey! It's Haiku Thursday! I promise I'll get better at updating my blog. My blog, bloggy blog blog! There's some lovely stuff down the pike. Trust me. I said, TRUST ME! Ok, now for your haiku(s):This is so far fromThe Hour Of BewilderbeastWho the FUCK is this?orYou should be ashamedThe production sucks Creed's dickFuck Badly Drawn Boyor,Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-1160677284269468132006-10-12T14:11:00.000-04:002006-10-12T14:21:24.293-04:00 SOUTH "Adventures In The Underground Journey To The Stars"How did it get to be October already? I'm still counting on a beach weekend. Guess it's not going to happen. Anyway, Little Elpees is back, sorry, did you miss me?I'm not one to succumb to hype. It definitely puts me off. But, I am a curious being, like most of us. British bands get loads of hype. Not the kind of Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.com0