tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35264692011-12-26T02:26:07.857-05:00Discovery Is Everything.Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07527825480603251367noreply@blogger.comBlogger981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526469.post-84151331294758486142007-03-07T15:25:00.000-05:002007-04-17T14:58:36.330-04:00

DIBIDIM "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 the

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SILVER 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

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A 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

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THE 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 "

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THE 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

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THE 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 Young

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THE 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,

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ACE "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

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FIELD 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

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BOURGEOIS 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

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PAUL 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.

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THE 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

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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

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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.

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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 right

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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

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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

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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 melodies

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 &

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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,

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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

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WEIRD AL YANKOVIC "Straight Outta Lynwood"Little Elpees is proud to announce our first in a series of guest bloggers. Some call him the coolest person alive, he's undeniably one of the most scintillating songwriters in rock, ladies and gentlemen, this week's guest blogger: Mr. Graham Smith of Kleenex Girl Wonder:While "Don't Download This Song" is really pretty easy and not

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THE SOFT LIGHTES "Incredible Moses Leroy Becomes The Soft.Lightes"Band releases debut album. Debut album makes serious waves. Despite the difficult name, "The Incredible Moses Leroy", people go bonkers over "Fuzzy", a loop-de-loop sampling (samples the Sandpipers!!) of California Casio soft pop rock. "Fuzzy" lands in a Volkswagen commercial. Girls run out to buy "Electric

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NOVILLERO "Aim Right For The Holes In Their Lives"I dialed up "The Matador" last night on the "on demand" action. I remember seeing the trailers last year and immediately feeling like I needed to actually get myself to a theatre to see it. Pierce Brosnan, say what you will, I think he's pretty cool. Well, I missed the boat, that is, until last night. It was pretty great, I

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IAN LOVE "Ian Love"You're lucky if you don't have a voracious appetite for new music. Really, I envy you. I mean, you read blogs (I caught you), but my guess there are few of us out there who really consume this stuff. Like, actually listening to several dozen records a week. For regular journalists, it may even be easier, you get assigned a record to listen to, you review

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ELF POWER "Back To The Web"Elephant 6. It's probably hard to be a band in the wake of all that. Especially in 2006. Somehow, Elf Power have survived. Probably because they seem to be the hardest working of the association. They appeared on a compilation I put out in 1995. Here's what they sounded like then. Below is what they sound like now. Their only NYC area show is

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SPOOKY & SUE "I've Got The Need"It's been a while, sweet, sweet dear turntable. I'm sorry I neglected you this summer. I've been very busy with new projects and overwhelmed on a diet of new and forthcoming music. It finally came to a head yesterday when I got the new Sloan and Bluetones records. I listened to both, twice over, and realized, I need to listen to something old

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THE GLOVE "Blue Sunshine"I so remember when we would obsess about side projects. There was something so "in the know" about them, like, even if you were a fan of a band like Depeche Mode, whose stock was increasing on the way to selling out the Rose Bowl, not many people owned the 12 inch by the Assembly or even Martin Gore's covers EP (covering Tuxedomoon even!). That made

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THE LEMONHEADS "The Lemonheads"Evan Dando, hmmm. Who knows what to make of the guy? I can't say I was ever an enormous Lemonheads fan, I mean, I liked them, I consumed music, and when they hit the jackpot with "It's A Shame About Ray", I giggled and went along for the ride. But they could easily have been a band from that era that I've put on the shelf and forgotten about (

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STEPHEN BISHOP "Careless"And so I did.SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAY

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HOWIE BECK "Howie Beck"There's something pretty cool about Howie Beck that I can't exactly put my finger on. I could, however, point out that his name isn't very rockstar (wasn't it the character in St. Elmo's Fire that Mare Winningham's dad wants her to marry to get the free Chrysler LeBaron? Nice.). I could point out that on first listen, the smooth Starbucks sound that

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THE DEARS "Gang Of Losers"I love to see progress in bands. Bands who come up, for instance, from less focused, more twee roots and bloom into something really magical, that's good stuff. Bands who really move forward by uncovering something new about themselves and executing instead of making the same record or forgetting how to write songs or something. I always had that

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THE BLUE NILE "Hats"RUFUS WAINWRIGHT "Poses"Everyone is going to have their little tributes to September 11, 2001 today. I thought of avoiding a post altogether or simply blissfully ignoring the date. However, I can't stop thinking, now that I've been brainwashed in having to, of the actual morning. I remember the skies, lots of people will say they remember the weather. It was "back to

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OOBERMAN "Carried Away"A little something special for you today to make up for my exile in Wellfleet. I tend to gravitate to the underdog, the underrated. I'm a Cubs fan. No one I ever vote for, for president, ever wins. It's a sickness that one day I hope to conquer. One day I'll jump on bandwagons or ride a wave long enough to see the shore. Sigh.Not today, though.

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THE FOUNDRY FIELD RECORDINGS "Prompts/Miscues"I hear so many different bands when I listen to Columbia, MO's Foundry Field Recordings. In fact, there are quite a few tracks that sound like dead ringers and descendants of Pavement's "Here" (not a bad thing). I hear Built To Spill, classic 70s soft rock (Alan Parsons), and Flaming Lips. But, if you are thinking, they are a

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CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG "5:55"That was a long break. I took a much needed vacation. It involved sand, the ocean, many bowls of chowdah, visiting old haunts, and lots of soul searching. I've come back much more relaxed, that is, until I get that first case of sidewalk rage.To keep me relaxed, I'll be spinning Charlotte Gainsbourg's gorgeous new album once a day. I didn't think

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MONKEY SWALLOWS THE UNIVERSE "Bright Carvings"I've been trying to outrun "twee" since 1998. See, I ran this little label, and when a double cd, triple lp compilation called Pop American Style came out in the summer of 1995, it put said label on map. While it was nice to have indiepop types embrace the label, it was expected from me to release badly tuned, badly sung, sincere

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JUNIOR BOYS "So This Is Goodbye"Recently, I was lucky to see old pal Torquil from "up and coming" band, Stars (I hope you think that's funny!). He was scheduled to do a very special guest DJ set at Union Hall after his band slayed the sweaty crowd at Siren 2006. Little did I know that he would take the whole thing over with his enthusiasm to make the kids dance. Three hours!

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THE ISLES "Perfumed Lands"The connotation "local" as in local bands has always seemed derogatory to me. I bet to most bands too. NYC bands don't seem to suffer from the tag as much, maybe the romantic notion of having a band in the biggest city in America warrants a bit more credit. The spotlight shines brightly here, but it's also a cruel and fickle one. If bands don't

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SPARKLEHORSE "Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of The Mountain"Amazing what a day on the beach can do for your physical and mental state. I spent Sunday down at my old stomping grounds (what the fuck are stomping grounds?) and am a lovely hue of hairy crimson pink. It's rare you can get a sunburn that doesn't hurt. I'm not sure what vitamins the sun gives us, but I needed

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KUNEK "Flight Of The Flynns"For the rest of the summer or at least until I get back into the swing of things, this blog, originally intended on bringing you flowers from my vinyl garden, will feature new and up and coming bands. That's right. Just until I find a rainy Sunday to rip some more vinyl. That okay?I have NOT seen Stillwater, OK's Kunek mentioned on many blogs.

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THE FORMAT "Dog Problems"I know that I've gone on and on about "discovery is everything" and how endearing it is to remember key people or moments in your life that have influenced you, but I really do hate it when I can't discover a band completely on my own. I guess that's harder to do really, but it was my job for years, so I pride myself on being that guy. I hate it more

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LOVE "Forever Changes"Aw crap. Blogs suck. They are so in danger of becoming epitaphs or headstones now. It's so late and I've just come home after a nice night with friends, it's late. And this is so awful. Arthur Lee, we'll miss you. Shit, rrrrrrrrghh.LIVE AND LET LIVE

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STRAWBS "Hero And Heroine"What makes people, when they get older, lose interest in the things they love(d)? I mean REALLY loved. I can feel myself changing every day and yes, I don't listen to Minor Threat or Bad Brains as much as I used to, but every once and a while, I do get in a mood where I need to rock out. Sometimes I even pogo at Sloan shows like Beatle Bob. I'm

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SLOAN "Who Taught You To Live Like That?"Tuesday is haiku review day:The new Sloan singleWho taught you to live like thatIs pretty damn hotWHO TAUGHT YOU TO LIVE LIKE THAT?

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SOMEONE STILL LOVES YOU BORIS YELTSIN "Broom"Proof that I am still a teenager and not completely a jaded indie snob. This is the best song I've heard all year. Despite the clunky name (which made me not want to check them out), SSLYBY serve up some ebullient pop without soft serving it up emo style. Broom was self-released but is being re-released on Polyvinyl on October 22.

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The only comments I'm getting are spam. So bored. Maybe see you guys next week. All the mp3s before July are gone. Hope you got them.

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SUSANNA AND THE MAGICAL ORCHESTRA "Melody Mountain"I used to have this teenage ritual where I would light up some candles and incense around 3am, be sad about nothing in particular, and play side one of Cocteau Twins' "Head Over Heels". I'm not sure what I was trying to prove, at 17, I had little to feel morose about (in hindsight), but I'm sure every high schooler did

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LEARN TO RELAX: Summer's Halfway Point 2006 mp3 mixtapeAll of a sudden, July is almost gone. I'm not trying to depress you, seriously, it's just a fact. For the most part, it's been a mild summer in the city, though my Texan refugee friends wouldn't agree. In what I'm hoping is a regular, every 6 to 8 week thing (I guess that's not regular), I'm making a mix of really wonderful new and

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THE FEELING "Twelve Stops And Home"I went to see the Feeling last night. The Mercury Lounge holds about 250 people, but that's with people spilling out of the club. It was half full. No hipster bloggers, no NME groupies, not even any real record company activity (they are signed to Island here, there were only a handful of suits and they, with dour expressions). The band

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DAVID GATES "First"Bare with me here. I need 8 minutes and 54 seconds of your undivided attention. This isn't one of those blogs where you scan to see which free mp3s you can add to your massive iTunes library. Nuh uh. New Thom Yorke files not here, thanks for looking.It's been noted that I'm a big 70s soft rock (rhymes with pussy here). What really gets my bumps all goosey though is the

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Where'd I go?

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SIREN FESTIVAL 2006 preview: Stars, Cribs, Dirty On PurposeThis weekend, thousands of hipsters will take the Q train to the Siren festival, sponsored by the Village Voice, held on a sweltering street in Coney Island. The unwashed will be wearing Sufjan Stevens t-shirts and Neighborhoodies and lilting in the 90+ degree weather waiting for the Scissor Sisters to come on. Here's a quick guide on

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NOT RIGHT SONGS ABOUT PENISES epI got nothin' today, guys, sorry. Tomorrow I'll have a lovely Siren festival preview and some other goodies, but today, I've sunk to a new low. Today I present a made up EP called "Not Right Songs About Penises". I'm not exactly sure if there's a "right" song about penises, if there is, please send it this way, but use protection.Last night I was DJ'ing and I

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PLUSH "Three-quarters Blind Eyes" b/w "Found A Little Baby"Wow, that was a self indulgent post yesterday. Sorry about that. Maybe I should keep this a bit more simple. Don't you people have any comments for me? I'm not even getting heckled for the Seals & Crofts? Are you summering on Nantucket? I don't think so, cause ever since the TV On The Radio post, traffic here is through the roof (

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SEALS & CROFTS "Diamond Girl"It's amazing how much you learn about yourself by listening to music you've owned since you were 5. It's also fascinating that people can keep these little possessions in their lives for so long without really cherishing them, looking at them, taking them out and doing whatever it is you're supposed to do with them. I only wish I still had some of the things I've

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MIDLAKE "The Trials Of Van Occupanther"MIDLAKE "Bamnan And Slivercork"NEWSFLASH! Classic rock has infiltrated indie rock. Yes, it's been going on for some time now, even before Karate starting doing Steely Dan inspired imitations. But, now, you can go to your uber snot friend's parties and no longer are they ashamed of a little Fleetwood Mac or Supertramp popping up on the iTunes, rather, they

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TWINN CONNEXION "Twinn Connexion"What a very special treat I have for you today. I think alternate side parking mornings really inspire me. Not unlike my recent post on Lazy Smoke, today's post is all about flowery psych pop, so tune out now if bendy jangly guitars, hippy dippy lyrics, and the occasional sitar isn't really your cup of Earl Grey. Shit, even if it isn't, keep reading, because

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THE LUCY SHOW "Extended Play EP"That was a long bender I just came off of. It won't happen again, promise. When they (the man) stick 4th of July on a Tuesday, however, what else can you do but drink and eat for a week straight?When I really think about it, it amazes me that MTV had any influence on me at all. Seriously. When 120 Minutes debuted, though, it was absolutely

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TV ON THE RADIO + MATT POND PA + VOXTROT at Prospect Park, June 30Hey guys, sorry I haven't been keeping up the pace this week. Some of you probably know why it's been a very busy week for me. I took the job of booking shows at a few key places in the city, too, so I'll be doing that part-time from here on out in addition to the 4,500 other things I have my hands in. The big thing is tonight,

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SILVERSUN PICKUPS "Carnavas"FLOP "Whenever You're Ready"Oh man. I guess the one big problem I have with the majority (really, there's some good ones out there) of music blogs is the fact that young reviewers (starting to sound like old lame guy here) go instantly apeshit for anything they perceive as new and readers often put a ton of stock into it. Most of us who have been alive long enough to

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FUGU/ST. ETIENNE split 7"When I started this blog, nearly two months ago, I intended to post some very bizarre finds from my vinyl collection. However, I find that there's also tons of stuff I selfishly want to have pop up in my daily random iTunes library. I could mine my indie rock singles for years and probably have enough ammo for a hundred more blogs. There are a few 45s that are quite

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BARBARA MORGENSTERN "The Grass Is Always Greener"HOT CHIP "The Warning"Hey, a Sunday special! I don't normally post on weekends, but it's been a pretty dismal weekend in Brooklyn. Not much to do except drink, eat, and listen to new music.I love the new trend in electronic pop. Well, that anyone cares about music made with Juno 106s, that's the part I love. I get goosebumps when I hear

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LAZY SMOKE "Corridor Of Faces"Sometime in the early 90s, a friend of mine sent me a mixtape with a ton of cool flowery psych pop from the late 60s on it. I knew some of the names, sure, but for the most part, it was a huge education. Sagittarius, The Millenium, We All Together, even Colin Blunstone from the Zombies made an appearance. The one band I obsessed about, however, was the Lazy Smoke.

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B-MOVIE "Forever Running"Oops. Sorry I've been slacking. I really intend to post at least once a day. It's hard. I mean it only takes like 15 minutes for an entry, but I totally understand how people are fueled by comments or feedback.It's starting to become very obvious to me that the majority of the vinyl I own came out between 1976 and 1988. I guess that makes sense, being the formative

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THE BONGOS "Beat Hotel"I spent the weekend in New Jersey. New Jersey is one of those underrated places. Riding in the car, my friends were astonished, saying they didn't know such beautiful scenery existed in New Jersey. New Yorkers (or anyone not from the garden state) just know Newark or Jersey City or smokestacks or the Meadowlands. They don't know the pine barrens, the barrier beaches,

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FRANK SINATRA JR. "Spice""These songs represent what are, after all, my favorite musical tastes and I hope that these tastes which bring spice to my life will bring spice to yours, now and in the future". Holy shit, livin' on the edge with Junior! Was "spice" a catch phrase back in the late 60s? Wow. I so have to use it now.Not a clue what I was thinking when I grabbed this elpee from the

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THE POSIES "Feel" b/w "I Am The Cosmos"I was reading the other day that a Big Star tribute that's been in the works for many years, featuring Wilco, Juliana Hatfield, etc. is finally coming out. I pretty much thought there were at least 20 such tributes in existence already. Look, I love Big Star, like, a lot, and I get it, they were vastly underrated, but enough is enough. I dig the Posies,

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YO LA TENGO "Yo La Tengo Is Murdering The Classics"Tuesday doubleheader! Hurray for Little Elpees!I'm not normally motivated to post twice in a day, but here's a quickie about beloved Hoboken trio, Yo La Tengo. New album with the best title ever "I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass" comes out at the end of summer on Matador. "Beanbag Chair" can be had right here.YLT visit WFMU

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DALEK I "Compass kum'pus"I picked this up knowing nothing about Dalek I. It was in the 49 cent bin at Reckless, but the things that popped out at me were, the year (1980), the names involved (Hugh Jones, Chris Hughes), and the strangely phallic artwork.If you pop back to the posting about Graduate, you'll see I had a little thing for Tears For Fears' The Hurting elpee. It was produced by Chris

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SUNNYCHAR "You're My Battery" EPShort but way sweet post today. I wanted to find something to possibly ward off all this rain we've been having on the east coast lately. I just may have found it.I totally miss the days when I would drop about $30 a week on 10 new singles at places like Ajax, Blackout, Reckless, etc. That 1991-1994 7 inch revolution is long gone and I miss it dearly. Of course

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v/a LIGHT INTO DARK: a Chicago music compilation #1Yesterday, I euthanized my wounded indie label, one I had for 14 years. It started in a DePaul spare bedroom and ended in a Park Slope garden apartment. In between, there were office spaces, highs and lows, but I'll always remember the humble beginning and the limping end. I was fortunate to be able to find a way to bring new discoveries to the

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GEORGE JONES "Country Heart"This is a first for me. I'm trying this after a long night of drinkin'. No, really, I know it's hard to believe. My softball team was on the wrong end of a 11-0 shutout, so we were cryin' in our beers. Dos Equis Green actually, mmmm.I've credited several people, sources, and places for my discovery of music, new, old, borrowed, blue, whatever. Like a sober person

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I was up late last night ripping some interesting records to iTunes. You can't have them just yet though. Enjoy the Summer Skewers mix which set a record for visitors to this site yesterday. I'm leaving the mix up until Friday then it's toast. See you tomorrow with the good stuff.

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SUMMER SKEWERS: a summer 2006 mp3 mixtapeTomorrow, things will be back to normal. However, today, I have a special treat for you. I've decided it's acceptable to stray from the formula of Little Elpees once and a while. It's hard work ripping vinyl to mp3. Not only that, sometimes I feel like listening to music made, like, this year. So, in honor of hot summer nights, pomegranate margaritas,

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PRIVATE SECTOR "The Darkness Burning Bright"PRIVATE SECTOR "House Of Birds ep"PRIVATE SECTOR "Don't Take Your Grace Away"The internet has changed everything. Duh. CDs and MP3s have changed everything. Double duh. When I started this blog, I was excited to have the opportunity to really comb through my vinyl collection for prospects to burn into my massive iTunes library (27,739 songs and counting

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Various Artists "Alvin Lives (In Leeds)"Volume 3 of, and say it with me in the monster truck pull voice, people: "GREAT COMP-ILATIONS!". Today's compilation kicks some serious ass, really. Not unlike Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father and from nearly the same era, Alvin Lives In Leeds was a benefit of some sort. Since I don't live in England, nor plan to, someone can fill me in on what the Anti Poll

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GRADUATE "Acting My Age"Sorry for the break. It was a well-deserved looooooong Memorial Day weekend filled with Manhattans on rooftops, Pimm's Cups in the backyard, and more importantly, no time spent in front of the Vic 20 here.Tears For Fears will always remind me of summer. We all have those bands that despite our best efforts to whitewash them from our memory because of their questionable

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THE ALAN COPELAND SINGERS "If Love Comes With It"ROGER NICHOLS & SMALL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS s/tIt's easy listening day. My head hurts from a night at the Bohemian Beer Hall in Queens and it's all I can handle today. So if you are recovering from a Spaten-induced hangover and feel like an undercooked kielbasa, like me, you are in the right place.I knew nothing about The Alan Copeland Singers except

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HOOTERS "Amore"I can totally hear the collective sigh of the 15 people who read this blog so far. It's ok, I know, it's the Hooters. Welcome to the first installment of Local Heroes. I'll have many sub-themes on Little Elpees, because I'm third grade gay. Visitors here are already familiar with Great Compilations and there will certainly be Songs To Make Sweet Love To Your Woman By, but Local

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NEIL DIAMOND "Velvet Gloves And Spit"As promised, Neil!OK, I must've done something nice last year because for Christmas 2005, my girlfriend (TPC) got me a brand new turntable. It's probably why I'm blabbering on and becoming a blogger actually. The day I opened it, her mother was in town to celebrate the holidays. We went to Les Halles for dinner and came back to the house to unwind, drink

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v/a WELCOME TO COMBOLANDPart two of the neverending series, Great Compilations. Ahem. No, really, I have a limitless supply of this stuff, so clear your hard drive, here we go.Welcome To Comboland is a 1986 collection of bands from North Carolina. For reasons unknown, it was only released in Europe, on a small indie called Making Waves. Perhaps it was an attempt to woo the

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THE BECKIES "The Beckies"THE LEFT BANKE "There's Gonna Be A Storm"Have you ever spent more than 5 years looking for a record? You are a record geek. In 2006, it's not impossible to find something you've been obsessing about for years. There's Ebay, GEMM, well, there's the internet I guess. Try this in 1993 and you have only a few options. Record fairs that are populated with

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BEE GEES "To Whom It May Concern"I love love love the overrated-underrated syndrome that some bands seem to accidentally succumb to. It's not their fault. They've sold millions of records, but people seem to dismiss them based on their success. Sometimes their sound one year just clicks with the mainstream. There is no more interesting case than the Bee Gees. They've reinvented themselves so

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Various Artists "Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father"You have to hand it to the Brits. They rally around their causes. At least their artists do. The Beatles started it. Maybe they didn't, but I like to think they did. George Harrison's Concert For Bangaladesh spawned a trillion fundraisers in the years since. Band-Aid, USA For Africa, etc. If you were a teen in the 80s like I was, you remember the

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v/a TWISTEDSLOAN "Stood Up b/w Same Old Flame"I bought in. I jumped right on that Canadian power pop bandwagon sometime around 1993 and never got off. It's really hard, really really hard, to not have a massive love affair with the underrated and crunchy Beatlesque melodies that have been coming from places like Halifax, Vancouver, Toronto, and even Winnipeg. Yes, sometimes it's not all that

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COWBOYS INTERNATIONAL "The Original Sin"THE RAVE-UPS "These Wishes 12 inch"Whenever I hear friends my age mounting their high horses about "alternative used to be alternative" and "modern rock this and that" and "the kids now don't know", I just shrug. I mean, they have a point, "alternative" radio right now should be playing bands like Voxtrot, Matt Pond PA, Phoenix, or Field Music instead of

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SERGE & CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG "Charlotte Forever b/w Pour ce que tu n'étais pas"I'm not sure about you, but there's nothing more heartwarming than a father obsessed with his teenage daughter. Oh, Serge! This is, of course, the successful follow up single to the first duet with the 13 year old Charlotte, "Lemon Incest" (if I'm not mistaken, Rita Marley, Bob's wife, sang backing vocals on this and

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GRAUZONE "Eisbaer b/w Film 2 + Ich Leib Sie"A very brief post today. This one comes from the stash of my aforementioned stint at a place called Entertainment Outlet (sweet name) in Chicago when I was 19. As part of my hurried education by the store's managers, this Grauzone 12 inch was handed to me and praised as the first real 'industrial' single. After playing the new 12 inch from 1,000 Homo

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THE GO-BETWEENS "Metal And Shells"THE GO-BETWEENS "16 Lovers Lane"Something woke me up this past Saturday night at 4AM. I am definitely a light sleeper, but it's pretty rare for me to wake up, lucid, in the middle of the night, and especially after partying the night before. I headed straight to my computer, hopefully to lullaby myself back to sleep by reading banal news stories. Within 2 or 3

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PINK LADY "Pink Lady"There was a trainwreck of a TV variety show on in the late 70s. Pink Lady & Jeff starred two hello cutie Japanese women speaking broken engrish and a C-list comedian named Jeff Altman (possibly known for his bit parts on Maude or Mork & Mindy). Pink Lady were already an established disposable Japanese pop duo, akin to Expose minus one singer or two Stacey Q's put together.

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THE BATS "How Pop Can You Get?"Jon Brion is a late bloomer I guess. I've definitely been fascinated with his most recent success, scoring several soundtracks for Hollywood (Eternal Sunshine, I Heart Huckabees) as well as producer (Fiona Apple, Kanye West!), especially after spending something like 20+ years looking for a break. I think of him as a more adaptable Todd Rundgren for our generation

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PAUL CHASTAIN "Halo"THE REVERBS "The Happy Forest"I was going to start this post with a long-winded chapter about the many wonderful and haphazard ways we discover music. But let's just dedicate this one to a guy named Tom Garvey who I worked with at Rose Records on State St. in Chicago when I was 19. Fresh from dropping out of college, I landed the enviable (ahem) $3.50 per hour position of "

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DICK VAN DYKE "Songs I Like"My blog cherry is broken. My first post. Little Elpees was created so that I have an outlet to showcase some of my vinyl collection. Also, it'll encourage me to actually rip some of the albums I own to my iTunes, maybe I won't be so lazy. There are approximately 7 billion albums released each year. No, that can't be right. Whatever, I do know I'm sitting on piles

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