Ep. 12: Mayflower

Mayflower's first album 'Second Best Sunsets' is the result of a sudden burst of musical creativity from the lead singer, Ted Casper.  Already a creative guy, he picked up a guitar a few years ago and began belting out raw, clever, and catchy tunes.  

'Second Best Sunsets' relates to the rumor that our mutual home town, Oswego, has the world's second most impressive sunsets.  The first is some town in Japan that may not even be there anymore.  The connection is radioactive.  Our nuclear power plant pumps clouds into the atmosphere, which collect over lake Ontario and provide impressive filters for the sunlight at dusk.  This toxic beauty is shared by much of the music in Oswego, which ranges from sullen hippie to raging hipster.

Mayflower is expected to release another album soon.  If you want to be sure to hear some of it, vote for Mayflower and get your friends to subscribe, join, and vote for them too!  The poll is located on the right hand side of this site.

Mayflower's Bandcamp page.

Ep. 11: Harry Wilson, Adam Baker, Circinus

Adam Baker

Harry Wilson

Circinus

Harry Wilson consists of two musicians from upstate NY named Mike and Adam. Adam also has a solo project and participates in another band named Circinus with brothers Erik and Richard.  Harry Wilson mixes emo with a country sensibility and romantic motivations, whereas Adam's solo project is reminicent of Brandtson, Appleseed Cast, and other bands of the late 90's Deep Elm Records days.

Circinus, whose music I could not get from their myspace page, but who you can listen to by clicking here, is also very emotionally driven, though it features more vocal harmonies and seems almost influence by renaissance music or baroque.  If you really dig lyre's and lyrics about knights' conquests of land and women, you may be disappointed; they play guitars and sing about hippier times.

Ep. 10: Last Shot Fired

Last Shot Fired is a punk band from New York, NY.  They have a ska influence, but I still dig 'em.  Check out their site or reverbnation.com page.

Punk lends itself to our current political, economic, and cultural climate.  Classic punk bands from the UK chronicled the decline of their industrial and imperial system, which once dominated the globe.  They were hard and crusty whereas the punk bands in the U.S. were sardonic and relatively playful.  Not anymore.

Ep. 9: The Doctors Fox

The Doctors Fox are an amalgam of eclectic taste, huge talent, and space-alien spermatozoa.  Half unknown extraterrestrial and half They Might Be Giants/Frank Zappa fanboys, they reverse-engineer rhythm and melody to produce an original, intergalactic sound.  Through their deconstruction of diverse musical structures they create hybrid standards for what has to be considered a post-genre age.  

Their first album, Plural Non-Possessive, is available FREE to download from their bandcamp page.  

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Ep. 8: Michelle and the New Spielbergs

Michelle and the New Spielbergs are a group from Madrid, Spain.  Abandoning the sullen sound of American indie-pop, Michelle and the New Spielbergs sacrifice self-loathing for genuine good times with friends.  Their music is refreshing in that it is sarcastic without being sardonic.

'On The Roof' is the album and you can get it here or listen to more and contact the band from the links listed below: 

Michelle and the New Spielbergs' website

Michelle and the New Spielbergs on Facebook

Michelle and the New Spielbergs on Myspace

en español 

(using Google translate)

Michelle y el nuevo Spielberg son un grupo de Madrid, España. Abandonarel sonido sombrío de indie-pop estadounidense, Michelle y el SpielbergNueva sacrificio auto-odio con una versión genuina buenos momentos conamigos. Su música es refrescante, ya que es irónico sin ser sarcástico.

'On The Roof ' es el álbum y se puede llegar o escuchar más y ponerte en contacto con la banda de los enlaces que figuran a continuación:

Michelle and the New Spielbergs' website

Michelle and the New Spielbergs on Facebook

Michelle and the New Spielbergs on Myspace