12 July 06

Gene - Let Me Move On
Mystery Jets - You Can't Fool Me Dennis
The Futureheads - Skip To The End
Elefant - Why
Boy Kill Boy - Suzie
Languis - I Forgot, I Forgot
Rialto - Dream Another Dream
Terry Hall - Ballad Of A Landlord
Melodika - Wait For A Decade
My Life Story - Walk, Don't Walk
Spearmint - The Beautiful Things
The Trashcan Sinatras - Hayfever
The Housemartins - Sheep
The Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods
Ivy - Kite
Nick Heyward - Caravan
Bawl - Beyond Safeways

Nouvelle Vagie - The Killing Moon
Camera Obscura - If Looks Could Kill
Puffy AmiYumi - Missing You baby
Asobi Seksu - Goodbye
Brookville - Golden
Bernard Butler - Not Alone
Pulp - Something Changed
The Boo Radleys - Kingsize
Mansun - I Can Only Disappoint You
The Ocean Blue - Either/Or
Doves - Pounding
The Lightning Seeds - Ready or Not
The Charlatans UK - Muddy Ground
Blur - StarShaped
Mull Historical Society - Watching Xanadu

Looks Like We Made It...

Goodbye bartending.
Goodbye customer service.
Goodbye Stiffers!

Friday night was the end of an era for me. One last night in my quiet little bar, small-talking guests from around the world, recommending places to spend the evening in San Francisco.

My co-workers brought me a cake and made me employee of the quarter, which resulted in a monetary going away present.

I will miss my friends at the KG, and despite being there a little longer than I had expected, the George will always hold a special place in my heart.

I haven't forgotten being desperate for a job before the KG came along.

No, it wasn't the greatest job ever, and there were times it was lame, but it got me through school and kept me afloat until I found the RIGHT job.

I've made friends with people from all over the world, with several standing invitations should I ever get out of the country.

I've also been stiffed by people from all over the world. I haven't forgotten them either. Bastards!

Now that it's over however, I will look back on my time spent at the King George fondly.

But I won't miss the commute.

NO TING TIP!!!

New Reviews!

Dulce Sky – Lands

Type of Music: Torrid Shoegaze!
One Liner: “Textbook shoegaze doesn’t break any new ground, but pays homage to bands of the past.”
Random Notes: From Salt lake City… I was unaware there were shoegazers in Utah!
Favorite Tracks: Infinite Galaxy Eyes is a breathy, droney jam with a nice boy/girl chorus… Half Moon is a bit more upbeat in a Catherine Wheel kinda way… and you’ll be saying that Lands sounds just like The Railway Children… if you know who The Railway Children are.
RIYL: Ride, Catherine Wheel, The Railway Children, Slowdive, Red House Painters, The Church, The Radio Dept., House of Love

Mystery Jets – Flotsam & Jetsam EP

Type of Music: Britrockiepop!
One Liner: “Who knew playing in a band with your Dad could be so cool?!”
Random Notes: Band out of UK features Dad on guitar on and son on vocals. Should be a hell of a tour. Who will get sloppy seconds?
Favorite Track: If we’re being honest, I really only like You Can’t Fool me Dennis… but I mean, I REALLY like that song… It’s like Supergrass covering Madness!
RIYL: Supergrass, Madness, XTC, Kaiser Chiefs, Franz, British Sea Power, Blur, Elefant, The Divine Comedy

Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint – The River in Reverse

Type of Music: Soulful Rhythm-n-Blues
One Liner: “It’s like a whole album of Deep Dark Truthful Mirrors!”
Random Notes: Elvis once again rubs it in the face of all us so-called musicians that we are barely even worthy of listening in on his sessions with New Orleans great Allen Toussaint.
Favorite Track: A listen to All These Things and your mind is filled with thoughts of slow dancing on the porch of a New Orleans plantation on a humid, smokey summer night with fireflies providing the lighting and crickets providing the soundtrack.
RIYL: Elvis & Allen (duh) … Blues... Soul…

Puffy AmiYumi – Splurge

Type of Music: J-POP!
One Liner: “Once again, Puffy AmiYumi jump from genre to genre quicker than Sam Endicott lobbed off his dreds to join The Bravery!”
Random Notes: This ain’t your children’s Puffy AmiYumi! Despite the inclusion of a “Teen Titans” remix, this album allows our fave Japanese girls to blossom into womanhood! I mean… its about time… they only have like kids and stuff!
Favorite Tracks: Best English track is Radio Tokyo which sounds like everything you ever wanted out of a Jellyfiish song. The best Japanese tracks are Etude, which sounds like The Ronettes covering early Elvis Costello, Missing You Baby which takes a page from a Phil Spector songbook, and Sunday In The Park which enables the girls to leave their cartoon image behind and present a proper mature pop song.
RIYL: J-Pop, 60’s Girl Pop, Pizzicato Five

Sugarplum Fairies – Country Intl. Records

Type of Music:Alt-country/indierock
One Liner: “Austrian natives move to California and trade in their Vienna sausages for a couple of cowboy hats!”
Random Notes: Do “dorky guys really fly kites?” Just wondering.
Favorite Tracks: Summerland is like Ivy covering a folky Aimee Mann song, Velcro Girl is a bit more indie rock than alt-country, and All I Want is You is indeed a fine cover of the U2 hit.
RIYL: Aimee Mann, The Concretes, Cowboy Junkies, Ivy, Mazzy Star

Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out of This Country

Type of Music: Scottish Pop!
One Liner: “Camera Obscura take a lesson from Belle and Sebastian and grow some balls!”
Random Notes: Confident, dry, and secure… Tracyanne Campbell’s new tunes and polished production lift the band out of the doldrums of Twee and out of the shadow of Belle and Sebastian.
Favorite Tracks: Let’s Get Out of This Country, If Looks Could Kill, and Lloyd I’m Ready To be Heartbroken pay tribute to girl groups of the 60’s without sounding Tracy Ullman camp.
RIYL: Belle & Sebastian, The Concretes, The Sundays, 60’s Girl Groups!

5 July 2006

Keane - Is it any wonder?
Asobi Seksu - Goodbye
The Futureheads - Cope
The Rakes - 22 Grand Job
Camera Obscura - Roman Holiday

Blur - Badhead
Rialto - Lipstick Letters
Pulp - Ansaphone

Spearmint - Isn't it great to be alive?
AC Acoustics - Stunt Girl
Edson - Sunday Lovely Sunday
The Unbelievable Truth - Higher Than Reason

Yaz - Too Pieces
O.M.D. - Souvenir
The Lightning Seeds - The Price
Roxy music - Dance Away

Richard Ashcroft - Why Do Lovers
Elefant - It's A Shame
Boy Kill Boy - Back Again
Art Brut - These Animal Menswe@r
Phoenix - Rally

The Divine Comedy - Generation Sex
The Stone Roses - Ten Storey Love Song
60 Ft. Dolls - Stay

Suede - My Dark Star
Gene - Her Fifteen Years
The TrashCan Sinatras - How Can I Apply
The Dream Academy - In Places On The Run

Shed Seven - Cry For Help
Saint Etienne - Lose That Girl
The Primitives - Run Baby Run
The Smiths - I Want The One I Can't Have