Check out the fine Finnish powerpop blog One Chord to Another – loads of great stuff, reviews and videos! The blog mainly focuses on Finnish music but bands such as The Posies and Big Star are covered as well.
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Album progress
18 MarThe album’s mixed and done! Now we’re sending it off to the mastering-guru to give it that magic finishing touch. A May release is what we’re aiming for. Prior to the album release we’re going to put out a single. More news on that soon.
You can listen to one of the tracks off the album on the Metro On Stage site. Please rate the song! Who knows, maybe your vote will get us a deal with Universal? 
We would also like to extend our thoughts out to Alex Chilton of Big Star fame who has just passed away in an apparent heart attack at age 59. He made such a huge impact on music history. We wouldn’t be here fakin’ it had he not inspired bands like The Posies to make such great music. Joey previously blogged about Big Star’s #1 Record as a part of his “Essential Powerpop Albums” list. You can read that post here.
Essential Powerpop Albums #3
24 MarBy many considered to be the very first album of the genre, this next essential powerpop album is a true gem that everyone should be aware of. The importance of Big Star‘s debut album “#1 Record” from 1972 can hardly be ignored, influenced, as it has, bands like The Posies (whom I focused the last issue on), Teenage Fanclub and Matthew Sweet to mention a few. Big Star is a band that didn’t get its deserved recognition back when they started out in the early 70′s, but has gained some interest in later years – much like Nick Drake.
This is yet another of those albums that, in my opinion, doesn’t have a single weakness. Not a bad track. It’s got the real rocker tracks like “Don’t Lie To Me”, “In the Street” and “Feel”, as well as beautiful ballads such as “Thirteen” and “The Ballad of El Goodo”, which might be one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
Big Star disbanded in the mid-70′s but reformed in 1993, adding Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow from The Posies to the lineup. They also contributed to the 2005 album “In Space” which is a fine piece of work, although it doesn’t even come close to the debut.
Here’s a YouTube clip from The Tonight Show with the new lineup performing “In the Street” (which you might recognize from That 70′s Show, for which Cheap Trick recorded their own version)
The Genuine Fakes featured on compilation
23 MarThe Songbox Fan Crusade compilation will be released through iTunes Music Store on Tuesday 31 March!
The Genuine Fakes contribute two songs – “The Promise” and “I Don’t Want It” and those two tracks make up the second official release from the band. The first was the Posies cover “Somehow Everything” on “Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited”.
The price of the album will be 90 SEK (ca 9€) and it will be released exclusively through iTunes on March 31, and a couple of weeks it will also be available through other online stores such as CDON.com, Sony Ericsson Play Now Arena and Nokia Music Store.
Title: Songbox Fan Crusade
Artist: Various Artists
Release date: 2009-03-31
Price (SEK): 90
Essential powerpop albums #2
17 MarThe second album I want you to check out may very well be the one album that has influenced me the most. It’s the phenomenal third album from The Posies entitled “Frosting on the Beater”, released in 1993. I’d say that this is the very album that got me hooked on powerpop in the first place, and in many ways “Frosting” defines the genre for me. It’s impossible to find a weakness on the album, since all of the songs are true gems in their own right.
My favorite song on the album and one of my favorite songs of all time is “Solar Sister”. To this day I cannot seem to tire of it. Actually, it’s hard to tire of any of the songs, but other “must-listens” are “Definite Door”, “Dream All Day”, “Flavor of the Month”, and the hauntingly beautiful closer “Coming Right Along” with the eerie C-tuning on the guitar that I spent a whole afternoon in High School trying to figure out.
These past couple of years I’ve had the pleasure to get to know the frontmen of the band – Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer – and the two still produce the most amazing music, both as The Posies and separately. If you start to delve into their back catalogue you’ll find some of the greatest music written during the past fifteen years or so.
Here’s a YouTube clip of “Solar Sister” that I just found. The harmonies on this song are absolutely killer!
And here’s the album cover:
The Genuine Fakes on iTunes
23 JunThe song “Somehow Everything” (which The Genuine Fakes contributed to ‘Beautiful Escape – The Songs of The Posies Revisited’) is now available on iTunes. So now you won’t have to buy the whole 3CD box set to get a hold of it – even though we strongly recommend you do get the box set. You’ll definitely get you’re money’s worth.
Track of the day at garageband.com and airplay in Spain
7 Apr
“I Don’t Want It” is Track of the Day over at Garageband.com.
Furthermore, Posies cover “Somehow Everything” is now getting some air time in Spain on Onda Madrid 101.3 / 106 FM.
Beautiful Escape EP on amazon.com
30 Mar
You can now pre-order “Beautiful Escape …Is Coming Right Along” through Amazon.com.
“Irreplaceable” has apparently reached the US and has been played on a Santa Cruz college radio station.
Beautiful Escape Update
16 Mar
The 35 song, triple disc Posies tribute album “Beautiful Escape – The Songs of The Posies Revisited” will be released on May 20. There will be a release party at Nuemo’s in Seattle at a Posies concert on May 17th. It’s bound to be a great show! Plans are also in the works for a release party in Stockholm since so many Swedish acts have contributed tracks to the album. Nothing official yet though.
The Genuine Fakes’ contribution, “Somehow Everything”, was aired on WMEL Radio last night. It’s being added to a bunch of different radio shows in the US and Australia at the moment. It’s also posted on the Beautiful Escape MySpace again, so if you haven’t heard it yet just head on over there and have a listen.
The Posies tribute EP
7 Mar
The official release date for “Beautiful Escape …is Coming Right Along” EP is April 15, but you can already pre-order it at Burning Sky Records webshop.
Tracks:
- Dream All Day – The Meadows (Featuring Special Guests Jon Auer, Joe Skyward, and Brian Young)
- Solar Sister* – Cokeroque
- Somehow Everything – The Genuine Fakes
- I Guess You’re Right* – David Shaw & The Round Trip
- Precious Moments – Darling Cait
- Coming Right Along* – Jim Protector
- Will You Ever Ease Your Mind?* – Doubleman with Dominique Stringfellow
*EP-only tracks
For more information on the “Beautiful Escape” Project, check out:
www.myspace.com/theposiestributealbum
Tour Dates
- 2011-09-30 Bryggarsalen in Stockholm
- 2011-09-03 Pikku-Torre in Turku
- 2011-04-16 Record Hunter in Stockholm
- 2011-03-13 Twang in Stockholm
- 2011-02-12 Mariatorget in Stockholm
- 2011-01-17 Lilla Hotellbaren in Stockholm
- 2010-09-11 Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm
- 2010-08-18 Pet Sounds Bar in Stockholm
- 2010-08-12 Parken in Gothenburg
- 2010-05-28 Nalen in Stockholm
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