These New Zealanders have been rocking since 1979 and show no signs of slowing down. They release Mister Pop (Merge Records) on September 8th and you can download two tracks from the album over at RCRD LBL. Give them a listen below and get excited for an entire album full of sharply written [...]
Dreamlife Rubber Soul [mp3]This one's a balmy treat from timeless New Zealand indie-pop-early punksters, The Clean.Since 1978, the Kilgour brothers + Robert Scott have been making soundwaves that continue to stretch their tendrils out in significant influence on the indie music scene as the world knows it today.From the horse's mouth: "Mister Pop (9/8/09, Merge) sees The Clean continue the grea...
Mark September 8 as your next nostalgia-reborn date on you calendar for Antipodean post-punk band The Clean return on that very day. On that hallowed day, the boys will release Mister Pop, their first album since 2001's Getaway. TRACKLIST: The Clean - 'Mister Pop' 01 Loog02 Are You Really on Drugs?03 In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul 04 Asleep in the Tunnel 05 Back in the Day 06 Moonjumpe...
Sucks: The Clean’s David Kilgour played in Brooklyn on Friday, Manhattan on Saturday, and I was at neither show.Does Not Suck: "The Clean will be playing for three nights in a row in NYC, Nov 29-Dec 1":http://www.mergerecords.com/band.php?tour=true&band_id=25!If you have never seen NZ's The Clean live, Mr. and Ms. New Yorker, you are in for an unparalleled treat. Another of the bands .
(this post originally appeared on Pop Candy last week, but I've decided to re-post it with artwork and mp3's! Hope you like!)So you think you have your favorite album of the year already picked, do you?Not so fast - we still have four months of fantastic records to go through. (Well, three, because no one really releases records in December.) In the coming months, I assure you there will be som...
My long-suffering project (19 months and counting) of archiving my music collection on external hard drives in the lossless FLAC format, and then compressing them into OGG for listening on a digital player, hit the benchmark of 20,000 songs today, according to the Mog-O-Matic counter. My intention is not at all to brag. I know many moggers have several times that number of songs on their hard d...
I am feeling this very deeply today.This came off of Odditties, a cassette release from the early 80s. Merge re-released it a few years back on "The Clean Anthology."
So, The Clean. One of the first influential punk bands to come from New Zealand (1978). If you've ever listened to them you already know that their songs are short but awesome. I usually don't go for the Whirlwind Heat-esque style of making 2-minute-something long songs, and only 2-minute-something long songs. (I'd rather listen to 17 minute long Sister Rays.) However, the 70's garage rock fee...
My long-suffering project (19 months and counting) of archiving my music collection on external hard drives in the lossless FLAC format, and then compressing them into OGG for listening on a digital player, hit the benchmark of 20,000 songs today, according to the Mog-O-Matic counter. My intention is not at all to brag. I know many moggers have several times that number of songs on their hard d...
Sucks: The Clean’s David Kilgour played in Brooklyn on Friday, Manhattan on Saturday, and I was at neither show.Does Not Suck: "The Clean will be playing for three nights in a row in NYC, Nov 29-Dec 1":http://www.mergerecords.com/band.php?tour=true&band_id=25!If you have never seen NZ's The Clean live, Mr. and Ms. New Yorker, you are in for an unparalleled treat. Another of the bands .