You Am I is one of my favorite bands with some great songwriting and an amazing mix of Kinks, Stones, Beatles, and Who influences. So I was quite pleasantly surprised when some random Australian added me as a MySpace friend cause he saw they were one of my influences. He then recommended The Lovetones to me. The Lovetones are another example of a band that should be huge over here if we had any...
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i tried keeping up with the mind/peronsality/creative outpouring of anton newcombe, aka mr brian jonestown massacre, for a while but near the end i just couldnt. in regards to the creative outpouring it wasnt that there are copious amounts of bjm releases, its the inconsistencies of the releases that made it easier to answer "should [...]
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photo: ashtrayboy Australian band The Lovetones are into melodic psychedelic rock and could well be the missing link between The Byrds and Crowded House. Founded in 2002 by Matthew Tow the band became good friends with USA band the Brian Jonestown Massacre, who they supported in 2003 on their first North American tour.Dimensions is their fourth full-length, and it sounds like a ocean gently kis...
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Nothing says Thursday like a lovin' spoonful of psychedelic prism pop. And "prism pop"-- nonexistent review-ism though it may be-- is a pretty sweet way to identify Dimensions, The Lovetones' fourth studio album. Founder and frontman Matthew J Tow (of Brian Jonestown Massacre fame) is clearly drawing on the pop masters of the sixties something powerful, but woven through are countless infl
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The Lovetones return with another original take on psychedelic pop.
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MP3: The Lovetones - "Journeyman" from Dimensions, out February 24 on Planting Seeds. You can tell that the Lovetones' Matthew Tow has been a member of the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Four minutes of sixties-influenced psychedelic pop. If you enjoy Anton...
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