New Vinyl Mondays

 \27.8.18\ It's been a minute since we've visited Seattle. Isaac Brock was working in Issaquah, a suburb of Seattle, where he found little difficulty finding drummer Jeremiah Green and bassist Eric Judy in Seattle's petri dish of developing musicians. A lot happened before 1996’s This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, which was the group’s first full record put out by Up Records. Before this, different EPs and Singles were put out by local K Records and Sub Pop. The band's second release on Up was Interstate 8 followed by another full album, The Lonesome Crowded West, before The Fruit That Ate Itself. While recording studio albums, the group put out many EPs and Compilation albums on Up and K records. Joining Epic Records before their 2000 album, The Moon and Antarctica, this album would see the group’s best critical reception. All their previous success would be overshadowed by their next album in 2004. A long, epic, 16-track-long album is a feat...

  \20.8.18\ As a singer, songwriter, drummer, and guitarist, Nathaniel is most definitely an artist. His first time seeing widespread success came with his group Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats and their song “S.O.B.” in 2015. If his name sounds familiar, this song is why. A very powerful but soft voice, he drifted in and out of several acts around Denver. All this time he worked solo on two records and an EP that he published between 2010 and 2013. It was around this time Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats got together, leaving most of his time to the band. In 2014, while recording with NRNS, Closer EP was put out on Mod Y Vi Records. There are six tracks that all are very slum and beautiful in a sad way. The whole journey is powered by his raspy, soft voice that holds so much power in every word you can’t ignore a single word. The songs all kind of sound the same, which I say in the best way, but three songs stick out (which are also the ones on the New Vinyl Mondays...

  \13.8.18\ Feel It Still is the pop song of this past year. Charting numerous top 100 lists for longer than Fun’s Some Nights and Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know, lasting for more than 6 months. But that's now, and Evil Friends was how they got here. Starting off in Wasilla, Alaska from the ashes of John Gurley's group, Anatomy of a Ghost, Portugal. The Man is John and Zach Carothers on Bass. Other members have come and gone, but these two have remained the core of the band. Since the recording of Evil Friends, Zoe Manville on percussion and vocals, and Ryan Neighbors on keys an anything and everything else. Kane Ritchotte joined on drums for this album but left after the group was done touring as Jason Sechrist, a drummer for the group who had played with them on and off, rejoined and currently is still a part of them. From Waiter: “You Vultures!” in 2006, Portugal has been based out of Portland and has been proud of it, taking on the moniker Lords of Portland. Homet...

\6.8.18\ Hometown Heroes was the theme of January’s posts, though I did a poor job of sticking to it. I got the idea for this theme from a LP sleeve by Car Seat Rest, and has been in the back of my head, and I new eventually I’d come back with a more complete collection. I do believe I have done it. The Denver Sound has to be one of the oddest, roughest, and hardest to get into of any geo-tied musical genres. It’s dark, rhythmic, and story focused. One group accredited with it’s creation is Slim Cesna’s Auto Club. The other is Sixteen Horsepower. Finding the connections between bands has to be how Wikipedia games started, because the answer here was so elusive and the actual linking page doesn’t exist. The Denver Gentlemen are a long-defunct group from the late 80’s that comprised members of both SCAC and Sixteen Horsepower. David Eugene Edwards was born in Colorado and spent time with assorted bands like the Denver Gentlemen. Pascal Humbert found himself involved with Edwards while wo...