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PRAM's "the stars are so big the earth is so small"

and also the rest of their stuff. started listening roughly a month ago and they've quickly made it to my top 10 bands. dreamy, saccharine, sinister, like a groovy + haunted jack-in-the-box.

@elaine98

Aug 23, 2024

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the pillows

I think these guys wrote an anime intro or something? Or maybe an entire soundtrack? Not really my lane, but that's how people seem to know them. I'm here to rave about their god-tier run of Power-Pop in the late 90s with albums like HAPPY BIVOUAC and LITTLE BUSTERS. The Hoikkaido-based group has anthemic singalongs like LITTLE BUSTERS' title track, songs named after the legendary Kim Deal (of Breeders & Pixies fame), acoustic cuts that'd sound at home on a Pinkerton, and perfect almost Dookie-esq rock tracks like Crazy Sunshine. So much fun to listen to. Especially if you're driving on a highway in the sunshine !

@tyler

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Oct 13, 2023

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Wings of desire

I think their band name is awful lol, but their music is great. It reminds me of early Shout Out Louds stuff, so much so that I got this weird nostalgic dislocation to my high school sense of self during the first listen. Anyway if you like catchy and anthemic choruses over mellow yet crisp grooves then check them out.

@ruffianbandwidth

Feb 7, 2024

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When your new book is finally available for preorder ❤️

Hey tyler hopefully this doesn’t violate some PI.FYI golden rule But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here: https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/ The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s. Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha). For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I can’t wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! ❤️

@coreydubrowa

Mar 27, 2024

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The cure announcing their first album in 16 years by PUTTING up a single poster outside the pub in crawley UK where they played their first gig

“Songs Of a Lost World” coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 🖤 The fr FW Me Friday the 13th the world was looking for

@coreydubrowa

Sep 14, 2024

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Unwound

I will fail to explain just how much this band meant to me in the 90s. So I will borrow from AV Club who did a fine job of distilling it: “Unwound is the best band of the ’90s. Not just because of how prolific, consistent, and uncompromising it was, but because of how perfectly Unwound nested in a unique space between some of the most vital forms of music that decade: punk, post-rock, indie rock, post-hardcore, slow-core, and experimental noise. That jumble of subgenres doesn’t say much; in fact, it falls far short of what Unwound truly synthesized and stood for. Unwound stood for Unwound. But in a decade where most bands were either stridently earnest or stridently ironic, Unwound wasn’t stridently anything. It was only itself. In one sense Unwound was the quietest band of the ’90s, skulking around like a nerdy terror cell. In another sense it was the loudest, sculpting raw noise into contorted visions of inner turmoil and frustration.” R.I.P. Vern Rumsey. This is their finest song, from their finest album. I really can’t say enough about the sheer bloody minded genius of this group. 🖤

@coreydubrowa

Mar 23, 2024