I have set the March and April singles up at the Distributors and, as per the usual, have made them available at #BandCamp. Rather than two two track entities at $1 apiece, I thought, what the heck, and made it a $1 four song EP. Track 1: #JanglePop, track 2: #Americana; track 3: #IndieRock; and track 4: #Polka.
Big musical flavor drops by Pomegranate County and you take that to bank. Tell them #ThePomegranateCountyIrregulars sent you for maximum indifference.
Novembre 1983, dice RYM, giusto quarant'anni. È un vero peccato che quest'anno non sia uscita l'edizione del quarantennale, insieme all'inaspettato disco nuovo.
Camper Van Beethoven release their debut album, “Telephone Free Landslide Victory”
Thanks to college radio, I heard this album as soon as it came out, and got it the week before school started. They quickly became my favorite band and I’d play this album all the time.
CVB blended all my favorite things into one band. A dead-pan humorous, punk rock attitude, expressed through a multitude of musical styles and influences, including bluegrass and ska (two of my favorites). They were excellent musicians too, playing amazing guitars and several other string instruments like banjo, mandolin, and violin. So much guitar and mandolin shredding!
They do a country-fied version of Black Flag’s “Wasted” ffs! It was a match made in Heaven for this 15 year old kid suburban punk.
Dumptruck perfected their sound and approach on this, their 3rd, and effectively last, album.
At this point the two main folks in the band - Seth Tiven and Kirk Swan - had split up, and Tiven took the reins completely. He headed to Wales and made this record. And while other releases would come 10 years later, this is peak Dumptruck. It's pretty great.
Boston-based Dumptruck is a favorite, kind of obscure band that specialized in guitar-based jangle-pop. So, of course, on this 2nd album they enlisted Don Dixon to produce them.
A definitely more mainstream album than their first (“d is for dumptruck”). Lots of guitar interplay, harmony, etc.
Followed by “For the Country”, their best album, which I don't seem to have on LP. All are streaming…
The Riflebirds – Dreaming Of A Kiss [USA, jangle pop] 1986 (youtu.be)
A really terrific jangle pop single from Portland, Oregon.