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May 2001 Parasol Newsletter Issue #42 PARASOL RADIO! Yes, we have it working: http://www.parasol.com/radio. We're still busy adding tons of new songs, but this is the place to hear songs from the Parasol Records catalog - including tracks from all of our in-house labels - plus many titles sold through Parasol Mail Order. Want to hear Stars' version of the Smiths classic "This Charming Man," followed by Bikeride, Soundtrack of Our Lives and Cosmic Rough Riders? Well, not sure if it'll ever happen, but it COULD at PARASOL RADIO. If you sit at a desk job with internet access please take up some of your employer's bandwidth by tuning in. Bikeride has also launched their own radio program at Bikeridemusic.com. SPOTLIGHT
I first saw Absinthe Blind play 5 or six years ago. Now, I don't think any of the members were in Junior High School at the time but they looked that young. They were a band searching for an identity and they eventually found one the old fashioned way. Absinthe Blind played live, recorded three full-length albums and outlasted most of the others in town picked most likely to succeed. These days they are still ushered out of 21+ clubs because not all of the members are of drinking age, but with their fourth full-length CD just released Absinthe Blind are Champaign-Urbana music scene vets. Their music has been used on MTV's Road Rules/Extreme Challenge, featured on Abercrombie and Fitch's website, and played live at 2000's CMJ Music Marathon. With The Everyday Separation all the pieces are in place. This is a different record for us. And, it can't be neatly slotted into power-pop, indie-pop, or indie-rock categories. It is a rock record in the way Radiohead and The Doves make rock records. Lots of sounds and lots of space. CMJ's description of a previous album applies here, "…hauntingly beautiful sonic landscapes…holds the promise that Absinthe Blind can move into the national spotlight…'Standing with Knives' shows a strong influence from U2 circa The Unforgettable Fire…" Faster Than Sheep summed it up best saying Absinthe Blind, "embraces everything in recent pop history from the synthiness of Tears for Fears or INXS to the collegiate funkiness of Afghan Whigs or U2 to the grandiosity of Radiohead or Built to Spill." Check them out on their U.S. summer tour and pick up the new album in advance.
The Australian power-pop sensations buck into the new millennia with 13 tracks of melodic Oz pop that is equal parts rock, punk and country, and like the title implies, Australian Pop Rodeo Star Joe Algeri has relocated to Sweden and married a Swedish girl… Yee-haw! Hand in hand with his band of merry rogues (now featuring Superscope guitarist Kevin Borruso), Joe calls upon his encyclopedic knowledge of licks, riffs and classic rock change-ups and his legendary association with the Down Under Power Pop Scene, all the while sowing the seeds of amplification… Seeds? More likely the fabled magic beans! Big ballsy songs that bluster and blaze along, with a hint of twang, like Big Star meets The Barracudas, like Tommy Keene meets The Kinks, like The Raspberries meets The Ramones… This is the latest album from Jack & The Beanstalk and follows their previous Parasol release …And Other Stories and Algeri's solo album Everything Under The Sun. Cowboys in Sweden includes three bonus tracks recorded live at Los Witzend Studios, including a cover of The Dictators' anthem "Who Will Save Rock n' Roll?" Coming Soon... Autoliner - Be (Parasol) CD due in
May IN CASE YOU MISSED IT... …in a recent Declaration of Independents column Billboard's Chris Morris shared his enthusiasm for Shoe Fetish: A Tribute to Shoes, "The set includes 21 covers of such brilliant Shoes tunes as 'Tomorrow Night,' 'Too Late,' 'She Satisfies,' and 'Okay,' essayed by Matthew Sweet, the Spongetones, Bobby Sutliff, Don Dixon & Marti Jones, and the Tearaways with Scott McCarl. The material is so superlative that even the lesser-known groups on this collection positively shine. We suggest that you shoehorn Shoe Fetish into your bins, and your personal record collections, at the first opportunity or risk being called a heel. (Ouch!)." International Pop Overthrow impresario, David Bash, writing in Toast Magazine says, "Tribute albums that really work are rare, but Shoe Fetish: A Tribute To Shoes is one that succeeds on every level." Bash picked out Parasol artist Matt Bruno for special mention calling "When Push Comes to Love" "a remarkable version… with its slightly bent melodies and galloping beat." SOME PARASOL RELATED ARTIST ANSWERS SOME QUESTIONS Shoes' John Murphy 1. Mixing session you wish you could have
attended- 2. Songs you think you probably shouldn't
like but just can't help yourself- 3. Favorite record that you can't find on CD
(or CD you can't find on vinyl)- 4. First Concert- 5. Favorite Bass Player- John Murphy is the bass layer and co-songwriter in the Zion, Illinois, band he formed with his brother Jeff Murphy, and Gary Klebe in the mid-'70s. The band amassed critical acclaim for their independently issued Black Vinyl Shoes, before signing to Elektra Records. Pop music critic John Borack executive produced the recently released Shoe Fetish: A Tribute to Shoes for which John Murphy and his bandmates gave their blessing by writing the liner notes. The Archive April 2001 March 2001 February 2001 January 2001 December 2000 November 2000 October 2000 September 2000 July 2000 May 2000 April 2000 March 2000 February 2000 January 2000 December 1999 November 1999 September 1999 August 1999 July 1999 |
