The Joy Of Painting - Asterisk. Name Your Price Download.

 

I love stumbling across bands on the internet, especially when they are this good and why is nobody shouting about them?  Why am I not already aware of them?

The Joy of Painting are from Nashville TN. and they play some really great tunes with some fantastic 3 or 4 part harmonies, I can't quite work it out but what I do know that to stumble blindly through the world wide web and find something as delicious as this is a brilliant feeling.

The songs on this seven track album are recorded live which gives you an indication of this bands enormous talent.

What others are saying:

"Accidently grandiose and bursting with color and energy." -Murfreesboro Pulse

"I hear a lot of Weezer in this record...it is certainly some catchy pop, but it also has the fuel of post-punk." -No Country for New Nashville

"From Self to Kyle Andrews to Fun [Nashville] has managed to produce a number of the best artists of the past few years. Go ahead and add Joy of Painting to that list, because their first EP is an artistically brilliant debut that will truly surprise you." -Obvious Pop

Colorful and delicious like your favorite cereal, full of groovy gravy beats and mom-approved hooks.

 

Photo by Melissa Mills

Listen to the brilliant No Bones 

Upcoming Shows.

3/24/12 - TBD

Oklahoma City, OK

w/Deerpeople

4/14/12 - TOUR DE FUN

Murfreesboro, TN // WEBSITE

BIKE & MUSIC FEST

5/25/12 - Prevervation Pub

Knoxville, TN

Go over to the bands bandcamp page and listen to and buy the album, it is a name your price download for the digital album: HERE

Contact and follow the band here: FACEBOOK

The Joy of Painting: Official

Daemon Familiar - Brontosaurus Rex

 

Daemon Familiar is a power-pop trio from Chicago dedicated to reviving the lost art of the catchy pop/rock song. A tight meld of their musical roots Cheap Trick, Husker Du, and Sloan creates their raw riff-driven compositions. Infectious hooks, vocal harmonies, and crunchy guitar melodies are their stock in trade. Not since Cheap Trick has a band from Illinois set out to deliver songs so unforgettable they'll be tattooed on your cerebral cortex.

Formed in 2006, Daemon Familiar has quickly built a following both locally and online, playing shows throughout Chicago at venues such as the Beat Kitchen, Elbo Room, Reggie's Live, The Empty Bottle, and the Underground Lounge, as well as other locations in the Midwest. Their sound has drawn comparisons to bands as varied as Cheap Trick, Sloan, Husker Du and Barenaked Ladies. The band released its debut album, Dawn of the Albatross, to strong reviews in 2009, with the Illinois Entertainer proclaiming, "...there's no denying the crunchy sweetness of Daemon Familiar's Dawn Of The Albatross." Daemon Familiar has also appeared on two compilation CDs, including Fabsound Records Fights Autism.

 

[Photograph by Mio Nomura]

Brontasaurus Rex  is a 7 track Power Pop album filled with chopping guitars and nifty hooks driven along by solid drum and bass section.

The album kicks of with the infectious and catchy song "Kate" filled with Ba Ba Ba's and the ultra catchy chorus which is almost impossible not to sing along to.  Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles gets a dedicated song on the album, hailing her as a Power Pop queen in a driving wall of guitar sound.

Brontasaurus Rex is a straight up, well produced body of work and incorporates just about everything you need, and want, from a Power Pop band that melds the likes of Cheap Trick with the stylings of Husker Du and Weezer.  A perfect driving album!

Here is a video of Daemon Familiar doing it for the kids, playing "Kate" at an all ages Chicago dance show!  I don't think they really play on Rock Band instruments!  ;)

Listen and buy Brontasaurus Rex: CD Baby

Contact Daemon Familiar: Official Website  Facebook

The Monks - Black Monk Time 1966

 

1964, West Germany. Five American GIs in a rockband combat Beatlemania by attempting to be the "anti-Beatles." Managed by Situationist-minded German advertising gurus, they're wholly branded as The Monks: dressed in black cassocks, tonsures shaved on heads, nooses hung around their necks. They strip the drum-kit of its cymbals, bash a banjo as a percussive instrument, and grow ever tighter and nastier as they tour Germany constantly, playing for audiences who usually despise them. They make one viciously-rhythmic record, Black Monk Time then implode in the face of the public's disinterest/dislike. But they leave their mark: the subsequent generation of German krautrockers owing an obvious debt to The Monks' devotion to repetition.

Listen:HERE

The Twin Sets - Take Your Rest. FREE EP DOWNLOAD

 

Another new band hailing from the North West of Spain (A Coruña) with a really nice set of jangly power pop songs....they must put something special in the water up there!

The Twin-Sets are:  Borja Fernández - Guitar, Denís Graña - Vocals, guitar, Nacho - Bass, Lito-Drums.

The EP has three tracks of melodically satisfying tunes with a really nice uncomplicated driving beat behind them so as not to detract from the jangly guitar sounds.

 

The band quotes artistss like The Nerves, The Jam, Teenage Fanclub, The Kinks, Badfinger and The Lemonheads as influences and they have certainly caught that sound without directly mimicking any of them.

 

I really like this bands sound and for a band that have only been together since 2011 they seem to gel very well as a group. 

 

Whilst all the songs on the EP have a standout quality, "We won't turn it back" which is sung in their native Spanish seems to flow better than those in English, which seem quite nonsensical, this however, would be my only criticism of this band and they will certainly be one on my watch list and I would actually be more than happy listening to more offerings from them in their native tongue!

Download the bands FREE ep: HERE

Befriend and follow the band: FACEBOOK

Baby Scream - Identity Theft. 7 Track Mini Album FREE DOWNLOAD

One of Ice Cream Mans favourite artists is giving away his mini album "Identity Theft" away free, this album is available to buy online but the artists is receiving no royalties from this vendor and would rather you have it gratis!!!  Enjoy and please swing by the Baby Scream page on Facebook and show this very talented artist some love.

Download FREE Baby Scream Identity Theft

BUT WAIT...........THERE IS MORE..........

Baby Scream are also encouraging you to download the brilliant album "Up's and Down's" album completely FREE too, two brilliant albums FREE, who said Mondays are rubbish!!!!!!

 

Baby Scream - Up's and Down's 

Please drop by Baby Screams Facebook page and show some support.

Baby Scream Facebook 

The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man 1965

 

One of the greatest debuts in the history of rock, Mr. Tambourine Man was nothing less than a significant step in the evolution of rock & roll itself, demonstrating that intelligent lyrical content could be wedded to compelling electric guitar riffs and a solid backbeat. It was also the album that was most responsible for establishing folk-rock as a popular phenomenon, its most alluring traits being Roger McGuinn's immediately distinctive 12-string Rickenbacker jangle and the band's beautiful harmonies. The material was uniformly strong, whether they were interpreting Bob Dylan (on the title cut and three other songs, including the hit single "All I Really Want to Do"), Pete Seeger ("The Bells of Rhymney"), or Jackie DeShannon ("Don't Doubt Yourself, Babe"). The originals were lyrically less challenging, but equally powerful musically, especially Gene Clark's "I Knew I'd Want You," "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better," and "Here Without You"; "It's No Use" showed a tougher, harder-rocking side and a guitar solo with hints of psychedelia.

Listen: HERE

The Van Buren Boys - Up All Night LP

Tyler - Vocals/Guitar
Corsh- Bass/Vocals
Nick - Guitar/Vocals
Ryan - Piano/Vocals
Michael - Drums

Hailing from the midwest USA, The Van Buren Boys offer up a heady concoction of Power Pop Punk infused Rock 'N' Roll with their new Long Player  "Up All Night"

The 10 track album keeps the pace racing along from opening track "Turn it up loud" right through to the closing track "Up all night" and that kind of sums up what these guys are doing, turning it up loud and playing all night long, this is a great little album, full of energy and life and it sounds like the band are having a great time playing it.......check them out!!!

The Van Buren Boys play live:

Prima Donna with Van Buren Boys
Brauer House Lombard, IL
Sat, March 24, 2012 9:00 PM
$7.00
18 and Over

&

3/31 @ Schuba's w/ Wanton Looks and The...

Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 21:00

Listen to or buy "Up all night" HERE

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