Posts Tagged ‘Indie Pop’

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Orchards & Vines – "In The Darkness" (2000)

2010/02/16

Audio Stream (and Free MP3): http://www.orchardsandvines.com/music.html

Orchards & Vines


Occasionally I like to turn on my random 80s one-hit-wonders playlist. It includes songs like Franky Goes To Hollywood's "Relax", Tommy Tutone's "867-5309", and Nena's "99 Luft Balloons". Good stuff.

Somehow this song "In The Darkness" by Orchards & Vines ended up in the list even though it is not from the 80s. I thought it odd. I ask G if she knew about it or the band. Nope. So I search YouTube for "Orchards & Vines". Nothing. It materialized apparently. What is also odd is how little information about them is on the Internet. All I can find of substance are some rave reviews (like this one), the Orchards & Vines website and MySpace page, and the place on Amazon where their album, "Tomorrow's Yesterday", was sold, once upon a time. No Wikipedia page. Weird.

It is as though the band disappeared, and the album with it. However there is no indication of this Jefferson Airplane like band disbanding. There is even a mention of new albums being in the works but the only date to cling to is the 2009 copyright at the bottom of the website. Did singer Cindy Tomlinson and the band memebers Ted Koppman, Elinor Harshenin, Jesse Cullen and Ron Mann all just fall off the face of the planet? I have no idea. They are from Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. Perhaps they are at the Olympics?

I have to wonder though, how many bands that did not score radio time and whose album failed to earn much for their record label, just kind of fade away? I suppose some bands are destined to be forgotten, unable to grasp the great success they had hoped for. I'd like to believe this one should not be one of them.


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Click here for more info on Orchards & Vines – Tomorrow's Yesterday – "In The Darkness".

The MP3 may be downloaded for free here…


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James – "Just Like Fred Astaire" (1999)

2010/02/11


I picked up my new car last night. She is a black Ford Focus 2007 4 Door Hatchback. My bad day melted away and lacking any of my CDs or iPod or anything, I turned on the radio as I drove her off the lot. This song, "Just Like Fred Astaire", started just as I hit the road, and it was a perfect choice.

James has a tendency to show up at times of change in my life. Maybe it is self-fulfilling. My first post for this blog was James – "Born of Frustration" which was totally under my control. Last night… it was destiny.


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Click here for more info on James- Millionaires – "Just Like Fred Astaire".

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Gigi – "No, My Heart Will Go On" (2010)

2010/02/09

Audio Stream: http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.popupplayer&plid=42460&artid=5361451&profid=87605180&ap=1

Gigi

Photo Credit: Michelle Mayne


The latest early 60s sound, only it was released this year! Groovy! Heard it on the radio last night and totally loved it. I had to share!


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Click here for more info on Gigi – Maintentant – "No, My Heart Will Go On".

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Grant-Lee Phillips – "Spring Released" (2001)

2010/02/06

http://www.last.fm/music/Grant-Lee+Phillips/_/Spring+Released?autostart


As TMBG said once a upon a song about a song other than this one…

This song is dedicated to all you modern-day troubadors out there
And I think I know who you are

…and I know it is not spring yet, but I'm almost -done- with this winter.


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Click here for more info on Grant-Lee Phillips – Mobilize – "Spring Released".

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Vampire Weekend – "Cousins" (2010)

2010/01/23


New for you in 2010 from Vampire Weekend: "Cousins" with a fun video to boot!

Yes yes… I know "technically" this song was released a couple of months ago, but whatever. The dates I provide are tied to the album release date if an album exists and has been released, not the single. Don't like it? Make you're own blog and blog about how tsotd.com is dumb and doing it wrong. I'm counting this song as my first song posted from 2010 whether you like it or not! *sticks out tongue*

What's that? Why the face! You really don't care, and I should stop picking fights with you or myself or fictional objectors. Perhaps you are right. You are wise.


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Click here for more info on Vampire Weekend – Contra – "Cousins".

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Imogen Heap – "Swoon" (2009)

2010/01/12


I love those days when I have a song, especially a new song, (that I like), stuck in my head and just keep coming back to it to be tickled by it. I know tomorrow the tickle will likely have passed with the moment, and the song is unlikely to cause anything so vibrant again. For today though, the tickle is there, and the song is Imogen Heap's – "Swoon". I think it might just be the staccato climax of the "Let me be the – great – scott – tip – top – pit – stop – in your ocean!" line that has drawn me in.


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Click here for more info on Imogen Heap – Ellipse – "Swoon".

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Death Cab For Cutie – "The New Year" (2003)

2010/01/01


so this is the new year
and i don't feel any different

…all the same… Happy New Year Everyone!


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Click here for more info on Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism – "The New Year".

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