Rikers

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Randomly heard Matthew Sweet yesterday for the first time in years. Got me thinking about 'intelligent pop music ' . Dug out this gem from the criminally overlooked
77's and thought I'd post a link to one of my top songs of all time.

Maybe the best 80's song to come out of the 90's.

Band - the 77's
Album - drowning with land in sight
Song - film at 11

Here's the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh3GQY3llsE

RK

ONE DOWN ONE TO GO

Vocals for 'island' . Done .

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

THE KEYS TO BEING VOCAL

Waiting rooms become familiar

Saturday, October 22, 2011

BREAK OUT VIDEO

giving old demos a new life.

before heading into the studio over the past few months we wrote a ton of songs. due to a lack of public appetite for a triple record we had to cut some songs before we went in.

we feel like we chose wisely and that the very best of the best will be on our new record. that being said, we felt like there were some great tunes that just barely missed the cut.

lately we've been working on these 'demo videos' that use a live off the floor or demo version of a song that missed the cut for the record . we wanted to share these songs in some context and this seemed like a cool way to do it.

some of the demos are finished , others are not. some of them have 'scratch' lyrics in certain parts, some of them aren't as tightly arranged as we'd like them to be but these versions capture an immediacy and spark that is evident in the early writing stage .

TEENAGE DREAM

So unless you've been out of it for the past week you've probably heard the stone roses are getting back together.

who gives a shit .

According to Russ this is apparently the best news ever, but he's also a city fan so how much can we trust his judgement ?

While I'm not gonna slag off the roses it's not the massive deal to me that it seems to be to everyone else .

For my money Suede were the best band to come out of the UK in the 90's ( pulp follows a close second ) . I recently dug out 'coming up' and it's still as good as I remembered. I used to come home from high school everyday and listen to this record on repeat.

I named my cat Suede and insisted my family refer to me as 'Bernard'.

More than the roses , blur or oasis , suede were my band.

RK's 90's NME TOP 5

Suede
Pulp
Supergrass
Longpigs
Elastica

Friday, October 21, 2011

I WANNA KNOW WHAT I WANNA KNOW

Check out this blog by our good friend Ryan Kohls. He asks great questions to interesting people .

Recent interviews include Henry Rollins , Andrew Scott , Malice from The Clipse and Steve Albini.

This weeks subject is Dewey Bozella . Worth checking out for sure .

Also , Rocket From The Crypt are awesome . Always will be .