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Gould’s music has uni­ver­sal appeal. That’s not to say that it’s uni­ver­sally liked, but rather that it’s uni­ver­sally lik­able. There’s some­thing about it that wholly tran­scends its roots in Amer­i­can tra­di­tional gen­res and com­mu­ni­cates suc­cess­fully in a lan­guage that need not be trans­lated into any other for one to imme­di­ately grasp its poignant and beau­ti­ful essence.

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1. For­get the Great Heart
2. Red Star Blues
3. Bibi Ander­s­son
4. Lit­tle Grey Finch
5. Red on the Vine
6. Dream of the Draft Horse
7. Slow as Snow
8. Fare Thee Well

Lis­ten­ing to A-side “come home eccen­tric” off peopling’s self-titled EP is a bit like receiv­ing a stray trans­mis­sion from the ambiva­lent mid­point of this self-alienating process, its ori­gin about equidis­tant from the poles of “fun” and “not fun.” There’s a con­fes­sional qual­ity to the track’s styl­is­tic inde­ci­sive­ness, a kind of emo music for peo­ple with no feel­ings what­so­ever. – Ben Las­man (AEM133 peo­pling)
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“I’ve been told that I paint land­scapes, that even where then isn’t much travel there’s plenty of explo­ration. I like that, forc­ing your ears to see in 3D and Tech­ni­color. Some­one told me that they thought it was punk folk, while another folk punk. I’ve heard Emo, Post-Emo, Emor­i­cana. I think that’s what you get when you fol­low four straight years of Brand New with four straight years of Neu­tral Milk Hotel.”

So opens John Michael’s Ampeater sub­mis­sion as SAVES!. A home record­ing project of the high­est cal­iber, SAVES! is Michael’s Neu­tral Milk, his Mt. Eerie, the ulti­mate chance to cre­ate with­out let­ting oth­ers sub­li­mate his best ideas, or as he puts it, with­out “being a douche to my friends.” The result is some­thing catchy but strange, full of wit and yet entirely hum­ble. It’s simul­ta­ne­ously eru­dite and plebian, cap­tur­ing timess sit­u­a­tions and rela­tion­ships through a dis­tinctly mod­ern lense.

Nate Green­berg wrote:
The Orange Opera started off humbly enough. It began as a stage name for song­writer Kevin Ham­brick (vocals, piano, gui­tar) who per­formed his orig­i­nal songs accom­pa­nied by an upright bassist. Every­thing kicked into gear in 2002 when Ham­brick started jam­ming with Kevin Hock­a­day (drums) and Bryan Brubaker (elec­tric bass) and the band had its first gig as a three-piece just a week later. Shortly after their first gig, the band swelled into a four-piece with the addi­tion of lead gui­tar. The Orange Opera has remained a quar­tet ever since, although they ran through three gui­tarists before finally arriv­ing at Zach Smith, who joined the group in 2009.

The Orange Opera has earned a siz­able fol­low­ing in their eight years of exis­tence, embark­ing on sev­eral tours and per­form­ing along­side high pro­file indie acts such as The Teeth and Dr. Dog. In 2007 they were awarded 1st place in Whatzup Magazine’s Bat­tle of the Bands. Nev­er­the­less, they’ve yet to aban­don their home­town and the major­ity of their per­for­mances are in or around Fort Wayne. “Here’s the excep­tion that proves the rule,” the biog­ra­phy con­tin­ues. “Great music can emerge from the most hum­ble of locales.” And it’s true with­out a doubt. Great music can indeed emerge from the most hum­ble of locales and The Orange Opera is a prime example.

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01. Hys­ter­i­cal
02. Ruby
03. Weiry Nights
04. Barfights & Fid­dles
05. Both Of Us
06. Fool For The Game
07. 65 Look­ing For 18
08. Hick­ory Hen
09. Dream I Had
10. Year Of The Beard
11. Hys­ter­i­cal (Acoustic)

Rick Andrews wrote:
Jas­mine Wag­ner of Brooklyn/Montana’s Cab­i­net of Nat­ural Curiosi­ties is exactly this kind of musi­cian. Quite frankly, she’s this kind of writer and artist, too. Wag­ner, together with fel­low sound-conspirator Alex Wil­son are the items belong­ing to this curi­ous nat­ural cab­i­net. Together their folky ten­den­cies and love of sound cre­ate a most serene con­coc­tion: 1 part sound­scape, 2 parts folk song, all parts lovely.

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01. Lit­tle Ice Age
02. Sun
03. For Spar­row
04. Cities
05. Moon
06. Glass
07. Grass
08. Fab­u­list Decay
09. Black Water
10. Owllullaby

Nate Green­berg wrote:
In Feb­ru­ary of 2009 Ralph Hoga­boom (gui­tar, vocals, glock­en­spiel) decided to par­tic­i­pate in the Feb­ru­ary Album Writ­ing Month chal­lenge at www.fawm.org by writ­ing four­teen new songs.  He took his songs to Jay Wain­man (vio­lin, vocals, melody­horn) with whom he’d been jam­ming for sev­eral months.  The pair entered the stu­dio in May and spent two full days pump­ing out as much as they could. The prod­uct of these ses­sions was the six-track EP Come Away From Your Home (avail­able for down­load on this site).  Per­haps Hoga­boom and Wain­man couldn’t see it because they were stuck in the thick of it, but it only took me one lis­ten to tell that they had cre­ated some­thing special.

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01. It’s a Metaphor, Dear!
02. Mod­ern Satel­lites
03. Aspirin
04. Sophie’s Plas­tic Ele­phant
05. Some­times Things Get Bro­ken
06. Is That Alright

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01. What’s Left?
02. Lonely Ani­mal
03. They Don’t Wanna Dance
04. Set­tle for More
05. Beat Back
06. The Ves­sel
07. Plat­inum
08. The New Some­thing
09. Intro
10. She Knows Her Name
11. Dog Day Requiem
12. Shoul­ders of Giants
13. Com­ing Home

Lush lay­ers of a Casio, six– and 12-string gui­tars, cel­los, vio­lins, per­cus­sion, and the voice of an angel: it’s all pack­aged neatly into a col­lec­tion of songs that has gar­nered rave reviews from radio, press and blog­gers alike. This is Swim­ming in Speak­ers. From the smoothly bur­bling synth pop of “In Know­ing” to the slip­pery del­i­cacy of “Near My Ear” and the lilt­ing twists and turns of “Nev­er­green,” Swim­ming In Speak­ers’ sound defies easy categorization.

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01. In Know­ing
02. Near My Ear
03. Serve Them Well
04. Icarus
05. Uh Oh
06. Nevergreen

J.E.B., J.S., and M.F.

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01. Mas­culin­ity Pt II

J.E.B., J.S., D.T.

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01. Get a Lot of Light Waves Out
02. Sleep

J.E.B., J.S., M.F., N.W., D.F.

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01. Unti­tled
02. Straw­berry Hands
03. Born Under a Ham­mer
04. Acid Grave­yard
05. Unti­tled
06. Straw­berry Jams
07. Ice­bergs
08. War­den
09. Caged Wisdom

Paper Valen­tines was recorded within the past few years, in Sun­set Park. They’re the diary of an adult liv­ing and work­ing in New York in the first decade of the 21st cen­tury, kick­ing and scream­ing all the way.

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01. Paper Valen­tines
02. Sea of Dolls
03. Grey Sta­tions
04. The Things I Saw
05. What’s Good For Busi­ness Is Good For Amer­ica
06. The Clothes Make The Man

Birth­day Girl was recorded on 4-track and released cassette-only, DIY, in Northamp­ton back in 1994. Only a hand­ful of these still exist any­where. A dig­i­tal re-master was made in 2009 with two addi­tional songs, also from 1994, that hadn’t fit on the orig­i­nal cassette.

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01. Big Lie Tech­nique
02. Facial Type
03. Six-Gun
04. Lemon­ade
05. Rush Deliv­ery
06. Derailed
07. Abra­ham
08. Blood River
09. Happy Damn Birth­day
10. Anes­the­sia
11. Ganser-Smith
12. Self-Protectionist

If Gang of Four had met and repro­duced with My Bloody Valen­tine, and if their super fucked up kids had grown up on The Bea­t­les and Guided By Voices AND had man­aged to live long enough with­out killing them­selves to make a record, the result might sound a lot like Hotel St. George. Their music is heav­ily gui­tar based with nou­veau punk vocals, slick instru­men­tal pro­duc­tion that pays homage to the 70s DIY sound with­out quite emu­lat­ing it, and enough har­monic com­plex­ity to set up and exe­cute some bril­liant hooks. There’s really noth­ing to dis­like here, and there’s a whole lot to merit repeat lis­tens. Check it out on MP3 and Vinyl!

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01. Sim­ple Men
02. Wel­come to the Sun
03. Apples & Pears
04. All Those Danc­ing Stars
05. Good in the Bad
06. Jeal­ous Boys
07. TROUBLE
08. Island Man
09. City Boy Lemon
10. All the Rich Folk

The band says:
“from our base­ment stu­dio we bring you pet ghost project’s finest album to date. this crea­ture is alive and puls­ing with the fla­vors of ani­mal col­lec­tive, brian wil­son, fugazi and tor­toise. within the screams and chants, aggres­sive drums and angu­lar gui­tars, there sleeps a con­stant under­ly­ing flurry of melody embe­ded in the dim.”

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01. They Built a City in My Coun­try Mind
02. Cloud Seeds
03. A Series of Left Turns
04. Raised on Tech­ni­color
05. Death in a Pixel
06. Para­petetic
07. Power Symbol

The band says:
“darker, longer, scarier, louder, qui­eter, pet ghost-ier. in many ways pet ghost project’s most extreme album. recorded in my base­ment in brook­lyn dur­ing a time when i could hardly make rent and its very much…of the times.”

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01. I Am Noth­ing New (You Are Noth­ing Spe­cial)
02. Wires From The Ceil­ing
03. Short Name
04. The Con­se­quence of Think­ing
05. This Life in a Bot­tle Rocket

The band says:
“Lo-fi, garage rock ala Neu­tral Milk Hotel (the E6 gang) mixed with the pro­duc­ing styles of Brian Wil­son. This is another solo album cre­ated entirely by musi­cal imag­i­neer Justin Stivers. Throw Ani­mal Col­lec­tive, Smash­ing Pump­kins and bit of Mod­est Mouse (the older stuff of course) into the blender and you have your­self a “cheer up~its rain­ing” smoothie. Sit back and enjoy.”

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01. Cel­e­brate Youth (Over and Over Again)
02. Tales of Stage Fright
03. Pro­duc­ing Emo­tions
04. Mis­takes
05. Age of Auto­mat­ics
06. Mex­i­can Apart­ment
07. Big­ger and Stronger
08. Kiwi Per­fume
09. Elec­tric Angel
10. Soaked
11. Vio­lent Dreams
12. Another