The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The Decoder Ring tunes in some of the best songs from the week’s releases, whether they’re brand new albums or reissues of vintage music. Here, we shine a light on Parenthetical Girls’ operatic orchestral pop, Steve Wynn’s mellow outsider ditties, Rafter’s indie electro mish-mash, and The Ettes’ zippy garage punk. Plus we’ve got some solid [...]
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
DOWNLOAD: Deerhoof w/ Zac Pennington of PG - Gut Symmetries (MP3) DOWNLOAD: No Kids - The Regrettable End (Parenthetical Girls) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Dead Science - Young Eucharists (Parenthetical Girls) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Parenthetical Girls - A Song For Ellie Greenwich...
the torture garden (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Parenthetical Girls - A Song for Ellie Greenwich Entanglements is one of those albums I've come to adore so much, that I really don't mind repeating myself . It's amazing. It conjures up all the discomforts and winces that help to make up the best relationships, as well as the most doomed, and shows there is much to love in these details too. It's not always easy listening, but it's always beautiful,...
Fluxblog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Parenthetical Girls "A Song For Ellie Greenwich" - Aside from the hollow, airy silence at the core of the arrangement, the vocals are the calmest element in this composition. Suitably, they are written with some perspective on the past, whereas the rest of the music taps into the fraught emotions that the singer only now understands in hindsight. I'm especially fond of the instrumental bridge, which...
the torture garden (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Parenthetical Girls - A Song for Ellie Greenwich When Parenthetical Girls sing about love, they don't sing about the kind of love that tells you a heart is a soft red spade-shaped thing. They sing like it's a lump of twitching muscle, involuntarily pulsing and pushing affections around like it does blood. This band makes everything sound beautifully imperfect. They play piano that sounds shaky and...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
The Girl Ain’t Preggers by Grampall Jookabox Empty Saddle by Cameron Latimer Aeroplanes and Hurricanes by The Physics of Meaning A Song For Ellie Greenwich by Parenthetical Girls Widow’s Peak by Fight Bite Two Silver Trees by Calexico Related reads: Quick Links (This Is Ivy League, Slaraffenland) | Sam Champion | Bella Koshka | This Hand Has Three Fingers: Max [...]
John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Well, I don't know what kind of tree I would be, but at least I know what kind of Popsicle ... You Are a Cherry Flavored Popsicle You are sweet and friendly. For you, summer is all about doing your favorite things. You are a nostalgic person. You love old fashioned things like ice cream trucks. You savor everything. Every taste of summer, the feeling of the sun, the smell of the beach... Of all...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Danava: "Where Beauty & Terror Dance" [mp3] from Where Beauty & Terror Dance 7" other Danava music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Darla Rose: free and legal The Beat of My Heart album download...
The Music Slut (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
* Paranthetical Girls - A Song For Ellie Greenwich * Alexander Tucker - Veins To The Sky Dead Heart Bloom - Our... Motel Motel - Harlem Darla Rose - I Tried
prefix (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Hungry for a sneak peek at the Parenthetical Girls' upcoming Entanglements album? Try "A Song For Ellie Greenwich" on for ...
Poppy Mom (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Ah man, do I have to blog today? I don’t wanna. I’m sure I can come up with something to write, but I don’t wanna. Perhaps I would be a bit more motivated if all you people who are reading would comment, already. Just an idea. After the past two days of non-existent frog hats and butt-sniffing requests, [...]
Pitchfork (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
"Lushly orchestrated" is how the early press materials for Parenthetical Girls ' upcoming Entanglements , their first record for Tomlab. And this song from the album certainly bears that out, filled with piano, horns, woodwinds, clattering production, and some kind of fake strings. Despite all the instrumentation, it still manages some space, and it sounds in its way like a slightly askew version...
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
The song was originally performed in 1963 by the American band The Exciters, originally written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. Manfred Mann's version was recorded on June 11 1964, was released on July 10 and spent two weeks in August at number one in the UK singles chart and in October of that year it spent two weeks at the number one spot in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 12/25/2007
The Archies (Betty, Archie, Jughead, Reggie, Veronica) “Sugar, Sugar”. This sweet, piece of bubblegum pop hit #1 on the charts in 1969. The Archies were the created to be the real live musical group behind the Saturday morning TV cartoon series The Archie Show that debuted in 1968. The show’s music was the work of [...]
USA Today (Free subscription) | 12/13/2007
Ellie Greenwich was riding in an elevator in New York's Brill Building in 1963 when she overheard two fellow passengers discussing ...
