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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
NOVI, Mich., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- BrassCraft received The Home Depot
Partner of the Year Award for 2008 at The Home Depot annual Vendor
Partnership Meeting in Atlanta, October 13. Citing superior inventory fill
rates, execution of merchandising initiatives, and a "bring it on!"
attitude, 2008 represents the third year that Home Depot has awarded
BrassCraft this prestigious honor. This accolade is...
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Djouls.com (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
The Mackrosoft - Upgrade (CD) Mackrosoft Records MS0014, 2008 Tracklisting : 01. Southern Smile 5:22 02. Give Me Water! 9:12 03. 96=96 6:54 04. Upgrade 8:57 05. The Bison 11:56 06. Angiogenesis 10:30 07. Dinner With Mr. Undo 11:44 08. The Guyver 6:17 Links : mackrosoft.com myspace.com/mackrosoft myspace.com/ajawestcheeba myspace.com/ajawest cheebacabra.com myspace.com/mackrosoft myspace.com/cheebacabra...
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Worthless Trash (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
"Television Generation" (CBS, 1977) The old wave go new wave, GREAT!! It's a pity that more of the pre '77 crowd never had a go too. OK, perhaps they would have been pretty much blanked like the Kursaals were and then throw in the towel soon after, but at least that would have been one more record for the likes of me to pick up when digging through cheap boxes years later. The Kursaal Flyers did leave...
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Seattle Powerpop (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
Seeing your Rock & Roll heroes perform decades after they've made the music that first drew you to them can be a risky proposition. Often they'll have lost that certain essential vibe, soul or sound that once made them so special and you'll be let down and disappointed but occasionally our heroes come through for us, meeting or exceeding our expectations, leaving us amazed and elated. I’m happy to...
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Seattle Powerpop (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
SPB: Smashes, Crashes and Near Misses is a great compilation of the best of the three albums The Records cut with Virgin Records, and I think it's the perfect starting point for someone wanting to check out your music. Were you involved in selecting and sequencing the tracks? Whoever was did a wonderful job. JW: Thanks. I would agree that it is a pretty darn good compilation, and certainly a good starting...
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Seattle Powerpop (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Singer/guitarist/songwriter John Wicks formed the seminal British power pop band The Records with drummer/lyricist Will Birch in 1978. Their career took off fast and by ’79 The Records were flirting with fame and fortune as their excellent self-titled debut album and their glorious power pop single “Starry Eyes” both bubbled-under the Billboard Top 40, but due to misfortune and a misstep or two their...
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Seattle Powerpop (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
This is going to be a great show so don’t miss it. All four bands are excellent, John Wicks and The Records are Powerpop Legends, Kurt Bloch will be spinning discs between sets and there will even be a secret surprise guest guaranteed to “blow your socks off.” Wear clean socks and it wouldn’t be a bad idea to initial them with a Sharpie. Check back tomorrow for part one of my interview with John Wicks....
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Seattle Powerpop (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Tuesday the 15th: Elf Power/Flowers Forever/The Tripwires at the High Dive Friday the 18th: The Turn-Ons/Hypatia Lake/Charmparticles at the Sunset Speaker Speaker/The Don’ts/The Apple War/Curtains For You at the Comet Tavern Saturday the 19th: John Wicks and The Records/The Small Change/The Neat/The Shy Ones at the Comet Tavern Let me know if I’ve missed something.
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PowerPop (Free subscription) | 01/01/2008
Long-time readers of PowerPop know that we are all huge Records fanatics, and any new product from the group or its former members is always greeted with great fanfare. So, when the long overdue reissue of the third and final Records LP, Music on Both Sides fell into my hands, I felt as if I had located a long lost friend. MOBS , originally released in March of 1982, has never seen a legitimate CD...
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PowerPop (Free subscription) | 06/12/2007
Said it before, and I'll say it again: If anything defines the mission statement of this blog, it's Starry Eyes by the Records . And here it is in a 1979 clip that just popped up on YouTube. I can't speak for fellow Records obsessive NYMary, but I certainly had never seen this before. According to John Wicks , the song's auteur (and the guy singing the damn thing) "It's taken from The Midnight Special...
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PowerPop (Free subscription) | 05/30/2007
Ah, this one really takes me back. The geezers in this recent (2004) video are what's left of 60s power pop gods The Searchers doing "Hearts in Her Eyes" -- a cover of the classic song by 70s power pop gods The Records. The Searchers originally covered the song on one of two brilliant "comeback" albums they did at Dave Edmunds' Rockfield studios at the dawn of the New Wave era; if you've never heard...
