The Plugg Inbox - For Your Consideration

By: Rustycat | in: Music |

We get hundreds of press releases on a daily basis to our inbox. We love the music and the press agents and labels are sending us, truly awesome stuff, but it’s really hard writing about each and every cool band. So I wanted to share some quick notes with you guys while I listen to music.
I have to add that it’s quite refreshing to see that the promoters out there are doing a great job sending us music that really connects with what The Plugg is all about. Thanks!

13 Ghosts

13 Ghosts – The Lonely Death of Space Avenger

“The Strangest Colored Lights represents the first time since 2002 that 13ghosts’ recordings have involved a full and consistent line-up of musicians; the same five guys arranged and performed the material on every song, with the exception of the horn section in Riverside (Chad Fisher and Chip Crotts) and a female vocal passage in Photographs (Amber Quick). Like Cicada, this album spans a large and diverse cross-section of genres (electronica, grand Pink-Floydesque passages, country-sludge, psychedelic, spaghetti-western, hard-edged pop and dark acoustic), and like Cicada it is long and sprawling, clocking in at just over 55 minutes.”

Rusty says:
Love this band. I’m buying the album as we speak.

Flat Duo Jets

Flat Duo Jets - Everybody’s Movin

“From the late ‘80s to mid-90s, the intrepid garage-blues duo — that’s right, such a thing did exist before the White Stripes — the Flat Duo Jets paved a rollicking path with its raw intensity and soulful charm. While the band is now long gone, the duo has announced release of Two Headed Cow, the soundtrack to the 2006 documentary of the same name.”

Rusty says:
Big fan of 70’s music and these guys seemed to have that unique alternative twist to their music with the screaming guitars. Worth watching the film too probably.

Pleasureboaters

Pleasureboaters – Elliptical Realism

“combining postpunk-influenced dance-rock with aggressive garage-punk and angular Fugazi hardcore into an intricate sonic maelstrom that’s still catchy and danceable enough to move the crowd. While you might hear bits of pioneering noise-rockers ranging from Sonic Youth and James Chance to Big Black and Drive Like Jehu, they combine it all into something truly special.”

Rusty says:
I knew you’d like these guys!
Stream the whole album here.

Water Fai

Water Fai – Kayon

“Influenced by Mogwai, Styrofoam, and Electralane, Osaka, Japan natives Water Fai bring a much needed feminine approach to the post-rock genre, so often dominated by male artists.”

Rusty says:
I wouldn’t quite put them up there with Mogwai, but it’s a nice soothing album, good for working and playing it in the BG.

Alamo Race Track

Alamo Race Track – Black Cat John Brown

“After releasing their well-received debut album Birds At Home in 2003 the band quickly found themselves getting more attention – and better gigs – in neighboring France. Concerts then followed in the Netherlands, supporting Dutch stalwarts like Daryll-Ann. But only after a Dutch blogger supplied YouTube with a video of the band performing an impromptu dressing room rendition of their single “Black Cat John Brown”(VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek4osa4LlVI), the band suddenly had a few hundred thousand new Internet friends.”

Rusty says:
Finally, this is more like it!
Stream the whole album here.

Tally Hall

Tally Hall – Welcome to Tally Hall

“A newly revised album and an Internet show—not to mention live concert tours—would be enough for most bands. But Tally Hall is less a band than an idea. The quintet considers all this just a first salvo in what it plans to be a long and inventive career; Tally Hall’s secret ultimate goal, apparently, is to open an amusement park whose attractions will run the gamut, from a traditional carousel to an actual moon voyage.”

Rusty says:
Hmmmm…I need to give this one a deeper look.

The Pack A.D.

The Pack A.D. – Gold Rush

“The Pack A.D. is a duo. But do not expect a stripped down drum and guitar outfit. The Pack A.D. is two women. But do not expect “girly” music. The Pack A.D. blends traditional blues and rock, with the focus on rhythm guitar, solid drum lines and singing straight from the gut.”

Rusty says:
Not my favorite, but there must be some rock-blues-freestyle fans out there who’d love this.

Calogero Dean