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18.02.2010

Media: Communipaw

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(Click on album cover to download)

Here is the first album featured in SAL’s new Media section. Communipaw of course feature the uber-talented Brian Bond and the band plays a wonderful mixture of  indie rock with brit-pop and alt-country influences. This album made my best of 2009 list but was re-released by the band in January. You can get a physical copy for just $5 directly from the band. Also check out the band’s debut EP, Moving Til The Morning. Click on the album cover above to download or hit the Media page.

Communipaw “Take Over”

Communipaw “2:23″

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10.02.2010

Best New Music: Communipaw

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Communipaw is another band I am working with for Beartrap PR. The band’s self-released Self-Titled album will be the first album featured in SAL’s brand new albums section where you will be able to download the album for free. Communipaw features the ridiculously talented Brian Bond and plays an intriguing brand of smooth indie rock with brit-pop and alt-country influences. This album made my best of 2009 list but was re-released by the band last month.

Communipaw “Take Over”

Communipaw “2:23″

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08.01.2010

Best Of 2009: Volume Four

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Here’s my final Top Ten of 2009. Click on the album cover for any more coverage.

#1 Tigers Jaw “Spirit Desire” 7″ (Tiny Engines)

The second release from Tiny Engines, a label I co-run with two other guys. Shameless self-promotion? Sure, but I can honestly say I listened to this release more than any other in 2009. Indie rock and pop punk mixed ever so perfectly!

#2 Brian Bond “Fire & Gold” (Self-Released)

It takes an awful lot for me to get excited about a singer/songwriter but Brian Bond did just that. The fact that he resides in relative obscurity is a shame. And he’s got another album in the can for 2010 that is just as good as Fire & Gold.

#3 Golden City “Self-Titled” (Magic Bullet)

Eric Richter of Christie Front Drive returns with a brilliant set of songs. Imagine CFD crossed with JEW.

#4 Everyone Everywhere “A Lot Of Weird People Standing Around” 7″ (Evil Weevil)

The second coming of The Promise Ring…at least at times it sure sounds like it. The new songs these guys have recorded sound incredible.

#5 Superchunk “Leaves In The Gutter” EP & “Crossed Wires” 7″ (Merge)

Other than Sunny Day Real Estate, there was no greater welcome back party for me than to have Superchunk return with a new set of songs. On their first two releases in years the band puts forth some of their most energetic material since their early days.

#6 Annabel “Each And Everyone” (Count Your Lucky Stars)

Following up on their brilliant EP in 2008 Annabel nail their first full-length. Understated indie rock with just the right amount of pop and power.

#7 Touch Committee “Winter Beard” (Self-Released)

I love when bands come from completely out of nowhere to floor me. Touch Committee did just that with Winter Beard.

#8 Oceans “Nothing Collapses” (Copper Lung)

Sadly, Oceans called it quits shortly after this release. Nothing Collapses is one of the best post rock records I have heard in years. So, can we put the nail in the post rock coffin now?

#9 My Heart To Joy “Seasons In Verse”(Topshelf)

Intelligent and pushing themselves beyond any genre constriction, My Heart To Joy are like a raging hardcore version of Trail of Dead.

#10 Broadway Calls “Good Views, Bad News” (Side One Dummy)

Broadway Calls are the best current pop/punk band period. Bar none.

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05.01.2010

Best Of 2009: Volume One

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I have decided to combine LPs and EPs together into one big end of the year lovefest. No rankings til I get to my Top Ten. Click on the album cover for any more coverage.

Cheap Girls “My Roaring 20’s” (Paper + Plastick)

While it might not live up to the charm of their debut, My Roaring 20’s eschews any real sophomore slump and cements Cheap Girls as one of the brightest young bands around today.

Witches “Self-Titled” 7″ (Salinas/Mandible)

Simply gorgeous and mesmerizing songs and I can’t wait for a full-length.

Wooden Birds “Magnolia” (Barsuk)

Not better than AmAnSet but equal to at least. Welcome back Andrew Kenny. We missed you.

Grown Ups “Songs” EP (Kid Sister)

So many great young bands springing up and Grown Ups are one of the best. Pop punk with noodles!

Sleep Bellum Sonno “Judge Us By How We Lived Our Lives, Not By How We Made A Living” (Self-Released)

I understand that a lot of people probably won’t get these guys but I swear if you give this concept album time it is a moving experience. Proggy, arty hardcore with balls and intelligence. If you miss how mewithoutYou once sounded you should listen to Sleep Bellum Sonno.

Certain People I Know “4 Songs” EP (Self-Released)

I don’t understand why more people don’t talk about this band. Hell, it’s members of Braid and it basically sounds like Hey Mercedes with the addition of female vocals.

Communipaw “Self-Titled” (Self-Released)

The supremely talented Brian Bond and his band play a smooth and confident brand of indie rock laced with alt country and brit pop influences. These kids sound wise beyond their youthful ages.

Teenage Cool Kids “Foreign Lands” (Protagonist)

Built to Spill – The Jammy Parts + More Hooks = Teenage Cool Kids

Latin For Truth “We Are Sick of Not Having The Courage To Be Absolute Nobodies” EP (Pitfall)

I listened to this EP non stop upon first receiving it. Fast paced pop punk with definite hardcore influences throughout.

Dude Japan “Self-Titled” Demo (Self-Released)

Husker Du-ish Lo-fi indie power pop. These songs just have a way of slowly finding traction and before you know it they are on repeat in your head for days.

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28.12.2009

Rich’s Best of 2009

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Rich Duncan – SAL contributor

Albums
Rapid Cities “Machinery Saints”
Touch Committee “Winter Beard”
Native “Wrestling Moves”
Japandroids “Post-Nothing”
An Horse “Rearrange Beds”
Gray Young “Firmament”
Golden City “Self-titled”
Empire! Empire! (I was a lonely estate) “What It Takes To Move Forward”
Double Dagger “More”
Daitro “Y”
Communipaw “Self-Titled”
Caspian “Tertia”
Brian Bond “Fire & Gold”
Brainworms “Swear To Me”
Annabel “Each and Everyone”

EPs
Snowing “Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit”
No Age “Losing Feeling”
Certain People I Know “4 Songs”
Weed Hounds “Demo”
Dude Japan “Demo”
Victor! Fix The Sun “Person Place or Thing”

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22.12.2009

PJ Bond’s Best of 2009

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PJ Bond’s Best of 2009 (in no particular order)

Check out PJ’s amazing new album, You Didn’t Know I Was Alphabetical, out now on Black Numbers.

01. Dropping out of “real life,” and living a real life. April 14 – first day of the “Year Of A Thousand Roommates.”
02. NYC pizza tour 2k9 (7 friends, 10 hours, 9 pizza places and countless street beers.)
03. Grilled cheese party 2k9 (esp. roasted beet w/ goat cheese and horseradish cheddar with sauteed greens and caramelized onions.)
04. New Brian Bond LP – Your Love Is Strange
05. Touring the UK for the first time. (did so on trains and buses, which ruled.)
06. Made tons of new, amazing friends.
07. First big tattoo below the elbow. Huh, never realized those words had the same letters.
08. Fell in love with the best woman ever (though subsequently lost her. Still don’t regret it.)
09. Released You Didn’t Know I Was Alphabetical on Black Numbers, and finally felt legit.
10. Told social norms to go fuck themselves, and am still alive, arguably more so than ever.

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17.03.2009

Brian Bond: Fire & Gold

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I have been only a casual follower of Brian Bond before receiving his latest release, Fire & Gold, earlier this year. I downloaded his Ten Thousand Songs EP last year and admired his band, Communipaw (with brother PJ), from afar but that was the extent of it. Nothing could really prepare me for what I was about to hear on Fire & Gold though. Two years in the making, Brian Bond’s Fire & Gold is a stunning pop masterpiece by a relatively unknown from New Brunswick, New Jersey, a place more touted for its punk bands. Apparently, anonymity suits Brian Bond well.

Brian Bond is not your typical acoustic singer/songwriter. He moves freely never limiting himself from song to song. Bond’s expansive pop reach leaves no rock unturned on Fire & Gold. Yet there is a bold intimacy achieved throughout Fire & Gold’s extensive reach. Bond’s lyrics are incredibly touching and ripe with sentiment. Instrumentally there is a remarkable depth here as Bond adds almost psychedelic elements to his compositions. Bond even explores the orchestral, as he is backed by a string quintet for one song. His songwriting, while polished, possesses such innocence and warmth that washes over and envelopes the listener. Fire & Gold achieves a striking charm that is impossible to dismiss and only grows stronger with each listen.

Brian Bond is that rare artist that practically begs (and deserves) to be heard by a much wider audience. Fire & Gold is a magical listening experience and it seems to only scratch the surface of where Bond could be heading. The album marks the beginning for one of the most promising singer/songwriters I have come across in years. Brian Bond should be anonymous no more.

Genre: Singer/Songwriter/Pop

RIYL: Jeff Buckley, Ken Stringfellow, Jeremy Enigk, Mark Kozelek, Sufjan Stevens

Label: Self-Released

The North Country

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House For An Easy Heart

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Keep Your Eyes On Me

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www.myspace.com/brianbond

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16.03.2009

Spotlight: PJ Bond

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Who? PJ Bond

Where are they from? New Brunswick, NJ

What do they sound like? PJ Bond has been around the block playing in bands like Marigold, Outsmarting Simon and Communipaw with his brother, Brian Bond. Perhaps it is because of that back history that Bond’s proper solo debut, Fall, Tonight, displays such an impressive and dynamic range. Dipping back and forth between accessible and atmospheric, Bond shows a brilliant touch for the simpler nuances of a singer/songwriter. Fans of Rocky Votolato, Neutral Milk Hotel and even early Dashboard should find much to fall in love with here. I have no hesitation calling Fall, Tonight one of the finest unheard albums of 2008.

Say I, Say You

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Sick And Tired

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09.03.2009

Spring Breaking

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Alright everyone, I am taking this week off to enjoy the weather and concentrate on getting ready for some upcoming Beartrap projects. This is something that will probably happen a bit more frequently in ‘09. Ah, such is life, I apologize.

Also, I think I announced this on Twitter recently but not sure if everyone (or anyone) saw it. SAL will start to have genre-specific weeks more often in the future. And if you have been paying attention during the last two weeks you will notice the site has already gone in that direction. Upcoming, I have a singer/songwriter week planned out and pop/punk should be close behind. Granted, this will not happen every week but should be fun regardless. See you in a week.

Oh, here’s what I’ve been listening to lately…

Annabel
The Appleseed Cast
Brian Bond
PJ Bond
Neko Case
Cheap Girls (still!)
Joie De Vivre
Morrissey
My Heart To Joy
Oceans
The Reptilian
Tigers Jaw
Touch Committee
Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves

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26.01.2009

Band Spotlight: Communipaw

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Who? Communipaw

Where are they from? New Brunswick, NJ

What do they sound like? Led by the brothers Bond (Brian and PJ) and two members of Know Think, Communipaw flex diverse influences ranging from indie folk to alt country to brit pop. I am always amazed and refreshed when I find a band like this oozing up from the underground. Communipaw’s Moving Til The Morning EP, which was released in early ‘08, is like a brilliant renewal and a breath of fresh air that stands out from most of the stuff I get in the mail these days. PJ Bond recently left the band but Communipaw soldier on and are in the process of putting the finishing touches on their debut LP.

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