Labrador Records

Labrador Records is an amazing label out of Sweden, focused almost entirely on indie pop artists - most of whom sing in English. A lot of fun is to be had here - and one of my favorite current bands is published by them.

I tried not to duplicate artists from YZBL's mix a week or so ago - and actually overzealously left off a couple great bands because I mistakenly thought she included them. Whoops.

• [ingenting] - Punkdroemmar
• Aerospace - The Only Things We Share
• Club 8 - Missing You
• Douglas Heart - A Question of Gender
• Edison - Sunday, Lovely Sunday
• loveninjas - I Wanna Be Like Jonny C
• Pelle Carlberg - Go to Hell, Miss Rydell
• Sambassadeur - New Moon
• Suburban Kids with Biblical Names - Loop Duplicate my Heard
• The Legends - Lucky Star
• The Mary Onettes - Void
• The Radio Dept. - Why Won't You Talk About It?
• Waltz for Debbie - Once Upon a Time

Love it!

The Replacements

I was extremely pleased, when following the pulse of the rockband forums, to witness an evolution. The song, "Alex Chilton" was offered by many before the game came out, as one of the songs people were not looking forward to. Some even referred to the song as "filler." Once the game came out, that doubt and indifference blossomed up into actual admiration, with many claiming that "Alex Chilton" was the song that they were most pleased with. This made the music gods (and me) very happy.

Anyway,
To further push the "The Replacements are amazing " cause, i decided to put together a mix that showcases the many styles of music The Replacements covered during their strange career. They started out a pure punk band, as evidenced by songs like "Kids Don't Follow" and "We're Coming Out", moving their way through 80s alt pop rock, like the aforementioned "Alex Chilton", as well as classics like "Bastards of Young" and "Anywhere is Better than Here."
they evolved into a singer-songwriter/alt-country band.

Live, they were a force. They were completely unpredictable, mainly in part to the massive quantities of alcohol they would consume before, during, and after their sets. They could be amazing or sloppy, their set lists could include "The hits" or random covers.

Paul Westerberg (vocals,guitar) still records solo albums, most notably 14 Songs, which contained 2 songs that stood out on the Singles movie soundtrack,"Waiting for Somebody" and "Dyslexic Heart." He also pulled off writing and performing the songs on the "Open Season" soundtrack, including "Love You in the Fall" (check it out!)

Bob Stinson (guitar) passed away within the last few years

Tom Stinson (bass) , his brother, is known for being the bass player in Guns N Roses 2.0, despite getting into a public feud with Axl at a show.

Chris Mars (drums) is currently an artist, doing art shows and galleries and art-type arty things.

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tracklist
can't hardly wait (tim version)
left of the dial
anywhere is better than here
i will dare
we'll inherit the earth
kids don't follow
we're comin' out
answering machine
asking me lies
kiss me on the bus
unsatisfied

Bush Tetras & The dB's

Bush Tetras were a rock band from New York City, popular in the New York club scene in the early 1980s but never achieving much mainstream success. Their music, sometimes classified under "rare beats", combined funk rhythms and dissonant rock-guitar riffs.
Lead guitarist Pat Place and vocalist Cynthia Sley produced the most distinctive aspects of the Tetras sound. Place's guitar lines were rhythmic and distortion-filled. She had been the original guitarist and one of the founding members of the No Wave band The Contortions. With the Bush Tetras, Pat continued to pursue some of the musical ideas she had explored in that band, although her distinctive slide guitar is absent from many of the Tetras songs. Sley's vocals were half-spoken, half-sung. In songs like "Too Many Creeps" and "You Can't Be Funky," she repeated simple phrases over and over again, creating a hypnotic monotony similar to Place's guitar rhythms.

Along with Let’s Active, the dB’s defined the Southern power pop/jangle pop movement of the early to mid-’80s. The band’s music was a quirky blend of smart pop and psychedelia crossed with the more experimental side of new wave. Though they never received widespread recognition outside of critical acclaim, they provided a key link between Big Star and ’80s alternative guitar acts such as R.E.M.

tracklisting:

01 bush tetras - cowboys in africa
02 bush tetras - moonlite
03 bush tetras - submerging nations (live)
04 bush tetras - too many creeps
05 bush tetras - das ah riot
06 the db's - black and white
07 the db's - dynamite
08 the db's - cycles per second
09 the db's - big brown eyes
10 the db's - amplifier

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