Despite being born in the second month of the decade, I pretty much missed most of the music from the 1980’s. While as an adult I’ve certainly discovered plenty of Reagan-era gems, 99% of those have been somewhat out-of-step with the pop music trends of the era. In fact, if I read about an artist and they’re described as “sounding Eighties” I’m probably not gonna even finish the paragraph. I blame certain music instrument innovations of the day: the Linndrum, the Yamaha DX-7, and chorus pedals being the main offenders.

Well with their new single, Mother Father just might be changing my mind about such things. A rather impressive feat, indeed… (more…)

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While they may not play out much, You Are A Hologram do a healthy bit of recording. Evidence of said recordings have now been released as a digital album called Songs for the Ether; available now on iTunes or Amazon MP3. The album is a low key mixture of lulling guitars, atmospheric synth and the occasional build-and-explode all within a pop song context.

• You Are A Hologram – Tiny Little Pieces

Seth Graves (aka Casio Casanova aka Tigers con Queso aka Home Keys) put together a nice video feature on East Nashville’s record store, The Groove. I suggest checking it out and then making a stop to check things out. Surely Nashville can support two great independently owned record stores, right?

Good looking out via The Cream.