Listening to danish Northern Portrait brings me back to the mid 80s – spending time in my room listening to Smiths and Echo and the Bunnymen records with my friends. Nice memories!

Rumours says that this Copenhagen band was founded in July this year – so this is really fresh stuff! Northern Portrait is unsigned and they will use their Myspace site to create some buzz around their music. More songs will be added. The band is looking for possible contacts within the music business that might possibly want to issue their music.

The first proof of the quality of this band is the song "Crazy". I am excited to listen to more songs from this danish band.

Enjoy!

Northern Portrait – Crazy

From toothpastefordinner.com

I guess I’m late on this one, but I never knew the names of other people in Grandaddy. I’m dying to hear new stuff from Jason Lytle, but the name Jim Fairchild never rang a bell (it’s a cool name though). Jim played guitar in Grandaddy, and when the band broke up he got started on his “solo band”, All Smiles.

Listening to the band’s first record, Ten Readings of a Warning, I feel like it is to Grandaddy what a Graham Coxon solo record is to Blur: a variation from the guitarist’s point of view, a similar vein of indie pop/rock without the trippy, hard-to-get part (I’ll admit that I found Grandaddy’s last EP and LP a bit hard to ‘get’). The single, “Moth in a Cloud of Smoke”, belongs on your summer mixtape.

All Smiles on Myspace
All Smiles – Moth in a Cloud of Smoke (from labelsite Dangerbird)

I’m on vacation at the moment, and my internet access is very limited, so the posts from me will be short and few. I’m staying in an old house on the countryside, and I only have access to the net when I visit the nearby cities once in a while. I have some longer posts and interviews saved and they will be published during the next weeks, but the things I’m writing from here will be shorter pieces. Sorry about that… Hope my fellow Eardrummers will give you some good stuff while I’m away.

Some days ago I received a cd from a band called Parade, and it’s definitely a band you should check out if you like guitar-based indie pop out of the ordinary with sharp edges and really good songs. They’re from Athens, Georgia, and their only agenda is according to themselves to play music they really love.�The new 5-track EP is called “Answer me” and you can check them out on myspace�or on their website, where you can download one more song by the band.

Parade – That’s Hott

Remember August 2006, when the weather was fine and we were all trying to whistle along to “Young Folks” on the dancefloor? Well, now I found my equivalent for this summer with Glasgow power-britpop band the 1990s, whose album Cookies was released this spring.

When my girlfriend bout the 7″ for “See You at the Lights”, I wasn’t fully convinced yet (I’m not sure she was either, she just wanted a nice 7″ sleeve to decorate her room). However, this song grows on you like a good summer single should, and it’s got some catchy hey!‘s badapapa‘s in the chorus that you’re gonna want to sing along to.
Don’t know what I mean? Check it out:

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That’s what you need to stay entertained all through the month. I was shouting that chorus on a dancefloor in Berlin a couple of weeks ago, and I really recommend it.

1990s – See You at the Lights (from Obscuresound)