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From | "Don Stroud \(Nocean\)" <info@noceanstudios.com> |
Subject | Re: sneakers |
Date | Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:06:14 -0700 |
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Has anyone actually heard this? How would it stack up against Let's Active
"Cypress/Afoot", and/or REM's "Murmur"?
If it's even got a hint of the jangle sound, I'd love to get it.
Thanks!
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "doowop365" <doowop365@yahoo.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 1:13 PM
Subject: sneakers
> Just got this e-mail from Collector's Choice. (Sorry if it's already
> been mentioned.)
>
> A proud 'Collectors' Choice Music' exclusive, with notes by Scott
> Schinder!
>
> Artist: Sneakers
> Release Date: October 9th
> Title: Nonsequitur Of Silence
>
> Even as the first sounds of new wave and punk rock were being heard
> in New York City in the mid-'70s, the first stirrings of "indie-
> rock" and "guitar pop" were occuring in the unlikely locale of
> Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where Chris Stamey, Will Rigby and
> Mitch Easter were recording arguably the first "low-fi" records ever
> in their band the Sneakers. Though heard by few, the reverberations
> from these recordings spread everywhere from New York-where Stamey
> and Rigby were to form the dB's-to Athens, Georgia-where a band
> named R.E.M. hooked up with Easter to record their first two albums-
> to just about every college radio station in the land during
> the '80s. Now, Stamey and Easter have gone back into the studio to
> produce the definitive look at this seminal power pop band,
> consisting of tracks from their 1976, Don Dixon-produced EP 'The
> Sneakers', their 1978 LP 'In the Red' and their 1992 "reunion"
> record, 'Racket', plus three unrelease! d bonus tracks, all (except
> the debut EP) remastered and/or remixed for superior sound.
>
> http://www.ccmusic.com/item.cfm?
> itemid=CCM07332&CFID=2750845&CFTOKEN=7942607
>
> Jon O.
>
>
>
>
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