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| From | "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: sneakers |
| Date | Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:26:44 -0400 |
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Don:
From Easter's contributions, you can pretty much draw a straight line from
Sneakers to Let's Active. All the seeds are there. It's just a little more
60s garage-rocky than Let's Active. And Stamey's tunes are no slouches
either. This record is in my list of the top 5 or 6 from the early American
underground.
The songs are gorgeous and melodic, if a little ragged in spots, but that's
part of their charm.
Well worth your time.
john micek.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Stroud (Nocean)" <info@noceanstudios.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: sneakers
> 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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