Recent Posts from Local Vertical

Local Vertical — Well, I honestly had planned to spend much of the weekend posting as much of the payload of music patiently sitting in an unassuming folder on my desktop, but several things I needed to do took much more time than I had anticipated. Unfortunately,... read more »

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Local Vertical — A Quiz:San Francisco's Collider are a-energetic; b-space rock geniuses; c-getting a bunch of well-deserved publicity; d-are not going to ruin a good thing by over-experimenting with it; e-all of the above. Easy answer: e. The band started the new ... read more »

Local Vertical — Toronto's Dinosaur Bones are currently in the studio with producer Jon Drew(Tokyo Police Club, the Arkells) on dual projects: their long-anticipated debut LP and 7" being released February 1. If this body of work is half as good as their debut alb... read more »

Local Vertical — And now for something completely different...and absolutely cool. The band is April Smith and The Great Picture Show, a Brooklyn-based bunch producing a brand of music that screams Cabaret, 1930, carnivals, clacking movie projectors, Vaudeville an... read more »

Local Vertical — The Solar Dynamics Observatory is packed away in an Atlas V payload fairing-more commonly known as a nose cone-in preparation for a February 9th launch.Track from Feeder's side project Renegades new 4-track release Renegades EP. Sentimental read more »

Local Vertical — AM, then FM...Farewell To An Old NeighborCaptain Obvious...LissieEchoes In The Wind...Has It Really Been Forty Years?FoeWeel...Reflective Candidates: 2009 Best AlbumsIt All Started With Carbon Monoxide...It Could Be Worse...It Could Be WinterMusic... read more »

Local Vertical — Continuing our little self-induced fuzz rock festival we present Detroit's fantastic neo-psychedelic glam rocker Sisters Of Your Sunshine Vapor and their new self-titled LP. Featuring mesmerizing tracks with a massive concentration of drums, haunt... read more »

Local Vertical — Belgium's Creature With The Atom Brain started out as Aldo Struyf's one-man recording project and has morphed into a hypnotic and melodic wave of psychedelia. Absolutely striking in its composition, Creature's new album Transylvania promises to co... read more »

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Local Vertical — I'm hoping the band's name isn't a prelude to how things might go this year, but if the year goes as rocking as the music it should be just fine. I've been in a sort of blog flux lately, when I have time to blog I have no desire to and when I've h... read more »

Local Vertical — Endeavour on the pad for the STS-130 mission. Yes, that's ice in the perimeter creek; it's been a might nippy in Florida lately.Track is from Paper The Operator's new album, Goodbye God. PTO is an extremely underrated band, featuring Jon Sebastian... read more »

Local Vertical — Lottie Leymarie and Bret Puchir are the sole sum of the parts of NY band Says She's Ms. Blat. If you have mp3 tagging software on your computer, you are not likely to find vaudevillian pop in the genre category. But if you looked around, you would... read more »

Local Vertical — Solstices, by Downliners Sekt read more »

Local Vertical — To everyone who takes some of their time to visit, to the bands that spend so much of their time writing music, to fellow bloggers that link and send folks our way and to the many, many friends I've made through this blog, I wish you and your fami... read more »

Local Vertical — Afternoon on Christmas Eve: work is over for the week, the gift shopping is (hopefully) done and all the food is staged and ready for tomorrow's feed-a-thon. Family will come over and wreck your house, you'll open a present from Aunt Wanda that's ... read more »

Local Vertical — I always loved Pat Benatar.-Britney Spears on why she did a cover of I Love Rock and Roll• • • •Thunder Buffalo. Fuzzy pop. Dirty Guitars. Psychedelic. Lo-fi (no-fi?). Their self-titled debut album. Exceptionally cool.BeBop Sing-A-LongThunder Buff... read more »

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Local Vertical — You know the fog was thick if it hides the Godzilla of buildings, the VAB. Oars, from the upcoming April 2010 release Sunrise by My Education read more »

Local Vertical — A most-forgotten instrument in rock music is making a comeback: the piano. The Paper Chase' Sean Kirkpatrick has snagged Jack With One Eye's Ian Hamilton and former Deathray Davies drummer Robert Anderson to form Nervous Curtains, playing some spo... read more »