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Dog gone simian.

We bought some excelentes by this New Joisey band a couple of years ago but are quite grateful to Dr. Thibault Schrepel over at faveblog Still in Rock for the headsup on their latest release over at Bandcamp. Def got our tails waggin', and did we mention they're available for name-your-price download?

These first two are our favorites from their latest LP, Little Cowboy, just out on the June 1, 2018.





Then we went exploring, and oh, lordy, what a trove we found at last year's superb Flying Fortress! There's really no need to post individual widgies, as we loved #1, 2, 3, 4, 7, & 8 and vml'd (very much liked) #6. So have at it.

Music of the Sphere: Alvvays, Tristen, Shake Some Action!, Superchunk, White Reaper, Faith Healer, Langhorne Slim, Ages & Ages, Pinact, together PANGEA, Wand, Wyatt Blair, Basketball Shorts, Soaked, Warm Soda, TH da Freak

It's been awhile since we've done one of these MotS things, which makes this an almost optimal time to do so. We like some of these songs so much they made it onto our 2017 Powerpopulist Faves playlist. Many thanks to the two blogging entities for making them available.

Alvvays - In Undertow - The KEXP Blog
Tristen - Glass Jar (feat. Jenny Lewis) - The KEXP Blog
Shake Some Action! - Waiting for the Sun - The KEXP Blog
Superchunk - What A Time To Be Alive - The KEXP Blog
White Reaper - The Stack - The KEXP Blog
Faith Healer - Light Of Loving - The KEXP Blog
Langhorne Slim - Zombie - The KEXP Blog
Ages & Ages - How It Feels - The KEXP Blog

Pinact - Oh & Separate Ways - Still in Rock
together PANGEA - Friend of Nothing - Still in Rock

The following are from SiR's 100 Best Songs of 2017 post. The numbers indicate rank and are proffered to facilitate quickfind.
54 - Wand - Bee Karma - Still in Rock
52 - Wyatt Blair - Jesse's On Fire Again - Still in Rock
38 - Basketball Shorts - This Summer - Still in Rock
24 - Soaked - Backseat Heat - Still in Rock
23 - Warm Soda - I Don't Wanna Grow Up - Still in Rock
09 - TH da Freak - Morphing - Still in Rock

Freddy Beach - Pretty As A Picture

Based on the picture Thibault provides at Still in Rock, the leader of this New Orleans band is pretty nice looking, but our postitle refers to the jangler below, which Thibault has made available for free download. He's also made another song available for download, along with interesting insights into Freddy Beach's oeuvre to date. We don't know if Google Chrome Translate limns the full measure of what Thibault wants to depict, but we very much enjoyed the concluding sentence of the post: "And then we now have two EPs to put in the tooth for a total of 9 pieces which, I'm sure, will make your neighbor cocaine a little lamb in search of his mom for a nap."

The Toms - Think About Me

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Emergency MotS: Jaromil Sabor at Still in Rock

Sure, we could wait a couple more weeks for the Spherical bucket to refill, but WHY? WHY??? No good reason, so . . .

We recently Songdropped a number by Bordeau beau Jaromil Sabor and are delighted to find Thibault posting a couple of others today at the fabblog Still in Rock. Listen below and go see SiR about gripping them. You can listen to more at SoundCloud and buy them at Bandcamp.

Emergency MotS Post: Matthew Melton @ Still in Rock

Yes, no sooner do we send you to Still in Rock for a happy glut than wily Frenchman Thibault follows through with another certified winner. We've mentioned a number of times how much we love the music of Matthew Melton, he of Bare Wires, Warm Soda, Pleasers, Snake Flower 2, and wtf knows whom else*** fame. Fortunately Thibault shares our love and just today posted two new ones by MM. You can sample them below and, if you like, pay Still in Rock a visit to download.

***Not an actual bandname (so far as we know) . . .

Music of the Sphere, Still in Rock Edition, Installment 3: Warm Soda, Matthew Melton, Jacco Gardner, Pretty Greens, Meatbodies, Madcaps, Numb Bats, Broncho

Here's our third and final salvo of initial finds at the excellent, new-to-us blog, Still in Rock. We've already encountered a ton of great music at Thibault's lair and look forward to ever more discoveries over the days and centuries to come. You'll be seeing them in our periodic Music of the Sphere offerings. The first two posts can be found here and here. With grateful hearts do we say, "Thank you, SiR."



Warm Soda - Young Restless Hearts - Still in Rock
Warm Soda - Tell Me in a Whisper - Still in Rock
Warm Soda- Lola & Jeanie Loves Pop - Still in Rock
Warm Soda - When Your Eyes Meet Mine & The One I Need - Still in Rock - Post has an excellent interview with bandleader Matthew Melton
Matthew Melton - Outside of Paradise & Promise It to Me - Still in Rock - Our humble little Matthew Melton retrospective is here. That Snake Flowers 2 ditty is still downloadable, in case you were wondering.

Jacco Gardner - Find Yourself & Hypnophobia - Still in Rock
The Pretty Greens - First Time - Still in Rock
Meatbodies - Disorder & The Master - Still in Rock
The Madcaps - High School Trouble Maker & I Knew It All - Still in Rock
Numb Bats - To Do - Still in Rock - Scroll down to #72.
Broncho - It's On - Still in Rock - Scroll down to #52.

Those last two are from Still in Rock's Best Tracks of 2014 post. There are several more great ones we've already posted (e.g., Meatbodies' "Tremmors" and Wand's "Flying Golem"), so please do check out the entire list.

Music of the Sphere, Still in Rock Edition, Installment 2: Guided by Voices, Doug Gillard, Mikal Cronin, Ty Segall, Fuzz, White Fence

Okay, so there is a kind of theme here in Installment 2: Les collaborateurs! The first two below were both guided by voices, while the next four were and are more gloriously intertwined than we have the power to suss out. The fact that Thibault of Still in Rock loves them all, too, is one of the many reasons we love Still in Rock. (And thanks, Thibault, for the courteous note.) Installment 1 is still available here.



Guided by Voices - Planet Score - Still in Rock

Doug Gillard - Ready for Death - Still in Rock

Mikal Cronin - Shout It Out & Apathy & Gone - Still in Rock

Ty Segall - Tall Man Skinny Lady - Still in Rock
Fuzz - 21st Century Schizoid Man - Still in Rock
Ty Segall - They Told Me Too & Thank God For Sinners - Still in Rock

White Fence - Like That - Still in Rock - Post has fun interview with Tim Presley.
White Fence - Sandra (When The Earth Dies) & Arrow Man - Still in Rock
White Fence - White Cat & Chairs In The Dark - Still in Rock

By the way, we didn't want to deprive you of the joy of the hunt: Thibault has quite a few other numbers by some of these artists, so tally-ho!

Music of the Sphere, Still in Rock Edition, Installment 1: Eeries, Milk 'N' Cookies, Resonars, Triptides, Mountain Bike, Creation, Winter, Calypso, Paperhead, Magic Castles

It's always exciting to find a blog new-to-us and posting quantities of music we already like, along with much we hadn't yet come across. That happened last week at the Brooklyn-based, French-language blog, Still in Rock. So much did we find there that we will post our favorites in at least three installments. We initially spent four or five happy hours at SiR, and are now visiting every day, but perhaps your schedule will not afford you such leisure. (Frankly, we recommend you carve out such leisure, but hey, "it's your life and you can do what you want" - within whatever delimitations might apply.)

We've kind of organized the three posts thematically, but to try and explain the "logic" involved probably isn't worth the effort. So here we go.

The Eeries - No Fun & Till I Come By - Still in Rock
Milk 'N' Cookies - Broken Melody - Still in Rock
The Resonars - Definitely Crescent Ridge (mono version) - Still in Rock
Triptides - Clementine & English Rain - Still in Rock
Mountain Bike - Russian Roulette Casino - Still in Rock

The Creation - Making Time & Try And Stop Me - Still in Rock
Winter - Crazy - Still in Rock
Calypso - Is Not Now - Still in Rock
The Paperhead - None Other Than - Still in Rock
Magic Castles - Dragonfly - Still in Rock

We might also mention that SiR is helpfully organized, with all kinds of interesting classifications that merit consideration and, perhaps, occasionally, amicable cavil. It is also beautifully written, with depths of insight of which we are neither capable nor wont to plumb. Additionally, reading through Google Translate adds an element of droll whimsicality of which a more thorough familiarity with the Gallic tongue might well rob us.