Kindercore Single of the Month Club: September, October

Last two

  September

 Of Montreal & Ladybug Transistor

I'm not a fan of Of Montreal. They're a little too precious even for me. I gave them one cd and a couple of live shows, but they ended up just annoying me. Their bass player at this time was quite attractive though, so they had that going for them. Ladybug Transistor put out a couple of rather entertaining albums and here do a cover of "Galveston" composed by the legendary Jimmy Webb and made famous by Glen Campbell. It does not suck.

  October

Papas Fritas & Masters of the Hemisphere

Papas Fritas are well enough of a known entity now, but were still toiling in pop obscurity at this time. I don't know Masters of the Hemisphere from Adam. On either side of this the bands cover Fleetwood Mac to varying degrees of success.

And thus ends the Kindercore Singles of the Month collection until such time as the final two singles are made available somehow lo these many years later. I'm not holding my breath.

Kindercore Single of the Month Club: July, August

We continue....

  July

Dressy Bessy & the Four Corners

Another peripheral Elephant 6 band in which Apples in Stereo guitarist, John Hill also played. They're very adorable and a boy could have had quite a crush on Tammy Ealon. Their first cd "Pink Hearts Yellow Moons" is quite fun. (Unfortunately it seems like there seems to be much less emphasis in singing in tune on the follow up discs which kind of mars my personal enjoyment.)  I have no idea who the Four Corners are. The do a cover of Spinal Tap's "Gimme Some Money"

  August

Etienne Charry & Babalu

No clue. Enjoy.

Kindercore Single of the Month Club: May, June

Here we go again.

  May

Great Lakes were one of the slightly later generation of Elephant 6 Recording Co. bands but no less good. I listened to their first cd a lot when it came out. Elf Power were a mainstay E6 group and I saw them live a number of time with various other E6 bands. Quite enjoyable live. For this one Great Lakes nail a cover of the Zombies "This Will Be Our Year", while Elf Power bang out the Byrds "Feel a Whole Lot Better" It's a good time to be alive.

  June

Vermont & the Mendoza Line

These two were unknowns to me and remain so. You know how to google, don't you? Pleasant pop songs all around

Kindercore Single of the Month Club: March, April

And now for the next installment of the 2000 Kindercore Single of the Month Club

  March

Japancakes & I am the World Trade Center

I don't doubt that a year later that second band may have regretted their choice of name. Japancakes give us a sweet instrumental with steel guitar. I Am the World Trade Center do a Promise Ring cover.

  April

Chronicle Ape & the New Sound and Freedom Goose & the New Situationalists

Evidence suggests that both of the musique concrete audio collages heard here were the work of the Frosted Ambassador, aka Eric Harris, the drummer for Olivia Tremor Control. Drop a tab and partake if you dare.

Kindercore Single of the Month Club - January, February

Way back in 1999 I forked over something like fifty bucks cash up front to Kindercore Records to join in on their proposed Single of the Month Club. It was a fair chunk of change to me at the time. (Still is, actually) But it seemed like a brilliant concept. I give them money and they send me one brand new and usually exclusive split seven inch record by various bands.

Some of these bands I already knew and like, a few were various Elephant Six Recording Co. projects that I wanted to keep up on and mostly

I like pop songs and getting mail. It was a win-win.

And with various kerfuffles and mix ups and outright fuck ups etc... Things came out of proposed order and the final two singles for November and December never actually materialized. I waited and waited, but they just never happened. The identity of the last four bands on those last two is lost to me in the mists of time with the internet strangely enough being of no help in the matter. I do remember being kind of disappointed because at least on of those lost singles was one of the reasons I joined in the first place.

 

 January

My First Keyboard & Marshmallow Coast

 

February

Wolfie & Kincaid

I set the records aside as they came in with the idea that instead of listening to them individually I'd for whatever reason save them all up for the entire year and listen to them all at once in one fell swoop and then make a big compilation tape to listen to at work. I never ended up getting around to it. So after fourteen years I find myself finally sitting down and listening to them and while making these little sonic packets for sharing. There's some good stuff.

I probably shouldn't have waited.