The Ready Set is Jordan Witzigreuter of Fort Wayne Indiana. His debut album “Tantrum Castle” is available at your favorite music retailer. Featured below is his song “The Scientist”, which features pop punky vocals with the autotuner turned on high as a hamster dance backing track wiggles and explodes with joy.
February 24, 2009
The Ready Set Touring! New Single!
The Ready Set is Jordan Witzigreuter of Fort Wayne Indiana. His debut album “Tantrum Castle” is available at your favorite music retailer. Featured below is his song “The Scientist”, which features pop punky vocals with the autotuner turned on high as a hamster dance backing track wiggles and explodes with joy.
December 20, 2008
Elkland/Goat Explosion Reforms as The Drums!
Some of you might remember the short lived but excellent New Wave band Elkland that formed out of Horseheads, NY (Upstate New York!). The band released their debut album Golden in 2005 and supported such bands as VHS or Beta as well as Erasure before breaking up. Singer/Songwriter Jon Pierce soon after reformed his old band Goat Explosion with old friend Jacob Graham and produced a 4 song EP entitled Hope Is Alive. Then the band went quiet. Jacob resurfaced with a new band called Horse Shoes just recently and even more recently the two have announced they got back together under a different name; The Drums. They had this to say on their new Myspace:
‘ “We just wanted to start a band that sounded like The Wake.” say The Drums, “We heard their song ‘Pale Spectre’ and went crazy! Maybe our music didn’t turn out sounding too much like The Wake but we’re really just like everybody else, chasing that perfect pop song. And that’s not so bad right?”
Jonathan and Jacob met each other at summer camp when they were children. they’ve been best friends ever since (except for a five year period when they hated each other). They’ve both had successful musical careers individually, but this is the first time they’ve sat down and written songs together. “We’ve always wanted to make music together, but distance and violence has always stopped us.”
the band is hard at work on their first record, tentatively titled “Forever”, which should be out just in time to be your perfect summer soundtrack, or the soundtrack for your perfect summer. ‘
The Drums – Me and the Moon
November 6, 2008
(NEW MUSIC!) Solid Gold is Getting Over Bodies of Water
Solid Gold is an electronic indie band from Minneapolis. They were picked by UK indie popsters The Ting Tings to support them when they visited the Mini Apple. They have an album coming out entitled “Bodies of Water” that is sure to thrill those out there who love the warm hum of a melodic synth and pleasant, poignant vocals. If their lead single “Get Over It”, we’ll soon be treated to a whole lot of classy synth pop.
September 1, 2008
Horse Shoes
Horse Shoes is a band out of Orlando Florida that features brothers Jacob and Caleb Graham as well as Drew Driver. If you’re as obsessive compulsive as I am you might remember Jacob Graham from Goat Explosion, the Jon Pierce fronted band that was created in the wake of Upstate New York New Wave revival group Elkland being “Shot in the face” so to speak.
Horse Shoes is an indie pop group that draws inspiration from 80′s alternative pop bands like The Smiths, New Order, and more contemporary groups like Starflyer 59. The culmination of these influences is sublime chiming pop music with a smidge of the irony and emotion of Morrissey and all of the gentle ringing melodies and fragile vocals one might find similar to early New Order. They are currently working on their debut EP.
June 3, 2007
Elkland caught in a Goat Explosion
Elkland, was an up and coming synth pop band from upstate New York (where I reside) led by vocalist Jonathan Pierce. They also performed at Alfred University, opening for VHS or Beta. They released a highly enjoyable, fully formed, synth pop album named “Golden” in 2005. After that I didn’t hear much from them, apparently Pierce (From a statement on their website) thought that shooting this promising band in the face was the best thing to do. While I disagree with that, Pierce has teamed up with former bandmate Jacob Graham of Orlando’s Flashlight Party to reform their old band Goat Explosion. While not as polished and fully formed as the Elkland debut, Goat Explosion features just as much electronics and huge hooks, and the more electro sound has allowed them to open up and feature some different structures and vocal melodies that at times lean towards a Morrissey vocal style rather than the old Depeche Mode Cure Hybrid Vocals. It’s been a while since they released their “Hope is Alive” EP, and I hope they don’t have any firearms aimed at this project’s head as well, because I would really like to hear what they have coming up next.
MP3 – Goat Explosion – Come on Make Me Feel
MP3 – Goat Explosion – You’re Right There
MP3 – Elkland – Everybody’s Leaving
Elkland – Apart Video:
