Local Support 059: No need to dial 1, kids.

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Local Support 059: No need to dial 1, kids.

POSTED: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 10:07 PM

Filed Under: Music Local Support

Jon Solomon is once again ready to guide us through another 80 minutes of finds and recommendations from the region, highlighting some of the best bands you can still phone up without dialing 1 before the area code.

We begin with one of Philly's biggest exports of the moment, Dr. Dog, whose circular piano and fuzz-bass riffs blend together in a tasty indie-psych swirl called "Old Days." Driver UFO delves into the basement for some woozy lo-fi pop, sounding like if Seam got drunk and recorded straight to four-track like Guided By Voices used to. Meanwhile, Dave P. & Adam Sparkles serve up epileptic techno that speaks in robot tongues with "Hoover's Apprentice," which, in its latter half, recalls the engine-sampling beats of Sebastian's "Motor" (caution is advised for the seizure-prone).

Pattern is Movement

Pattern is Movement's "Sound of Your Voice" gets chopped up with a remix by CYNE, who tricks it up with a slick verse and some old-school beats. Bottom of the Hudson, on the other hand, craft inspirational soundscapes that reflect sunrises over riverside cities. Sunshine Recorder makes noisy, spectral rock jams that sound like a band filling its primitive cave dwelling with jagged guitar licks and powerful, near-tribal drumwork. Jake Lefco gets back on the rap tip with "Teeth Chatter," a murky, sinister freestyle that wears Philly with pride.

Bottom of the Hudson

Goodnight Stars Goodnight Air break things up nicely with dreamy synth atmospherics that conspire to make soothing sleep tones for your insomnia. Sean Hoots, who fronts Hoots & Hellmouth (alumnus of fantastic Philly rockers Pilot Round the Sun), deals in the kind of delightful, twangy barroom anthems you might find on the trucker route between Memphis and Nashville (out-of-towners: note that they're touring extensively this fall). Academy's sunny garage rock will make you grin from ear-to-ear. Duochrome's fuzzed-out guitars on "Negotiating the Driveway" may be firmly rooted in earthly matters, but the interstellar synth riffs above shoot the chug-alug into the stratosphere. Bitter Bitter Weeks' pretty "Trouble" is a nice acoustic breather amidst all the hot beats, big muff pedals and extended jams.

The Cirque bring the noise back in a dancey guitar workout that takes a '50s rollerdisco rhythm track and lovingly fucks it into timeless oblivion, while Velvet Crayon provides a tribute to Nick Drake before thickly applying a layer of Why?-styled (ahem) "indie rapping." Love City are Philly's own, of course, but they might as well be from Detroit Rock City — these guys boogie down with classic rock riffs and some pretty breakneck BPMs. The World Blanket see us off with "This Old West," a vulgar, ass-kicking, horn-augmented slab of deep-fried alt.country. It's the summer — what more could you ask for?

Dr. Dog - "The Old Days" - Fate
Driver UFO - "Issac Newton" - This Is Harrisburg, Not Topeka
Dave P. & Adam Sparkles - "Hoover's Apprentice" - The Sound / The Music
Pattern Is Movement - "Sound Of Your Voice (CYNE Remix)" - mp3
Bottom Of The Hudson - "December Is Only A Window" - Songs From The Barrel Commando

Sunshine Recorder - "Last One" - mp3
Jake Lefco - "Teeth Chatter" - Missing Trooth
Goodnight Stars Goodnight Air - "And Forever" - And Forever
Hoots & Hellmouth - "Home For Supper" - Cdr
Academy - "I Fought The Diabetes & I'm Up 3 To 1" - Hoags (c)

Duochrome - "Negotiating The Driveway" - Tactical Knives
Bitter Bitter Weeks - "Trouble" - S/T
The Cirque - "The Cricket" - Legion Of Boom vol. 1 (c)
Velvet Crayon - "The Ballad Of Nick Drake" - S/T
Love City - "The Other Side" - mp3

The World Blanket - "This Old West" - Pressing Issues

Duration: 01:16:01

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