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Hyperbola vs Hyperbola – Tuesday Sept 1

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Way back in the before times of 2001 and 2002 I was living in Queensbury and reconnected with some old high school friends. We spent our not doing too much, but we had a favorite hang out and it was the Lagoon. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t exist anymore but was fun for a bunch of 22 year-olds. Free darts, cheap drinks and food. And of course some live music.

Hyperbola was a band that consisted of three guys I went to high school with. I’m not sure how many of their shows we attended. I lived in Queensbury from September 2001 until August 2002 and it seemed like more than a few times, and I quite enjoyed them.

I bought both of their albums – Long Dub Mini Groove and Long Dub Mini Groove II. Both pretty good and I still listen to them on a regular occasion.

Yesterday I was walking Marceline to the park, and decided to listen to some music while she was chilling in the stroller. It’s a mile walk and Marceline zones the whole time. But despite searching google, youtube and other places, I couldn’t find anything left over from that time period. No really old recording or video from their performances.

Instead I found this weird band named Hyperbola on the Spotify. Definitely the same band I saw in Queensbury. I listened to their album bringing it up from 2 listens per month to 3 listens per month.

I also found another band named Hyperbola on Bandcamp. Again not the same band, unless they moved to the Ukraine without letting anyone know. They at least sound a little bit closer to the band what I remember.

Anyways, I eventually pulled up a Hyperbola album I have stored online to listen to.

Here’s Reason to Love by Hyperbola.

Andrew, Greg, Tim, if you are out there… thanks for the great music.

Jolie Holland

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Sometimes I think I don’t discover music until way later than everyone else.

Other times music in my collection goes unlistened to… and I don’t even realize its part of my music collection.

A little bit of both happened with Jolie Holland.

Somehow I had the album Escondida in my music collection. I randomly saw the album cover and decided to listen to it over the weekend. It quickly has become all I’ve listened to the last few days (OK… full disclosure… I listened to the entire radio broadcast drama of Empire Strikes Back while driving 8 hours from Cleveland to Queensbury…. but aside from that).

Anyways… give it a listen.  I’ve started moving on to her more recent albums.  This one is from 2005 and it holds up wonderfully.

A New Sound

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oh my me album coverOn several occasions in my life I have randomly held onto a cd that I really had no interest in listening to.  I think the best case for this was from my youth, when randomly the BMG CD Club sent me Pablo Honey by Radiohead.  When someone visiting the house said they were I put it in the cd player and never looked back.

So yesterday driving home I was tired and looking for something to keep me awake.  I grabbed the cd’s in the door of my car and came upon Oh My Me.  I had picked up the cd with Wussy and Sundresses from a Kickstarter campaign last year.  I love Wussy (they are amazing, check them out) and the Sundresses impressed the hell out of me as well.  But Oh My Me, I had no clue who they were, and their cd was in a plastic sleeve looking a little underwhelming.

But wanting something new to keep me up I threw the cd in the car.  The first song was blew me away.  Sounding both old jazz/bluesy and yet something altogether different at the same time.  I was awake and involved in the music for the next 20 minutes til I arrived at home.  A quick search and purchase later and I had a live album to along with the cd I already had.

Life is good.  I’ve got new music to listen to.  And that’s always a good thing.

 

Hank and the Cupcakes

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The singer from Hank and the Cupcakes has shiny pants. I just got back from their concert at the Beachland Tavern and their music grew on me. She was pretty energetic, it was hard not to like them with their 80’s Euro-ish techno-ish something or another music. She danced on the drum set for crying out loud (weird phrase that is, crying out loud).  Check them out.

 

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-The Cure – Three Imaginary Boys
– Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
– Shelia Divine – New Parade
– Pulp – Hardcore
– The Clash – Sandinista
– Radiohead – Amnesiac
– Regina Spektor – Soviet Kitsch
– Wussy – Left for Dead
– The Get Up Kids – On A Wire
– the Pixies – Doolittle
– The Real Tuesday Weld – I, Lucifer
– Spiritualized – Royal Albert Hall October 10, 1997
– Beck – The Information
-Hyperbola – Long Dub Mini Goove
– Sky Larkin – Kaliede