Torrelodones, Spain’s Elefant Records recording artists, The Yearning, are all about retro vibes. They are unapologetic about using 50’s and 60’s styled rhythm and blues and pop to paint a musical picture that could easily have appeared on a radio station in 1955. Now if that all scares you a bit, it shouldn’t. The Yearning make the whole experience seem natural and it is more than a little bit pleasing. In preparing for a new long-player, The Yearning…
Read MoreFun loving retro-pop rockers Hey Geronimo return to Vodka with another top-notch fun track. You may remember Why Don’t We Do Something? from about a year ago, and Carbon Affair from just a few months back. Here, Hey Geronimo captures video footage from the road with a track that doesn’t necessarily fit the video, but is very fun anyway, The Girl Who Likes Me. The single is yet to be released in any form that I can find, but if you…
Read MoreNo Pressure is from the odd Clockwork Orange (ish) band of Sofia, Bulgarian misfits known as Babyface Clan. Combining retro sixties and seventies styles, modern rock, progressive rock and their own interpretation of pop music, Babyface Clan ends up being infectious and delightful. It’s not necessarily new, but it is definitely different, and the fun that Babyface Clan brings to the table here is worth every penny of admission. As the lead off track to the December 2013 long-player, You’re Not Wearing Your…
Read MoreMarcellus Hall is a sometime illustrator, cartoonist, writer and yes, musician. Here, he and his band, The Hostages, turn out rock and roll with just a hint of retro. It’s fun stuff, as seen / heard in Soul Mate (above). There’s a bit of rockabilly, a little folk-rock, some pure pop-it’s all in there, and all on his latest crowd-funded long-player, Afterglow (December 2013). Vocally, Marcellus has a similar tonal quality and delivery to that of Dan Zanes. The band is…
Read MoreYou could say that Burn Antares makes 60’s and 70’s throw-back pop-rock, and while there is a definite retro feel to it, that only goes so far. There is a decidedly here-and-now feel to their music as well. Here on Man’s Eye, from the five-piece band’s self-titled October 2013 debut, you’ll get the feel. While the band is a solid instrumental unit, the vocal leads from Grace Farriss stand front and center and hearken back to another “Grace” (think Jefferson Airplane), and that comparison…
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