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Dan Weinkauf, Tony Maimone (bass); J.D. Feinberg, Dan Hickey (drums).
Hot on the heels of their Mink Car album and their success with the Malcolm in the Middle theme comes They Might Be Giants' Holidayland EP, which collects the holiday-themed songs that John Linell and John Flansburgh have recorded over the years. Longtime TMBG fans will recognize "Santa's Beard" from Lincoln or Then: The Earlier Years, and the song's quirky-yet-rockin' sound captures the appeal of the group's late-'80s/early-'90s work perfectly. The sweetly spare toy piano and drum machine-based "Feast of Lights" originally appeared on the Chanukah compilation Festival of Light, Vol. 2, while "Careless Santa" comes from Unsupervised, the debut album from Flansburgh's side project Mono Puff. The group's version of "O Tannenbaum" -- sung in German, natch -- also achieves the blend of braininess and warm fuzzies of TMBG's best work. Unfortunately, the EP's newest track, a cover of the Sonics' "Santa Claus," is also the most unremarkable, but overall Holidayland will please the They Might Be Giants fans who don't already own these fun, festive songs. ~ Heather Phares
Additional personnel includes: Dan Miller (guitar); Kurt Hoffman (keyboards);
Producers include: They Might Be Giants, Bill Krauss, Pat Dillett.
Personnel: Dan Miller (guitar); Kurt Hoffman (keyboards); Dan Hickey (drums).
Arranger: They Might Be Giants.
They Might Be Giants: John Linnell, John Flansburgh.
Entertainment Weekly (11/30/01, p.90) - "...The highlight here is the previously released 'Santa's Beard,' a key entry in the slim subgenre of songs about Santa as a sexual interloper..." - Rating: B They Might Be Giants Holidayland Songs Holidayland Review
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Purchase Holidayland CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | They Might Be Giants Mink Car CD (2001)
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Additional personnel includes: Mike Doughty (vocals); Garo Yellin (cello); Jim O'Connor (flugelhorn); Dan Levine (trombone); Guy Pratt (bass); Hearn Gadbois, Luis Jardim (percussion); Chris Maxwell, Phil Hernandez (programming).
When They Might Be Giants first appeared in the late '80s, it was hard to predict that the whimsical alt-rock duo would still be going strong over a dozen years later. However, MINK CAR stands as further proof of the band's staying power, mostly attributable to the endlessly inventive songcraft ...
| | Paul Brody Beyond Babylon CD (2004)
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On his second album fronting his band Sadawi, trumpeter and composer Paul Brody continues his work in the avant-klezmer trenches, helping to drag that hundred-year-old music kicking and screaming ...
| | Kagemusha DVDs (1980) Widescreen; Special Edition; Subtitled
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| | Satantango DVDs (1994) Widescreen; Black & White; Subtitled
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| | Maya Beiser Almost Human CD (2007)
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| | Moonbabies Orange Billboard CD (2004)
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Will the indie pop melody well ever run dry? Maybe, but in the meantime Moonbabies have busted the pipeline, and it's overflowing in their basement. Harmony, warm melody, and clever studio trickery color every inch of The Orange Billboard, Ola Frick and Carina Johansson's second full-length; its songs seem stung by a pinpoint of heat and filtered through a long prism, their elementary pop structure and crackling electronica jumbled into a dizzy rainbow of bewildering detachment. Are these people from Sweden or some kind of super-hip Candy Land? The verses of "Fieldtrip USA" run on a gentle acoustic guitar figure and what sounds like a sound effect from the Windows operating system; the image blisters, snaps, and blurs before downshifting Notwist-like into a pulsating indie rock bass groove. "Sun A.M." is even better, a blissfully perfect synthesis of sun-kissed twee and mouse-click bedroom electronica. "I become you," Frick sings in his cracked, plaintive falsetto. "Just wait and see us/Nine years from here/And I follow you." And what's senseless in print is butterflies-inducing genius in the studio. "Crime o' the Moon" bounces along on a jaunty organ and xylophone chimes, inserting snippets of strings in a 21st century rebroadcast of Beatles psychedelia, while the instrumental "Jet" is a whirring and ...
| | David Morgan Ordinary Glory CD (2005)
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From headlining at the Blue Note with his jazz piano trio to his sold out performances as a singer/songwriter David Morgan is consistently producing and performing music that is diverse and dynamic. 'David is a truly extraordinary pop singer-songwriter-right alongside his glorious preceding accomplishments as a jazz musician.' (Jim Bessman of Billboard Magazine)Originally from San Francisco, Morgan grew up listening to everything from the Beatles to John Coltrane to Chopin. In 1987, when still in high school, he was severely bitten by the jazz bug. Two years later he moved to the University of New Orleans to pursue his love of jazz where jazz was born. At UNO, he studied piano and composition with legends Ellis Marsalis and Harold Battiste. It was there that he first played with Wynton Marsalis, James Rivers, Wes Anderson and Nycholas Payton. 'My time in New Orleans, studying with Ellis and Harold by day and playing in clubs almost every night was an unparalleled stage in my development. I cherish that time in my life'Before heading for New York, producer/composer Battiste released his first jazz CD, 'Comment' on AFO Records. Battiste says, 'His credentials as composer, producer, arranger, leader and player ...
| | Mara Soulshine CD (2004)
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| | Yellow Jumps Twice Ain't Nothing Better Than... CD (2007)
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| | Hemphill, Kevin & The Nightbirds Live At The Flipside CD (2007)
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| | Indivo Sea Of Dreams CD (2007)
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Contrasting images and a unified sound: Indivo is a Northern California-based songwriting and recording duo whose debut CD, Sea of Dreams, introduces the scope of their musical vision as it illustrates their range as songwriters. Melinda Moore, with the clarity of her voice and the subtle simplicity of her songs, reveals influences of roots Americana and country while Nick Olivo, a multi-instrumentalist and accomplished record producer, colors in the sound with complexity, authority and edge. - Dan KimpelIndivo has a way of making something quite new sound familiar and comfortable to sink down into. Danceable, uplifting, sometimes moody, these songs each create a distinct feeling interwoven with rich vocals that dance across the melodies and weave ...
| | Wise Guys Frei CD (2008) (Import)
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| | Kellie Pickler CD (2008)
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| | Alberto Marino Los Mejores 13 CD (2008) (Import) Import
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