Polyvinyl Celebration 3: Warm Soda, White Reaper, The Rentals, Saturday Looks Good To Me

So, yeah, this should do it for the little impromptu Polyvinyl celebration thing we've been doing today. You've probably noticed by now, though, that we left approximately a jillion free and legals over at the Polyvinyl Bandcamp zone, so you take it from there. Or here.

Warm Soda are one of our very favorite current bands, as we've made fairly clear. In fact, their 

Symbolic Dream was also on our list of Favorite LPs of 2015.

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It's been a pretty busy Saturday around here, but, yeah, it does look pretty good, to us at least. If you didn't find anything to like, then . . . we'll just keep trying.

Emergency MotS Post: Matthew Melton @ Still in Rock

Yes, no sooner do we send you to Still in Rock for a happy glut than wily Frenchman Thibault follows through with another certified winner. We've mentioned a number of times how much we love the music of Matthew Melton, he of Bare Wires, Warm Soda, Pleasers, Snake Flower 2, and wtf knows whom else*** fame. Fortunately Thibault shares our love and just today posted two new ones by MM. You can sample them below and, if you like, pay Still in Rock a visit to download.

***Not an actual bandname (so far as we know) . . .

Music of the Sphere: Warm Soda, Pleasers, Triptides, Beck, The Midgetmen, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Heart Strings, Timbre Barons

Darned excited we are to see Still in Rock leveraging its special arrangement with Matthew Melton of Bare Wires, Warm Soda, Snake Flower 2, and new band, Pleasers, fame. You might have noticed our having Songdropped last week the new Warm Soda single as well as the single from Pleasers, both hosted now at Still in Rock. So thank you, SiR, and of course abundant thanks to the other faithful bloggers hosting songs below. (Btw, you can still get that Snake Flower 2 song at our little post from way back in November of last year.)

Warm Soda - No Place To Fall - Still in Rock
Pleasers - Reject Teen - Still in Rock
Triptides - Hideout - Still in Rock

Beck - Dreams - Side One Track One
The Midgetmen - Titus Mollard - Side One Track One

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Line On You - Indie Rock Cafe

The Heart Strings - Beautiful Abyss - Rollo & Grady

Timbre Barons - Automatic - KEXP Blog

Warm Soda - I Wanna Go Fast

Just yesterday we prontodropped faveband Warm Soda's excellent new one into some of our Songdrop mixes. Just now we found the excellent Side One Track One has made it available for download. So should we wait until we've got five or eight tunes for a "traditional" Music of the Sphere post? Na. So thank you, SOTO, thank you, Jennifer, thank you Matthew Melton, for making some of our favorite music of the past several years. The new Warm Soda LP, Symbolic Dream, drops May 4 on Castle Face Records.

Flowers, Wires, Soda, Matthew Melton, Pleasers: Some Past, Present, and Future Incarnations of . . . Matthew Melton

Not sure if you noticed Matthew Melton's excellent new solosong, "Painted Sign," over there in our Songdrop Currents mix, but if you're into any of the Tennessee-to San Fran-to Austin pleaser's other bands - Snake Flower 2, Bare Wires, Warm Soda, or the forthcoming Pleasers - you might wanta check it out. (Click on all those green artist names for further exploration.) A little research at the Southpaw Records SoundCloud page turned up a handful of freebies we're posting below. We might not be evincing sufficient emotion here, but we've been absolutely loving this guy's music for several years now. Oh, one other thing: we put another Snake Flower 2 song in our Currents mix even though it came out around five years ago. If offended, please shoot us (email, comment, finger, whatever).








Free download at Southpaw Soundcloud page (Scroll down.)


Free download here.