As per usual the folks at power pop label Big Stir Records have put together a sampler with highlights from their roster. Among others Box Of Records features songs from The Armoires, Blake Jones & The Trike Shop, Graham Parker & The Goldtops, Librarians With Hickeys, and The Speed Of Sound. It is available as a pay-what-you-want download in a wealth of digital formats from their website.
Fresno, CA power pop band Blake Jones & The Trike Shop have good reason to be worried about the extreme-right Proud Boys organisation. Their Fascist Bumblebee Winter Formal single, a track from their and still... album, describes them barging into their environment, which was quite scary.
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Fresno, CA power pop quintet Blake Jones & The Trike Shop are dipping their toes into art rock on their new album and still.... Imagine Roxy Music and Sparks having a ball with Big Star, while they sing about record stores, the opposite sex, and worrying about fascism getting more fashionable in the US when the so-called Proud Boys came out of the woodwork (Fascist Bumblebee Winter Formal).
The accessible melodies on top of adventurous time signatures - XTC comes to mind - and the gentle howl of the theremin might cause some head scratching at first for some, but their fragments always fit and could not have been connected in any other way to make sense.
Fresno, CA power pop band Blake Jones & The Trike Shop are having some fun on their new single Mock Stoner Voices, about a guy meeting a girl (well, sort of) at Tower Records. They threw a few Zappa-esque licks, just to make sure that people will realize it is a whimsical joke song. It is a track from their forthcoming new album and still..., due for release in the August via Big Stir Records (vinyl, CD, digital).
