Viva Indie Rock Podcast #81 - 10 Favorite Tracks of 2013

In no particular order! Just 10 tracks we couldn't stop listening to. Would love to hear your list!



Track List:

10 Favorite Tracks From First Half Of 2013

Well, it's been a pretty interesting first six months of 2013. Some really great stuff has come out. These are our 10 Favorite Tracks. We are not saying these are the best or greatest as such things are so completely and overwhelmingly subjective. These are just our favorites. And please remember we have a bit of a fondness for indie pop.

10) Sin Fang - Young Boys



9) The Tranq - Yo Yo



8) Chester Endersby Gwazda - Skewed



7) Total Warr - Bambastard



6) Bad Bad Hats - It Hurts



5) Tullycraft - Lost in Light Rotation



4) The Woolen Men - Hold It Up



3) PVT - Love and Defeat



2) Adult - Idle (Second Thoughts)



1) Guards - I Know It's You

World of Tullycraft "Lost In Light Rotation" Free CD Quest Winners Announcement!!

Hey! Congratulations to Michael Zakes, Dustin Block, and Jack Silbert for being the three lucky winners in the Tullycraft CD giveaway! Their names were randomly drawn from a hat! We had over 50 entries, so they were very lucky indeed! Thanks to everyone who entered! Hopefully you will still go buy a copy of the great new release! For more info on Tullycraft, please go to Tullycraft Nation!

Tullycraft - Dig Up The Graves Video!

Fantastic video from the new album Lost in Light Rotation!



Don't forget to enter our World of Tullycraft "Lost in Light Rotation" Free Autographed CD Quest!! 3 Lucky winners will get a free autographed copy of the new release!

World of Tullycraft "Lost in Light Rotation" Free Autographed CD Quest!!

Viva Indie Rock has teamed up with Tullycraft to bring you the World of Tullycraft "Lost in Light Rotation" CD Quest! Enter your name and email address for a chance to win one of three signed copies of the new "Lost in Light Rotation" CD!!! That's right! The CD comes autographed by Tullycraft! Just give us your name and email address! We will randomly pick three winners and ship you a signed copy of the new release free!! "Lost in Light Rotation" is due out April 23rd on Magic Marker Records in the US and Fortuna Pop overseas! You can also get a cassette version from Fika Records! Take another listen to the fantastic title track!



Take a moment to fill out the form below! We will announce the winners April 22nd!!

ENTRY PERIOD OVER!!

-Cartoon by Jake Rohdy Comics!

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #47

Track List:
1) Tullycraft  Lost in Light Rotation 7"  Lost in Light Rotation
2) Beach Fossils  Clash the Truth  Clash the Truth
3) CocoRosie  Tales of a Grass Widow  Gravediggress
4) PVT  Homosapien  Evolution
5) Thao and the Get Down Stay Down  We The Common  The Feeling Kind
6) Autumn Owls  Between Buildings, Towards the Sea (Acoustic)  Semaphores
7) Sin Fang  Flowers  Everything Alright
8) Veronica Falls  Waiting For Something to Happen  Broken Toy
9) Kurt Vile  Wakin on a Pretty Daze  Wakin on a Pretty Day
10) Unknown Mortal Orchestra  II  Swim and Sleep
11) The Veils  Time Stays, We Go  Through the Deep, Dark Wood
12) Gold Panda  Trust  Cayasm

Tullycraft - Lost in Light Rotation Video!

"Lost in Light Rotation" b/w "Bad Connection" is available as a limited edition 7" single, out now on Fortuna POP! (UK/EU) and Magic Marker Records (USA).

Stream Tullycraft's "Lost in Light Rotation"

OH MY FUCKING GOD!!! The upcoming Tullycraft 7" track Lost in Light Rotation proves that they are gods of indie pop. Most bands slip a little after taking extended time off. Not Tullycraft. If anything, they are stronger than ever. Check out the wonderful homage to BIS embedded in this fantastic song!

7 More Silly Questions With Tullycraft!

Omg! Omg! Omg! Tullycraft has reunited our disenchanted hearts with the news that they will be releasing their first new recordings since 2007's Every Scene Needs a Center! And, truthfully, it couldn't come at a better time. The world needs Tullycraft to remind us that music is supposed to be fun and that straightforward, clever, well written songs are always, always welcome. And Sean Tollefson and his wonderful collaborators Jenny Mears, Corianton Hale, Chris Munford, and Jeff Fell are masters at the craft of the three minute pop song.


In 2013, we can expect both a 7" single in Jan or Feb and a full-length release titled Lost In Light Rotation. Mixed by the legendary Phil Ek (The Shins, Band of Horses, Built to Spill, Fleet Foxes, The Halo Bender), the album is being released on CD/LP on Magic Marker Records in the U.S. and Fortuna Pop in the UK. The official release date has yet to be set. There is also going to be a limited edition cassette version of the album on Fika Recordings in the UK!! With all of the chaos surrounding getting a new release together, I am surprised they had time to answer our highly dubious questions (after being so kind to us in 2009), but I am eternally grateful they did!

Viva: Where the bleep have you been and what have you been up to in your absence? 
Chris: What do you mean absence? We've been doing things like being a band and making this new record! I guess we've also been doing things like getting married, having babies, moving to California, and trekking to Borneo to save wildlife, so not much.
Sean: I feel like I've been busy - buying a house, getting married, having a baby... adult stuff. But it's true, there were a few years that we did almost nothing as a band. Sometimes a band can be a difficult relationship and I think we all just needed a break.
Jeff: First, I don't appreciate the accusatory tone of the question. Second, let's use our big boy words. None of this "bleep" language. Each of us has been at our respective homes just living life and now we’ve made another album.

Viva: What is the first record you bought?
Chris: The first one I bought? Maybe The Knack? I loved it.
Jeff: I'm sure I've answered this question before and to tell the truth I couldn't definitively answer this right now but it would have been one of these four: The Soundtrack to Heavy Metal, Cheap Trick “Live at Budokan,” AC/DC's “Back In Black,” or Blondie's “Autoamerican.” Those were quickly followed by Devo's “Freedom of Choice,” Van Halen I, probably an Oingo Boingo record, most definitely Rush's “Moving Pictures” and Foreigner's first album because I love that stupid guitar break in "It Feels Like the First Time." But it wasn't all good. There was a Styx album in there somewhere too.
Sean: The first record I ever bought was “Hooligans” by The Who (on cassette). It was a compilation focusing mostly on singles they’d released in the 70’s. I still love The Who.
Cori: Pet Shop Boys - "Actually" (on cassette tape)
Jenny: Probably Sting's "Dream of the Blue Turtles." I never was cool...

Viva: Unicorns vs. Narwhals? Who would win in a fight?
Cori: Depends on the terrain.
Sean: That’s true. Where would this fight take place? In the Canadian Arctic or North Korea?
Jenny: Excellent question, Sean! Everyone knows the icy waters of the Arctic would favor the narwhal while the unicorn would dominate in Korea's marshmallow forests...
Chris: This really isn't my area of expertise.
Jeff: Nice try, Unicorns and Narwhals would never fight one another as they naturally see what they have in common. Why are you so intent on pitting them against each other?

Viva: If you could re-live your prom, what song would you want slow dance to? 
Cori: What prom?
Chris: I'm not much of a slow dancer, and sincerely hope I never have to re-live either of the two proms I attended, BUT, I do like dancing! So, I am going to say I would dance to "Come on Eileen" most anytime.
Jenny: You'd be wearing overalls, right Chris?
Chris: Of course!
Jeff: I don't think I would wish a re-living of my prom upon anyone who was there. I don't even remember dancing. We left for a house-party pretty early on.
Sean: Oh! Jeff, you've told me your prom story before. Ouch! As for a song, I think I'd need to go with a time tested classic - "If You Were Here" by the Thompson Twins. You may think you don't know this song, but I'm sure you do - it played at the very end of 'Sixteen Candles.'

Viva: What would you do if Mayans predicted that one more Orange Cake Mix song would reset the doomsday clock? 
Chris: I think I would question the accuracy of those Mayan predictions.
Jeff: Well, it's kinda out of our hands according to your supposition. So I would have a nice meal and hope for the best, I guess.
Sean: Jeff's right. I think the real question is: What would Jim Rao (aka Orange Cake Mix) do?

Viva: Who smells the worst in the van after a show?
Cori: Jenny
Chris: Jenny. Sorry J, you are however usually one of the top three best smelling in the van BEFORE the show
Jeff: I do. But Jenny takes the heat for me because she's swell like that.
Jenny: I am swell like that! Though my polyester dresses don't exactly smell like roses after a show...



-Tullycraft cartoon by Jake Rohdy

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #5

Podcast # 5 is available for streaming online or downloading and listening at your leisure! Live broadcast radio shows are 9pm Thursdays (EST) on PMCRadio.org.



Tracklist:
1)Eux Autres Sun is Sunk Right Again
2)Tullycraft City of Subarus 8 Great Ways
3)Moonface With Sinai: Heartbreaking Bravery Teary Eyes & Bloody Lips CANADA
4)Dana Buoy Summer Bodies Call to Be
5)The Eversons The Eversons EP I'm a Conservative NEW ZEALAND
6)Tapes n' Tapes Walk It Off Le Ruse
7)Motel Beds Sunfried Dreams/Tango Boys Tropics of the Sand (w/ Kelley Deal)
8)The Temper Trap Conditions Down River AUSTRALIA
9)Tanlines Mixed Emotions Brothers
10)Bobby Conn Macaroni Underground Vktm
11)Holograms ABC City SWEDEN
12)The Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? I Was Born (A Unicorn) CANADA
13)The Wedding Present Bizarro Kennedy UK
14)Heart-Sick Groans If the Canary Stops Singing SWEDEN
15)Clap Your Hands Say Yeah CYHSY Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood