Click Here To Go Back FACTORY VINTAGE RECOMMENDED LISTENS... Each month, we try to recommend 4 artists and their albums to you, our music-loving listener. These will be chosen based upon on our personal strict criteria. First and foremost, they are albums by artists that we feel comfortable advising you to spend your hard-earned money on. That doesn't mean that there are one or two good songs on them, but that these albums have desirable beats from beginning to end. We have also selected these albums NOT because of a record company's agenda, but because we feel these are very good and will stand the test of time. And most importantly, we feel these should be heard not only at our shop but on your own radio. Below you will find information about the artist, album reviews from some major music publications, as well as links to bios, multimedia and pictures, if available. Enjoy these albums and please let us know what you think.
REVIEWS Rolling Stone Pitchfork PHOTOS 1 DOWNLOAD Multimedia		SPOON - Ga Ga GA Hailing from Austin, TX, Spoon originated in 1994 as a collaboration between Britt Daniel (vocals/guitar) and Jim Eno (drums) and a rotating cast of supporting players. Their hybrid of indie and punk resulted in a number of Sonic Youth and Pixies comparisons after their 1996 debut album, Telephono. Spoon toured with the likes of Pavement, ed by Voices, Silkworm, and Archers of Loaf before their Soft Effects EP was released in 1997. Following an ill-fated move to Elektra Records, which found them being dropped from the label following the issue of their third album, A Series of Sneaks, in 1998, Spoon went the indie route with a handfull of 7" singles and the The Agony of Laffitte EP in 1999. In fall 2000, the Love Ways EP was released on Merge, paving the way for spring 2001's full-length Girls Can Tell. The album was a critical success, ending up at or near the top of many best-of-2001 lists. Spoon released the more musically adventurous follow-up, Kill the Moonlight, in August 2002. The band opted for a bigger, darker sound on 2005's Gimme Fiction. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga — which was named after the melody of one of the album's songs, "The Ghost of You Lingers" — mixed unusual instrumentation and nods to Motown and soul, and was released in summer 2007.
REVIEWS Rolling Stone Pitchfork DOWNLOAD Music		NOISETTES - Whats The Time Mr. Wolf ? The Noisettes were founded by guitarist Dan Smith and singer/bassist Shingai Shoniwa, who previously worked together in the band Sonarfly. In the spring of 2003 they began getting together to write songs, and their new project fell into place when they met drummer Jamie Morrison.Adopting the name the Noisettes, the trio started playing out in late 2003, and in 2004 went into the studio to record a four-song EP, The Three Moods of the Noisettes. In early 2005, the disc was released by the U.K. independent label Side Salad Records, and attracted the attention of a number of well-known British acts, including Baby Shambles, Bloc Party, and Muse, all of whom invited the group to tour with them. The disc also found it's way to Universal Music, which signed the Noisettes to an international deal in 2006, releasing their material through Motown/Vertigo in Europe and Mercury in the United States. The group's debut album, What's the Time Mr. Wolf?, is a great album and if you saw the last Sopranos there is a car scene that you will remember that has a track from the album playing.
REVIEWS Rolling Stone Filter Pitchfork PHOTOS 1 MULTIMEDIA Videos MySpace		GOGOL BORDELLO - Super Taranta With SUPER TARANTA! Gogol Bordello is going to conquer the world," boasts Eugene Hutz, Gogol bandleader and agent provocateur. "Everything on the album is taken to the next level. It's more direct, more abstract, more focused, with more dark humor. The dub parts are deeper; the fast parts are faster, its pure orgasmo hysteria." Gogol Bordello chose producer Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave, PJ Harvey) to help them bring their extreme vision to vibrant life. Along the way they've discovered more styles of rebel music and incorporated them into their omnivorous sound. Hutz is driven by an inexorable creative desire. In the past two years he's starred in Liev Schreiber's film Everything Is Illuminated and was the focal point of a documentary called the Pied Piper Of Hutzovina. The documentary follows Hutz to the Ukraine in 2006, filming him while he searched for the extended family he left behind when he fled Chernobyl in 1986. "It was a challenging experience. The film connects the dots, joining different aspects of Gypsy culture in Hungary, Ukraine, Russia and Siberia, from its manifestations in elite society, all the way down to the musicians and activists in the ghetto." Close