Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer struck up a friendship as high school freshmen in New Orleans, Louisiana. Shortly after, they formed The Eames Era with three classmates in 2003.
The dissolution of that group in 2007 led to a return to New Orleans where Joyner and Widmer started writing songs as GENERATIONALS.
Baton Rouge-native and Eames Era producer Daniel Black (The Oranges Band) invited them to record their debut “Con Law” in 2008. Its retro vibe clearly bore the infuence of Phil Spector’s mid-century pop, but GENERATIONALS’ infuences always ran the gamut, with pieces of britpop, dance and electronic poking through the trumpet stabs and Abbey Road compression on their analog 24-track recordings.
The band maintained their obsession with tape recording on 2010’s “Trust” EP, produced in Austin, Texas by freak-folk mastermind Bill Baird (Sunset, Sound Team). “Trust” saw the band drift away from the 60’s gimmicks of “Con Law” in favor of a new wave sound that owed more to The Sugarcubes and The Stone Roses than the Ronettes.
2011’s sophomore LP “Actor-Caster” revealed a band capable of effcient pop songwriting. All ten of its bright songs found their way into the band’s setlists as they hit their stride with a live confidence earned by relentless touring.
In 2012 a renewed and refreshed GENERATIONALS completed work on “Heza”, their debut LP for Polyvinyl Records, in their hometown of New Orleans, again with the help of longtime producer Daniel Black.
On “Heza”, GENERATIONALS aren’t so much shedding their old skin as growing more comfortable in the one they’ve always inhabited.
They’re still teenagers, but spark the maturity of a band that’s at least three albums deep in its career. BLAENAVON hail from Hampshire where they spent two years crafting their sound before sharing it with the world. What they do, is brit-pop at its finest, unadulterated, unwashed sincere feelings laid on a bed of whirling guitars. Next big thing or not, BLAENAVON get the merits of not playing it safe while remaining cool: no software or laptops to hide behind, instead tightly wound, instantly accessible alt-pop that soars in all the right places. Mathrock, hardcore and metal is combined with samples full of spoken word. No singing, but rhythm and guitar riffs that tumble over each other in songs that explode with energy. The threesome from Luxembourg, HEARTBEAT PARADE is ever so happy to not have a singer. This way the attention of the audience isn’t diverted to a single person and besides they’re not attached to that nasty verse chorus structure. So far the band has only released their music independently. In Feburary 2013, they dropped “Hora de los hornos”, an album in which they’re involved from A to Z. They’re perfectionists, the three gentlemen from HEARTBEAT PARADE and luckily that can be heard.“
NO METAL IN THIS BATTLE is an afro-post punk quartet from Luxembourg.
They released “The Husky Tape” as an appetizer in 2012, but with a line-up change in the last months, they are exploring new musical directions… including piano, delay guitars, baritone fuzzes and african rhythms.
The dissolution of that group in 2007 led to a return to New Orleans where Joyner and Widmer started writing songs as GENERATIONALS.
Baton Rouge-native and Eames Era producer Daniel Black (The Oranges Band) invited them to record their debut “Con Law” in 2008. Its retro vibe clearly bore the infuence of Phil Spector’s mid-century pop, but GENERATIONALS’ infuences always ran the gamut, with pieces of britpop, dance and electronic poking through the trumpet stabs and Abbey Road compression on their analog 24-track recordings.
The band maintained their obsession with tape recording on 2010’s “Trust” EP, produced in Austin, Texas by freak-folk mastermind Bill Baird (Sunset, Sound Team). “Trust” saw the band drift away from the 60’s gimmicks of “Con Law” in favor of a new wave sound that owed more to The Sugarcubes and The Stone Roses than the Ronettes.
2011’s sophomore LP “Actor-Caster” revealed a band capable of effcient pop songwriting. All ten of its bright songs found their way into the band’s setlists as they hit their stride with a live confidence earned by relentless touring.
In 2012 a renewed and refreshed GENERATIONALS completed work on “Heza”, their debut LP for Polyvinyl Records, in their hometown of New Orleans, again with the help of longtime producer Daniel Black.
On “Heza”, GENERATIONALS aren’t so much shedding their old skin as growing more comfortable in the one they’ve always inhabited.
They’re still teenagers, but spark the maturity of a band that’s at least three albums deep in its career. BLAENAVON hail from Hampshire where they spent two years crafting their sound before sharing it with the world. What they do, is brit-pop at its finest, unadulterated, unwashed sincere feelings laid on a bed of whirling guitars. Next big thing or not, BLAENAVON get the merits of not playing it safe while remaining cool: no software or laptops to hide behind, instead tightly wound, instantly accessible alt-pop that soars in all the right places. Mathrock, hardcore and metal is combined with samples full of spoken word. No singing, but rhythm and guitar riffs that tumble over each other in songs that explode with energy. The threesome from Luxembourg, HEARTBEAT PARADE is ever so happy to not have a singer. This way the attention of the audience isn’t diverted to a single person and besides they’re not attached to that nasty verse chorus structure. So far the band has only released their music independently. In Feburary 2013, they dropped “Hora de los hornos”, an album in which they’re involved from A to Z. They’re perfectionists, the three gentlemen from HEARTBEAT PARADE and luckily that can be heard.“
NO METAL IN THIS BATTLE is an afro-post punk quartet from Luxembourg.
They released “The Husky Tape” as an appetizer in 2012, but with a line-up change in the last months, they are exploring new musical directions… including piano, delay guitars, baritone fuzzes and african rhythms.