About A Million

 

About A Million hails from the tiny city of Coatesville, PA. To say this band is unique would be putting it lightly, there are so many things going on in this band it's hard to pick a place to start; To start I feel like I should mention that this is a family band. Family bands aren't all too common when thinking about songs of this style. I'd compare them to something like twee, jangle with a mix of Alex G. and garage. 

Going back to the family band point, this band consists of the Leitch siblings, the siblings being.

Scotty Leitch, Anthony Leitch, Kyle Leitch & Jessica Leitch. some of these names might sound familiar, primarily Anthony and Scotty due to their other side projects. Scotty has been featured on my blog before under the band "Pirouette" but is now better known as "Shelf Life". If you haven't yet listened to Pirouette I recommend you do so ASAP.

The "albums" I'm sharing today I forgot I had and can't find anything about them online at all, nothing, 0, zip, nada. The reason why I call these songs "albums" is because I would consider these more of something like home recordings and demos more than full fledged albums, these don't even have album art or lyrics which is why I'm borrowing the photos from the bands facebook which also does not have much info about that band but I digress. 

as well as not knowing much about the recordings or having album art / lyrics, I also don't have any release dates for any of these albums but I'm guessing maybe around 2003/4? sometime before pirouette but I could be wrong entirely. Regardless I hope you enjoy these long lost tracks.

DREAMING IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE

1) Gentile Rubber

 2) Hallucination

3) It's called well love 

4) Plastic Black 

5) Since We've Been Apart

6) Something About Hannah

7) Surviving a Plane Crash

8) The Stereo Had it Cumming

9) This Cocoon is Cacomfortable

10) His Girl Fridays

11) In Our Dreams

12) Nah, I Think I'll Just Go Home

13) The Yearbook That Gave Birth To The Dictionary

14) Krystal Boll

15) Matt's Black Haircut

16) Technilogical Composure (bass) 

Man Made of Paper

1) Air

2) Dirty Mafia

3) Drunken Spaceship

4) Last Chances are Hard to Breathe Without Anyone

5) Man Made of Paper

6) Oh

7) You Gotta Know

Don't let our chord break

1) 12 year old with aids

2) Don't Give Me That

3) I CAN'T BE FREE

4) She Won't Say Anything

5) Since We've Been Apart (Acoustic Version)

6) Something Random Something Weird

7) The Truth

8) You were telling the truth

9) All the hours

10) Animals eating animals

11) Cars are retro

12) His girl friday1

13) I Hate Breathing

14) Lullaby

15) Makeout session with the enemy (4 Miles Ago)

16) Makes Sense

17) My Only Friend

18) She won't say anythingg

19) Techincal Difficulties 

20) The Jealous Sound

Aww James

 

 

 

Aww James is a punk rock band from Phillipsburg New Jersey, created in late 2004 By brothers Joe and Brian who then later added Ryan and Todd, from all I can tell apparently there was some bad blood between the members of the band which had Brian leaving and being replaced very early in the band's existence. From all I can gather, this is their only CD release, the other music being demos from the now defunct PureVolume site (IYKYK)

 

so for the first time in a very long time, here's AWW JAMES 

 

 Welcome to the Factory Floor (2007) 

 

 

1) Headaches and Heartaches

 2) Mission F-Bomb

3) Everyone's a Critic

4) Internal Bleeding

5) This Is For The Pain

6) What's A Musician?

7) Isn't It Romantic?

8) The Real California

9) Cash In Your Happiness

10) Someone Wake Me Up

11) Sucked Dry

12) Uh, Sorry

13) Enjoy The Silence 

14) Memories 

The Sea Swallowed Us Whole

 

"Three piece experimental hardcore/screamo/punk band from Ft. Myers, FL who like it hard and fast.

SSUW is:

Ryan Lay- Guitar/Vocals

Nick Garlick- Drums/Vocals

Dav Pezzone- Bass/Vocals"

- LastFM

I don't know much about this band in all honesty except for the fact that I'm missing nearly their entire discog, so if anyone wants to help me out with that that would be dope.

this is some mid 2000's screamo hardcore that was peak myspace material, def worth a listen.

Drop Acid, not Bombs (2009)

1) I <3 Adam West

2) Oh Yeah? Well I Did Coke Twice In One Night

3) Building Castles in the Sky

4) Time

5) Intermission

6) White Toast

Truth Is....

 "Est. in the summer of 07'.

Brought the 'punk' back to pop-punk.

Released a demo, the Three Words EP, as well as a single intended for a debut album to be released on State of Mind recordings. Unfortunately the band dissolved before it could be released."

taken directly from lastfm, written by I think the guitar player? I reached out to him but haven't heard back yet.

found this band when searching for a different lost band with the same name on reddit, this band is from california where I think the other band is from north carolina; maybe idk.

anyway, this band plays a very mid 2000's pop punk that I ate up at the time, sharing the music with my partner they thought it actually sounded pretty good and I had to agree, definitely something I could see on a pure noise sampler something in the vein of man overboard or the like.

here is what I think the band members were at the time of their breakup, if I'm wrong oh well, until I hear otherwise this is what it is.

either way I'm sharing with you, their only EP titled..... three words e.p , kinda lackluster but who cares, besides this I'm missing a demo which I can't find and the Full length I'm unsure was even recorded to completion so for archiving's sake this is the thing that proves the band existed.

I hope you enjoy, I know I did.

three words e.p (200x?)

1) Intro

2) Don't Make Me Fight You ... Naked

3) You Know What To Do

4) Cupcakes

5) Cupcakes Pt. 2

6) You'll See

7) We Write Songs About Girls Like You

P.S there's a hidden "track" after the end of the last song, FFO: propane

Charly Bliss

 "Charly Bliss is an American four-piece power pop band formed in Brooklyn, New York, in 2011 comprising Eva Hendricks (lead vocals, guitar), Spencer Fox (vocals, guitar), Sam Hendricks (drums), and Dan Shure (vocals, bass)" - LastFM

Hello, happy holidays!

 uploading this today because I mistakenly thought I had uploaded it a long time ago and sent other people to search for something they couldn't find, Whoops!

anyway, as the small descriptions says above Charly Bliss plays a blend of alt rock power pop music that just sounds good, but it is definitely an acquired taste as the lead singers voice (Eva Hendricks) voice is not a very common voice in my opinion, matching that with shrill highs might be off-putting to some, I would compare her voice something similar to that of Agusta Koch (formerly of Cayetana, currently of gladie) this is just my ears making a comparison, someone might listen to both and think they sound nothing alike.

I'm including one of their earliest releases "EP" circa 2011, I thought this was out on the internet but I guess not? there are videos of Eva singing in her bedroom these songs on acoustic somewhere on youtube she must've been 17 or 18 so very cool to see how far they've come.

Secondly, I'm sharing their 2nd EP titled " A lot to say" (2013) more polished album actually has a lot of bangers aside from the Gigantic pixies cover and Heart of Glass Blondie cover which are both very good.

Lastly I'm including "Steal my sunshine" which is was an A.V Undercover cover (audio only although I have the video somewhere) and another cover of All I Want For Christmas Is You (which i think they now officially released) anyway including those for the holiday season.

ENJOY!

EP (2011)

1) April
2) Easy
3) Gone
4) Some Girls
5) Sleep Talking

A Lot To Say (2013)

1) A Lot to Say
2) Friends
3) Safe
4) Wait
5) Heart of Glass (Blondie Cover)
6) Gigantic (Pixies Cover)

All I Want For Christmas Is You (single)

Steal My Sunshine