Kai Danzberg - Pop-Up Radio (2017-2018)

So per Jellyfish and most recently Beck's band, Roger Joseph Manning's post on Facebook about this guy

Imitation IS the sincerest form of flattery, so w that in mind...thank u Kai Danzberg

I discovered the video below, and despite the blatant references, as a Jellyfish, Beatles, Pink Floyd fan, etc, it kind of hit home. And it does sound like a JF track.

So naturally I went to check out the album the track "Welcome to the Show" comes from, Pop-Up Radio, which was released on January 1, 2018.

So Kai Danzberg's music, at least on this song is rather power-pop-ish. I couldn't help but be reminded of Jellyfish or even the likes of Bend Sinister and Timmy Sean in some ways.

This guy I guess is from Germany, and this is his debut album I guess. Although he put out an EP titled Unacceptable last September which is catchy, but also has a New Jack Swing element to it. And he mentions Michael Jackson among the music he's inspired by, Which I actually hear a bit of sElf in the stuff on there.

At any case, I'm going to try and check this whole album out more (I've listened to maybe 2/3 of it, but there wasn't much time at work today = new job, etc), but it's great hear someone new doing proggy Power-Pop.

And that video: I wonder how he did it/how much time, money, etc it took.

Kai Danzberg on Facebook




1. Overture 00:42
2. Welcome To The Show 03:47
3. Yes We Can 03:38
4. Just Listen To Me 02:59
5. You're The One 03:02
6. Puppet On A String 03:45
7. Stranger 05:37
8. How Can You 03:01
9. Too Late 03:35
10. What The F 03:50
11. Sophie 03:28
12. I Should Try 04:22
13. Sleep (Tell Me) 04:08

The Family Crest - Prelude to War [EP] (2016-2017)

4/19/17 12:15PM

2nd single "Sparks"..love the a lot of this, especially the vocal harmonies in the last minute or so.

 

3/27/17 12:11PM 

All Songs Considered Link to "Mirror Love" VIDEO




So this is a new EP coming out from San Francisco progressive/chamber band The Family Crest, who I enjoy immensely at times.

I think I posted some stuff previously about their next record, being a big double album, or 2 albums coming, etc..per speaking with some of the members after a show a few years ago at The Cedar.

Well, I imagine some of that is still in the plans, but this is just an EP coming, so I imagine it's just a sample of the oncoming storm that will be in the near future.

New track "Mirror Love" linked above, I will hear and watch later. I would embed the video but, it's unlisted, per likely the wishes of NPR, etc. I suppose in due time, maybe the next bump with more details on this EP, artwork, track list, etc an embed may be in order. 

edit: just from that story above

"The War" sounds like The Parallax series from  Between the Buried and Me a bit (but I would put money on I enjoy it more). 

Also Mirror Love and a comparison to the late 70's The Bee Gees  in that story.

 
"Mirror Love" comes from The Family Crest's new EP Prelude To War, coming out April 28. It is the first installment to a larger project by The Family Crest called "The War." There will also be a tour coinciding with the release — this band is a must-see live!

From Facebook
We are so excited to share that we are releasing an EP, Prelude to War, on April 28. A million thanks and love to All Songs Considered for premiering the first track (and video!) from the EP, called 'Mirror Love.'

This is only the beginning.

Come see us play this song (and many other new ones) live!
April 28 Los Angeles, CA – Bootleg Theater
April 29 Phoenix, AZ –The Rebel Lounge
May 1 Dallas, TX – The Double Wide
May 2 Austin, TX – Stubb’s BBQ
May 4 St. Louis, MO – Blueberry Hill
May 5 Nashville, TN – The Basement
May 7 Atlanta, GA – Aisle 5
May 9 Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel
May 10 Philadelphia, PA – Boot & Saddle
May 11 Boston, MA – Café 939
May 12 Burlington, VT – Signal Kitchen
May 13 New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
May 14 Pittsburgh, PA – Club Café
May 16 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Tavern
May 17 Ferndale, MI – The Loving Touch
May 18 Chicago, IL – Schubas Tavern
May 19 Milwaukee, WI - The Backroom at Colectivo Coffee
May 20 St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
May 22 Denver, CO – Lost Lake Lounge
May 23 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
May 25 Seattle, WA – Barboza
May 27 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
June 3 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall

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Pop Music History Website (1958-2016, Billboard Top 5's)

https://pudding.cool/2017/03/music-history/index.html

I shared this the other day on Social Media and some forums, after seeing on the dreamtheaterforums.

It had myself and my wife kind of addicted for a couple of hours on Sunday afternoon, until it unfortunately crashed her 2012 Macbook Pro (she's not a PC person, and I am, but regardless, 2012 sadly, kind of says it all at this point in that she needs a new Mac laptop).

Pick any year and it goes through week-by-week, month-by-month, etc showing the top 5 songs, playing #1, which I believe is from Billboard.

It starts at 1958 and goes all the way up through the end of 2016 I guess.

Seeing the mid and even late 90's on, it was reminder, like many of the WatchMojo lists for music, of how gawd awful Popular Music, and specifically the stuff that charted/people bought, the last 20 years or so.

Many of the songs from 2000's that literally spent months at #1, I had never heard, or even heard-of the artist, lol.

Even stuff like Coldplay or whatever, didn't unseat some of them.

But the counter to that is looking at the charts in the 80's or a lot of the late 60's and 70's, it's neat to see certain songs take down others, or not be able to for the #1 song. Beatles vs Monkees, Michael Jackson vs Madonna.

And the Bee Gees, good lord, between their own hits beyond Stayin Alive, they had something like 12 #1's. And then the solo members/Gibbs brothers had a number of them in the late 70's early 80's. And I guess also some of the #1's that were from others were actually written by some of the Bee Gees.

Talk about dominating the Charts.

Why when Watchmojo Did a Top 10 Billboard #1's for each decade, it was baffling none of their songs were in there. 1 comment said because the list was for "Rock" which the Bee Gees weren't, but stupid semantic arguments didn't really reflect their domination of the charts at all.


Now, and I posted to this site's twitter account, they should try and setup another 1 of these for ALBUMS charted, which I think may not be highly better, but still worth comparing to for the last 2 decades, and of course the "Album Era" per 1967-1975 especially.

But this site is not exclusively for music, it's like a graphing statistical display analysis site for any number of topics, so Music may not be a priority necessarily. But if they do do an ALBUMS one eventually, I'll try and pass it along of course.