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Huntingtons : Prime Times : The TASCAM Tapes

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Our good friends at Flannelgraph Records have released a cassette that captures Huntingtons demos from 1995 that were recorded in a small utility closet practice space on a TASCAM 4-track cassette machine. You really need to go buy it here! It’s no secret that we’re longtime Huntingtons fans. Ever since the shows at Drexel U. back at the band’s start when they were basically the house band there, the Huntingtons have always made super fun upbeat punk rock in the Ramones tradition. :::scott:::

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Williams Shift : We Were Wonderers

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Williams Shift’s debut album We Were Wonderers is released digitally and on cd today! Williams Shift is a new project from Matthew Stone (Soporus, Saxon Shore) and Stephen Roessner (Saxon Shore, Small Signals). We Were Wonderers was recorded in various home studios, produced and mixed by Grammy award winning producer Roessner in conjunction with Stone, and features the vocalist Jill Purdy. Williams Shift comes to life as an outgrowth of the poppiest elements incorporated in songs recorded as members of the instrumental band Saxon Shore combined with the concept of the “Williams Shift” where defenders would align themselves to better field naturally pulled hits from Boston slugger Ted Williams. The band blends soaring synth pop influences with an ever-expanding and spiraling Williams mythology and weight of the Cosmos. Captivated by theories of human cryonic suspension and the cagey details post-Williams mortem, the band embraces an actively dreaming suspended head and an alternate future of Williams’ awakening. His frozen head orbits the earth on a satellite with other cryonically frozen beings, a tragic Greek chorus echoing Williams’ thoughts through Brian Wilson-esque (musician, not reliever) melodies. This is an ode to melody, love lost, remembrance, baseball, Ted Williams’ legacy, and the universe…Continue readingWilliams Shift : We Were Wonderers

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Williams Shift “Tuning Into You (A Love Song From Voyager)”

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Here is the last song to stream from Williams Shift’s We Were Wonderers. It’s a mid-tempo track called “Tuning Into You  (A Love Song From Voyager)” and features extensive lead vocals from Jill Purdy and supporting background vocals from Matthew Stone. A central theme of We Were Wonderers involves the fate of one Ted Williams’ head post-mortem. As Williams was nearing death, his son John-Henry, arguably against his father’s true wishes, committed him to be cryonically frozen. His body was transported from Florida to Arizona and the Alcor Life Extension Foundation mistakenly severed Williams head from his body and cryonically froze it. It’s more common to freeze just the head, rather than the entire body combined. In Williams case, the remaining decapitated body was also frozen. In exploring the Ted Williams mythology and its ramifications on the cosmos, Williams Shift imagines a future where cronically frozen heads are stored on satellites orbiting the Earth in near absolute zero temperatures. “Tuning Into You  (A Love Song From Voyager)” furthers that idea and imagine two heads intertwining their thoughts and dreams, ultimately falling in love without bodies or hearts.The song also alludes to the distant Voyager satellite drifting across the galaxy, traveling…Continue readingWilliams Shift “Tuning Into You (A Love Song From Voyager)”