Premiere // NFOP Presents: Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk & Katrina Stonehart

04 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

When we previewed the upcoming Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk record Skeletor and Me exactly two weeks ago we promised a follow-up concerning the Kansas trio's tour through central Europe later this fall, so here it is - No Fear Of Pop is psyched to present Baby Birds Don't Dink Milk's first-ever appearance in the Old World, all dates together with Katrina Stonehart:

11/16: Leipzig, Paris Syndrome
11/17: Erfurt, Woodstock Records
11/18: Berlin, Marie-Antoinette (w/ Prince Rama)
11/19: Prague, Final Club (w/ Prince Rama)
11/20: Košice, Tabačka (w/ Prince Rama)
11/21: Brno, Skleněná louka
11/22: Vienna, Arena (w/ Casiotone For the Painfully Alone)
11/24: Krefeld, Kulturrampe
11/25: Kassel, Underground
11/26: Hamburg, Hasenschaukel
11/27: Nürtingen, Provisorium
11/28: Jena, Jena Café
11/29: Dresden, Ostpol


Moreover, we're almost equally proud to premiere another absolute beauty from Skeletor and Me, the amazing experimental pop piece MT2 that stretches out over nearly seven thrilling minutes, with a lot of guitar noises that slowly rise to the BBDDM signifying wall of sound. The whole 12 inch is excellent and highly recommended. Order here (vinyl), here (CD) or here (cassette tape). That's the splendid CD design below.




Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk - MT2

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When we previewed the upcoming Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk record Skeletor and Me exactly two weeks ago we promised a follow-up concerning the Kansas trio's tour through central Europe later this fall, so here it is - No Fear Of Pop is psyched to present Baby Birds Don't Dink Milk's first-ever appearance in the Old World, all dates together with Katrina Stonehart:

11/16: Leipzig, Paris Syndrome
11/17: Erfurt, Woodstock Records
11/18: Berlin, Marie-Antoinette (w/ Prince Rama)
11/19: Prague, Final Club (w/ Prince Rama)
11/20: Košice, Tabačka (w/ Prince Rama)
11/21: Brno, Skleněná louka
11/22: Vienna, Arena (w/ Casiotone For the Painfully Alone)
11/24: Krefeld, Kulturrampe
11/25: Kassel, Underground
11/26: Hamburg, Hasenschaukel
11/27: Nürtingen, Provisorium
11/28: Jena, Jena Café
11/29: Dresden, Ostpol


Moreover, we're almost equally proud to premiere another absolute beauty from Skeletor and Me, the amazing experimental pop piece MT2 that stretches out over nearly seven thrilling minutes, with a lot of guitar noises that slowly rise to the BBDDM signifying wall of sound. The whole 12 inch is excellent and highly recommended. Order here (vinyl), here (CD) or here (cassette tape). That's the splendid CD design below.




Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk - MT2

Teen Whistle.

04 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Some nice French love to start your Monday morning by Young Michelin, a C86/twee and 80s wave endorsing project by Romain Guerret, hailing from a tiny village close to the Loire. Teen Whistle is a sweet and innocent singalong, instantly getting you into the right mood for the week ahead. Young Michelin's self-titled debut EP is available via Bulle Sonore Records. Not sure why they painted the dog though.

Young Michelin - Teen Whistle

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Some nice French love to start your Monday morning by Young Michelin, a C86/twee and 80s wave endorsing project by Romain Guerret, hailing from a tiny village close to the Loire. Teen Whistle is a sweet and innocent singalong, instantly getting you into the right mood for the week ahead. Young Michelin's self-titled debut EP is available via Bulle Sonore Records. Not sure why they painted the dog though.

Young Michelin - Teen Whistle

Our Star, The Sun.

04 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

There seem to be a lot of musicians these days who are not satisfied in being creative in only one "genre". Usually, these busy artists will act out their respective ambitions under different recording monikers - however, LA's Lee Noble is this rule's exception: He doesn't need a single alias for his diverse musical talents. After making you familiar with Lee's sunny garage side back in late July, it's about time to get into his apparently personally preferred ambient/drone noise facet which recently made itself productive again, materializing as a new C30 cassette tape on Minneapolis, Minnesota's lovely Moon Glyph. Our Star, The Sun is a beautiful piece including six slow ambient tunes, absolutely captivating and contemplating stuff, highly recommended. Order now and listen to two of the tracks below, exclusively on NFOP.

Lee Noble - 20794-9065

Lee Noble - Windswept Wasteland

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There seem to be a lot of musicians these days who are not satisfied in being creative in only one "genre". Usually, these busy artists will act out their respective ambitions under different recording monikers - however, LA's Lee Noble is this rule's exception: He doesn't need a single alias for his diverse musical talents. After making you familiar with Lee's sunny garage side back in late July, it's about time to get into his apparently personally preferred ambient/drone noise facet which recently made itself productive again, materializing as a new C30 cassette tape on Minneapolis, Minnesota's lovely Moon Glyph. Our Star, The Sun is a beautiful piece including six slow ambient tunes, absolutely captivating and contemplating stuff, highly recommended. Order now and listen to two of the tracks below, exclusively on NFOP.

Lee Noble - 20794-9065

Lee Noble - Windswept Wasteland

Nature’s Kid

03 Oct 2010 — Tonje Thilesen

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Norwegian magic

03 Oct 2010 — Tonje Thilesen

Urørt is packed with undiscovered treasures just waiting to break the surface, and Synne Sanden is certainly one of those who deserves more attention around her music. At the moment the Norwegian singer-songwriter is working on her debut album, produced by one of our best Norwegian jazz musicians around, Bugge Wesseltoft, and starring guests such as Moddi and Mathias Eick.

With such a spellbound EP already available for free downloading, I'm almost certain that her debut album When Nobody's Around (2011) will be just as good — if not even better.

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Urørt is packed with undiscovered treasures just waiting to break the surface, and Synne Sanden is certainly one of those who deserves more attention around her music. At the moment the Norwegian singer-songwriter is working on her debut album, produced by one of our best Norwegian jazz musicians around, Bugge Wesseltoft, and starring guests such as Moddi and Mathias Eick.

With such a spellbound EP already available for free downloading, I'm almost certain that her debut album When Nobody's Around (2011) will be just as good — if not even better.

Dream Girl.

02 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

I still don't know anything about Hawaii's Youth Sports, but this is just another splendid tune, posted last night on the duo's bandcamp. And seriously, look at her.

Youth Sports - Dream Girl

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I still don't know anything about Hawaii's Youth Sports, but this is just another splendid tune, posted last night on the duo's bandcamp. And seriously, look at her.

Youth Sports - Dream Girl

Wild Runner.

02 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Cradling is a duo based out of Seattle, Washington, and instead of plainly contributing to the sad aftermath of the thing we used to call the "northwest rock explosion", John and Davis chose the probably more difficult but in any case much more rewarding path of rather lo-fi, ambient and drone informed fuzzed-out experimental folk music that's in quite a few aspects reminiscent of some of the Denver/Fort Collins scene gathered around Matt Sage aka M. Pyres and his Patient Sounds label, and thus it's not that surprising that the two have released their debuting, amazing and stunningly mature record Wild Runner on Denver's tiny, very new but extremely promising Silent Farm Recordings. You can order the wonderful C50 tape here and download the album for free via the label's bandcamp.

Cradling - With Grace

Cradling - Cherish Them

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Cradling is a duo based out of Seattle, Washington, and instead of plainly contributing to the sad aftermath of the thing we used to call the "northwest rock explosion", John and Davis chose the probably more difficult but in any case much more rewarding path of rather lo-fi, ambient and drone informed fuzzed-out experimental folk music that's in quite a few aspects reminiscent of some of the Denver/Fort Collins scene gathered around Matt Sage aka M. Pyres and his Patient Sounds label, and thus it's not that surprising that the two have released their debuting, amazing and stunningly mature record Wild Runner on Denver's tiny, very new but extremely promising Silent Farm Recordings. You can order the wonderful C50 tape here and download the album for free via the label's bandcamp.

Cradling - With Grace

Cradling - Cherish Them