The Early Tapes | ja

Polish punk rock. .

THE BLANK TAPES is the moniker of Los Angeles & San Francisco based musician & artist, Matt Adams, who has produced over 10 albums of 1960's psychedelic-surf-pop-folk-rock on an old 8 track cassette tape recorder in various garages, basements, sheds & bedrooms across the California Coast. Matt is also the artist behind his band's posters & album covers, and along with his band mates, Pearl, DA, & Will, they've toured throughout America, Brazil, Europe, & Japan. They just released a 7" with 20-Sided Records and a few new cassette tapes with Burger Records, Curly Cassettes & Dome of Doom. They...

The Andersen Tapes is the fabulous return of Amanda Aldervall (Free Loan Investments, The Busy Band) after a couple of years of silence. These three songs by The Andersen Tapes are nothing but excellently arranged and utterly beautiful pop songs with Amanda’s ace vocals on top. It’s that kind of pop that has previously melted pop hearts around the globe under names such as The Aislers Set, The Motifs, The Softies... http://www.cloudberryrecords.com .

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Forming in 1963 as The Intruders and later known as The Quinstrells they became known as The Dearly Beloved in late '65 and were Tucson's most popular '60s band. Shortly after their name change Dan Gates, a DJ from a local radio station KTKT came along with the tape of a song called Peep Peep Pop Pop. The group were not at all keen at first but eventually he persuaded them to record it at the Audio Sound Recorders Studio in Phoenix and a record deal was negotiated with the New Mexico-based Boyd label. They got the band's name wrong...