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Saturday Looks Good To Me
Saturday Looks Good to Me is an American experimental indie pop band that formed in 1999. The group is led by singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Fred Thomas (rock musician), Fred Thomas (former member of His Name Is Alive). Albums by the group are known for soundscapes which hearken back to Detroit soul. The band was originally conceived as a basement recording project and did not play any live shows until 2002. The band built up a considerable following on the back of numerous limited-edition 7" record and CD-R releases, resulting in the indie pop albums ''All Your Summer Songs'', released in 2003 on Polyvinyl Records, and ''Every Night (Saturday Looks Good to Me album), Every Night'', released in 2004 on Polyvinyl. ''All Your Summer Songs'' was listed as one of the top 50 albums of 2003 by Pitchfork. ''Every Night'' introduced new singer Betty Marie Barnes, who became the nearest to a permanent female singer that the band ever had. By 2007, Barnes had semi ...
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor is a city in Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States, and its county seat. The 2020 United States census, 2020 census recorded its population to be 123,851, making it the List of municipalities in Michigan, fifth-most populous city in Michigan. Located on the Huron River, Ann Arbor is the principal city of its Metropolitan statistical area, metropolitan area, which encompasses all of Washtenaw County and had 372,258 residents in 2020. Ann Arbor is included in the Metro Detroit, Detroit–Warren–Ann Arbor combined statistical area and the Great Lakes megalopolis. Ann Arbor was founded in 1824 by John Allen (pioneer), John Allen and Elisha Rumsey. It was named after the wives of the village's founders, both named Ann, and the stands of Quercus macrocarpa, bur oak trees they found at the site of the town. The University of Michigan was established in Ann Arbor in 1837, and the city's population grew at a rapid rate in the early to mid-20th century. A college town, ...
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Sound On Sound (Saturday Looks Good To Me Album)
''Sound on Sound'' is the sixth album to be released by Saturday Looks Good to Me Saturday Looks Good to Me is an American experimental indie pop band that formed in 1999. The group is led by singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Fred Thomas (rock musician), Fred Thomas (former member of His Name Is Alive). .... The record serves as a collection of difficult to find tracks and rarities released by the band from its formation in 2000 through to 2005. The tracks are listed in chronological order.Album info from Redder Records Track listing References {{Authority control 2006 albums Saturday Looks Good to Me albums ...
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American Experimental Musical Groups
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Indie Pop Groups From Michigan
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Musical Groups From Ann Arbor, Michigan
Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters * MusicAL, an Albanian television channel * Musical isomorphism, the canonical isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles See also * Lists of musicals * Music (other) * Musica (other) * Musicality Musicality (''music -al -ity'') is "sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music" or "the quality or state of being musical", and is used to refer to specific if vaguely defined qualities in pieces and/or genres of music, such as melodiousnes ...
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American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ...
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Ernest Jenning
Ernest Jenning / Ernest Jenning Record Co. is an independent record label established in 2002 in Jersey City, New Jersey. EJRC has been based out of Brooklyn, NY since 2003. The label is run by Pete D'Angelo and Gandhar Savur, and is home to artists including Versus, Built to Spill, O'Death, Wild Yaks, Bomb the Music Industry!, The Rentals, Savak, Takka Takka, Title Tracks, Still Flyin', Nonconnah, The Black Hollies, Dälek, Saturday Looks Good to Me, Chris Mills and many more In August 2015, the label announced its first artist imprint – Khannibalism – overseen by Berlin-based soul/garage artist King Khan. Discography *EJRC225 Perennial - Perennial '65 *EJRC224 SAVAK - SQUAWK! *EJRC223 Martha's Vineyard - Ferries Decorations/Context *EJRC222 Pigeon Pit - Crazy Arms *EJRC221 The Taxpayers - Circle Breaker *EJRC220 SAVAK - Child's Pose b/w Talk to Some People *EJRC219 Miranda & The Beat - Can't Take It *EJRC218 Pigeon Pit - Tour Tape 2024 *EJRC217 Animal, Surrender ...
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One Kiss Ends It All
''One Kiss Ends It All'' is the eighth album by Saturday Looks Good to Me. It was released on May 21, 2013 through Polyvinyl Records In polymer chemistry, vinyl polymers are a group of polymers derived from substituted vinyl () monomers. Their backbone is an extended alkane chain . In popular usage, "vinyl" refers only to polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Examples Vinyl polymers are .... Critical reception ''One Kiss Ends It All'' was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 71, based on 9 reviews. Track listing References {{Authority control 2013 albums Saturday Looks Good to Me albums Polyvinyl Record Co. albums ...
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Fill Up The Room
''Fill Up the Room'' is the seventh album by Michigan collective Saturday Looks Good to Me. It was released on October 23, 2007, on K Records. Track listing Personnel *Fred Thomas – vocals, guitar, melodica, piano, chamberlin, synthesizer, glockenspiel, electric bass, drum set, percussion, tapes *Scott Sellwood – vocals, melodica, piano, electric piano, harpsichord, organ, glockenspiel, percussion *Dana Carole Beck – vocals *Betty Marie Barnes – vocals *Jacob Danziger – violin *Anna Steinhoff – cello *Zach Wallace – harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica incl ..., double bass *Elliot Bergman – saxophone, organ *Juan Garcia – electric bass, hand claps, percussion *Scott DeRoche – electric bass *Steve Middlekauf – drum set, hand claps, percussio ...
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Every Night (Saturday Looks Good To Me Album)
''Every Night'' is an album by Saturday Looks Good to Me. It was released on September 14, 2004 on Polyvinyl In polymer chemistry, vinyl polymers are a group of polymers derived from substituted vinyl () monomers. Their backbone is an extended alkane chain . In popular usage, "vinyl" refers only to polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Examples Vinyl polymers are .... Track listing The LP and CD have a few songs that feature different mixes and singers. References {{Authority control 2004 albums Saturday Looks Good to Me albums ...
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Indie Pop
Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with a DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music. It originated from British post-punk in the late 1970s and subsequently generated a thriving fanzine, Independent record label, label, and club and gig circuit. Compared to its counterpart, indie rock, the genre is more melodic, less abrasive, and relatively angst-free. In later years, the definition of ''indie pop'' has bifurcated to also mean bands from unrelated DIY scenes/movements with pop leanings. Subgenres include chamber pop and twee pop. Development and characteristics Origins and etymology Both ''indie'' and ''indie pop'' had originally referred to the same thing during the late 1970s, originally abbreviations for ''Independent music, independent'' and ''Popular music, popular''. Inspired more by punk rock's DIY ethos than its style, guitar bands were formed on the then-novel prem ...
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