kinda stoned
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11/19/01
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Discussion Board
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Check out the new Swell Discussion Board. There is no sign-up required and it only takes a second to post your question or comment. |
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11/06/01
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Monte Vallier
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Monte Vallier (former bass player and co-producer for Swell) has been busy recording and/or playing with a plethora of bands such as Jet Black Crayon, Erik Arnaud, Caseworker (featuring Sean Kirkpatrick), remixing a Money Mark song with Tommy Guerrero for Japanese DJ Nigo and lots more. For a more complete look at his work, click here. |
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11/06/01
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Swell Concert Video
at Labels
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French web magazine Labels has made the first three songs from Swell's most recent concert in Bourges, France available for viewing using RealAudio player. |
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11/06/01
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Comes With A Smile
interview (1998)
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Looking
now at your debut alongside For All The Beautiful People, do you see a natural
progression? You know, I’ve never done that before but, yeah, it’s pretty
scary. Eight years gone, never to come back. I don’t know what the fuck’s been
going on - the last five years especially - it just keeps leading us on and on
and on and on. I don’t know whether I should jump off or not, or continue. I don’t
know read the rest of the interview here |
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11/06/01
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New Tab
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Oh
My My Someday Always Comes |
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10/16/01
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"Everybody
Wants to Know" in the CMJ Charts
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"everybody wants to know" is currently at #21 on the College Music Journal (CMJ) charts. It entered at 45 in June and as of Oct. 16 was still at 21 - that's longer than any other Swell album. Numerous radio stations across the nation and abroad have at least one of the songs from the new LP on their daily playlist. |
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10/16/01
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Copper Press Article
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Issue
six of Copper Press contains an amazing,
in-depth, eight-page feature on Swell by Eric Ianelli, replete with photos
provided by Sean Kirkpatrick. "Swell." The name is shibboleth to an indie subculture, a handful of inquisitive folks who've stumbled across an obscure band engendered in San Francisco in the late-Eighties. Beleaguered by label trouble, lack of funds, contention among its members, and a devil-may-care business ethic, the story of Swell is plotted like a spy thriller: Mysterious disappearances, radical and  unexplained
changes, adventures crisscrossing the globe, deception and sabotage. But it has
also been a Superman sort of saga, too. For over a decade,
Swell has led a double life- mild-mannered and anonymous in America, celebrated
and acclaimed in Europe. Swell, in one of its many protean shapes, is still putting
out albums. Over two thousand miles away from his former bandmates, the soft-spoken,
sardonic David Freel has popped up in Chicago and taken the band name for himself.
With the help of hired guns (Mark Signorelli, co-producer; Rey Washam, drums),
his efforts have culminated in two new releases. The first is Feed, a seven-song
EP on Beggars Banquet, which appeared in Europe in November of 2000. It was followed
in April 2001 by a full-length called Everybody Wants to Know, featuring five
of the same tracks... To obtain a copy of the whole article, please send $4 (US, $6 foreign) to: Copper Press 557 South Center Street Gaylord, Michigan 49735 |
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10/16/01
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"Too Many
Days Without Thinking" Prints for Sale
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Artist
and former Swell drummer Sean Kirkpatrick has made prints from "Too Many
Days Without Thinking" available for purchase at "real" prices.
11"x15" $75 a pop. |
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10/16/01
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Jawhn
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Jawhn (as John Dettman) played guitar with Swell once upon a time. Check out his latest musical offerings at mp3.com or visit his website - Indigetek. |
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10/16/01
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New Reviews
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Everybody
Wants To Know: Abbey Music Gravity Girl Atomic Duster Planet of Sound Big Blue Spot Drawer B junkmedia KEXP Music Emissions Outsight Pulse! ri-ra Roadkill Crud Roofdog Swizzle Stick Splendid House of Blues Organart Stormbringer Pitchfork Tangents That Which Didn't Sink thelist.ie Lexicon Audiostreet CMJ musicOMH Amazon NME |
Feed: earpollution Planet of Sound Exepose Degrees North Nigel Martin The Brock Press Eclipse Full Moon 41: Planet of Sound Too Many Days Without Thinking: Planet of Sound Mojo For All The Beautiful People: Planet of Sound In Music We Trust |
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06/05/01
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Swollen
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Swell used to publish a promotional fanzine called Swollen to accompany album releases, tours, etc. Scanned versions of two of the issues can be seen by clicking on the graphics below. If anyone knows where to locate issues #1 and #2 please contact me. #4 should be on-line someday... |
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06/05/01
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Mp3
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Get
High (remix) (American Records promo single) Reelin' in the Years (Recorded live in Brugge, Belgium - 07/10/99) You can find more live Swell mp3's at Is That Important?* *the tempo of the 1997 concert on the site has been altered and should be listened to with this in mind (probably due to the fact that Swell were "extremely drunk" that night and seemed to play a little slower than normal. if you'd like a cassette copy of the complete show in it's original tempo and innebriated state, mail me here. |
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06/05/01
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Lyrics
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feed everybody wants to know |
