New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Green Light Go Entertainment) Golden Bloom will help reenact the history of American indie underground music when they play as Dinosaur Jr. as part of Philadelphia F/M's Our Band Could Be Your Life show. The event, featuring twelve indie bands performing as key players in the indie underground, will take place on Friday,
September 23rd at Bookspace. The show is based on the book "Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991" by Michael Azerrad which records the careers of highly influential indie and alternative bands of the period. Azerrad played drums with Golden Bloom's live band for several years. Golden Bloom will be joined by: House Bat (as Sonic Youth), Metroplex (as Fugazi), Taggart (as Mission of Burma),
Ghosts in the Valley (as The Minutemen), Faux Slang (as Husker Du), Howling Fantods (as Mudhoney), Yeah Clementines (as The Replacements), The Successful Failures (as Beat Happening), The Silence Kit (as Minor Threat), Halo of Snakes (as
Black Flag), and Charlotte's Funeral (as Big Black).
They say to write what you know. What better topic for Fogel to tackle than the power of music in his life? On his latest EP, March to the Drums, due out August 23, the songs have more personal lyrics, many of which deal with the life of a musician. Fogel also took a different approach to creating the new songs on March to the Drums, starting with the music rather than the lyrics. "I ended up having everything pretty much recorded instrumentally before any lyrics had even been written," says Fogel. "This gave me the ability to hear each song as an instrumental and make sure that the arrangements were interesting enough to stand on their own without and words, and then figure out how to make the vocals enhance the song even further." The result is six tracks, all musically related with interludes and variations tying the whole together.
March to the Drums is the follow up to Golden Bloom's Fan the Flames (2009); which was compared favorably to Summerteeth-era Wilco, The New Pornographers, and Big Star and loved by critics and fans alike. On this new EP, Fogel has worked with long-time studio counterpart Ryan Ball as well as in-demand producer Peter Katis (Frightened Rabbit, The National, Interpol and Tokyo Police Club) again.
