Apollo Ghosts
Apollo Ghosts
G. Washington BrownSwirlies Are Back
Preeminent Boston shoegaze/sneakyflute band Swirlies are back on active duty, and playing 3 East Coast shows in early 2009.
2/26 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
2/27 - NYC - Mercury Lounge
2/28 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East
I discovered them all those years ago only because there was a time when I bought almost anything that came out on Taang (Slapshot, anyone?).
These days, it looks like you can download pretty much all Swirlies albums for free, like They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons, which is here and What To Do About Them, which is here. It’s all kosher, I’m not sending you to Megaupload links there– the band themselves are the ones givin’ it all away.
One last thing: there’s also a Swirlies tribute album due at Archive.Org any day now. That one, too, is free.
5 Responses to “Swirlies Are Back”
PREVIOUS ENTRY: “Listless”
NEXT ENTRY: “New Releases This Week (Or, “Twitter Remains Utterly Useless”)”
December 5th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
[...] “Preeminent Boston shoegaze/sneakyflute band Swirlies are back on active duty, and playing 3 East Coast shows in early 2009.” Gnarly [Catbirdseat] [...]
December 7th, 2008 at 11:02 am
[...] Swirlies Are Back @ The Catbirdseat - Indie Music, Culture, and Commentary Holy crap! (tags: music) [...]
December 7th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
[...] titled ‘Another band of shoegazers get back together’ dated 12/7/08 Swirlies reunite. More info on Catbirdseat including [...]
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:39 pm
[...] BTW if you dig track 9, you’ll be able to catch the Swirlies are live again! [...]
March 14th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
[...] BTW if you dig track 9, you’ll be able to catch the Swirlies are live again! [...]