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Bill Million (The Feelies) on The Velvet Underground

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Cut live at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City in October 2018, The Feelies Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground, is a full-throated homage to one of the indie pioneers’ foundational influences. Founding Feelie Bill Million joins us for an all-things-Velvets chat, with digressions into The Beatles, The Willies, future plans, and more.

The Feelies :: Some Kinda Love: Performing The Music Of The Velvet Underground

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The Feelies connection to the Velvet Underground goes long and deep. As gawky teenagers, Glenn Mercer and Bill Millions put VU on the same tier as the Beatles. Their jittery, drone-y, laconically delivered Crazy Rhythms sounded like no one else, except possibly the Velvets. The band covered “What Goes On” on their 1988 album Only Life, and, about the same time, got a chance to play a show with Lou Reed at the Orpheum Theatre in New York City. Reed himself once told Bill Millions that the Feelies were the only band that ever “got” the Velvet Underground.

Brenda Sauter (The Feelies, Wild Carnation) :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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After The Feelies splintered, bassist Brenda Sauter formed Wild Carnation. Tricycle, Wild Carnation’s 1994 debut, is an under-heralded classic of Garden State folk rock. Feelies fans will find plenty to love — and much more. Tricycle is getting deservedly spruced up in a remastered/expanded form by Delmore Recordings for Record Store Day this month, so Aquarium Drunkard hopped on the phone with Sauter to get the behind-the-scenes details. Like any good New Jersey saga, it features Maxwell’s, Yo La Tengo and a Sopranos cast member.

Transmissions :: Glenn Mercer (The Feelies)

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If you’re a fan of jittery guitar-driven indie rock, you’re probably most familiar with our guest today, Glenn Mercer from his work with The Feelies. While this episode of Transmissions doesn’t skimp on Feelies discussion, Mercer also discusses the diversity of his catalog, including work The Trypes, whose 40th anniversary edition of Music for Neighbors was released earlier this year, and his solo canon. Along the way: the Velvet Underground, The Dead, Peter Buck of R.E.M., his tribute works to David Bowie, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, and Marc Bolan, plus even more.

The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness :: The Third Wave Of…

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The Feelies reference only tells part of the story here. Lush and teeming with geniality, The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness deliver jangly, sun-kissed pop melodies that subsist wholly within their own sphere. Ten melodic tracks breezing in at under thirty minutes anchored by the self-proclaimed “cult group’s” signature Byrdsian guitar jangle, the album’s no-frills power pop materializes like a sort of roadmap sampler of its many aesthetic predecessors.

Aquarium Drunkard :: 2023 Year in Review

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Looking back to look ahead. It’s our Year In Review 2023. As always, our list is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.

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