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| In Memoriam |
Welcome to Specialty!!!
For all bands in the beginning, the Specialty/New Music show is an indispensable part of the plan. This page features all of our current Specialty roster. You can listen with the player below, and under that read about them and click through to learn more. Enjoy!For David Vandervelde, click here.
Band of the Month (for download ONLY):
The Snowdroppers (Difrnt Music), from New South Wales, Australia. Influenced by dirt, The Snowdroppers are an old style good time family fun band, whose feel good tunes harken from a more innocent era. From the days when jitterbugging, speak easys and contracting cholera was all the rage. They tackle issues such as substance dependancy, spousal abuse, homocide and good old fashioned misogyny. We hope you enjoy - The Snowdroppers! Single, "Do The Stomp" is available through the month of July. You can learn more here.
Right-click here and select "Save Target As" to download "Do The Stomp".
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Fen (Ripple), from Vancouver, Canada. In January of 1998, in the mountain shadows of Nelson, British Columbia, a creatorship was formed between two recluses. One had long hair, strange tattoos, and rode a motorbike and played guitar. The other was a tall, pale, librarian-type figure, with a voice that as easily terrified as soothed. For more than a decade the pair has been at work, assembling songs of a dark nature, giving refuge to the melancholy, the wanting, and at times, the disturbed. Lead single, "Find The One" from new release Trails Out Of Gloom impacts July 23, 2010. You can learn more here.
Sky Parade (Custom Made Music), from Los Angeles. Intoxicated is the new release from Sky Parade. Already in regular rotation on KEXP and on Rodney on the ROQ for the past three months straight, following up no less than a Top 15 from each of their 4 releases to Specialty. Simply put, there is SOMETHING about this band. Dennis the Menace of KUSF San Francisco says of the new album, "... not only radio-ready – it’s a nugget of well-produced psycho-pop-hook-laden-genious, you can dance to." I'd have to agree. I'm proud of Sky Parade. And I know single, "I Wanna Feel Alive" will make YOU proud as well. I can't say much more, but PLEASE support them this time around. There are big things in the works. "I Wanna Feel Alive" impacts Specialty Friday, July 30. You can learn more here.