“What we have here are home and field recordings of the dB’s,” says the band's Peter Holsapple. “Most of these tracks predate the release of ’Stands for deciBels’ by two to three years.“
Members of R.E.M., Yo La Tengo, The Posies, The dB's and more will be part of an "The Songs of Big Star," a "one of a kind acoustic, orchestrated" tribute concert at Brooklyn's...
Stamey is known for power pop melodies with The dB's but this was an experimental, improvisational and impressionistic instrumental album based around "a severely detuned electric guitar, on a table, that is pounded and scrapped with a railroad spike."
This will be the first time the Athens, GA post-punk band's first two albums will be available on vinyl in over 30 years. The box set includes lost studio sessions, and other unreleased material.
Just about every area of recorded music was hit by the fire, from jazz to punk to cabaret to comedy, new wave, historical speeches, metal, hip hop, you name it.