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My most excellently brilliant musician friend Kelley Stoltz, who has spent the last four or six or eight years of his life making music in his room on an eight track, is now officially signed to Sub Pop records.
Sub Pop, perhaps best known as the label that launched Nirvana, is home to a bunch of great bands, inluding Low, Sleater-Kinney, the Shins and San Francisco-based Rogue Wave.
Kelley is a sonic genius, a brilliant song writer and a perfectionist who has long worked without recognition. He put out his last album, Antique Glow, as a self-release on vinyl only.
After a couple of years of handing them out and selling them in hand painted covers, he got a local label, Jackpine Social Club, to put it out on CD in the States. The album was also released in Australia and the UK, where Stoltz is much better known than he is here.
In fact, as I've mentioned here before, England's best music magazine, MOJO, profiled him last fall and named his album one of the top 40 albums of 2004. There's also this nice SF Weekly piece from 2003.
Try this little rockin' number, this psychedelic one and some other free mp3s here (especially good to click if you love Echo and the Bunnymen) (hint: headphones are a must to catch his 8 track brilliance).
Look for his new record in September or October.
The boy ain't no joke and its really quite nice to see the world finally coming around to appreciate such a kind and talented guy.
Posted by Ryan Singel at April 6, 2005 11:44 PM
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hi ryan...have to agree that stoltz is a good singer --- i sometimes think his lyrics are a bit obtuse with no real plot, but alas nobody writes em like neil diamond, carol king, paul simon etc anymore i.e. "story-songs" but thats cool if its his thing. Thanks for the tip!
Posted by: kent biggenbottom at May 23, 2005 01:03 PM