Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: "Middle America"
"We're an indie-vaudeville-conceptual-art-rock-slideshow band," says singer/songwriter Jason Trachtenburg. "Weve got the market cornered. Theres no band that can hold a candle to us. In that department."
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players make fun, striped down indie pop, but are different than just about every other indie pop band you've heard, for a few reasons. The first reason is that they really are a family: dad Jason, mom Tina Piña, and 12-year-old daughter Rachel. The second reason being that all the songs carefully rhyming lyrics come from the vintage slide collections they've found at estate or garage sales that accompany their performances. I imagine if you've read all of that, then you are probably seeing big neon lights flashing "gimmick" for miles, but I wouldn't be taking the time to write this post if I thought they were just some gimmick, their songs are actually quite good.
[MP3]: Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players :: Middle America
This song starts out with kick and crash, churning guitar and organ that makes you feel like you just got dropped into some club in 1960's London blasting the hottest new psych pop on the block. Also, is it just me or is that call-and-response "sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes" much more catchy and fascinating than it should be?
BONUS [MP3]: Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players :: Eggs
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players on MySpace
In addition to his stellar Bonnaroo recap, Matt has also posted a new Viva Voce song with f**k in the title. All this fame and fortune is driving his mind right into the gutter, it's so very sad :(
Only a few more days left to enter The Fabulist's big mother of a contest with prizes ranging from limited edition vinyls to plush stuffed dolls. Enter here and check out the rest of the swell prizes.
Stumble It!
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players make fun, striped down indie pop, but are different than just about every other indie pop band you've heard, for a few reasons. The first reason is that they really are a family: dad Jason, mom Tina Piña, and 12-year-old daughter Rachel. The second reason being that all the songs carefully rhyming lyrics come from the vintage slide collections they've found at estate or garage sales that accompany their performances. I imagine if you've read all of that, then you are probably seeing big neon lights flashing "gimmick" for miles, but I wouldn't be taking the time to write this post if I thought they were just some gimmick, their songs are actually quite good.
[MP3]: Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players :: Middle America
This song starts out with kick and crash, churning guitar and organ that makes you feel like you just got dropped into some club in 1960's London blasting the hottest new psych pop on the block. Also, is it just me or is that call-and-response "sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes" much more catchy and fascinating than it should be?
BONUS [MP3]: Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players :: Eggs
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players on MySpace
In addition to his stellar Bonnaroo recap, Matt has also posted a new Viva Voce song with f**k in the title. All this fame and fortune is driving his mind right into the gutter, it's so very sad :(
Only a few more days left to enter The Fabulist's big mother of a contest with prizes ranging from limited edition vinyls to plush stuffed dolls. Enter here and check out the rest of the swell prizes.
Stumble It!
posted by Matt at 9:02 AM
2 Comments:
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players came to my university about three years ago. It's was entertaining, but I liked the pictures the best.
the name Jason Trachtenburg rang a bell so I googled him and came up with this:
http://www.orangerecordings.com/jasontrachtenburg.html
his fmaily band was on Conan in 2003 and he seems to have been in a major spat with Don Yates of KEXP as well
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