From the ashes of A Brief Smile: Sea Monster

From the ashes of A Brief Smile: Sea Monster

If you're one of the two people who worships CPR as the demigods that we are, you're familiar with the recently defunct A Brief Smile. A Brief Smile melted faces in New York from 2004 through 2009 but eventually, the rock lifestyle takes it's toll. Things need to change, right? You can only bang so many groupies and blow so many lines of pure crushed gold before it gets tiring. So A Brief Smile had to die. But it's okay because that means that there will probably be two or three awesome bands where before there was only one.

We already showed you what super-multi-instrumentalist-with-a-7-octave-voice/drummer Louie Glaser has been up to under his moniker Thank You Music. Now we present Sea Monster.

Sea Monster is (so far) Jared (keyboardist-who-had-like-10-different-octave-pedals) and DL (Jason-Schwartzman-doppleganger/asian-dude-from-thrice-doppleganger). Considering the fact that Cooling Pie's top secret headquarters are a mere 10 feet from Sea Monster's, we've heard surprisingly little about how these songs came about. What we can tell you is that the three songs DL and Jared recently released for free on Bandcamp are fully realized and, honestly, they sound fucking great.

For lack of a better way to put this, here's the equation we came up with for Sea Monster:

(Mellon-Collie-Era-Pumpkins) + (Strokes - Douchebaggery) / Beatles Rock Band

Does that work? Whatever, we'll shut the fuck up. Just listen to our favorite tune, Captain Trips:

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B&N Help

B&N Help

I have a one hundred dollar gift certificate to Barnes & Noble.

What should I get?

- Julian

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::CPR020::: DAY SLEEPER - WONDERLAND KID (EP)

::CPR020::: DAY SLEEPER - WONDERLAND KID (EP)

© 2009 day sleeper. cover image by daniel obzejta.
tracks one, two and four recorded at the WERS live performance studio, august 2009; engineered by jared detsikas, mike mastrangelo, & mike moschetto; mixed/mastered by mike moschetto at WERS production.
track three recorded at the vivacious int’l recording complex & pancake house; recorded/mixed by cas kaplan & justin danforth.
track five recorded at tt the bear’s place, cambridge, ma june 24th, 2009.
all songs by day sleeper.

Well look who's back with a lil EP! It's The Daysleepers, more commonly and correctly known as Day Sleeper. The first time we heard from these guys, we were just putting out their full length Drop Your Sword as CPR006. That album showed promise but the real coming out party happened with Day Sleeper's contribution to CPR's first compilation Crust Never Sleeps. Have I lost you yet? No? Good, because with their newest release Wonderland Kid, Day Sleeper delivers.

The "single" here is Windows Left Open and that's a good thing since it's probably my favorite. You can download it above, the rest of the songs you can only stream (for now). Apparently, the album was mostly recorded at WERS in Boston. I had no idea they had a nice studio there, but damn these songs sound great. I'm also partial to the first track "Wait Stay".

We're up to CPR020 and we couldn't be more proud to have this gem as our twentieth release. We'll get back to you with more news about possibly Day Sleeper shows in New York and elsewhere as soon as we know.

Download Wonderland Kid on iTunes
Email Day Sleeper to get the correct mp3s if you buy it. Apparently the iTunes mp3s are corrupt. Email them!

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:::CPR019::: AVA LUNA - SERVICES

:::CPR019::: AVA LUNA - SERVICES

Well, don't ever fault us for being a little late. This is Ava Luna's newest release and it's probably their most assured yet. They've been getting a lot of good press lately and the Village Voice has taken notice so it's probably just a matter of time before they get too big for our lil operation over here. As it stands, we present you the album. If you'd like to order a screenprinted CD-R copy, please email coolingpierecords@gmail.com and we'll get one to you. Enjoy!

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Empire State of Mind Makes No Sense

Empire State of Mind Makes No Sense

Help me out here people:

Jay-Z's single "Empire State of Mind" featuring Alicia Keys is undeniably a fantastic fucking song. I've been hearing it all over Z100 for the last couple of days and it makes my day, every day, multiple times per day. However, there's one thing that really bugs me about Alicia Keys' part. Justin and Sarah and I walked from 14th st. to Morningside Heights last night and we spent a good portion of that time discussing this.

The chorus lyric is "Concrete jungle where dreams are made of" repeatedly. This doesn't make any grammatical sense. Think about it. We can agree that "concrete jungle" = New York. So plugging New York in instead, we get, "New York where dreams are made of". We can furthermore assume that since she's a Columbia University dropout, she understands the how colons work. So let's say she meant "New York: Where dreams are made of". That is wrong. It should be "where dreams are made." I briefly convinced myself I was hearing "where dreams are made up" but I checked it and that's not what she's saying.

Alicia is definitely wrong here. Someone needs to tell her.

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:::CP018::: VAN GUMBY - SHE HAS ARRIVED (EP)

:::CP018::: VAN GUMBY - SHE HAS ARRIVED (EP)

"Their best work yet. Who is Van Gumby?" - Cooling Pie Records
"Reminiscent of Bruce Springsteen mixed with Led Zeppelin and Rush" - Rolling Stone
"0.0" - Pitchfork
"tOo CoOl" - tennisgurl478
"I told you I hate bratwurst!" - Bob Dylan

Recorded in the fall and winter months of 2009. All songs by Spencer Tricker, except "Seasons Go," by Shomik Chakrabarti and Spencer Tricker.

Van Gumby:
Flip - guitars
Asa - vocals and guitars
Mahoney - bass, guitars, and vocals
Uncle Nick - the drums

Unending love and gratitude to friends and family

Dedicated to Lobing Samson (1913-2008) and to Romance

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Xmas Celebration!

Xmas Celebration!

Yo! Merry Xmas from CPR! We got a little present for everyone out there: Sadie of kc quilty recorded a cover of Weezer's "Christmas Celebration" in her basement and sent it to me and I'm putting it up here in honor of the holiday that I don't technically celebrate since I'm a Jew. Still, I'm finally learning to get into the spirit so here's her cover, literally five minutes after it was recorded:

Sadie Dupuis - Christmas Celebration (Weezer Cover) by coolingpierecords

Damn, if that don't get the blood flowing, then I don't know what will. Maybe some eggnog? Maybe a sexy santa?



I thought so...


Merry XMAS!

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Dopplegangers of the Day

Dopplegangers of the Day

They're both pretty ugtastic, no?

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::: CP017 ::: KC QUILTY / POCKETKNIFE - SIIYA/BUY BACK THE BOAT 7"

::: CP017 ::: KC QUILTY / POCKETKNIFE - SIIYA/BUY BACK THE BOAT 7"

Hey kiddos...our new site is taking a bit longer to get up than I had hoped. Still, nobody can stop our furious flow of releases. So here with are with CPR's inaugural 7". kc quilty + pocketknife split this one...kc quilty's "Siiya" is going to be on their upcoming full length Clover/Coriander, out January 22nd. You might recognize Pocketknife's "Buy Back The Boat" from our own Crust Never Sleeps compilation. Now you can hear it again...on vinyl! I personally recommend you go buy the record and then play both songs at 33rpm. Everything's so slow...sooo sloooow..."Siiya" turns into smeary sludge metal and "Buy Back The Boat" sounds like smoking a shitload of opium and listening to Radiohead...or something. Anyways, that oughta pique your interest, right? You gotta get this thing.

SIIYA:

BUY BACK THE BOAT:


Download the single for free on a certain breakfast food themed site...


kc quilty site
Pocketknife site

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week 1: tuesday dec 8th

week 1: tuesday dec 8th

i'm going to listen to all of rolling stone's top 500 albums in the next 5 weeks. i'm aiming for 100 albums a week. i've heard most of these and know a lot of them, so i'm starting with things i know well/haven't enjoyed in the past. i also started from 1 and am working towards 500, because i assume that the higher numbers will be somewhat more obscure and require more attention from a first-time listener.


1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
3. Revolver, The Beatles
4. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
5. Rubber Soul, The Beatles
6. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
7. Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones
8. London Calling, The Clash
9. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
10. The Beatles ("The White Album"), The Beatles
11. The Sun Sessions, Elvis Presley
12. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
13. Velvet Underground and Nico, The Velvet Underground
14. Abbey Road, The Beatles
15. Are You Experienced?, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
16. Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan
17. Nevermind, Nirvana
18. Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
19. Astral Weeks, Van Morrison
20. Thriller, Michael Jackson
21. The Great Twenty-Eight, Chuck Berry
22. Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon
23. Innervisions, Stevie Wonder
24. Live at the Apollo (1963), James Brown
25. Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
26. The Joshua Tree, U2
27. King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. 1, Robert Johnson
28. Who's Next, The Who
29. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin
30. Blue, Joni Mitchell
31. Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan
32. Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones
33. Ramones, Ramones
34. Music From Big Pink, The Band
35. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, David Bowie
36. Tapestry, Carole King
37. Hotel California, The Eagles
38. The Anthology, 1947 - 1972, Muddy Waters
39. Please Please Me, The Beatles
40. Forever Changes, Love
41. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols
42. The Doors, The Doors
43. The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
44. Horses, Patti Smith
45. The Band, The Band
46. Legend, Bob Marley and the Wailers
47. A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
48. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy
49. At Fillmore East, The Allman Brothers Band
50. Here's Little Richard, Little Richard
51. Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel
52. Greatest Hits, Al Green
53. The Birth of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm and Blues Recordings, 1952 - 1959, Ray Charles
54. Electric Ladyland, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
55. Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley
56. Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder
57. Beggars Banquet, The Rolling Stones
58. Trout Mask Replica, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
59. Meet the Beatles, The Beatles
60. Greatest Hits, Sly and the Family Stone
61. Appetite for Destruction, Guns n' Roses
62. Achtung Baby, U2
63. Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones
64. Phil Spector, Back to Mono (1958 - 1969), Various Artists
65. Moondance, Van Morrison
66. Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin
67. The Stranger, Billy Joel
68. Off the Wall, Michael Jackson
69. Superfly, Curtis Mayfield
70. Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin
71. After the Gold Rush, Neil Young
72. Purple Rain, Prince
73. Back in Black, AC/DC
74. Otis Blue, Otis Redding
75. Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin
76. Imagine, John Lennon
77. The Clash, The Clash
78. Harvest, Neil Young
79. Star Time, James Brown
80. Odessey and Oracle, The Zombies
81. Graceland, Paul Simon
82. Axis: Bold as Love, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
83. I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, Aretha Franklin
84. Lady Soul, Aretha Franklin
85. Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen
86. Let It Be, The Beatles
87. The Wall, Pink Floyd
88. At Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash
89. Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield
90. Talking Book, Stevie Wonder
91. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
92. 20 Golden Greats, Buddy Holly
93. Sign 'o' the Times, Prince
94. Bitches Brew, Miles Davis
95. Green River, Creedence Clearwater Revival
96. Tommy, The Who
97. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
98. This Year's Model, Elvis Costello
99. There's a Riot Goin' On, Sly and the Family Stone
100. In the Wee Small Hours, Frank Sinatra

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