The Big Show: Season 2, Show #4
Some of the best rockin’ pop emanates from the Detroit, Michigan area. So, fittingly, the fourth installment of the second season of The Big Show features several tracks by artists that performed at the International Pop Overthrow festival as it wound its way to Detroit.
Ryan Allen & His Extra Arms begin the festivities with the rocking “Angela ’97” from their recently-relased album Heart String Soul, which is a shoo-in for this year’s “Best of” list. Nick Piunti checked in with “Six Bands” from his brilliant Beyond The Static, which was said to be the one “to beat” this year. Another shoo-in for this year’s “Best Of” list is The Hangabouts’ Illustrated Bird, which was released too late for consideration last year. The band’s infectious “Love Nothing” is featured in Show #4. A recent discovery, John Holk & The Sequins, contributed the immediately catchy title track from their 2010 release, If You See Her. Rounding out the Detroit IPO-ers in Show #4 was Dave Caruso, whose song “Sticks Keys & Wires” can be found on his Cardboard Vegas Roundabout long-player, which came in at Number 6 on my list of the Top Albums of 2014.
A truckload of new music is featured in Show #4, including tracks by Tenterhooks, Caddy, Love Axe, Jared Lekites, Salim Nourallah, DC Cardwell, Dr. Cosmo’s Tape Lab and Evil Arrows. The complete tracklist appears below the embed.
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Tracklist:
1. Ryan Allen & His Extra Arms, “Angela ’97”
2. Tenterhooks, “Helpless”
3. Sugarmen, “Dirt”
4. Caddy, “Wherever You Go”
5. Pseudonym, “Art School Lady”
6. Love Axe, “Such A Waste Of Time”
7. Nick Piunti, “Six Bands”
8. Jared Lekites, “Five Separate Lives”
9. The Davenports, “Five Steps ’15”
10. John Holk & The Sequins, “If You See Her”
11. The See See, “Over & Under”
12. The Weeklings, “Leave Me With My Pride”
13. Salim Nourallah/Treefort 5, “Terlingua”
14. Chase Hamblin & The Roustabouts, “Way Back”
15. DC Cardwell, “In The Cloud”
16. The Valkarys, “We Are The World”
17. Dr. Cosmo’s Tape Lab, “The Painted Birds”
18. Greater California, “Long Shadows”
19. Sloan, “Waterfalls”
20. Postcards From Jeff, “Suburban Girl”
21. Dave Caruso, “Sticks Keys & Wires”
22. PT Walkley, “Sanitarium”
23. Wilco, “She’s A Jar”
24. And The Professors, “We Are”
25. The Hangabouts, “Love Nothing”
26. Evil Arrows, “False Alarm”
27. Pernice Brothers, “Subject Drop”
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