Daily Jam - Missing Link

Always a good time for some Curve.  Here's a cut from their 1993 album "Cuckoo."  Listen to "Missing Link" below, our Daily Jam.

SPC ECO

Electronic and shoegaze-tinged duo SPC ECO, the project of Curve's Dean Garcia and daughter Rose Berlin release new music with a frequency you can set your watch to.  Their latest is new album "Phased."  Check out the dark alt-rock of album opener "Up All Night" below and download the whole thing here from the band.

Daily Jam - Today Is Not the Day

Gonna start my Wednesday out with a chilled out B-side from the very underrated shoegaze band Curve.  Check out "Today Is Not the Day" below, our Daily Jam.

SPC ECO

SPC ECO, the prolific and dreamy, shoegaze and industrial-tinged electro-pop project of Curve's Dean Garcia and daughter Rose Berlin, just dropped new album "Broken" for our listening pleasure.  Listen to "Be Your Favourite" below an download the whole thing here.

SPC ECO

Bandcamp Friday was yesterday.  Hopefully you all bought some music from your favorite artists.  Here's a couple of new tracks from SPC ECO that should make your list next time...or now, whatever.  Listen to "Watch Me Fall" below and get it along with "Lights Out" here from the band.

SPC ECO

Here's a lovely, spacey track released at the end of last year by the ever prolific SPC ECO, the project of Curve's Dean Garcia and his daughter Rose Berlin.  Listen to "Stay Awake" below and download it here.

Daily Jam - Pink Girl with the Blues

Every May, I find myself jotting down a list of things to do during the summer: trips, activities, adventures, fun stuff. And every year I fail miserably, generally only doing a handful of things on my “No Bummer Summer” crusade. But that’s okay. Things aren’t the way they used to be. I have responsibilities now, a job and children, and I certainly can’t spend my late summer evenings getting hammered or hazy like I used to. The alarm just goes off too early every morning. But in my more energetic moments, or in the blissful fog of nostalgia, I still miss those summers.

Yeah, this is a flashback essay.

In the summer of 1998, I was back in Midland at my parents’ house following a fairly lackluster freshman year of college, educationally speaking at least. It turned out that newfound freedom combined with copious amounts of drugs and alcohol was not a good recipe for my grade point average, so I was back home, working a warehouse job for a petroleum company, taking summer classes at the local junior college, saving money, and working my way back into my mother’s good graces. I was also nursing a broken heart…with copious amounts of drugs and alcohol.

But broken hearts and miffed mothers aside, that was one of my best summers ever. My free time was filled with friends (also home/trapped for the summer) and parties and music, music, music. I’d end up at used CD stores once or twice a week scoring all manner of wonderful noise, discovering new tunes as well as padding back catalogs. Booze was plentiful and endless, though I don’t remember how as none of us was 21 yet. And nights were spent chugging beers at house parties, smoking cigarettes in backyards, and hanging out in dirty pool halls. It was wonderful. The dozen of us that were home that summer bonded into a whole and loving unit, a kind of which I doubt I’ll ever experience again, forever in my heart.

And one weekend, my buddy and I drove to Dallas to catch Curve and The Dandy Warhols perform at some hot and humid club downtown. The show was good, but uneventful, the rest of that weekend spent with my soon-to-be college roommate bumming around the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area, getting myself evened out. I remember the road trips, the diners and cafes, playing FIFA ’98 on the Playstation, and again the music, music, music. Curve was a big part of that summer’s soundtrack, and their ’96 single “Pink Girl with the Blues,” a pre-party staple to fire us all up.

There’s really not too much I miss about being a teenager (bone thin Tommy!), but that summer of 1998 has since become the standard by which I judge all other summers. May this next one prove to be as lovely.

Listen below, our Daily Jam.

SPC ECO

Former Curve member Dean Garcia has continued making music with his daughter Rose Berlin as SPC ECO for several years now, and the duo are pretty prolific, releasing all manner of dark and moody alt-rock, shoegaze, electronic pop, and more.  Their latest is the new "How Did We Get Here?"  Check out "Trashes" below and download the album here from the band.

Daily Jam - 10 Little Girls

Having a difficult time getting myself moving this morning.  Maybe Curve can get some blood pumping to my extremities.  Here's "10 Little Girls," our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Bloodline

During the band's heyday of the late '80s and early '90s, former Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder released some cool experimental, ambient, and electronic music as Recoil.  I'm partial to 1991's "Bloodline" myself.  Check out the title track below, featuring Curve's Toni Halliday on vocals, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - No Escape from Heaven

This week is going to continue to be a pain in the ass.  I can feel it.  But enough about me, here's Curve with "No Escape from Heaven," our Daily Jam.

SPC ECO

Here's a trippy new single from SPC ECO, the project of former Curve member Dean Garcia and his daughter Rose Berlin.  "When It Calls" gives off some real Massive Attack vibes, a slinky, smoky mix of trip-hop, dreampop, and groove.  Check it out below and get it here.

Daily Jam - Horror Head

Seeing that the last few years brought us a new album from My Bloody Valentine, and then reunion music from the likes of Slowdive, Ride, and Lush, isn't it about time we get some new music from Curve?  I think it is.  Anyway, here's some Curve to tide us all over.  Listen to "Horror Head" below, our Daily Jam.