Tiger Trap - C/D?

I love TT so much but I am surprised I never got into her other groups. I would prob dig them.

Sour Grass off the 10-inch was my jam in college

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0voDonqtBVY

about half of my favorite Melburg songs are on the Softies' Winter Pageant, but yeah "Sour Grass" is my #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKepe2tAm1E

sometimes this one feels like a novelty, but other times it really hits

The Softies were fantastic. I probably like them more than Tiger Trap, but only because TT only released one album.

I'm pretty sure Brave Irene is already a done deal. I most recently saw Rose playing bass in a quite boring Vancouver indie band called Bleating Hearts.

I've been waiting for ilx to come back online to post this. It's a nice article about Rose from a Vancouver-centric blog which rounds up various folks' opinions of her.

Nice. Meanwhile guess who finally actually GOT the Tiger Trap album for the first time after all these years -- and only a dollar via Amoeba clearance in SF.

That's a good one dollar disc that one. I don't have it myself any more - it was in a box of "all good stuff" cassettes I gave to a friend a few years back.

I saw the Bleating Hearts and really enjoyed it. Rose is the Kim Deal of the band. Plays bass, does significant backing vocals and takes the lead now and again but is not the band leader. They are indie and have a horn section.

Recently saw Rose in another great new band called "Puppies" but I think they are now called "Pups". It's Rose on drums/singing with two girls about half her age on guitar and bass/singing. Very much more in a Tiger Trap vein than the previous and very enjoyable.

I feel like the Rose street-team here but I'm truly not. But it does feel like she has been playing so much recently - solo, and in at least 3 or 4 bands - that she's reaching some kind of peak as a musician and a performer. Anyway...Pups are playing tomorrow night in Vancouver (@ Pats) if there are any local ilxors jonesing for that kind of thing. As I mentioned above, they are very good and worthy of her legacy! Plus two other all-women bands who are pretty popular here so it oughta be a good scene.

New EP out this Friday. I think the tags say it all: #Vancouver #jangle #jingle #dreampop #Rose
https://soundcloud.com/#greenburritorecords/pups-pop-song

THIS IS SO GOOD. So weird and good!

Right on! Phew, I was begining to feel lonely on this thread. I'm not sure if this release will make much of a splash. The label seems like a shoestring operation and as I mentioned upthread a couple of years ago, this scene continues to be rigorously low-key which is to me irritating. The Pups show I saw a while back was in a room behind a shop. The other time was in someone's garage. That one was great. Anyway, it's a split with another local all-girl band, Movieland who are superb fun. Finally saw them a couple weeks back in a real venue with proper amps and lights and things and it was raging.

i like that

Caught Rose playing in a duo called Imaginary Pants. Usual story - I had no idea this band existed and was just randomly checking out one of those multi-band local shows having no idea what most of it was about. Saw her in the audience and think "oh that's nice she's here supporting the youngsters" then shortly after she's getting up on stage and hammering out 20 mins of what is generally termed "blistering indie-pop". A lovely surprise. She's singing and mostly on drums (she's good!) and there's a feller on guitar and a little keyboard who does harmonies. They have a tape out which doesn't quite do them justice IMHO - not as forceful as they are live. They're doing some dates in California next week. http://imaginarypants.bandcamp.com/

ooh

https://februaryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/constant-and-true-a-tribute-to-the-songs-of-rose-melberg

also, rose's newish band knife pleats is a+

https://knifepleats.bandcamp.com/

I think Winter Pageant was her peak

knife pleats are so good!

here's a 1993 show at the middle east:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYzxGN3SSNA

Awesome! Loved when Rose made appearances at Chickfactor a few years ago.