Various ‎– Teen Expo: The Cleopatra Label

Various ‎– Teen Expo: The Cleopatra Label2LP, Compilation Numero Group (2018) US From a basement in New Jersey, Tommy Falcone remade himself into a DIY Phil Spector. From 1962 to 1970, he founded and ran Cleopatra Records, discovered and mentored young Garden State talent, wrote songs and produced wild studio effects, and quit his day job to promote it all himself. Trained as an accordionist, Falcone had a whirlwind imagination and an omnivorous approach to genre, expressed through acts like

Built to Spill and Imperial Teen to name but a few

lush aesthetic of their critically acclaimed second album

"Their sound is not unlike a fast drill on a rear molar

As the Love Continues

But this is what God is telling me to do – move and groove

Merge Records (2020) US & CA

" Trompe Le Monde showed the band still restless to push their sound forward

The National arrived two years after The National formed

a period of five years

But soon enough he found his way in front of a rowdy rock-n-roll band belting out a rambunctious rendition of “Dock Of The Bay

The breadth of Van Etten’s new passions have inflected Remind Me Tomorrow with a wise

It’s an organic