U GOTTA HEAR THIS.Byline: -- Sandra Barrera GWENDOLYN AND THE GOOD TIME GANG: "Get Up & Dance" (Whispersquish) "Are you ready to bounce, boogie, shake it and do the twist?" So begins Gwendolyn and the Good Time Gang's disc of 11 quirky, sometimes zany power-pop tunes made to do as the title says. Opening with a wallop, the new album goes from the good-time title track to the cartoonish "Run Baby Run" to the saccharine sac·cha·rine adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of sugar or saccharin; sweet. "Sweet Marmalade marmalade [Port.,=quince preparation], thick preserve of fruit pulp, originally made from quinces (marmelos) and known in England from the 15th cent. Marmalade has a jellylike consistency and a slightly bitter flavor, caused by including the rind of some tart " with amped-up kiddie kid·die or kid·dy n. pl. kid·dies Slang A small child. kiddie Noun Informal a child songs about eensy-weensy spiders, pets and bicycle rides in between. And just who is Gwendolyn, anyway? She's a 4-year-old trapped in the adult body of Silverlake-based songwriter Gwendolyn Sanford. Sanford's first hit was the children's song "Freedom of the Heart (Ooodily Ooodily)," which was featured in the film "Chuck and Buck." She's been a cult sensation ever since. Come see the band for yourself at a free in-store concert at Amoeba Music Amoeba Music is an independent music chain with stores in Berkeley, San Francisco, and Hollywood, California. It opened on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley in 1990. The stores are unusually large given their independent status. , 6400 W. Sunset Blvd Sunset BLVD is unreleased material and remixes by the rapper 2Pac. It was released on September 12, 2005 internationally and the United States. Track listing
For more information, call (323) 245-6400 or visit www.gwendolyn.net. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) no caption (GWENDOLYN AND THE GOOD TIME GANG: "Get Up & Dance") |
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