Posts about Team Genius


secret garden video series February 10, 2009

Team Genius plays the Secret Garden

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I’d been wanting to film Team Genius ever since I heard their Hooray EP last year, and thanks to the band’s willingness to brave the cold, and drummer Scott Dyer’s intention to take his drum kit outdoors, the Winter season of Secret Garden’s going just swell. These guys seem to have a knack for writing songs that you sing along, clap and stomp to, so it’s only appropriate that they’ve managed to gather themselves into a unit of eight, even though of one them, Emma Firth, was missing when I went to see them at their rehearsal space in Gowanus, Brooklyn.

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songs for you bunnies January 6, 2009

The Best of the Inbox

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Where I open the treasure box of goodies that come via email. This time around, three delicate songs, one good-feel, one spunk’d.
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hooves on the turf is a mostly-music blog based out of brooklyn. i can be reached at hoovesontheturf [at] gmail [dot] com - please send me your lovely music as an attached mp3 or an mp3 link. if i like what you send, i'll be sure to ask for more.

  • Evan Hammer: and now i’m excited too! thanks for the new band.
  • Jens: Where can I order t-shirts from the Tallest Man On Earth online? Is it possible at all?
  • nat lyon: three cheers for secret garden! it’s been too long.
  • jamie: Yo! You should definitely check out this awesome video MPLS.TV just shot of Dark Dark Dark this week for City...
  • sarahana: they were taken with the new iPhone 4 using the Hipstamatic app