Nixon’s Head

Philadelphia garage-poppers Nixon’s Mind wear their affects (Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, XTC, and both Nuggets containers) on the sleeves, but their new wave-inflected jangle pop remains free from the slavish revivalism that plagues similar rings. They’re not really pretending to end up being the 1976 Flamin’ Groovies (who themselves had been pretending to end up being the 1965 Beatles), quite simply. Nixon’s Head produced in 1985, when senior high school buddies Andy Rosenau (vocals), Jim Slade (principal songwriter and business lead guitarist), Mike Frank (electric guitar), Michael Fingeroff (bass), and Seth Baer (drums) produced the nonsensically-named group motivated by various other Philly post-post-punk indie rings like the Deceased Milkmen as well as the Electric powered Like Muffin, but keeping an avowed like for ’60s pop that established them aside. The group released their initial EP, The Doug Aspect, in 1986, and its own follow-up, Traps, Buckshot and Pelts, in 1988, however the normal difficulties of lifestyle over the indie circuit triggered the group to splinter. Rosenau was the first ever to leave, where the group briefly transformed its name to Frankenslade and documented an unreleased psych-pop record comparable to XTC’s British Negotiation period. By enough time from the 1991 one “THE BRAND NEW Globe Over,” Nixon’s Mind were forget about. Baer joined the initial Sins, while Slade and his wife transferred to Hungary. Normally, that might be that, but unexpectedly, Nixon’s Mind re-formed in 1997, with Fingeroff changed by John Popovics and Frank’s wife Dorothy Haug signing up for as organist and second business lead singer. 1998’s Premium was their initial full-length release, using the band’s brand-new wave and United kingdom Invasion-era influences staying intact. The better still and slightly even more ’60s-sense follow-up, Consider It!, arrived in 2000.