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	The Pulsars
		Herb Alpert, co-owner of their record label (Almo Sounds) who happened to be working in the studio next door to the Trumfios.
		Almo obviously had to take a chance on the Pulsars by signing them in the first place.
		But Almo Sounds did little to nothing to promote this wonderful little band (a fact corroborated by people who worked there).
	crapple.iwarp.com /music/pulsars.html (2857 words)

	Pulsars geek rock digitally perfected
		Talks with paper tongues / he laughs at funny sounds / T-9000, I adore you, sings Dave, but he soon wants to know if his friend will always be ready to perform every time he's plugged in.
		Later, he's the kid who was picked on in school and runs home to find solace in his computer.
		But it somehow sounds totally today, which probably has something to do with all this talk of electronic music taking over.
	www.usc.edu /dept/DT/V130/N61/01-pulsars.61d.html (597 words)

	Herb Alpert
		Herb layered horn parts to spice the arrangement into an inspired quasi-Mariachi meld and Jerry tagged Herb's unique and infectious sound, "The Tijuana Brass featuring Herb Alpert." The song was re-named "The Lonely Bull," and in the summer of 1962 it was ready for release.
		Almo Sounds is located in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville and London.
		Herb Alpert's first Almo Sounds album, "Second Wind," was released in April, 1996 and "Passion Dance" in 1997.
	www.smooth-jazz.de /Artists1/Alpert.html (4484 words)

	NME.COM - News - SHIRLEY SOME MISTAKE? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The suit claims that when Garbage originally inked their deal with Almo Sounds in 1994 their contract included a "key man clause" which would allow the band to leave if Almo chairman, Jerry Moss, left the label he co-founded with Herb Alpert.
		Garbage claim in the lawsuit that UMG has acquired Almo Sounds and Moss has retired, and allege that UMG are denying Moss' departure from his position at the label.
		Additionally Garbage claim UMG has indicated they have a hold over the outfit to remain recording on one of their imprints due to a contract frontwoman Shirley Manson signed in the early 90s with Radioactive records while she was part of Angelfish unless they take on a new contract with a UMG label.
	www.nme.com /news/15262.htm (336 words)

	Article - Music Week (Frou Frou)
		Following the demise of Almo Sounds earlier this year, Heap began looking for producers for her new project.
		There will be a lot of familiar sounds on the album -- pianos and strings -- to make it more familiar to the listener.
		I don't want to be restricted as to what sounds we use because an audience expects a perfect reproduction when played live.
	www.funkyrebel.com /imogen/reviews/MWeek.htm (410 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Pulsars
		Of all those revivalists to channel that retro sound for its kitsch value (e.g., Man or Astroman?, Denim, the pre-emptive Silicon Teens), none has done so with as much relish or effect as Pulsars, the short-lived but profoundly great group of Chicago studio rat Dave Trumfio and his drum-playing brother Harry.
		Historically self-aware enough to have a song explicitly about the Silicon Teens, Pulsars had a diabolically clever handle on pop craft in debt to the dinky bounce and analog artificiality of the first flush of synthesized dance music.
		The album is one of the singular musical accomplishments of the ‘90s — with its combination of indelible melodies and seemingly pre-mature bedroom vulnerability and obsessions, it’s a science fair version of Pet Sounds for the computer age.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=pulsars (383 words)

	the scam: Pulsars - selftitled
		Judging by the sounds produced on this self-title album, the robot most certainly did come out to play.
		For those who cringe when the eighties are mentioned, it's worth noting that what the Pulsars do is messed up and textural in a way that circumvents the sometimes pristine inaccessibility of the saturated production synonymous with an eighties sound.
		Live drums and pulsing, sequence bass are overlaid with a muti-tracked keyboarding of sustained notes and melodic noodles woven into a solid mass.
	www.renewal.org.au /scam/pulsars.html (228 words)

	Brother duo keeps on the pulse of music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dave Trumfio, vocalist of the quirky and incredibly catchy pop band Pulsars, is one of the single most important people to make the Chicago music scene one that is now watched with a magnifying glass by every major label.
		A few years ago, Trumfio opened his own recording studio, Kingsize Sound Laboratories, where he produced and recorded with the Mekons, Waco Brothers, Yum Yum, Sabalon Glitz, Sea and Cake, Number One Cup and practically any band from the Chicago area that is worth listening to.
		It wasn't long before Almo Sounds, a division of Geffen, noticed the band and snatched Pulsars up for a mere million.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V130/N50/02-brother.50d.html (526 words)

	REVIEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Almo Sounds' entrant into the Lilith-ready race for the most melodic, Tori Amos-influenced female vocalist race is a striking nineteen-year-old named Imogen Heap, already a star in her native Australia.
		The other end of that spectrum is the unadorned piano ballads that dot the second half of the album.
		These come much closer to Heap's true style and what her real voice must sound like, even if they end up sounding like various rough drafts of Tori Amos' "Leather".
	www.westnet.com /consumable/1998/09.28/reviheap.html (384 words)

	City Pulse at Lansing.com
		Gillian Welch released two superb albums for Almo Sounds (the label formed by former A&M prexys Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss), in which she made herself sound like the lost member of the Carter Family appeared in Los Angeles.
		Her songwriting ventures into new and fascinating areas: She takes the age-old sound of guitar and banjo and attaches lyrics that deal with the here and now as often as the distant past.
		After 1999's misguided attempt at pseudo-jazz, "Avenue B," Iggy Pop, Michigan's greatest natural rock and roll resource, is sounding loud and angry again, and that's good news, but he's rarely sounded as silly doing it as he does on his latest.
	www.lansingcitypulse.com /010829/music/rock.html (521 words)

	groovevolt.com \| get into the groove.
		The band had a clause in its initial contract that allow the band an out if Almo Sounds' chairman, Jerry Moss, were ever to leave the label.
		(The band's first two albums were released by Almo Sounds.) Universal and Almo denied that Moss had left the label, and UMG claimed that it can force Garbage to record for one of its own contracted labels.
		They also attempted enforced a seven-year-old contract in which Garbage singer Shirley Manson was under at Radioactive Records for her work with Angelfish.
	www.groovevolt.com /features/garbage_2.htm (335 words)

	Victor DeLorenzo
		With his ingenious solo album, "Pancake Day" (Almo Sounds), the shoe is on the other foot.
		Far be it for DeLorenzo to compare himself to Brian Wilson, but he does identify with the Beach Boys legend and considers "Pancake Day" his own "Pet Sounds." In "Picture Her Blue," he even uses Wilson as a metaphor for self-doubt.
		It was manager-lawyer Peter J. Strand who convinced DeLorenzo to test the label waters with "Pancake Day." Three songs into the demo tape, a stunned Howard Thompson of Almo Sounds called Strand, and when label heads Alpert and Jerry Moss (formerly known as A&M) also expressed interest, the wheels began to spin.
	www.pauseandplay.com /delorenzo.htm (910 words)

	Music: Shirley's Temple (The Boston Phoenix . 05-11-98)
		Garbage may have started as the brainchild of Nevermind producer Butch Vig, the drummer-turned-studio-wiz who made grunge possible by sharpening up the hooks in "Smells like Teen Spirit." It was Vig's band because he was the sole known quantity when Garbage (Almo Sounds) hit the charts in 1995.
		But that lasted only as long as it took for folks to notice Manson, the Scottish singer who's built like PJ Harvey and who'd previously been wasting her time not being sweet enough in a band called Silver Fish.
		Now Garbage are Manson's band, and Vig, though still nominally the drummer (he plays 'em live, but most of the rhythm tracks sound looped and processed on the disc), is back to doing what he does best -- producing.
	weeklywire.com /ww/05-11-98/boston_music_4.html (472 words)

	Gram Parsons Tribute Album
		Almo Sounds artist Gillian Welch, who performs "Hickory Wind" on the tribute album with partner Dave Rawlings, sees the pervasive impact of Parsons in her work and that of others.
		"Return Of The Grievous Angel" was co-executive produced by Almo Sounds GM Paul Kremen and Emmylou Harris, who first rose to prominence as Parsons' vocal partner on his solo works "GP" (1973) and "Grievous Angel" (1974).
		Kremen says that after he joined Almo Sounds -- whose founders, Jerry Moss and Herb Alpert, had released Parsons' albums with the Burrito Brothers -- he "realized that half of Gram's publishing catalog lived at the Rondor publishing affiliate that Jerry and Herb owned...
	www.emmylou.net /gramnews.html (1058 words)

	Gram Parsons
		He called it Cosmic American Music, and the fact that the term fits this batch of interpretations as well as it fit the original recordings is a testament to the enduring quality of the songs themselves.
		The A&R department of Almo Sounds, which came up with the premise for this collection, felt the only way to make the definitive Gram Parsons tribute album was to convince Harris, Parsons' last and most supportive partner, to put it together; they were right, as this album so emphatically demonstrates.
		This bold sound framed a batch of marvelous songs: among them, the archetypal "Sin City," faithfully recreated here by the surprisingly well-matched team of Emmylou and postmodernist visionary Beck Hanson (in his Beck-to-basics mode, so to speak), and the dangerously tearful "Juanita, " carressingly presented by Harris and the soulfully virtuosic Sheryl Crow.
	www.furious.com /perfect/gramparsons/budscoppa.html (1514 words)

	SALON reviews: Gillian Welch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But after a few listenings, rich layers of bluegrass, folk, blues and rock unfold, to reveal songs so delicately chiseled and refined they prove to be only distant cousins of mainstream country's stylized sounds.
		Rawlings' angelic harmonies flesh out "By the Mark," an aching psalm of deliverance ("I will know my savior when I come to him/By the mark where the nails have been"); the exquisite "Only One and Only" is a sober love song, with a sleepy, acoustic guitar that saunters alongside Welch's luminous vocals.
		Welch's recording label, Almo Sounds, is honoring Welch's many musical sensibilities by releasing the acoustic-based "Revival" first to public and college radio stations, then to Triple A "Americana" stations and finally to cutting-edge country stations.
	www.salon.com /weekly/welch1.html (487 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Garbage
		Sounding like a diverse stack of 1994 hits by a half-dozen bands, Garbage is a casebook of sharply constructed and propulsive songs, gimmicky and brilliant noir production, overcharged guitar-and-electronics rock and domineering, trenchantly provocative lyrics.
		MacKenzie (a six-strong Simple Minds/Echo and the Bunnymen wannabe serious and intemperate enough to script and sing lyrics for God) — moving Manson from a supporting role to center stage in the process — the Scottish group can't seem to decide who it wants to be on Angelfish: Siouxsie and the Banshees?
		(Although one of the album's best songs was written by Holly Vincent, it's not the track that sounds the most like her old band.) Glibly enabling production by ex-Talking Heads Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth exacerbates the confusion, leaving Manson's strong vocal presence to idle in this skillful but diffident wheel-spinner.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=garbage (345 words)

	Roots66: Music: Reviews: Gillian Welch - Hell Among the Yearlings
		When you listen to the new Gillian Welch and David Rawlings CD, (released on Almo Sounds) "Hell Among The Yearlings", the smell and sounds of the Appalachians comes wafting from every crack and crevice of your player.
		Sounds refreshing hey, well it is! They performed songs from the first CD "Revival" as well as the new one with seamless beauty.
		And deep in the tradition of this and other music is a sound reborn in that purest of mediums.
	www.roots66.com /roots66/music/reviews/gwelchcd.shtml (828 words)

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		Manson tells fans she can't disclose the reasons for the decision, but industry speculation says it is related to the pending closure of the band's label, Almo Sounds.
		A spokesperson for Garbage told MTV News that the band, at this point, is still signed to the label and acknowledged that the situation was expected to change.
		Garbage is only signed to Almo in North America, and stalled b-sides record aside, the group is not expected to encounter any problems switching to another label.
	www.smoe.org /lists/wireless/v03.n019 (481 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Version 2.0 [Import]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As its title suggests, Version 2.0 is no great departure for Garbage from the sound that made their eponymous 1995 debut such a hit.
		It was a move on from the previous record, but many reviews of Version 2.0 made out like it was some 70's disco record, which it isn't.
		If you like any ecclectic mixtures of electronic beats and sounds, with quality guitars topped by pure female vocal, with melancholic yet uplifting tunes, this one has to be for you.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000006NZV (865 words)

	Herb Alpert Discography at A&M Corner's TijuanaBrass.com
		The alternative rock band Garbage (an alternative music supergroup comprised of leading producers in the genre, and vocalist Shirley Manson) had a hit with their debut album and the tracks "Vow", "Queer" and "Stupid Girl".
		But despite its spare sound, there is plenty of room for Alpert to solo.
		Given the uneven quality of his latter-day A&M solo recordings, these last two solid efforts on Alpert's new label Almo Sounds show him to be expanding musically and creatively, sounding markedly refreshed.
	www.tijuanabrass.com /alpert/alpert4.php3 (932 words)

	Pulsars News
		(All the current sound links are broken, thanks to the whole dot-com depression.) If you know of any place that's still offering free file storage, drop me an email.
		Here's the skinny, straight from the horse's mouth (ie Eric Hanna, Pulsars' guitarist): Almo Sounds is in the process of going under, so the question of who owns the rights to the new album is up in the air.
		Eric seemed very optimistic about it; the powers-that-be know that the Pulsars are a great band, and this album has the potential to be a big hit (as long as it's marketed better than the first album was).
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/waterloo/93/news.html (2854 words)

	Reviews of Garbage (self-titled) and Junior Brown \| Junior High
		Garbage, Garbage (Almo Sounds 1995) - Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, the founders of A and M Records (now owned by Polygram), have formed a new record company, Almo Sounds (distributed by Geffen), to continue their musical vision.
		One of their first signings is the talented Garbage, fronted by angel-with-a-switchblade singer Shirley Manson and featuring super-producer Butch Vig on drums and sound processing.
		With a sound that ranges from pop to grunge to synth-driven modern rock, Garbage delivers the goods.
	www.cdshakedown.com /102595.htm (785 words)

	Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He signed with Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss’ label Almo Sounds, which signed Madison’s Garbage around the same time.
		Although DeLorenzo was unceremoniously ignored during his tenure on the Almo Sounds label, there is little reference to it on The Blessed Faustina.
		The sound isn’t projected onto a wall so much as a mad fun house full of mirrors, walls, hidden passages and countless nooks and crannies.
	www.victordelorenzo.com /littlestore/review2.htm (1609 words)

	Garbage: Version 2.0: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first thing you'll notice about Version 2.0 is that the electronica aspect of the sound is more realized than on the debut, which makes perfect sense.
		The songs play it close to the vest, duplicating the themes and content of the first album while adding a bit more raunch for the benefit of Shirley Manson's horny teenaged fan base.
		Occasionally, Manson sounds ridiculous, particularly when she tries to "get in character" like on "Sleep Together" or "Hammering In My Head." She doesn't have anywhere near the vocal charisma for whispered or chanted lyrics, and it sounds forced and silly.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/g/garbage/version-20.shtml (439 words)

	Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 3462 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In which the agitating L.A. salsa-rap collective vanquishes the tendency of rock en español's constituent parts to stick out like tree roots or TV antennas.
		Arab sounds from Hassan Hakmoun to dancehall diwali articulate Hispanic music's Moorishness when we need it most, yet fit right in, and the horns on "Déjame en Paz" could be ska or some Mexican ur-polka.
		Everything jumps, which makes the Iberian romanticism of the closing "Cuando Canto" easier to take--though it helps that, as usual with these guys, the romanticism has a political purpose, which starts with their people and radiates outward.
	www.robertchristgau.com /get_artist.php?id=3462&name=Ozomatli (114 words)

	DETAIL ORIENTATION
		As Sigsworth rose from the position of producer to co-artist and Heap rose from artist to co-producer, tension mounted.
		With wine-glass sounds making contagious hooks and Heap's breathy but big voice, Björk would be proud.
		You don't hear one sound you've ever heard on the planet Earth before on Aphex Twin and Autechre albums, and it's just genius programming.
	remixmag.com /mag/remix_detail_orientation/index.html (354 words)

	Garbage - Version 2.0: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Version 2.0 [+] may be gilded with fresh drum loops and shiny, computerized production, but it lacks the thrilling immediacy of the debut.
		It isn't that Garbage [+]'s sound is no longer appealing -- it's that high-tech production has a tendency to make the songs sound the same.
		That was a problem with the debut as well, but it's discouraging to find that those flaws are repeated, not solved.
	www.music.com /release/version_2.0/1 (283 words)

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