Peter Baldrachi
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Peter Baldrachi is a Boston-based singer-songwriter, drummer and guitarist. His style and sound has been compared to the likes of Paul Westerberg
, The Posies
, Cosmic Rough Riders
, Teenage Fanclub
, and Big Star
. His classic pop songwriting mixes in bits and pieces of Matthew Sweet
, late-era Replacements
, Goats Head Soup
-era Stones, and on the more obscure side, The Beatifics and The Gladhands. He is a respected songwriter in the Power pop
community, and has performed at David Bash
's International Pop Overthrow
, an American-originated music festival devoted to power pop music and related genres.
was recorded at Kissy Pig Studios (The Upper Crust
, State Radio
, The Aggrolites
, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
) and released on Prodigal Son Records in December 2006. The album's guitar-driven power pop highlights Baldrachi's classic pop songwriting style. Several Boston musicians including guitarist Gary Rand, vocalist Alice Austin (Zola Turn
, Queen Tangerine), bassists Steve Buonomo and Dave Leitch, guitarist Richard Mirsky (The Mirskys, The Devotions) and keyboardists Lester Goodwine and David Horak played on the recordings. Solid Ground
was mixed by Pete Peloquin (The Pixies, Oasis
, Mission Of Burma
).
The album earned positive reviews from the likes of The Big Takeover
, Amplifier Magazine, The Noise, Indie Pages, and The Boston Globe
, and was named one of the Top Discs of 2007 by Absolute Powerpop.
in 2009. Tomorrow Never Knows was released on September 27, 2011. The record features performances by guitarist, bassist, and arranger Gary Rand, keyboardist Dave Lieb (The Vinyl Skyway), backing vocalists Alice Austin (The Lavas, Stark Raving Mad) and Amy Fairchild. Other guests appearing on the record included Ian McLagan
(Faces
, The Rolling Stones
, Billy Bragg
), singer/songwriter Amy Rigby
(solo, Wreckless Eric
), multi-instrumentalist Ian Kennedy (Reverse, Dennis Brennan), and cellist Aristides Rivas. Tomorrow Never Knows was recorded at Kissy Pig Studios by K.R. Mogensen and mixed by Paul Q. Kolderie
(Radiohead
, Pixies, Portugal. The Man
).
The first single "In The Dead Of Night" was released on September 6, 2011 backed with the non-album track "Picture On My Wall."
Paul Westerberg
Paul Westerberg is an American musician, best known as the former lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter of The Replacements, one of the seminal alternative rock bands of the 1980s. He launched a solo career after the dissolution of that band...
, The Posies
The Posies
The Posies are an alternative rock/power pop group. The band was formed in 1987 in Bellingham, Washington by primary songwriters Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow. They are best known for their radio hits "Golden Blunders" , as well as "Dream All Day", "Solar Sister" and "Flavor of the Month"...
, Cosmic Rough Riders
Cosmic Rough Riders
The Cosmic Rough Riders are a pop/rock band from Glasgow, United Kingdom. They were originally formed in 1998 by Daniel Wylie and Stephen Fleming, and later they were joined by Mark Brown and James Clifford...
, Teenage Fanclub
Teenage Fanclub
Teenage Fanclub are an alternative rock band from Bellshill, Scotland. The band is composed of Norman Blake , Raymond McGinley , Gerard Love and Francis MacDonald , with songwriting duties shared equally among Blake, McGinley and Love...
, and Big Star
Big Star
Big Star was an American rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1971 by Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens and Andy Hummel. The group broke up in 1974, but reorganized with a new line-up nearly 20 years later...
. His classic pop songwriting mixes in bits and pieces of Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet
Sidney Matthew Sweet is an American alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s...
, late-era Replacements
Replacements
Replacements or The Replacements may refer to:*The Replacements , an American rock band*The Replacements , a 2000 sports comedy*The Replacements , an American animated series...
, Goats Head Soup
Goats Head Soup
Goats Head Soup is the 11th British and 13th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1973. It featured the song "Angie", which went to #1 as a single in the US and UK.-Recording:...
-era Stones, and on the more obscure side, The Beatifics and The Gladhands. He is a respected songwriter in the Power pop
Power pop
Power pop is a popular musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop and rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of musical devices such as strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements, and prominent guitar riffs. Instrumental solos are...
community, and has performed at David Bash
David Bash
David Bash is the founder and CEO of The International Pop Overthrow Music Festival, which is currently held annually in 16 cities around the world, including Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, San Diego, Phoenix, Denver, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Dallas, Austin, Boston, New York, Toronto,...
's International Pop Overthrow
International Pop Overthrow
The International Pop Overthrow is an American-originated music festival devoted to power pop music and related genres.Taking its name from Material Issue's 1991 album of the same name, the festival began in 1998, and has been held annually in the LA area since then...
, an American-originated music festival devoted to power pop music and related genres.
Solid Ground
After releasing a record in 2003 with his former band Krushr, Baldrachi began writing and recording his first solo album. Solid GroundSolid Ground (Peter Baldrachi album)
-Personnel:* Peter Baldrachi – lead vocals, drums, percussion, backing vocals* Gary Rand – electric and acoustic guitars, lead guitar, piano, backing vocals* Alice Austin – backing vocals* Steve Buonomo – bass* Lester Goodwine – keyboards...
was recorded at Kissy Pig Studios (The Upper Crust
The Upper Crust
The Upper Crust is an American hard rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. The members adopt the personae of 18th century aristocratic fops and sing songs from that perspective. They use titles of nobility, wear powdered wigs and period costumes, and maintain a snobbish attitude while performing...
, State Radio
State Radio
State Radio is an alternative rock band from Sherborn, Massachusetts, consisting of Chad Urmston , Chuck Fay and Mike Najarian...
, The Aggrolites
The Aggrolites
The Aggrolites are a reggae and ska band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2002.- Overview :The Aggrolites are an amalgamation of two previous Los Angeles reggae and ska bands, the Vessels and the Rhythm Doctors. They formed in 2002 as a live backing band for reggae icon Derrick Morgan, and...
, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars is a band from Sierra Leone which was formed by a group of refugees displaced to Guinea during the Sierra Leone Civil War. Since their return to Freetown in 2004, the band has toured extensively to raise awareness for humanitarian causes...
) and released on Prodigal Son Records in December 2006. The album's guitar-driven power pop highlights Baldrachi's classic pop songwriting style. Several Boston musicians including guitarist Gary Rand, vocalist Alice Austin (Zola Turn
Zola Turn
Zola Turn was a power pop/alternative rock band from Burlington, Vermont. They were one of the most well known bands to come out of the Burlington area besides the jam-rock band Phish...
, Queen Tangerine), bassists Steve Buonomo and Dave Leitch, guitarist Richard Mirsky (The Mirskys, The Devotions) and keyboardists Lester Goodwine and David Horak played on the recordings. Solid Ground
Solid Ground (Peter Baldrachi album)
-Personnel:* Peter Baldrachi – lead vocals, drums, percussion, backing vocals* Gary Rand – electric and acoustic guitars, lead guitar, piano, backing vocals* Alice Austin – backing vocals* Steve Buonomo – bass* Lester Goodwine – keyboards...
was mixed by Pete Peloquin (The Pixies, Oasis
Oasis (band)
Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs , Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...
, Mission Of Burma
Mission of Burma
Mission of Burma is an American post-punk band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1979. The band was formed by Roger Miller , Clint Conley , Peter Prescott and Martin Swope...
).
The album earned positive reviews from the likes of The Big Takeover
The Big Takeover
The Big Takeover is a bi-annual music magazine published out of New York City since 1980 by critic Jack Rabid.-Overview:The Big T usually appears in June and December, with most recent issues coming in around 200 pages. The review section, featuring Jack’s Top 40 for the issue, is regularly 60-80...
, Amplifier Magazine, The Noise, Indie Pages, and The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...
, and was named one of the Top Discs of 2007 by Absolute Powerpop.
Tomorrow Never Knows
Baldrachi began writing new songs in 2008 and recording his follow up to Solid GroundSolid Ground (Peter Baldrachi album)
-Personnel:* Peter Baldrachi – lead vocals, drums, percussion, backing vocals* Gary Rand – electric and acoustic guitars, lead guitar, piano, backing vocals* Alice Austin – backing vocals* Steve Buonomo – bass* Lester Goodwine – keyboards...
in 2009. Tomorrow Never Knows was released on September 27, 2011. The record features performances by guitarist, bassist, and arranger Gary Rand, keyboardist Dave Lieb (The Vinyl Skyway), backing vocalists Alice Austin (The Lavas, Stark Raving Mad) and Amy Fairchild. Other guests appearing on the record included Ian McLagan
Ian McLagan
Ian McLagan is an English keyboard instrumentalist, best known as a member of the English rock bands Small Faces and Faces.-Small Faces and Faces:...
(Faces
Faces (band)
Faces are an English rock band formed in 1969 by members of the Small Faces after Steve Marriott left that group to form Humble Pie...
, The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
, Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg
Stephen William Bragg , better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes...
), singer/songwriter Amy Rigby
Amy Rigby
Amy Rigby is an American singer-songwriter. After playing with several New York bands she began a solo career, recording several albums which had only modest sales despite enthusiastic reviews. She settled into a career of touring small venues and private parties while raising a daughter, then...
(solo, Wreckless Eric
Wreckless Eric
Wreckless Eric is an English rock and roll/new wave singer-songwriter, best known for his 1977 single " Whole Wide World" on Stiff Records. More than two decades after its release, the song was included in Mojo magazine’s list of the best punk rock singles of all time...
), multi-instrumentalist Ian Kennedy (Reverse, Dennis Brennan), and cellist Aristides Rivas. Tomorrow Never Knows was recorded at Kissy Pig Studios by K.R. Mogensen and mixed by Paul Q. Kolderie
Paul Q. Kolderie
Paul Q. Kolderie is a record producer, engineer, and mixer. He has worked with Pixies, Radiohead, Orangutang, Hole, Dinosaur Jr., Juliana Hatfield, Wax, Warren Zevon, Uncle Tupelo, Throwing Muses, Morphine, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Abandoned Pools, and The Go-Go's...
(Radiohead
Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their debut single "Creep" in 1992...
, Pixies, Portugal. The Man
Portugal. The Man
Portugal. The Man is an American psychedelic rock band based in Portland, Oregon, but originally from Wasilla, Alaska. The group released their first two albums with Fearless Records. They also released material on their own imprint Approaching AIRballoons through indie label Equal Vision Records...
).
The first single "In The Dead Of Night" was released on September 6, 2011 backed with the non-album track "Picture On My Wall."
Albums
- Solid GroundSolid Ground (Peter Baldrachi album)-Personnel:* Peter Baldrachi – lead vocals, drums, percussion, backing vocals* Gary Rand – electric and acoustic guitars, lead guitar, piano, backing vocals* Alice Austin – backing vocals* Steve Buonomo – bass* Lester Goodwine – keyboards...
(2006) - Tomorrow Never Knows (2011)
Compilations
- International Pop Overthrow, Vol. 11 (2008) Not Lame RecordingsNot Lame RecordingsNot Lame Recordings was a Ft. Collins, Colorado, United States based independent record label specializing in power pop releases. The company was started by Bruce Brodeen in November 1994 but it shut down per November 24, 2010. The reasons Brodeen mentioned were a career switch combined with...
- "You're Gonna Miss Me Someday"