Tag: Revolution 9
'Alarm Will Sound Cover The Beatles on New Album, ‘Modernists’
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'Oh My Golly: Asphalt Orchestra Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Record All of the Pixies' 'Surfer Rosa' Album
OK, so Alarm Will Sound started it. Their orchestrations of the Beatles' "Revolution 9" and various numbers from Aphex Twin to the Shaggs put them on a unique comp-meets-indie map pretty much their own. But now, Asphalt Orchestra--a 12-piece ensemble that's best described as some sort of Calvino-esque marching band--plans on recording a full version of the Pixies' seminal 1988 album Surfer Rosa.