"we got no time to waste today"
The People Between are a collective of rockers spearheaded by Nick Petropoulos and Jim McGuinn (Saint Small) and while sheltering at home in NEW YORK created this celebratory rocker, "We're Coming Back", to help out those less fortunate and in need during the pandemic.
“We’re donating proceeds to two great organizations - City Meals on Wheels NY,” said Petropoulos. “They do amazing work in the best of situations, and their efforts are vital now to help feed the elderly during COVID-19, and to Twin Cities Music Community Trust, supporting the MN scene during this time. Please donate, buy this track, or even just stream it - all proceeds go to the causes!”
Because this is all about helping and not about me flushing out / reviewing this song, please read all the details below and please help out.
-RDC
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While sheltering-at-home in upstate New York, Nick Petropoulos sent Jim McGuinn (Saint Small) a song of urgent guitar riffs and an email about the separation, distance, and that one day soon… we're coming back. McGuinn fleshed out words and melody, added a guitar, and next the duo solicited friends and musicians from around the corner and around the globe to join in. Drummer Noah Levy (Brian Setzer) hammered out the beat in his new home studio, and McGuinn mixed all the pieces together.
Background singers come from McGuinn’s Saint Paul block, but also through Minnesota, NY, LA, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Winnipeg, London, and even Gdansk, Poland – musicians impacted by the these times, MN locals like John Munson (Semisonic), Mark Mallman, Katy Vernon, and Martin Devaney, along with out of town members of The Dream Syndicate, Mumford & Sons, The Weakerthans, Zuzu’s Petals, Trupa Trupa, and more.
“Reaching out to friends to sing was a great reason to connect with so many in the same boat - amazing to hear 30+ voices come together virtually,” said McGuinn, “then Nick added a recording off his NYC apartment balcony - people banging pans at 7pm to pay tribute to front line medical workers - that’s the clanging at the start and end.”
“Jim and I spoke as soon as the world went into isolation,” continued Nick. “He shared a wonderfully optimistic view influenced by Thin Lizzy’s ‘The Boys Are Back In Town' that inspired me to go went straight to my attic, start playing, and I kept thinking - “we’re coming back.” Jim shaped it into a song.”
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM :
Saint Paul, Minnesota 'solo/collective' built around Jim McGuinn Slusarek (Saint Small, BNLX, Cordalene) and Manic Pop Thrill Records. The songs approach from a variety of directions - bedroom and indie pop, shoegaze, krautrock, britpop, punk, psych, garage, jangle, lo-fi. Some sound like demos because they are (were?), intended for one of Jim's bands. Others are experiments and fascinating failures and successes. Covers, originals, one-off supergroups - it's all there, and now it's here too.
Because this is all about helping and not about me flushing out / reviewing this song, please read all the details below and please help out.
-RDC
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While sheltering-at-home in upstate New York, Nick Petropoulos sent Jim McGuinn (Saint Small) a song of urgent guitar riffs and an email about the separation, distance, and that one day soon… we're coming back. McGuinn fleshed out words and melody, added a guitar, and next the duo solicited friends and musicians from around the corner and around the globe to join in. Drummer Noah Levy (Brian Setzer) hammered out the beat in his new home studio, and McGuinn mixed all the pieces together.
Background singers come from McGuinn’s Saint Paul block, but also through Minnesota, NY, LA, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Winnipeg, London, and even Gdansk, Poland – musicians impacted by the these times, MN locals like John Munson (Semisonic), Mark Mallman, Katy Vernon, and Martin Devaney, along with out of town members of The Dream Syndicate, Mumford & Sons, The Weakerthans, Zuzu’s Petals, Trupa Trupa, and more.
“Reaching out to friends to sing was a great reason to connect with so many in the same boat - amazing to hear 30+ voices come together virtually,” said McGuinn, “then Nick added a recording off his NYC apartment balcony - people banging pans at 7pm to pay tribute to front line medical workers - that’s the clanging at the start and end.”
“Jim and I spoke as soon as the world went into isolation,” continued Nick. “He shared a wonderfully optimistic view influenced by Thin Lizzy’s ‘The Boys Are Back In Town' that inspired me to go went straight to my attic, start playing, and I kept thinking - “we’re coming back.” Jim shaped it into a song.”
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM :
Saint Paul, Minnesota 'solo/collective' built around Jim McGuinn Slusarek (Saint Small, BNLX, Cordalene) and Manic Pop Thrill Records. The songs approach from a variety of directions - bedroom and indie pop, shoegaze, krautrock, britpop, punk, psych, garage, jangle, lo-fi. Some sound like demos because they are (were?), intended for one of Jim's bands. Others are experiments and fascinating failures and successes. Covers, originals, one-off supergroups - it's all there, and now it's here too.
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