Blastronauts - No Me Gustan Pantalones by The Dick & Jane Project We like shorts because we have great legs And we can't do splits in our pants We like shorts because it gets too hot And we can't express ourselves Forget all this "May the 4th be with you" stuff. Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo , and to celebrate, here's a song about shorts called "No Me Gustan Pantalones" written by students at Grizzell Middle School and performed by James Allison's Blastronauts . [...]

A little bit of everything Saturday night at Skully's as 3 locals ( Blastronauts , The George Elliot Underground , Karate Coyote ) and an out-of-towner (Athens' Manor Animals ) keep the rock rolling (as opposed to the Rick Rolling ) during this Memorial Day weekend. Not really sure of the genesis of this show but it could be the end of a weeklong celebration for The George Elliot Underground who released a new EP, Summer of Weird , earlier this [...]

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The Flaming Lips@LC Oh hey, remember this thingie? I know, it's been a minute. Don't wanna hear it. I bet you can only imagine that a ton of cool shit has happened since we last got up. For example, a weekend camping excursion with a bunch of dudes, guns and fireworks( in the streets ) O.K. enough will the small talk. Oh man where do I even start, the older I get the less I remember. In this issue of "How long is Robert Duffy gonna keep letting that jackass write this crap", I [...]

mp3: Blastronauts - Even the Score If you're not headed down to Nelsonville for Yo La Tengo on Thursday night , you'd do well to check out Blastronauts ' release show at Oldfield's on High , a venue that's had some better shows recently thanks to Blastronauts main man James Allison, who started booking a Thursday night lineup under the name Outer Sounds (and now occasionally records some of those bands and posts songs to stream at the Outer Sounds website ). The new EP, Galileo , [...]

Couch Forts Columbus' Blastronauts have been keeping busy. Besides all of the shows and recordings surrounding their own band, they've also been hosting a lot of events around town under the Outer Sounds name. To expand their small empire, they've partnered with EP Studios to record bands and release recordings on their new website . The first session featured Couch Forts . Couch Forts have been with the outer sounds since the beginning, being once of the first bands we had play [...]
James from The Blastronauts has put together a great series of shows here in Columbus Ohio. I could have done with Dressy Bessy not being at Bernie's, but hey what can ya do... September 25th, 2008, Bernie's The Seedy Seeds (Cincinnati) Flotation Walls (Columbus) Couch Forts (Columbus) New Vega (Dayton) October 2nd, 2008, Rumba Café Blastronauts (Columbus) Earwig (Columbus) Paper Airplane (Columbus) Bookmobile (Columbus) October 9th, 2008, Café Bourbon Street Russenorsk [...]
The Spinning Leaves The Spinning Leaves are a band from Philadelphia that plays psychedelic folk rock, but don't let that scare you. This band is a true pleasure for the ears. Catch them at The Fire in Philly this Monday or on July 12th. mp3: The Spinning Leaves - Transistor Radio Blastronauts Blastronauts are a four piece band from the United States/NYC/Boston/Ohio that play indie rock that is a bit more serious than their name suggests, but, [...]
Straight from Columbus, Ohio, home of Our Cat Philip and Erin Studer, come Blastronauts, an up and coming indie-pop-rock act. They look like this: They sound good, they sound funky, and they sound like this: Blastronauts - In a Fire half rapped vocals play over a tight cymbal, riffy guitar, and intermittent "woo, woo hoo!'s" slightly cheesy, funfunfun, look for their debut coming out soon, which should look something like this: