DOWNLOAD : Jen Schande - "I Really Like Sonic Youth, and I Really Want to Have Sex With You" It’s been almost 10 years since Jen Schande first received critical acclaim with her split 7” with The Cribs. Since then, Jen has busied herself with her band Schande, played in former SF-based queer band Boyskout and has a transatlantic recording project This Is Thunder. Her long awaited solo debut full length may be her most ambitious project to date. For 19: Songs [...]
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Just when you thought the cold gray hell that is winter might be finished, you wake up to a day like today and a promise of a few more like it…and maybe even some more snow a few days after that. I hate winter. I hate it. Well, that’s not completely true. I like the first week of it and the very first snow of the season. Beyond that, I am so over it. A. got home yesterday from a weekend audition jaunt to California. I was extra happy to see her and wake up next to her [...]

Another Friday is here and it's a winner. Pasta Primavera will be in full swing up at Terminal 5 in NYC for Superdrag and Nada Surf, but there are some great shows around town also. In Baltimore Sonar has Spoon, The White Rabbits, and The Walkmen, while the Ottobar has Slick Rick with a full backing band! In DC the 9:30 club has Hot Chip and Free Blood, and The Rock and Roll Hotel has VHS or BETA and Tigercity. In Philly Johnny Brenda's has BC Camplight, The Swimmers, and The Capitol Years, The Fire [...]

"When I think of love as something new." The Donnas ~ Drive My Car performed by The Donnas from This Bird Has Flown Rosanne Cash ~ I'm Only Sleeping from Retrospective by Rosanne Cash [...]
spotlight boyskout.com So I've liked BoySkout for awhile now and it's weird because I've never owned one of their albums yet every time I hear one of their songs I really really like it. Maybe I should buckle down and just go buy their new album Another Life . "Spotlight" is the first track off Another Life . Also! There is a new video out for a new single, "You Act Strange," which of course, I've posted below: [...]

"They were so close and it made our hearts ache." Boyskout ~ Spotlight from Another Life by Boyskout
Noise Pop Festival 2007 is happening soon, in fact it opens on February 27 and runs until March 4. The festival is being held in San Francisco and has a schedule filled with outstanding performers. Scheduled to appear are: The Actual Annuals dry clothes mp3 Aqueduct Audrye Sessions Ryan Auffenberg Autolux Capital kind of strain mp3 Maria Bamford Ray Barbee and the Mattson 2 Bellavista [...]

The response to last week's Big Bloc 1 posting of selected mp3s from SXSW 2006 was vast, although largely invisible but to the practiced eye. Here's a list I put together of three dozen songs I like from SXSW 2005 . Again, if you find yourself wanting more, click on the two SXSW's above. As I did for Big Bloc 1, I am retaining original spelling, deleting "mp3" so as to make it easier to browse the list, and [...]

Okay, I'm a bit skitterish about this one, so please bear with me. Back in early December, I went group-by-group, song-by-song through a long list of artists I found at the 2006 South-by-Southwest festival website . I sampled every song I didn't already know and prepared my own list of the ones I liked best, old friends and new. For various reasons totally uninteresting even to myself I've just never posted a big bloc of the songs, some of which are by some of my favorite current artists. Soooooo, I'm simply [...]

Creo recordar que es la primera vez desde que empecé con este blog que he estado tres días seguidos sin actualizarlo, y no por falta de ganas, ni tan siquiera por falta de ideas, que aún me quedan unas cuantas. Resulta que he estado un par de días de escapada de fin de semana, así que vengo con las pilas cargadas, y vamos a empezar la semana con música movidita, y para eso tenemos hoy a este grupo de punk rock compuesto por Leslie Satterfield (guitarra y voz), Christina Stanley (teclados y violin), Piper Lewine (bajo), Ingrid Dahl (guitarra) y [...]
Last month, Boyskout stopped by WFMU 's Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T , and put out a solid, spirited set of rock and roll. Have I told you that you really should see their live show? Yes, I have. All hail Boyskout. Boyskout - Live on WFMU 11-25-2006 (mp3s) Spotlight Suicide Apt. 2A Blind Eye [...]
"You can do this, Tommy. You can do this. Another show. No big deal. Just do this for three hours, keep those people happy. You keep those people happy! That’s what you do, you keep 'em happy." -- Tom, shaking off the rust "I may smack some of them around once in a while, but I don't vote for them." -- Spike on how he treats Republicans "Woe is the person that needs discipline from you." -- Tom, lamenting the soul that needs Spike to fill the [...]

Christina, Piper, Leslie, and Ingrid want you to do a bad deed. Looking for a rock show to energize you to the bone, something more Hives than Hem? Go see BoySkout . Watching their live show is like getting laid. I saw them with my friends Randy and Uncle Tom (if you were there, we were The Three Obviously Straight Guys) on Monday night, and I'm still buzzing and smitten. The San Francisco girl group jolted the small crowd at Baltimore's Talking Head Club with some hard feminine electricity. [...]

San Francisco, CA Boyskout is currently touring the U.S. in support of their disc Another Life . Go to a show and pick it up or order it directly from Three Ring Records . "Apt. 2A" Boyskout on MySpace

Segundo álbum de Boyskout , el grupo de San Francisco liderado por la cantante, guitarrista, compositora, fotógrafa y directora de videoclips Leslie Satterfield. De la formación que grabara "School of Etiquette" sólo queda ella. Al fin y al cabo es su banda. Satterfield nunca quiso actuar en solitario y para ese primer disco contó con su novia y un par de amigas. En "Another Life" hay nuevas bajista, baterÃa y segunda guitarra, que, además, cumplen con la imagen que ella tenÃa en mente: grupo andrógino compuesto por chicas. Su sonido también ha cambiado, [...]
Here's yet another CD-length batch of extrawack! approved tracks for your leaf-raking-with-iPod-on pleasure: Jay Bennett - "Replace You" mp3 The Octopus Project and Black Moth Super Rainbow - "Spiracle" mp3 The Awkward Stage - "The Morons are Winning" mp3 Nate Ferrar - "Moonlight's Just a Memory" mp3 James Kochalka Superstar - "Britney's Silver Can" mp3 [...]

Seitdem ich in dem Verteiler der Fanatic Promotion bin, machen diese ihrem Namen alle Ehre und beglücken mich fast täglich mit (vermeintlich) guten Bands. Gestern war nun Boyskout dabei, ein Quartett, das ich schon letztens im King Kong Klub kennenlernte. Und da mir Fanatic die Erlaubnis erteilte, gleich drei MP3s der Band in meinen Blog zu posten, nutze ich das doch einfach mal schamlos aus. Die jungen Damen aus San Francisco greifen in ihren Songs beherzt in die Saiten und bespielen damit Terrain, das von Bands wie den Go-Go's oder Heavenly in den 80ern bereitet wurde: leicht angepunkter [...]