
Kirstin Hersh says her latest Speedbath track is "an interesting take on Wonder Bread and the East River and gold, smoking devil people". Dig it. Downloadable: "Fortune" (cash mp3) The individual cover art looks like this: More CASH songs here . Donate here . Subscribe here . Myspace page is here . 4AD page is here . Yep Roc page is here . Daytrotter Session is here . Free Music [...]
The bad news: Shitt Hottt broke down before ever leaving Toronto. Boo! Waaah! The good news: They leave behind free downloads of their full-length debut, Are You There God? It's Me, Shitt Hottt. and a new-to-me 2008 EP. In lieu of flowers, dance dance dance dance dance dance dance Oh! Only d/l if you like fun and stuff. Let me encourage you: Shitt Hottt - Eight Arms (mp3) Shitt Hottt - Boxxx Damage [...]
This year I got ambitious and decided to jot some thoughts on every one of my 50 favorite songs (though about half of these blurbettes are quotes from earlier posts). Each song is so different and delightful in its own way that I couldn't rank them. You'll find the list in alpha order by song title. I'd love to host an mp3 for every one, I really would, but given bandwidth constraints, that's out of the question. So I tried to put up the songs that may be harder to find via Hype [...]

Q: Who you gonna call? A: Shitt Hottt ! Downloadable: "Foreign Bees" (mp3) (source: myspace ) Streamable: "Law & Order" (youtube) Props to Shameless Complacency for pointing out Shitt Hottt... here . Elsewhere: - Fourth of July -themed posts over at The Rawking Refuses To Stop , The Music Slut , and TIMEDOOR ... here and here and here . - Free Black [...]

Image: Mina Magee On Tuesday Chicago was Minnesota: Land of 10,000 Lakes. A late afternoon cloudburst (4 inches in 45 minutes) and our capricious sewers flipped the off switch and hit the picket line; viaducts turned into churning gray sludge pools and generally smooth east-west arteries were sudden stroke victims. I made it by diverted "express" bus as far north as Lake Shore Drive and Addison, then walked the rest of the three miles home. Which wouldn't have been dire if I'd been [...]

I'm sorry, but it's that time of year, and I just don't feel like writing; so here's the story of Shitt Hottt, an awesome band that found it's way onto my iPod recently. From their myspace page: Once upon a time, there were three princesses - Michelle, Andrea and Ryan. They'd been talking about forming a band together. Andrea would play the drums, Michelle would play the guitar, and Ryan would play the bass. One night, after an enchanted Kickball tournament, a fourth princess appeared - Sarah. She announced that [...]
I declare summer officially open. Has nothing to do with the weather, or the holiday weekend. Has everything to do with the gals-and-guy of Toronto-based Shitt Hott and how they're bam-clap-clapping out my stereo speakers. They have summer up North too, y'all, and the way these guys go at it, the Canuck season's got an extra R and three or four additional M's. It's summer! Stable your Dark Horses , shelve your Bible . Shove the awesomely titled Are [...]