Girls - "Lust For Life" Woods - "The Dark" The Babies - "Meet Me In The City" The Mantles - "Don't Lie" Fergus & Geronimo - "Harder Than It's Ever Been" Teen Sheikhs - "Cracked" Grass Widow - "Black Hole" Best Coast - "In My Room" Islands - "Vapours" [...]
The band that put out one of my favorite records of the year - the band that was almost lost to history after 30-odd years of obscurity - Death , did a live appearance on Chicago's WGN . <a href=" Check it out . MP3: Death - "Politicians In My Eyes" MP3: Death - "Keep On Knocking" The band plays a rare show at The Empty Bottle in Chicago tomorrow night.
MP3: Cains & Abels - "My Life Is Easy" I fell in love with this song when I first heard the demo a few months back (before it got a name change ), so I'm honored that Cains & Abels have given me the final mastered version to share with you. You may already know the band from their material on the supreme States Rights label (including their great debut full-length Call Me Up )- and if not, this song is [...]
It's been nigh on four years since we've heard from our old friend Levi Fuller , but he just sent over word that he's got a brand new record due out on 10/27 (just one day shy of his 33 S birthday). Colossal is due on vinyl, digital, and limited-edition CD-R, and Levi was kind enough to send over the title track for us. MP3: Levi Fuller - "Colossal" Order Colossal from Denimclature (or the limited [...]
Now streaming in its entirety: Fulton Lights' newest, Healing Waters - at both MBV and at CatbirdRecords.Com/FultonLight s .
Now streaming in its entirety: Fulton Lights' newest, Healing Waters - at both MBV and at CatbirdRecords.Com/FultonLight s .
I have been meaning to post this for like weeks and weeks now- don't know why it kept slipping my mind. Maybe it's the contact buzz I get from listening to these guys that's fogging my brain over or something. ANYWAY. Hopefully, you caught that longtime Catbird favorites Dios are back on the scene, courtesy of the mighty Buddyhead , and plus also, they've dropped the "(malos)," so take that, Ron James (watch, he'll probably sue them). I noted [...]
1. Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction (2001) 2. (tie) Destroyer - This Night (2002) 2. (tie) Destroyer - Your Blues (2004) 3. Destroyer - Thief (2000) 4. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (2006)
Here's the final album version of Girls ' "Lust for Life," one of my favorite tracks (up there with "Big Bad Mean Motherfucker") from Album ... MP3: Girls - "Lust For Life" (Album Version) And starting Monday, everyone will finally have their chance to hear Album , as the record begins streaming in full at True Panther dot Com . Of course, the following week (on 9/22), the album actually gets released- but you'd do well to pre-order right now : it'll [...]
Just a quick update about the new Fulton Lights release, Healing Waters : we're now officially sold out of the "First Edition," and are on to Version 2 , featuring the all-new cover art you see above. MP3: Fulton Lights - "Healing Waters" The album got a great review from The Onion A.V. Club last week , Said the Gramophone wrote it up last night , and the Fingertips Blog just posted an interview [...]
MP3: Beachniks - "Coney Island" When we made up the Captured Tracks label profile over at MBV, we noted that the band Beachniks , featuring members of German Measles and Crystal Stilts, have a 73 due on Captured Tracks . So it's probably a safe assumption that this track, posted by the folks at Pinglewood , is likely to be from that forthcoming release.
Forest Fire - Live on La Route du Rock
There's a brand new 7-inch out from Denton's Fergus & Geronimo , courtesy of Tic Tac Totally . The disc features the songs "Blind Muslim Girl" b/w "Powerful Lovin'", and can be had in a limited-edition (mailorder only exclusive) gold version (well, if you order fairly soon it can be had... I wouldn't expect those to last long).
On November 3rd, one of my favorite quirkpop purveyors, John Ringhofer (aka Half-Handed Cloud ) is releasing a new collection called Cut Me Down & Count My Rings . The disc collects material (46 songs worth!) from an array of EPs, vinyl singles, CDRs, downloads, and other disparate sources (cassingle anyone?), and precedes a brand-new HHC release, due out from Asthmatic Kitty next year. The track I give you to sample below doesn't come from the new collection, but rather from HHC's Asthmatic Kitty debut Learning About Your Scale (2001) - [...]
MP3: 39 Clocks - "PLO" OtherMusic calls them "one of the finest rock and roll bands Germany ever spawned," but you've probably never heard of them. 39 Clocks were a duo (or a trio if you count the drum machine) who operated between the German music and art worlds (they were once thrown out of a show because "their sounds had disturbed Joseph Beuys) in the late '70's and early '80s. The recent Zoned collection from DeStijl cull Clocks' material from 1981-1987 (interestingly, in reverse [...]
MP3: 39 Clocks - "PLO" OtherMusic calls them "one of the finest rock and roll bands Germany ever spawned," but you've probably never heard of them. 39 Clocks were a duo (or a trio if you count the drum machine) who operated between the German music and art worlds (they were once thrown out of a show because "their sounds had disturbed Joseph Beuys) in the late '70's and early '80s. The recent Zoned collection from DeStijl cull Clocks' material from 1981-1987 (interestingly, in reverse [...]
Forest Fire & Papercuts (Takeaway Show) (Well done, Chryde !)
MP3: Fulton Lights - "Healing Waters" Fulton Lights will be dropping a new release next week, titled Healing Waters . You can (and should) pre-order it now .
Forest Fire - "Slow Motion" (Live) (via Chocolate Bobka )
MP3: Box Elders - "Necro" I have been digging on Box Elders' "Hole In My Head" (from their Goner 73 ) for most of this year, but that's been the only Box Elders song I had. That has finally changed with the release of their full-length Alice and Friends (you know, the one with the faaar-ouuuut cover art ), also on Goner . Dig this new song, courtesy of the consistently on-it Friendship Bracelet . (...and note: [...]
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