IDWGH By The Exeter Popes

It has been a while since I checked in on The Exeter Popes. It turns out they are working on their full length. Get ready for some NYC flavored indie pop.

New New New Downloadables: "IDWGH" (box.net mp3)

Streamable: "50 Days" (youtube vid) from Snow, Mountain, Geisha

White Shoe Records are here.
CD BABY page is here.
eMusic page is here.
Old GT posts... here and here.

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- Oh Boy Oh Boy! The Obits are working with Sub Pop. New album early new year! More about that... here.

- Aural States posts the crazy new video from Adventure... here.

- Hello from promoland:
"Summer Grof" (daily rind mp3) by The Spinto Band
"Already Down" (ecstatic peace mp3) by Awesome Color

- Lots of Wipers covers are over there @ Lamestain... here. An older straight out Wipers post is here.

Superstition Hurts By Paul Fuster

AND NOW more Paul Fuster. When last we visited the former Proton Proton member he going to "GO to WHERE its Clear" (box.net mp3). Hearing the two mp3s below will get you excited for his (hopefully) forthcoming LP/EP/something besides myspace downloads.

Downloadables:
"Superstition Hurts" (box.net mp3)
"Castaway" (box.net mp3)

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- For your listening pleasure: "Dying Is Fine" (barsuk mp3) by Ra Ra Riot... it's so much more polished than the daytrotter version.

- Chunklet is all excited about the Volcano Suns reissues that will be coming out next year on Merge (me too!). Posted is a 1984 WERS boot of The Suns with NO SONG TITLES. Grrrr. C'mon peoples help a brother out and send the setlist to Mr. Chunklet (or me). Oh, uh, the post I'm talking about is... here.

- Also for your listening pleasure Stones Throw downbeat artist Koushik has a new mp3 on the promo scene... "Bright And Shining" (terrorbird mp3)

- Comfort Radio is talking about Apparat again... here.

- Aquarium Drunkard considers the 90's Boston shoegaze band, Swirlies... here.

I Make Windows By Forest Fire

Brooklyn/Portland based indie folkrock band Forest Fire has a new album of "[h]omegrown hymns for those with no religion" and you can download it fo' frees! But wait you say, I like to listen to something before I buy it (even if it for $0).

Downloadable Song: "I Make Windows" (box.net mp3)

Downloadable Album: Survival (archive.org)

Stream or Download Survival: here (last.fm) or here (catbird records).

Forest Fire is composed of Mark Thresher, Adam Spittler, Myisha Battle, Natalie Stormann, and Nathan Delffs. You may know Nathan Delffs from his other band The Shaky Hands (posts: here and here).

Use your purchasing power:
- Pay-what-you-want digital download is here.
- Buy the Survival CD (if you really like optical media)... here (unfortunately the GIANT CD package is sold out).
- You can pre-order the new new new Shaky Hands album, Lunglight... here.

Myspace page is here.
Catbird Records is here.
eMusic page is here.

Forest Fire BONUS: "Psychic Love Stars" (catbird mp3)

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- I gots to agree with heartonastick -- What If Someone Is Watching Their TV? by Screaming Females "was the best album from last year that no one was listening to." More about that... here. Watch The Screaming Females play: "Theme Song" (archive.org punkcast mp4)

- The latest Contrast Podcast is "the ninth installment of Musicians introduce their own songs" (cp mp3). Track list and deets... here.

- Two new Vivian Girls songs. One is at MOKB (here) AND one is at Gorilla Vs. Bear (here).

- Mr. Beck Hanson was interviewed on NPR the other day. He states that he really doesn't rap, because "it doesn't come from hip-hop." He goes on "I used to hang out with a lot of poets and people who did spoken word. So I think I thought my rap — quote 'rap' — songs were coming from that." Listen/Read... here.

- Check out "Rosemary, Etc." by Zookeeper @ daytrotter... here. I like it when his voice breaks.

YOUTUBE: Period Backslash Colon By BOAT

BOAT live at The Cake Shop



Myspace page is here.
Magic Marker page is here.
Emusic page is here.

YSB Wins!

YSB wins volumes 3 & 4 of the Searching For The Now split single series from Slumberland Records.

Giveaway post is here.

Totally unrelated mp3 just for YSB: "Tugboat" (box.net mp3) by Galaxie 500 from Today

Totally unrelated mp3 with "Winning" in the title: "No One Was Winning" (box.net mp3) by Parts & Labor from Escapers Two

P.S. purplesimon your CD is headed to the post office with a small bonus to make up for my tardiness.

Zyghost By Feral Children

Feral Children's full length, Second to the Last Frontier, was recorded at Scott Colburn’s Gravel Voice studio. It captures the Feral's live energy and intensity (with double drumming!). Take a listen...

Downloadables:
"Zyghost" (box.net mp3)
"Billionaires vs. Millionaires" (box.net mp3)

Streamable: "Spy/Glass House" (youtube vid) (psst... mp3 is available here.)

Feral Children will be playing the KEXP Studio live with John Richards on September 30. Remember NYCers, you really should be listening to KEXP. Either on the intertubes or on Radio Liberation 91.5 FM.

P.S. Hey Feral Children, come to NY! (this winter or next year, maybe?)

Sarathan page is here.
Luckyhorse Industries page is here.
Free EP is here.
Old KEXP blog post is here.
eMusic page is here.

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- NEW NEW NEW Matt & Kim is up @ RCRDLBL... here. The name of the song is "Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare".

- Southern Shelter has a live recording of the recent Melvins show @ 40 Watt... here.

- Did you hear that David Byrne and Brian Eno are working together again. Listen to the results of the collab @ Quiet Color... here.

- WTF?? Andrew WK producing Lee "Scratch" Perry @ Winnie Copper... here?

YOUTUBE: Wild Bore By Mika Miko

From the new PPM DVD "New Video Works"

Wild Bore by Mika Miko + trampoline


.tk page is here.
Deleted Art page is here.
Kill Rock Stars page is here.
ppm page is here.

My House By Freshkills

So the new Freshkills eponymous volume of recorded music is going to drop soon (real soon, Sep 2). As I was hopping along the intertubes, I came across a new track from said album. It is filled with epic indie metal/posthardcore goodness.

Listen: "My House" (box.net mp3)

Myspace page is here.
Arclight is here.
RCRDLBL page is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.

The record release party is @ Glasslands w/Baby Dayliner and Violent Bullshit on Sep 12.

Here is a taste of Violent Bullshit: "no title" (box.net mp3)

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- The blog A Million Miles Away develops some "Headcoatitude"... here.

- PLANET SHHH posts that poppy new ripped stream of TVOTR track that is making all the indie kids clap their hands... here. Me too, me too: "Golden Age"

- Get yrself some excellent ripped vinyl weirdness from The Cows @ Nothin' Sez Somethin'... here.

- The Decibel Tolls posts not one, BUT two, TWO classic My Bloody Valentine (as opposed to MBV2.0) boots... here

August 2007 Mix

Let's look back at August 2007.

One year ago.

Damn, it was pretty awesome (and HEALTH-y).

The zip: "August 2007 Mix" (sendspace zip)

The playlist:


The band links and mp3s:
1. Health - "Crimewave" (fanatic mp3)
2. Health - "Triceratops" (box.net mp3)
3. Health - "Triceratops (CFCF Remix)" (fanatic mp3)
4. A Frames - "Galena" (sub pop mp3)
5. Shepherdess - "Green Seat" (box.net mp3)
6. PORA! PORA! - "So Cinematic" (box.net mp3)
7. Architecture In Helsinki - "Debbie" (box.net mp3)
8. Shooting Spires - "Right" (shooting spires mp3)
9. Celebration - "Evergreen" (beggars mp3)
10. The Mary Timony Band - "Sharpshooter" (krs mp3)
11. Vampire Weekend - "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" (vampire weekend mp3)
12. The Deadly Syndrome - "Eucalyptus" (dim mak mp3)
13. The Black Lips - "Cold Hands" (vice mp3)
14. The Coathangers - "Don't Touch My Shit" (fanatic mp3)
15. Clockcleaner - "Vomiting Mirrors" (box.net mp3)
16. TheDeathSet - "Distressed" (morphius mp3)
17. Realistic - "The Camera Track" (fanatic mp3)
18. Yea Big + Kid Static - "Duck, Mother Fuckers!" (yea big mp3)
19. Aesop Rock - "Coffee (Feat. John Darnielle)" (aol mp3)

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- The blog skatterbrain posts a subjective best of slumberland records: 1990-95... here.

- Live from the internets... "Goat Hurt" (youtube vid) by No Age, AND "BEAD" (youtube vid) by Dinowalrus

- I almost forgot... some news-o-tainment and some advice.

Never Stops By Deerhunter

Jeez... you go away for a few days and there's a new Virtual 7" from Atlas Sound (here) and then Microcastle and Weird Era Cont. and the Logos demos are LEAKED by Branford Cox by accident. Branford's apology is here.

You may have noticed the aura of hype around Microcastle which was due for release this Fall. I am going to restrain myself. I just going to post one song from Microcastle. Maybe you heard it already? It's a goodie.

Downloadable: "Never Stops" (box.net mp3)

The album looks like this:


My favorite song from Microcastle is probably "Nothing Ever Happened". If you want to know what that song sounds like, buy the album right now via iTunes or wait for the physical release or non-DRM digital release.

And now some Atlas Sound downloadable action: "S.S.C." (box.net mp3)

Get the whole thing (ok, one more song): Virtual 7" No. 4 (mediafire zip)

Oh yeah, more Deerhunter... the blog Southern Shelter has a live recording of Deerhunter from just last week... here.

Myspace page is here
Kranky page is here.
Brandford's blog is here.
SXSW page is here.
eMusic page is here.

Consider CLICKing: Vacation Edition
- I'm pretty psyched for A Bad Situationist. It features Sarah Silverman, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, H. Jon Benjamin, Ross Brockley, Robert Schimmel, Marc Maron, and Sam Seder

- Holy Crap! the diagrams in this post are friggin' hilarious. Covert Curiosity rules.

- XXJFG gets noisy with Fucked Up and Growing... here. You can listen to some Growing right now: "Swell" (social registry mp3)

- Hey, speaking of Fucked Up, it's guitarist name of 10,000 Marbles recommends that you listen to some Blank Dogs (a band that may or may not exist) over @ ptw... here.

- The Yellow Stereo reports that two members of Le Loup have left the band. One for social justice and the other for her own project Pree. More info... here. Oh and they are playing Irving with Stereolab in October... here. Listen: "We Are Gods! We Are Wolves!" (hardly art mp3)

- The Score: Who The Bloody Hell Are They 1, RIAA 0... KICKASS!

- PTST got to talking with BOAT... here. They had two NYC shows while I was gone, talk about Oh No Disaster. Guess I am just going to have to move to Seattle.

- Off The Record has Liars in their 5 Songs with feature... here.

- G vs B reports that El Guincho's Alegranza LP will (finally) be put out via XL/Young Turks on October 7. They have "Palmitos Park" ("all remastered and possibly somewhat de-sampled")... here. The original "Palmitos Park" mp3 is still available... here.

- Four classic songs from The Wipers have found their way to captain's dead... here.

- The blog A Million Miles Away has a kickass little post about (J.D. King &) The Coachmen... here.

- The Score (con't): RIAA 1, Muxtape 0... Fuck!

- Have you checked out Sunil Sawani's semi-fake record label, Part Time Songs? Here is a song by King Filament... "Killer" (part time mp3)

- You should probably watch YACHT's new vid for "Summer Song"... here.

"Without People, You're Nothing"

Consequence of Sound reminds us that today is the late, great Joe Strummer's birthday.

In honor of this great musician, start with that video up top, and then listen to “Redemption Song” (w/ Johnny Cash), and then read about his life, and then move on to the Strummer News Message Board, and end with this birthday post.

In other news, Bloc Party is taking pre-orders for their new album. Earlier this summer, their song Mercury (this version remixed by CSS) rocked my world (track via PopStereo).

And, to top it off, here's a new song called Ion Square (track via Above the Fold).

R.I.P. Pandora?

Could the music-sampling site Pandora get shut down by new government-imposed fees? HearYa is reporting that it might. Read the sad news here.

"I'll Look At You And Say It's The Happiest I've Ever Been Mixtape!!!"

That's a pretty nifty name for a mixtape, and TSURURADIO has put together a pretty nifty mixtape. Some standouts, if you need a guide: Cloud Cult's Chemicals Collide, the Wood Brothers' Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor and finally, Micky 3D's tune, Les Gens Raisonnables.

Speaking of Cloud Cult, that's their unofficial video up at the top of the post. You should really listen to them, if you haven't. Here's another one of their songs, You Were Never Really Alone (track via ThePunkGuy)

Believe it or not, I discovered them on Pandora, somewhere in between The Flaming Lips and Wilco. Check out the band's website here.

Music To Write With

That's a video of Peacock's Penny Arcade, a rock band staffed by writers, playing at the PEN World Voices Festival this year.

My other blogging job is writing about writing, so I'm always looking for music to write with.

That's how I found singer Willy Vlautin (of Richmond Fontaine), who is also the author of the dark road novel, The Motel Life. You can see my interview with him at this link.

And for the folks who want music by straight-up musicians, here are two tracks that caught my attention yesterday...
Check out Deleon's new tune, Be Still Angelino. It's Mars Volta meets Spanish folk music, and kept me happy all day at work. Find them at JDub Records. (Track via IGIF)

And, most importantly, A Limerick Ox spots a new Okkervil River track, Lost Coastlines. Go to the band's website for a music video and much, much more.

Prisoners and Monkeys

That's a brand new video from the Spanish Prisoners.

According to the band's press release, there is more to follow: "we are working on a brand new EP that we're planning on releasing for free through our website early fall 2008. It'll have 3-5 songs on it, and will possibly include a special cover."

If you can still remember tapping your foot along with Gorillaz around the turn of the century, then you should mark September 23rd on your calendar. That's when a new album by Monkey comes out. Who is Monkey? Here's the website (with streaming tracks). Check out the description, it's prog rock meets 21st Century opera:

"A singular and unique fusion of traditional Mandarin opera/folklore and modern audiovisual interpretation, MONKEYŠis the result of director Chen Shi-Zheng having enlisted GORILLAZ masterminds Albarn and Hewlett to provide unique, modern musical and visual interpretations of the themes and characters of this most beloved work of Chinese folklore."

Nothing a Pair of Sissors Can't Fix

Have you ever read John Berryman's poetry? Half of the indie rock songwriters in the world have been reading his stuff, and you should too.

Berryman was rock & roll. He wrote ragged, emotional poetry, breaking rhyme scheme and rhythm rules in the most amazing ways.

Here's Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds wailing about writing and postmodernism and John Berryman's suicide. We Call Upon The Author (track via Snuh's LiveJournal).

Of course, The Hold Steady needed to talk about Berryman too. Here's a live version of "stuck between the stations," punctuated by the amazing line: "There was that night that we thought that John Berryman could fly. / But he didn't so he died" (track via Captain's Dead)

Finally, here's Okkervil River riffing off the Beach Boys and singing about John Berryman's last days. It's called John Allen Smith Sails, and was one of my favorite songs last year (track via Mixtape 4 Melfi).

I'm not the only person who thought about this. Brandon Stosuy wrote an essay about The Hold Steady and Berryman, called, excellently enough, How a Resurrection Really Feels.

Finally, for your weekend listening pleasure, Bob sends along a song from 3/4ths of the band, Grizzly Bear. It's Department of Eagles, composed of, according to the press release, "Daniel Rossen from Grizzly Bear with his friend Fred Nicolaus, plus assistance from Chris Taylor and Chris Bear also of Grizzly Bear."

Here's the title track, In Ear Park.

The Guest Blogger Cometh

So Bob is on vacation, and I'll be guest blogging for a week or so.

My name is Jason Boog, and I usually blog about writers over at The Publishing Spot. My music tastes are a bit different than Bob's--a little more melodic, on the one hand; and a little more prog rock, on the other. If I had a music blog, it would be called Gimme Pet Sounds.

Don't believe me? Here are the songs keeping me happy right now...

First up is Noah and the Whale's cheery tune, “5 Years Time.” It's got whistling, ukulele and a shout chorus that goes "love, love, love" (track via I Guess I'm Floating).

Lately, I've been bopping my head to "...And We Exhale and Roll our Eyes in Unison" by Los Campesinos!, part of Hold On Now, Youngster coming out in October (track via Vague Space).

I'm also wrapping my head around Inara George's new song, "Accidental" (box.net mp3). She's working with Brian Wilson's old collaborator Van Dyke Parks (who co-wrote the lost masterpiece, Smile) for this new album which you can click here to pre-order (track originally posted at Fluxblog).

To compensate all that twee, Okkervil River's new track, "Pop Lie" reminds us that all rock stars are out to fool you. "He's the liar who lied in his pop song / And you're lying when you sing along," he sings (track via Vague Space).

Doing Nothing By Of Monteal

Gone Fishin'


(source: flickr)

Sorry folks, no posts for a week or so.

Ain't Updating The Blog-Themed Downloadable: "Doing Nothing" (box.net mp3) by Of Montreal

Myspace page is here.
Polyvinyl page is here.
Elephant 6 page is here.
Many more Of Montreal mp3s... here.
eMusic page is here.

Totally Lifted From The Forkcast BONUS: "Id Engager" (box.net mp3)

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- Two awesome leaks for you the first is from The Spinto Band @ Muzak For Cybernetics... here, AND the second is from the blogtastic Deerhunter @ Covert Curiosity... here.

Catalogs By Double Dagger

Today I bring you a track off the Bored Meeting 7" by Baltimore's own postpostpunkers Double Dagger.

They look like this:


Downloadable from Bored Meeting 7": "Catalogs" (box.net mp3)

Buy the Bored Meeting 7"... here.

This is the Bored Meeting 7" track listing:
1. Bored Meeting
2. Catalogs
3. I Was So Bored I Wanted To Hang Myself on the Dancefloor (Chalmers remix)

Downloadable from Ragged Rubble: "Stripes" (box.net mp3)

Buy Ragged Rubble CD... here or here. Mp3... here.

Check out the lyrics to "Stripes"... here.

Myspace page is here.
More mp3s are here.
Stationary Heart page is here.
Toxic Pop is here.
Emusic page is here.

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- Discovery the "Modern World" by The Modern Lovers @ NEVVER... here.

- Prefix Mag posts the new YACHT remix of Ratatat... here. Me Too Me Too (because my older brother also has a gun)... "Mirando (YACHT Remix)" (box.net mp3)

- Listen to the mixture of indie pop MiLK & Fruit Juice @ French to bad English blog The Man Of Rennes Steals Our Hearts... here.

The Boxes And Cubes Mini-Mix

I have been seeing boxes everywhere.

First I saw these two.

@ Union Square L Track


Then I saw this one.

@ 14th St and 3rd Ave


AND the I saw what has been called "Yellow Tape Box" (in The L Magazine's Best Of NY)

@ 12th St and 3rd Ave (I think)


Then I decided to put together a mix of Boxes And Cubes. It turns out that I have very few "Cube" songs and many many "Box" songs. Have a listen:

"Box Elder" (box.net mp3) by Pavement
"Sugarcube" (box.net mp3) by Yo La Tengo
"Boxes" (box.net mp3) by Abe Vigoda
"Goes Cube Song 30" (box.net mp3) by Goes Cube
"Hundebox" (box.net mp3) by Motico
"Brown Boxes" (box.net mp3) by The Spinto Band
"Pandora's Box" (box.net mp3) by Throwing Muses

I also just wanted to say thank you to whoever is putting this tape down. You rock.

Even More Boxes Video BONUS (brought to you by Jon Ronson): "Stanley Kubrick's Boxes" (google)

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- Doomy Droners Sunn O))) have a new track for download @ RCRDLBL... here. Play this loud enough and no one will be asking you for TPS Reports.

- Have you tried Mozilla's new all encompassing messaging Firefox plugin Snowl yet?? If so, do you like it? If not, get it... here.

- Hey, GT favs Motico (who just happen to be featured in the mix above) are playing tonight @ Rocky's Rock Star Bar (Corner of S. 5th St & Kent Ave, pretty much directly underneath the Williamsburg Bridge). The show starts at 10 PM. Also playing is Frederick/Kim Project (sorry no link). This show is free.

- If you like the idea of a Seaweed/Dinosaur Jr. supergroup... you gots to check out LI's own Sleepwall @ BOAWS... here. Listen: "Sleepwalkers" (toxic pop mp3)

We Are Young By The Shaky Hands

Following up on yesterday's theme of Daytrotter session songs that I really like (which happen to have jangly guitars in them), today I post a track from the upcoming (Sept. 9) release from The Shaky Hands. The album is called Lunglight. It will look like this:



Downloadable: "Loosen Up" (removed at the request of Kill Rock Stars)

KRS Approved Downloadable: "We Are Young" (box.net mp3) (source: krs)

You remember The Shaky Hands, right?

- They had that name fight with indiewavers Cut Off Your Hands.

- They had that awesome Daytrotter session a while back.

- They were featured on GT's Top 11 Downloadables That Were Not Freakin' Everywhere in 2007... here. If you don't feel like downloading the zip in that post, get the featured Shaky Hands track... here.

Myspace page is here.
Holocene Music page is here.
Kill Rock Stars is here.
Daytrotter Session is here.
Emusic page is here.

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- Watch The Mae Shi perform "Run To Your Grave" (box.net mp3) at Whartscape 2008... here. Thanks Beatbots A/V Club.

- Listen-O-matic:
"Wet Gold" (fanatic mp3) by Octopus Project
"Connjur" (ghostly mp3) by School Of Seven Bells
"The Runaround" (better looking mp3) by Thomas White

- Chromewaves check out Bodies Of Water... here.

- The Believer Magazine's music issue CD listing is... here. Expect some posting about these tracks peppered through out the blog-o-web soon.

Electric Arc By Oxford Collapse

The new Oxford Collapse album BITS is out. It looks like this:



Downloadable: "Electric Arc" (box.net mp3)

What can I say? I fucking love this track. Is it the thundering bass? Is it the jangly guitars? Is it the chorus stuck in my head? 'Dunno. I (can't?) remember when it was just an unreleased ditty made available on Daytrotter. I have seen it referred to as "Electric Art" (on Amazon) and "Electric Air" (on Fluxblog), but will use the track name from the Sub Pop interwebsite.

Oh yeah, and the rest of the album is pretty good too. Buy it here.

Myspace page is here.
Sub Pop page is here.
Comedy Minus One is here.
Flame Shovel is here.
Daytrotter session is here.
Emusic page is here.

Oxford Oldie BONUS: "The Tribal Rites Of The New Saturday Night" (box.net mp3)

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- The blog Surviving The Golden Age also posts about BITS... here, and posts the track "Young Love Delivers".

- Watch Beck's new vid for my favorite track on Modern Guilt, "Gamma Ray"... here.

- Some Dude named Will Bevan is Burial. Big woop... here.

- S'gum posts some new Crystal Stilts (plus some deets on then new album)... here. Me too, me too: "Crystal Stilts" (slumberland mp3).

- Live Peej from Big Day Out 2001 @ captain's dead... here.

- Two All Beef Whaaa? WTF!

- Do you want some Chromeo to rub on that? "Bonafied Lovin' (Yuksek Remix)" (vice mp3)

Electric Car Gas Guitar By dinowalrus

What have I got for you today? New New New noisy weirdness from dinowalrus a/k/a DINOWALRUS d/b/a DINO WAL RU S!



Downloadable: "Electric Car Gas Guitar" (box.net mp3)

What are you doing this Tuesday? Why not see dinowalrus @ The Cake Shop?

They are playing with The Electric Tickle Machine, Teenage Souls, and Hiss Golden Messenger as part of the POGO in TOGO series. Doors are @ 8pm. It only costs FOUR dollars.

BEAD-y BEAD-y BONUS:
"BEAD" (dinowalrus mp3)
"BEAD" (youtube)

Myspace page is here.

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- The latest After The Jump recording from nyctaper features The Forms... here.

- Listen to a Wilco work in progess @ YANP... here. Sounds like it needs some work.

- Get four unreleased Walkmen tracks @ daytrotter... here.

- Covert Curiosity posts a bevy of mp3s featuring remixes of the music of Ratatat... here.

- FYI: Berkeley Place has moved... here.

- The blog ÜberDrivel posts a review (with lots and lots of pics) of the big ass Todd P show @ The Yard. Read part 1 (here) and part 2 (here).

- Do you really want to read this on a kindle? heh heh heh.

- Sixeyes has a large Sunday mix... here. Check out the rips of Spoon's performance on Sound Opinions. Excellent.

Where Do You Run To By Vivian Girls

I heard this track a while back and it is really starting to make the rounds on the blogs, so I post.

Downloadable: "Where Do You Run To" (box.net mp3) by Vivian Girls

If you missed them last night here is the info for their next Todd P show:

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Wednesday August 20th @ DEATH BY AUDIO

:: Vivian Girls
:::: BEST FRIENDS FOREVER --> http://myspace.com/bestfriendsforeverandfriends

[ DEATH BY AUDIO ]
49 S 2nd St btwn Wythe & Kent | Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L-Bedford, JM-Marcy, G-Metropolitan | 8pm | $TBA | ALL AGES

They kinda remind me of Tiger Trap. Here's a Tiger Trap mp3 for comparison purposes.

Downloadable: "Sour Grass" (box.net mp3)

Myspace page is here.
In The Red is here.
Plays With Dolls' myspace is here.
Woodsist is here.
Mauled By Tigers is here.
Pukekos post is here.

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- New New New Of Montreal @ Forkcast... here.

- Quick Before It Melts posts 4 for the weekend... here. I like The Telepathic Butterflies track.

- Swan Fungus posts his top ten records of 2008 so far... here.

- Listen to "Silver Tiles" performed live by Matt & Kim @ The Sound Of Indie... here.

- Listen to the latest Fiasco... "Oh You Horny Monster" (impose mp3).

- Watch the latest Yelle vid (it's for "Ce Jeu")... here. Props to Big Stereo.

The Jagjaguwar/Secretly Canadian/Dead Oceans Sampler Plate

Today I have prepared a nice sampler from the The Jagjaguwar/Secretly Canadian/Dead Oceans family of labels. Some are new, some are old, all are worth a listen.

"Walk Through A Cloud" (scjag mp3) by The Donkeys
"Dreaming Of The Plum Trees" (scjag mp3) by White Hinterland
"First Fantasy" (scjag mp3) by Citay
"A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise" (scjag mp3) by Phosphorescent

More Dead Oceans mp3s are here.

"Hey!" (scjag mp3) by The Impossible Shapes
"Taking The Farm" (scjag mp3) by The War On Drugs
"I Guess I'll Forget The Sound, I Guess, I Guess" (scjag mp3) by Bodies Of Water

More Secretly Canadian mp3s are here.

"Nowhere's Nigh (edit)" (scjag mp3) by Parts & Labor
"Black Rice" (scjag mp3) by Women

Lots more Jagjaguwar mp3s are here.

Oh Shit! Don't Forget Yr Brah! Ack I totally forgot side label Brah. Remember what they say... "If it doesn't suck, it's probably not on Brah."

"Preteen Weaponry (edit)" (scjag mp3) by Oneida
"Wicked Stepson" (scjag mp3) by The Dirty Faces

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- New Old New Jay Reatard... "See/Saw" (matador mp3) + his new singles comp deets are here.

- Raven Sings The Blues about Nothing People... here.

- SUCKAPANTS posts The Morning Benders and some great Critical Mass shots... here.