When Your Mask Is Your Revealing Feature By The Oranges Band

The Oranges Band's newest album... The Oranges Band Are Invisible is gonna have it's official release (I think) later this year, but you can already get your hands on it here or here. In case you missed it, I posted one track from the album last year. Here is another track with a pretty different feel to it. I can't quite put my finger on the reference Mr. Kuebler is making here. It will come to me sometime after the post goes up. Anyway, listen to this...

Downloadable: "When Your Mask Is Your Revealing Feature" (box.net mp3)

Myspace page is here.
Every7th is here.
Lookout Records page is here.
Morphius page is here.
eMusic page is here.

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- Dark Meat's session de la Daytrotter can be found... here.

- Chunklet posts a Peel Session from post-Minutemen project fIREHOSE ... here.

- Leaky Leaky... here.

- Best Of 2008: Top Ten Albums From Northeast Ohio @ I Rock Cleveland... here; also The Awards post... here.

- Best Of 2008: Best Album Cover Art @ musicisart... here.

- Best Of 2008: OFF THE RECORD's Top 20 Albums... here.

- Best Of 2008: Skatterbrain looks back at the year... here.

- Best Of 2008: Out The Other's favorite songs... here and herr and here and here and here.

- Best Of 2008: Sound Bites' Best of Singles, Tracks + EPs... here.

- Best Of 2008: The (rest of the) Top Songs @ Surviving The Golden Age... here and here and here.

- Best Of 2008: Best Remixes @ PMA... here.

- Best Of 2008: A recap of Tullycraft's top 10 songs... here.

- make.tv is on the air and the first episode has a harp made with lasers (for a Newsom-bot?) plus the obligatory VCR powered cat feeder... here.

- RANDOM REPOST: "Teenage FBI" (mp3) by Guided By Voices

To The Stars! To The Night! By Le Loup

I saw Le Loup open last night for Stereolab. Even though they are down two band members (or was it three?) AND there were some issues with Sam's electronics, they pulled off a great show. It was much more rockin' than the recorded Le Loup, but hey that's fine with me.

Downloadable: "To The Stars! To The Night!" (box.net mp3)

Streamable New Songs @ NPR: "Beach Town" and "A Celebration"... here.

Purchase the CD The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium Assembly from Sub Pop here or Hardly Art here.

Myspace page is here.
Hardly Art page is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
(Non-US) eMusic page is here.

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- Pics of These Are Powers and Dark Meat and an mp3 by crazy Israelis Monotonix @ SUCKAPANTS... here.

- Check Groove Cookie's weekly mix... here.

- And hey, why not? an mp3 from Clinic... "The Witch" (domino mp3)

The McLaughlin Group By Andrew WK

Did you listen to "Andrew WK on Fair Game" (box.net mp3) when I posted about it... here? If not, you missed some best the 50 some odd seconds of "over-the-top rockulism" this year.

Listen: "The McLaughlin Group" (box.net mp3)

This is the lyrical core of the song:

If it happens Pat
May he rest in piece peace
Death comes in the night
On little cat's feet
The next man on the moon will be Chinese

Listen to the whole Fair Game clip (above) to find out what it means. As to getting it out of your head, that's your problem.

Andrew WK's official site is here.
Myspace page is here.
Load Records page is here.
Read about Andrew's possible hairpiece and some other weird shit at his wiki.

Load BONUS: "Big Party" (mp3)

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- So, Low Scores (formerly Bulk Buttons) failed to be chosen for the Jamie Lidell remix contest. Wanna hear what was prolly a little too weird for Jaime? "a little bit of feel good (ls remix)" (mp3)

- New New New * No Age + Religious Knives = XXJFG... here. Speaking of No Age, the Cloak/Dagger album is entitled No Age. Does this album sound like No Age? Find out @ CYSTSFTSS... here.

- More No Age. Watch them play Juan's Basement @ p'fork tv... here. Speaking of p'fork, did you see them profiled in Businessweek... here. Sellouts! (I kid, I kid). Also new at p'fork, they posted by Sinkane led Sudanese immigrant Ahmed Gallab... here. Listen: "Autobahn" (p'fork mp3).

- Vice Records has two free mp3 you might want to check out. Both are from their new "gigantic band" division:
"Three Eyes Open" (vice mp3) by Dark Meat
"Torture" (vice mp3) by King Khan & The Shrines

- Captain's Dead has a kickass boot of Ugly Casanova (one Isac/Isaac Brock). Make sure you listen to bluegrassed-up version of "Styrofoam Boots"... here. Listen: "Things I Don't Remember" (sub pop mp3)

- Instrumental Analysis has a review of Double Dagger's live show... here. Listen: "Rearranging the Digital Deck Chairs (Live on WFMU)" (mp3)

- NEVVER posts "Shake Shake" by The Coathangers... here. Want more Coathangers?? Watch "Tonya Harding" (vimeo)

- New New New Grizzly Bear @ EAR FARM... here.

- White Demin "mess you hair up" @ spinner... here.

- Hey UK, The Black Lips (through BoobySands) have posted a sing along version of "Bad Kids" (youtube).

- Whoa! ATP + MBV in NY

- More free NIN... here. Remix it... here.

- Bushwick Is Beautiful makes the case for the electrofolk stylings of Goldfrapp on vinyl... here.

Well Fuck You Then By Dark Meat

So, this is Dark Meat (a/k/a Dark Meat Vomit Lasers Family Band):


I get the feeling that they like these:


What do you think?

Downloadable: "Well Fuck You Then" (vice mp3)

Vice Records is here.
Paper Thin Walls 'single file' is here.
Emusic page is here.

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- The Daily Growl has a post dedicated to the #1 four letter word, f-u-c-k... here.

- Thee Oh Sees sing the blues over at Raven Sings The Blues... here.

- Have you seen pitchfork.tv yet? If not, this is a good place to start.

- Brooklyn Vegan has some South Street Seaport 2008 dates (hint hint... Atlas Sound, APTBS, others)... here.

- The Music Slut has a link to The Muggabears talking out the evils of the major label deal + one mp3... here.

Did you see Dark Meat yesterday? Well, they are playing tonight: