Is She There By Nodzzz

Today, I have a catchy little ditty for you. It comes all the way from San Francisco. It is by the band known as NODZZZ, who have been playing around the NYC area for the past few days. They have one more show to go. Here are the deets: 2PM at Underground Lounge 955 West End Ave @ 107th St $3 with Columbia ID $5 everybody else (presented by WBAR Barnard College Radio and Todd P). Also playing are Woods, Blank Dogs, and the mucho-hyped Wavves.

Listen: "Is She There" (box.net mp3)

The band's blogspot is here.
Make A Mess is here.
What's Your Rupture is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

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- Speaking of Wavves, nyctaper recorded their recent set @ Market Hotel... here.

- The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart new self titled LP gets the big thumbs up from Your Favorite New Song... here.

New Guitar By Mi Ami

SF dubpunks Mi Ami are coming to town next week. On Wednesday (2/11), they will play the Cakeshop with the athletic rhythm/action unit from Baltimore, Thank You (check out the BONUS below).... THEN a Todd P show the next night:

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Thursday February 12th @ MONSTER ISLAND BASEMENT

:: Thank You
:::: Mi Ami

| MONSTER ISLAND BASEMENT |
128 River St @ Metropolitan Ave | Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L-Bedford, G-Metropolitan, JM-Marcy | 9:30pm | all ages | $7

They are also making a stop at WFMU while they are in the area. Furthermore, available as of (uhhh) Tuesday on RCRD LBL is the latest in Mi Ami free mp3 technology. The Quaterstick's free mp3 for the same song went up yesterday (I think). Here it is.

Downloadable: "New Guitar" (box.net mp3)

Mi Ami's full length, Watersports is now available as an ADVANCE at eMusic. The LP is due to drop on Feb 17.

Quarterstick Records page is here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.
Old GT post is here.

Thank You BONUS: "Empty Legs" (thrill jockey mp3)

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- Mining The Audio Motherlode (vol. 2) is up @ WFMU's Beware Of The Blog... here.

- Holy SHIT, Paul's Boutique is 20 years old. This almost as bad as when I heard "The One I Love" (youtube) on WCBS. In order to make me feel old, The Beastie Boys have put together a remastered version of the album with tons more goodies. Streams, vids, store, and more stuff are... here.

Here is a "Johnny Ryall" flash card (click "flip" to stream the song):


- Stereogum has a new new new Wavves mp3... here. Wavves is in town tomorrow (and the next day and the next day) (with PTST Band of the Week, NODZZZ)!

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Friday February 6th @ MARKET HOTEL

:: Woods
:::: Blank Dogs
:::::: Wavves
:::::::: Nodzzz
:::::::::: Gary War

| MARKET HOTEL |
1142 Myrtle Ave @ Bdwy | Bushwick, Bklyn
JMZ-Myrtle, L-Jefferson, G-Mrytle/Willoughby | 8pm | all ages | $10
| MYSPACE |– http://myspace.com/markethotelnyc

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Saturday February 7th @ LESS ARTISTS MORE CONDOS

:: Blank Dogs
:::: Woods
:::::: Wavves
:::::::: Nodzzz
:::::::::: Gary War

| LESS ARTISTS MORE CONDOS |
132 West 3rd St @ 6th Ave | Greenwich Village, Manhattan
BDFVACE-West 4th St, 1-Christopher St | 8pm | all ages | $10
| MYSPACE |– http://myspace.com/lessartistsmorecondos

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Sunday February 8th –| 2PM |– @ UNDERGROUND LOUNGE

|| WBAR BARNARD COLLEGE RADIO PRESENTS

|| Blank Dogs
|||| Woods
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| UNDERGROUND LOUNGE |
955 West End Ave @ 107th St | Morningside Heights, Manhattan
1-110th St, B/C-110th St | –| 2PM |– | $donation | all ages

| organized by WBAR Barnard Radio |

This is what Watersports looks like

Pixies Vidtacular

We here at GT love things that are awesome (much like TSOYA). This here is the Pixies vidtacular. Vids, lots of 'em + Pixies. Watch them. They are awesome.

"Levitate Me (Live 1988)"


"Debaser"


"Monkey Gone To Heaven"


"Here Comes Your Man" (previously posted)


"Dig For Fire/Allison"


"Velouria"


"Head On (JAMC cover)"


Pixies on 120 Minutes in 1991 playing "UMASS" and "Planet Of Sound"


My Favoritest B-side Of Them All BONUS: "Into The White" (box.net mp3)

4ad page is here.
wiki wiki wiki here.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

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- indie mp3 has a Pains of Being Pure at Heart "smorgasboard"... here. Also featured are side projects The Metric Mile and The Depreciation Guild. Watch the latest Pains vid... here.

- Have you checked out the MBV meta mp3 blog, yet? It's pretty clean and readable (no ads, yay). It might create some likelihood of confusion. As far as I can tell, they have no affiliation with My Bloody Valentine, but hey those concerns are trumped by fair use. Dig it.

- Listen to the latest in promomp3 from The Middle States - "No Curse, No Drunk, No Fight" (team clermont mp3)

- I do not need to post THIS. It's friggin' everywhere. Damn you! LCD Soundsystem!

Everything With You By The Pains of Being Pure At Heart

On October 14, Slumberland Records is going to release the Everything With You 7" by indienoisepoppers The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart.

Listen: "Everything With You" (box.net mp3)

"Everything With You" sounds like an amalgamation of, well definitely MBV, but also a whole bunch of late 80's-early 90's college rock. At the same time, it does NOT sound dated. The b-side is the 'anthem' entitled, um... "The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart." Dig it.

Preorder the 7" here.

Myspace page is here.
Slumberland Records is here.
Slumberland's podcast is here.
Cloudberry Records is here.
Squirrel Records page is here.
eMusic page is here.

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- Read a Dear Science review... here (PTST) or here (AD).

- Gorilla Vs Bear gets the "Reckoner" (scotch mist youtube) Radiohead Remix Contest kicked off with remixes from Diplo, Julianna Barwick, and Flying Lotus... here. Radiohead's official is here.

- FYI... Product Shop NYC will become Stories In High Fidelity. Deets are here.

- There's a free Bob Dylan Track on Ye Olde Amazon... here.

- Studio 360 has an interesting story about the Clothes Spin Laundromat at the edge of New Orleans' French Quarter. It's the former home of J&M Records and a lot of music history. Listen: "The J&M Records Story" (wnyc mp3).

- NYC indie rockers French Kicks played themselves another WOXY Lounge Act... here.

Listen: "French Kicks @ WOXY" (lala mp3)
The Track Listing:
"Atlanta"
"Carried Away"
"Love In The Ruins"
Coming soon... on 9/30 Takka Takka plays The Lounge.

- Lastly, New New New Thievery Corporation: "Sound The Alarm" (box.net mp3)

Searching For The Now (Vols. 3-4) 7" Giveaway Featuring Sometimes I Think About You By A Sunny Day In Glasgow

Time for another giveaway.

This time it's all indie pop all the time with Volumes 3 & 4 of the Searching For The Now split single series from Slumberland Records.

Deets on Searching For The Now 4 are here. It features The Pains of Being Pure At Heart and Summer Cats. Maybe you checked out The Pains mp3 I posted here.

Deets on Searching For The Now 3 are here. It features A Sunny Day In Glasgow (performing a Pastels cover) and The Sunny Street.

To enter leave a comment! Contest ends in three weeks.

Listen: "Sometimes I Think About You" (box.net mp3) By A Sunny Day In Glasgow

If you want the 7" right now, you can order them here.

A Sunny Day In Glasgow myspace page is here.
Misojos Discos is here.
A Sunny Day In Glasgow eMusic page is here.

A Sunny BONUS In Glasgow:
"Watery (Drowning is Just Another Word for Being Buried Alive Under Water)" (asdig mp3)
"Panic Attacks Are What Make Me 'Me'(Solus Remix)" (asdig mp3)

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- Check out an oldie Cat Power 7" @ Pukekos... here.

- New New New Calexico... "Two Silver Trees" (t&g mp3)

- Check out some Deleted Scenes @ IA... here.

- Tullycraft bring you a track by birthday boy Steve Albini's band Big Black... here.

- PTST has a Siren recap... here.

- Milk Milk Lemonade profiles The Harvey Girls... here.

- The reason youtube exists.

- Another Sixeyes mix? Yep... here.

A Sunny Day In Glasgow In Tape

Topps By BOAT

So another track from BOAT's Topps EP is floating around the internets.

Downloadable: "Topps" (box.net mp3)

Personally, I was never that into baseball cards. I just liked the dried out gum that came in the pack of cards. The gum is also available in the deluxe packaging for the Topps 7". Yum.

Also, if you haven't checked out "Four Beds For BOAT", click here.

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

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- Verve Remixed 4 Contest Random Drawing Is Complete! David! You Win! Send Me Your Address! My Contact Info Is On The Sidebar Of The Main GT Page! (psst... new contest coming soon. hint hint).

- Raven Sings The Blues posts Hardly Art-ers The Dutchess And The Duke... here. Me Too, Me Too: "Reservoir Park" (hardly art mp3)

- GT Vids Vids Vids LinkFEST
(Must See Them Live) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart @ Cake Shop... here.
(You Can Call Me) "Flynn" by Ratatat... here.
(Friggin Lasers!!) "House of Cards" by Radiohead... here.
(If only she left the mask on) "Left Behind" by CSS... here.
(Non-lipsynching Awesomeness) "Here Comes Your Man" by Pixies... here.
(No Parenthetical Needed) Four SP20 Live Vids!... here. Related: KEXP Roundup of SP20

Come Saturday By The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Welcome to Saturday.

This being Saturday, I bring a Saturday song. For your listening pleasure, a slightly noisy indie pop song by The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart.

Listen: "Come Saturday" (box.net mp3)

You may remember The Pains (abbr. mine) from such posts as, well... this one post here.

The song above is from the Slumberland Records Searching For The Now 7" series. Deets about that are here.

Expect a full length from The Pains later this year.

Myspace page is here.
Slumberland Records is here.
Slumberland's podcast is here.
Cloudberry Records is here.
Squirrel Records page is here.
eMusic page is here.

The BONUS with one pretty good song title and one awesome song title:
"Orchard Of My Eye" (cloudberry mp3)
"Kurt Cobain's Cardigan" (box.net mp3)

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- The Passion Of The Weiss posts a new remix of "The Healer" by Erykah Badu featuring Pharoahe Monch... here.

- Awesome, the Single Of The Week over at The Finest Kiss is "Topps" by BOAT... here.

- F Yeah-ers, Team Robespierre has a poppy new mp3 available at p'fork... here.

The L Magazine's 8 NYC Bands You Need To Hear (In 2008)

I finally got around to skimming the The L Magazine's 8 NYC Bands You Need To Hear issue. Here is a quick review of the bands featured (with links and when available, mp3s).

High Places have been buzzed and blogged about for awhile now (47 posts here). I am really liking them, although as I was listen to them the other day I was told by a fellow listener "I don't think I could listen to too much of this. It is too cute." AND this from someone who likes Psapp. I digress. Drrrr.
Listen to some experimental tweedub: "Golden" (box.net mp3)

Representing the grittier Todd P/SUCKAPANTS-y contingent of NYC bands is Team Robespierre.
Listen to their electropunk: "88th Precinct" (mp3)

The one band that was selected that I had not heard but am now pretty excited about is The Lisps. Dig their indie folkrock chops.
Listen: "Pepper Spray" (mp3)

I was also interested to read about Violens, who sprang from the corpse of Lansing-Dreiden. They are definitely are coming at it from the poppier-less-proggy side of things this time.
Listen to something "Sunnier": "Violent Sensation Descends" (mp3)

If you are going to use a cookie name for a band, I personally would go with Hydrox, and not Famous Amos. Anywhoo... you can stream some of their songs @ their Myspace. Listen to "Everywhere", then if you like, pick up their album @ Sound Fix.

Just the band name, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, sounded so very very twee I could taste the cute in my mouth. But hey, they pull it off.
Listen: "Doing All The Things That Wouldn't Make Your Parents Proud" (box.net mp3)

Then there is the catchy indie pop of This Is Ivy League. Not for me... maybe for you??
Listen: "London Bridges" (mp3)

And lastly, La Strada who are often compared to a certain band named after a certain Middle Eastern city and I ain't talking about Yazd. Listen to them at the Myspace.

AND HEY The L Magazine, what about these bands??

Indie rockers, Susu.
Listen: "Hands Up (The Race)" (box.net mp3)

Pyschpop'ers, Flying.
Listen: "Minors" (mp3)

Postpunkers, Motico (who need to start playing some shows damnit).
Listen: "The Wandering Jew" (mp3)
(If you're worried about the title, don't. They're like 80% Jewish).

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- ROCK MATH! Postpunk + New Wave = Cut Off Your Hands/Split Endz. Listen: "Shark Attack (Split Endz Cover)" (mp3)

- Let the 90's Nostalgia Begin!! I'm gonna bust out my decaying Pavement tshirt and listen to some (not all, ughhh don't think I could) of captain's dead 90's mixes. Part 1... here. Part 2... here. Two more parts to come.

- Where do I go from my Lips And Ribs? Why XXJFG, of course... here. Also with Deathsquad and Hour Of Worship

- Former Test Icicle, Lightspeed Champion does Daytrotter... here.

- Here's a "Free Sampler of new Asthmatic Kitty Artists" (zip). More about that... here. I can't stop listening to Ermasse track: "Courez Courez" (mp3)

- There is a vid of my favorite White Williams song "New Violence" @ Stereogum... here.

- FSRN has a "May Day Special" (mp3) about workers around the world.