Peter Morén signs to Quarterstick (Bjorn & John unavailable for comment)

Great news about our fave PB&J member:

From the press release:

On April 8, 2008, Quarterstick Records will release the highlyanticipated solo album from Peter Morén, the lead singer of Swedish indie megastars Peter Bjorn and John.

The Last Tycoon may be Peter’s first solo album, but it has beenseveral years in the making. Throughout the hectic years of songwriting, recording and touring with Peter Bjorn and John in support of their infectious breakout album, Writer’s Block, Peter never rested. What emerged from that period is an intimate 10-track collection of delicateand introspective songs from one of the most promising young storytellers of the decade.

Recorded and mixed over two years in tiny apartments and rehearsalstudios in Sweden and the U.S., The Last Tycoon is built around the basic foundation of Peter and his guitar. The album has a distinctly homemade feel that feeds from the folk singer-songwriter tradition but still incorporates strings, synthesizers, vibraphones, percussion, amusical saw, and even a drum machine or two.

Peter will be bringing his charming folk-pop to the South by Southwest Festival in March and a handful of select cities this spring.

Nice.

Peter Bjorn & John with Nicole Atkins - "Young Folks (Live in Hoboken)" mp3

Scion Daptone Remix Collection Giveaway!

Scion has partnered with indie funk and soul label Daptone Records to launch Scion CD Sampler Vol. 19 - Daptone Records Remixed, a double CD-set compilation including nine exclusive remixes of various artists, along with the nine original recordings. In keeping with the spirit of supporting independent music initiatives that underpin the Scion A/V label, all proceeds from this release will go directly back to the artists on the Daptone Records label.

Scion has enlisted the help of today's hottest DJs and remixers to produce the unique sounds on Scion CD 19 including Mark Ronson, Kenny Dope, Mad Professor, Afrodisiac Soundsystem, Ticklah, Hank Shocklee, DJ Spinna and Bull Jun (remix features vocal by Large Professor). Listeners can expect to hear exclusive remixes of original Daptone artists such as The Budos Band, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, The Daktaris and The Sugarman Three & Co.

Dig the tracklisting:

CD 1 Daptone Remixes

1. The Budos Band - Chicago Falcon (The Washington Sq. Lads Remix) feat. Wale*

2. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Keep On Looking (Kenny Dope Remix)

3. The Daktaris - Eltsuhg Ibal Lasiti (Mad Professor Remix)

4. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Stranded In Your Love (Cool Calm Pete - Sweet Nothing Mix)

5. The Sugarman Three & Co. - Take It As It Come (Featuring Charles Bradley) (Afrodisiac Soundsystem Remix)

6. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - How Long Do I Have To Wait For You? (Ticklah Remix)

7. The Budos Band - T.I.B.W.F. (Hank Shocklee Remix)

8. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - My Man Is A Mean Man (DJ Spinna Remix)

9. The Sugarman Three & Co. - Bosco's Blues (Bull Jun Remix) feat. Large Professor* Remixed by Mark Ronson for Allido Sound

CD 2 Daptone Originals

1. The Budos Band - Chicago Falcon (taken from "The Budos Band II", DAP-011)

2. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Keep On Looking (taken from "100 Days, 100 Nights", DAP-012)

3. The Daktaris - Eltsuhg Ibal Lasiti (taken from "Soul Explosion", DAP-009)

4. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Stranded In Your Love (taken from "Naturally", DAP-004)

5. The Sugarman Three & Co. - Take It As It Come (Featuring Charles Bradley) (taken from "Pure Cane Sugar", DAP-002)

6. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - How Long Do I Have To Wait For You? (taken from "Naturally", DAP-004)

7. The Budos Band - T.I.B.W.F. (taken from "The Budos Band", DAP-005)

8. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - My Man Is A Mean Man (taken from "Naturally", DAP-004)

9. The Sugarman Three & Co. - Bosco's Blues (taken from "Pure Cane Sugar", DAP-002)

I'm a big fan of Scion mix CD's, and as a Scion xB owner with a copy of the above disc, I can vouch first-hand that the remixes sound TREMENDOUS booming from a decent soundsystem.

extrawack! would like to give ten lucky readers a copy of this sweet double disc set. The first ten emails to extrawack@gmail.com with the subject "Scion Daptone" will get 'em. Contest open to U.S. residents only. Sorry Republic of Yemen!

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Stranded In Your Love (Cool Calm Pete - Sweet Nothing Mix) mp3

The Budos Band - "Chicago Falcon" mp3

Hit Me On My iPhone.

This song and video are genius. If you are like me and your iPhone makes you feel like you are dating Judy Jetson and you're a couple weeks away from your first jet-pack, you'll feel it right away.

If you are an iHater, you'll still probably be singing the hook for the rest of the day. (credit via)



Bonus phone action:

Dengue Fever - "Tiger Phone Card" mp3
courtesy Alankomaat

Maxwell's Serves Cheeseburger To Hoboken Next Friday

I'm pleased to present to you an early contender for "Gig Flyer Of The Year":


Seriously...Groundhogs, tassled burlesque girls, and Bill Murray? Sweet.

I missed all the madness and mayhem at Cheeseburger's last area performance, which was the infamous "Jinners.com 5th Year Anniversary Party" early last month. I'm told the club is still finding bits and pieces of party debris from that night in various corners of the venue.

So yeah, how can I miss The 'Burger in the Dirty Jerz? See you there.

Cheeseburger - "Easy Street" mp3

Adele Covers The Strokes...Album Out This Week

An album I've been hearing bits and pieces of, and loving, is 19 from Adele, which comes out later this week on XL Recordings.

Winner of the first Brit Awards "Critics’ Choice" prize last month, Adele appeared this past week on BBC One's Live Lounge with Jo Whiley, and was both charming and fun, and seemingly not yet affected by the hype machine that is churning all around her these days. And what an amzing voice...

Fun fact learned on the show:

Although from Tottenham, Adele supports Chelsea FC. Hmmm.

Another fact she spilled was that her favorite live band is The Strokes, and she thinks their drummer "is buff".

Here's a pretty great cover from that appearance:

Adele - "Last Nite (BBC Live Lounge Strokes Cover)" mp3

Over 500 Bands Confirmed For SXSW

I'm lucky enough that my job will take me to SXSW again this year, and now that the flights and rooms are all booked, I thought I'd poke around the Internets to see what the band rumors look like two months out.

Austinist and Done Waiting usually do pretty good jobs of keeping track of what's happening down there, but the Club Kingsnake site has over 500 bands listed as confirmed! Here's the list as they show it, with a couple MP3's thrown in by us for good measure:


Confirmed for SxSW 2008, per Club Kingsnake:

1/2ALIVE

3 Pill Morning

$olal

AA Bondy - "There's A Reason" mp3

Abstract Artimus

Adai

AFROBOTS

Aim Low Kid

Akala

alamo race track

ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO

Alex Wong

Alina Simone

All Time Low

AM

ambeR rubarth

An Albatross

Ana Egge

A.ONE

A Place to Bury Strangers

Ari Shine

Arp

Arrah and The Ferns

Artifact Shore

Ash Grunwald

Asleep, Audience... Dream!

AudioPuppet

Audrey Ryan

Austin Willacy

Autokinton

A VERSE UNSUNG

A Weather

Axel Krygier

Awkward Stage Band

Bad Veins

BALD EAGLE

BATTLEFIELDS

Barara Mason

Bass Line Bums

Bear Hands

Bedroom Walls

Bella

BIG BEN

bildmeister

Bill Reveles

Birds and Batteries

Birdmonster

Birthday Suits

Bjorn Torske

Black and White Years

Black Diamond Heavies

Black Helicopter

Black Hollies

Black Joe Lewis

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Black Mountain

BLAGGARDS

Bleach

Blitzen Trapper

Blue Mountain

Blue Skies For Black Hearts

Bon Iver

Born Ruffians

Bowerbirds

British Sea Power

Broken Teeth

Buddy Akai

Built For The Sea

BUL!M!ATRON!

Bump

Bun B

By All Means Necessary

BY-PASS [trazi pevaca]

Cadence Weapon

Caleb Engstrom

Call To Mind

Capitol K

CAPSULA

Carbon/Silicon - "What the Fuck" mp3

Carlis Star

Carolyn Mark

Carrie Rodriguez

Car Stereo Wars

Cary Brothers

Caspian

Cassettes Won't Listen

cerebral vortex

CHIEF

Chester French

Cheveu

Child Bite

Chris Ayer

Chris Masterson

Chris Pierce

Christopher Rees

Circle Takes The Square

Close To Home

Cloud Cult

clueLess

COBRA KRAME$

Colin Gilmore

Coliseum

Colour Revolt

Consider The Source

Constants

Cool Kids

Coop

CopaCrescent

Cracker Creeptacular

Cut Copy

Dandi Wind

Daniel Folmer

Daniel Lanois

Danny Everitt

dans la lune

Dan Wilson

Daphne Willis

DARK MEAT

Daryl Hall

Dave Arcari

David Banner

David Latimer

Dawn Thomas

Dead Confederate

DEAD END LAKE

DEADMAN

Delta Spirit

Detroit7

DeVotchKa

Diane and the shell

Die! Die! Die!

DIGITAL LEATHER

DJ Ashen

DJ Gina Turner

Drift Effect

DRIVE A

driving by night

Droids Attack

Dokkebi Q

Dolly Parton

Doug Walker

Dozal Brothers

dreamend

DRIVE A

Dustin Cash Band

Earth Dies Screaming

edison glass

elephone

E Jesus De Magico

Elisa Nicolas

El Remolon

ESTAW

Eugene Mirman - "Standup, Live At Caroline's" mp3

Evangelicals

Experimental Aircraft

Ezra Furman & the Harpoons

Fanfarlo

Film School

Firewater

First Communion Afterparty

Fishboy

Foreign Born

Forever The Sickest Kids

Fleet Foxes

Frightened Rabbit

Frikstailers

Frontier Ruckus

Future Clouds and Radar

Gallows

Gasoline Cowboy

Geoff Koch

Genghis Tron

Gentleman Auction House

Gin Palace

Ginsu Wives

Git Some

Gliss

Goes Cube

Gorch Fock

Great Lakes Myth Society

Greg Laswell

Hanne Hukkelberg

Headlights

Health

HEARTSREVOLUTION

Heroes and Madmen

hey Negrita

Hey Willpower

Hillary Johnson

Holy Fuck

Hospital Bombers

Hotel Cafe Tour

Hot Water Music

Hypernova

I and I (Dee Rail & Fat Tony)

INFRAKT

Ingrid Michaelson

IDLEMINE

If Bricks had Wings

Intrinzik

It Lives!

Ivy League

Jahcoozi

Jammin

Jandek

Javelins

Jay Nash

Jay Reatard

Jens Lekman

jenni alpert

Jessie Baylin

Jimi Bianco

Joe Lean and The Jing Jang Jong

Joel Eckels

Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit,

Jonny On The Rocks

JOSHUA RADIN

Junius

Justice Yeldham

JUSTIN RUTLEDGE

Justin Townes Earle

KADDISFLY

KAM

Kaki King

Kate Bradley

Kate Havnevik

Kelly Dalton

Ketchup Mania

Kid Dakota

Kim Hiorthøy

Kirkland

Kitty, Daisy and Lewis

Kori Withers

KOSHA DILLZ and C RAYZ WALZ

Krizz Kaliko

Kutt Calhoun

KXP

Kyler England

LA Riots

Laromlab

Laura Barrett

Laura Gibson

Lava Children

Lebanon

Le Castle Vania

Le Concorde

Le Loup

liam finn

Libbie Schraeder

LIES IN DISGUISE

Lightspeed Champion

Like Dogs

Limbeck

Lindsay Jane

Lindstrom

LIONS

Lipstick Terror

Living Legends

Liz Clark

Long Live Logos

Loquat

Los Llamarada

Lou Reed

LoveLikeFire

Love Takes Flight

LUCAS WALTERS

LUKE DOUCET

Lykke Li

Madras

Magic Bullets

Mala Rodriguez

Man Man

Maps and Atlases

Maren Morris Band

Marla Hanson

Mason Proper

Mastangs

Matt Cox

MC Dizzee Rascal

MEIKO

MEN

menwhopause

Mezzanine Owls

MGMT

Michael McGarrah

Mike Rudolph

Minmae

Miz Metro

Moby

Money Waters

Monotonix

Moonrats

Morning State

MSTRKRFT

Mumpsy

Mud

MVSCLZ

My Brightest Diamond

My Morning Jacket

Nada Surf

necropolis

nels andrews

Neptune

N.E.R.D.

Nicole Atkins & the Sea

Nick Harrison

NOMATHMATICS

Nortec Collective

Nouvellas

NQ ARBUCKLE

Nude

Nyles Lannon

Office

Oh No! Oh My!

Old Man River

OLD TIME RELIJUN

One Dying Secret

Ouija Radio

Painkiller Hotel

Panda

Parts & Labor

Pash

Pasties

PAT TODD & THE RANKOUTSIDERS

Pato Banton

Paula Maya

Peelander-Z

People's Revolutionary Choir

Pete Robbins

Petty Booka

PFUNKT

Phosphorescent

Pikahsso

Pink Reason

Pinstripe

Plants & Animals

Please Quiet Ourselves

pleasant grove

Pookie from Urban South

Poor Bailey

Popup

Port O'Brien

Portugal The Man

Psycho DeVilles

Q-Tip

QUEERTOWN

QUIET LIFE

Quite Scientific

R.E.M.

Radar Bros.

Radio Moscow

Ra Ra Riot

Ralph ‘Soul’ Jackson

Ray Don

Record Hop

Remainder

Reykjavik!

richard henry

Riddle of Steel

Robot Koch

Robyn

Roslynn

Run Run Run

Russian Circles

RX BANDITS

RyKarda ParAsol & tHe ToWer RaVens

Sam Champion

Sarah Borges

sasa

SAVIOURS

Say Hi To Your Mom

SCANDAL

Scissors for Lefty

SCOUTS HONOR

Screamin' Cyn Cyn and the Pons

Sean Hayes

SECRET SHINE

Senryu

Shane Alexander

Shannon Hurley

Sharon Tates Baby

Shawn Sahm

Shelby Lynne

SHIROCK

Shootin Pains

SHOUT OUT OUT OUT

shurman

Sia

Sian Alice Group

Simian Mobile Disco

Simplistic Urge

Sleep Today

SMALLTOWN DJS

Smalltown Supersound

Solid Gold

Social Studies

Sonny

Sons & Daughters

Sons of the Gun

So So Modern

South

Southeast Engine

Steel Train

Steve E. Nix & The Cute Lepers

StrangeLights

Studemont Project

STUKA

Sue Foley

Sugar and Gold

Suicidal Poets

Sunny Day Sets Fire

SWATI

Switches

TAB

Tahmineh

Tapes n Tapes

Tech N9ne

Teenage Prayers

telling on trixie

Tera Melos

Tesco Vee

The A-Sides

THE AGGROLITES

Thee Armada

THE BEACHES

the Beauvilles

The Binary Marketing Show

The Blacks

The Black Crowes

The Black Keys

the bleedin bleedins

The Bloids

The Boss Martians

The Breeders

THE BROTHER KITE

The Choir Practice

The Coast

The Coma Recovery

The Constants

The Counterlife

The Cribs

the Dicks

The Dodos

The Donnas

The Duke Spirit

The Emeralds

THE ENGLISH BEAT

The Ettes

The Evelyns

The Femurs

The Feral Children

The Frantic

The Gusto

The Hands

The Hard Lessons

The Heavenly States

The Heavy

The HorrorPops

The Indelicates

THE JONS

The Kills

The Lemurs

The Lives of Famous Men

The Lovely Sparrows

The Matches

The Matt Truman Ego Trip

The Midgetmen

The Muslims

The Old Romantic Killer Band

The Pack, A.D.

The Pendletons

the pines

The Raveonettes

The Radishes - "Good Machine" mp3

the Republic Tigers

The Rocket Summer

The Ruby Suns

The Selmanaires

the shackeltons

THESE ARE POWERS

These New Puritans

The Silent Years

The Sleepers

The Super Insurgent Group of Intemperance Talent

The Soundtrack of Our Lives

the spinto band

the stationary set

The Stills

The Tex Mex Experience

The Tontons

the terrordactyls

The Unholy Two

The Valley Arena

The Vines

The Von Bondies

The Voom Blooms

The Western Paradise

The Whipsaws

They came from Taiwan

This Will Destroy You

THROW ME THE STATUE

THUNDERHEIST

Tiger! Tiger!

Times New Viking

To Jupiter!

Tom Gillams Tractor Pull

Tommy Womack

Transmography

Trash Fashion

Tripdavon

Tronik Youth

TWIN CRYSTALS

tWO gALLANTS

Two Loons for Tea

Tub Ring

Tungsten Coil

Tussle

Uffie

UNCROWNED

Under The Gun Punk

Unholy 2

United Steel Workers of Montreal

Union Trade

Vampire Weekend

Vancougar

Varo

Von Iva

Voxhaul Broadcast

WALE!!!

Warm in the Wake

Was (not Was)

Watershed

Weird Weeds

White Shoes and the Couples Company

White Williams

William Fitzsimmons

Wiretree

Withheld

Wooden Shjips

Wussy

Wye Oak

XANDER SINGH

Y-LOVE

Your Favorite Enemies

Ze Dos Frangos

That's right, I'm gonna get to see Dolly Parton, A Place To Bury Strangers, Scandal, and Bon Iver all within a couple blocks of each other. Sweet.

Photo courtesy Chromewaves.

Rockin' some Journey and The Outfield with Chromeo & Steve Jones

Two of my favorite things in life are Chromeo and Sex Pistol Steve Jones' Jonesy's Jukebox show on Indie 103.1 from Los Angeles. My personal stars aligned yesterday when I heard a rebroadcast of a show from last year, featuring the Montreal duo performing a short set of their songs and a few covers, while the remarkably insightful Jonesy jumped in occasionally on cowbell.

Check this version of Chromeo's "Mercury Tears" with a little Journey and The Outfield thrown in for fun:

Chromeo - "Mercury Tears (Indie 103.1 Journey/Outfield Mash)" mp3

and for kicks:

Chromeo - "Bonafied Lovin(David Wolf Mix)" mp3

Chromeo plays Bowery Ballroom January 26 & 28 (sold out).

Nick Lowe's "Jesus Of Cool" Gets Expanded & Reissued.

I know it's only the third week of the new year, but I have the feeling that the battle for "Best Reissue of 2008" is over, with the announcement of Yep Roc's Feburary 19 release date of Nick Lowe's Jesus Of Cool.

Jesus Of Cool was Nick Lowe's debut solo album, released in Europe in 1978, but when it came time to put it out in the States, Columbia Records freaked out about the "controversial" title, and put it out under the very apt name, Pure Pop For Now People, with a different track order and a couple song additions and subtractions. The album's personnel was Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Billy Bremner, and Terry Williams...whom fans of pub-rock history will recognize as the mighty Rockpile. Both versions of the album contained the infectious "So It Goes", which holds a place in modern music history as the first release on the influential Stiff Records label.

Yep Roc's 30th anniversary edition of Jesus of Cool includes "all the tracks from the original release in its original sequencing as well as the bonus tracks available on Pure Pop for Now People and other b-sides and rarities from that era," says the press release.

Check the 21-track line-up:

Music For Money
I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass
Little Hitler
Shake And Pop
Tonight
So It Goes
No Reason
36 Inches High
Marie Provost
Nutted By Reality
Heart Of The City (Live)
Shake That Rat
I Love My Label
They Called It Rock
Born A Woman
Endless Sleep
Halfway To Paradise
Rollers Shaw
Cruel To Be Kind (Original Version)
Heart Of The City
I Don't Want The Night To End

And Yep-Roc's offering these bonus tracks for pre-orders:
"Bay City Rollers We Love You" and "Allorolla" (by Nick Lowe side project Tartan Horde)
"Let's Go To The Disco" and "Everybody Dance" (by side project the Disco Brothers)

Pure and simple, this album is a pop masterpiece and proof that Lowe is one of the world's greatest living songwriters.

Lowe's famously been quoted in the NY Daily News as saying, "I didn't want to become one of those thinning-haired, jowly old geezers who still does the same shtick they did when they were young, slim and beautiful." I hereby implore Lowe to pull that shtick out of the attic, get Rockpile back together, hit the road, and show the indie-popsters how it's done.

Stream the reissue of Jesus Of Cool here.

Nick Lowe - "I Love My Label" mp3 pre-order here

Nick Lowe - "So It Goes" on German TV, 1982:

Elliot Smith + The Cure + The Postal Service = Josh Steinmetz

We get about a dozen emails every day with links to, or mp3s attached, of new music by folks hoping someone/anyone will take notice and talk about them. Many of them have pitch letters seemingly written by sixth-graders, creative writing majors, or English as a second language students...maybe I oughta start a collection of those beauts to post in the future.

Usually, the majority of the music is pretty uninteresting...certainly not worth investing the time to whip up a post and review here.

However, a track hit our in-box today that I've instantly fallen in love with. Here's the note it came with:

For fans of Bright Eyes, John Frusciante, Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, Imogen Heap, Daniel Johnston

9:NINE is the new album from singer/songwriter/ & multi instrumentalist Josh Steinmetz (released digitally and as 12" Vinyl) who for the past year has been shuttling between Minneapolis and Los Angeles touring and recording both by himself and with his band Origin of Species. This group of 9 Songs (recorded in 9 days) feels dark and moody and yet never mellow dramatic..but this music is undeniably a collection of indie pop of sorts. This is the new pop music: Eclectic sincere, complex, rough around the edges, and yet deceptively simple in a way that reminds one of the Cure. With bits and pieces of folk, electronica, rock, drum & bass, doo-wop and the list goes on.

A sharp pop sensibility that is reminiscent of Imogen Heap or Jon Brion combined with the kind of "indie­bedroom core" style found in the likes of the Brian Jonestown Massacre or Elliot Smith and Sparklehorse makes this limited edition release from Indie label Adamant Records something to take notice of.

Sounds like a pretty accurate description of what I've heard. Decide for yourself...Here's the track that grabbed my ear:

Josh Steinmetz - "Hypertenderly" mp3

UPCOMING SHOWS:

Feb 7 - Los Angeles - The Derby – 8pm

Feb 14 - Canoga Park, CA - The Cobalt Café – 8pm

Buckler & Foxton Bring "From The Jam" To NYC

Of all the shows I've been lucky enough to see in my lifetime, one of the top-five has to be The Jam at the old War Memorial in Trenton. The band was touring behind their album The Gift, and it was apparent that the band was not getting along. But what could have been a disasterous show and tour turned out to be quite the opposite, as the trio turned the anger into energy and that show was probably the fiercest barrage of angry sound I've ever witnessed. It was awesome. Even the sing-songy "Town Called Malice" was delivered with such force that the goofy new-wave dance-y types that showed up were perplexed as to what silly moves they should pull to stay in time. Did I mention that it was awesome?

Anyway, I'm reminded of that show because of the announcement of Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler's Paul Weller-less thirteen date From The Jam tour, which includes a NYC stop on February 9 at the Blender Theatre.

From the press release:

Foxton and Buckler pick up right where they left off, blazing through perennial favorites "That’s Entertainment," "This Is The Modern World," and many others while Hastings’ uncannily Weller-like vocals make this the closest thing to a Jam reunion as the world is likely to see. Buckler recently told LiveDaily, "We did make it known that, in the early stages, that the door was open to [Weller] anytime and still is, if he wanted to come along and have a bit of fun. But we didn't want to get tied up in the perception that if Paul wasn't involved then it couldn't happen...Our only concern was, how would the fans take to that sort of scenario? And we've found that they've been very happy with it. Most Jam fans have been waiting for this for a very long time."

Sounds good to me.

The new singer sounds uncannily like Weller (samples below), and normally the fact that they're replacing such an iconic voice with a soundalike would irk me, but The Undertones have done the same thing and the shows are a hoot. I'm willing to give them a shot.

TOUR DATES:
(with opener Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers)
01/24: San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
01/25: Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
01/26: Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre
01/29: San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
01/30: Portland, OR @ Alladin Theatre
02/01: Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
02/02: Vancouver, BC @ Richard’s on Richards
02/04: Chicago, IL @ The Abbey
02/05: Pontiac, MI @ Crofoot Ballroom
02/09: New York, NY @ Blender Theatre at Gramercy
02/11: Alexandria, VA @ Birchmere
02/13: Atlanta, GA @ Roxy Theatre
02/15: Dallas, TX @ Palladium Ballroom

From The Jam - "Going Underground (snippet)" mp3
From The Jam - "Start (snippet)" mp3

January's Baker Dozen Downloads w/ Big Dipper, Evangelicals, Colour Revolt, Kaki King, & More.

After a short break to recouperate from the holidays, we're back and badder than ever, with the first extrawack! Bakers Dozen Downloads of the Oh-Eight.

And for no reason whatsoever, here's a great shot of a baseball playing monkey.

Have at 'em!

Colour Revolt - "Naked and Red" mp3

Big Dipper - "She's Fetching" mp3

Collections of Colonies of Bees - "Flocks III" mp3

Kaki King - "Two O'Clock" mp3

Hunters, Run! - "Forgotten Souvenirs Of The Modern Age" mp3

The Dodos - "Fools" mp3

Via Audio - "Digital (Daytrotter Session)" mp3

The Autumns - "Boys" mp3

Sir Salvatore - "Townies" mp3

The Last Town Chorus - "It's Not Over (Jim Barber Remix)" mp3

State Bird - "What's All The Racket In Our Haunted Attic" mp3

Evangelicals - "Skeleton Man" mp3

The Shondes - "Don't Look Down" mp3