Saturday's Set: The Pigeon Detectives, Bears, It's a Musical, The Sounds, Tilly and the Wall, My Morning Jacket

The first three songs are recent, the others a bit older. It's all relative, my main concern being the hope you'll find some to enjoy. Click band names for more info.

The Pigeon Detectives - Romantic Type mp3 (pic)
Bears – Those Years mp3

It's a Musical - You Make Me Real mp3

The Sounds - Seven Days a Week mp3

Tilly and the Wall - Shake It Out mp3

My Morning Jacket – Off the Record mp3

Around the Blogosphere: Possible Pleasure-Inducing Aural Experiences

Almost certain pleasure awaits you among the hosted posteds listed below. Thanks, hostess and hosts, for this terrific music.

"Matt" over at You Aint No Picasso has a rich mix of "Songs No One Should Grow up Without." Here are the ones I like best. You'll most likely see others there you want to check out. (Click here to go to all of them.)
XTC – Senses Working Overtime - My God, what a song, a long-time fave!
Television – See No Evil – in case you missed it over at extrawack!
My Bloody Valentine – Only Shallow
The Smiths – Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One

They Might Be Giants - Take Out the Trash - The Modern Music
The April Skies - Memories Of Annabel - Indie-MP3 - The next one's at the same post.
Soda Fountain Rag - Walking With My Angel - Indie-MP3

that dog - Never Say Never - 5 Acts
Leslies - Take a Look - Mira el Péndulo
The Far Cries - Better Sorry than Safe - Coast is Clear

New Decade - I Guess You Ran Something - Swedesplease
The Winter Sounds - Windy City Nights - Untitled Records
The Voices - I'll Always Be Within You When There's No One Left Inside - The Runout Groove

Thorsday: Tegan and Sara, Lilys, The Capitol Years, Miracle Fortress, Hari and Aino, LadybiRds

Miracle Fortress

Yesterday I happily happened across links to a bunch of songs I've been enjoying for a good while, so I would like to share them over the next few days. Some of these are a bit long in tooth, but I hope you won't mind.

Tegan and Sara

I Bet It Stung mp3

Walking With a Ghost mp3

I Know I Know I Know mp3

Lilys

Claire Hates Me mp3

Tone Bender mp3

The Capitol Years
Mirage People mp3

You Can Stay There mp3

And while we're at it, here are three more-recent releases.

Miracle Fortress – Have You Seen in Your Dreams mp3

Hari and Aino – Second Song mp3

LadybiRds - The Brown and Red Divide mp3

Batty: Tiger Army, Great Lakes Myth Society, Asobi Seksu, The Ladybug Transistor, The Alkaline Trio

Somehow I lost contact with Spin.com's excellent site, so with this post I'm making up for lost time. Much musical enrichment still awaits you there. And in a desperate bid for some kind of thematic integrity, I pour in the potent Alkaline Trio at the end.

Tiger Army - Afterworld mp3 - These Angelenos don't look all that poppy, but this song is. Powerpoppers don’t always get to experience in-your-face bat action, so if you want it, here it is, come and get it. Shall we have a contest to name that last one who carpes the screen? Right, I didn’t think so either.

Great Lakes Myth Society - Debutante mp3 - Ann Arborites. Michiganders. Love that last word, wish I were one. (Note to self: Stop posting at 4:23 A.M. Ditzy.)

Asobi Seksu - Nefi+Girly mp3 - Brooklynites, love 'em. (pic)

The Ladybug Transistor - Always on the Telephone mp3 - Brooklynites, love 'em.

Alkaline Trio - Queen of Pain mp3 - Lately I just can't get enough of these Chicagoans. Am I going batty? Mebbe, but I still haven't posted "This Could Be Love." What a song.

Del Norte: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Luke Sneyd, Two Hours Traffic, The Special Pillow

Yasss, yasss, I know, staggeringly creative, but thanks for saying so.

God, I hate writing these blurbs, but here goes anyway. Sorry, that was graceless; let's try again. I was danged happy today to hear from several very talented folks, the fruits of whose excellent labors I am posting below. You've perhaps noticed I've got a thing going for New Yorkers The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (and I do feel your pain, Big Applers, trust me, this purity of heart thing is a total drag, but that first song down there shows you're working on it, and I'm sure you, too, can devolve and get surcease), so I was delighted to hear from guitarist/vocalist Kip Berman offering more tuneage, plus an upgraded mp3 of the one I posted Monday. Très cool and immensely satisfying.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Doing All the Things That Wouldn't Make Your Parents Proud mp3

Orchard of My Eye mp3

Likewise did I enjoy the product of Torontan Luke Sneyd, who, judging from that pic up there from his MySpace site, plays pretty much every instrument in his excellent songs. I'm posting two, but you can hear others here.

Luke Sneyd - All of Us Cities

The Prisoner mp3

Waiting mp3

I only got one downloadable from Prince Edward Islanders Two Hours Traffic, but it's a goodun, and you can ear more here. . .definitely worth the listen. I'm hoping eMusic will make nice with these guys, 'cause I'm definitely buying.

Two Hours Traffic - Little Jabs - Stuck for the Summer mp3

Finally, a couple of excellent songs from Hoboken, NJ veterans, The Special Pillow. Their MySpace site says their music comes in three flavors: sweet, sour, and psychedelic. Three out of three ain't bad. Two more downloadables await you at MySpace.

The Special Pillow - Sleeping Beauty

Your Dead City mp3

I Love Your Smile mp3

My visitors tend to be smart (I mean, obviously), so I probably don't need to mention that the collage up there shows the four acts in the order discussed. Click for zoomview/if you want to. P.S.: That's Kip on the far right of the TPOBPAH pic.

Caribou, Frank Black, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Robert Church and the Holy Community, Jets Overhead

Here are some recent finds I'm really enjoying. I included several of these in Around the Blogosphere posts and am glad to be able to link directly to them now. Have a great week, youse.

Caribou - Melody Day mp3 -Thanks to AngryApe. (pic)

Frank Black - Robert Onion mp3 - from the Frank Black 93-03 "best of" compilation released last week on Cooking Vinyl. Thanks to Glorious Noise.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Orchard of My Eye mp3 - This and the next are part of the fabulous series of 3-track EPs from Cloudberry Records.

Robert Church and the Holy Community - Steve mp3

Jets Overhead - Shadow Knows mp3 - Thanks to Spinner.com.

Around the Blogosphere/Chronosphere

Yasssss, maybe I'll just change the name of this silly little blog to "Around the Blogosphere" and be done with it. I hope you're not tiring of these AtB posts, but if so, don't blame me, it's these dadgum bloggers I frequent who keep posting all this great music. Here's what I mean:

Teenage Fanclub - Born Under A Good Sign + 3 more by the great Scots - Headphones On - Liz shows no sign of letting up, and that's a good sign indeed.

Let us now enter the Dalston Oxfam Shop, where Mr. Shopper has posted a superb blend of clandestine sounds from 1994. Below are my faves. Clicking on any of the following will take you to all of the following, plus eight more. I've gotta say I've never been much of an Oasis fan, but "Fade Away" I really like. I've never seen a brickbat, either, so if you're gonna hurl, at least show it to me first.
Ride – Let’s Get Lost – Dalston Oxfam Shop
Lush – The Childcatcher – Dalston Oxfam Shop
Oasis - Fade Away - Dalston Oxfam Shop
Frank Black – Freedom Rock – Dalston Oxfam Shop
Velvet Crush – This Life is Killing Me – Dalston Oxfam Shop
Lisa Germano – Energy – Dalston Oxfam Shop

If that isn't retro enough for you, how about setting the Wayback Machine to 1967, aka "The Summer of Love?" LG over at Ingrained Refrains has put together a superb post of 18 studio songs from the year, plus six live numbers from the legendary Monterey Pop Festival. All the major, and some minor, food groups are represented, so go feast. (The Beatles, The Doors, The Who, The Box Tops, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Jefferson Airplane, Harper's Bizarre, Jimi Hendrix, you get the pic.)

Finally, on the off chance you have spare time this weekend, a baker's handful more.
Spoon - Rhthm & Soul - I Am Fuel, You Are Friends (The next song's in the same post.)
Built to Spill - The Plan - I Am Fuel, You Are Friends
The La’s - I Can’t Sleep - You Aint No Picasso
The Garlands - You Never Notice Me - Indie-MP3
Citizens Here And Abroad - Appearances - mp3hugger
Mates of State - For the Actor - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good

I have one word to all these fabulously generous bloggers: Ta! (I first typed "MWAH," but, you know.)

Bedroom Eyes: Blink 182-180

The Eyes have It.

Bedroom Eyes was among my earliest posts and I’ve been enjoying the one-man band’s every song ever since. As the photo clearly shows, both eyes belong to Jonas Jonnson, who happens to be from Östersund, Sweden. (Twelve more are in play for live concerts.) BE/JJ has just released his second EP, Valentine Vacancy, and once again, he’s batting four-for-four. (Ja, sure, pun intended.) I’m posting my two favorites from VV and two more from the first EP, Embrace in Stereo. The rest can be found at the bandsite, where all are available for free downloading. Special thanks to Morten at Hits in the Car for the headsup.

Bedroom Eyes

Valentine Vacancy EP

Hand-In-Hand Grenade mp3

Norwegian Pop mp3

Embrace in Stereo EP

Blueprint for Departure mp3

Motorcycle Daydream mp3

Around the Blogosphere: Feeder, Bubble Puppy, Golden Dawn, Tribes of the City, thestar69, Robert Church & the Holy Community, Weezer

I've got some directs I'm dying to post but I want to put the following before you while there's time. Great thanks to the hostesses and hosts.

Feeder - Seven Days in the Sun - I Am Fuel, You Are Friends – If Heather's fabulous Summer Mix doesn't yank you out of the estival doldrums, Eddie Cochran may well have been right, there just ain't no cure.
Bubble Puppy - Hot Smoke & Sassafrass & Lonely - Raven Sings the Blues - for lovers of early Texas psych (S. Houston, M. B. Lamar, etc.); next band is in the same post
Golden Dawn - Starvation & My Time - Raven Sings the Blues – more Texas psych
Tribes of the City - A Day in the City & Waves - Coast is Clear
thestar69 - So What is the News - 5 Acts
Robert Church & the Holy Community - Steve - Mira el Péndulo
Weezer - Holiday - The Modern Music

Block Party: Little My, The Saturday Nights, Shake Some Action, Model Photographer, Chapterhouse

Da 'house

We continue our celebration of "writer's" block by proceeding straight to the music.

Little My – Do You Really Want to Go mp3 - Indie-MP3 posted "Cute Guts," and the Welsh band's website has lots more.

The Saturday Nights - Stranded mp3 - Once again, my mp3 player comes through with a nice random selection. Danke, Helmut.

Props to Gary at Seattle-Powerpop for the next three songs.

Shake Some Action - I Can See Where This Is Going Now mp3

Model Photographer

Hey, Girl mp3

Secret Club mp3

And finally, group gaze.

Chapterhouse - Breather mp3 - The Devil didn't make me do this, but He surely made it easier. Ta, Big Guy/Force. Tasty tuna/tuneage. And btw, that espew site's pretty danged cool, if'n you like lots and lots of music. If you don't, don't go there.

2, 4, 6, 8, We Want to Variegate: House + Parish, A Northern Chorus, Starlight Mints, Montag, Speedmarket Avenue

Purty.

There's quite a variegated mix here, so hopefully every palate will find something to satisfy. Omnivores might like it all.

House + Parish - What Am I Still Waiting For mp3 - Thanks to and take a hike over to Die Stagediven for two more.

A Northern Chorus - Skeleton Keys mp3 - Thanks to Jared at 5 Acts for the press release on the Team Clermont Summer Festival and Blue Ribbon Ball. More goodies are available at 5 Acts.
Starlight Mints - Pumpkin mp3

Montag - Best Boy Electric mp3 - Thanks to Discollective.

Speedmarket Avenue - Thanks to my mp3 player for randomly reminding me of these excellent Stockholmers on a late-night walk Saturday.
What Do You Know Now? mp3
You Set the Terms mp3
He´s a Rebel mp3

Around the Blogosphere: Teenage Fanclub, Teenagers in Tokyo, Celestial, The Radio Dept., Art Brut, Ultra Vivid Scene

Check these funsies before they're down and out. I for one extend sincere thanks to the munificent bloggers who are making them available.

Teenage Fanclub - What You Do to Me - Some Velvet Blog
Teenagers in Tokyo - Ended it Tonight - The Yellow Stereo
Celestial - Dream On - Heartache with Hard Work
The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief - The Yellow Stereo
Art Brut - I Will Survive - Good Hodgkins
Ultra Vivid Scene - Candida - The House of Leaf and Lime

All Mods: Built to Spill, The Soft Explosions, Dirty On Purpose, The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Once again, we'll moderate a bit on this putative day of rest.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Seer mp3

Built to Spill - Alarmed mp3 (pic)
The Soft Explosions - Heartbeat mp3
Dirty On Purpose - Mind Blindness mp3

Around the Blogosphere

Is that really my favorite New Order song heading the list? Oui. Lots of other groovy hosteds and posteds as well. Merci, hosts.

New Order - Love Vigilantes - The Modern Music
The Shins - Fighting in a Sack - Heartache with Hard Work
Camper Van Beethoven - Kingston Advice (Clash cover) - I Am Fuel, You Are Friends
Saves the Day - Clash City Rockers - Can You See The Sunset From The Southside? - Part of an excellent post of Clash covers. . .
Queens of the Stone Age - Avon - Indietastic

The Millenium - It's You & It Won't Always Be The Same - Raven Sings the Blues
The Sails - Best Day - Headphones On
Maps - You Don’t Know Her Name - The Yellow Stereo
My Sad Captains - Bad Decisions - Untitled Records - Featured in Mars Needs Guitars's "Untitled Records" post
Lucky Soul - Lips are Unhappy - 5 Acts

Back: Surefire Broadcast, The Lodger, The Grey Race, The Cobbs, Genepool

Bee-beep. The bird is running again, at least for now. Thanks for stopping by.

Surefire Broadcast - Hey Baby! mp3

The Lodger - Many Thanks for Your Honest Opinion mp3

The Grey Race - On the Chin mp3 (pic)

The Cobbs - Say You Never Knew Me MP3

Genepool - Vampire mp3

Around the Blogosphere: New Pornographers, Transvision Vamp, Pipettes, Comas, Game Theory

Gotta post quickly. Our high-speed service was down for twenty-seven hours and just got restored, but tenuously, we are told. I'll post more as I can. Thanks to all these hosts.

The New Pornographers - The Body Says No – 5 Acts
Transvision Vamp – Tell That Girl to Shut Up – Music of the Moment – Chris has nine more Transvision Vamp songs in this weeks’s Flashback Friday feature.
The Pipettes - Pull Shapes - Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good
The Comas - Moonrainbow - Mars Needs Guitars
Game Theory - Erica's Word - Some Velvet Blog - SVB has more by Game Theory and four by The Loud Family.

Cliks, David Judson Clemmons & The Fullbliss, Gore Gore Girls, Comet Gain, Sleater Kinney

For your consideration:

The Cliks - Oh Yeah mp3 - (pic) - Thanks to Spinner.com.

David Judson Clemmons & The Fullbliss - Trumpets mp3- Thanks to Hot Stof, who has 4 more.

Gore Gore Girls - All Grown Up mp3 - Thanks to Glorious Noise.

Comet Gain - Why I Try To Look Bad mp3 - Thanks to The Devil Has the Best Tuna for the heads-up at his excellent Riot Grrrls post.
Sleater-Kinney - Oh mp3 - More tasty deviled tuna.

Long Blondes, Loose Salute, This Year's Model, Herman Jolly

It's just about to become Sunday, so I want to get this posted Saturday. Lots of good stuff keeps popping up in my emailbox, on the web, etc. I'm trying to disaggregate what we might like at a blog with the name and brief description you see at the top of this page. Hope it's doing you good.

The Long Blondes - Once And Never Again mp3 - Thanks to Spinner.com.(pic)

The Loose Salute - Death Club mp3

This Year’s Model - Ten O'Clock Murder mp3

Herman Jolly - Key On A Kite mp3

Around the Blogosphere: New Model Army, Pale Saints, Moonbabies, Built to Spill, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Olivia Tremor Control, Frampton, Squeeze

Dee blogospheres been berry berry good to Chico and pp. How excited was I to find my favorite New Model Army song in digital format? Berry. Go ahead and laugh at me, but I still love Frampton. Thanks and squeezes to those intrepid bloggers hosting this fine music.

New Model Army - 225 - 17 Seconds
The Pale Saints - Throwing Back the Apple - mp3hugger
Moonbabies - Dancing in the Sky - Mars Needs Guitars
Built to Spill - Alarmed - The Devil Has the Best Tuna
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Fail Safe – I Am Fuel, You Are Friends
Olivia Tremor Control - California Demise & I Have Been Floated - The Rawking Refuses to Stop!
Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do - Can You See the Sunset from the Southside? - The next song's in the same post, so save a click, unless you're just into it.
Squeeze - Up The Junction - Can You See the Sunset from the Southside?

Triangles, Three 4 Tens, Contrast, Lodger, Jeremy, Elf Power

I know, I posted this Elf Power song before, but it's my favorite by them and the last.fm thing doesn't work for me anymore, and I just found it elsewhere, and anyway, why not, etc. Most of these others I happened upon within the last day to a week. I posted a nice one by The Contrast back when I was a babyblogger (toddlerblogger now, I flatter myself to think), along with several other excellent songs from Rainbow Quartz. In case you're interested. Click band names to satiety.

The Triangles - Meatblanket mp3 - Thanks to Coast is Clear; two more there.

The Three 4 Tens - R.U.B.A. mp3

The Contrast - Clue mp3

The Lodger - My Advice Is On Loan mp3

Jeremy - Make Love, Not War mp3 - Thanks to Lars of Brilliance Records for getting in touch. This one comes just in time for 40th-anniversary celebrations of the Summer of Love. (pic)

Elf Power - Never Believe mp3

Around the Blogosphere: Lots

Yeh, on Monday I tried something cute and only posted about half the music of the spheres I'd found, and now I've got a glorious buildup sirensonging to be posted, so here goes. Needless to say, I soiled me armor over the Teenage Fanclub song, but it's all to the good. As I've said before and no doubt will again ad pukeum, I feel a certain sense of urgency about letting you know about these because some of them don't stay up all that long, so the two-day delay is quite inexcusable. Ta, hosts!

Teenage Fanclub - Slow Fade Pictures - Headphones On - Great blog I just found tonight.
Lush - Hypocrite - Mars Needs Guitars - Long live the fetish! (Merz has all three of these in the same post.)
Drop Nineteens - Winona - Mars Needs Guitars
Curve – Clipped – Mars Needs Guitars
Shocking Blue - Send Me a Postcard - Raven Sings the Blues - Yeh, the "Venus" Dutch treaters.

The Parlotones - Louder Than Bombs - The Muso
The Damned - New Rose - The Modern Music
Mono Taxi - The Sound of You - Hits in the Car
Mew - The Zookeeper's Boy - Indietastic
Eels - Friendly Ghost - Good Weather For Airstrikes

Axe Riverboy - Roundabout (Ma Radio Star MK9 mix) - For the Eardrums
The Farm - Groovy Train - extrawack!
Television - See No Evil - extrawack!
Pipas - Mix for the Occupation - SKATTERBRAIN
Luigi - Mariposa - The Yellow Stereo

Under Their Spelk: Moonbabies, Layaways, Like Young, Bitter Bitter Weeks, Boyracer

Here's a little mix of recent finds and older buds. If you need to know which is which, just ask. Right.

Moonbabies - Take Me To The Ballroom mp3 - Click here for more.

The Layaways - Click bandname for more free dls.

Silence mp3

Let Me In mp3

The Like Young - Sabine & Me mp3 - Several more available at Powerpopulist. Click here. Rahther love 'em.

Bitter Bitter Weeks

Terrified mp3

Kings mp3

Boyracer - More here.

Spelk mp3

Careful What You Wish For mp3

Around the Blogosphere: Aliens, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Sixth Great Lake, Caribou, Grey Race

Visiting all these great, great blogs can make one feel quite inadequate. At least there's fine music to help one make it through the plight. Thanks, ye who host.

The Aliens - Setting Sun - 5 Acts
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Weapon of Choice - 5 Acts
The Sixth Great Lake - Everything is White - Optical Atlas
Caribou - Melody Day & Eli - Raven Sings the Blues
The Grey Race - Care of Cell 44 (Zombies cover) - Obscure Sound

Sunday Solace: Great Northern, Experimental Aircraft, Dreamend, Sparrow House

The Entire Sparrow House Flock

Uh-oh, feels like another mellow mood is upon us. Not bad for a Sunday, though, and we like the songs. By tomorrow we should be more perky. Have a good day of rest.

Great Northern - Home mp3

Experimental Aircraft – Symphony mp3

Dreamend - cant take you{dif} mp3

Sparrow House – Blindfold Waltz mp3 - Thanks 'fork.

Couple By Couple

I believe it was the estimable NY Mary over at PowerPop who first broke Malaysian poppers Couple to the needy New World, or at least to this dry corner of it. I loved them immediately and was mighty happy this week to hear kind words of greeting from band member, Aidil. Aidil gave me leave to post the two songs below, with promise of another to follow. Since a goodly number of visitors to this little cosa mia were ushered here by NY Mary in the first place, I’m sure many of you already know the songs, but here they are anyway, just in case. Oh, and here's the article in which Rolling Stone named Couple as one of the 25 Best Bands on MySpace. And if you haven't seen the video, PowerPop has it here. Irresistible.

Couple

Now That I Can See mp3

Gotta Be My Gurl mp3

Around the Blogosphere: Ripchord, Interpol, Queens of the Stone Age, The Moths, Elf Power, Je Suis France

I just tonight found some new blogfriends, they don't know me, yada-yada, let's get to it.

Ripchord - Lock Up Your Daughters (And Throw Away The Key) - Good Weather for Airstrikes
Interpol - The Heinrich Maneuver (Radio Rip) - Good Weather for Airstrikes
Queens of the Stone Age - 3’s & 7’s - Good Weather for Airstrikes
The Moths - Tumbling Down (Demo) - Good Weather for Airstrikes - Wait for the chorus.

My new buds at Indietastic have an excellent post on Athens bands. These are the two I liked best; they've got twenty more awaiting your perusal. They're all at the same post, so click the first one to get to the rest.

Elf Power - High Atop The Silver Branches - Indietastic
Je Suis France - 101 Miles And Running - Indietastic

Thank you, dear hosts and hostesses.