pppurcha$e$: March Buys

Two months ago we started a little blog called pppurcha$e$ to share what songs we are buying at eMusic, Amazon, etc. You can find our March 2009 purchases here. Hope you find stuff you like. We sure did.

Music of the Sphere: Kinks, Paul Kelly, Cars, Headlights, Brian Jonestown, Atomic Garden, Get Go, Pomegranates, et. al. . . .

We've been kind of naughty lately, what with not posting much and such. Don't worry, though: we're consumed with guilt. Really. Thanks to all the fabulous posterhoster(esse)s for the following!

The Kinks - A Well Respected Man - Setting The Woods On Fire

Paul Kelly & the Messengers - Dumb Things - Star Maker Machine

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Going To Hell - Speed of Dark

The Cars - Touch and Go - Barely Awake In Frog Pajamas

Headlights - TV - Barely Awake In Frog Pajamas - several-years-now fave; glad BAIFP's got 'em turned on; hurry, though!

Atomic Garden - Gift (Sugar cover) - Milk Milk Lemonade
Screen Vinyl Image - Fever - Milk Milk Lemonade
The Very Sexuals - Bowie Eyes - Milk Milk Lemonade

Pomegranates - The Bellhop - CYSTSFTS
The Get Go - When Good Friends Tell Bad Lies - CYSTSFTS

Little Girls - What We Did - Raven Sings the Blues - garagey
Thee Oh Sees - A Flag in the Court & Ruby Come Home - Raven Sings the Blues
The Unrelated Segments - Where You Gonna Go - Raven Sings the Blues - garagey
Tonto and the Renegades - Little Boy Blue - Raven Sings the Blues - Animalsistic
The Tree - No Good Woman - Raven Sings the Blues - "Louie Louie" riff

Nine Black Alps - Buy Nothing - 17 Seconds - big, bold, & very unpowerpoppish, in case you need to know that

Mister Loveless - Good Story - 5 Acts
Fires of Rome - Set in Stone - 5 Acts

The Sounds' New Sounds Sound Sound

We've been enjoying this wavey Skåne län, Sweden quintet** for several years now and are quite excited their new Original Signal Recordings LP, Crossing the Rubicon, is due to launch 2 June. We've posted several by them previously; sadly the links have gone silent. You can stream some at their MySpace site and buy lots of mp3s here. Speaking of Sweden, please heed Jon Stewart's exposé on the dangers of socialism. Shiver. . .

The Sounds - Dorchester Hotel mp3 - from Crossing the Rubicon

**Maja Ivarsson (vox) - Jesper Anderberg (keyboards) - Johan Bengtsson (bass) - Fredrik Nilsson (drums) - Felix Rodriguez (guitar)

I Need Fab Pop: Okkervil, Orchid Highway, Death Valley Sleepers, Faraway Places, Black Moth Super R, Shortwave Set, Seldon Plan, Salim Nourallah

And now, Episode 680 of the continuing story of "An Introvert Goes Public." Typalyzer says my blog is the work of an ESFP. Half of that ain't me, though. I'm an INFP and I'll cower defiantly before anyone who says otherwise. But, ahem, such nattering's not why we're here. Here's why we're here, and darned excited to be so:

Okkervil River - Pop Lie mp3 - from Austinites' CD single Pop Lie, due out 21 April - and in case you missed it previously:
Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe mp3

The Faraway Places - The Sun Goes West mp3 - from Angelenos' Out of the Rain, the Thunder & the Lightning, due out 12 May

Death Valley Sleepers - Seaside mp3- Thanks to Morten at Hits in the Car for the headsup on this excellent song. Morten assured me main Sleeper and fellow Dane Tobias Winberg (pic) would not mind my posting it. If this is in fact untrue, I will unhappily remove the link. The fact that Morten has posted all 15 known DVS songs suggests Tobias is probably down wid it. So if you are, too, go get 'em. Well, okay, here's one more we previously posted.
Black Pearl mp3

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Born On A Day the Sun Didn't Rise mp3 - from Eating Us, due for ingestion on 26 May - I resisted previous blandishments from the robotic voice, but this song's downright. . . cuddly; onward to the flame! Thanks to Andy Silva at Shurefire for winging it our way.

The Shortwave Set - Harmonica mp3 - from London/Southeast UKer's second LP, Replica Sun Machine

The Orchid Highway - Time For a Change mp3 - from Vancouver band's self-titled debut

The Seldon Plan - Lost and Found and Lost mp3 - the first single and title cut from Baltimore/Washington band's forthcoming LP, due out 26 May - other LPs available here

Salim Nourallah - It's Not Enough mp3 - from Dallas dude's Constellation, released last month

Elephant Stone: Smooth Sailing Anticipated

Rishi Dhir (vox, bass, sitar, geetar [sic]), formerly of The High Dials, and his fellow pachydermoliths* are set to release their debut LP, The Seven Seas, on 5 May. The picture gives a clue as to what to expect. The title cut, streamers at Elephant Stone's MySpace site, and other tracks we've heard suggest this could well be one of our favorite albums of the year. Thanks to Jesse at Killbeat Records for shipping it our way.

Elephant Stone - The Seven Seas mp3 - from The Seven Seas

And in case you missed our previous postings, here are a few by Rishi's sometime band.

The High Dials

The Holy Ground mp3
Desiderata mp3

Our Time is Coming Soon mp3

Fields In Glass mp3

Killer of Dragons mp3

*Bobby Fraser (keys) - Robbie MacArthur (geetar, bass) - Stephen Venkatarangam (geetar, backing vox, sitar, flute) - Richard White (geetar, backing vox) - Chris Wise (drums)

Music of the Sphere: Ride, Superdrag, MBV, Dandy Warhols, XTC, Vaselines, Church, Echo, Elliott Smith, Scarlet Youth, Union Jackals

It took but one stop at Mars Needs Guitars for Merz to top off ye olde loving cup o' tunes. Thanks to him and these other wonderful bloggers.

Ride - Magical Spring - Mars Needs Guitars

Superdrag - Feeling Like I Do - Mars Needs Guitars

My Bloody Valentine - Honey Power - Mars Needs Guitars

The Dandy Warhols - Plan A - Mars Needs Guitars

XTC - Mayor of Simpleton - Star Maker Machine

The Vaselines - Teenage Superstars - AWmusic

Union Jackals - Secondhand News - Mojophenia (pic)

The Church - The Unguarded Moment - Mars Needs Guitars

Echo & The Bunnymen - Do It Clean - Mars Needs Guitars

Scarlet Youth - Wave Goodbye - Mars Needs Guitars

Elliott Smith - A Passing Feeling - Mars Needs Guitars