Pickin' 'n' Grinnin' at Belly Button Records: The Jagged Frequency, Monster Youth, The Black Cult, MOAR

The Jagged Frequency

We recently came across these songs at Belgian label Belly Button Records but honestly don't remember how we got there. They did rock us, though, and that's the main thing. Not to every popper's taste, but wtf is, wot? Much more is available for name-your-price download via the widgets and at Bandcamp.


We also especially like #4 & #5. Facebook


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Facebook (We think. These are Groningeners, but Holland's contiguous with Belgium, yeah?)


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SoundCloud 9: Echo Ladies, HYLA, Spinning Jennies, The Sky Drops, Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel, Viv and The Sect, The Phantom Sound, Hollow Trees, The Colors

Looking over our list of free and legals from SoundCloud we discovered a bunch we like or love but, to our horror, hadn't yet posted. So here they are, beginning with the most recently found (although not necessarily most recently recorded). They cover quite a range of genres and moods, so be prepared. Click the down-arrows to download, except as noted.

From: Malmo - Facebook

From: Perth - Facebook

From: San Francisco - Facebook

Many thanks to Jeff Shelton of The Well Wishers for making this longtime fave available.

From: Wilmington, DE - Facebook

From: Los Angeles - Facebook

From: Mexico - Facebook

For free download, go here and click ". . . More--Download."

From: London - Facebook

From: Austin - Facebook

And here's a nice little Baroque pop number that's downloadable but, for some reason, unwidgetable (by us anyway). Listen to it below via YouTube if you, like, want to.

The Colors - When Worlds Collide - Go here and then click ". . . More--Download." - from their 2016 LP Teenage Furniture on Nacional Records - As soon as we nail down further info, we'll put it here.

Flying High with Green Buzzard

Yeah, we used it before but that's because we like it.

Oberon/Sydney band Green Buzzard are one of our very favorite discoveries of the last couple of years, so high as a kite we got to discover their latest release, Space Man Rodeo. (Hear below.) But a few moments ago we sampled every tune and quickly snapped up every one of them at iTunes (all but the excellent "Do You Ever Glow?", which we'd already snapped up as a single). Check out more info by and about GB at FB. We're not big on discouraging words here, so don't let the fact we found the three "Transmissions" to be a bit slowish detract from the fact that on each of the other seven songs on SMR, it's all systems GO!

And if you missed last year's Easy Queezy Squeezy EP, check it out below and buy it at iTunes. We did both and are darned glad we did. While you're at it, check out pretty much all the rest of Green Buzzard's artistry at their SoundCloud page.

Finally, we push their "Phantasy Girl," video every chance we get because frankly, it's rock perfection, aurally and visually. (In Our Haughty Opinion.)

Cotton Mather's I Ching Project Continues with Forthcoming Wild Kingdom

We got in on Austin faveband Cotton Mather's projected 64-song I Ching project early on and are excited to find leader Robert Harrison has now completed 30 songs. Following last year's highly praised LP Death of the Cool, CM/RH are set to release followup LP Wild Kingdom next month (7apr17, to be exact).

Below are two freely downloadable songs we love from the new one, plus another we found at Fanatic Promotion's SoundCloud page. In fact numerous Cotton Mather songs are available for free download there. To find out which ones, just hover . . . oh, fudge, here they are: #1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 22. And here are most, if not all, of our Cotton Mather posts.







Many thanks to  Fanatic Promotion's Josh Bloom for that initial alert and all subsequent updates, including this latest.

Covers by The Kickstand Band, Chris Richards and the Subtractions, Bertling Noise Laboratories, The Legal Matters, Static Daydream, My Expansive Awareness, The Radiation Flowers, Joe Giddings

We've come across a bunch of enjoyable, downloadable cover versions of songs we like or love and thought you might like to have a listen-hear. You will find in the widgets other covers of other bands, dozens of them, in fact. We've posted our favorites, but your kilometrage might vary.

The Kickstand Band cover The Sunrays (1965)


Chris Richards and the Subtractions cover Cheap Trick (twice) & The Who






Bertling Noise Laboratories cover Todd Rundgren, The Romantics, & Elvis Costello






The Legal Matters cover The Beatles


Static Daydream cover Guided by Voices


My Expansive Awareness cover The Castaways


The Radiation Flowers cover The Stooges


Joe Giddings covers KISS (and a whole lot more)