Widgets Gone Wild: Morning After Girls, TV Girl, Monster Movie, Little Death, Koushik, Glasvegas, Gringo Star, The Drums

morning after gulls

We're no longer afraid of widgets. In fact, we spent several hours plowing through every one of them over at RCRD LBL and were rather wildly delighted to find the following downloadables. Some of them we already had, indeed had already posted--Oh, that Morning After Girls tune. . .mwah!!!--but our links had expired, blah, blah, blah, etc. We weren't sure if posting a long list of widgets would violate some code of blogger aesthetics but we also kind of didn't care. Therefore:









This line is here to make the list look less formidable. (We did say, "kind of.")

The Morning After Girls alone

Yo, um. . .Girls?

You might not be able to tell that it's definitely the morning after (like 3:50 or so), but we just found something we had to share before beddy-bye. We were poking around psychoPEDIA's excellent post on "girl" and "girl-named" bands and copped some news that got us very psyched indeed. Several-year favorites (and one of our earliest posts) The Morning After Girls are wrapping up their forthcoming sophomore effort, alone, and plan to tour this year, including at least one performance at SXSW on Saturday, March 21, 11:00 p.m. at Pangaea (409 Colorado St). We merrily tripped over to their MySpace site and enjoyed an excellent song called "Shadows Evolve," only to find it available for free download at their bandsite. We also enjoyed the previewed songs from alone and are quite confident this is going to be one of our favorite lps of the year. Here's the song, along with another one we previously posted from the Melbourne-Tasmania-New York band's self-titled debut. And if you haven't acquired others from said self-titled debut--especially the glorious "Run For Our Lives"--run for yours and get it here.

The Morning After Girls
Shadows Evolve mp3 - from alone
Chasing Us Under mp3 - from The Morning After Girls

MySpace | Bandsite | Amazon mp3 | eMusic

Happy Monday: Heartless Bastards, Le Fits, Tamborines, Panda Riot, Soft Explosions, Morning After Girls

I've seen worse.

Here are a few I've come across and enjoyed here and there, now and then. Good week to ya.

Heartless Bastards – Pass and Fail mp3
Le Fits - Ball of Twine mp3

The Tamborines

Sally O'Gannon mp3 - Wait for it.
Be Around mp3

Panda Riot - She Dares All Things (demo) mp3

The Soft Explosions - Weapons of Love mp3
The Morning After Girls - Chasing Us Under mp3 - Long have I loved these "Girls."

More from Spin.com

As promised, herewith are a few more delights tracked down at the excellent Spin.com Artist of the Week site. I'm only posting a fraction of the great grooves Spin.com so generously makes available on an ongoing basis. Copenhagen's Figurines cut a fine figure, left. Oh, ho ho.

Figurines - The Wonder mp3
HiSoft - Soft Rock mp3
The Adored - Tell Me Tell Me mp3
The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost mp3
The Morning After Girls - Straight Thru You mp3
The Purrs - Loose Talk mp3
The Whigs - Technology mp3

Again to the Archives

After the favorable response last time, we return for another visit to the Powerpopulist Archives. Some of these aren't particularly new, but to some, that won't matter. Click on band names for links.

Cotton Mather - Lost My Motto (Millenium Chrome Version) mp3
The Morning After Girls - Run For Our Lives mp3
The Last - Looking at You mp3
Headlights - TV mp3
The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed Direct link removed by record company; click on song name, go to bandsite, listen to song there
Tralala - Fired Up mp3
Levy - Rotten Love mp3
The Shins - Phantom Limb mp3
The Radio Dept. - Pulling Our Weight mp3
The Green Pajamas - The Secret of Bethany's Mouth wma

The Morning After Girls

The Rainbow Quartz blurb says this Melbourne quintet melts "pieces of The Jesus & Mary Chain, Primal Scream, The Psychedelic Furs, The Pixies and My Bloody Valentine into their own controlled sound." Yeh.

The Morning After Girls - Run For Our Lives mp3