Yo maté a tu perro - Todo está bien

No, we didn't off yer pooch, they did. Or so they say. All's cool, mkay?

The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - Martians Don't Surf

For the psychedelically inclined, courtesy of The Active Listener.

CITY OF ME - Done

It probably takes a lot of guts to make music, or do anything, in their CITY these days. And do they ever do it well!

Travelling Wave - Motorcycle Two

Great driving gaze from Brazil! A little muted because it's a rehearsal session. The studio version and full resulting LP are available for nypdl here.

The Astral Planes - Stay Alive

We already posted #2 ("Tides") by this Louisville band and then found the whole dangnice LP available for free download. Might we also recommend #7 & #9? Why, yes, we just might, and do.

The Thing: Spike (plus much more)

We already posted #1 by these Torineros (or whatever people from that enchanted land call themselves), but then found this whole downloadable LP. We especially love #3 (see above in pride of place), #6, & #8. BTW, we're planning to post a bunch of songs without a bunch of commentary. By the time you reach this post, you'll see what was going on. Being minor league bloggers, it really doesn't matter now, does it?

La Garçonne: Stranger in the Dark

My god, what a song, perfect for doing whatever one does with a(n) hiatus: end it, mend it, break it, kill it, cause it (because, let's face it, it wouldn't even exist if it weren't ended, mended, etc. It'd just be cessation, death, terminus, whatever). Anyway, sorry. we've been otherwise engaged (although we've dropped oodles at Songdrop.)

Found at TBTCI, for which, many, many thanks. Go there and read the interview and listen to more. Facebook. Bandcamp.

Music of the Sphere: Static Daydream, EZTV, La Luz, Wavves, Dante Elephante, Widowspeak, Explorers Club, The Oohlas

TO

Words cannot express the gratitude we feel toward these hostingpostingbloggers, so we won't even try. ("Cop-out, pp, cop-out." "STFU, pp, STFU.")

Static Daydream - More Than Today - Magnet Magazine Blog

EZTV - Trampoline - Still in Rock
La Luz - Weirdo Shrine - Still in Rock
Wavves - Way Too Much - Still in Rock

Dante Elephante - Never Trust A Junkie - Side One Track One
Widowspeak - Dead Love (So Still) - Side One Track One
Explorers Club - Last Kiss - Side One Track One - in a "one blog wonders" kind of post; Beach Boysesque, as we said before
The Oohlas - Small Parts - Side One Track One - in that self-same "obw" post; We long ago posted our personal fave by TO, and it's just below here. And, oh, wow, we just noticed "Small Parts" or "small parts" is offered with four more songs at Bandcamp for nyp download. (nyp = name your price, duh)

SoundCloudownloadables: The Higher State, Wireheads, The Wheelers Of Oz, Crossed Wires, Aerial Love Feed, The Death Of Pop

We hope you didn't mind our posting those SoundCloud ditties that weren't downloadable or droppable. If you did, perhaps the following will atone.

We love these Folkstone chimers. Thanks to The Sound of Confusion for the headsup.

Adelaiders on Brisbane's Tenth Court label.

Still down under but further west (Perth, to be precise).

Hatchers from Halifax.

Straight outta Brooklyn.

Yes, we posted these Londoners before. Your point? (Btw, those previously posted songs are still available as free and legals.)

SoundCloud Songs That Wouldn't Drop: OBN IIIs, Triptides, Blossoms, Holy Springs, La Bête Blooms, Pretty Vicious, DeadwolfOfficial

How could so much pleasure flow from such a sad postitle? Well, you're about to find out. So, yeah, on the left side of this blogpage we mostly post free and legal downloadables. We put others we like over in that Songdrop widget in the upper right. But what if Songdrop can't or won't drop songs from SoundCloud??? That's been happening a lot lately, so here are some songs we like that wouldn't drop.

Here's one that wouldn't even widget. Sheesh. Click on the link to go hear it.

Deadwolf - Paranoia Daydream

Via SoundCloud: Fuzz, Plum, Jacuzzi Boys, Best Behavior, Shiners, n.Lannon

Some recently located free and legal and highly lovables:

We're excited about the forthcoming LP (October 23) from Ty Segall-led Fuzz.
Update, 24july15: Soundcloud dl links were removed at the source. Still in Rock has dls here.

You might remember our previously posted couple of freebies by these Denver psychpoppers. They're still available.

De Miami

Straight outta Brooklyn

London band

From San Rafael

Found & Liked or Loved: Colleen Green, JEFF The Brotherhood, Yuno, The Pharmacy, Puddle Splasher, Wipe, seventeen years

We're not writing much this time. You're welcome.

And on that very same Old Flame compilation is one of our very, very favorite songs of the last couple of years. (We could really get to emotin' about this one, but it might, you know, turn you off.)

We also love this one by The Pharmacy:

We thank our blogbud john b for recommending the next band.

pppurcha$e$ - Second Quarter 2015

We recently sheeted a list of our purcha$e$ at eMusic and Bandcamp during the second quarter of the current year. If you're "down" with stuff in the powerpop, indiepop, shoegaze, psych, garage, or jangle arenas, you might get some ideas for buys, streams, or "borrowings" of your own. Click here to spread 'em. Oh, and if you're one of those who likes to hear songs in their entirety before purcha$ing, check out our Bandcamp collection. (Optional. Just a, you know, thought.)

Music of the Sphere: Warm Soda, Pleasers, Triptides, Beck, The Midgetmen, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Heart Strings, Timbre Barons

Darned excited we are to see Still in Rock leveraging its special arrangement with Matthew Melton of Bare Wires, Warm Soda, Snake Flower 2, and new band, Pleasers, fame. You might have noticed our having Songdropped last week the new Warm Soda single as well as the single from Pleasers, both hosted now at Still in Rock. So thank you, SiR, and of course abundant thanks to the other faithful bloggers hosting songs below. (Btw, you can still get that Snake Flower 2 song at our little post from way back in November of last year.)

Warm Soda - No Place To Fall - Still in Rock
Pleasers - Reject Teen - Still in Rock
Triptides - Hideout - Still in Rock

Beck - Dreams - Side One Track One
The Midgetmen - Titus Mollard - Side One Track One

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Line On You - Indie Rock Cafe

The Heart Strings - Beautiful Abyss - Rollo & Grady

Timbre Barons - Automatic - KEXP Blog

Surefire Winner from a 007 Comp: Papernut Cambridge

Buttons on Button's butt?

Here's our favorite from A Girl And A Gun, an eventually 21-song compilation of 007-related tuneage, courtesy of WIAIWYA (Where It's At Is Where You Are). WIAIWYA's posting one song per week, and so far they're 15 weeks in. (You do the math.)

Name-Your-Price download here.

Keen-eared observers might remember our giving pride of place to Papernut Cambridge in a previous post. (They're actually based in Kent, but surely no one will be a butt about it.) Here's the song from that wonderful comp that came compliments of fabulous bloglabel The Active Listener. Read and hear more by Papernut Cambridge here and here. (Both those "heres" lead to lots more.)