Brown Recluse

Brown Recluse - Contour and Context mp3


from The Soft Skin EP

Drops 8 September


MySpace | Buy

The Revolution Begins Now. (Okay, in a few seconds, but still. . .)

We're going to do a little experiment to see if we can't whittle down the largish backlog of unposted songs we like. Hope you like.

The Raveonettes: In & Out Of Control

We're pumped about dynamic Danish duo - and longtime favorites - The Raveonetttes'***fourth, coming LP, In & Out Of Control, due out October 6 on Vice Records. Thanks to Pitchfork for the "pure" version. Note to Vice squad: Please stop tacking those adverts to the end of some of your promos. Vicious? No. Tacky? A bit. Rest assured, we're gonna buy.

The Raveonettes - Suicide mp3

We're still raving about these previously posted ones.

The Raveonettes - Last Dance (demo) mp3

The Raveonettes - Black/White mp3

The Raveonettes - Dead Sound mp3

My Space

eMusic

***Sharin Foo & Sune Rose Wagner

Music of the Sphere: The Manhattan Love Suicides' "Kessler Syndrome"

We just found out today that one of our favorite British bands, The Manhattan Love Suicides, are splitting up. We'll not do their name, but we're very, very sorry to see them go. By all means, check out the incredible "Kessler Syndrome" over at the Italian blog, Polaroid.

The Manhattan Love Suicides - Kessler Syndrome - Polaroid

And in case you missed them, here are some previous TMLSes we've posted.

The Manhattan Love Suicides

Suzy Jones mp3

Last Stand mp3

You’ll Never Get That Guy mp3

We've bought and enjoyed much of their tuneage at eMusic.

Music of the Sphere: Shins, Besties, Liechtenstein, A.C. Newman, Built To Spill, Yo La Tengo, Flaming Lips, Ceremony, Sonicflyer, Reatard, et. al. . .

Unimaginable thanks for the image.

Still playing catsup. Hope you like. Thanks to the hostmeisters.

The Shins - One By One All Day - Mars Needs Guitars
Liechtenstein - All At Once - The House of Leaf and Lime

Lacrosse - I See A Brightness - indie-mp3
Ceremony - Dream Only of you - indie-mp3 - fabulous fuzz

Sonicflyer - Novocaine & Let's Not Talk About The Rain - Indieball

The Besties - What Would Tim Armstrong Do? - 5 Acts

Wheels On Fire - I'm Turning Into You - 5 Acts

Paul And The Patients - The Other Side - 5 Acts
A Camp - Stronger Than Jesus - 5 Acts
Lissy Trullie - Self-Taught Learner - 5 Acts

A.C. Newman - The Heartbreak Rides - Music for Kids Who Can't Read Good

Built To Spill - Carry The Zero - Music for Kids Who Can't Read Good

Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube - Music for Kids Who Can't Read Good

Jay Reatard - Can't Do It Anymore - Music for Kids Who Can't Read Good

The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize? - Music for Kids Who Can't Read Good

Music of the Sphere, cont'd: XTC, Urge O, New O, Hoodoos, Echo &, Stellastar, Ice Station Zebra, Death Valley zzzs, TMBG, Box Elders, Woods et. al.

As promised in Tuesday's Music of the Sphere post, here are a few more choice sounds found during recent peregrinations amongst my favorite music blogs. Many thanks to the faveblogger(esse)s.

Urge Overkill - Sister Havana - Mars Needs Guitars
New Order - Run - Mars Needs Guitars
Hoodoo Gurus - Bittersweet - Mars Needs Guitars
XTC - Senses Working Overtime - Mars Needs Guitars
Echo & The Bunnymen - Make Me Shine - Marsh Needs Guitars

Echo & The Bunnymen - Seven Seas - Pretty Goes With Pretty
Deerhunter - Little Kids - Pretty Goes With Pretty

Stellastar - Freak Out - Mojophenia
Ice Station Zebra - Waves - Mojophenia

Death Valley Sleepers - Vice & Beauty - Hits in the Car

Adam & Dave's Bloodline - Nothing to It - Bag Of Songs

They Might Be Giants - Triops Has Three Eyes - Speed of Dark

Box Elders - Stay - Raven Sings The Blues
Woods - To Clean - Raven Sings The Blues - Scroll down, svp.
Woods - The Dark - Raven Sings The Blues
The Fresh and Onlys - I Saw Him - Raven Sings The Blues

Music of the Sphere: Velvet Crush, Brendan Benson, Deathray Davies, Dinosaur Jr., Stone Roses, Raveonettes, Velocity Girl, Offspring, et. al. . . .

Hoo Boy, I stay away from my faveblogs for awhile and upon returning, what do I find? Lots, that's what. Such as:

Velvet Crush - Worst Enemy - Mars Needs Guitars

Brendan Benson - Good To Me - Mars Needs Guitars

The Deathray Davies - Low And Silent - Mars Needs Guitars

California Oranges - Run Away - Mars Needs Guitars

Lilys - The Night Sun Over San Juan - Mars Needs Guitars

Dinosaur Jr. - Your Weather & Friends & See You - AWMusic
Billy Talent - Turn Your Back & Pocketful Of Dreams - AWMusic
The Offspring - Come Out And Play (Keep 'Em Separated) - AWMusic + a couple more offspring of The Offspring
Elephant Stone - Bombs Bomb Away - AWMusic

The Stone Roses - Where Angels Play - Dead Flowers

The Raveonettes - The Last Dance (Demo) - Dead Flowers

Soda Fountain Rag - I Wanna Be Your Cat - Milk Milk Lemonade

Meeting Of Important People - Brittney Lane Don't Care - Milk Milk Lemonade

Velocity Girl - I Can't Stop Smiling - Star Maker Machine

But wait, there's more! Coming soon. (Believe that?)

Infinite gratitude to the ever gracious hosts! (Believe that.)

Apteka: Polished if not Polish

Wikipedia says, "Apteka is a Polish rock band, founded in 1983 in Gdynia. Their LP 'Narkotyki' won 'Płyta Roku' ('LP of the Year') of Gazeta Wyborcza in 1992. The word 'apteka' means 'drug store' in Polish. . . ." Wikipedia admits, though, its article is but a stub.

I do not believe that is the same psychygazy Chicago band under instant consideration. I could of course ask Adam, who, after all, did give me kind permish to post some songs, but am much too shy for such presumption. All I know is I've been hugely enjoying Apteka's music and thank Adam for said permish.

If you, too, like, you can get the other six (6) songs from their excellent Tour EP by going to the band’s MySpace site or by clicking here. The price is right: free.

Apteka - from Tour EP

Blackout Hearts mp3

Cicada Song mp3

The Sheet mp3

Band Members: Dino, Jesse, Adam, Dave

The Melloncollies: Doggone Good

I am a little out of pocket at the moment, so by your sweet leave will simply share and split. Hope you enjoy this as much (or more) than I. No poochy lips here, that's for sure.

The Melloncollies - Simple Naïve Someone mp3 - from New Yawkers' debut full-length Somme Music release, Goodbye Cruel World - Thanks to Tom Martin at Advanced Alternative Media for bringing it on. There's a lot to click here; hover and discover.

The Delfields: (are not) Ogres

This New Brunswick, New Joisey trio*** serves up pretty pure pop. (Words like “pretty pure pop” are not to be thrown around cavalierly – or roundheadedly – and I don't.) Yes, I said “trio,” despite the presence of two-thirds more personnel in the picture than previously indicated. It might be fun to try and figure out just who’s who and what’s what. For example, I’m thinking that after serving it up/rocking The Octopus into eight-armed limpitude till the early morning light, The Delfields invited Sad Zombie to their favorite field for a bit of grass-tugging. And it worked! Sad Zombie became Very, Very, Very Happy Zombie. That's what I'm thinking.

Or we could just give ear to the pop that Candice Jones at Team Clermont most graciously sent myour way.

(By the way, The Delfield’s logo is an octopus.)

The Delfields - from Ogres
Fawn Fight mp3
Ogres mp3

MySpace | iTunes | CD Baby

Update: The mp3 links have gone "poof," but here's how "Ogres" sounds.

The Delfieds - Ogres (Music Video) from WDKFilms on Vimeo.

***Joseph Fekete (lead vocals/guitar/principal songwriter) & twin brothers Ryan (bass/vocals) and Kyle (drums) Shook

Himalaya

Hej. Heh.

These high-climbing Brooklynites, former members of Philly's The Asteroid #4 and The Three 4 Tens, really know how to psych it to ya. From their debut, Himalaya:

Himalaya - Melt Away mp3

Thanks to Tom Martin at Advanced Alternative Media.

Oh, yeh, heh, I still have these.

The Asteroid #4

These Flowers of Ours mp3

Ask Me About Pittsburgh mp3

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

The Well Wishers' Saturday Surprise

I was about to step out of the house but found some jewels in my emailbox and had to post posthaste. We happily featured San Francisco powerpoppers The Well Wishers back in December and now find WW Jeff Shelton is making new tuneage available. Jeff took two unfinished songs from his previous (excellent) band, Spinning Jennies, and polished them into the gems below. The email also had the exciting news that The Well Wishers are demoing songs for their fifth LP, hope to begin recording this fall, and anticipate releasing it in early '10. Needless to say, we wish them well and know their music will return the favor.

The Well Wishers

I Before E mp3

Down mp3

For good measure, here's one of the previously posted songs from that December post. The other two are still there, so go dig 'em if you dare. (Are we coyly, greedily sending you there just to increase our site traffic, build up our number of page clicks, and augment our massive revenue stream? Surely you jest.)

Moving Mountains mp3 - from Jigsaw Days

Humpday Derby: An Horse, Brakes, Bishops, Decks, Coast, (((S))), Koolaid Electric Co., Shoreline Dream, Lower Heaven

Saddle up, friends and neighbors, and let's take a few spins around some groovy tracks. (Awkwardly put, but it's only an intro.) Click colors to hear and see and feel and shell out.

An Horse - Camp Out mp3 - from Brisbane duo's Rearrange Beds, out since 17 March. Many thanks to Marni Wandner at Sneak Attack Media. We're still loving the following previously posted song as well.

Postcards mp3

Brakes - Two Shocks mp3- from Brighton band's Touchdown - You will sometimes find this group's name in triplicate (brakesbrakesbrakes), which can be confusing. Doesn't seem to affect the excellent music at all. We're still very much enjoying the following, which was in our first post of the magical year of 2009.

Crystal Tunings mp3

The Decks - What You Said mp3 - from Detroit darlings' Breath And Bone, due out 26 May

The Coast - No Secret Why mp3 - off Torontans' Expatriate, released in stores stateside yesterday. Thanks to Ian Anderson at Afternoon Records.

We found the following at the superb German site, Coast is Clear, and sincerely thank blogmeister Peter for the headsups. Please note he has more of some of them, so go visit if't please you.

The Bishops - Wandering By mp3 - from Londoners' For Now, available at Not Lame

(((S))) - Mesmerized mp3 - from Ghost - The guitar kind of reminds us of longtime faves The Cult. You? - Peter still has two more gooduns by this here Danish band here.

The Koolaid Electric Company - Untitled #1 mp3 - psuberb psych from Leighton Buzzard band - Peter has another here.

A Shoreline Dream - Hypermode (feat. Ulrich Schnauss) mp3 - Size 18 shoegaze from NYCers' Recollections of Memory

Lower Heaven - Knife mp3 - from Silverlake, CA band's 2008 release Ashes, available at CD Baby - My notes read, "picky atmospheric marcher w/ nice shifts" (That's right, sometimes I just go very, very deeep.) - Peter has two more here.

Music of the Sphere: Fountains of Wayne, Dandy Warhols, Radio Dept. TPOBPAH, Silversun Pickups, Bears, Army Navy, et. al. . . .

Image Here

What a wonderful weekend of music (among other wonderfuls)! Here are some songs we found and liked and hoped you might, too. Many thanks to the fabbloggers who've made them available.

Fountains Of Wayne - Radiation Vibe - Barely Awake in Frog Pajamas

Papercuts - A Dictator's Lament - AWmusic

Dreamdate - 8 Sleeves - Milk Milk Lemonade

The Radio Dept. - Lost and Found - The Yellow Stereo

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Stay Alive - The Yellow Stereo

Sweet Jane - You're Making This Hard - Coast is Clear - J&M Chainish
Ghost Society - Jeremy Parker (demo) - Coast is Clear - glorious gaze

Army Navy - Saints - Coast is Clear

Bears - Wait And See & How To Live - Indieball
Joy Zipper - 1 & Christmas Song - Indieball

Autolux - Robots In The Garden - Indieball

Throw Me The Statue - Winning Speech - Indieball

We're loving this Indieball site, new to us and doing it right. We couldn't figure out the permalinks to the following, though, so here's a workaround. Clicking each link below will get you to a longish page with several posts. Scroll down until you get to the one we're recommending. (If you want to, that is.)

All Girl Summer Fun Band - You're Not the One for Me - Indieball - January 24, 2009

The Dandy Warhols - Now You Love Me - Indieball - October 22, 2008
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye - Indieball - July 22, 2008

Popfest: Shake Some Action, Pranks, Super Furry Animals, Dog Day, J. Foskett, Monolators, Uglysuit, Alligators, We The They

Thanks so much for popping in. Speaking of which, we'd like to return the favor:

Shake Some Action - I Get Tongue Tied mp3 - As you've no doubt learned elsewhere, this Seattle/Atlanta (and apparently mainly Seattle again) band is letting us travel step-by-step with them as they record their third LP. Visit their blog for fascinating insights into the creative process, not to mention mp3s of the first and third songs from the new album.

Jeffrey Foskett - Thru My Window mp3 - from 2004's Stars in the Sand (and originally the title cut of former Prankster's 1996 LP) - mighty fine powerpop!

The Pranks - from Seattle band's excellent 2008 debut, Modern Communication - One wonders if there's been more than one band by this name.
Modern Communication mp3
Spending Time mp3

The Monolators - I Must Be Dreaming mp3 - from LA quintet's 2008 LP, Don't Dance

The Uglysuit - ...And We Became Sunshine mp3 - from the OK City band's self-titled debut

Alligators - Where Does It Hide? mp3 - from Seattle band's October '08 release, Piggy & Cups

Dog Day - Halifax, Nova Scotia quartet gently raises the woof in Concentration, released just this week.

Rome mp3

Happiness mp3

Super Furry Animals - Inaugural Trams mp3 - from Welsh wizards' Dark Days/Light Years, released last month

We The They - Pastures mp3 - from the Roscoe, NY band's three-song EP, The Shabby Road Sessions - WTT were nice enough to let us post two pleasing poppers in the early days of our blog, and we hope they won't mind a reprise.

Start the Hop mp3
Bear Trap mp3