pppurcha$e$ - April-August 2010

If you find yourself liking some of the same music we do, click here to check out four months' worth of our recent purchases over at eMusic. We're particularly excited about Virginia gazers Ceremony, powerpoppers Redd Kross, Fastbacks, Eurovox, Bubblegum Lemonade, and The Yum Yums, the two Ash songs, Aussie psych powerhouse Tame Impala, and a band we found in our last.fm friend kohsuke1978's library, Cherry Blossom Clinic. But again, we're very-much-liking-to-loving all 209 songs.

Tamaryn: Perchance to Dream

Tamaryn - Love Fade mp3

from San Francisco band's forthcoming 14 September full-length debut,

The Wave

on Mexican Summer

Occasionally something perfect and necessary enters one's psyche, like a dream, unbidden. (Freakin' poet here, wot?) Thanks to Joanna at For the Win for making it happen.

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Music of the Sphere: Posies, Silver Sun, Well Wishers, Caddy, Candi, S. Miller, Stooges, Tears, OK Go, Flips, Satin Gum, Them, Byrds, et . al. . . .

Many thanks to the wise, generous, and thoughtful bloggerfolk for making the following earable.

Silver Sun - Lies - Peter's Power Pop - I've bought dozens of songs by these excellent London powerpoppers the last several years; pure.
The Well Wishers - Grammareater - Peter's Power Pop - Likewise have I expended for TWW. See our previous posts of mp3s by this excellent powerpopping San Francisco band here.
Caddy - Electric Hero & Turn Up The Radio - Peter's Power Pop
The Steve Miller Band - Things I Told You - Peter's Power Pop - I love this deep-cut, long-time fave; Peter doesn't. About such things reasonable poppers will disagree.

OK Go - You're So Damn Hot - Indie Rock Cafe
Super Deluxe - Holly's Dream Vacation - Indie Rock Cafe
The Libertines - Don't Look Back Into The Sun - Indie Rock Cafe
Them - Here Comes the Night - Indie Rock Cafe

The Stooges - 1969 - Star Maker Machine - Star Maker gives us the clap.
Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle - Star Maker Machine
The Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You - Star Maker Machine

Candi and the Strangers - MRI - Covert Curiosity
Watch Out For Rockets - Big Lies - Covert Curiosity

Lost Boy - Fast Burn - Altered Zones
Coma Cinema - Come On Apathy - Altered Zones

The Posies - Earlier Than Expected - For The Sake Of The Song

Tears Run Rings - Reunion - mp3hugger

The Byrds - Wasn't Born to Follow - Groover's Paradise

Starry Eyed & Laughing - Going Down & Lady Came from the South - The Rising Storm - Byrdsian

The Flips - I Just Don't Know Where I Stand - Raven Sings the Blues

Division - Regrets - CYSTSFTS

Satin Gum - Hip Shake Heartbreak - Milk Milk Lemonade

Girls in the Eighties - Awake but Not Aware - Gimme Tinnitus

Magnapop Make Me Pop Bigtime

Magnapop - Bring It To Me mp3

Magnapop - Q-Tip mp3

both from 2009 release,

Chase Park

on The Kraft Records

I previously told the exhilarating story of my first listen to these noble Athenians, so shan't repeat it. (You're welcome [to click the link, if you please].) Chase Park snuck under my radar, so I was thrilled to find mention at the excellent blog, Underneathica. (jonder and I might not share identical musical tastes, but his is piquant, and he writes well, unlike. . . Yoo Gno Hoo.) I followed links to the Magnapop bandsite,where I found nine (9) free and legals, including the two (2) above and the one (1) below. I don't know how many glorious times I've listened to the following number, but each and every time I discover new receptors for dopamine gush. Incredible song. Incredible band.

Magnapop - Satellite mp3 - from Mouthfeel

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(We Love The) Natural Extension Concept, and It Doesn't at All Depend on What the Meaning of "Is" Is

The N.E.C. - Those (Guilty Pleasures) mp3

The Atlanta psych outfit's recent LP

Is

on Double Phantom Records.

As you know (or maybe don't, it pstill holds), we're quite willing psuckers for the kind of psuccor this excellent pstuff affords our needy psyches. Many thanks to Jessi at Banter Media for psending it our way. And pspeaking of "way," BTW, we were once planning to write a psong called "(Too Many Psongs) Have Parenthesized Titles" but have now changed our minds.

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Procedure Club: More Golden Slumbers

Procedure Club - Vermont mp3

Procedure Club - Rather mp3

from Doomed Forever

on Slumberland Records

Dear Membership Committee,

We always keep folders, manila and computeral, labelled "Procedural." May we therefore join da Club? If not, please know anyway that we love your music.

Yours, etc.
pplist

P.S.: Be sure to thank Ma and Pa Slumberland for letting us know about da Club. It was also nice of them to make available one more excellent tune here at pad Slumberland. TTFN.--pp

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The Martial Arts: Quite Filling

The Martial Arts - Empty Out Here (demo) mp3

Paul Kelly of Glasgow indie/powerpoppers The Martial Arts recently cooked up this tasty entree in his kitchen and kindly put it on our platter. This is the first TMA number since their acclaimed 2006 debut, Your Sinclair, which is downloadable for free at their MySpace site and also available at the commercial sites below (along with other fare). If the song above is an accurate foretaste of what's to come, we certainly anticipate anything but a sophomore slump. Thanks, Paul, for making us feel less empty in here [points to lonely heart].

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P.S.: We would also like to point you toward an excellent Scottish indie music blog Paul pointed us toward. More fine downloadables by Scottish bands are available at Kowalskiy!

Music of the Sphere: M. Sweet, Sloan, Ride, JEFF, Mantles, Warlocks, Libertines, Wild Nothing, Bare Wires, Final Flash, Crocs/Dum Dum, D.A.s, Zelazowa, Welcome

Mmmmm, we like what we've found. Thanks, gracious hostfolk! Hope you wonderful visitorfolk enjoy these. (And, yes, that's Bare Wires up there.)

Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself - Another Aging Hipster

Sloan - A Case Of You - Star Maker Machine

Bare Wires - Dancing On A Dime - Raven Sings the Blues
The Mantles - Cascades - Raven Sings the Blues

The Warlocks - Baby Blue - Infrasons
The Libertines - I Get Along - Infrasons

Final Flash - When The Day Turns Black - AWmusic
Zelazowa - Today Is Tomorrow - AWmusic

Ride - Black Nite Crash - Rollo & Grady
JEFF the Brotherhood - U Got The Look - Rollo & Grady
Welcome - All Set - Rollo & Grady
Wild Nothing - Live In Dreams - Rollo & Grady
The District Attorneys - Sweetheart All Reckless And Humble - Rollo & Grady
Crocodiles & Dum Dum Girls - Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Don't Die) - Rollo & Grady

Fever B: Catch It

Fever B - Please, Operator? mp3

from The Lonely Sailor Sessions 12"

on Burger Records

Speaking of the superb Indiepages, we caught the above while paging through their Sounds section. It was love at first listen. We noticed the aforementioned Burger Records has (or have) a ton of excellent groups we've been discovering lately, some of which have names too naughty to mention here but most that do not.

pppurcha$e$ - March 2010

Well, well, well, looka here, another installment of pppurcha$e$. We bought some primo stuff at eMusic back in March, stuff you just might want to consider owning your ownself. You can either go to our barebones blog here (which has a couple of suggestions) or cut to the chase and go straight to the list o' links. Or, of course, neither.

Super Chunksa Superchunk

Our feelings exactly!

Superchunk - Digging for Something mp3 - from Digging for Something 7", released yestiddy

Superchunk - Skip Steps 1 & 3 mp3 - Merge Records will reissue the Chunk's No Pocky for Kitty and On the Mouth on CD, LP, and digital download on 17 August. (Please forgive our saying "the Chunk's." We're just trying to sound like "cool" bloggers.)

Superchunk - Misfits & Mistakes mp3 - from Leaves in the Gutter EP

Superchunk - Crossed Wires mp3 - from Crossed Wires 7" - Thanks to Indiepages for their long-ago permish to link to their great stuff.

Superchunk - Hyper Enough mp3 - from Here's Where The Strings Come In

The Merge Records update yestiddy got us pokin' through our files, where we found, to our horror, we had only posted "Hyper Enough." We offer the rest of the above in quest of forgiveness we neither merit nor expect. Lots of great things and people have come out of Chapel Hill, NC; these are four of the best.

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Hot Hot Heat's Sound Alternative

Worry not: we shall find more pics.

Hot Hot Heat - 21 @ 12 (alternate version) mp3

This is the alternative to the version found on the Vancouver, BC band's LP Future Breeds.

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Picture Credit

Jeremy Messersmith's Generous Donation

Easier, perhaps, than herding.

Jeremy Messersmith - Organ Donor mp3

from The Reluctant Graveyard

Weird and neato. Thanks to Brooke Black at Big Hassle and to spinner.com.

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Tweest & Shout & Grab: Tullycraft Tribute LP

We're twee as coitus,
So, headbangers, bite us. . .

Oddly enough I was in the act of composing lyrics for a possible Tullycraft song when out of the blue arrives word of a forthcoming 21-song salute to the much-beloved Seattle band. (Some of that's apocryphal, but I gotta start these blogposts somewhere.) Due to drop 14 September and named after the final song on the album, Wish I'd Kept A Scrapbook: A Tribute to Tullycraft features excellent covers by indie bands equal in number to the total of songs indicated above. Eager for full-length downloadable samples? We have two, courtesy of Lee Grutman of Unchikun Records.

But first, something from the tributees, to wet your, um, whistle.

Tullycraft - The Punks Are Writing Love Songs mp3 - from 2007's Every Scene Needs a Center, on Magic Marker Records

And now two wonderful somethings from an equal number of tributaries:

The Medusa Snare - Every Little Thing mp3

Hot Lava - Pink Lemonade mp3

We were especially grabbed by The Medusa Snare and quickly discovered a major reason why: TMS contains two members (as well as three initials) of one of our favorite bands, the late, the great The Manhattan Love Suicides, an example of whose tuneage you can listen to/download quite soon.

The Manhattan Love Suicides - Suzy Jones mp3 - from The Manhattan Love Suicides
BTW, if you haven't yet heard TMLS's superb "Kessler Syndrome," you need to travel to Italia molto allegro or something (and we trust you will be happy).

Suddenly we realize we haven't really said much yet about the excellent Tullycraft, cynosure of all this tribute bidness. Okay, click here, here, and here to learn more. The band have also made available another 12 free and legal mp3s in addition to the one posted above. Grab them here.

Finally, we're not sure if our ears deceived us while listening to "The Punks Are Writing Love Songs," but we thought we heard somewhere in it the word "bat." Maybe we were just reading the title to another song on Every Scene. . . ("Fangs On Bats") and got confused. Maybe it was the thought of a punk-penned love song. Whatever, we were reminded of an Austin band's untwee ditty we recently found and have been wanting to post, so here goes. The site where we found it has tons of free and legals, so if you're so inclined, click here and clean up. We did and felt quite squeaky.

The Hex Dispensers - My Love is a Bat mp3 - from Winchester Mystery House

Our fingers are kinda tired now, but we feel contented. Moo. Oh, one more thing. There are quite a few links in this post, so hover and discover.

Halsted: New San Francisco Treat

Halsted - Walking Shoes mp3

from 13 July release

Life Underwater

on Ashbury Records

After a couple of solo EPs and a highly acclaimed debut LP, San Franciscan Ryan Auffenberg has recruited a very tight outfit and opened business under a new bandname. You can sample the songs at the Amazon link below and hear several more in full at MySpace. Many thanks to Joanna Noyes at For the Win Media for the headsup.

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