Cozy Danger's "Cozy Danger"

Anyone can make an eponymous E/LP, but a song? Now you're talking danger, maaan. Fortunately Milwaukeeans Jake, Chris, and Phil are well up for this most dangerous game. More adventure  here.

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Music of the Sphere: Connections, Everywheres, Sloan, Field Mouse, Gross Relations, King Tuff/Gap Dream, Ty Segall, Elf Power, Army Navy, The Purrs, China Rats, Jay Arner, Beaches, Customers, Bleached, Twin Peaks, Pale Saints

Beaches: humble & less so

Seems like forever since we've done one of these, but it's only been two months (give or take). We humbly thank all bloggo sapiens who made it possible to link to the following.

Connections - Mall Lights - Fingertips

The Everywheres - Unfortunate Direction - 3hive

Sloan - The Answer Was You - Chromewaves

Field Mouse - Tomorrow Is Yesterday - Gimme Tinnitus

Gross Relations - Cut the Final Scene - Austin Town Hall

King Tuff (feat. Gap Dream) - She's On Fire - Newtown Radio

Ty Segall - Femme Fatale - The Mad Mackerel

Elf Power - Sunlight On The Moon - Side One Track One
Army Navy - Crushed Like The Car - Side One Track One

The Purrs - Rotting On The Vine - Indie Rock Cafe
China Rats - To Be Like I - Indie Rock Cafe
Jay Arner - Don't Remind Me - Indie Rock Cafe

Beaches - Send Them Away - Rollo & Grady
Customers - She's Heroin - Rollo & Grady
Bleached - Dead Boy - Rollo & Grady
Twin Peaks - Irene - Rollo & Grady
Pale Saints - Sight Of You - Rollo & Grady

Actively Listening to The Beginner's Mynd, New Speedway, The Vickers, Invisible Ships, & Paul Messis

Looks like hours.

Nathan's back with Episode 10 of The Active Listener Sampler series (TALSs), with pseventeen pselected psych and pop tunes that will groovily activate your ears and, perhaps, other organs. And speaking of organs, here's our favetune from #10. You can download it with the entire LP on a NAME YOUR PRICE basis. (Message to pselfs: Be sure to thank Nathan and the bands.)



All of this reminds us that until a few seconds hence, we've not posted several previous TALS faves, all of which are available on an NYP basis by downloading the whole LPs. (We blush to be such slothful bloggers. Forgive? Didn't even notice? Phwewww`````````!)





We really like this next bloke's music but find his attitude toward/eschewal of digital distribution dismaying. Therefore, feel lucky Nathan has made this one available.

Free at Last: Shy Mirrors, The Orange Peels, The Pizazz, Jetman Jet Team, The Koolaid Electric Company, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Burning Hearts, The Wagner Logic, Love Culture, The Band In Heaven

We came across this interesting analysis of the IHAD speech and took it as a sign we're supposed to post. Many thanks to the wonderful folks at Last.fm who made the tuneage available and to our Last friends who alerted us to some of these. Click on the triangle thingies to listen and the word thingies to download.

Shy Mirrors - Astronauts mp3

The Orange Peels - We're Gonna Make It mp3

The Pizazz - Dolphin Patrol mp3

Jetman Jet Team - Candy Loop mp3

The Koolaid Electric Company - Untitled #1 mp3 (pic)

Divider line thingy to break up the mass of green and blue and white, and such

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Kurt Cobain's Sweater mp3

Burning Hearts - I Lost My Colour Vision mp3

The Wagner Logic - Waiting For Snow mp3

Love Culture - Vicious mp3

The Band In Heaven - High Low mp3

Ballard's Back!

Yes, he's done it again and done it up right. Back the first of the year we totally grooved to the pop treats of Mr. Darren Riley of Bolton, a one-man bander recording under the moniker, Ballard. We were therefore darned excited just now to receive word that Ballard's back with a second LP called Bucky.

We've listened to every song, acquired each, and suggest you consider doing the same. We've posted below the smoove version of "A Fire In New York City," lead-off number on the new album. It's available for Name Your Price download on the Working Boys single, along with two other songs, one of which is on the new LP. And btw, the songs Darren let us post for free download are still so available at that previous post.



Here are two of our favorites from Bucky.

Copacetically Fatal Jamz

A merman needs a mermaid.

Sure, we found fins and scales in our nethersector after that string of scorpion bites, but so far the only thing fatal about our attraction to this L.A. psychpopper is that it was apparently meant to be. Besides, death loseth its sting when you land on some Elysian hillside, wot?

Find more freebies (songs and info) here, here, and here. In case you're looking to label, in his email to us Marion described FJ's music as "hearthrob dream glam." We had previously found it characterized as "very poppy in a ghetto glam hesher kind of way." You decide.


 Click on songtitle to go to a place where the song may be freely downloaded.

We love/l.u.v. Love L.U.V.

Do we really need to spell out why we're l.u.v.ing this London band? Of course not.

Elusive Parallelograms Become Less Elusive

We recently noticed we were not the only ones nonplussed over the apparent demise of excellent label Rainbow Quartz. The excellent Horsethrottle at the excellent Popnarcotic explores the issue far better than we could hope to do. We lost a lot of valuable links when RQ went "poof," and one of the most lamented was Milwaukee band, Elusive Parallelograms. So imagine our joy upon receiving Team Clermont's weekend email letting us know EP are still in business. (That's right, you can't, but thanks for trying.) We've posted below the one that best plunked our twanger back when, plus another that also does nice things. Click here and here for more.

Update: Well, surprise, surprise. We find that Bandcamp has decided to add other songs in each widget, so, like, good.

Another Update: Well, woe, woe, they've gone "poof" again (elusive indeed), but we did find "Orange" and others here. Hear "Orange."

Virals' Infectious Pop

Oh, the irony: "Lovvers were rawish, Virals more poppish."***

'Twas but a bit over a year ago that we sent you and ourselves scurrying over to Indie Rock Cafe to catch Worcester (Old England) one-man band, Virals. We feverishly bought the Coming Up with the Sun EP and anything else we could get our ears on and recently purchased "their" Strange Fruit EP over at eMusic. So after a bunch of recent pleasure-inducing aural experiences and a bit of snooping around, we found the below. Read and hear more here, here, here, and here.


Go here to download "Gloria."


Go here to download "Magic Happens." (Click the down-pointing arrow and magic will happen.)




***Made-up quote

Music of the Sphere: Mikal Cronin, Crocodiles, Crystal Stilts, Criminal Hygiene, Clever Square, Colleen Green, Cyanide Pills, Fireworks, Beach Fossils, Tullycraft, Hallucinations, Romantics

Not quite as much action of late, but here's a baker's dozen of newbs, semi-newbs, and a longtimer we're loving. Thanks to the fabbloggers who house them.

The Cyanide Pills - Wrong - Popnarcotic - Killer, yeh?

Crystal Stilts - Dark Eyes - Austin Town Hall - We're still "diggin'" this one.

The Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep - Popdose - Please don't laugh. (On the other hand, it healeth like a medicine.) We love this one, always have, always will, especially the strumming in the chorus. (Sorry if we're getting too analytical/pushy. It won't happen again.)

Mikal Cronin - Get Along - Rollo & Grady
Mikal Cronin - Am I Wrong - Rollo & Grady
Criminal Hygiene - Alan, I'm In Love - Rollo & Grady
The Hallucinations - What Am I Supposed To Do - Rollo & Grady

Crocodiles - I Wanna Kill & Summar Of Hate - Polaroid - More killer, yeh? - More here.
The Clever Square - February Is A Lie - Polaroid
Colleen Green - Number One - Polaroid - More here.
The Fireworks - Higher And Higher - Polaroid
Beach Fossils - Clash The Truth - Polaroid
Tullycraft - Agincourt - Polaroid - More here.

The Happy Few: Geevers to "Me"

A certain uneasiness arises when we hear a beloved demo has been transformed into a full-fledged recording. We were delighted our recent reposting of The Happy Few's "Give It to Me" prompted an email from long-and-much-admired frontman, Joep Geevers. (And, no, it's not just because he's got one of the coolest names in rock.) We were further delighted to hear that, though somewhat silent the past six years, THF are still at it and plan to release their debut album, The Alarmingly Unstable, "after the summer."

So why, pp, why were you feeling uneasy???

Well, "we'll" tell ya.  It's because two of the numbers on the recently released promo are full studio reworkings of much-beloved demos, "Red & Blue" and "Give It to Me." "Would they measure up?" we mused.

We needn't have worried. Repeated listenings to the demos naturally made us aware of each subtle difference in the studio versions, but they are nice differences, and we love the fuller sound. (Not that we require a fuller sound. Some of the greatest listening experiences in "our" life came through one solitary earplug attached to a tinny, tiny transistor radio, lying in "our" bed in the moonlight as that First Great Wave washed from Albion's shores across the Atlantic back in '63-'64. Damn, freakin' poet(aster)(s) here.)

But we digress. Thank you, Joep, for hooking us up with the promo and for the excellent new song on it. You def keep us happy and we're glad you are, too.

Oh, and how could we forget? The Happy Few will be the support band for legendary Northern Irish punkpoppers, The Undertones, Thursday, May 30, in Amstelveen. As Joep correctly noted, our attendance might be logistically problematical, but we will certainly be there in spirit.

Gettin' Loose with Those Darlins

We were just now in terrible need of this song, achieved consummation, wondered if it might be available for free dl, and VOILA! It looks like this is kinda turnin' into Nashville week, what with that Fancytramp post last week 'n' all. Frankly, we're as surprised as you('re not, what with not really knowin' us 'n' all). You'll find more by 'n' about Those Darlins here, here, here, 'n' here.

Update, 6june16 - "Screws Get Loose" is still available at 

Austin Town Hall.

We're replacin' the no-longer-viable SoundCloud widget with this here "official music video."

Cockroach from Crocodiles

We love the bite and tail of these San Diego reptiles. The following is from their new one, Crimes of Passion, due to drop August 20 on Frenchkiss Records. Thanks to Kip Kouri at Tell All Your Friends for the headsup.



Update: The download link has been removed from the above, but you can download it here.

And here's one we've been enjoying for awhile now. It's from their previous Frenchkiss excelente, Endless Flowers. Love the Teutonic count-off (and that's an order, jah?)!

Crocodiles - Sunday (Psychic Conversation #9) mp3

And here's a nice cover we've been meaning to post for some time now.

Download here.

And as long as we've got this Godot thing going, here's one we posted awhile ago. There's more there.

Celestial - Nothing Happens; Twice mp3

Trippin' with It's a King Thing, The Seasongs, The Arctic Flow, The French Semester, Italian Japanese, & Young Boys

Little did we know that simple trips to buy some food and post a letter would lead us to post . . . a post. Here's part of the soundtrack, in order of play. (All are available for free download, sometimes via the entire album.) We don't anticipate winning any design awards for this one and, yes, we realize we previously posted or pointed "you" toward some of these, but, like, okay.




The French Semester - Winter Song mp3



Click on the songname on that last one to go to the free download.


"Fell From Grace" can be dl'd here.

The Return of Woody Whatever

Philadelphia's Woody Whatever was certifiably the fourth post we ever did at this blogofours.*** Those dittylinks disappeared in the hoary past, but a recent search found new ones. We still love the songs, which fit perfectly with all this DIY bidness we've been saluting of late. (Well, once, but whatever.)

"Woody" has once again made his huge ouevre available for very reasonable fare (in this case, NAME YOUR PRICE). That might be he in the picture above right. Maybe above left, too. We're rambling now, so to the tunes. Oh, one other thing. It's kind of strange that the first song below says "buy," while the second one says "download." Fear not: you can get the second one with a simple click or two and the first by downloading the entire LP for NYP.



***You'll have to scroll way down the page, but it won't be worth it.