News :: Upcoming Releases :: March

3/1

Dum Dum Girls :: He Gets Me High :: Sub Pop :: LP
Cosmetics: Cosmetics :: Captured Tracks :: LP
Dizzy Eyes :: Let's Break Up the Band :: Hardly Art :: EP

3/8
Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring for My Halo :: Matador :: LP
Dam Mantle :: First Wave :: Wichita Recordings :: LP
Beach Fossils :: What a Pleasure :: Captured Tracks :: Ep

3/15
Pains of Being Pure at Heart :: Belong :: Slumberland :: LP
Brave Irene :: S/T :: Slumberland :: EP

3/29
Hunx and His Punx :: Too Young to be in Love :: Hardly Art :: LP
Moon Duo: Mazes :: Sacred Bones :: LP
Toro y Moi/Cloud Nothings :: Split :: Carpark :: 7"
Spectre Folk :: The Blackest Medicine, Vol. 2 :: Woodsist :: 12" EP

News :: Third Eye Laser Surgery :: Dum Dum Girls

Nope, this isn't a protest shot from Bahrain. We're just posting a track that the Dum Dum Girls have been passing out around town for free lately.  Handouts for the everyman.

There's something different going on with the guitars here, and while I'm not sure I'm totally on board with it,  I'm not reaching for the boo-hoo button neither. They definitely feel mottled to me, too harmonious, and not at all chainsaw massacre, cosmic killer like I likes. But then again, I think I'm happier listening to music when I've got one finger in the wall socket. Who knew it was so easy to feel free, am I right?

The follow-up EP to their 2010 LP is coming out March 1 on Subpop, and you'll never believe what it's called...And get your tickets for the Black Cat show with the Minks and Dirty Beaches on March 5 during their wind up to SXSW. It'll be a good show. It will also be full of total tools. A virtual toolshed of dumpster-diving trust fund babies (not mutually exclusive). But I'll be there, crying and laughing my spleen out.

Bones: the EP's going to include a cover of Smiths song, "There Is a Light that Never Goes Out." And now I'm going to bed with visions of the Moz swaying in my head.

Dum Dum Girls :: He Gets Me High

Video :: Remote Viewing :: Fresh & Onlys

Fresh & Onlys

"Waterfall"

Play It Strange

In the Red 

As of now they're booked for the Red Palace on 4/25 with the Crocodiles. I'm not missing it. Nope. Not a chance. Uh-uh. No fucking way. Forget about it. By no means. Nay, sir. Negative. Not in a million years. Not on your life. You calling me a liar? I can't live to regret it. I haven't got room on the agenda in the afterlife. I've got plenty of appointments to keep, but sitting around crying about this show's not one of them.

Now I just heard today that one of the dudes from the Crocodiles is married to Dee Dee, the lead singer of the Dum Dum Girls. So he can fuck himself six ways to Sunday, right back to where he came from, but you'd better believe I'll be front row for the Fresh & Onlys, making it very difficult for them to do anything other than be incredibly loud and unstoppably rock and roll.

Some new copies of last year's Fresh & Onlys release just hit the racks at Red Onion today. Get some, get some, get some. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like the chopper gunner, I'll stand idly by, dry heaving until you land.