happy friday, peoples! this past week has been a huge fuckin headache. cant remember if i mentioned this but my 74 year old mother in law fell down and broke her hip last week whilst playing with my kids and has been in the hospital ever since. she had surgery to repair said broken hip, and is doing fine, but was kicked out of the hospital yesterday, and her insurance is saying no to rehab. yay insurance companies!!! the woman is 74 years old, they dont think shes gonna need a bit of rehab? seriously? long and short of the situation, again, major fucking pain in the ass. so today is going to be a free-for-all of shit i have gotten in the past week.

before i begin, though, there is no freakin way that cincinnati, or providence or milwaukee is crazier than new orleans as reported by the daily beast. or tuscon? or san antonio? granted i have not been to most of these cities, and it makes no difference to me either way, but still. anyone from these places want to report back on how “crazy” your city is?

canadians’ the fugitives are releasing their eccentrically we love on 4.23. its good, i like it….
all this trouble

i have no idea whats going on here, but its a tribute to hall and oates entitled the dark side of hall and oates and is being released by the musical collective known as koot hoomi. interesting listen for sure…. its out physically, already but out 4.9, digitally.
i cant go for that
maneater

david myles is releasing his turn time off on 4.20 on little tiny records. record was produced by joel plaskett and if you dig later day nick lowe, you should take a liking to mr myles.
gone for long

dr dog is releasing shame, shame on anti on 4.6.
stranger

the lions rampant are releasing their its fun to do bad things on 4.6 – the track below from said record is pretty damn good.
lights on

me thinks i first became aware of maxwell panther’s existence via tart of love shack baby fame, but not via her site but on twitter. thats probably too many “via’s.” anyway, upon initial listen, being the cranky fuck i am, i immediately dismissed him and his lo-fi offerings. the reason might have been because i had to go to myspace to check him out, and i hate going to myspace. fast-forward to a few weeks ago and i got an email about the above mentioned chap – i think he’s english and isnt that what they call each other over there? figured i’d give him another listen, but on my terms! second time his stuff fared much, much better than that initial go around. still, its not all rainbows and pedo-bears, cause his music can be a bit rough, but there’s something slightly endearing about it. if he were to clean it up a bit, would it be as charming? i dont claim to know, just wondering… anyway, here’s a couple tracks off his recently released do you feel different yet which you can buy via song by toad records or via emusic.

my ex identity
lost soul on a roll

i dont think there is a band/artist that i listen to with any consistency that i hate/love/hate more than fugazi. actually i dont listen to em that often, and maybe just for that very reason. im sure im not alone in this kind of emotional flip-flopping in regards to said band. im hoping one day im gonna pop in repeater and just get “it.” sadly, im almost 15 years into this wishing and hoping, im still holding out cause i want it to happen. as the title suggests here is their first demo. buy their stuff via dischord.

1. merchandise
2. in defense of humans
3. break in
4. song #1
5. bad mouth
6. the word
7. and the same
8. waiting room
9. furniture

not the kind of news i like waking up to on a sunday morning, or any morning for that matter, but rolling stone and various other outlets are reporting that mark linkous the man behind sparklehorse has killed himself. rip, mark, see ya on the other side……

sick of goodbye’s off the brilliant good morning spider

its not so much a video but just pics of the lovely lass, but it gets the job done. if you havent heard joanna’s new record, have one on me, i cannot recommend checking it out enough. if you had been turned off in the past by her lisa simpson like vocals, i can honestly report that said vocal likeness is not as present this time around. its a 3 record set, which of course is pretty ballsy, but for the most part she succeeds in pulling it off. this is definitely my favorite song of the year, thus far. pick it up via drag city.

Liv Tyler by Roadside Graves from Travis Huggett on Vimeo.

now, i could have just edited that post down there to include the video, but me thinks this warrants its own post. to clarify the post below, the re-release will be digital only, but the ep is being released both digitally and in physical form. check autumtone for the details….

roadside graves got a couple of things in the release pipe, one being a re-issue of their debut, if shacking up is all you want to do and secondly a six song ep entitled you wont be happy with me. both are digital only releases me thinks, gonna have to get clarification on that lil nugget. btw, the re-release of their 02 of if shacking up… comes with 6 bonus tracks. from what i hear you can win 1 of ten copies of the ep over at you aint no picasso so you may want to check that out….

liv tyler off you wont be happy with me
jenny jump off if shacking up is all you want to do
lot lizards off if shacking up is all you want to do