Explode Into Colors is a band out of Olympia featuring “three weird aunts”– one of which is Lisa of longtime Catbird favorite Kickball (the other members are Claudia Meza of Japanther and Heather Treadway of Tender Forever). Kill Rock Stars will be putting out a single later this s...

Donewaiting pointed out that Andrew Bird’s Noble Beast is on sale for $1.99 at the Amazon MP3 store. If you’ve been slacking on picking it up, here’s your chance. Wavves is playing three shows over the next three days here in New York. Hipsters’ heads all over Billyburg are e...

For some time now, We’ve watched as the music mags began giving up the ghost. We’ve even seen magazines squeeze out an extra 6 months of life by taking reader donations. But here’s a new one, a zombified magazine (of sorts): Folio reports that the founder of Harp (which folded last...

…is Hastings Sunrise, by Apollo Ghosts, who I wrote about last week. It pains me to use that old “perfect blend of” trope, but there’s no way around it: this record is a perfect blend of ’70s Punk/New Wave/Power Pop, ’80s College/Jangle, and ’90s Slack Mofo ...

Yet another debt of gratitude out to David B. for giving me a new song to put on repeat all day– a song that’ll hopefully tide me over while I wait for the full-length to arrive. It comes from Vancouver’s Apollo Ghosts, who just put out their debut LP, Hastings Sunrise, in an editi...

Our friends over at Nashville Cream just found some awesome footage of one of my favorite bands of ever, Brainiac. It’s from January 1993– the band was only a year old (Enon’s John Schmersel had yet to join the band), and this was just a few months before their debut LP, Smack Bunn...

Sheesh, “Year-End List” season has really stirred up some heated emotions this year. Idolator pondered, “What Use Are ‘Best Of’ Lists, Anyhow?” And today, Scott over at PGWP posted a long, detailed diatribe about the aspect (or rather absence) of trust with regard...

Constantines - “Our Age” Constantines‘ new 7-inch, “Our Age” b/w “Fuckin’ Up” (Neil Young), is out tomorrow. You can grab the single from the AC Shop, or better yet, get it from the band when they kick off their super short US tour next week: 12/4 - Bi...

Chad VanGaalen’s Soft Airplane came out back in September, but I haven’t seen much online action for it, which is a shame, since it’s just as good as his previous efforts, Skelliconnection and Infiniheart. ::: Chad VanGaalen - “City Of Electric Light” ::: Sally Crewe, r...

Matador has released a track from the upcoming (1/20) AC Newman album, Get Guilty: ::: AC Newman - “There Were Maybe Ten Or Twelve” ::: The track is the opener from Matador’s awesome Intended Play Sampler Fall ‘08 mix, which you can download as a zip file with artwork here. T...