Coupla months ago, jtb played
some great songs for me, but as he was sworn to secrecy, he
couldn’t give me any info about them. Well, finally all has been revealed;
the band is Mason Dixon and
the songs are excellent. Go get ‘em.

March 9th will see the release of
The Bigger Lovers‘ new record, This Affair Never Happened…And Here Are Eleven Songs About It. Though it won’t be out for a full two months, you can actually check out two o’ the tracks right now, courtesy of Yep Roc. Hot damn.

Shins bumped from Letterman(got called back, I guess). Plus also, you can now download the mp3 for Kissing The Lipless (which I don’t think you could do before. Maybe.)

Fans of the more esoteric early-80s Georgia janglepop may be interested to know that Rhino Handmade has recently made available a deluxe edition of Guadalcanal Diary’s Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man. Fans of awful Sid and Marty Krofft shows may be interested to know that Rhino Handmade offers deluxe collector’s editions of The Bugaloos and Lidsville. I’m a Sigmund and The Sea Monsters guy myself.