The Mountain Goats did a Peel Session this
past Wednesday. They played 4 new songs written especially for the session:
   1. Dance Music
   2. Hast Thou Considered The Tetrapod?
   3. Broom People
   4. Magpie
Mp3s of these songs do indeed exist. Resourceful people should probably be able to find ‘em. Download ‘em here (thx LHB).

The Kadane Bros., formerly known as Bedhead,
currently known as The New Year have a new record out
in a few weeks called The End Is Near. Here’s a track:

And there’s more of that dancy shit coming from ChkChkChk
on their new album Louden Up Now, out June 8th.

One could say that one is probably making it harder on oneself when
one decides to change their name every time one releases a new album. But
don’t tell that to Andy, er, I mean Andrew Spencer.
Lemme try to ’splain: Andy was first known as Johnny Fontaine, lead singer of
Maestro Echoplex, who released
a really great lil’ disc called Last Night I Saw God On The Dancefloor in 2001 (still available
from Fractured Discs, unless I’m mistaken).
Andy then moved into a more co-lab type deal with a coupla fine fellows, resulting a band called John Guilt.
The John Guilt record, released in 2003, was a fairly dark and serious affair, and was called The Mirrors and Uncle Sam (on Munich Records). So
now Andy’s back to writin’ sorta solo type stuff, and the nom du jour is
Andrew Spencer, and though he doesn’t have any mp3s up
yet, he do have a site now, and mp3s should be coming soon. Anyway, for those just joining us, here’s a recap of
some songs by the guy who can’t seem to pick a name and stick with it.

Hey, the next $3 CD in DIW’s “Builder” series is from San Francisco’s Rust Belt Music.
Their song, “Trip McNeely Syndrome” got reworked a bit and
eventually became the title track of that Maestro Echoplex disc I was just talkin’ about. Anyhow, there’s quite few nice tracks available over
at their website.

And according to Parasol, the new Unbunny record will be
called Snow Tires and will be out May 18th. You can even pre-order
that shit right now for only 10 grickles. Here’s some clips (in Windo Shmedia, sorry):

I preordered already. I *loved* that last record, Black Strawberries.