Catbird HQ is a mess of cutting mats, glue, cases…this can only mean one thing: CBR 005 is just around the corner. It also means that we need to start being better about estimating how much manual labor it takes to pull off some of these hare-brained packaging ideas. Anyway, it should be a pretty big CBR summer: CBR 006 is set to be done right about the same time as CBR 005 (crazy!), and CBR 007 should follow really soon after. And 008, 009, and 010 are all already on the docket for the second half of the year!

I realize it’s hard to get excited by vague catalog numbers, but remember, patience is a virtue.

Hey, remember earlier this month? The post about Frightened Rabbit? Their full length, Sings The Greys, showed up in the mailbox the other day, and wow, goddamn, it’s a good one. I had no idea. You can check it out for yourself, the whole thing’s streaming over at the Hits The Fan Records site. I think I paid 13 pounds fifty for it, and I’ll tell you, it was worth every last p.

Good Hodgkins has been doing a lot of those group-type posts of late. The newest one is “cover songs,” and I my owe gratitude to my old interweb pal Lee, for hooking me up with my contribution mp3, which saved me from a long day of cursing/wire-wrangling/vinyl-ripping.

Ladies, try to contain yourselves when watching this video by Home. I realize that it’s incredibly sexy and enticing.

::: Home - “Bubbles” video (Quicktime) :::

Rich over at Cable & Tweed has mp3s of Destroyer live in Atlanta, 3-31-06.

So these dudes in this band Clawjob dropped me a line and asked if I’d be interested in checking out their new Intergalactic Rock Opera, Space Crackers. Of course, I’d be interested, DUH! Anyway, they sent me the disc, and I did in fact check out Space Crackers. Problem is, I don’t know how to describe it to you. Thus, I have developed a mathematical formula to explain:

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