Tomorrow night, my friend Keith joins
sometime-Songs:Ohian Dan Sullivan, a.k.a. Nad Navillus,
as he kicks off his fall tour. Dan, he make-um the good song, but you don’t have
to take my word for it:

Nad Navillus Tourdates:

9/27 Toronto at the Oasis
9/29 Newburyport, MA w/ JR Gallagher, Tiger Saw 7:30pm
9/30 Providence, RI at AS220 w/ Tiger Saw, Delphine
10/1 Boston, MA at ZuZu (the Middle East) 10pm
10/2 New York, NY at Sin-e w/ T.Griffin and others 9pm
10/3 New York, NY at the Knitting Factory (Old Office) w/ the Close
10/4 Philadelphia, PA at Doc Watson’s TBC
10/5 Washington DC at Galaxy Hut w/ Parker Paul
10/6 Richmond, VA at Helen’s w/ Parker Paul
10/7 Baltimore, MD at the Mojo w/ Parker Paul
10/8 Chapel Hill, NC at NightLight w/ Parker Paul, Strugglers
10/9 Charlottesville, VA at the Tokyo Rose w/ Parker Paul
10/10 Pittsburgh, PA at The Quiet Storm w/ Parker Paul
10/11 Columbus, OH at Workbook Studios w/ Orchestraville
10/12 Bloomington, IN at the Projects w/ Parker Paul
10/22 Chicago, IL at Schubas with Ali Roberts and Static Films

And, in honor of what seems to be an apparent Spoon Renaissance (the
latest thing being the “You Gotta Feel It” Queer Eye segment), here’s a whole buncha downloadable shit to get you through the weekend.

from Kill The Moonlight
—–
Small Stakes
The Way We Get By
Something To Look Forward To
Jonathon Fisk
Paper Tiger
Back To The Life

from Jonathon Fisk EP
—–
In The Right Place At The Right Time

from Anything You Want EP
—–
Decora (Yo La Tengo cover)

from Everything Hits At Once EP
—–
Everything Hits At Once (Disco version)

from Girls Can Tell
—–
Believing Is Art
Lines In The Suit
Me And The Bean

from Loveways
—–
Chips And Dip
I Didn’t Come Here To Die

from Series of Sneaks
—–
Car Radio
Advance Cassette

from Soft Effects
—–
Mountain To Sound
I Could See The Dude

from 30 Gallon Tank
—–
I Could Be Underground

Also, people are now willing to pay $50 for a copy of Telephono. Insanity, I tell you.

This morning, over at Fluxblog, I downloaded this really out-of-character Can song. When I played it though, I just about crapped. I mean, who would have guessed that Parappa the Rapper was a fan of old-school Krautrock?

Cute lil’ Norweegie Sondre Lerche has a new EP out,
called Don’t Be Shallow. It’s got four
studio tracks and four live tracks, which are all
acoustical and shit:

Don’t Be Shallow
I Know, I Know
Living Lounge
Single Hand Affairs
Dead Passengers (live)
You Know So Well (live)
Sleep On Needles (live)
Night And Day (C. Porter)(live)

I wholeheartedly agree with Insound’s assessment that Sondre is “equal parts Brian Wilson, Cole Porter and Marc Bolan”, but at the same time, the Astralwerks site is correct in pointing out
that he’s “somewhere between Donovan, Burt Bacharach, and David Cassidy”.

I saw local Columbus band The Last Hotel this weekend, and they were refreshingly good. It’s so rare to find an actual indie pop/rock band
’round these parts, what with all the Thin Lizzy/AC-DC type shit that prevails here. Their EP
features several good poprockers, and a number of quieter, Jeff Buckley-esque tracks. Here’s one of the poprockers:

From the Three Gut site comes news that
the EP that Royal City was working on has blossomed into a full-fledged album, tentatively entitled Little Heart’s Ease. Should be out around May of Aught-Four.

Also from the 3gut site comes news that 3gut is now the Canadian home of Oneida, whose new album (the follow-up to Each One, Teach One, a.k.a. LIGHT! LIGHT! LIGHT! LIGHT! LIGHT !LIGHT!), titled Secret Wars, drops in January.

Additionally, Jagjaguwar is reporting that a 500-limited-edition vinyl of
Oneida’s Anthem On The Moon has just now been released by
Rocket Recordings.
Did I not tell you that this is the year of limited shit?

And finally, gaze upon the Aesthetic Apparatus-designed cover to Mr. Vanderslice’s forthcoming Cellar Door:

Word.

(From ChartAttack)
The new Vol. of the Amos House Collection that Pitchfork
reported on several months ago apparently finally has a
release date. At least kinda. It’s targeted to drop in
“early December”, on Wishing Tree.
This is a double-dang-dealio and here be the tracklist, chock full of great artists
like Spoon, Wilco, SFA, and Hayden:

The Amos House Collection, Vol. III

Disc 1

“Find Your Own Fire,” Emily Sparks

“Jonathan Fisk (demo version),” Spoon

“Kal,” Richard Davies

“I Am What I Am,” James William Hindle

“Sleepy California,” Her Space Holiday

“Little Boy,” the Aluminum Group

“Long Shadow USA — Wheat vs. Tim Rutili,” Wheat

“Ventilator Blues,” Califone

“Evil Eye,” Elf Power

“Foxy Music,” Super Furry Animals

Disc 2

“Deserts (As Big As a Star),” Circulatory System

“Haunted Homecoming,” the Good Life

“Hey, Driver,” the ‘Mericans

“Miss USA,” Skating Club

“Let Me Come Home,” Wilco

“Lay Down in the Leaves,” Matt Smith

“No More,” Archer Prewitt

“ANDHA,” Clairvoyants

“Lucky Sevens,” Azure Ray

“Toward Me,” Hayden

Those precious FOOKIN’ STOODENTS known as Belle & Sebastian will have a new
album, Dear Catastrophe Waitress, out next month. I had convinced
myself several years ago that I was *completely* burned out on B & S,
but surprisingly, I enjoyed the preview mp3 for Step Into My Office, Baby.

And everybody’s linking to this
high-larious new Onion bit, which also reminded me of this
old gem, which was a lot funnier back before nightclubs starting collapsing
and burning up in real life all the time.

From Azure Ray’s forthcoming Hold On Love:

From June Panic’s Hope You Fail Better:

And…

::: So Alive.mp3 :::

On a related note, Fractured Discs
has set up the “Fractured Discs Distro Boutique”, and have made available, once again, the 2001 debut EP
from Maestro Echoplex. It’s an incredible disc, and has been very hard-to-find for some time now. Grab it while you can.

Murderer is a new Low EP out
this month. It’s on Cameron Crowe’s Vinyl label, which
is a vinyl label. Imagine that. Anyway, it’s apparently the second in a series; the first
release was from Red House Painter Mark Kozelek.

It all sounds intriguing, really:

Each EP has roughly 8-12 minutes per side, and has material exclusive to the series.
Each release is limited to 2000 copies worldwide. One-thousand copies are numbered on
black vinyl for distribution in the United States. Five-hundred copies are pressed on
colored vinyl for European distribution, and the final five-hundred copies are on clear
vinyl, to be sold in a boxed set once the series has run its course. Plans for the boxed
set include a poster, all 10-12 of the 10″ EPs in the series, and one 10″ exclusive to
the set. The boxed set is slated to be released in late 2004 or early 2005.

I officially name 2003 “The Year Of Limited-Edition Shit”.

Moving on, if you order Quasi’s new album Hot Shit via Touch and Go Mail Order,
you get a free special bonus disc, Live Shit. I assume this to be a live Quasi
disc and not that MuhTallica box set from years ago. Toll-free call, US only, @ 1-800-3-TOUCHU.

Speaking of deals, Sushirobo’s new album,
The Light-Fingered Feeling Of Sushirobo, comes out next week. You can buy it
for a mere $10, but the real deal is this one:
both of their previous albums, Drawings and Garbage Structures and Action Causes More Trouble Than Thought, for
only $12…that’s $6 apiece. Definitely worth it.

Finally, the D-Plan have most everything they’ve ever done available as
an audio stream now, and most things that aren’t streamable are downloadable. A People’s History of The Dismemberment Plan is out
on DeSoto on September 24th.

DJ Meatballz just sent me this, but I can’t confirm it. Caveat emptor.

Pre-order Echoes from Insound.com and receive a sticker and limited run enhanced “House Of Jealous Lovers” single with the video, while supplies last: http://www.insound.com/annex/search.cfm?query=echoes

update 09/10: Confirmed, but limited to 250 copies. If you do pre-order, use code “echoes15″ to get the standard Insound 15% off. Also of note: Pitchfork today blew a hyperbole-laden moneyshot all over their copy of Echoes.