Lambchop’s big fat 2-disc release is coming up
on February 9th. You can check out clips from a few songs over at the
Aw C’Mon/No, You C’Mon website, and
you can download the track “Something’s Going On” here.

Aw, C’Mon: Being Tyler Four Pounds In Two Days Steve McQueen Lone Official Something’s Going On [mp3] Nothing But A Blur From A Bullet Train Each Time I Bring It Up It Seems To Bring You Down Timothy B Schmidt Women Help Create The Kind Of Men They Despise I Hate Candy I Haven’t Heard A Word I’ve Said Action Figure

No, You C’Mon: Sunrise Low Ambition There’s Still Time Nothing Adventurous Please Problem Shang A Dang Dang About My Lighter Under A Dream Of A Lie Jan 24 Gusher Listen Producer

I was pleasantly surprised the other day to find WFMU Crapola Central,
where they sell tons of WFMU stuff, including the WFMU live CD comps that I’d assumed were long since out-of-print, and
therefore impossible to get. Not so:

• They Came, They Played, They Blocked The Driveway (1993) - ft. The Mommyheads, Yo La Tengo, Daniel Johnston + more
• Upsalapalooza (1995) - ft. Stereolab, Giant Sand, Bob Mould + more
• Live Music From A Dead Campus (1998) - ft. Danielson Famile, Momus, Mark Eitzel + more
• More Music, Less Parking (2000) - ft. GBV, Calexico, Gorky’s + more
• Don’t Shoot The Toy Piano Player (2002) - ft. Clinic, Delgados, Oneida + more

There’s a ton of other cool shit too, like trading cards, Shooby Taylor cassettes, &c.

And I was very saddened to learn that the Khyber Club, a true Halifax NS
institution, closed
its doors on January 15th. It really was a great lil’ place, and I’ll never forget the graciousness of Khyber Craig, who
didn’t mind plopping down on the sofa and spending his whole afternoon swapping stories with the 3 random Yanks who just happened
to wander into the place one autumn afternoon. Happy trails, Craig; this one’s for you:

Check out a track from TVOTR’s
upcoming long-player, Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes, out March 9th
on Touch & Go.

The SXSW artist music directories
that tim outed last
year (IIRC) are filling up with mp3s from this year’s bands. Grab ‘em
here. There’s
also an ogg directory
for all of you running BeOS on your 80 MHZ Pentiums (approximately 2 people
will get that joke).

Donewaiting is tracking the prelimary
SXSW schedule here.

And everyone is reporting that Leroy Bach, only child of world-famous composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, half-brother to Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach, and
sixth-cousin of Daisy Duke, has left Wilco, who are in progress on album #5. As
Buddyhead says, “Wilco is in the studio
making their fifth record. You know that?s a prolly a real fucking party in there
with those guys. Booze, speed, pills, books, you name it those dudes are flying on it”.

Saddle Crick is now
taking pre-orders for the new Now It’s Overhead record Fall Back Open. Pre-ordering will
get the album to you about 2 weeks earlier than the street date, which is March 9.

Wait In A Line Surrender Profile Turn & Go Fall Back Open (ft. Conor Obizzy) The Decision Made Itself Reverse Antidote (ft. Michael Stizz) A Little Consolation

Don’t seem to be any tracks available from the new one yet, but you can always go back and listen
to some of the tracks from the old album: Blackout Curtain,
Hold Your Spin, and Wonderful Scar.

The Fiery Furnaces, known in some circles as “Rough Trade’s White Stripes”,
will release their next single “Tropical Ice-land” February 23rd (stateside).
It’s a re-recorded version of the album track; the white vinyl 7″ version
will features “Sweet Spots” on the flipside, whilst the CD version features
“We Got Back The Plague (SBN version)”, which you can actually download if you can be
bothered to sign up here.
Btw, you’ll also get access to mp3s of “I Lost My Dog (SBN version)”, “South Is Only A Home”,
and “Don’t Dance Her Down”.

Also, the Walkmen will be on Conan February 6th,
probably performing “The Rat”, their wisely-chosen first single from Bows and Arrows.

On May 4th, the Magnetic Fields will release their new album on Nonesuch Records. The album title is i. It will have 14 new Stephin Merritt recordings, all starting with the letter i. The songs are sung by Stephin and accompanied by the four-piece band, John Woo (banjo and guitar), Sam Davol (cello) and Claudia Gonson (piano and percussion). The band plans to tour select dates around the US during May, June and July, and will post dates when available.

Califone has a new record out this week, Heron King Blues. You can
listen to the track “Apple” over at the Billions website (quicktime format).

Meanwhile, over at the New Line site, you can check out the excellent “A Night At Star Castle”, from the Robbers On High Street’s upcoming Fine Lines EP.

Furthermore, how about 3 from the upcoming Destroyer record, Your Blues? (Courtesy of Merge, of course).

“Palmcorder Yajna“, the
first single from The Mountain Goats‘
We Shall All Be Healed (out February 2nd), is available for download over
at 4ad. Darnielle &c. are touring throughout
February, first with the Rosebuds, then with Manishevitz.

And while you’re over there at the 4ad site, you can also check out “Misery Is A Butterfly“, one
of the tracks from Blonde Redhead’s upcoming record, called, coincidentally, Misery Is A Butterfly. Fluxblog has
another track available, which you can snag if you’re quick about it.

The krauty drone of Oneida is probably not
for everyone, but I like ‘em. Their newest, Secret Wars, is out this week.

There’ll also be a single release for “Caesar’s Column” out early next month,
featuring said track plus 4 remixes.

From tha blueprint comes word
that Johnny Rotten
will be appearing in a reality show. He’ll be shoo-in for “Most Annoying Reality Show Personality 2004″.
Except, remember when he ripped on Dave Kendall about that “dead cat” he wore as a toup?

Certainly one of the most painful experiences of your life would be trying to slog
your way through the Modest Mouse BBS, but
nonetheless I present you, as always with a healthy grain of salt, the unofficial
tracklist for Good News For People Who Love Bad News, as posted by
someone usernamed “*ISAAC*BROCK*”:

1. Horn Intro
2. World at Large
3. Float On
4. The Ocean Breeze Is Salty
5. Dig Your Grave
6. Bury Me With It
7. Dance Hall
8. Bukowski
9. The Devil’s Work Day
10. The View
11. Satin in a Coffin
12. Eric’s Interlude
13. Blame It on the Tetons
14. Black Cadillacs
15. One Chance
16. The Good Times Are Killing Me

Your mileage may vary, obvs.

Can a week go by without any Vanderslice news? Doesn’t look like it. MGM Endings, the limited-edition Cellar Door remix album, will be
available at JV tour stops and Barsuk in mid-February. Tracklist:

1. August
2. Bushnell Scope
3. Field Guide
4. Lifeboat [mp3]
5. Second Skin
6. Behold A Pale Horse
7. Winter Light
8. Requiem
9. Bomb In Reverse
10. Life And Life Only
11. Motel Of Lost Companions
12. They Won’t Let Me Run, Pt. 2

And since there’s a slew of people arriving here via the search terms
“WALKMEN + BOWS + ARR0WS + TRACKLIST”, “LIARS + THEY + WERE + WRONG + TRACKLIST”, and “IRON + WINE + ENDLESS + NUMBERED + DAYS + TRACKLIST”,
I shall indulge thee:

Bows and Arrows, the new Walkmen record, will be out February 3rd. Tracklist:

1. Whats In It For Me
2. The Rat
3. No Christmas While I’m Talking
4. Little House Of Savages
5. My Old Man
6. 138th Street
7. The North Pole
8. Hang On Siobhan
9. New Years Eve
10. Thinking Of A Dream
11. Bows And Arrows

The Liars‘ full-length, They Were Wrong, So We Drowned, will be out on February 23rd. Tracklist:

1. Broken Witch
2. Steam Rose From The Lifeless Cloak
3. There’s Always Room On The Broom
4. If You’re A Wizard Then Why Do You Wear Glasses
5. We Fenced Other Houses With The Bones Of Our Own
6. They Don’t Want Your Corn They Want Your Kids
7. Read The Book That Wrote Itself
8. Hold And It Will Happen Anyway
9. They Took 14 For The Rest Of Of Our Lives
10. Flow My Tears The Spider Said

It’s preceded on the 9th by the single There’s Always Room On The Broom. Official tracklist:

1. There’s Always Room On The Broom
2. Skull & Crossbrooms
3. Broom

Here’s the single (Window Shmedia format):

Iron and Wine’s Our Endless Numbered Days, is out March 23rd.
Here’s the *extremely* unofficial tracklist…. UPDATE: Here’s the official tracklist, courtesy of P-fork.

1. On Your Wings
2. Naked As We Came
3. Cinder and Smoke
4. Sunset Soon Forgotten
5. Teeth in the Grass
6. Love and Some Verses
7. Radio War
8. Each Coming Night
9. Free Until They Cut Me Down
10. Fever Dream
11. Sodom, South Georgia
12. Passing Afternoon

jtb’s always a big advocate
of the KCRW site. What I never really
noticed before was that Morning Becomes Eclectic doesn’t just offer
audio, but MOVING PICTURES as well! Kids, this is just like
the “talkies” of yore, only instead of talking it’s music, plus
also it’s in color instead of black and white, and it appears
in a little RealPlayer window instead of on the screen at the
Bijou. Anyway, here are some links for some of the Morning
Becomes Eclectic performances from the past year:

Merge will release the new Destroyer
record, Your Blues, on March 9th. The early PR for it says:“it promises
to be a slight swerve away from the sprawling epic chamber rock of 2002’s This Night.
Early word from Merge tips Your Blues as a poetic mishmash of balls-out
rockers and intensely quiet creepers underpinned by an unabashedly theatrical air.” In
any case, I’m sure it’ll be pretty swell. I love Bejar’s Hytchcockian vocal delivery.

And I just recently noticed that Parasol is
now offering 15% on
all new releases, which is pretty nice. Lots of places offer 10% off deals, but that’s like
a car dealer cutting you a deal by “waiving floor charges”. 15% off is like, actually REAL MONEY.
I ordered JV’s Cellar Door and dios‘ Los Arboles, both
of which are dropping next Tuesday.

Also, the fascinating “Mingering Mike collection”. UPDATE: The original poster of the Mingering Mike thread over at Soulstrut got spooked for some reason and pulled down all the pics and stuff. (MetaFilter thread is here)