How appropriate that I just posted about Unbunny’s Black Strawberries, as it was originally released in 2002– so it’s approximately the same age as this site.

Yes, this month marks Catbirdseat.Org’s 7th anniversary. I would do you a recap or crack some jokes about it, but I already did that 2 years ago. Instead, I’m just going to ask a favor: please click the link below to add a Delicious bookmark for me (please– it’ll take you literally about one second), and/or throw me a link from your blog / Facebook / Twitter / Tumblr / Livejournal / Geocities Page.

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Thanks! And feel free to keep telling me that the site doesn’t look a day over 6.

Danzig – “777”

I’m in the process of arranging for a super-awesome limited-edition 180-gram pressing of one of my favorite albums, Unbunny’s Black Strawberries, and you can help! I’m running the release through the brilliant new website Kickstarter, and it works thusly: I’ve set a target goal, and for the next 60 days will accept “pledges” (ostensibly “pre-orders”). If we reach our target in time, the project will be go, and everyone will get their records. If we don’t manage to hit the target goal, no one is charged anything, and we cancel the project– no harm, no foul.

But I don’t want this to be cancelled, you dig? So head to the Kickstarter Unbunny Black Strawberries page and join us!

For the unfamiliar, I could describe to you how Unbunny’s music has been compared to: Harvest-era Neil Young, Elliott Smith, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sparklehorse and Jasons Lytle and Molina, but I’ll do you one better and just let you listen for yourself. Below is the album’s wonderful opening track.

MP3: Unbunny – “In A Way”

Subpop junior label Hardly Art just announced the signing of Golden Triangle, the Brooklyn band described as “one part girl-group, one part garage punk, and another part that’s wholl inexplicable.” Don’t ask me why, exactly, I say this, but this just seems like one of those perfect artist-label match-ups to me.

MP3: Golden Triangle – “Prize Fighter”

No explicit details as to their first HA release, other than the band’s note on their Myspace that they’re “recording very soon.”

(thanks to Line Out for the tip-off)

Apparently, since February of 2007, Canada’s Hidden Cameras have put out *3* different limited-edition LPs of their 2006 album, Awoo. The first (sold out) edition was designed and hand-screened by artist Will Munro, in an edition of 200. The second version (211 copies, sold out) came in September of ‘07, and featured artwork (and screenprinting) by Daryl Vocat. The third, and final, edition has *just* been released, in an edition of 144, this one with art hand-painted by Joel Gibb himself. You can nab a copy here at the Hidden Cameras store, if you act quickly. I’ve got a Hidden Cameras record somewhere that has this phallus-dagger painted on it, but for the life of me, I can’t remember which album it is… anyway:

MP3: The Hidden Cameras – “Death of a Tune”

Oh, also? The NEW Hidden Cameras album, titled Origin:Orphan is being mixed and mastered as we speak.

MP3: Darlings – “TV”
MP3: Darlings – “Teenage Girl”

You may have noticed 2 songs in this month’s mix from a band called Darlings. This was one of those rare cases where I had, like, 5 songs from a band and wanted to put them all in the mix, but had to limit myself. Seriously, if you like the 2 tracks in the mix, go to theirspace and check out the other songs, “Eviction Party,” “Yeah I Know,” and the stomper, “If This Is Love.” The L Magazine threw out comparisons to Teenage Fanclub, the Replacements, and Sebadoh, but I don’t hear it, to be honest. All I hear are pure, consummate pop songs, plain and simple– and ain’t nothing wrong with that.

Here’s the new Catbirdseat Mix for you; as always, grab ‘em below or go thru the mix link in the sidebar.

• Surf City – “Headin’ Inside”
• City Center – “Open/House”
• Frankie & the Heartstrings – “Possibilities”
• Woods – “The Dark”
• Darlings – “TV”
• Real Estate – “Fake Blues”
• Glass Cake – “We’ll Work It Out”
• Jail – “No Mindless Love”
• Sisters – “Glue”
• Darlings – “Teenage Girl”
• Crocodiles – “I Wanna Kill”

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