There’s a brand new 7-inch out from Denton’s Fergus & Geronimo, courtesy of Tic Tac Totally. The disc features the songs “Blind Muslim Girl” b/w “Powerful Lovin’”, and can be had in a limited-edition (mailorder only exclusive) gold version (well, if you order fairly soon it can be had… I wouldn’t expect those to last long).
 

On November 3rd, one of my favorite quirkpop purveyors, John Ringhofer (aka Half-Handed Cloud) is releasing a new collection called Cut Me Down & Count My Rings. The disc collects material (46 songs worth!) from an array of EPs, vinyl singles, CDRs, downloads, and other disparate sources (cassingle anyone?), and precedes a brand-new HHC release, due out from Asthmatic Kitty next year.

The track I give you to sample below doesn’t come from the new collection, but rather from HHC’s Asthmatic Kitty debut Learning About Your Scale (2001) — and it’s always been one of my favorites.

MP3: Half-Handed Cloud – “Can’t Even Breathe On My Own Two Feet”

MP3: 39 Clocks – “PLO”
OtherMusic calls them “one of the finest rock and roll bands Germany ever spawned,” but you’ve probably never heard of them. 39 Clocks were a duo (or a trio if you count the drum machine) who operated between the German music and art worlds (they were once thrown out of a show because “their sounds had disturbed Joseph Beuys) in the late ’70’s and early ’80s. The recent Zoned collection from DeStijl cull Clocks’ material from 1981-1987 (interestingly, in reverse chronological order). It’s worth checking out, particularly if you dig the VU-ey chug of a song like “PLO.”

Forest Fire & Papercuts (Takeaway Show)

(Well done, Chryde!)

MP3: Fulton Lights – “Healing Waters”

Fulton Lights will be dropping a new release next week, titled Healing Waters. You can (and should) pre-order it now.

Forest Fire – “Slow Motion” (Live)
(via Chocolate Bobka)

MP3: Box Elders – “Necro”

I have been digging on Box Elders’ “Hole In My Head” (from their Goner 7″) for most of this year, but that’s been the only Box Elders song I had. That has finally changed with the release of their full-length Alice and Friends (you know, the one with the faaar-ouuuut cover art), also on Goner. Dig this new song, courtesy of the consistently on-it Friendship Bracelet.

(…and note: FB also posted *2* other great tracks from the record just a few days ago…)

MP3: Woods – “Get Back”

This track comes from the oh-so-excellent Yeti #7 compilation that I told you to pick up a few months back. Luckily, you can still nab one, so get on it– at $12 bucks it’s practically a steal.

(track via Weekly Tape Deck)

MP3: Fergus & Geronimo – “Tell It (In My Ear)”
MP3: Fergus & Geronimo – “Glistening Smiles”
London’s excellent Transparent organisation is on the cusp of releasing a brand new Fergus & Geronimo 7″, for “Tell It In My Ear” b/w “Glistening Smiles.” Its limited to 300 copies, and Pure Groove is the exclusive UK dealer. They say that some retailers in the US will have copies, but honestly, you’re probably better off to just pay a bit more and import from Pure Groove, so as to not take any chances.

• Holiday Shores – “Phones Don’t Feud”
• Rainbow Bridge – “Big Wave Rider”
• Jumbling Towers – “The Kanetown City Rips”
• Fergus & Geronimo – “Harder Than Its Ever Been”
• Frankie & the Heartstrings – “Possibilities”
• Crayon Fields – “All the Pleasures”
• Beach Fossils – “Vacation”
• Haunted House – “Chandaliers”
• Earthmen & Strangers – “Bartender”
• Fluffy Lumbers – “Cruisers”
• That Ghost – “Never Have Fun”

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