Three Things:

First, if you're a Comadre fan, and I know you are, click here.

Second, it has come to my attention that most of the Denovali stuff is available for free download now. Dominic, Kidcrash, Celeste, etc.

Third, this will be the last LAB update for a bit, check back in August!!!

Attn: Music Friends

Re: The Dollar Bin Is Almost Empty!

Wanted: individuals with caring homes and epic setups. This is the last bit of my bounty I'll be parting with, and the last time I'll have to waste yours with these shameless advertisements.



Also, next Thursday the infamous Fox Theatre in Fullerton is hosting a benefit being put on in it's honor, starting at 6pm. If anybody lives in the Orange County area, please come check out what they've got to offer. I like Oliver Jane.



Mostly Jane.



But I guess Oliver has a very nice smile, and he does play a banjo, which is always good for two of Ebert's appendages-gone-legitimate-rating-system way up.

Happy Monday everybody!

Must... Start... Fresh... (LAB024, 025, 026) (!!!)

Alright, so I've had a couple of mixes in construction since lord knows when and, well, here they are. I need a clean slate to keep moving. 026 is the next Butcher Shop installment, and the other two are more-or-less themed, probably leaning more towards the latter but nonetheless sweet. Noteworthies are the Sigur Rós 3-track EP I layered into one, as suggested by the band; the rare Tidal track; the Lemonheads-ala-Pink Razors cover <3; the Frog Eyes song from their split w/Jerk With A Bomb, and the Jerk With A Bomb track from their Pyrokinesis album; the UNKLE remix; the Boredoms classic and their less-experimental but no less-Japanese mixmates Luminous Orange; aaaaaaaand End Of A Year covering Seaweed, which came from a split with a band rocking said songs namesake who just happen to cover the Embrace song End Of A Year so legitimately hold up. I caught glimpse of the new Thermals today. They've finally scrapped the jewel case. Cucumber rolls on the house.



LAB024:

1. Oneida - Fantastic Morgue
2. The Nation Blue - Modern Warfare
3. Department Of Homeland Security - God Bless The Dixie Chicks
4. Defiance, Ohio - Petty Problems
5. Dead Meadow - What Needs Must Be
6. Ladyhawk - I Don't Always Know What You're Saying
7. Langhorne Slim - Restless
8. Joseph Plunket - Track 04 from his CD-R
9. Moccasin - Last Leaf
10. Frog Eyes - The Ox Who Drank His Blood
11. Call Me Lightning - Soft Skeletons
12. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - The Hook
13. Minus The Bear - Burying Luck
14. Swan Lake - Petersburg, Liberty Theater, 1914
15. Jerk With A Bomb - Fine Health Is At Home
16. If - All Right (Lord Knows)
17. Howlin' Rain - Lord Have Mercy



LAB025:

1. Prophet Omega - The Right Thing
2. Lightspeed Champion - Waiting Game
3. UNKLE - No Hits [Black Mountain] (Remix)
4. Flashbulb Memory - Money Clip
5. Luminous Orange - Every Single Child
6. The End Of The World - Party's Over
7. Boredoms - Tilde
8. The Black Soul Choir - Toward The Night
9. Tidal - Peacemaker
10. Findlay Brown - Loneliness I Fear
11. Sigur Rós - Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do (Layered)
12. Metric - Hardwire



LAB026:

1. Beirut - Hallelujah [Leonard Cohen]
2. Pink Razors - Uhhh [The Lemonheads]
3. Spoon - Peace Like A River [Paul Simon] (Daytrotter Session)
4. Tera Melos - Meant For You [The Beach Boys]
5. Pelican - Diggers Of Ditches Everywhere [These Arms Are Snakes]
6. Nouvelle Vague - Ever Fallen In Love [The Buzzcocks]
7. The Books - Cello Song [Nick Drake] (feat. Jose Gonzalez)
8. End Of A Year - Red Tape Parade [Seaweed]
9. Playing Enemy - Riot [Dead Kennedys]
10. Thrice - The Earth Isn't Humming [Frodus]
11. Constantines - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel [Talking Heads]
12. The Minor Canon - Car [Built To Spill] (Live)
13. Cave In - The Callus [Giants Chair]
14. Strung Out - Bark At The Moon [Ozzy Osbourne]
15. Part Chimp - Wild Honey Pie [The Beatles]
16. The Saddest Landscape - Accident Prone [Jawbreaker]
17. Okkervil River - Riot Act [Elvis Costello]
18. Against Me! - Bastards Of Young [The Replacements]



And if anybody else is like me and unwilling to shell out for the new Khanate, redirect your mouse to these Chicagoan sound sculptors instead.

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Going Back To Forward Thinking, Sort Of

I'd just like to point out the magic happening over here. Free tunes of the Yo Man, Go! and Iron Chic variety, and a Defiance, Ohio song that makes me lean this week towards the love side of my /hate relationship with said state. Also, unrelated, but Dominic... <3. That's the band there, not a comrade. I'm still batting for the same team; er, that's the same team I was on, previously, not the same team as in the 'same' oh forget it. This is what happens when This Ship Will Sink comes on. Speaking of, Tom did guest vox on Full Collapse?! Yeah I know! No you get out! Pinkberry, anyone?

I'm sorry. A new faithful brought up Prop 8 recently and reminded me my absentee ballot arrived a little late last year, I still feel kind of bad. At least that shit didn't pass as quickly as Arnold's proposition to cover his fuck-ups with death and taxes. All right, no deaths. Immediate, anyways; prolonged, however... Who still lives in California, seriously? Didn't Guzman dirty-money his way into this desert? Not yet?! No you get out!

Alright so I need ideas, I've got a Nick Cave mix that survived the annual crash of my hard drive but I'm not feeling it right now. My battery has died, somebody jump-start this bitch.

I wanted to make a hip-hop mix too, for my car, but It's taken the past few months to scrape together a whooping 50 minutes of material. Wait, no, I haven't settled on an Aesop Rock song yet: 46 minutes, after pending removal of whichever Simon casts off the Island, or what other reality shows you prefer to reference. Maybe I should just stop driving.

Does anybody want to, like, go to Algeria with me?

EPIC VINYL WEEK HOLLA

LAB023 - The Best Of 2008

LAB023 - The Best Of 2008

Right on time!

1. Boris - メッセージ
2. The Walkmen - Red Moon
3. TV On The Radio - Red Dress
4. Why? - The Hollows
5. Constantines - Trans Canada
6. Langhorne Slim - Restless
7. Liam Free - Second Chance (Live in Spaceland)
8. The Mountain Goats - Lovecraft In Brooklyn
9. No Age - Teen Creeps
10. Mouthbreather - Best Of Seven
11. 65daysofstatic - Dance Parties (Distant)
12. Fire On Fire - Heavy D
13. Jaguar Love - My Organ Sounds Like...
14. Ezra Furman & The Harpoons - We Should Fight
15. Ghost Towns - Taking Away The House
16. Okkervil River - Stand Ins, One/Lost Coastlines
17. Frightened Rabbit - Poke (Daytrotter Session)
18. Young Widows - Old Skin

Psst...

Ahem.

LAB023 - The Best Of 2008 (Pending)

Three months removed and four from the blog, all apologies, I returned home and to the world of new releases just last week. With my priorities in check, and scrambling, I pieced together a top ten of 2008 to let sit in the back of my head until last minute. The result? Almost too predictable to post. The conclusion? Make a mix instead!

Something between me going soft or bands gaining popularity kept out the usual obscurities this year. The bigger names like Boris and Okkervil River took the podium, in fierce competition with the Sigur Ros and Walkmen epics, trailed by a certain Darker My Love sophomore and everybody's darlings TVOTR. And with late releases by The Bronx, Lords, God Is An Astronaut, etc, and my stellar ability to ignore Frightened Rabbit and the latter of two Grail's albums until now, I couldn't quite come around to posting what would feel like an incomplete line-up.

So to those who ride in on the wake of other e-pinions or who've actually kept anxious yet patient since LAB022, thank you, you're welcome, and I hope your hard-earned carpel tunnel is properly recompensed. Very, very, soon.

EL BUZZARD

So I might be a little behind the ball on this one, but the mighty El Buzzard has upped all there material for free. And, they've formed a new band known as BREASTS. Awesome.

In related news, I'll be letting go an El Buzzard demo, among hundreds of other items, in the next few weeks. This is shameless self-promotion #3 I believe, I apologize, but I want these to end up in the welcoming hands of loving individuals. It is never a happy day for down-sizing, but school books only go up in price.

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LAB0022 - Screamo Gone Techno

LAB0022 - Screamo Gone Techno
Ohhoho yes. Compiled here are random remixes from various screamo mainstays that dare tread into techno territory. In the case of The June Spirit and Comadre (this is the second time I've upped it, it's that good), the tracks were originally "hidden tracks" that I split from their respective albums. A few were download only or random compilation tracks, the Funeral Diner tracks came off the CD release of the Swept Under EP, and the Raein tracks are from a 3" CD by the same name. Good stuff, not the easiest listen but it's fun to hear different takes on some good tracks and watch different songs emerge entirely. I'd definitely like to expand on this concept, so if anybody knows of stuff I'm missing let it be known.

1. Raein - From 3 To 1 In 2 And 4 (Roccan Remix)
2. Comadre - (Hidden Track)
3. Funeral Diner - City Of Webs (Title Mix)
4. Heaven In Her Arms - AKAI YUME (Remix)
5. The Crimson Curse - Bloodthirty Lust (John Wiese/Bastard Noise Re-Mix)
6. The June Spirit - (Hidden Track)
7. Mass Movement Of The Moth - Four (Sword of Freedom Remix)
8. Funeral Diner - Shifting (Black Van Remix)
9. Funeral Diner - Shifting (Battery Cage "Street Arcade High Score" Remix)
10. Raein - From 3 To 1 In 2 And 4 (Elicheinfunzione Remix)
11. Heaven In Her Arms - A Secret Signal... Here Is... (Remix)
12. Funeral Diner - Shifting (Midnight Laserbeam Remix)
13. Gay For Johnny Depp vs. Blacksmoke - Shh, Put The Shiv To My Throat
14. Funeral Diner - This Truly Is God's Country (See Colin Slash Mix)

Also, check out the previous post for some updates!