MP3: Loyal Divide – Young Blades
MP3: Blastronauts – Even the Score
MP3: The Town Monster – Born of the Pines

The Flaming Lips@LC

Oh hey, remember this thingie? I know, it’s been a minute. Don’t wanna hear it. I bet you can only imagine that a ton of cool shit has happened since we last got up. For example, a weekend camping excursion with a bunch of dudes, guns and fireworks(in the streets) O.K. enough will the small talk. Oh man where do I even start, the older I get the less I remember.

In this issue of “How long is Robert Duffy gonna keep letting that jackass write this crap”, I saw some sicccckkkk psych rock via Subarachnoid Space, some weirdo noise band in luchador masks, some weirdo dude in a giant hamster ball, some weirdo dude hula hooping for a really long time and I went to that thingie down town that a bunch of bands played at.

If you’re really that bored at work today click the more thingie —–> (more…)

mp3: Blastronauts – Even the Score

If you’re not headed down to Nelsonville for Yo La Tengo on Thursday night, you’d do well to check out Blastronauts‘ release show at Oldfield’s on High, a venue that’s had some better shows recently thanks to Blastronauts main man James Allison, who started booking a Thursday night lineup under the name Outer Sounds (and now occasionally records some of those bands and posts songs to stream at the Outer Sounds website).

The new EP, Galileo, is the first in a series of four mini-albums about astronomers. So there’s obviously some spacey stuff on there, but as you’ll hear in the above mp3 of “Even the Score,” everything is grounded with some love for a good hook. …Also, that album cover up there is 3D when viewed with the appropriate anaglyph eyewear, and Thursday night Oldfield’s will boast a 3D photography exhibition.

Also on the bill:

- The Rosewood Thieves, from NYC, who recently released their own EP called Heartaches By The Pound: The Rosewood Thieves Sing Solomon Burke. Burke actually wrote the liner notes for the project, going so far as to say, “I thought the Rolling Stones did me a favor but you have taken it to another level.” Judge for yourself with this mp3 from the EP:

mp3: The Rosewood Thieves – Home In Your Heart

- The Dead Trees, from Portland, who just toured Brazil with Little Joy.

- The Lost Revival, a local favorite of mine. Rarely does their “bastardized Americana” disappoint live.

Couch Forts

Columbus’ Blastronauts have been keeping busy. Besides all of the shows and recordings surrounding their own band, they’ve also been hosting a lot of events around town under the Outer Sounds name. To expand their small empire, they’ve partnered with EP Studios to record bands and release recordings on their new website.

The first session featured Couch Forts.

Couch Forts have been with the outer sounds since the beginning, being once of the first bands we had play at the concert series when we started up last year. Since then they have become a mainstay on the Columbus music scene and were recognized as one of Columbus Alive’s band’s to watch in January, 2009. The three man band, consisting of Owen Kelley on guitar, vocals and stomping duties, Matt Owen on fiddle, and Tyler Evans on Banjo, create a very industrial take on folk music that manages to meet somewhere in between Sufjan Stevens and The Books.

Here’s one of the songs from that session:

MP3: 1959 by Couch Forts

Click here to listen to the other songs.

James from The Blastronauts has put together a great series of shows here in Columbus Ohio. I could have done with Dressy Bessy not being at Bernie’s, but hey what can ya do…

September 25th, 2008, Bernie’s
The Seedy Seeds (Cincinnati)
Flotation Walls (Columbus)
Couch Forts (Columbus)
New Vega (Dayton)

October 2nd, 2008, Rumba Café
Blastronauts (Columbus)
Earwig (Columbus)
Paper Airplane (Columbus)
Bookmobile (Columbus)

October 9th, 2008, Café Bourbon Street
Russenorsk (Athens, OH)
Melty Melty (Columbus)
James & James (Columbus)
Blood on my Neck (Columbus) (more…)