Free Prototypes EP

You can download the Prototypes' Je Ne Te Connais Pas EP for gratuit at www.mintyfresh.com (click on Stimuli).

Norfolk & Western: Now Touring + MP3s

Portland's Norfolk and Western are a few shows into their North American tour supporting The Unsung Colony out now on Hush. Tonight the band plays in Chicago and continues working their way out East (see remaining dates below). Fans of Sparklehorse and M. Ward (N&W's Adam Selzer plays guitar in Ward's band) will enjoy their West Coast brand of orchestral Americana.

from The Unsung Colony:
The Longest Stare [MP3, 5.0MB, 128kbps]
Arrangements Made [MP3, 6.4MB, 128kbps]
The New Rise of Labor [MP3, 3.0MB, 96kbps]

Tour dates:
Nov 15 Subterranean Chicago, IL
Nov 16 Club Cafe Pittsburgh, PA
Nov 17 TBA
Nov 18 North Star Bar Philadelphia, PA
Nov 19 Mercury Lounge New York, NY
Nov 20 DC9 Washington, DC
Nov 21 The Flying Anvil Greensboro, NC
Nov 22 TBA
Nov 24 Opolis Norman, OK
Nov 25 Rubber Gloves Denton, TX
Nov 26 Emo's Austin, TX
Nov 28 Plush Tucson, AZ
Nov 29 Casbah San DIego, CA
Nov 30 TBA
Dec 1 Hotel Los Angeles,CA
Dec 2 Hotel Utah San Francisco, CA
Dec 7 Sunset TavernSeattle, WA
Dec 8 Doug Fir Lounge Portland, OR

More Lismore, Including Smashing Pumpkins Cover

Here are two new MP3s to celebrate a new EP from Lismore entitled It Takes Guts To Deceive So Eloquently: one a ghostly number called "Far Off and Away," the other an intoxicating cover of Smashing Pumpkins' "1979."

Far Off and Away [MP3, 5.8MB, 160kbps]
1979 [MP3, 5.6MB, 160kbps]

Pixies loudQUIETloud DVD Release and Free Screenings...In Your Town?

Hi, Shan here. I'm stepping down tonight from my ivory tower to speak to you from the heart, because I heart the Pixies. Before seeing loudQUIETloud, my love was mainly one of reverent worship, perhaps like your own love of your personal God. You might say the Pixies were my personal Gods. In fact, I swore never to see them on their reunion tour in 2004 because I just couldn't look my Gods in the eyes after so many years had passed. It would have been too painful.

Luckily, Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin followed them around on that tour, and after seeing their chronicle I not only worship the Pixies but, perhaps more importantly, I respect them. loudQUIETloud is unlike any music documentary you have ever seen. The volatile rise and fall of the Pixies is of such grand proportions that it reads like the Old Testament of college rock. Yet, this New Testament is so profound not because it builds on the Pixies' legend but because it dismantles it piece by painstaking piece and then puts it back together in ways you'd never expect. If Ang Lee made a rockumentary, loudQUIETloud is what it would look like.

And all of these are reasons why you should take the opportunity to see a free (or really cheap) screening of it, courtesy of MVD Entertainment Group and Stick Figure Productions. And if it isn't in your town, go out and buy the DVD (out today on MVD) or add it to your NetFlix queue. Heck, even if you see the movie for free you're going to want to buy the DVD anyway. Check the dates below and for more information visit the MVD and loudQUIETloud websites. (And scroll to the bottom of the entry for the movie's track listing!)

SEATTLE, WA – In conjunction with Easy Street Records
Jewelbox Theater - 2322 2nd Ave. - (Belltown) Seattle, WA
Monday, November 6th – Show @ 7
FREE TO THE PUBLIC 21+

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - In conjunction with Electric Fetus & City Pages
Fine Line Music Café - 318 First Avenue N - Minneapolis, MN 55401
Monday, November 6th – Doors @ 7 & Show @ 8
FREE TO THE PUBLIC 18+

SALT LAKE CITY, UT - In conjunction with Big E’s & SLUG Magazine
Brewvies Cinema Pub - 677 S 200 W # D - Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Monday, November 6th – Show @ 9
FREE TO THE PUBLIC 21+

TEMPE, AZ - In conjunction with Zia Records
Harkins Centerpoint 11- 730 South Mill Avenue - Tempe, AZ 85281)
Monday, November 6th - Show @ 10pm

PHILADELPHIA, PA – In conjunction with Repo Records, Y-Rock on XPN & Philadelphia Weekly
Trocadero Theatre - 1003 Arch Street - Philadelphia, PA 19107
Tuesday, November 7th – Doors @ 7 & Show @ 8
FREE TO THE PUBLIC 21+

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - In conjunction with Amoeba & SF Bay Guardian
12 Galaxies - 2565 Mission Street @ 22nd - San Francisco, CA 94110
Tuesday, November 7th – Show @ 9
FREE TO THE PUBLIC 21+

NEW ORLEANS, LA – In conjunction with Louisiana Music Factory & Antigravity
One Eyed Jacks - 615 Toulouse St - New Orleans, LA 70130
Tuesday, November 7th – Show @ 9
FREE TO THE PUBLIC 18+

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - In conjunction with Plan 9
Satellite Ballroom - 1435 University Ave. - Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
Tuesday, November 7th - Show @ 8pm
FREE TO THE PUBLIC

NEW YORK, NY - In conjunction with CMJ
The Glass Lands Gallery - 289 Kent Avenue (between S. 1st and S. 2nd Streets) - Brooklyn, NY
(Williamsburg, accessible from L train and BQE)
Thursday, November 9th - Show @ 9pm
$2 @ Door - 18+, 21 + w/ ID to drink

HOLLYWOOD, CA - MVD Presents... A FREE Double Feature Screening of The Pixies’ “LOUDQUIETLOUD” & Mission of Burma’s “Not A Photograph”
Knitting Factory Hollywood - 7021 Hollywood Blvd. – Hollywood, CA
Saturday, November 25th - 9:30 to 11pm (Pixies DVD), 11:30 to 12:45 (Mission of Burma DVD)
FREE TO THE PUBLIC - ALL AGES

TRACK LISTING: Where Is My Mind?, Hey, Here Comes Your Man, Umass, Caribou, Gouge Away, Nimrod's Son, In Heaven, Wave Of Mutilation, Something Against You, Bone Machine, Cactus, Vamos, Monkey Gone To Heaven, and Iris.

Ace Fu Gets Bonked

For those of you not in the know, and I was recently among your numbers, Ace Fu signed playful, Norwegian punk RAWKERS, Bonk. The sophomore album, Bonk Against Nothing, comes out next week. These two tracks are proof-pudding of Bonk's ability to tap into the mythical origins of Rock 'n' Rolls all-powerful POWER. Had there been iPods back in the days of ancient Greece, Bonk would've been rattling Odysseus' brain as he slew the Cyclops. Get in on!

Bonk Against Nothing [MP3, 3.4MB, 160kbps]
Life is Noise [MP3, 3.8MB, 160kbps]

Play It As It sLays #257

#257
Play It As It sLays
October 31, 2006
(photo by Blurbomat)

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Tuesdays 10-Midnight PST

Viva Voce--from the devil himself [barsuk]
Sparklehorse--ghost in the sky [astralwerks]
Mojave 3--ghost ship waiting [4ad]
Superchunk--scary monsters (and super creeps) [merge]
The Boy Least Likely To--monsters [too young]
Self--kidDies
The Kinks--full moon
Mogwai--kids will be skeletons [matador]
DJ Shadow--giving up the ghost [quannum]
Social Distortion--creeps (i just wanna give you)
The Husbands--monster party
Calla--play dead
TAM--better off dead [ecstatic peace]
Autolux--angry candy

The Quantic Soul Orchestra--that goose on my grave [ubiquity]
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra--spooky street [ubiquity]
Barcelona--haunted by the ghost of patty
Irving--death in the garden, blood on the flowers [eenie meanie]
Japan--halloween
Mazzy Star--ghost on the highway
Destroyer--your blood [merge]
Seaweed--kid candy [sub pop]

(Tommy the trick-or-treating intern)
The Flaming Lips- If I only Had A Brain
The Decemberists- The Shankill Butchers
Karen Ann- Le Sable Mouvant
The White Ghost Shivers- The Ghost Song
The Paper Chase- We Know Where You Sleep