Below are some bits of tonight's radio show that you can download and take with you for free, courtesy of the artists and IODA Promonet. I also wanted to let you know about The Evolution Control Co's show at Wild Goose Creative, happening tonight, doors at 8 p.m. Read more about it at The Fuse Factory's website. Also there's a happy hour show, 6-9 p.m. tomorrow at Rumba Cafe, just a couple doors down from Wild Goose, featuring Total Foxx and You're So Bossy.

Yeah, I'm starting to do the radio shows again with regularity, Thursdays and Fridays on WCRS at 6 p.m., but the day/time is likely to change once we go to a 24 hour schedule. Anyhoo...See all those links on the side of the blog under "Subscribe and Share"? That's the easiest way to keep track of my show. Don't be scared. Click on one of 'em until you find one you like. They all pretty much do the same thing.

And now...the freebies:

Withered Hand
"New Dawn" (mp3)
from "Good News"
(Absolutely Kosher)
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Typhoon
"The Honest Truth" (mp3)
from "A New Kind of House"
(Tender Loving Empire)

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Brown Recluse
"Impressions of a City Morning" (mp3)
from "Evening Tapestry"
(Slumberland Records)

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Black Francis
"Bad News" (mp3)
from "The Golem"
(The Bureau)

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It's time for another Old 3C Records' blast from the past. Below is a link to a recording of Househearts' 1983 set at Comfest. Househearts featured Bob Robinson and Paul Nini, and was active in Columbus from 1982 to 1986. On this particular set John Weber is playing drums. Househearts list among their influences Television, Joy Division, Mission of Burma, and Pylon. If you like those bands, you'll love Househearts. If you're as old as me, the sound of Househearts will definitely take you back.

If you'd like to try before you download, there's a tune from the set called "Never Doubt My Words" that you can stream in the player below.

Download: Househearts Comfest 83 mp3 archive

I am happy to host Old 3C Records' digital release of the Beatdowns' "Disconnected Girl" single. Both sides are delicious slices of '60s garage pop. Listen to the songs below via the flash player, and download both mp3s plus the cd artwork in a .zip archive. If you prefer lossless audio and can stick around for a longer download, click on the aiff bundle.

Download: The Beatdowns - "Disconnected Girl" mp3 archive

Download: The Beatdowns - "Disconnected Girl" aiff archive

Rodeo Ruby Love is a band from Marion, Indiana. Last year they released a full-length cd entitled Rodeo Ruby Love Vs. The Great American Cities. Band leader Zack Melton says of their music, "I like the complexities and paradoxes of writing fun, catchy music with heartbreaking words." That paradox rings true on "Small House in the City", which you can find below.

Rodeo Ruby Love will be coming to our great American city this Sunday, appearing at the Treehouse with Traveling By Sea and local spazz-popsters This is My Suitcase.

MP3: Rodeo Ruby Love - Small House in the City

I have a working turntable! I repeat: I have a working turntable. To celebrate I made an mp3 out of side 1, track 1 of the first record I ever bought.

Somewhere around 1993, I committed the tragic error of selling off my vinyl collection. I saved a couple records, Desolation Boulevard being one of them.

So this connecting-a-turntable-to-a-computer thing actually works:

Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

Brooklyn's Action Painters are in town tomorrow night at the Treehouse with friends of pat radio Ghost Shirt. Check out this slice of power-pop entitled "Supermarket" from Action Painters' forthcoming lp. Nice churning guitars and bouncy synth line here.

Action Painters - Supermarket

Hear a live performance by openers Ghost Shirt and learn more about the band right here.

Everything you need to know about this week's pat radio is at this link below. It will air next week on WCRS after the passage of time has sucked all the vitality out of it:

http://www.wcrsfm.org/node/263

There's new stuff from Bozniaks, who play Cafe Bourbon Street on Friday. There's a few other shows hyped as well: Bird & Flower / Jordan O'Jordan / Dane Terry at Surly Girl on Friday. Ladybug Transistor and Super Desserts tonight at the Treehouse. Via Audio, Spd Gvnr, and Bicentennial Bear at Treehouse on Saturday.

I'm goin' campin'. See ya.

I need to recharge the local rock and pop batteries. I'm open to any ideas from scenesters as to who I should have as guests on the second quarter of '09.

Until then, I offer this feeble attempt to ride the coattails of South by Southwest. If you follow the link, it may also be your first visit to the lovely WCRS website, as this mp3 is hosted there:

http://www.wcrsfm.org/node/240

Play List:
Black Owls - Mrs. Someday
Rev KM Williams & The Amazing - Tell The Truth
Rachel Goodrich - Little Brass Bear
Scram C Baby - King Bolo
Say Hi - Northwestern Girls
Ratas del Vaticano - Tema de las ratas
Pretty & Nice - Tora Tora Tora
Pre - Popping Showers
BO-PEEP - B-Level Motion
Ponytail - Sky Drool
Plouen Catximbes - La Blanca
Micachu - Golden Phone
Pato Fu - Nada Original
Peelander-Z - Ninja-High Schooool
Bad Sports - All The Time
Bam Bam - Por favor no vuelvas a nacer
Black Lips - O Katrina!

Mors Ontologica made another guest appearance on Liz Berg's WFMU show on September 15, 2008. Mors and WFMU have graciously allowed me to repost the session here. Special thanks to Jason Sigal for cutting the tracks and sending them to me. You can stream the set below or you can download all five songs, as separate mp3s for your portable-player-pleasure. The tracks are in the zip file link below.

This music is released under the Creative Commons license.



Download: morswfmu.zip

Last Saturday The Lindsay trucked up to Cleveland to play at the annual WRUW Studio-A-Rama concert. The concert was broadcast on WRUW, and simulcast on their web site.

You can stream the entire set below, or download it in handy zipped format.



Download: TheLindsayStudioARama.zip

As you may remember from the Paul Nini Old 3C podcast a few months back, Great Plains did an east coast tour this past April, and one of their stops was at the WFMU studio. Old 3C records is making that performance available as a free download, complete with cover art and notes. You can stream the songs here:



Download all the mp3s plus cover art and liner notes in one handy zip archive: GreatPlainsWFMU.zip

Dig Old 3C records further: www.old3c.com

Some of you might recognize the band name Clem Snide more than you will its singer and songwriter, Eef Barzelay. But at this particular juncture, Clem Snide is Eef Barzelay and Eef Barzelay is Clem Snide. Barzelay recently released another album, and I've got a song from it to lay on you. It was hard for me to pick just one. I thought first of going for one of the numerous loud, rockin' numbers because it illustrates that, if I'm reading the news correctly, this disc started out as a Clem Snide project but eventually was released under Barzelay's name. His 2006 release, Bitter Honey was a solo acoustic affair, so it's refreshing to hear the amped-up tunes on this new record.

Instead, I picked the quieter "True Freedom" because it illustrates Barzelay's ability to create poignant and chilling characters in song. "True Freedom" is the first-person musings of a teenage suicide.


Right-click (or Cntrl + click on a Mac) this link and select "Save Link As" or "Save Target As" in order to download this song: Eef Barzelay - True Freedom

Thanks to Bruce Rosendahl and the good people at 429 records for allowing me to post this tune. Pick up Lose Big at your favorite independent record shop. If you're desperate, it's on Amazon.

More importantly, see Eef Barzelay at the Rumba Cafe on Friday, August 8. Friend of pat radio Lydia Loveless is opening.

Video Bonus

Here's the video for the title track to Eef's latest record, Lose Big.

I don't need to tell you hipsters about The Kills, and Midnight Boom has been out for a couple months now. I'm finally catching up, and I've got to say that the new record is a tad less raw than 2005's No Wow and considerably more varied. Both are good things, in my opinion.

Stream "Sour Cherry" below. Buy it, you must, at Domino USA.

Periodically, I declare a certain band "the greatest rock and roll band in the world" ^TM. This can change from week to week and certain favorite bands get the honor repeatedly. Currently the title goes to a guitar and drum duo from San Francisco called The Dodos. I'm a sucker for dynamics, quietLOUDquiet stuff, and no song illustrates that better than "Jody" (or is it "Jodi"?) from their latest album Visiter. You can stream it below:



Thanks to the Syd and all the fine people at Frenchkiss Records for allowing me to blog this mp3. Right-click and Save-As right here.

And anyone who's seen the band live will tell you that the Dodos must be experienced live to be fully appreciated, and so the band also gets the distinction of first Concert Regret ^TM of 2008. I stayed at home on April 15 when they played Cafe Bourbon Street. Here's a video of the Dodos performing "Jodi" at Divan Orange, Montreal, on April 8, 2008:

Hey...I'm adding categories to my blog and have decided to post mp3s and do other interesting non-podcast related things here. So I turned to my idle ioda account to see what I could plunder. Lo and behold, there are two mp3s from the latest Frightened Rabbit album The Midnight Organ Fight and one from their 2007 release Sing the Greys. If you're a fan of Orange Juice or the Wedding Present, I think you will like this guitar-driven pop. And who can resist a Scottish accent? No one, that's who.

Frightened Rabbit
"The Modern Leper" (mp3)
from "The Midnight Organ Fight"
(Fat Cat Records)

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Frightened Rabbit
"Head Rolls Off" (mp3)
from "The Midnight Organ Fight"
(Fat Cat Records)

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Frightened Rabbit
"Be Less Rude" (mp3)
from "Sing the Greys"
(Fat Cat Records)

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