Coleen Green-Demos/4 Loko 2 Kayla

Colleen Green is a girl from Oakland who makes wonderful, simple, catchy little lo-fi garage gems. The fact that she covers M+Ms by Blink-182 is more than reason enough to download her stuff.

Collen Green-Demos/4 Loko 2 Kayla

Dead Luke-Cosmic Meltdown

Weird, spacey, washed out, lo-fi .Chock full of Jamz. Good stuff indeed.

Cosmic Meltdown.

PS-If you really dig it, buy the tape here.

Hickey-Various States of Disrepair: Complete Works 1994-'96/ Live at Hap's-The Tabaso Incident

Hickey is the best band ever. Period.

Various States of Disrepair.

 Live at Hap's-The Tabasco incident.
(Entire set as one mp3)
You can find more info, photos, and download the band's entire catalog for free at mattyluv.com

Pure Ecstasy-Future Nostalgia 7" and Easy 7"

Pure Ecstasy presents yet another reason for me to daydream about Texas. The Austin three piece makes dreamy lo-fi pop, that almost sounds like it was recorded in the bottom of a well, but that's half the charm, and trust me there's plenty to go around here. There's a sort of surfy jangle-pop feeling to their stuff that'll leave you all warm and fuzzy inside. This will probably be in heavy rotation on my iPod for a quick minute. Enjoy.

Future Nostalgia 7"

Easy 7"

NOse Bleed Island Mega Post!!!

Well, it's been well over a month since I've even looked at this thing and I have no idea why. I've relocated to Portland, and it's been great thus far. 

The only people I seem to hang out with here are all originally from Vermont, and one of them turned me on to this bizarre, wonderful little gem of a band called NOse Bleed Island. I really don't know much about them, aside from what I've been told and what I've found online. But what I do know, I absolutely love.
Members of the band include Joey Pizza Slice, who I've heard is some sort of weirdo with filthy hair who does little aside from eat pizza in downtown Burlington and make strange catchy songs about Dracula, beating up Nazis, and being in love. Also rouding out the line-up is an 11 year old boy who often times can't actually play live because he has to go to bed.at a reasonable hour for an 11 year old.

They've got two records out on Bunny Huang Records, "silly sad circuits DEAD BABY in a jar", released in 2006, and "more tales from the Blood island", which was released the following year under the name NOse Bleed Island and the Blood Island Society. 

 Both of these albums are probably the best things I've heard in a god damn while. They're these sort of amazingly goofy, catchy, campy, lighthearted, lo-fi opuses, that will have you tapping your toes, scratching your head, and singing them to yourself for weeks after you first listen.
Also, here's a few videos they've made. Fucking genius.
Dracula Says:

Bunk Beds:

silly, sad, circuit's DEADBABY in a jar.

 

more tales from the Blood island.

New track:St. Mawr-Retrospective

The more I hear of San Francisco's St. Mawr, the more I like them. A while back a video was posted of them playing a new song not available on their first release. I finally got around to ripping the audio, and here it is.

Retrospective

Allen Ginsberg reads Howl

If I need to explain this to you, we can't be friends.

Howl