Review :: Coma Cinema :: Blue Suicide

Can't stop listening to this. I think I love it. L-U-V. A year old, so it's the anniversary of sorts, so I'm not afraid to ask publicly at this point if Mat Cothran's up for doing a reissue, because I think I could sell this. Short run, high quality, cassette format. Everything above and beyond the cost of doing business goes back to the artist.

These are sluggish, pop missives composed by Jonah from the core of the whale's heart. Hyperliterate and tainted by an apathy for modern life. I would trust Mr. Cothran to explain to my health insurance company why they should cover the cost of my as-of-yet undiagnosed bone disorder.

Stream for free. Spend the dollar bills for the product. And make sure you check out Cothran's other projects.

[Note: Wonder Beard Tapes sells this release, but the site/functionality are non-site/non-functional as of this moment. This one right here. It's over.]

http://comacinema.bandcamp.com/

Video :: Gremlins :: JonBénet

Been meanin' to pack this one into your brain and watch it squirt back out of that play-doh factory you call a head. I don't hate you--in fact, I like you--I just like play-doh more. I guess that means I'm a bit touched, don't it?

Gremlins is comprised of members from Ricky Eats Acid, Toro y Moi, Braids, and Coma Cinema, which in case you can't do the supergroup math means that by minute three, you'll be wishing you could get all that play-do back in your head and keep it there. Hold it...hold it. Now if your parents would only come and pick you up before anyone sees you sneeze.

Review :: Each Other :: Taking Trips

On Prison Art's reissue of Each Other's demo, former members of Halifax's Long Long Long pump out some golden sounds: rich guitar pop with no small amount of whack-job psych freeloading its way onto our shores like a van-load of prescription meds. Some beautiful stuff here, pink-cheeked and earnest. The recording's crisp, the drums stick, and the guitar shines.

Purchase Taking Trips direct from Prison Art to get the download and this sweet looking product, too.

Each Other :: Freak Heat

In other news, making up for some lost time here, so we're gonna take it back to some recordings we've missed in past months, maybe even rewind a year. So if you find the urge, follow us into the light.

News :: Upcoming Shows :: April

Stick it to the man before he has the chance to offer you his hand.

04/01  :: Andrew WK :: 9:30 Club [SOLD OUT]
04/02 :: Wild Flag :: 9:30 Club [SOLD OUT]
04/03 :: Natural Child :: Black Cat Back Stage
                  Small Bones/Fell Types/others :: Asefu's
04/05 :: School of Seven Bells :: Black Cat
                  Fordists/The Deads :: Velvet Lounge
04/06 :: Windian Showcase :: Foul Swoops/The Bizarros/and more :: Montserrat House
04/07 :: Windian Showcase :: Spider Fever/The Shirks/and more :: Montserrat House
04/12  :: Converge/Pygmy Lush/others :: DC9 [SOLD OUT]
04/14  :: Crystal Stilts :: Rock and Roll Hotel
04/15 :: Lambchop :: Iota
                 BSR/Rat Babies/Akris/Fortress :: Velvet Lounge
04/17 :: Paint Fumes/Los Vigilantes :: Comet Ping Pong
04/18 :: Washed Out/Memoryhouse :: Black Cat [SOLD OUT]
04/21 :: Chairlift/Nite Jewel :: U Street Music Hall
                 Dirty Ghost/The Fire Tapes :: Comet Ping Pong
04/24 :: Keep Shelly in Athens :: DC9
04/28 :: Ceremony/Tone/The Orchid :: Velvet Lounge

News :: Upcoming Shows :: March

Sounds so smooth you'll be craving the fresh sleaze of the fro-yo freeze.

03/04 :: Young Prisms/Boy Friend/Ceremony :: DC9
03/05 :: Prince Rama/Pygmy Lush :: Comet Ping Pong
             Korralreven :: Black Cat Backstage
03/06 :: X-Ray Eyeballs :: Comet Ping Pong
03/12 :: Roomrunner/Priests/The Deads :: Black Cat Backstage
03/15 :: Megafaun/William Tyler :: Black Cat Backstage
03/17 :: EMA :: U Street Music Hall
03/23 :: Taking the Piss (indie pop dj night) :: Marx Cafe
03/24 :: Youth Lagoon :: Rock and Roll Hotel [SOLD OUT]
03/26 :: A Place to Bury Strangers (with some shitheel headliners) :: 9:30 Club
03/27 :: Liturgy/Sleigh Bells :: 9:30 Club [SOLD OUT]
03/31 :: Cloud Nothings :: Red Palace [SOLD OUT]
             Perfume Genius :: Iota