Oh My Space

I didn’t realize how crucial myspace would become to musicians and friend seekers.  The whole concept just seemed too simple to take off the way it did.  Regardless, it’s the main band promoter these days and thanks to it I’ve made great new contacts.  If you haven’t already, be sure to become my friend (oh won’t you be mine?). 

From the mailbag:

We found a band in San Francisco called Trainwreck Riders that we’re in love with.  They’re really young (20 or so years old).  They play mainly Bart Stations, house parties and basements.  Their sound is a cool mix of traditional American music and Bay Area rock n roll.  Anyway, itís very early in the bandís days…but we wanted to bring this to you now.

The band just signed to Alive Records (the label that put out their best friendsí first record, Two Gallants, as well as Warlocks, Black Keys and Brian Jonestown Massacre).  They are in the studio recording the album now, and it will come out in August 2006.

Mp3’s
Trainwreck Riders : Delia
Trainwreck Riders : Lonely Road Revival

Video:
Train Wreck Riders : Bus Slo Mo

Here’s some funkish, Devo-like, poppy, electro punk Minneapolis-based band Avenpitch. They have a new album titled “Butterfly Radio” out now on Chicago’s Omega Point Records.  The mp3’s please:

Avenpitch : Butterfly Radio
Avenpitch : Dusseldorf
Avenpitch : Jack the Idiot Dance

And finally, another great band from our brothers above, Canada:

Think About Life builds a bridge from swiriling chaos to kindly pop, but the
bridge is a shaky beast that tends to collapse into the sea and capsize any
onlooking vessel. Shows can meltdown to oblivion or soar to ecstacy or implode
after one song with police intervention. The sounds range from manic to troubled
to tender to silly, exploding every emotion at once into a thousand pieces at
the bottom of a canyon. TAL reassembles this raw material into a worldview
rooted in thunder-storms, roller-coasters, clowns, sea-beasts, romance,
fireworks, massive sphinxes, basketball championships, chivalric knighthoods,
snowmen, children, videos, hamlets, sunglasses, and YOU.î



Think About Life is the lovechild of Graham Van Pelt,
a multi-instrumentalist, recording studio proprietor and co-director of
Montrealís adored all-ages alternative space, the Friendship Cove. The
bandís primary vocal organ is Martin Cesar, the genius of the Donkey
Heart quartet that squinty, pimply West Montreal kids swear by as ìthe
little band that couldÖî Matt Shane is the name of the bandís drum
machine.

Think About Life : Paul Cries