Have fun, kids!

Here are three things I learned about Git Some after spending approximately two minutes on their MySpace:

1) They have a song called "That's Just Eczema." (Ha!)
2) They are "down with Hall & Oates."
3) They look like this:

• Brian Carney via MySpace

I like 'em already.

Psst, for some reason Easy Street on Mercer is giving away thousands of records in front of the store, they so crazy. Starts now !

Go! Run! Get free records!

Ouch. The post-Thanksgiving shopping week is no time to be closed! Hopefully this is the last of the delays.

In the mean time, you can continue to ease all your Sonic Boom cravings at their Ballard location on Market St.

What a perfect record for (forgive me) Rocktober. I'm about halfway through the first track, and it's making me wish that I were running through the woods during a thunderstorm at night. While werewolves or something scary chased me.

UPDATE: Oh shit. Track two, "Geneva," just started and it sounds like the werewolves caught me. DOOM.

(Speaking of SEAshows, it might also be helpful to you if you're hoping to see Kid Sister at Neumos next week for FREE.)

214 performed last Saturday at Chop Suey as part of Decibel and reportedly impressed. A CD-R containing 11 of his original productions that he recently sent to me augurs well for this 206 newcomer. Stay tuned for more funky, low-end goodness.

Tracklist
1.Doctor Evil - Zissle - Touchin Bass
2.Jeff Pils -Montiert - Touchin Bass
3.Martyn - Right? Star! -3024
4.Joy Orbison - Wet Look - Hot Flush
5.Dusko Janevski - Downtown - Juan's Kitchen Delights
6.Matt Whithead - Conveyor - Cultivated Electronics
7.Thomas P Heckmann - Robocop - AFU
8.Dez Williams - Abandoned Emotions - Cheap
10.Hardfloor - The Life We Choose (ERP remix) - Hardfloor
11.Headnoaks vs CPU - Lost Sense - Transient Force

Vaccine
Cooly G
Ikonika
Kito
Subeena
Tokimonsta

Current.com is streaming it for free, so you can try before you buy.

(Thanks to the lovely Sarah C. for the tip.)

Here's hoping Trouble Dicso can lure Q&A to Seattle. I'd love to interview 'em (music journalism humor FTL).

ht: I Love Music

Photo from Q&A's MySpace.

Here I come, Tacoma.

Here's some evidence to prove I'm not exaggerating (from their CD release show earlier this year at the Vera Project):

See? Everyone knows the words. Everyone. You have four days to get your hands on the album and study up.

(For extra credit, you can also read about the hellish year of addiction and near-death experiences the band had to survive in order to write and release We Sing the Body....)

Find previews of every single artist performing at Bumbershoot here, and make your own custom schedule for the festival here.

The unaccompanied drums at the start of Fleetwood Mac’s “Hypnotized” would make for a sweet foundation for a relentless, swift-tempo’d rap, and that initial guitar lick is also ripe for looping to, uh, hypnotic effect. In fact, the entire track—which was written by guitarist Bob Welch—could easily be edited for cosmic-disco purposes. It definitely has that archetypal, laid-back Balearic vibe that's been sauntering back into vogue over the last couple of years. (In fact, Cosmo Vitelli has done a disco edit for Fleetwood Mac's "Keep on Going," which, like "Hypnotized," appears on Mystery to Me.) “Hypnotized” is one of Fleetwood Mac’s best—and most slept-on—songs, even though it was a minor hit in 1973. Wake up to it.

The songs on this compilation have mostly been created using original videogame hardware running home-brew software, and vary radically in style, from minimal 'one man and his Game Boy' compositions to 8-bit inspired full band performances. Pterodactyl Squad proudly presents the music of Weezer as you have never heard it before.

You can download it for free here (as ZIP file or separate MP3s).

It's better than anything Weezer has recently done themselves.

"The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" by Bit Shifter

"El Scorcho" by Tugboat

(Via punknews.org)

On Thursday, the Ballard bar will turn nine years old, and they're kicking off the three-day weekend with a free party to celebrate. Head down to the Sunset for performances from members of the Tripwires, Thee Sgt. Major III, YokoKnieveil, and DJ Taco Supreme. They'll also have drink specials and Dante's hotdogs!

And it's FREE.

Thee Sgt. Major III, featuring Kurt Bloch, will make you really happy. Here's some sonic evidence:

Thee Sgt. Major III - "Battery Operated"

(Photo from Monotonix's performace at the Sunset last summer. See more here.)

Speaking of the Sunny Day reunion: Tickets for Seattle's October 16th show at the Paramount officially go on sale tomorrow at 10 am via Ticketmaster, but the pre-sale started today and will be going until 10 pm tonight. Tickets are $28 before service fees, and you can buy them here. The password is theend (many thanks to Harms for that one).

They've been around since 2005, they're on Fat Wreck Chords and Fat Mike loves them, but I am just now listening to them for the first time ever today.

I regret this error.

Smoke or Fire - "California's Burning"

Smoke or Fire - "The Patty Hearst Syndrome"

Smoke or Fire - "Melatonin"

(Is there anything that sounds better in the summer than a pop punk sing-a-long? No. The answer to that question is no.)

Download it here.