Machinations of Evil

As the world turns, so does the hype machine. But that word hype doesn't have to have a bad connotation. The problem is, there is so much new music out there. How could one possibly sort through all of it and find the good stuff? You don't have to, I'll do it for you. Here's the latest stuff:

Favourite Sons is the marriage of Ken Griffin of Rollerskate Skinny "fame" and members of Philly's Aspera. The kids of the defunct Aspera found Ken bartending in a NYC bar, got all watery-eyed, asked him to jam and out came Down Beside Your Beauty, which will be out to the public on September 12. Check out Hang On Girl and No One Ever Dies Young. I know, I've been pushing this one for awhile, but I really like it a lot.

Then there's 120 Days. These kids found each other in a nowhere town in Norway, decided if they were ever to really do anything they'd need to move to where there were actually people, pooled their money, bought an RV and drove it to Oslo and lived rent-free (you don't have to pay rent for the sidewalk) creating music in their tight-quarters studio/mobile home. Imagine a handful of NEU!, Spacemen 3 and XTRMNTR-era Primal Scream obsessed kids hanging in an RV in a city that sees periods of darkness that last for weeks on end. Then 120 Days makes a lot more sense. That'll be out on October 10. Check out Come Out (Come Down, Fade Out, Be Gone). Sounds good, doesn't it?

I also recommend that you check out this blog that Vice has on their site. It's an MP3 blog with all kinds of crazy shit. They call it Up Your Jaxxy, which may or may not be a quote from a Streets song...I'm not sure.