June 29

I'll bet you thought I abandoned this project since I started the outrageously successful A Fashionable Condition, but no. I have not been going to the office so project postponed. But I maintain my apt. is not a museum, so here's today's listen.


1. Ill Ease Circle Line Tours  - Smilex/Swampy Records
I've been ignoring this CD for way too long. [Hi Liz!!] NY noise just a little sweeter. Beautiful cacophony often. I will listen to this again, right now.


2. The Speaking Canaries - SCAT Records
 I was really liking this but on the second listen, something terrible happened to the spin in my computer's CD player. It probably had no idea what to do with it. Anyway, I was liking how they bend the notes like Modest Mouse but have a less Pacific Northwest feel. I don't know what that means. BTW, this was such an olde time=y promo, it has the round sticker on the CD, but all professional looking so I didn't even notice it until the second time my CD player touched it in a bad place.


3. Commodore 64 - Phatinum Records
My favorite NY geeks I shoulda got with rap it out  and what I presume to be the Original Geekstas on a Mac. Band members are the following: Smart Money "Bass-I.Q." Teddy Ruxpin, HMO and The Professa MC Squared. They all have day jobs in the sciences, higher education and writing. Not bad for '99. They also seem to like Taco Bell. Can I get a "Hell Yeah!!"


4. The Folk Implosion - The Communion Label
Clangy, bangy, folky. The disjointed sounds you expect to  hear and love from Sebadoh are right here, but turned down and lovey.