Oh Brody Dalle, how you tease and torture us with the tiniest bits and pieces of your wonderful new project Spinnerette, only now instead of morsels you’re rewarding our patience with a feast! That’s right CC faithful, the ex-Distiller is offering up a new EP entitled Ghetto Love on Dec. 11th. You can listen to the title track over at Spin.com exclusively and we’ll be sure to have a few tunes up here come the eleventh. “Ghetto Love” features some searing guitar rhythms and an electronic feel that nonetheless fits the punk mentos of the day (a-la Crystal Castles, Heartsrevolution, etc). Here’s hoping the rest of the tracks on the EP will be as good!
Hot on the heels of the release of their incredibly excellent new 7″, Austin’s own Finally Punk are hitting the road again after a long hiatus. The tour starts this Dec. 27th at Emo’s right here in town, so be sure and mark your calendars now!
FINALLY PUNK ANNOUNCE NEW RELEASES Here’s the latest Myspace bulletin from long-dormant Austin punk giants Finally Punk:
“We uploaded our new track: “Hypertension”, to promote our forthcoming 4-song EP on M’Lady’s Records this Fall.
Germs of Youth will be releasing a 7″ single: “Six Years Doing Time” b/w “Negative Creep” and maybe another?
PPM is releasing a DVD compilation, “New Video Works”, with videos by: ABE VIGODA, BARR, BLACK BLACK, DEERHUNTER, ERASE ERRATA, FINALLY PUNK, HAWNAY TROOF, HIGH PLACES, DAVID HORVITZ, JAPANTHER, KIT, LUCKY DRAGONS, MIKA MIKO, NO AGE, POCAHAUNTED, THE SADS, SILVER DAGGERS, SISSY SPACEK, SOFT BOILED EGGIES, SOFT CIRCLE, SOILED MATTRESS AND THE SPRINGS, DAVID SCOTT STONE AND XIU XIU
We plan to tour the UK/Europe before the year is over, but school/work/nomadic endeavors has kept us put for the time being.”
Holy snap, just when we though we’d never hear from these awesome ladies again they go and churn out 4-song EP and plan to appear on a DVD comp with some of our Cannibal Cheerleader favorites (Mika Miko, High Places, Xiu Xiu, etc). Here’s to you girls, we’ll definitely be picking up the EP!
Finally Punk – “Manatee” ******************************************************************** GRAND OLE PARTY TOUR WITH BLACK LIPS In what’s sure to be an epic tour for the ages, Southern flower-punks the Black Lips are heading out on tour with Cannibal Cheerleader fave Grand Ole Party for some California dates. Here’s hoping this duo swings through Texas and soon!
Grand Ole Party – “Look Out Young Son” ******************************************************************** TREASURE MAMMAL BACK IN THE STUDIO? Recent mumblings on the Treasure Mammal Myspace along with confirmations from Abe himself point towards the fact that our favorite spazz-rocker/motivational speaker is in the studio recording tracks for what might hopefully be the followup to the excellent You Wish I Was Channeling Your Spirit. Of course, anything our friend Abe touches turns to gold, including the recently uploaded Improvisational tracks with Corey of the Mae Shi which are a testament to the experimental creativity of the T. Mammal. Check ‘em out on the ‘Space y’alls.
******************************************************************** THE CANNIBAL CHEERLEADER ZINE IS OUT Where can I find this monstrosity? How can I get my hands on this limited edition first run of the Cannibal Cheerleader magazine? Well yours truly will be hard at work tomorrow planting the zine at strategic locations. These include:
Waterloo Records The Parlor MonkeyWrench Books Sound on Sound Records Book People Kerbey Lane (Guad location) SpiderHouse Cafe FlightPath Coffee Shop Epoch Zen’s (Guad location)
Because the zine is expensive to make I will only be dropping off a few at each location so grab it fast! However, if you’d like your own copy delivered to you, just email me at cannibalcheerleader@gmail.com and I’ll shoot one your way. And if you find a copy, be sure and hang onto it and let me know what you think.
BEN GIBBARD COVERS RILO KILEY/STARS At a recent solo gig for Rhapsody, Ben Gibbard gave the acoustic treatment to some Narrow Stairs already classics such as “Cath…” and “Grapevine Fires”. However, the real excitement came when the Death Cab for Cutie frontman covered tracks from Rilo Kiley (”Silver Lining”) and Stars (”Your Ex-Lover is Dead”), and our friends over at Stereogum have the videos. Go check them out immediately to see how lonely songs like these can be somehow made even lonelier by the inimitable voice of Gibbard. Breathtaking stuff.
Death Cab for Cutie – “Cath…” ******************************************************************** JIM JAMES/CONOR OBERST/M. WARD MAKING RECORD? It would seem that according to this Pitchfork story, our favorite Kentucky troubadour, My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James, is collaborating with none other than Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes fame and M. Ward (the Monsters of Folk anyone?) to release a record of original work. Sweetness! Also noteworthy is James’ mention of releasing a solo record under the pseudonym Sec Walkin’, a nod to the title of one of the tracks off MMJ’s new record Evil Urges. Could this news be any cooler really? Read the whole story here and stay tuned for further developments on what promises to be a truly groundbreaking country record.
My Morning Jacket – “White Rabbit” ******************************************************************** NEW BAND CHEER – THE CARROTS When all-female Austin punk group Finally Punk went on indefinite hiatus (though they promised they hadn’t broken up…) this central Texas town truly lost one of its greatest rock and roll acts. However, from the ashes of the riot grrrl wreckage comes the Carrots, a doo-wop group recalling 50’s all-girl acts such as the Ronettes and the Shangri-La’s, featuring several members from Finally Punk. Austin’s answer to the undeniably catchy sounds of bands like the Pipettes, the Carrots spin a wonderful pop sound but retain the subversiveness of the former punk act with a kitschy wink to their audience on tracks like “Beverly” and “Secret Since ‘99″. Definitely worthy of attention, even outside of the Austin area, so go check them out immediately. No mp3s floating around of these gals but here’s a rad video of them playing “Beverly”.
