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Here comes tonight’s shitlist showlist. There are some good bands, but tonight’s group is overwhelmingly unexciting. It’s left me uninspired enough to not post a list tomorrow, so I won’t. Instead, there will be time devoted to raging after having read this account of Fuck Yea Fest founders getting beat up by Hollywood Bowl’s security staff and being ignored by the LA police while I was watching a footage of an NYPD officer lifting up a woman and smashing her face down on the floor, followed by an image of her badly swollen face on television. I think I heard “pleaded not guilty”. Obama will have to repair the damage. Of every bad news. With his speeches. He headlines at the DNC. Go crazy.

ps. Pictured with “Yes We Can” sign is Adam from The Royal Chains, who’s not playing tonight, but you can see them at Mercury Lounge next on Sept 8th.

All bands and mp3 links after the jump.

The entire stream; use grey arrows to switch between songs:

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The surprise guest at Sound Fix Records is Dr. Dog, who’s also playing Bowery Ballroom tomorrow (cancelled). I’d be really curious to see Amanda Jo Williams at Cake Shop. The girl seems quite out of her mind, and has left me wanting to uncover more. She’s playing with Girls In Trouble (fiddling superstar Alicia Jo Rabins), whose song “Who Sent the Heat” I love, and 6 Jaguar. Puddin’ Tang, also quite out of their minds, have their residency at Don Pedro, where they’re playing with Sorceress. Joan of Arc and Ponytail return to join Flocking Associates (Katie Eastburn of Young People) at Knitting Factory’s main stage. North Carolina’s Megafaun will support Takka Takka’s Pianos residency, as will Peasant, who you should definitely listen to on their myspace, and Get Him Eat Him (I still can’t get over the dude’s voice–it rankles me for no reason). Ed Harcourt is playing Rehab, and Bound Stems, Rahim and Muggabears are playing at Union Hall. Callers sounds great in “More than Right”, and is playing with Spectre Folk and Chris Forsyth at Union Pool. 

Playlist
Rahim: Through a Window
Girls In Trouble: Who Sent the Heat
Takka Takka: Silence
Puddin’ Tang: Puddin’ Tang
Callers: More than Right
Amanda Jo Williams: Country Girl
Flocking Associates: B&B
Muggabears: Little Sisters of Beijing
Peasant: Exposure
Get Him Eat Him: More Lovely Than Likely
Ed Harcourt: You Only Call Me When You’re Drunk
Bound Stems: Happens to Us All Otherwise
Joan of Arc: A Tell-Tale Penis
Ponytail: Celebrate The Body Electric

Release: June 5, 2007 / Absolutely Kosher

Arms Down is Get Him Eat Him’s follow-up to 2005’s Geography Cones. I’ve been letting this new one sit for a while, hoping I would either grow to love it, or figure out why I don’t. It’s not a bad record, but you know you like an album when, if it were a basket of strawberries at the market, you’d want to take at least some of it home (yes). Arms Down inspired no such greed, so I turned to the albums I do love. These tend to have an unintentional greater idea behind them, the kind that comes together as a result of other intentions and inspirations, the outcome of things falling into place. In Arms Down, that sort of idea is either missing, or, if present, not very alive.

There’s more after the jump.