A Feast of Beast

 Blush Beat Red - Boys and Girls

Blush Beat Red - Coyotes in the Hen House

Excellent new tunes from Blush Beat Red duo out of Toronto were all the best music originates from these days.  They may be the first band to send me secrets in addition to the rare tasty tunes…and I’ll never tell! Let’s hope these two keep recording their unique electro-pop beats, and make it on the Pop Montreal list, I’d be down.  Solid tracks.   

Speaking of Toronto…I’ll be picking up U.S. Girls from the train station for a hometown show this weekend, and I can’t fucking wait.  U.S. Girls + Total Slacker = maximum fun show.  If you’re in the upstate region, they’ll both be playing Bohemoth @ The Putnam Den this Friday night in Saratoga Springs NY, 45min north of Albany.  Guaranteed there’s nothing better within 100 miles.   

Total Slacker - Friend Crush (Friends cover)

Super cool split with Total Slacker and Friends covering each others songs on super Ltd glow-in-the-dark vinyl! Extra rad.  This has been up on their label unavailable for sale, and it just went live.  The 7” is Ltd to 500 copies, with only 100 on glow-in-the-dark vinyl, so if you want them fancy 7”s act fast!  I caught Total Slacker on tour with Widow Speak earlier this year, and it was a fucking insane show.  I’ve never seen someone actually all out destroy a nice guitar, usually just the fake I’m gently nudging my amp with it.  Seriously some chick after the show grabbed his guitar neck as a prize, like it was a set list! These guys won me over on site when i saw their jurasssic park shirts.  They even mailed me show shirts on recycled shirts post show and they showed up in a generic Raisin Brand box, and guess what they glow-in-the-dark too. 

So end of story: Total Slacker are fucking awesome.  They love glow in the dark shit.  They eat generic raisin brand.

Total Slacker / Friends - split 7” is up for pre-order from Sixteen Tambourines here.  Glow-in-the-dark vinyl Ltd to 100 copies, total 500 copies.

Widowspeak - Wicked Game (live)

Got to catch Widowspeak & Total Slacker live Friday night.  WS were nice enough to play their superb Chris Isaac cover on request.  TL played an out of control set, culminating in Tucker smashing one of his guitars to smithereens.  A girl from the audience grabbed up the guitar neck as a souvenir.  Top notch.