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Jookabox - “You Cried Me” I chased your brother down the golf course, it was wobbling like the Tacoma Narrows. It was dark blue wet grass, the shapes and ovals like ground clouds. I stumbled and scraped my knee, the skin opened up like a chocolate bar wrapper. I laughed and smoked and high-fived a tree. Nothing ever fits enough into your body as much as it's meant to. Your body isn't like an "inventory" bag, but if it were, I wouldn't want to die with all sorts of unused items left over. A blue candle, a pirate key, a magic mask, 4 empty bottles, and a full stock of crash bombs. [out Nov. 3 on Joyful Noise]

Aphrodite's Child - “Four Horsemen” I went to the University of Michigan in the 80s, and there I studied under Malcolm Everdige Ph.D., at the time a religious studies teacher, right when religious studies was getting pretty fearless and heated. He had a copy of the Bible so rare there exists no version like it. I was left alone with it one night when he went out to find wine at three a.m. and I was sitting in his dusty saggy apartment. I opened it and from page one it was like reading a totally different text, all the while being the same. It's a multi-translational defect, the story passed through so many interpretations that what resulted is astounding. First of all, it's told first person; "I created the world, the water, the animals.." and so on. It's more the story of how God feels about everything that's happening, and how it all stems from his expression of himself. You realise about two-thirds of the way through that God is really just trying to understand himself, and the World is just one of his many ways of trying to get there. God doesn't even really see himself as "God", the idea of "God" isn't even mentioned until Revelations. Instead of fire and brimstone, it's another flood, and once the water fills up the World, it takes hundreds of years to settle, and forms a mirror finally big enough for God to see his own face, seconds before he plunges his face underneath. Literally, the last words are, "now I understand." Why isn't this on Wikipedia? [Buy 666]

THE BITTER END As you may or may not know, over the last year I've been creating, with some immense talents here in Montreal, a web series of which I'm very proud. During this year's Funding Drive you actually helped fund the project, so I like to think that I won't be bugging you readers with my bi-weekly plugs for the next 3 months, but rather just keeping my investors informed of my activity. It's called The Bitter End, it's a sitcom, it's about two brothers living in the same apartment and messing each other's lives up. But it's made with honesty, and fervor, and lots and lots of effort. Episode 1 goes up this Thursday (I'll remind you every time a new episode comes out) and then every two weeks until all 6 are available. The series trailer is online now, at thebitterend.tv. Thank you.

Undeniably, this is a really big release week (The Big Pink, Girls, Islands, and Times New Viking, to name just a few). It almost makes the release week of 10/6 look small. Almost.

Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty

The Big Pink – A Brief History of Love
MP3: The Big Pink – “Dominos”

Castanets – Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts
MP3: Castanets – “Worn From the Fight (with Fireworks)”

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – White Lunar

Vic Chesnutt – At the Cut
MP3: Vic Chesnutt – “Flirted With You All My Life”

Elvis Costello – Extreme Honey: The Very Best Of The Warner Bros. Years

Elvis Costello – Mighty Like a Rose

Elvis Costello – Spike

Crayon Angel – A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill
MP3: Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear) – “Waterfall”

Early Day Miners – Treatment
MP3: Early Day Miners – “So Slowly”

John Fahey – Twilight on Prince Georges Avenue: Essential Recordings

Girls – Album
MP3: Girls – “Lust For Life”

Hallelujah the Hills – Colonial Drones
MP3: Hallelujah The Hills – “Blank Passports”

Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter

The Hidden Cameras – Origin:Orphan

Hornet Leg – Ribbon of Fear

Islands – Vapours
MP3: Islands – “Vapours”

LCD Soundsystem – 45:33 Remixes

Le Loup – Family
MP3: Le Loup – “Beach Town”

Rose Melberg – Homemade Ship

Merzbow – 13 Japanese Birds, Vol. 9

Amy Millan – Masters of the Burial
MP3: Amy Millan – “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” (Death Cab)

Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk
Stream: Monsters of Folk

Mum – Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know

Nuggets – Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965 – 1968 (4-CD box set)

Owen – New Leaves

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Higher Than The Stars EP
MP3: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – “Higher Than the Stars”

Pastels/Tenniscoats – Two Sunsets

Rain Machine – Rain Machine
MP3: Rain Machine – “Give Blood”

Jonathan Richman – Vampire Girl: Essential Recordings

Rollercoaster Project – Revenge
MP3: The Rollercoaster Project – “What Happened”

Sea Wolf – White Water, White Bloom

The Shaky Hands – Let It Die
MP3: The Shaky Hands – “Allison and the Ancient Eyes”

Times New Viking – Born Again Revisited
MP3: Times New Viking – “No Time No Hope”

Twilight Sad – Forget the Night Ahead
MP3: Times New Viking – “Reflection of the Television”

Volcano Choir – Unmap
MP3: Volcano Choir – “Island, IS”

Rufus Wainwright – Milwaukee at Last!!!

Ween – Paintin’ the Town Brown: Ween Live ’90-’98

Ween – Pure Guava

WHY? – Eskimo Snow

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – Between My Head and the Sky

Vinyl/Vinyl Reissues

The Almighty Defenders – The Almighty Defenders
MP3: The Almighty Defenders – “Bow Down and Die”

J Dilla – Jay Stay Paid

Magnolia Electric Co. – Rider. Shadow. Wolf.
MP3: Magnolia Electric Co. – “Josephine”

The Mantles – The Mantles
MP3: The Mantles – “Don’t Lie”

Mudhoney – Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Mudhoney – Mudhoney

Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff

Willie Nelson – Phases and Stages

Salem – Frost 7″

Kurt Vile – He’s Alright 7″

You can now order 6 of the 7 new Captured Tracks releases we told you about last week as a single “batch.” $35 will get you four 7-inches (Ganglians, The Bitters, Spectrals, Christmas Island), plus Thee Oh Sees Dog Poison LP and the German Measles’ Wild 12″. Orders ship next week– place your order now at the Captured Tracks site.