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MP3: Long Long Long - “Ponytail Ambition”
MP3: Long Long Long - “Judy Chicago”
Some people are friends, that should never be friends, but they AAAAAAAAARRE!!!
In the dream it was hard to read, almost impossible. I was trying to read the DVD case for what is now obviously Brüno, but in the dream I was reading T....L....U....T...C..H. If I would read Brüno as T.L.U.T.C.H. what would trying to write be like? I tried to write my name and it came out as Disney Bee, and the pen had a lot of difficulty writing, I put many holes in the paper. I think inhabiting the world of Long Long Long, I would be much better off with a name like Disney Bee, and for all my meals to be made out of macaroni and snakes, and to have an apartment in the sewer, and to have a cell phone installed in my head, and to cry at the drop of a hat. Dream life.
[DL]
Long Long Long are, I'm told, a sister band to Mean Wind. Collectively, these two bands have three of the freshest records I've heard in a few months. Right now all their stuff is free, which is pretty incredible, but that won't last for long, stuff this good deserves to generate some payback sooner or later.
Three Mile Pilot – “Still Alive” From the forthcoming The Inevitable Past Is The Future Forgotten, the band’s first new full-length in over a decade, due out 9/28 on Temporary Residence Limited.
AIDS Wolf - “Teaching to Suffer”
“It's like I've spent the past two years in a room with petroleum poured over the floor, brown sludge, and I can't stand up without falling down, slipping and skidding and smearing into the ground. And, like, I got used to this. I got so brainwashed and used to this that I treat it as normal, now. My tongue lolls out of my mouth and I plunge all over the place. One of these days Francis is going to break up with me and it's like I'll have an exit and I'll be staggering all over the open city with the same heaving shit-stained lurch.”
“Is it really like that?”
“I don't know. I'm still figuring it out. I'm meeting him for dinner.”
[Montreal's AIDS Wolf release two albums this month. “Teaching to Suffer” is taken from March to the Sea, the band's final studio release as a quartet. Buy it here. They will also be releasing a 12-inch with remixes of their cover of Throbbing Gristle's “Very Friendly.” Pick that up here.]
Marnie Stern – “Transparency Is The New Mystery” From her self-titled new album, out 10/5 from Kill Rock Stars. You can download another track, “For Ash,” here.
Barn Owl – Ancestral Star
Out 10/19 on Thrill Jockey
