GIMME TINNITUS

>> The Tullyblog has an alternate version of “Skip Steps 1 & 3″ by Superchunk… here. The non-alternate version is posted below. Please compare and contrast.

Downloadable: Skip Steps 1 & 3 (mp3)

>> You should totally stream some live Obits at WFMU’s interweb presence… here.

>> Paper Bag Records has a promomp3 from Josh Reichmann/Oracle Band that is also a Deerhunter cover.

Downloadable: Agoraphobia (paper bag mp3)

>> Penultimately, Stones Throw has a new old Madvillian freebie… here.

Downloadable: One Beer (Drunk Version) (stones throw mp3)

>> The latest Punkcast features Freshkills and Yeah Yeah Yeahs live @ Santos Party House… here.

Downloadable: I Know I Know (mp3) by Freshkills

>> Have you listened to Dave Allen’s (of Gang Of Four fame) new WOXY radio show? Check it out… here. Here are a few selections from the past two shows.

Downloadables:
Deerslayer (mp3) by Black Math Horseman
Gasolina (Girl Talk Megamix) (mp3) by Bonde Do Rolê
I Let It Go (mp3) by The Thermals

>> Did you know that Atom And His Package are getting their very own special tribute? Culture Of Me has the deets and a cover mp3 by The Emotron… here.

>> Some killer Record Store Day posts @ Sound Bites, Built On A Weak Spot, and Swan Fungus… here and here and here (respectively).

>> Gorilla Vs. Bear has the new new new Wavves mp3 from their new split with, yes, Windsurf… here.

>> The new “nerdy dirty Jazz punk” Experimental Dental School album, Forest Field is available totally for free… here.

Downloadable: Cheap Wine River (mp3) (props to I Guess I’m Floating)

>> New New New Downloadables:

Stop Stomp Stompin’ (mp3) by The Coathangers
BONUS: Check out a Coathangers boot @ Burning World… here.
Don’t Talk in Your Sleep (drag city mp3) by Magik Markers
BONUS: More Magik Markers @ Raven Sings The Blues… here.
Rain On (mp3) by Woods
Let’s Take Off (Far Away) (stones throw mp3) by Dam Funk

>> NODZZZ gets the Pukekos treatment… here.

>> Check out BOAWS’ review of I Am Forever by midwestrockers Traindodge… here.

>> So, there’s a new Deerhunter EP coming out in June. Not surprisingly, Gorilla Vs. Bear has an mp3… here.

>> There’s a Salem freeload entitled “ohK” over @ the FADER… here.

Now, it’s Record Store Day. Are you gonna buy the physical embodiment of the music you love from a local shop and not a corporate supergiant? Of course you are.

>> Find your participating local record shop… here.

>> Check out a list of exclusive releases… here.

>> The Pitchfork Guide to Record Store Day is… here.

>> So, ‘member the sleevefacing meme? It’s still around and posting stuff… here.

mp3 BONUS:
Record Shop (mp3) by Snow Fairies (download/buy)
Classical Records (mp3) by Department Of Eagles (buy)

>> Perhaps my favorite album by Mr. Beck Hanson is getting a deluxe reissue, One Foot In The Grave. Check out the deets… here.

Streamable Embed:

NOTE: Be sure to stream “Teenage Wastebasket”

>> There is an awesomely free Slumberland Records Spring 2009 Sampler over @ Amazon… here.

Downloadable: Prismatic Room (mp3) by Crystal Stilts

>> Check out the Mika Miko Sex Jazz A-Side over at Passion Of The Weiss… here. Check out the B-Side at the GT blogspot… here.

>> PTST reminds us that the (FUCKING AWESOME) Power Move by Screaming Females is finally had its official release… here.

The Females also got a write up the Village Voice… here.

Also officially released as of yesterday, is the Like Bells eponymous album, and the Steve Albini-produced A Tempo! A Tempo! by Austrian math[SKINNG GRRR]rockers Valina.

Downloadables:
Buried In The Nude (mp3) (order) by Screaming Females
Atlas (exit stencil mp3) (order) by Like Bells
Phantom Of My Longest Day (joyful noise mp3) (order) by Valina

>> The latest Contrast Podcast looks at the best of 2009. Track listing and deets are… here.

Downloadable: The best of 2009 so far (part 1) (mp3)
My Submission: So Bored by Wavves

>> Now I rarely post links to whole albums, but when it’s a new wave masterpiece that has never ever been released on CD I just can’t resist. Download the I.R.S. GREATEST HITS VOLS. 2 & 3 over at Sound Bites… here. And yes, it’s tax day and I am linking to something I.R.S.-related, ugggh.