GIMME TINNITUS

Gang Of Four have been playing gigs in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Entertainment! (one of the cornerstones of all postpunk music), and have 4 more shows scheduled in the UK this month. They recently offered up this redux of the track “Glass.” This is slower and more ominous than the original. Listen…

Downloadable: Glass 2009 (mp3)

Historical Note: In April 2008, Dave Allen left GoF to be replaced by Thomas McNiece. Allen has since been working with his other band, Faux Hoax and of course his PDX-centric music website… Pampelmoose. He is quite a Twitterer.

DL some Gang Of Four mp3s @ Pamplemoose… here.

Myspace page is here.
Gang Of Four is on Twitter.
Gang Of Four is on Facebook.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

Faux Hoax consists of Dave Allen of Gang Of Four (and Pamplemoose), Danny Seim of Menomena, and John Askew of Tracker (plus friends). The group from what I understand is a bit of an experiment and doesn’t quite sound like what you would expect from a Gang Of Four+Menomena+Tracker supergroup. Listen…

Downloadable: Foxworthy (polyvinyl mp3)

Order the Your Friends Will Carry You Home 7″… here.

Official web presence is here.
Muxtape is here (and features remixes).
Pamplemoose Twitter is here.
eMusic page is here (with digital bonus tracks).

>> Faux Hoax is Danny Seim of Menomena, John Askew of Tracker and Dave Allen of Gang Of Four (and, of course… Pamplemoose). They have some streaming remixes over @ their muxtape, but no mp3s for downloading just yet.

>> The Needle Drop posts about the worst album covers of the year (so far)… here.

>> Download the new Spanish Prisoners EP over at Bandcamp… here. The download is 128k. You can download the EP @ 320k (or a bunch of other geeky formats) if you “name your price” which can now be zero.

Downloadable: Los Angeles Guitar Dream (mp3)

>> UK indiepoppers Bear Hands stopped by Daytrotter a while back. Listen to the results… here. Speaking of indiepop, New Zealand’s own Cut Off Your Hands also stopped by Daytrotter. Their session is here.

>> Finally, have you checked out the revamped Double Dagger website… here. Also available is their free mp3 that has been floating around the internets for the past few months.

Downloadable: The Lie/The Truth (mp3)

Upcoming Show: May 23 @ Market Hotel with So-So Glos, Screaming Females, videohippos, Air Waves