King of The Beach
Wavves a.k.a. Nathan Williams will officially drop his new record, King of The Beach via Fat Possum on Tuesday. The album has been available digitally for the better part of the last month, so if it seems a bit anticlimactic, I'm with you. However the album is a big step forward for Williams and co., it retains the bands sonic edge, but the record feels a bit more mature to me and seems to being standing up well after a month of steady listening. Wavves have announced a headlining tour that will bring the California kids to our area for three dates, however none of which are in Boston, but it looks like I just found my excuse to check out the soon to be re-opened Met Cafe in Providence.

Pre-order King of The Beach at Fat Possum

Live Dates:
08.02.10 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
08.06.10 - Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
08.07.10 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle / Lollapalooza afterparty #
08.12.10 - San Diego, CA - Museum of Contemporary Art / San Diego
08.13.10 - Pomona, CA - The Glass House %
08.14.10 - Portland, OR - Berbati's Pan +
08.16.10 - Santa Barbara, CA - Soho
08.17.10 - Santa Cruz, CA - Crepe Place
08.18.10 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop
08.25.10 - Seattle, WA - Neumos
08.26.10 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore
08.27.10 - Victoria, BC - Sugar
08.30.10 - Davis, CA - Sol Collective
08.31.10 - Visalia, CA - Howie and Sons Pizza Parlor
09.04.10 - Los Angeles, CA - FYF Fest
09.10.10 - Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone
09.11.10 - St. Louis, MO - Billiken Club
09.14.10 - Bloomington, IN - Rhinos
09.15.10 - Columbus, OH - Skully's
09.16.10 - Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place
09.17.10 - Northampton, MA - Pearl Street Nightclub
09.18.10 - Waltham, MA - Brandeis University
09.20.10 - Providence, RI - Met Café
09.24.10 - Kingston, NY - 323 Wall Street
09.25.10 - Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
09.27.10 - Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
09.28.10 - Greensboro, NC - Guilford College
09.29.10 - Charlotte, NC - Milestone
09.30.10 - Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn
10.01.10 - Nashville, TN - Exit/In - Next Big Nashville
10.02.10 - Oxford, MS - Proud Larry's
10.20.10 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden

[MP3/Stream] Wavves - King of The Beach

Remember: Small(23) - Vega and Boston, Cicra 95'

You can acquire Small(23) music at Amazon, we recommend that you do so, immediately. For more info check out: Small(23) Myspace.

Forthcoming: Bottomless Pit - Blood Under The Bridge

On August 10th Bottomless Pit will unveil their second long player and third release over all with Blood Under The Bridge on Princeton, NJ's Comedy Minus One. Tim Midget and Andy Cohen both of Silkworm fame return with band mates Chris Manfrin (Seam) and Brian Orchird (.22) to pick up where there two superb 2008 releases left off, Hammer of The Gods, and the Congress EP, respectively. The soon to drop, Blood Under The Bridge spans 9 songs spread out over 2 x 12" vinyl (45 RPM), breaking the LP up 2 songs per side, the band also hooks you up with CD copy of the album with your purchase.

You can check out four songs from the album over at the Bottomless Pit site, which coincidentally is where you can order the LP as well, so order away.

The band has recently announced short fall tour, that will bring them to The Middle East with Black Helicopter and Chris Brokaw on November 12th.

Bottomless Pit Live Dates:

Sat 31 Jul 2010 - Wavelength Festival (Three Oaks, MI)
with Robbie Fulks, Freakwater, JC Brooks and Uptown Sounds, Archer Prewitt

Sat 18 Sep 2010 - Depaul U. (Chicago)
with Bear Claw and the Bismarck

Fri 5 Nov 2010 - Hideout (Chicago)
with Black Helicopter

Sat 6 Nov 2010 - TBA (Milwaukee)
with Black Helicopter

Thu 11 Nov 2010 - Howlers (Pittsburgh)
with Black Helicopter and Karl Hendricks Trio

Fri 12 Nov 2010 - Middle East (Cambridge)
with Black Helicopter and Chris Brokaw

Sat 13 Nov 2010 - Knitting Factory (Brooklyn)
with Black Helicopter and guests TBA

Sun 14 Nov 2010 - Treehouse (Columbus)
with Black Helicopter and Kyle Sowashes

Thanks to the fine folks at Comedy Minus One, we are able to share the albums final track, 38 Souls.

[MP3/Stream] Bottomless Pit - 38 Souls

Bottomless Pit
Bottomless Pit Myspace
Comedy Minus One

This Weeks Short Bursts:
Admiral Radley, Film School, & No Age
The pairing of two California pop darlings, Earlimart and Grandaddy have spawned Admiral Radley and the results are somewhat, what you might expect. That is if you expected a batch of melancholy pop songs that seem to bounce around your head for days on end. The band consists of Jason Lytle and Aaron Burch from Grandaddy as well as Aaron Espinoza and Arianna Murray from Earlimart with help from ex- Grandaddy guitarist Jim Fairchild.

Ad Rad's debut, I Heart California was released earlier this month by The Ship and the band have just announced a lengthy tour that will bring them to T.T. The Bears on August 17th with Cambridge, by way of New York's Hooray For Earth.

Order the album via the Admiral Radley Store

[MP3/Stream] Admiral Radley- I Heart California
(with a hat tip to One Track Mind)

San Franciso's shoegaze stalwarts Film School are getting ready to drop Fission, their fourth full length, albeit a little bit later than initially reported. It had been reported back in May that the album would be released on July 20th. However according to the bands new label, Hi Speed Soul, Fission will be released on August 31st. I can only assume the reason for the rescheduling of the release date is that the band initially had planned to self release Fission prior to signing with San Diego's Hi Speed Soul. Go ahead and dull your impatience with the terrific new single below.

[MP3/Stream] Film School - Heart Full of Pentagons

No Age are poised to return with the follow up to their smashing 2008 debut long player, Nouns, with Everything In Between on September 28th via Sub-Pop. Recorded in their hometown between 2009-2010, the album consists of 13 songs of the bands signature noise pop, with the added element of sampling/sound collages that the band featured on last years Losing Feeling EP. On September 28th the duo of Randy Randall and Dean Spunt will issue the albums first song Glitter, via 7"+12" single. The 7" will consist of the Glitter b/w Inflorescence and the 12" will pair the A side with In Rebound and Vision II. Both versions can be pre-ordered through the band label as well as Amazon.

The bands been playing new material at recent shows. Excuse the camera angle (shot from behind Dean Spunt's drum kit) on this video, but the sound is decent and it features the track Depletion from the forthcoming Everything in Between, so we hope you dig it as much as we do.

No Age - Depletion @ Sweatstock, Little Haiti - Miami

Los Campesinos! - All's Well That Ends

Los Campesinos! issued a new EP last week, All's Well That Ends collects acoustic versions of songs that appeared on the bands tremendous Romance is Boring album released earlier this year. The limited edition, 10" EP is being sold on the bands current European tour as well as through there label.

While we wait and hope for the bands next trip stateside, check out this video the band posted which chronicles the making of the new 4 song EP, courtesy of Ellen Campesinos.

Order All's Well That Ends at Witchita Recordings

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Ticket Giveaway: Suckers + You Can Be A Wesley

Brooklyn's Suckers released their debut long player, Wild Smile in early June on French Kiss Records and we've been spinning it on the regular ever since. The band will hook with Menomena for national tour in September. Currently these lush- psych-pop wunderkinds are in the middle of a headlining tour that will stop at Great Scott on Sunday night with support from Boston's You Can Be Wesley and Sean Bones.

As luck should have it we have a pair a tickets to give to Sunday's show.
All innterested parties, please send an e-mail to ashgrayproclamation [at]yahoo [dot] com with Suckers in the subject line and we'll sift through the entrants tomorrow afternoon and randomly pick a winner.

For those of who would rather not leave things up to chance, you can grab tickets at Ticket Web.

Suckers Live Dates

Jul 16 – Le Divan Orange Montreal, Quebec
Jul 17 – OFF Festival’s Last Night Party Quebec City, Quebec
Jul 18 – Great Scott Alston, Massachusetts
Jul 29 – Terminal 5 New York, New York w/ The National
Sep 08 – Neurolux Boise, ID
Sep 10 – Showbox Seattle, WA*
Sep 11 – Crystal Ballroom for MusicFestNW Portland, OR w/ The Dodos
Sep 14 – Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA*
Sep 16 – El Rey Los Angeles, CA*
Sep 17 – Casbah San Diego, CA*
Sep 18 – Clubhouse Tempe, AZ*
Sep 21 – Fox Theatre Boulder, CO*
Sep 22 – The Waiting Room Omaha, NE*
Sep 23 – Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN*
Sep 24 – High Noon Saloon Madison, WI*
Sep 25 – Metro Chicago, IL*
Sep 27 – Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, OH*
Sep 28 – Mod Club Toronto, Ontario*
Sep 29 – La Sala Rossa Montreal, Quebec*
Sep 30 – Royale Boston, MA*
Oct 01 – Webster Hall New York, NY*
Oct 05 – First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, PA*
Oct 06 – 9:30 Club Washington DC*
Oct 07 – Cat’s Cradle Carrboro, NC*
Oct 08 – The Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA*
Oct 09 – Mercy Lounge Nashville, TN*

* with Menomena

Suckers
You Can Be A Wesley

Update: Congratulations to our winner Julie MacMillan of Norwood, MA.

Heedfest IV:
Robert Pollard Live at The Canal Street Tavern

Robert Pollard took to the stage for his first live performance in two years at this years Heedfest. The yearly fan gathering and boozeathon of Pollard/GBV devotee's held in Dayton, OH.

Billed as Milko Waif & Bug Eyed Mums, Pollard took to the stage Friday night to play his forthcoming Moses On A Snail in it's entirety which you can order at The Factory of Raw Essentials. A handful of videos have been posted from this years debauchery, take a look.

It's A Pleasure Being You (sound check)


Silk Rotor


Each Is Good In His Own House


Videos gracioulsy supplied by Lumptywangage and Brian Felhander A.K.A. BSFGBV.

Medications Become Completely Removed

Sometimes the time gets away from us, the stacks of new music on our desk and in our inbox get ignored, and before we know it a couple months pass by and we still haven't gotten around to listening to that album that we made to sure to order last spring.

The Most recent example of this is when over the Fourth of July weekend, I finally unwrapped Completely Removed, the third and most recent release from Washington, D.C.'s Medications. The duo of Devin Ocampo (Smart Went Crazy/Faraquet) and Chad Molter (Farquet) formed Medications in 2003 and released an EP and one long player on Dischord before shelving the band for nearly five years.

For Completely Removed Ocampo and Molter return in fine form. The duo wrote and performed nearly all the albums tracks with help from their long time friend and new Medications member Mark Cisneros. The band has recently been rounded out by drummer Jesse Fox.

The newish release,issued by Dischord back on April 20th takes things in a slightly different direction than the bands earlier work. Medications still has their sonic edge intact, however due to the album being recorded over 7 months at Treehouse studio by Devin Ocampos, it's allowed the band to focus on the arrangements and overall production of the album. It also finds Medication discovering some exciting new terrain.

Note: The next time Medications release a new album, listen to it immediately.

Medications are about to play a series of east coast shows that will bring them to O'Breins in Allston on July 24th with Big Big Bucks and Deleted Scenes.

[MP3/Stream] Medications- Long Day


Order completely Removed from Dischord Records

Medicationsband.com
Medications/Myspace

This Weeks Short Bursts [MP3]:
Trumans Water, Mean Creek, and Sun Kil Moon

As we prepare to shut it down for the long Fouth of July holiday weekend we thought we would share new music from some fine American artists. On behalf of The AGP clan we wish you all a safe and enjoyable Independence Day. We will return early next week, until then.

After a lengthy absence Portland, OR's Trumans Water is set to return on August 24th with their first U.S. release in nearly seven years, with O Zeta Zunis via Asthmatic Kitty. The spazz-core vets have been mainly releasing music in Europe over the past several years, so this is great news for the bands small buy loyal contingent of American fans. In addition to releasing O Zeta Zunis, Trumans Water have negotiated a deal with there new US label to release there entire back catalog.

[MP3/Stream] Trumans Water - 5-7-10 Split

O Zeta Zunis Track Listing:
1. Since Yesterday - 2:27
2. Bev Toxin - 4:16
3. Ammunition - 1:12
4. Last Time - 2:42
5. Ur-Cod - 1:35
6. Greased Water - 4:08
7. Blasphemous Cordialantlers Ride! - 3:05
8. 2 Hands 4 Eyes - 1:58
9. Thew Eak Hen - 3:04
10. 5-7-10 Split - 2:42
11. We Fish - 2:19
12. Radio Played - 2:06
13. You Live Out Loud - 2:16
14. Horsesplinter Wraparound 0:41

Fresh off picking up the much coveted Best Local Act honors in this years Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll, Boston's Mean Creek are out to prove there not letting any of there much deserved accolades go to their collective heads. The band has issued the Comedian b/w Liar/Thief 7" through Old Flame Records. The new tracks were recorded by John Angelo (Sonic Youth/Dinosaur Jr.) who managed to capture the band's dynamic live performance as well as the fury of the new material.



Mean Creek will play TT The Beers on July 14th with former Dambuilder David Dondero and The Love Language.


Mark Kozelek's Sun Kil Moon will release Admiral Fell Promises on July 13th. The album was recorded entirely by Kozelek playing nylon string guitar over the albums 10 tracks. I'll Be There a 4 song EP that includes an outtake from the recording sessions and three covers can be yours if you pre-order the new LP through Kozelek's Caldo Verde label, you can also check three tracks from the album below.

[MP3/Stream] Sun Kil Moon - You Are My Sun
[MP3/Stream] Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
[MP3/Stream] Sun Kil Moon - Australian Winter

Girlfriends 7" Release Show

Boston's lo-fi popsters, Girlfriends will celebrate the release of their new 7" single, Gov't Seizure b/w Creep Stuff tonight at Great Scott with Four Eyes and Doomstar!. The show will also serve as a kick off for Girlfriends summer tour that has the band on road over the next six weeks playing shows as far west as Olympia, WA. Treat them nice America!

The band will selling copies of the new 7" at tonight's show, you can also order it from the fine folks at Aurora 7.

One of our new favorite local blogs Mango Nebula has posted a preview of Govt Seizure for your listening pleasure.

This just in: Girlfriends just posted the complete 7" for your streaming pleasure at their myspace page. Now you have to buy it!

Guided By Voices Reunites The Classic Line Up


The 1993-1996 line up of Guided By Voices will perform alongside Pavement, Sonic Youth, Belle & Sebastian, Spoon, & Superchunk in Las Vegas on October 1-3 as part of Matador Records at Twenty One. The bands line up will consist of,Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Greg Demos, and Kevin Fennell. This simply can not be missed. Ticket information and more acts are scheduled to be announced on July 5th, via the Matablog.



gbv.com
robertpollard.com
matador records

Pre-Show Hyping + Giveaway:: Walter Schreifels

An Open Letter To The Scene is Walter Schreifels solo debut and as of today a clear front runner for our favorite release of 2010. As a founding member of the seminal NYC hardcore band Gorilla Biscuits, and as the frontman of post-hardcore outfits Quicksand, and Rival Schools we thought we knew what to expect from Walter Schreifels, that is until we heard An Open Letter To The Scene. The LP is an acoustic pop master stroke that channels Walter's recent solo performances and finds influences in some unlikely places, at least for this hardcore luminary. During the recording of the album in New York and Berlin, Walter found inspiration in the music of The Byrds and The Beatles. The results are nothing short of stunning, An Open Letter To The Scene is record that requires your immediate attention.

Walter Schreifels plays upstairs at The Middle East tonight and tickets can be had here. Walter will be supported by Allston's The Cold Beat & Greg Lyon (Pending Disapointment).

In celebration of tonight's show, we're giving away a copy of the new album, An Open Letter To The Scene courtesy of Walter's U.S. label, Academy Fight Song. To enter just send an e-mail with Walter Schreifels in the subject line to ashgrayproclamation@yahoo.com.

Update:Congratulations to Thomas Siegel from Somerville for winning a copy of An Open Letter To The Scene. Thanks to all who entered.

This Weeks Short Bursts:
Cloud Nothings, Black Helicopter, & Harlem

Cleveland, OH's Cloud Nothings were in town this week to support Wavves at Great Scott and if you follow us on twitter you probably already know that my ADD was in overdrive this week when I missed this show after grabbing tickets and somehow forgetting about it. Hopefully we'll get another chance to catch Dylan Baldi in the near future. Baldi's Cloud Nothings just released the new 7" Didn't You b/w Even If it Worked Out via Old Flame Records. Noise pop with an emphasis on the pop and another slab of lo-fi perfection from the young Mr. Baldi.

[MP3/Stream] Cloud Nothings - Didn't You (via Stereogum)

Cloud Nothings debut LP, Turning On can be had at Speakertree Records (Vinyl) & Bridgetown Records (CD).

One of Boston's best and in my opinion criminally under appreciated bands, Black Helicopter will play P.A.'s Lounge on Saturday. The band quietly released there 3rd LP , Don't Fuck With Apocalypse back in May, once again via Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label. Armed with tracks off the superb new record as well as some older gems too, Black Helicopter bring their covert operations to Somerville with support from Velvet Elvis, The IOA, and Lord Jeff.



Buy the new album at Ecstatic Peace

Black Helicopter/MySpace

Austin, TX's Harlem are responsible for one of our favorite albums of the past few months. Hippies (Matador) is a gritty garage rock record that keeps finding it's way back onto the turntable, probably because it's damn good. The band will return to town to support Jack White's Dead Weather on July 14th at The House of Blues. Harlem have just issued a new video for the track Someday Soon. The video was directed The Focus Creeps, Ben Chapel and Aaron Brown respectively.

Photographic Evidence: The Futureheads
We're finally ready to shut up about the great show we witnessed a couple a weeks ago, when The Futureheads made their first Boston appearance in over four years. I talked the wife into bringing the camera along to snap a few shots. We also wrote a review of the show for the fine folks at Melophobe that you can access here.

The Futureheads @ The Paradise June 7,2010



Photography: Nicole G. Hamill

Let's Wrestle Release Video & Announce U.S Tour

Let's Wrestle have announced a U.S. Tour with Man Man on the left coast that will kick off on September 5th in Santa Barbara, CA. Doesn't our favorite English 3-piece pop ensemble know we need a show in Boston too? We have no one to blame but ourselves. Ever since missing them open for Quasi back in April we've been kicking ourselves. The band has just released a video for I'm So Lazy, a song they recorded for a limited edition split single with The Love Language, originally released on Record Store Day.



Lets Wrestle U.S. Dates
9/05 Santa Barbara, CA SOhO Restaurant and Music
9/06 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
9/08 Seattle, WA Neumos
9/09 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theatre
9/10 Portland, OR MusicfestNW

Order Let's Wrestle's excellent debut as well as The Record Store Day split 7" from Merge Records Store.

Hallelujah The Hills Issue Two Summer Singles

As Hallelujah The Hills prepare to head out on the road with Titus Andronicus for a short eight date tour the band has posted two new tracks for free download with assistance from Brooklyn Blogger, Pop Headwound. Ever since first hearing the band shortly after the release of the bands debut Collective Psychosis Begone we've been singing the praises of HTH and these two tracks prove once again that Hallelujah Hills are crafting some of the finest and intelligent pop songs in Boston and beyond.

Hallelujah The Hills play Great Scott on July 8th with St. Clair, Mr. Sister, & Sleepy Very Sleepy. Grab tickets via Ticketweb.

[MP3/Stream] Hallelujah The Hills - That Ticking Sound You Hear

[MP3/Stream] Hallelujah The Hills - Introductory Saints

Download these two new tracks via Pop Headwound

Summer Vacation With Titus Andronicus
Sat, Jul 10, 2010 New Haven, CT Lily's Pad
Sun, Jul 11, 2010 Northampton, MA Pearl Street
Mon, Jul 12, 2010 Albany, NY Valentine's
Tue, Jul 13, 2010 Buffalo, NY Ninth Ward at Babeville
Wed, Jul 14, 2010 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern
Thu, Jul 15, 2010 Grand Rapids, MI Intersection Lounge
Fri, Jul 16, 2010 Chicago, IL Subterranean
Sun, Jul 18, 2010 Youngstown, OH Lemon Grove Cafe

This Weeks Short Bursts:
Gruff Rhys and album #10 from Elf Power

Super Furry Animals king pin Gruff Rhys is looking at a busy summer with the release of his long awaited documentary Seperado! and the release of The Terror of Cosmic Loneliness, a collaboration with Barazilian muscian/tv repairman Tony Da Gatorro.

Seperado!, a documentary 5 years in the making will be premiered in the U.S. at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 24th. As of today there are no plans for a Boston area screening, however we expect more U.S. screenings to follow the L.A. premiere. The film chronicles Rhys' search for his long lost, guitar playing Patagonian uncle. Co-directer Dylan Goch follows Gruff Rhys as he tours nightclubs and tea houses from Wales to the Argentine Andes. The film also captures the recording process of the forthcoming The Terror of Cosmic Loneliness album.

Pre-order the album at Amazon



Elf Power will return on September 14th with their tenth LP. The self titled release will be issued by Orange Twin and features guest appearances from Olivia Tremor Control/Circulatroy System alumni Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss, John Fernandes, and Heather McIntosh. The Elves have offered up Strangers In The Window in advance of the fall release of Elf Power.

[MP3/Stream] Elf Power - Strangers in The Window

Review::The Futureheads : The Chaos

In 2004 I was completely bowled over by the debut record from Sunderland, England's The Futureheads. That sparkling debut, a record I still listen to on a regular basis, is filled with a near perfect batch of new wave post-punk anthems. The bands subsequent albums have been met with an unfair reception from fans and critics alike that seem to be waiting for the band to duplicate or repeat what they accomplished on their self titled debut or maybe their waiting for another Kate Bush cover, it's not gonna happen. As far as I can tell the band has yet to release a sub par record. Instead of going back to familiar ground the band chose to widen their sonic palate and push their sound forward on album number two, News and Tributes and again on 2008's This Is Not The World. With their just released fourth album, The Chaos on Dovecote Records in the U.S. and on the bands own Nul imprint in their native UK, The Futureheads have delivered their most sonically adventurous recording as well as their finest since releasing the much lauded debut.

Unlike the bands previous work, The Chaos took a little bit longer to reveal it's many charms. However after my 3rd listen I was completely sold and ready for another go. The album perfectly marries the bands four part harmonies, swarming guitars, and their odd and immediate pop hooks. From the opening chords of the title track, to the should be smash hit Heartbeat Song, to the a Capella heavy Jupiter The Chaos is relentless and unwavering.The album's filled with menacing pop songs and it's never more obvious than on Sun Goes Down, an infectious romp that serves as the albums most accessible and addictive tracks.

The Futureheads have released a stunning and exhilarating rock record comprised of charging and concise pop thrills. Just don't call it a return to form, The Chaos is the LP TheFutureheads have been hinting at over the past two records. While the masses waited for them revisit the sounds of their debut the band has upped the anti and ripped us all a new one with The Chaos.

[MP3/Stream] The Futureheads - Struck Dumb

The Futureheads will play The Paradise on Monday June 7th withThe Like and Static Jacks.

Buy tickets for the show here

Order The Chaos

thefutureheads.co.uk

The Declining Winter Ready Their World Cup Theme


On June 14th UK based Home Assembly Music will issue Official World Cup Theme 2010, from The Declining Winter. The band fronted by Richard Adams (Hood) recorded the track with producer Choque Hosein. The release will also feature a new version of The Declining Winter tune Red Kite, a song that first appeared on the Music and Migration Comp. earlier this year. The limited edition CD will include an instrumental version of the theme as well as other exclusive tracks and will be packaged with a numbered postcard. As for the track itself, it's a melancholy pop gem. Check out the video below for the proof.

Pre-order The Declining Winter's Official World Cup Theme 2010 at Home Assembly Music

Boat Live on WNYU [Free Download]

One of our live highlights of the last year was when we witnessed Seattle,WA's Boat bring the rock at a criminally under attended show at PA's Lounge. The band were out for a short tour in support of the bands then just released third album Setting The Paces, which landed at #6 on our #25 favorite records of 2009. So I was understandably excited to hear that the band were headed back to the east coast, unfortunately the shows were limited to 3 dates all of which took place in New York. Well D. Crane and Co. have given us non-New Yorkers the next best thing to attending last weekends shows with a free download of the bands set at WNYU.

[MP3] Boat - WNYU Radio Session 05/21/2010

Set List
Period, Backslash, Colon
(do the) Magic Centipede
Topps (Big Apple Version)
Lately...
(do the) Magic Centipede
Tractor Rape Chain (GBV cover)
You're Muscular! (tiny version)
Le Grande Opening (new song)

Boat offical
Boat Myspace
Buy Setting The Paces at Magic Marker