New Crimes to Commit on Thursday

Some people are going to see Beach House that night instead. Pansies, I say. This line-up is guaranteed good times. Even if the heat isn't working in the Red Barn, the thunderous rock will surely get it cookin'.

PARTS AND LABOR
AMPERE
BUNNIES
GREY SKULL
ERIC HNATOW

FREE FREE FREE
7:30 PM
HAMPSHIRE RED BARN

One Part

Dan Friel, one part of Parts & Labor is having his newest solo release Ghost Town put out today on ol' reliable Important Records. The first 100 copies are red vinyl so get on it. If you've been paying attention to the recent Cardboard Records compilation, fellow P&Ler BJ Warshaw's Shooting Spires side-project or Parts & Labor in general you can do no wrong. For those unaware, back in the day a young 16 year-old Dan was in a band called Squidlaunch that features one of our station's finest DJs, Clandestino's Andujar. They have a Live on WFMU 7" that they did back in 1995 out right now which you can pickup on Spooky Tree Records. You could probably also just track Andujar down during his show.

Mark Ya Calendars

Boston College's radio station WZBC 90.3 FM is holding a 35th Anniversary concert on May 3rd at T.T. the Bears with No Age, Neptune, Big Digit and The Big Disappointments confirmed. For only 10 bucks looks like a worthy weekend event.

Parts and Labor are doing a few shows in our northerly neighbor states. First is a show with the AustinHouston-tastic Indian Jewelry at Dartmouth College's Fuel Rocket Club on May 9th. The second is a show with Brooklyn's fine Aa (Big A Little A) at Bennington College on May 10th.

3 of the bands just mentioned can be found on the Cardboard Records Love and Circuits compliation that came out last month. Much like how the DFA Record Compilation #2 was the map of NYC dance music back in 2004, this compilation is gives you the state of 2008 noise rock.

Here's the mandatory Youtube video:

Aa - Thirteen (not a Big Star cover)

Smitten.

Monday was truly a special day, for the powers that be finally unleashed the Love & Circuits 2xCD compilation, courtesy of Cardboard Records (run by Dan Friel of the way-awesome Parts & Labor), upon the WMUA dungeon. I know this had been eagerly awaited by at least myself & Eric, although probably not anyone else. Look at this line-up & play "spot the number of times that I've foamed at the mouth over a ridiculous number of these bands on the blog":

DISC ONE:
1. Aa - Who's The Boss
2. Action Beat - More Hookie
3. Best Fwends - Skate Or Live
4. Big Bear - 19
5. Bilge Pump - Rise And Fall Of The Alpha Male
6. Bipolar Bear - Gaza Striptease
7. Books On Tape - Orphann
8. Collin Mel - Bump In My Throat
9. Craig Colorusso - #43 Greg McCarthy
10. Crime In Choir - Broken Before A Frozen God
11. Crito & Doily - Magpies
12. Double Dagger - Ruby
13. Dynamite Arrows - Systems
14. Ecstatic Sunshine - Crystal In The Sky
15. Fat Day - I Smell Poop Gub
16. Fathers Day - I Have So Much Respect For Women
17. Flying - Minors
18. Fuck Buttons - Ribs Out
19. Golden Error - Hunted
20. The Good Good - Look Hello
21. Gowns - What If Not You
22. High Places - Canary
23. Ho-ag - Handsome
24. Hunting Lodge - (k)Palixio, Nature Wyzered
25. Insect Factory - Meditation (With Wind)
26. Japanther - Charlie Hustle (Free Pete Rose)
27. Jerk - Cobra
28. Justice Yeldham - 062 Tienen 080304
29. Leaders - Lightheart

DISC TWO:
1. Lovid - 40 Winks
2. Lucky Dragons - Where's Adam
3. Maps And Atlases - Songs For Ghosts To Haunt To
4. Matt And Kim - Silver Tiles
5. Monster Dudes - No New School
6. Mr. Baby - A Death In The Family
7. Necking - Swinging Ear
8. Neptune (feat. Can't) - 23
9. Numbers - Can't Remember
10. The Oh Sees - The Killer
11. Oneida - Winter Mind
12. Parts & Labor - No Night
13. Pope - Milk Faced Whitey
14. Pterodactyl - 5 Minutes In 2 Minutes
15. Raccoo-oo-oon - Garden Suns
16. Shooting Spires - Sailin' On
17. The Show Is The Rainbow - How Do You Spell Success?
18. Shy Child - Down On Yourself
19. These Are Powers - The South Angel
20. Trey Told 'Em - All Of The Other Songs Remixed
21. Tunnel Of Love - P.T.K.
22. Tuxedo Killers - Don't Get Me Started
23. The USA Is A Monster - Okeepa Ceremony Acoustic
24. Vaz - Birth Of The Universe
25. Voltage - Phil Taylor
26. When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth - It's Not The Heat It's The Humidity
27. Wilderness - Beautiful Alarms (Live In Slovenia)
28. ZS - In My Dream I Shot A Monk

Fun facts: 77.2% of these songs are exclusive to the compilation & the ones that aren't exclusive are good enough that it won't hurt to have them in a second format, if you're concerned about overlap. Also, 77.2% of these bands are probably from Brooklyn & the ones that aren't are probably from Boston or Austin, or as I like to call them, Bizarro Brooklyns. If you're at all into the art-damaged noise rock thing, you could do a lot worse than to shell out fifteen bucks for this little beast, because I'm hard pressed to think of many worthy bands in that whole scene who aren't represented here. I'm still working on digesting the whole thing, but the Shooting Spires cover of Bad Brains' "Sailin' On" is particularly hot.