FIELDED

Chicago's Lindsay Anne Powell, a.k.a. Fielded, played at the Media Mansion/George's house last week and was mighty breathtaking, even after the complete and utter skull-crunch (in a good way) that was Noise Nomads. The recordings on her CDR/tape EP The Lord Reigns, Let the People Tremble (Catholic Tapes) are slightly less bludgeoning than her live performance, but just as beautiful.

Church drones, beat shards, ghost town tumbleweed specters. Woulda been great for creepo-dungeon Halloween mix, could probably be used in place of "Silent Night" shit on yer Christmastime mix, assuming your Christmas party been thrown in the graveyard. I'm talkin ghost of Christmas future shit, clinkin down in a freshly dug grave, huge blue moon overhead, huge pack of coyotes howlin overhead. Long bouts of shivers.






Fielded - All the Best



Fielded - The Watcher



Fielded - You Got the World, You Got the Century



Lindsay also plays in Ga'an.



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Also checked out Big Troubles play last week in Worcester at a house called Distant Castle. They played as a duo with a drum machine to good effect. "Freudian Slips," "Drastic and Difficult" and a newer song they played last all sounded great. Check them out Thursday night with full band at Cake Shop with Byrds of Paradise, Cool World and More Bikini Babes. INAUGURAL FRIENDSHIP BRACELET PRESENTS SHOW. BE THERE.

ATLANTICS

Boys over at Astro Nautico dropped a dope lil EP of sorts, couple tracks each from Kuhn, Obey City and +++WEED (might know him better as Al Gates). Generally zonked and damn thick, these beats should probably get you stoned just bumpin em out yer ear buds or lil laptop speakers or whatever, but seriously. SERIOUSLY - I wana cruise around blastin these joints.

Take this sample, like it and love it, then head over and grab the whole thing cos 1) it's free and 2) it's dope.





Obey City - Celestial Steam





Astro Nautico - Atlantics

BRUNO B. DICOLLA

This dude did the cover art for the Buon Giorno Luamada album, out now on Perdizes Dream.



Previously:



Buon Giorno Luamada - Cartographie

MANE MANE

Mane Mane gets down with the Peace Age crew (or at least is somewhat associated with em) and it makes sense. Mane Mane is the combo of C Powers and Fuzzy Foe.

Drop the Cadillac top, turn it up and drive slow. I know it's pretty much winter and all, but the late afternoon light reminds me of summer and makes me want it back. I'll be waiting at least five or six months. Hopefully you're pampered in perpetual sunlight and can get a head start.







Mane Mane ft. CH-Rom a.k.a. Charlemane - Rain Mane

Mane Mane - Skin Fox





If this whets the whistle, backtrack a bit and peep some C Powers and Termeric HERE.

TERMINATOR EX

Luke Perry's new CDR Terminator Ecstasy wins 2009's award for "Album That Sounds The Most Like Its Song Titles." I'm talkin shit like "Skynet Infiltration Simulation Unit," "In Robocop's Eye," "Alien Hairspray." A bit over a month ago, Rose Quartz treated us all to a lil preview of the CDR with its first track "Avon Lust" (grab that HERE), which actually ended up on Shea's Top Songs of 2009 list at #9 alongside heavy jammers from Speculator, Ducktails, Oneohtrix Point Never.

"Skynet Infiltration Simulation Unit" is equally if not more dope, total brain-scan laser zaps circling around your body making sure you are, in fact, you. This is why I like the future so much - one musn't even know who they are cos barcodes and computer scanners will never forget.



Luke Perry - Skynet Infiltration Simulation Unit





"In Robocop's Eye" offers up a good mix of the two things Luke Perry seems to do best - supreme silkworm zone-outs and deep, cosmic grooves, nearly split down the center as one transitions to the other without warning around the 3:45 mark. Like if you were listening to some OPN/Ferraro/Dolphins Into the Future jam on yer walkman then took off the headphones right as you stepped into your alien-life-force-themed senior prom, everything covered in silvery green scales. Oh, and the bar is strictly Orange Julius floats.



Luke Perry - In Robocop's Eye