Grandaddy's Just Like the Fambly Cat: Jason Lytle's Declaration of Surrender
In yesterday's Eureka Times-Standard.

...I have a million pieces in the works right now. Watch this space! And I just pitched Rentals features for July and got one taker (thx Adam). Yeah!

Current Listening

The Volt Per Octaves- "Mausoleum Melody." A band from Southern Humboldt (about an hour south of me) that plays old-school moogs and theremins. They're moog-crazed - in a good way - and their music is something like trip-hop or even whatever it is people mean when they say "chill." Definitely one of the best local bands I've heard since we've lived here.

Twilight Singers - "When You Sleep." This is such a beautiful version of a great My Bloody Valentine song. It's amazing to hear MBV stripped-down and stark like this, but it is gorgeous. I love the way Greg Dulli interpolates some lines from Bette Middler's "The Rose" at the end. You would think it would be so cheesy, but it's not. At all.

Birds and Batteries - "Machines That Dream." Somewhere between Kraftwerk and M83 on the human -- cyborg -- machine continuum. Great melodies over punchy guitars and chirpy (birds?) synths (batteries?).

Alan Singley and Pants Machine - "Highways of Our Minds." Big sloppy Beatles chorus (Hey Jude, All You Need is Love), slowed-down Apples In Stereo sugary-fun vibe.

Golden Shoulders - "Friends and Family." Everything you need from a pop song in less than two minutes.