The Three O'Clock - I Go Wild - 1983

I Was Totally Destroying It - The Beached Margin/Done Waiting 12" - Avialable August 11

Hailing from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, I Was Totally Destroying It (IWTDI) have been swinging sledgehammers at barriers since early 2007. Can a band whose ages span seventeen years demonstrate the chemistry to keep them cohesive? Can a band toe the line between mainstream palatability and indie-rock influence while appealing to a wide range of audiences? Can a bumblebee overcome the ratio of its wing span to its mass and produce enough lift to take flight? We now know that the answer to all of these questions is a resounding YES!

Mixing indie rock veterans James Hepler (Sorry About Dresden, Erie Choir) and John Booker (Strunken White, io) with talented young upstarts Rachel Hirsh (A-OK), Curtis Armstead (Places to Live), and Joe Mazzitelli (Lemming Malloy) has so far been a recipe for awesome. A unique blend of 80's rock- think Outfield and The Cure- and 90's indie rock such as Superchunk, Velocity Girl, and The Anniversary leaves listeners' palates assaulted by pop flavor. IWTDI sweat and slave over their songs, leaving no aural opportunity unvisited. Their lyrics belie the sweet, sunny suggestions of their upbeat melodies, inviting you to listen in on their conversations about self loathing, fear, and intimacy. The end result is a feast of music worth sinking your teeth into.

“The Beached Margin/Done Waiting 12” vinyl LP comes out on August 11th via Greyday Records. The hand-numbered package includes 11 tracks on beautiful purple vinyl, special screenprinted lyric insert, digital download code including bonus track “Benediction” not available anywhere else, and more.

The Witch Riding Your Back

How to Spray Paint Art

Spray paint is closely associated with graffiti to many since that's all they've been exposed to. Spray Paint art though, is nothing like graffiti. Spray Paint artists use the same medium as graffiti artists, but the subject and intention are totally different. Spray Paint artists use spray paint can to paint beautiful paintings by manipulating the paint on the poster board while it is still wet. They employ a variety of tools like sponges, cylinders, brushes, and stencils to add texture and personality to their art.

Steps

1. Find a flat well ventilated area to paint in.
2. Decide what you want to paint. Choose your colors, and your composition by positioning the round objects on the canvas.
3. Spray your paint to the size of your space in this order: yellow, orange, red, then black.
4. Use a piece of magazine, lightly place the magazine on top of the black layer while it's still wet, take your hand and run it across the magazine, tug from one corner about an inch, then pull away from the canvas. You should have a pretty cool texture on your canvas,
5. Spray about 1/4 of that area with black on that cool texture area.
6. Cover the area include the last black layer with your round object.
7. Spray the whole thing black, and then spray it with various colors, mostly navy blue.
8. Lift the round object and you'll get a cool looking space.

Tips

- When you buy your paint cans, make sure they're all the same brand.
- Wear old clothing that you don't mind getting dirty.
- A paper mask, or preferably a respirator, is highly recommended as the fumes can be toxic.
- Rubber gloves will save your hands from paint. Not necessary, but a recommendation.

Warnings

- Spray paint is known to be hazardous. Do not paint if you are pregnant or have any respiratory condition.
- Avoid breathing the fumes as much as possible.

Things You'll Need

- A respirator or paper mask
- Latex gloves (Vinyl if you're allergic)
- Glossy Spray Paint
- Glossy Poster Board
- Round objects of different sizes.
- Magazines, sponges, for texture effect.
- Stencils for text or images

Shake - Trippin' the Whole Colourful World - 2007

The Shake's debut album has listeners wondering what year it is and what country the band is from--this is prime 1960s American garage music, recorded in 2007 by a band from Spain, and the details are spot on. Even the production mimics the ... Full Descriptioncharmingly cardboard-y sound of NUGGETS-era psychedelia, and the songs are catchy, simple, and played and sung with complete conviction.



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PT Walkley - ...And the Adventures of Track Rabbit - 2007

Even if you haven't heard of PT Walkley, you might have heard him whistling in a MasterCard commercial or singing "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" in a GE spot.
For a handful of years, the songwriter has earned such placements working at Frisbie, a creative advertising and branding music studio in New York. A day job as a composer has left Walkley ample opportunity to use the studio's facilities for his own music, which blends feel-good, upbeat pop with Brit rock. -Billboard.com



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PT Walkley - ...And the Adventures of Track Rabbit - 2007/sb

Peter Case - Full Service, No Waiting - 1998

Case doesn't get much better than this -- the stories are refined, if that's possible, and his voice is stronger and clearer with age. He excels at the self-proclaimed semi-autobiographical numbers, whether on the bittersweet "On the Way Downtown," a lament like "Drunkard's Harmony" or the career retrospective "Still Playin'." With such a strong debut, follow-up and mid-career resurrection, the question still remains: when will Case achieve the recognition he deserves as one of his generation's finest songwriters? -AMG



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The Paper Sissors - Howl - Now Avialable

The Paper Sissors have one self-titled EP and an album titled 'Less
Talk More Paper Scissors' under their collective belt. Both received critical acclaim and various accolades in Australia. · Last year saw TPS sell out shows nationally with Bluejuice, program Rage and play numerous summer festivals.

To Celebrate the Release of the their new ‘Howl’ EP TPS have announced their ‘Howl’ EP Tour (see myspace for full dates)


The Paper Sissors - Howl

Howl is now available on

Less Talk More Paper Scissors
The debut album by The Paper Scissors Out now on