Calories star in Music Sounds Better With Huw

Great name for a great comp. Plus good to see a bunch of blogcasted bands selected for inclusion. As previously reported, Calories open a Huw Stephens curated compilation out now on Wichita Recordings. Check out the MSBWH for band profiles and more.

Here's what your £4.99 gets you

Adventuring - Calories
You Are My Coal Mine - Copy Haho
World War II, Pt. 2 - Wax Fang
Oh! (Plugs Remix) - We Have Band
The Crapsons - Pulled Apart By Horses
Suitcase Man - Hjaltalín
Woe Unto Me to Get High - Sweet Baboo
See If I Float - Cyclones
Sorrysayer - Swanton Bombs
Eighty-Eight - Banjo Or Freakout
Clean Break - Gentle Friendly
Bring it Home - Young Fathers
Pull the House Down - Stricken City
Solid State Messiah (vs. The Valve Viking) - Holy State
Lasers - Gallops
Somewhere Out There a Dog Is On Fire - Tubelord
Opposites Attract - Dinosaur Pile-Up
4 Minute Warning - Portasound
Oyasumi Baby - Colorama
Everybody - Gold Teeth
Like Totally - Gold Panda

There's even a FREE launch event on Tuesday 9th June at the Social, Little Portland Street, London W1 with sets from Stricken City, Copy Haho, Gallops and Gold Panda. Doors 8pm.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 12

We're mere days away from the 2008 STA Xmas party and this week's blogcast includes two convincing arguments for why you should bypass the hell of Oxford Street and come down to King's College London on Sunday afternoon - Gentle Friendly who are going to be a big deal in 2009 and one of America's finest bands, the Thermals, playing thier first UK show in too damn long. Tickets are still on sale for just £10 and it's all in aid of homeless charity Shelter who need funds now more than ever given the economic circumstances. For the full line-up head to the Shows page of STA Central.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 12
28 minutes 36 seconds
Recorded 07/12/08
Tracklisting
00.29 Gentle Friendly - Ride Around Shining (download only here)
03.42 The Thermals - I Let It Go (Demo) (from forthcoming album Now We Can See – Kill Rock Stars)
07.48 Fuck Dress - Suburban Nietzsche Freak (from Suburban Nietzsche Freak single - NROne Records)
11.14 Swanton Bombs - Shock (from Mammoth Skull EP - Quiff Records)
14.17 Lemonade - Sunchips (from s/t debut album - True Panther Records)
20.25 Royal Treatment Plant - Hope Is Not Enough (from Hope Is Not Enough album - Universal)
25.04 Tape The Radio - Save A Life (from self-released limited single)

If you have any feedback or want to get a track played, get in touch - email blogcast@smalltownamerica.co.uk