Public Service Blogcast Episode 33

This episode: former guitarist/shouter of Help She Can't Swim and current bedroom avant-pop wonder Tom Denney aka Lonely Ghosts takes over for the first of this Easter weekend's blogcasts, presenting fantastic new LG tracks and choice cuts from his One Inch Badge Records labelmates.

If you've missed Lonely Ghosts at recent STA shows be sure to check out one of the following upcoming dates...

21 Apr - Buffalo Bar w/ Cutaways - London
1 May - Tropical Hotdog @ Island Bar w/ Sunset Cinema Club, 4 Or 5 Magicians - Birmingham
2 May 2009 - Major/Minor @ The Flying Duck w/ Peter Parker - Glasgow
3 May 2009 - Head of Steam - Newcastle
14 May 2009 - Great Escape Festival - Brighton
15 May 2009 - 90 Free Friday @ 93 Feet East (FREE SHOW) - London
23 May 2009 - Dark Party @ Manhatan’s - Luton

Public Service Blogcast Episode 33
31 minutes 40 seconds
Recorded 07/04/09
Tracklisting
00.11 Lonely Ghosts - Ghosts Of Mice (from Return From The Search Party album - OIB Records)
03.16 Pseudo Nippon - Constellation Jebubu (from Edamame Freakout EP - OIB Records)
06.48 Nullifier - Convectors
12.14 Shield Your Eyes - Sound The Alarm (from Shield Your Eyes album - Run For Your Life)
15.52 Mewgatz - Photocopy (from Love Songs & Car Boot Electronica album - OIB Records)
20.34 Transfere Project - Let's Not Cut Those Lines
23.13 Pope Joan - Centurion (from Centurion/Volumes single - OIB Records)
28.07 Lonely Ghosts - Come Down From The Mountain (from Return From The Search Party album - OIB Records)

If you have any suggestions for future takeovers or want to get a track played on a regular show, get in touch - email blogcast@smalltownamerica.co.uk.

Public Service Broadcast Club 5 - TODAY!

Check it out kids, we're back for another afternoon of fun music at the Notting Hill Arts Club (21 Notting Hill Gate, W11) in London. Copied and pasted from t'website:

TIM TEN YEN is the snappiest dressed man in London. Probably. What is certain is that "Everything Beautiful Reminds Me of You", released via Pointy Records, was the snappiest sun-drenched pop record made last year by a snappily-dressed man from London. SNAPPY. His live shows come assisted by The Sinister Cat, and if that doesn't pique your interest by itself, well...

INTERNET FOREVER bill themselves on their myspace as "the dangerous sounds of twee". We think they're like a Times New Viking-savvy take on what Beat Happening were so special for - a band that places youthful exuberance and a desire for maximum fun moments uber alles. We're SOLD.

POPE JOAN are a four-piece avant pop band from Brighton. Trading in angularrrrr guitar lines and 8-bit synth fury equally, debut mini-album Hot Water, Lines and Rickety Machines was last year via the fine people at OIB Records (also responsible for Lonely Ghosts, who some of you may remember from our Christmas party) and garnered a lot of lovely words from the underground press.

As usual, the show is from 4pm to 8pm, it's TOTALLY FREE, there'll be cheap drinks and we'll be playing some CHOONS (me says likely to include: The Auteurs, Best Friends Forever, Bruce Springsteen, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone covering Bruce Springsteen, Deftones, El-P, Handsome Furs, The Hold Steady, of Montreal, No Age...) between the bands. It's the best way to start off your Saturday! OFFICIALLY.

Also, check out Laura Wolf's (from Internet Forever, y'know) awesome poster up there. Amazing, huh?

If you are so inclined, you can find the event on Facebook here and Last FM here. Tell your friends! Bring your friends! Introduce us to your friends!

Public Service Blogcast Episode 7

On this week's PS-Bl show Brian files his post-Rage Against The Joyriders report; ace new tunes from Plus/Minus, Situationists, Collapsing Cities and O'Death; plus an especially poor Jackie Gleason impression (thanks Sunset Cinema Club!)

Public Service Blogcast Episode 7
39 minutes no seconds
Recorded 29/10/08
Tracklisting
00.29 Rabbit Transit - This Ain't No Marley Raggae (from self released debut album)
04.06 Plus/Minus - Subdued (from Xs On Your Eyes album - Absolutely Kosher Records)
08.16 Panda Kopanda - Spirals (from forthcoming Hope album)
Rage Against The Joyriders update
15.42 Pope Joan - Pocket Of Change (from Hot Water, Lines and Rickety Machines album - OIB Records)
20.07 Situationists - Onwards And Upwards (from Onwards And Upwards EP - Tough Love Records)
23.48 Nephu Huzzband - Clockwork (from Should Have Used An Abacus single - Deep Recording Company)
27.03 Foundlings - Function Creep (previously unreleased)
29.26 Sunset Cinema Club - Reflex DJ (from Homina Homina Homina album - Knew Noise Recordings JP)
33.30 Collapsing Cities - So I Said Last Weekend (from Disguised As A Mall album)
37.08 O'Death - Lean-To (from Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin album - City Slang)

If you have any feedback or want to get a track played, get in touch - email blogcast@smalltownamerica.co.uk
Next week we plumb greater depths of host-ineptness as Dan Ormsby of 4 Or 5 Magicians fame shares the blogcast mike with me. We'll be playing some recommendations from Dan, catching up on all things Magicians and No Doubt, there'll be ample waffle inbetween and no doubt there'll be ample waffle inbetween.