snowflake and candle: Baby

mirage

stepping: which over

zha zha rubber tub

mt: phonebook text

snowflake and candle: cattle wax

We're not sure what cattle wax is, but there's much lowing on these tracks and even the occasional use of bellows.

say you love me: love signs

say you love me issues love signs just in time for Valentine's. There's nothing more romantic than a fantastic marketing ploy.

perty: impossible

impossible is here. perty sings about it in the thrilling way only perty can.

put on your lipstick again
please put on your lipstick again
please let me trace
my tongue on your taste
put on your lipstick again

doublecross Buddha

From South Padre Island, the hotel lobby band that made "snatch a twinkie" famous, doublecross Buddha, has found the time to produce this tribute to Gary Snyder.

Please note: Other explanations for this album were not forthcoming, and we are not sure that this explanation means much.

the sound council road show

unctious

petals of a dead wind

unindustry

Moved out to the country to get away from you,
But you always show up, like Iago, like Javert,
To terminate the new, and ruined and running,
Called myself Jonah, but the name Ishmael will do

the wrong side of poolside

cheesdip: all party

cheesdip gives us all party, music that doesn't drown out conversations with DEA and CIA and FBI, music that keeps on giving, even in federal court.

plate of grapes: The Burt Bacchus Tribute

Lyre, cymbal, and shoe shine kit,
We eat the cheese of the ancients.

teacup of whimsy: honey hive

The band that features the hand whistle is back.

rage paints a smile: neon glue gun

Check out the band with the hot squish sound!

shuffle off this mortal coil

The long-awaited second album from shuffle off this mortal coil is here: zipper longue. Take a listen to the machine inside the bag.

lava lovers

Featuring the smash hit single "volcano god," this album begs you to take the virgin chance and do the virgin dance.

the sweet warts

BC/AD

running wall

carnival george

flesh garden

Songs about skin.

construct

wardrobe genie: horse

life changing event band

Music for those special occasions. And music for everything overpriced. And music for everything overrated.

hiding in our own audience

"No one knows what it's like."

legnest

Buy pterodactyl, the latest from legnest!

axh

dwarfs of the mad forest, oh!
know where the wind whistling
window where the mad for its
dwarfs of the deep end of time
clock of the rhyme pocket line
whose axh of burn downed blind
stone upon stone fountain wet
wind madly regret walking home
to dwarfs of death the forest,
oh! life looks tree envy it

flu

This is the album that features the seven minute version of "sneezeguard mama" as well as the hilarious "Achtung Achoo Gesund."

tamperproof: not so easy

When you thought the lock couldn't be broken,
When you thought things couldn't get more adjusted,
You thought they had everybody paid off,
Busted!

libertydeath: mask of obscenity

sympathetic vomit

sympathetic vomit puked this album up in three weeks, but its title is still in dispute: sick, slipping in sick, or swine flu? Buy their single "slipping in sick" online, and you can cast your vote for the title.

darning and crochet: fast knitting with Vivaldi

darning and crochet have returned from their studio with what they hope to be their most successful album ever: fast knitting with Vivaldi.

Ladies, sharpen your needles! The violin is most fiddle.

Monedita B. Bécquer

Portada para Benita Bécquer

Iván Jelev y cipollina

Promocional

rename the king

Unable to invent music, rename the king decided nonetheless to invent music. Neverthless, slightly paranoid lead singer Trevor Tilch prefers to focus on the history of the band as a tribute band, but his fellow band members want to break out of their tribute band status and refuse to cover tunes already performed.

In mock defiance, Trevor ad libbed all of his lyrics at a recent performance, but it turned out that he performed his role no worse than usual, which lead bassist Steve Unser to say, "We're a tribute band that doesn't pay tribute."

That ad lib is captured here.

Yes, the tunes on this album ooze with the senseless tensions of rename the king.

pig face damnation

How pig face damnation came to be is an astounding story in itself. Critics have labelled it an Insane Clown Posse ripoff, but the dynamic of pig face damnation is of a different order than that of Insane Clown Posse. Indeed, pig face damnation actually set out to write music for topless bars and issued "sit and spin" ten years ago when it was known as Hot Silver, when critics called it a Motley Crue ripoff.

The idea for pig face damnation came after drummer Kit Larsen quit Hot Silver to open a midnight volleyball/mosh pit lake club in Austin. Grubber Thompson and Pete Tinsel, the two remaining Hot Silver members, recruited a drummer and bass player after spending a month in the Grand Canyon trying out their chants. With the formula for a "chant band rather then a yell 'naked' band," Grubber and Pete put together pig face damnation within a half year after Hot Silver disbanded.

As to the name, "pig face damnation," Grubber credits a visit to the Video Bar in Deep Ellum in the 1980s, where he saw Leatherface enacting his chainsaw chase on the big screens (the one Grubber remembers was above the downstairs dance floor) to his fascination with meat masks. Grubber was six at the time he visited the Video Bar, and his tales of Deep Ellum are worthy of his forthcoming movie, Me and Joe Bob Briggs, where Grubber narrates his "horror movie youth" in detail.

But "pig face" itself, as Grubber tells it, relates to the masks worn by certain Washington Redskin fans. To this inteviewer's satisfaction, Grubber could not quite relate "pig face" to Leatherface, but perhaps the masks worn by Leatherface and Washington Redskin fans they are all part of the "meat mask" fascination Grubber spoke of.

Check out "My Bloody Valentine" and "Redder and Redder." As the chant goes on "Axe Battle," "It's all grunts and squeals and the thrill of surviving a spin on Ixion's Wheel."

emergency nowhere

emergency nowhere is out to take you for a ride. Indeed, with a list of seventy-eight titles, this album from emergency nowhere (current title pending) wants to take you on many a ride. Sometimes, though, the rides are brief and unfulfilling (a couple of the eight second tunes work), and sometimes the rides last a little too long ("garbage disposal banjo" almost works). Whatever the case, after you've heard, "chasing it," you'll know you've been there, been to that particular nowhere. First, however, get your prescription filled--take a listen to "un": "laughter, I'm choking, and never stop knowing, an accidental morgue."

black ice pie

It's the dessert you can't see. It's licorice ice cream in coffee. It's the listen that treats you to unexpected surprise. That's right, by using code compilations, these tunes morph before your ears. A multitudinous cacophony symphonic, you won't hear the same tune more than once in a hundred listens. Listen again and again. It's OK. It's not the same song over and over. It's over and over a song.

1) hit the brakes and burn rubber
2) cerberus by another name
3) damsel
4) pitch
5) fits and smarts
6) teeth trap
7) tender
8) frost asphalt
9) garbage truck alphabet
10) clock raw
11) spoon jam
12) finger drill

crunchy heart apple: healer

crunchy heart apple returns with their cruelest album cover image yet: a bird devouring the worm in your heart. Yes, healeris all about the pain of realizing the disease and eradicating it with the help of pigeons, canaries, or any bird you can find at your local pet store. Any bird capable of flight, that is.

Mr. Butterscotch, formely Birdie, will guide you down the path to health with such tunes as "bird bath cleansing," "public fountain freedom," and "naked joy." But don't forget "high up in the clouds" and "birds can help you."

And these tunes are just helf the album. The other half is your "flight to freedom" where you will learn your cleansing "coo." So, chirp along.

Merry Elvmas: A Holiday Tribute to Elvis

Merry Elvmas is a classic Elvis Christmas album with classic Christmas songs done as only Elvis could do them redone by Famous Album Cover artists (mostly). Yes, you will thrill to hear Christmas tunes done by Elvis redone by Famous Album Cover artists. Just consider it the musical equivalent of Jim Carrey portraying Andy Kaufman. It's all about sytle.

Santa Claus Is Back In Town - Edvard Just Knows
White Christmas - The XRays
Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) - String
Theory
I'll Be Home For Christmas - Before We Get Too Waco
Blue Christmas - The Blue Eels
Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me) - Crik
O Little Town Of Bethlehem - Oliver and the Otters
Medley - Benita Becquer and the Fashionettes
(There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me) - Bigfoot Meets Industrial Orange
I Believe - Runaway Train Engineers
Take My Hand, Precious Lord - Tin Drum
It Is No Secret (What God Can Do) - Vapor Mints

out of bounds

songs about walking
gone curbside in a hum hush

no distance enough
cement and asphalt and rain

songs gone talking
talking too much

steel dance

edvard just knows: sleeping in a sleeping

when you're sleeping
in
a sleeping
assert the fog
bridges glass the ice
palace alarm
while fish the lost
pearl
handle a sleeping
name the ear
when you're sleeping
in
a panic calm

tr bl

If you are looking for tr bl, here it is.

Sometimes, you might not be sure what tr bl is: a garbage truck, a baby in its crib. But take home tr bl now, and give it a listen. You might learn to like it.

What was that? Did someone just break the brand new jar of pickles?

The X Rays

After a brief study of Edmund Husserl, Jeremy Polk decided to ponder the proverb, "Beauty is only skin deep." He concluded: "Beauty is always only surface, even if that surface is an index."

None of his friends was sure what he meant, but his friends were happy to join his band, The X Rays. They were not, however, sure what Jeremy was doing when he brought brought a children's sandbox, sand included, to the recording garage along with handbells, steel hammers, mallets, wire, BBs, and lots of variously sized glass bottles and spoons, but his friends played along and were happy to produce this album, mostly.

Among its many surpises, the tunes on this album feature the musky-husky of Trixy Tam Tam, best known for her pop hit, "Baby." Trixy does an "O Baby" that out-Barries Barry White. If her voice turns you on, you will get a charge out of "Ingredients," a tune where she reads labels.

Check it out. "Day and Night" will Alaska for you.

green rustic

Like the hee-haw twang of Country and Western, but want more twang and less homegrown in your lyrics? Here it is: green rustic, a band full of piss and vinegar that offers you a shot glass full of sin.