Give You Back Your Time

Slight setback in announcing the ambitious idea that was mentioned in the last post. In the meantime, here's a demo for the last song we wrote for our new record.

City Center "Hit" (Demo)

LTD

Following my last post I realized it was kind of stupid to publicly offer up 3 cassettes to the world at large. I have no idea how many people read this blog, but as I've found out, it's definitely more than 3. I actually got about 45 or so emails the next afternoon after my inomno-maniacal blogging, and more have filtered in. So, yeah, that was a dumb post! Sorry. Here, however, is an mp3 of Side A of the tape, for anyone interested who didn't get a copy. Side B is somewhere else on the blog, 2 long untitled jams under "Fred & Ryan" somewhere around March or April of 2002.

City Center "Life Meeting"

Keeping with this theme of limited availability and slightly ambitious-if-insane ideas, the next post will be about some new work and an idea we've been working on for a little while now.

Tape Life

On New Year's Day of this year, me and Ryan met up and had a huge meeting about what we wanted to do with the band, what kind of sacrifices we were prepared to make, and how we could really push ourselves and our art forward if we decided we were ready to. We talked for a long time and then had a jam in his super-depressing one-room apartment as the year began in a cold, icy clamor. Thom Elliot over at Pleasuredome Tapez had asked me to do something for his label a week earlier, so I gave him the recording of our January 1st jam, as well as some stuff that we'd done in March of '08 before Ryan had joined City Center. The tape was called "Life Meeting", and it has finally reached reproduction as of last week. Thom made 23 copies, and gave me 5 of them. I have no idea how to get ahold of him, but if you're reading this then maybe you can find him on facebook or through my page if we're friends on there. If you really need a copy of this, I have three I can sell to the first takers. Drop me a line at westsideaudio at gmail dot com if you're into it. Oh, I also finished some work for another tape tonight, that will most likely drop a little sooner than it took for the red one above. More on that later. It's almost 7am and I'm still awake. Yikes.

breather

Young noise

Secret Twins

eternal loop of mental pollution in the end times sounds like...

turtle blood blues

Dreams

Fred: "There's so many guitars, I feel like Slash or something."

Chris: "Yeah, if Slash was a girl and lived in Holland."

At This Moment

Charge It To Da Gamalan

Thanks to Brett for opening my eyes to this jam. Hope everyone has a good next couple of days.

Comp Post

I think I mentioned sometime this summer that we recorded a new song for this compilation that just came out recently. It looks like a pretty sweet line-up of unreleased jams from radical groups. Our song "Dinosaur Games" is one of our favorites to play live, but as a slight disclaimer, had we known there was a band called Dinosaur Feathers on the comp, we might have submitted a different song. OH WELL! It's vinyl only, and you can check it out right here.

you were in my dream and we were arguing

November Mix

1.Todd Rundgren "Hey Laura" (weird excerpt, not sure what happened)

2.The Strokes "Is This It (Home Demo)"

3.The Teardrops "You Won't Be There"

4.The Charmers "Looking For Trouble"

5.The Sunrays "Andrea"

6.Real Estate "Atlantic City"

7.El Perro Del Mar "Coming Down The Hill"

8.Grouper "Quiet Eyes"

9.Death In June "Death Is The Martyr Of Beauty"

10.Throbbing Gristle "Don't Do As You're Told"

11.Liquid Liquid "Lub Dupe"

12.Sun City Girls "Radar 1941"

Total Time: 35min 21sec

Download the mix here