Apples leader, Robert Schneider, calls Athens, GA band, Laminated Cat, “the best young psychedelic band in years.”

The second release for Schneider and family’s new Garden Gate label features cover art by Hart and Doss of Olivia Tremor Control.Listen & Re-Post!

[MP3] Laminated Cat - “Aquamarine”: http://tinyurl.com/laminatedcat-aquamarine

Umbrella Weather: Ornate psychedelia pours from the loudspeakers, ranging from delicate to druggy. Acoustic guitars give way to flourishes of orchestrated static. Fuzz pedals filter exotic riffs. A ghostly voice conjures dreams in pop song format. One experimental composer, one multi-instrumentalist, and two identical twins add up to layers of epic, psychedelic bliss. While we are engaged in numerology, let us note that no member was over 21 as of the recording of the album. Singer/guitarist Tanner Smith graduated with a degree in experimental composition. Smith’s younger brothers, twins Camden and Cooper, play drums and bass like a steam-powered ocean liner. Singer/multi-instrumentalist AJ Griffin’s songs lean more toward Americana than Smith’s—plaintive, yearning, soaked in layers of soulful psychedelia. Umbrella Weather is the second release on Garden Gate, the psychedelic label operated by brother-sister team Craig Morris and Marci Schneider, wife of Robert Schneider, with input from the Apples (in stereo) leader. The album features cover art by W. Cullen Hart and Bill Doss (Olivia Tremor Control) and was engineered by Craig Morris in the Garden Gate studio, where much of the gear is hand-built by Morris himself.

Artist: Laminated Cat
Title: Umbrella Weather
Label: Garden Gate Records
Release: Available now

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Members of Vagina Panther become juicy, pulsating, gyrating crotch monsters in debut video.

Clip for “Dave, You Are Killing Me” provides a killer introduction to this white-hot guitar sludge band from Brooklyn. Listen, Watch & Re-Post!

“Dave, You Are Killing Me”: [MP3] http://tinyurl.com/vp-daveyouarekillingme

“Dave, You Are Killing Me”: [VIDEO] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK_0bG80vmU&fmt=22

Vagina Panther (VP if yer sensitive) is an illegal rock band from Brooklyn, New York. Illegal for sure in a world where Bon Scott, Glenn Danzig and GG Allin can’t wed one another, but should. In a world of end times where getting hammered and throwing a brick through a window is a righteous reaction to the ticking clock. It’s the Black Flag-Led-Zeppelin-Slayer-influenced sound of breaking laws born of cheap hooch and raw riffs. A band imagining Chrissie Hynde as an Asian ex-sex slave -- a woman-of-the-night surrounded by three burly white dudes flogging instruments -- the sonic equivalent of a gang bang. Vagina Panther is for all of the punks who got “real” jobs... and then realized they needed to BURN IT ALL DOWN.

See Vagina Panther live in NYC at Lit Lounge on Friday, September 25th

In that tradition, Vagina Panther recorded 11 tracks of white hot guitar sludge with producer/engineer Mario “J” McNulty (Ravonettes, Anti-Flag, David Bowie) at New York City’s infamous Looking Glass Studios right before it was shuttered. The band’s self-titled debut is made to be played LOUD and to disturb the neighbors. From the stoner pop of “Dave, You Are Killing Me” (MP3), to the garage rock sound of “So How We Gonna Do This?” and the anthemic closing track “Beast” this music is meant for the real, the raw and the reckless. Claiming influences such as signs written in poor English, bands that think they’re Jesus and fucked up train rides, Vagina Panther makes magic out of these touchstones. Vagina Panther is Dead June on vocals, Kit Days on Guitar, Johnathan Swass on Bass and Trent Good on Drums.

See the amazing new video for Vagina Panther’s “Dave, You Are Killing Me” HERE.

The new Vagina Panther video, “Dave You are Killing Me” (MP3 VIDEO) was conceived and directed by the reclusive New York directorial collective: Satan’s Pearl Horses (LINK). Shot over two months, in a magical closet at a Greenpoint, Brooklyn townhouse, the team used state of the art-tron robots to animate the video. “Dave, You’re Killing Me,” finds the band frolicking in an enchanted forest and through using the power of film, magic, mirrors, awesome, peace, war, love, hate, and stop-motion –their alter-egos come to life, turning the members of Vagina Panther into juicy, pulsating, dancing, gyrating crotch monsters. This is some serious shit.

Artist: Vagina Panther
Title: Vagina Panther
Label: Self-Released
Release: Nov. 3, 2009

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Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” gets a lush piano and cello cover by Los Angelino, HOLMES.

Also: video for sober breakup tune “Not With You” debuts; featured plant succumbs to special effects. Listen, Watch & Re-Post!

“Let’s Dance”: [MP3] http://tinyurl.com/holmes-letsdance

“Not With You”: [VIDEO] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juDHlzppdE4&fmt=22

“…humor, wistfulness and universality that would compare well with some of the best of Ben Folds or Beck.” - Los Angeles Times

If you go to the movies or watch TV, you've heard the music of Roy Shakked, who answers to the nickname of HOLMES. Heavily influenced by the standards (and that means The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Prince, ELO, Queen, and, OK, Harry Nilsson), it's not surprising that Hollywood has picked up on Roy’s tunes, placing them in programs and features such as CSI Miami, Sex and The City, The OC, Nip/Tuck, and The Devil Wears Prada.

Before all of that, Shakked graduated as a piano performance major from Berklee College of Music in Boston and later delved into heavy sequencing using synths and plug-ins, becoming an accomplished electronica producer and remixing classic tracks by Sarah Vaughan, Jimmy McGriff, McCoy Tyner and Carmen McRae. Shakked later made the move back to piano and band arrangements to write the HOLMES records.

The latest self-titled HOLMES album contains one of Shakked’s signature lush arrangements – this time for his cover of the David Bowie classic, “Let’s Dance” (MP3). Additionally, Shakked has completed the latest video from the album, for the sober breakup song, “Not With You” (VIDEO). The video documents a couple moving in together, breaking up and moving out – all in under three minutes. Half way through the clip, all of the couple’s actions up to that point reverse, leaving Shakked all alone in his house at the clip’s close. Shakked extends apologies to the plant that was killed over three days of still camera time-lapse capture.

Artist: Holmes
Title: Holmes
Label: Groove Gravy Records

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Ghana comes to Los Angeles – PJ Harvey and Peter Gabriel influence duo Divisible’s tribal afro-punk.

Grab new single “Everybody” now; Remix and Radiohead cover also available; L.A. release show soon!

“…smart, complex and catchy...” - LA Record
“…doesn’t have a bad song on it… fantastic.” - Berkeley Place

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“Everybody”: http://tinyurl.com/divisible-everybody

“Everybody (Public Remix)”: http://tinyurl.com/divisible-everybody-remix

Los Angeles-based band Divisible, consisting of singer Shola Akinshemoyin Vaughn and drummer Albert Sadia, is pleased to present its debut album Less Than Lion, a collection of songs (including a reinterpretation of Radiohead’s “Exit Music [For A Film]") (MP3),” that explores Shola’s journey from the halls of Harvard to a West African reconciliation with her father (who lives in Ghana) via a propulsive mixture of rock, electronica, and world music sounds.

See Divisible live when they celebrate the release of Less Than Lion with a performance in Los Angeles at Spaceland on September 14th.

Less Than Lion was produced by Tommy Walter (Eels) and mixed by Ryan Freeland (Aimee Mann, Loudon Wainwright III). Less Than Lion, is a blend of Peter Gabriel, PJ Harvey, and TV On The Radio-style sounds. It’s worldly, primal music that speaks to the band’s African ancestry.

Divisible – “Love Is The Cost”

“Love Is The Cost” (MP3): http://tinyurl.com/divisible-loveisthecost

“Love Is The Cost” (Video): http://tinyurl.com/divisible-loveisthecost-video

Artist: Divisible
Title: Less Than Lion
Label: Self-Released
Release: Out Now!

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San Francisco-based LGBT label, Queer Control Records, set to release new Pariah Piranha album this week.

Band’s People People produced by Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, They Might Be Giants, The Shondes); Features “thank you’s” for cover art.
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[MP3] “Green Rooms”: http://tinyurl.com/pariahpiranha-greenrooms

“...a sound you can’t put your finger on and can’t stop listening to.” - Curve Magazine

York, Pennsylvania-based band, Pariah Piranha is a product of the 90’s and will remain forever nostalgic. “When we were in high school, people called some music ‘alternative.’ It was a genre. It actually meant something. I think Pariah Piranha sounds like that,” says vocalist Tara Gordon. The chemistry between the three members of Pariah Piranha is obvious, and the dancing and hand claps will happen, whether you like it or not.

Pariah Piranha’s latest album People People, produced by Pere Ubu and They Might Be Giants bassist Tony Maimone, is set for release this week on September 1st, 2009. The record is the band’s latest for the San Francisco-based label Queer Control Records. Emerging from the Riot Grrl movement, the Queercore music scene, and DIY culture in general, Queer Control Records exists to promote lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and questioning musicians and artists.

As an additional show of solidarity among the Queer Control and Pariah Piranha families, the band has dedicated the cover art of People People to dedication itself, with the names of the band’s supporters covering the front and back of the album. Gordon explains, “Basically we are so grateful to our family and friends and everyone involved who made this/us possible that we decided to put our ‘thank you’s’ on the cover.”

Pariah Piranha Live:
09/12 Harrisburg, PA @ Lower Paxton Youth Center

09/26 Harrisburg, PA @ Appalachian Brewing Company

10/03 Lexington, KY @ Al’s Bar

10/10 Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery

Artist: Pariah Piranha
Title: People People
Label: Queer Control Records
Release: September 1st, 2009

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