Girl Talk Has Just Released Feed The Animals, But Who Cares Because Guns N Roses' Chinese Democracy Has Leaked!

By Mr P on

The time has come! As we reported earlier this week (TMT News), Girl Talk has adopted the pay-what-you-want model for his new album, Feed The Animals, and it is now available at Illegal Art's website here.

Depending on the amount you input, you get several different options, including high-quality 320kbps MP3s, FLAC files (at the $5+ level), or on physical CD ($10+, with MP3s or FLAC), which is set for release September 23. You can also get the album as one continuous mix, which is how Girl Talk wants you to hear it. (But don't let him bully you into it. You're your own person, remember that.) Strangely, however, you are given the option to download the album before you even make the official payment (via PayPal), which is either Girl Talk testing your morality or because the programmer couldn't figure out the coding.

I paid $5, but here's what happens if you input $0:

I have opted to pay $0.00 because:

- I may donate later
- I can't afford to pay
- I don't really like Girl Talk
- I don't believe in paying for music
- I have already purchased this album
- I don't value music made from sampling
- I am part of the press, radio, or music industry
- Other reasons

Feed The Animals tracklist:

Now forget everything I just said, because nine supposedly mastered tracks from Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy have leaked! The original link has been taken down, but -- not that I'm encouraging it necessarily -- you can P2P or torrent the tracks fairly easily. As the saying goes: Why not ruin 17 years of waiting for downloaded tracks that may or may not be mastered or even on the album? I think Confucius said that.

Let Epsilon Be Less Than Zero: Don Caballero to Release Punkgasm, Tour with Ponytail

By Mr P on 06-19-2008

I have a hunch that the members of Don Caballero -- who could out-math pretty much any band out there -- were originally lumberjacks. I mean, let's face it: lumberjacks make good math rock musicians because of their natural logarithms. They definitely weren't just math students all their lives -- hell, most math students think General Calculus is a famous war hero! (Though, if General Calculus actually did exist, he probably knew how to integrate his troops together and differentiate between his enemies and his allies.)

Anyway, Don Caballero have recently announced details for their wow-that-was-quick, I-barely-noticed, that's-awesome-they're-still-around seventh album, Punkgasm. Recorded in Michigan with Al Sutton (no relation to JoMarie Sutton but possibly the long-lost cousin of Kasey Majorowicz), the album is set for release August 25 on Relapse Records (not sure about the North American release yet). Damon Che (drums/mastermind), Eugene Doyle (guitar), and Jason Jouver (bass) were kind enough to/coerced into sending the underlying equation for track "The Irrespective Dick Area," just for you incorrigible TMT readers:

Note the "pun" in Punkgasm tracklist:

* Ponytail

$ An Albatross

The Broken West Get Homesick, Release Sophomore LP This Fall

By Nobodaddy on 06-18-2008

Okay, maybe it's just me on this one, but after you appropriate some Samuel Beckett action for the title of your debut LP (in this case, The Broken West's minor wave-maker I Can't Go On, I'll Go On released in early 2007 via Merge), you've really gotta throw-down big time with the weightiness of the ol' sophomore effort. Right?

...Or, you could just chill in your backyard and write another record in between alternating rounds of sinking brews and sinking bean bags, I guess! Because that's just what the LA indie-pop quartet went and did with their second (and infinitely less cleverly-titled) LP, Now or Heaven. Well, figuratively, at least. Says the band's press release:

While many bands' second albums end up being about the road, Now or Heaven originates from home, the longing to get there, and all that comes from being there. The perspective generated from time spent on the road and the distance traveled led to a new, unnamable development.

In other words, there are a lot of songs written from Dorothy Gale's post-Oz point-of-view on this record. I don't really see their cover of "Over the Rainbow" on the tracklisting though. Hmmm...

Anyway, this new batch of homebody backyard barbecue jams will see release September 9 of this year via the wonderful wizard of Merge and will be preceded by a smattering of shows along the West Coast (staying close to home, you know) and one lone summer festival date, after which any band that hates the road this much will presumably breakup and start a co-op farm or something. Ziiing!

Goodnight, everybody!

There's no place like home:

The Ruby Suns May Not Have Written Their Own Songs, Tour

By Mr P on 06-18-2008

- The Ruby Suns
- Sub Pop
- Lil' Chief Records
- Memphis Industries

Dizzee Rascal adds more dates to tour, Grime beats to inevitably be appropriated by imitators, Me to later cover the tourdates of those imitators and probably say something underhandedly ironic, Me to probably end up alone in a series of transitory moments re-contextualizing personal and professional moments of underhanded irony

By AJ Pacitti on 06-18-2008

Tiny Mix Tapes does not endorse Secret Clinical Strength, jarring camera angles, or AOL.

For When Da’ G’s Need to Sweat, tourdates:

It’s Never to Early to Release the Bats! Shellac, Pissed Jeans, and More at Yet Another ATP-Sponsored Event

By Liz Louche on 06-18-2008

Ahhh yes. It is coming. I can feel it on the wind. I can read about it on the internet. That most special time of the year, Halloween, is on its way. In only four-and-a-half short months, you and I can celebrate all things dark, spooky, and named in honor of a Birthday Party song. Specifically, we can do this at ATP's now annual Release the Bats concert in London. While the lineup may not exactly be creepy/kooky/altogether ooky, it's still a pretty damn sweet roster, and if I remember last year correctly, a great excuse to make eyes at sexy, younger English boys in tight jeans and Robert Smith hair.

Festivities go down at The Forum in Kentish Town (north London), and ATP encourages attendees to dress up in spooky, Halloween-y costumes, or in outfits somehow related to the participating bands. Imagine the conceptual delight you will find in dressing as Shellac! Or Wooden Shjips, Om, Pissed Jeans, DJ Andy Weatherall, or the promised "very special guest." Note: I am guessing the special guest is not a sexy nurse, sexy cheerleader, or sexy teacher, so please plan your costume choices accordingly.

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