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A A A Comments By Chuck Eddy Tuesday, Nov 23 2004

Prediction: The eight more hipster-oriented units whose current releases are among those happily hyped below may well have a hard time supporting such proudly post-graduate artfuck endeavors through four long years of the ownership society. The three more suburban-oriented and hence Clear Channel–ready bands (whose records are almost as interesting, though you'd never know it unless you live on Staten Island or in Jersey) may well survive longer, but only if they buy big houses, attend church every Sunday, and invest heavily in the evangelical stock market. None of which is to suggest that any of them should consider risking their day jobs. Though I sure wish they all could.

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COACHWHIPS
Peanut Butter and Jelly Live at the Ginger Minge
(Narnack no-wave garage-punk EP)
Coachwhips at narnackrecords.com
"Hey Fanny" (MP3)

DIRTY HALO
"Think Dirty" (EP) Pt. 1
(Indecent Media bubblegum industrial-rock EP)
indecentmedia.com/dirtyhalo.htm
"Burn" (Real Audio clip)
"Check It" (Real Audio clip)
"Deal With It" (Real Audio clip)
"Teenage Wasteland" (Real Audio clip)
"Forever & A Day" (Real Audio clip)

ZACH HILL & THE HOLY SMOKES
Masculine Drugs
(Suicide Squeeze neo-no-wave noise-rock album with 138-page paperback abstract-art book attached)
suicidesqueeze.net
"Royal Jelly/Maybe Another Lover" (MP3)

LOST SOUNDS
Future Touch
(In the Red post-punk electro-garage EP)
lostsounds.net

LOST SOUNDS
Lost Sounds
(In the Red post-punk electro-garage album)
lostsounds.net

MASTERLAST
Think of the Day
(masterlast.com bubble-industrial gnu-metal EP)

MATMOS
"On and On"
(Ache import 7-inch avant-drumline drone-disco vinyl single)
brainwashed.com/matmos

MELTED MEN
Smoke Alarm Limbo
(Pink Sock 7-inch dance-oriented avant-punk vinyl EP)
meltedmen.com
pinksockrecords.com
"Sticky Frog" (MP3)

ONE TRUE THING
Finally . . .
(Play the Assassin bubble-gothsap-metal mall-rock album)
onetruething.net

SAUNA KINGS
Waiting for the Sun
(Pink Sock glitch-rock album)
Sauna Kings at pinksockrecords.com
"Waiting for the Sun" (MP3)

THE SOFT PINK TRUTH
Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth?
(Tigerbeat6 glitch-punk covers-of-old-hardcore-chestnuts album)
brainwashed.com/spt

WATCHERS
Dunes Phase
(Gern Blandsten dance-oriented new wave dub-rock EP)
watchersmusic.com
gernblandsten.com

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