Music

EPs below by the Fame (hereby recommended to people who miss .38 Special, the Babys, Rick Springfield, and Bedford girls) and the Mattoid have six short songs each, making classification easy; Eyeball Skeleton's has nine, so I had to resort to the old Pazz & Jop three-or-more-songs-in-under-25-minutes rule. (Additionally, two-thirds of the band is under 11 years old. Kids are fast!) As for Leatherface, at first I wondered why such chunky homely balding immobile lager lumpenproles crossing early Hüsker Dü and early Clash into hopeless titles like "Dead Industrial Atmosphere" would need a DVD, but the good-natured male-bonding visuals get less dreary as the louts in the crowd get drunker. First encore: "You Are My Sunshine." Second: "Hops & Barley."

In the tradition of OutKast and R. Kelly

A FRAMES
Black Forest
(Sub-Poppost-pigfuck electro-punk album)
Download "Experiment" (MP3)

BONA ROBA
Reach in and Get Her
(bonaroba.net hard rock album)
Download "The Slip" (MP3)

EYEBALL SKELETON
#1
(Mypalgod pre-pubescent electro-punk EP)
Download Sample (MP3)

THE FAME
Get on the Beat
(the-fame.com powerpop EP)
Download "Lost In You" (MP3)
Download "Get On The Beat" (MP3)
Download "Close To Me" (MP3)

HELLA
Church Gone Wild/Chirpin' Hard
(Suicide Squeeze psychedelic noise-punk double-disc album)
Download "We Was Just Boys, Living In A Dead Ass German Shepard" (MP3)
Download " Song From Uncle" (MP3)

THE HOLY GHOST
Welcome to Ignore Us
(Clearly post-punk hard rock album)
Download "Commercial" (MP3)
Downlaod "Graciana Ole" (MP3)

THE LAST VEGAS
Lick 'Em and Leave 'Em
(Get Hip hard rock album)
Download "You Want To Know How To Love Me" (MP3)
Download "She Won't Go" (MP3)

LEATHERFACE
Boat in the Smoke
(punkervision.net live hard rock DVD)
Preview DVD (Real or Windows Media)

MAHJONGG
Raydoncong 2005
(Cold Crush dubwise funk-oriented post-punk album)
Download Machinegong EP (MP3)

THE MATTOID
Eternifinity
(Cleft Music Euro-cheesed dance-rock singer-songwriter EP)

THE MATTOID
Hello
(Cleft Music Euro-cheesed dance-rock singer-songwriter album)
Download "Shiny Woman" (MP3)
Download "Blue Suede Shoes" (MP3)

THUNDERBIRDS ARE NOW!
Justamustache
(French Kiss electro-punk album)
Stream "Eat This City" (Quicktime)