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UPDATE: ENTRY CLOSES AT 4:00PM TODAY, 8/28

If you're in NYC you might wanna keep reading. If you're not, you could still keep reading, but I see no reason why you would. This Friday, 8/29, at the Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn, Neon Lights – a DIY concert night – will be hosting a show with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, My Teenage Stride, The Capstan Shafts, and The Beets. Now, I don't think I have to stress to you how awesome of a line-up that is. If you can make it, you should definitely make sure you show up! AND, if you want to go for FREE, leave your name and email in the comments! The winner, whom I'll be picking at random, will get two guest list spots for the show. Yeah!

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LISTEN TO IN INTERVIEW

If you do one thing today, it should be listening to IN INTERVIEW. These kids are from NYC and are pretty much my new favorite thing (now if I could just catch them live, like everyone else did last week, that would be nice). Not to belittle the band to just one petty description, but if you could imagine what the Young Marble Giants would've sounded like if they all drank more coffee and thought horns were a good idea (horns ARE a good idea, by the way). It's also important to note that they also put on quite a fantastic live show. Though they've been together since at least 2004, there haven't been any releases besides a showing on a Teenbeat sampler of that same year. As such, they're currently shopping around for a label, so somebody pick these guys up!!! I have no MP3s, so I urge urge urge you to go to their MySpace and listen the two tracks they have up – espeically "I'll Confess," which I must say, is the fucking jam.

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Tyvek live for Viva Radio

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. TYVEK ARE AWESOME. Here's Matt and Kevin playing "Future Junk" on guitar and a cardboard box in the middle of American Apparel for Viva Radio. The whole interview and the rest of the performance should be up at viva-radio.com soon. Also, I'd like to encourage you to go buy the shit out of their new 2x7" Summer Burns on NYC's What's Your Rupture?. BUY BUY BUY $$$ $$$ $$$

Okay, watch!

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A small wealth of things

There's several wonderful and interesting things to speak of lately. The first of which involves Tyvek. After waiting and hoping and waiting and hoping, NYC's What's Your Rupture? -- the 2nd greatest label in the U.S. right now -- will be releasing Tyvek's Summer Burns, a four track 2x7"(!), on July 31st. I've mentioned my love for Tyvek a slight bit before, and I'll say it again, I LOVE TYVEK. If you're a fan of dirty distorted treble heavy guitars and simple fast-paced drums, then you'll probably love them, too. Think, perhaps, of a slightly wilder, Detroit-bred Television Personalities. Everything they've put out is mostly sold out, so if I were you, I'd jump on this one pretty fast. There's preorders up for the UK at Rough Trade, and you can also grab it digitally at iTunes RIGHT NOW if that's your thing. No U.S. preorder yet, which is kinda strange, but I'd imagine there will be one soon enough.

Summer Burns Tracklist:
01 Needles Drop
02 Frustration Rock
03 Give It Up
04 Air Conditioner

[MP3]: Tyvek :: Frustration Rock (Highly Recommended!)

In other What's Your Rupture? news, they'll be putting out a new Comet Gain 7" in September, apparently preceding a comp that WYR? will also release relatively soon after. More new WYR? stuff on the way from Fucked Up and Think About Life, too, but more about that later.

Onto Baltimore -- well, mostly. Australia/Baltimore's The Death Set have just put out a new EP titled Rad Warehouses Bad Neighbourhoods (which you can buy, here)and will be touring around the U.S. with Baltmore-based art punks Ponytail.
The Death Set, whom I've been pretty obsessed with as of late, play dancey noisepop with two guitars, a drum machine, and various samples. Their live show's amazing and they seem to have endless amounts of energy. Here's a track from their Intermission 7" released on Modular last year. Buy some stuff at a show, or here.

[MP3]: The Death Set :: Intermission (Highly Recommended!)

The only band I can think with possibly more enrgy would be Ponytail. I can confidently say that I've never danced harder in my life than when I saw these guys (and gal) play. They're basically always in double-time and vocalist Molly Siegel is probably the coolest frontwomen in the world right now. If you don't believe me then watch this. Videos can't compare to seeing them though, so if they're coming through you're town MAKE DAMN SURE YOU DO NOT MISS EITHER OF THEM. Listen to some songs on MySpace and, if you want to, buy their record here.

Okay, I think that's it for now. Enjoy your Friday!

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