The Great Pop Supplement - 2 New ones!

This is a hard decision, these two new 7"'s have just become available from the Great Pop Supplement. I am such a huge fan of Dom's releases... they are art, the packaging, everything made by hand, and amazing music.
But it would be around $25 for both of these, and after seeing MV + EE at the Knitting Factory a few weeks ago, they were pretty much the worst thing I have ever heard. Not just the style, vocally... lyrically, they were just terrible. I want to give them another chance, they might be completely different recorded, they could have had an off night. I've heard a lot about them recently, I want it to work out. They are on ecstatic peace for god's sake.
These records will be so worth it, I will probably end up getting them anyway, I'm practically talking myself into it. I love the great pop supplement and trust the stuff Dom is putting together.
There's really no other way to get this stuff and you feel really privileged just to be a part of it.

TGPS is releasing a James Blackshaw 7" sometime this year, and I'm saving my $ for that....I think.


GPS21 MV + EE (Matt Valentine) "Black Man Joe"
2 specially recorded, smoked out blues with wondrous erika elder vocal and refrained geetar genius from mv. the b side blazes the stoned out mv+ee sound further. late night fireside / porch epics with byron coley sleevenotes, 500 only. one of 2 GPS mv+ee 45s this year and incredibly, a first outright uk release...

GPS25 TRANKO "Neko 77"
formidable debut from Japanese psych band. two whacked out sitar / moog jams like some holy acid mothers / popol vuh jam with ananda shankar at the controls. incredible blissed out, cosmic kraut madness all wrapped up in amazing circular indian art sleeves, 300 only on 7" wax.

prices are £3.99 each, or £9.50 for both including post within the uk.
or £10 for both incl. post into europe
or £11.25 for both incl. airmail elsewhere in the world.
usual thing of PAYPAL best please....

BARR on Kill Rock Stars

This was on Kill Rock Stars and basically you can trust anything on this label. I always wonder what it must have been like to have elliott smith be nominated for 'miss misery' for goodwill hunting, and dealing with that as a label, as an artist. It was crazy to think a smaller indie rock label like that could be nominated for an oscar. I remember watching that performance, his white suit. I never really watched the oscars especially the music performance part it's like the grammy's. It's so fucking irrelevant, who cares, it's off my radar, who really watches it? When did rolling stone magazine and the grammy's go so fucking wrong and for that matter whose more irrelelvant and pointless. I nominate the grammy's. At least the oscars have been acknowledging interesting things that are happening in film, they have a wildcard pick or at least some miniscule quality. The grammy's are at least 10 years behind what is happening, they are too busy giving awards to acts that finally aren't considered dangerous, alice cooper, ozzy.
Anyway I wasn't sure what I thought of this except that it reminded me of jeffrey lewis and his 'don't let the record company take you out to lunch'. That kind of folk/talk, 'I don't sing' thing. I don't know if it's just the track on the site, or that's his style, but it was enough to get me interested, and I liked the his site also. I'm beginning to give props to people that don't have amyspace page. What the fuck, aren't we supposed to be individuals? With unique websites at least? Just act like you are trying. Post some mp3's there. I mean is it over yet?
but go listen to this track, it's really grown on me.

It's on kill rock stars, here's the link. Or at this place.
BARR - s/t 7" $4.25

1st pressing of 500. Black vinyl. 2 songs. No artwork on purpose.

The Great pop supplement has graciously sent me some of their releases to review and I hope to get to them this week. The washington phillips seven inch is really incredible and I plan on ordering all future releases from this amazing seven inch treasure.