Be Your Own Pet 4x7"

Be Your Own Pet's new album Get Awkward on Ecstatic Peace is due out soon, I've been listening to some of their new tracks on myspace it sounds like they are even more hyped up and produced, it's a little too bad, I like ho ridiculous they are singing about food fights and turning 21, but a little of the garage feel is lost. I could see this in every high school ipod and rocking it in the car on the way to school, in the parking lot.
I'll enjoy it for a month or so like the other one, I just don't know how much I'll revisit it. Maybe I'm expecting too much, it's silly, rocking, and they might be marketed with this one to break through as the new safe punk rock or something.
They do love the singles though and I'm all for that.

4 New singles from their new album:
Super Soaked
The Kelly Affair
Food fight
black hole
1500 of each

My single of the week would just have to be 'Super Soaked' by the increasingly unhinged Be Your Own Pet . Kind of cynically overlooked by many a couple of years ago due to a bit of a junior Yeah Yeah Yeahs vibe emanating from this quartet, the stage is now, however, set for them to destroy 2008. It's an adrenalised, amped up punk racket business that motors into your head like an unholy cross between Blondie & Boss Hog on steroids. Yes, if you thought the debut LP was a bit of a saucy revved-up beast of juvenile-core then these new babies are gonna pin you to the wall! The flip 'Blow yr Mind' is a flat out grinding speed punk squall that pips 'Let's get Sandy' for supersonic mosh-tasticness. Fuckin' A is the words what is required 'ere mefinks. This is 1 of 4 limited 7"s (Jemima's on this baby) to be released in the next two weeks so..ahem...collect them all! Wowsers!

from Norman records or HMV UK

Another podcast, this one is pretty short at 9 minutes, I played both sides of Catpowers Nude as the News and talk about it.

Mika Miko

I am in desparate need of this sound lately. Not just shitty dime a dozen punk rock seven inches that I throw out by the boxfull, but something that borders on no wave or electro-something. Thanks to that book by Simon Reynolds 'Rip it up and start again 1978-1984' I've rediscovered the slits, though I could do without the reggae inspiration, or later hippie years essentially, Mika Miko is all of that sped thru 20 years of punk rock and then shot out the other side into great garage-punk.
I am all for this authentic back to basics sound. Everything down to the vocals just feels recorded right in the right space. Like Be Your Own Pet played in the garage and you brought a shitty tape recorder. Perfect.
I think it's weird to call this Punk. I think something can be punk in attitude and not really sound to me at all like Punk. Between this book and Real Punks don't wear Black I'm finding it important to really nail down these definitions, even though they are changing and I like abandoning the previous categories or using them in a fucked up prose way.
Anyway, to me this isn't 'Punk'

They have a seven inch on Post Present Medium records, for like $6

Wikipedia says:
5 women from LA play seriously fun punk music. "Mika Miko is an underground youth punk/noise band formed in 2003 in Los Angeles. They gained local popularity for their frenetic live performances which emulate being at a party and often take place at parties. They often play at The Smell, an all-ages venue in Los Angeles, where they are also volunteers.