Just Doing Our Job #3

Went to a great show a couple weeks ago to see Screamin' Cyn Cyn and the Pons, a band I talk about entirely too much on this site. Being the headliners, they picked the openers, and thankfully brought Santa Cruz noise-rock collective, The New Thrill Parade into town for what ended up being one of the best sets I've seen in quite a while. Since I'm still trying to process the oddness I witnessed that night, The New Thrill Parade is the focus of this installment of Transmissions From Wintermute's Just Doing Out Job.

After expressing my love to extremely friendly drummer DeSanto, he gave me a free CD and coloring book and told me it was cool to post Thrill Parade songs on our site. I thanked him for the coloring book, but he doesn't have to thank me for the world wide prestige and impenetrable street cred this post will bring. Why? Because we're just doing our jobs. Off their newest release, 2006's Universal Shame, here are four tracks of brooding, pounding, spazzed out art-rock. Yes. Thank you California.

Buy this ablum or their first EP HERE.

Ululations - The New Thrill Parade

The Ostrich - The New Thrill Parade

Body Ship - The New Thrill Parade

No Flowers - The New Thrill Parade

More tracks available on their SITE and MYSPACE.

Making music that one can sit back and take in as a challenging piece of conceptual and sonic art, or rock out to, beating their fists and thrashing their heads in a sweaty mass on the floor is no small feat. But Thrill Parade walks this line confidently, gracefully side-stepping the usual pitfalls of experimental music. Borrow someone's van and drive out to northern California to check out a show sometime.

And here for good measure is a track by Madison's shoegazers-extrodinaire, The Bracelets, off a Sector Five Records compilation:

Future Be Mine - The Bracelets

Just Doing Our Job #2

As ohmygodimmike made clear in his first addition to Transmissions From Wintermute’s series Just Doing Our Job, there’s more to being a famous music blogger than tons of free sex and drugs. Underneath the decadent allure of meth-fueled late-night hot-tub trysts with indie rock idols and superstar bloggers, there is a great responsibility, a sacred promise if you will. And that is to post excellent smaller bands who are on the verge of blowing up, because, obviously, exposure in our tiny and insignificant corner of le blogosphere (to borrow a phrase from Tom Sutpen) will be the deciding factor in their now certain rise to massive international fame. And they don‘t even have to thank us...because we’re just doing our job.

Screamin’ Cyn Cyn and the Pons are, with maybe one exception, my favorite band in the great city of Madison Wisconsin. I recently ran into their lead singer, Shane O’Neil, at a local roller rink, for the Mad Rollin’ Dolls championship roller derby bout. He was wearing suspenders (not dressed in drag as he often is on stage) and I was buying fried cheese sticks. No one knew that he was a famous rock star except me, and no one knew that I was a famous blogger, because I am not. But at the end of our conversation, he told me that we could post as many of his songs on our site as we wanted. So that’s what I’m going to do right now.

Here are three tracks off their newest release, Screamin Target Heart Rate and my all-time favorite 8th Grade, off their most excellent debut Babysit.

Slumber Party

Garbage Day

Jimmy & Darlene

8th Grade

The new album is great, buy it HERE from Crustacean Records. You can listen to more tracks here at their myspace.

Just Doing My Job

I guess my job as a music blogger is to help people find out about new music... and since we have such a glorious readership these new bands will inevetably become famous. They may not realize it was because we posted them on Transmissions from Wintermute but that's o.k. We're just doing our job.

Todays lucky band is my friends sisters band hailing from Minneapolis Minnesota. There Name is Digitata. Here is their Myspace Page

This band is cool. They have tracks with names such as "Oscar Wilde Breakdown" and "Bangin' Jessica Alba". However their fame will certainly be a result of being featured on Transmissions from Wintermute

They have lots of indie friends too, who are on what I believe is a record label called Totally Gross National Product.

This label features bands with cool names such as Mel Gibson and the Pants and Building better bombs, who share members with Digitata.

One of there better known friends is Punk/Rapper P.O.S. (Building Better Bombs is actually his side project as well)
Who is trying to follow in Atmosphere's path of genious into fame and glory (I heard somewhere that Atmosphere has the largest female following (By %) as any other musical group on the planet), and will inevitably succeed because of the help of Transmissions from Wintermute

Back to topic...I will be posting a Digitata track from their first release Sexually Trasmitted Emotions, I happen to know they have a new album coming out as soon as it is finalized, if it isn't already. My friend wouldn't let me burn their new album since it was hijacked off his sister's hard-drive, and I guess I'm not privy to such things, even though I'm a famous blogger.

Digitata - Any Way You Work It