UPDATES FROM THE ROAD: THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION

FTW RACHEL FROM WESTERN CIVILIZATION IS SO HOT. HOLY HANDBAGS BY MONICA SHE IS EPIC! LOOK AT HER PLAYING THE MANDOLIN, LOOK! GREAT FRANCHISE OF BOND WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE CARVE HER IMAGE INTO MARBLE AND PUT IT IN THE LOBBY OF A BANK BECAUSE SHE COULD END THE MORTGAGE CRISIS AND CREDIT CRUNCH WITH ALL THAT VENUS. OK, WE GIVE, IT'S PARTLY 'CAUSE SHE WORKS WITH LEVI @ GUITAR CENTER.

But in other Western Civilization news, the fine fivesome has been on the road for a few weeks in support of high gas prices and their still perterbidly underappreciated and self-titled and debut and other adjectives LP. We got an update from Reggie, HE WHO SINGS AND STRUMS AND PRODUCES (including the WHPIS OF RACHEL debut Buxton LP, actually, which we will get around to review sometime between now and 2015), and we thought we would pass some highlight on:

Pretty much the whole first week was cursed with empty shows and no money to speak of. $90 stops at the gas station were not exactly helping moral at that point either. The fist show was in Baton Rouge, LA where we played with a band from Baltimore and no local band at all. Despite two blogs supporting the show and a radio interview there was still only about 10 people at the show (counting the other band). Birmingham saw us play with a blues band and a jam band. Atlanta was an acoustic show where we played to the other band and their girlfriends. There was an uplifting night in Greenville, SC where we came across the nicest club owner on planet earth at The Gypsy. We were payed $200, fed dinner, and given free drinks. Bless that man. Mostly empty shows in Asheville, Greensboro, and Chapel Hill, NC. Despite the disappointing shows of week one, we still met some pretty awesome people. We also got to revisit friends that we made randomly last time around. It is a really cool feeling to be able to revisit all of these amazing people. No matter how small the crowds have been, we have always been well received.

Oh damn dude. We almost didn't want to read anymore. Oh word, things turn a corner?

Things finally started to turn around in Greenville, NC when we played at a little know gem called the Spazzatorium Galleria. This really felt like the first show of the tour for us. You can tell when people are genuinely interested and excited to be at a show and we felt it in full force that night. People danced, sang, yelled, drank, fell down, lost clothing. The after party lasted until dawn. It was everything that a night on tour should be. Congratulations once again Greenville, NC on one uping every major city in the eastern U.S. with your pure awesomeness. The next night we played a house party for a bunch of cool kids in Fredericksburg, VA. There was a problematic college radio performance in Philly (they couldn't get half of their mics to work). The show that night was alright. Philly is dirty.

Philly only really got dirty since Brian McManus moved there. We miss that dude. Oh yeah, back to the East Coast - NYC! MAKE IT HERE, YOU CAN MAKE IT SOME OTHER NON-HOUSTON PLACES!

April 17th was our NYC debut at Piano's. There were actually a lot of people there. With the exception of a couple of technical difficulties with the P.A. during our set, everything went really well. We got lots of compliments. So far the comical highlight of the tour happened before our set that night outside the venue. There was a really corporate sounding local rap rock diva by the name of "Krista" that had a set in front of a bunch of industry invitees to kick off the show. After her set we were standing outside while she was being interviewed by some people from the Pandora site. Our friend Eric, in protest of her awfulness, pulled his balls out and nonchalantly stood behind her in view of the camera while pretending to talk on his cell phone.

This is funny because one evening Shawn Adolph (Fatal Flying Guilloteens) was watching the Western Civilization do a sound check, and he commented that he didn't think he could ever be into a band that had to check levels on a xylophone, yet i think this is a prank he would be proud of. Give em a chance, roomie.

The WC will be on the road until May 3rd, and after that will have a month off from shows until something decidedly wicked at Roc Bar on June 12th. Does your band tour? Why aren't you sending us your updates?

Photo by Jack Potts

GLITTERATI: SCENE IN LOUISIANA

Greetings from Old San Antonio, a city whose spirit and penchant for oil and gas conventions has kept the entire Skyline Network staff (including intern Skippy) more than a little busy for the past few days. But as we sit in our corner suite and ponder the pros and cons of meandering down to the Riverwalk for more most extremely exclusive VIP dayjob-related activities, we wanted to check in and let you know that we're doing alright here. Indeed, over our past few trips here, we've become rather attached to the 210, and can even now forgive one-time Noise and Smoke maven Liz Molina for making it her home.

BUT SPEAKING OF NOISE AND SMOKE! Was it only a week ago that the Skyline Caravan of Anti-Tears pointed its extremely fuel efficient nose East on I10 to the most recent home of that other particularly noisy/smoky organizer, New Orlean's own Mr. Promahoney? It was! For a wedding of afternoon delight in the Garden District no less! We were there, and so too was so many of those who make Houston so beautiful. OBSERVE:


Even before making it to New Orleans, we run into Judas Bear, on their second day of tour, in the middle of nowhere.


Mlee Marie (Hearts of Animals) rode in the Skyline Stretch Hybrid Hummerzine and knows that beef jerky = NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM.


Bret Shirley (Black Congress) and Tony Balls (The Ka-Nives) know weddings are SERIOUS BUSINESS.


Tony and Will (The Ka-Nives) hold court at Montrose in Exile aka Igor's in the Garden District


benjamindavismurphy (Bright Men of Learning) takes advantage of Louisiana's loose in-car alcohol laws and bowling-pin shaped bottles on the drive back (photo by Carrie Murphy).


BONUS SHOT: This beloved ghettoblaster, formerly a member of Mike McBike's epic GHETTOBLASTER, has moved on from its rock-star seed-sewing to a more pedestrian life as the official TGS-NOPEC job box jam box, and has made our long San Antonio days much shorter.

ANNOUNCING: RETURN OF THE HOOTENANNY!!!

YUSSS! ALL HAIL! NEW KING IN TOWN! YUSSS! We had such a good time putting on the Hootenany! YOU had such a good time going to the first Hootenanny (those of you who could get in, that is)! THE BANDS had such a good time playing the Hootenanny! Look at that! That's three good times in three sentences! YOU KNOW WE MUST DO IT AGAIN! Therefore, The Skyline Network, is annihilated to announce HOOTENANNY II: TWOTENANNY!

Ladies and Gentleman, Mark your calendars: July 26th is your next date with destiny.

For those that don't remember or, sadly, were not aware, the Hootenanny had some of Houston's finest playing sets as some of their favorite bands. That first go-around packed the Mink's backroom beyond capacity with Indian Jewelry as Depeche Mode, Awesome! as Weezer, Blades as Foo Fighters, The Mathletes as the Talking Heads, Something Fierce as The Clash, The Young Mammals as the Pixies, The Jonx as Nomeansno, Panic in Detroit as Jawbox, Papermoons as Pedro the Lion and John Sears as Sam Cooke. LOOK AT THAT LINEUP, LOOK!

The Skyline Network's crack A&R attorneys are, at this very moment, in negotiations to bring some of the 713's TOP TALENT back to the Backroom, so keep it tuned here for announcements on bands. But in the meantime, we have the DOUBLEMINT pleasure of being able to also announce, tentatively, two of the scheduled acts. Ladies and Gentlemen, put on a helmet, because you're about to freak out and run into a wall without putting your hands up:

The Ka-Nives as The Lemonheads
Flowers to Hide as The Cure

omg omg omg omg omg omg. More to follow.

PARTS AND LABOR HEADLINE KTRU OUTDOOR SHOW!

MAN OH MAN! As if the Westheimer Block Party on Saturday wasn't enough, your weekend also includes a TOTALLY ACES TOTALLY FREE TOTALLY OUTDOOR show Sunday at Rice. Yep, the best radio station in the city not called Jack FM or Classic Country Hits has put together a winning way to let the day of rest slip away. WE LOVE SLIPPING! The whole thing gets started on IM Fields 2/3 (huh?) at noon (with some kids music - so sleep in) and includes not only a performance by the ever child-frightening and SKYLINE APPROVED Balaclavas, but with touring friends-of-scene, Parts and Labor atop the pile! See - when we said last time they swung through the 713 that we would get another chance to see them soon, we weren't joking. Oh wait, we're going to be out of town. LINEUP, FIRST TO LAST:

Rachel Buchman
Taylor/Dove/Cogburn Trio
Social Insects
:::KAI/ROS:::
Balaclavas
Nosaprise
Dead PA
PARTS AND LABOR

So take a picknet blanket, as many hot dog buns as you can throw in a Bring Back the Guns set, and don't forget your sunscreen. For somewhat more information, check out KTRU's website. HOT!

UPDATE: FREE BEER! DOLLAR BURGERS! DIRECTIONS! Click Here.

Photo of Parts and Labor by Tod Seelie

WESTHEIMER BLOCK PARTY PRIMER! YUSS!

We were on the elevator earlier today, and this all-class/no-flash woman that we know said "You know, this is supposed to be one of the nicest weekends of the year." WE TOTALLY AGREE! Of course, she was talking about the weather, but we were talking about none other than the Free Press' most insanely WHIPS spring festival, the Westheimer Block Party. Even though last year's event was pretty much the greatest single afternoon of music we were able to take in all year, especially on the see-new-things tip, we have to say that last year's lineup PALES like our own legs in comparison. It's phenomenal. And, we love the fact that it's being tied into a paid show for a touring matchup at Numbers later in the evening (with ...trail of the dead and ONFIRE it-kids HEALTH).

You can get all the details, including a complete band list and schedule from the Free Press itself, but for our dollars (and, oh yeah, except the evening show this is a free thing - so i guess our talk is cheap), here's how you should spend your time. We've broken it up into some of our favorite bands who you absolute must have seen by this point in your lives or we're completely having no effect on you, along with some relative unknowns (to us) that we recommends purely on the strength of whatever recording we find on them. Sketchy? If it weren't for that logic, we never would have discovered Sabra Laval, the Generic Tribe or the Riff Tiffs last year. FREE YOUR MIND!

NOON
SOMETHING NEW: Kam (Numbers Outside) chell soul to get your day started. Also, fans of countrified indie would do well to check out The Literary Greats (Numbers Inside)

12:45
SOMETHING NEW: Generation Landslide (Numbers Inside) an interesting take on Powerpop vs early REM.

1:30
GREATEST HITS: American Sharks (Numbers Outisde), Antarctica Starts Here (Avante Garden Upstairs
SOMETHING NEW: News on the March (Avante Garden Outside) - Western indie folk swing versus The Byrds

2:15
GREATEST HITS: Dunnock's Ill Advisory (Avante Garden Outside)
SOMETHING NEW: Perseph1 (Numbers Outside) - chell hip hop is a refreshing trip outside Houston rap as usual

3:00
GREATEST HITS: Basses Loaded (Numbers Outside), Buxton (Avante Garden Outside)
SOMETHING NEW: Lovie (Mangos Outside) - crunchy all-girl pop bliss from Dallas

3:45
GREATEST HITS/SOMETHING NEW: Piano Vines (3:45) - sorry all other bands playing at this time, we're totally stoked on this band and want everyone to check them out

4:30
SOMETHING NEW: Run back and forth between the folk pop of the Wild Moccasins (Mangos Outside) and the garage punk of The Takes (Mangos Inside). 90s Austinites might want to check out Death Hell Battle Tank (Avante Garden Upstairs), a new band from Russ of the Fuckemos.

5:15
SOMETHING NEW: Electric Touch (Numbers Outside) - This Austin band is playing Lollapalooza. And Cochella. Might want to check them out, ya know, for free in a parking lot.

6:00
GREATEST HITS: If you still haven't seen Papermoons, stop reading. Go see them now (Avante Garden Outside). B (Numbers Inside) and Dead Roses (Avante Garden Upstairs) always bring the good times as well.

6:45
GREATEST HITS: O Pioneers!!! (Avante Garden Outside)
SOMETHING NEW: Lisa's Sons (Numbers Outside) a fresh breeze of electro pop with lemonade dressing

7:30
GREATEST HITS: Satin Hooks (Mango's Inside)
SOMETHING NEW: The Holly Hall (Avante Garden Outside) This is Elaine Greer's band. Championship

8:15
GREATEST HITS: Rusted Shut (Mangos Outside), Sabra Laval (Avante Garden Outside) - we feel totally bad for Sabra, having to play her quiet composed spookout shuffles less than 100 feet from a band that prides itself on volume.

And of course, don't forget, 8pm doors for the big show at numbers, featuring By The End of Tonight, Young Mammals, Spain Colored Orange, HEALTH and ...and You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead. What kickassedness. Damn. We're totally gonna be out of town. SO PLEASE TAKE PICS! AND SHARE! WE WISH WE WERE THERE!

THE UNTHINKABLE NANCY BROWN RETURNS

Some people really don’t get Nancy Brown. People we respect too; people who’s taste and judgment we value, who we admire and frankly would like to be more like. And we understand. Between the goofball glasses (not pictured), penchant for the Arrested Development shades of the spectrum (from when George Michael was a star, not the show with George Michael) and the whole leave this city for Brooklyn thing, we can see how folks might stop at three strikes and walk away. But we’ve always been fans, so please indulge us a few moments as we make the case for you to spend your evening listening to the sounds of one of our most favorite non-bearded prodigal sons.

The last time we checked in with Nancy Brown, she was doing her final 713 standup show opening for Bright Back the Guns, and the clock before her departure was ticking down. Now that she’s jumped her seventh-generation Texan ship for more Yankee (or Mets – she strikes us as a Mets fan) pastures, she seems to have found a strong fondness for the land beyond the Mason Dixon, and has taken to singing Southern Gothic ballads under the name The Dead of Night. Straight from the chain-gang, and without accompaniment, Brown's new onstage repertoire is anything but funny. Frankly, it kinda creeps us out and makes us hope she’s doing ok in the Rorschach department.

But, despite this new side we weren’t really expecting, there’s something definitely beautiful about her music, like the way an amaryllis gracefully closes itself and falls to the dirt after just a week of bloom. It calls to us, and we can’t quite shake it, though it might give us nightmares later.

It’s good, then, that she’s playing tonight with fellow creeker of the timber Sabra Laval (also on the Notsuoh bill is Cory Derden). Recommended. (And come home for good soon, Texas misses you.)

Stream: The Dead of Night - Various Tracks

ATTN THIS WEEKEND: YOU ARE IT FOREVER

OH MAN! This is like the last weekend until forever (May) that the most extreme party call me staff of your most you-loving Skyline Network will be in town to join in the general abatement of care, concern and clock-watching that is the final 48. SO – LETS GET RIGHT TO IT!

FRIDAY
Alarma!!, Be My Doppleganger and Something Fierce @ Starbucks
Billed as the “Show at the End of the Universe,” this 5pm happy hour NEXT LEVEL DESTROYER OF ALL takes place at the Starbucks across from the Starbucks on the corner of Shepard and West Gray (though we don’t know which one). Matt Brownlie says it sounds like a Wesley Willis song. It’s said to include hamburgers and hot dogs and is totally free. Don’t blow it.

Also:
Xiu Xiu @ The Orange Show
Penny Royal, Dremnt the End @ Rudyard's
Magic Jewels Band, The Wiggins, A Thousand Cranes, Giant Princess @ Notsuoh


SATURDAY
Be My Doppleganger, American Sharks, Somerthing Fierce, The Takes, Cop Warmth @ Crocker House
Oh man oh man! Another house party show! PULL OVER THE INTERNET, BECAUSE THIS ONE HAS FALLEN OFF THE HOOK! Go early. Go often. Remember our ANGRY DAD REMINDER: respect where other people live.

Also:
Lazy Horse @ Notsuoh
The Anchor, This Year's Tiger, The Stones we Throw, The Bread, Hobo Mouth @ Walter's


SUNDAY
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Clue to Kalo, Hearts of Animals @ The Mink
We once used crush on this girl Kelly Clark, who had a brother named Ryan Clark. She loved Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. Our real name is Ryan Clark and we have a brother named Kelly Clark. He doesn't like Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. You can see how it was doomed from the start.

GLITTERATI: RECENT PULLS FROM THE FLICKR POOL!

Warren of Golden Axe by Elissa Brown

Here are some of our fav recent submissions to The Skyline Network's flickr pool. Its ok, we sometimes forget we have one too. To get your photos in the bucket, just tag them with 'theskylinenetwork' and let science do the rest. Yusss - science.


The Dirtbombs by Ramon Medina


Shawn of the Fatal Flying Guilloteens by Chester Soria


Erik Bogle (BBTG, FFG) totally interferes with an American Sharks show by Michelle.

DUMB QUESTIONS/SMART ANSWERS: THE TONTONS

HEY DO HO! You know, the other day our psychic friend Kulsoom reminded us of the Joy of Harry Belafonte. This isn't an instructional tome, like the Joy of Cooking or Sex or Reverse Polish Calculators; the Joy of Belafonte is just that: old school men in hats and sportcoats singing tropical bliss. You should check out his Live at Carnagie Hall. Recommended. We just wanted to share. SPEAKING OF SHARING, as our regular readers know, this and every week we make an attempt to fire off some pretty boring questions to one of Houston's finest and post their responses. In our banana cart this week? None other than Justin and Tom of The Tontons. Party Call Us.

What are some of your favorite records lately?
Justin: Body Language by Monotonix ( I actually don't own a copy of this record, but have listened to some of the songs on it and really regret not buying it, especially since I had two chances to do so!)
Tom: The Make Up Destination: Live at Cold Rice, The Who Live at Leeds, Lightspeed Champion Falling Of The Lavender Bridge


Are there any Houston bands who you've been digging lately?
J: I've Really been into The Sideshow Tramps. (I myself still call them The Medicine Show)
T: Can't Get enough of Golden Axe ,Trainwreck Albania, The Holly Halls, and the now defunct Blades.


What's your secret Houston place?
J: I would have to say Notsuoh or Deans on Main street, I usually like to go to the jam nights on Tuesdays at Deans, but lately they have been really strict about letting young ones like myself in. I just tell them I'm in a band and that changes everything.
T: A little Vietnamese Sandwich Shop off of Park Place and 45 South.


What is the first sentence of the page you are on in a book you are reading right now?
J: Dear Diary... I'm just kidding, I have never owned nor plan on owning a diary of any type.
T: "3 May. Bistritz - Left Munich at 8.35p.m. on 1st of May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6.46, but train was an hour Late."


What's the best thing you have spent money on in the last year?
J: New drumheads from Percussion Center!
T: Get Rich Schemes.


What is the best thing you got for free in the last year?
J: All of the free stuff from SXSW I managed to get, but especially that Myspace phone sock I got in one of the bags that the bands get from the Austin Convention Center
T: 1970' s Gibson Flying V (it's too much torque for me right now )


What question should we ask the band next time?
J: If toast always lands butterside down, and cats always land on their feet, what would happen if you strapped toast to a cats back and dropped it?
T: What song would steal if you could travel back in time or forward into the future?


The Welfare Mothers (last week's band) want to ask you "Why are you killing the scene?"
"If it bleeds, we can kill it!"


Astros or Rockets?
Rockets FO' life!


What do the Tontons have going on right now?
We are currently working on a full length album that should be release by the end of this year. We are also working on Texas tour for the summer and just hoping people dig what we are doing. We have been getting positive responses so far, so we must be doing something right.

People are digging it. The Tontons don't really have any shows scheduled for the immediate future, but their EP is available at SoudExchange, Soundwaves, Sigs and iTunes. DAAAAY O!

REVIEW: POWERHOUSE - YEAH!

SUP BRAH FROM BAKERSFIELD! People actually talk like that here. It kind of blows our mind. But, as we piloted our ridiculously human-growth-hormone needing Dodge Charger faux muscle car (WAY TO GO DETROIT!) up the Grapevine from LA Sunday morning, we took the opportunity to rock the mercifully AUX-IN equipped stereo (also kinda wimpy, for those interested in a greater level of detail of our various rental car experiences) up to the limit with a decidedly SoCal inspired pair of Houstonians we first stumbled across on Friday: Powerhouse.

Powerhouse’s 2007 debut ep, Yeah!, is chock full of big bright optimistic pop-punk crunch, earnest If I Had a Million Dollars goof and enough trappings of electronica and auto-tune to soften the edges for an easy ride on the slip and slide.

Aside from being exceedingly well produced, what makes this album great is that it eschews regret, remorse, ennui or any of the non-solar powered threads of personal experience that inevitably work their way into youth music. If art holds up a mirror to the human condition, then what you’re seeing in Yeah! is two best friends at Astroworld on opening day – it’s 78 degrees outside and there’s no lines on any of the rides. Powerhouse is really that – a celebration of itself and the friendship at its core. The pair are clearly having such a good time that their constant self referencing doesn’t really get old so much as serve to make you wish you had a best friend to rip retardedly catchy riffs and fart jokes with.

And unlike Gil Mantera (whose fans will enjoy Powerhouse, and who should tap the duo for their next trek through town[ATTN BOOKING PEOPLE]), who sometimes come across as a Batman and Sidekick routine, Powerhouse is pure Duke brothers – when something needs to be done (like finding a “Can of Jelly”, for example), it’s a shared quest. Granted, most of these quests involve cans of beer, smoking joints, winning fights, playing video games and getting the girls – but what the hell, why not. Standout tracks on this ep (though certainly not the only songs that have spent the last few days knocking around in our heads) include the heavily Billy Ocean-indebted “Get Into My Heart” and the unfukwitable pop perfection of “She Said She’s Sorry,” whose imperative chorus that you “COME ON GET OUT FOR LAST CALL” rules our face like all things exactly the opposite of One Thousand Cranes (We’ve practically tapped a hole in our six star hotel room floor to that one).

Though the boys eschew gentlemanly-behavior expert Michael Flocker’s advice that the overuse of curse words gives the appearance of a lack of vocabulary, Nabokovian lyrics in these arrangements would be counter productive and likely make only Jessica Creighton happy. Yeah! reminds us why pop punk was so much fun in the first place. This is our opening salvo of our summer, and all that’s missing is a song about school being out forever. Recommended.

Stream: Powerhouse - She Says She's Sorry

PS: Carrie Murphy loves this band.
ANGRY DAD PS: Don’t ever call a woman a bitch, especially if you call her the girl of your dreams in the next lyric.

WE HAVE TO SHARE: Jef with one F (Black Math Experiment) has posted a manifesto titled The Ten Commandments of MySpace Musicians. It has us in stitches. Here's an example:

6. I am thy cursor. Thou shall have no other cursors other than I. Do not give your page the unholy power to turn my perfectly serviceable arrow into a joker card, flaming skull, or the oh-so-original pot leaf. Both Apple and Microsoft have agreed on the basic cursor, which is like Jesus and Buddha endorsing a soft drink. Who are you to change the fabric of sanity?

Bwahahaha. Go read the entire thing here and then go get an Everyone is Gay MP3 'cause you're going to need it for upcoming summer mix CDs (no rickroll).

MERGE RECORDS BUYS RIGHTS TO GREY GHOST!!! TO PRODUCE BEST OF THE BAYOU COMPILATION SERIES!!! NEW MAIL-ORDER SUBSCRIPTION!!! MINDS ARE BLOWN!

HAHAHHA WTF?!?!? TWELVE IS THE LUCKIEST NUMBER!!! So it turns out that the long running Grey Ghost series has a fan that isn’t a regular poster on Hands Up. Nope, not by a long shot. According to an email we got from their promotion agency this morning, none other than Jake April, one of Merge Records’ A&R men, has been a long-running secret fan of both the concept and the recordings. Shocked, to say the least, we were to learn that the real reason for the recent hiatus in local producer and Grey Ghost empresario John Sears’ stint of weekly releases has been to nail down the details in the licensing of the entire GG back catalog and future use of the name by Merge. Dumbfounded. Dumb. Founded.

We called John this morning to wish him congratulations and ask about the, uh, deal. We’re not allowed to get into the specifics, but suffice to say that Grey Ghost is no longer a break-even hobby for him. Lets get to quoting: “They’re going to take all the recordings from the back catalog of releases, great stuff from people like The Fatal Flying Guilloteens, Hearts of Animals, Cop Warmth, Blades, Young Mammals and Golden Axe, and make a compilation cd or two called NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL GREY GHOST,” said Sears, sounding frighteningly like someone reading from a series of media talking points. When we asked how he had managed to get the ok from so many local artists in our gossipy little scene without the word getting out, he came back with “Whatever. I made most of those recordings anyways, and they knew that it wasn’t a money-making opportunity for them. I am sure they will be ok with it.”

As for the future, Grey Ghost will, sadly, no longer be available for two dollars every week from Domy. Instead, we are informed, it will be done via mail-order direct from Merge, sort of like the Sub Pop Singles club from a few years back. Instead of twelve, the runs (which we guess are still going to be cdr, which is cool – maybe the occasional 7” we are told), are going to be 2,000, but in keeping with the numerical theme of the past, they’ll now cost $12 each(shipping included). Guh. Up first in the new series, due in the mail in two weeks, is the first Grey Ghost by local fuzzbangers A Giant Princess. To subscribe, visit Merge’s website at greyghost.mergerecords.com. Wurd.