Tooting Horns: MONUMENT ALBUM IS DONE // New Dads Single Is Out

Monument's album is out and it will rule! Everyone should go to their CD release show on December 10 in DC and pick it up. My band, Dads, will also be playing.
In other news, Dads recorded a new song over the weekend and we put it up as a free/pay what you want digital single on our Bandcamp page. Get it!

Dads - The Essential John Denver EP (tooting my own horn)

So my new band, Dads, finally finished recording our first EP and put it up on the internets for free streaming. It's also a "name your own price" download if you want the mp3s, which would help since we're doing a week long tour in January.

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Also, as well, if you are interested we have shirts for cheap HERE

Malegoat: To Face the Music

Yesssssss! New Malegoat music = me happy. If you don't know, Malegoat is the Japanese version of Algernon Cadwallader and I am very happy that they exist. We posted their album "Plan Infiltration" earlier and if you enjoy that then I would recommend this as well.




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The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Formlessness

So silly name aside, this band is fucking amazing! They, along with Deer Leap, played my house last night and both of them were great. They have a bunch of pretty "post-rock" sounding guitar parts, but they don't overly drag the parts out and keep things constantly changing. Their vocals remind me of older Kickball and they're very good to sing along to, as most people were doing last night. They also have a keyboard player in the band, but use it very tastefully and mostly as just added soundscape background sounds that really fill in the sound. They rule, so just listen already.
They have both of their EPs up on their Bandcamp page for download for free, or you pay what you like. Throw 'em a few bucks, please!

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Short Attention Span Compilation

so gentleman extraordinaire, biff swenson, rounded up 24 great bands of all sorts of genres and put together a free compliation for download. my newest band, dads, was asked to be a part of this and i'm really pumped on it! here's the tracklisting so you can see for yourself how good this is!

1.) Chalk Talk - Pine Cone
2.) Into It. Over It. - Nashville, TN
3.) Quiltary - Will You Still Kiss Me with This Silly Beard of Mine?
4.) Band Name - The Countdown
5.) John Bradley - Henry Rollin's Creepy Crawl Tattoo
6.) By Surprise - Year Plus One Month (Makeout Party Cover)
7.) Wood Goold - Rolling in Our Eyes
8.) Sirs - Starting at the Chin
9.) Malegoat - Time Passes
10.) Ape Up! - Chinchillin
11.) Foxes & Lions - I Prefer Tall, Classy, European Women
12.) Black Churches - Hexed
13.) Small Oaks - Claim
14.) Cameron Wisch - What Star Do You Live On?
15.) Dads - Soccer Dads (Fifa World Fuck)
16.) Paddlepuss - Mahalo Brother
17.) Nick Cucci - 11 Days
18.) Make Wave - The Cape
19.) It's A King Thing - Hangin' Out
20.) Cecil - Sheldon Mopes [A Lot]
21.) Static Sex - I Hope You Die Alone
22.) John Muccino - Untitled Excerpt
23.) Ba Babes - Come Back Home with Me
24.) Dark Surfers - Planet Drunk (Me and My Satanic Babe)

a bunch of twinkly shit-esque bands, a bunch not, but all are great!

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Castevet/Into It - Snack Town 7"

You already know who this is, it's good. Download it, pre-order it, whooo cares.
EDIT - THIS IS POST #69. FUCK YES.


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Coping - 2 Song Demo

I got this demo by Chicago's Coping yesterday, again from the lovely world of VLV. Totally fun upbeat late 90's style emo jams. You know the style! "Seniors" is a jam and a half! I don't know what else to say. Download this, add them on myspace, get them to play your friend's kitchen sometime. They're still a new band, so I'm excited to see what else comes from them soon!

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Cats and Cats and Cats: If I'd Had An Atlas

I was very excited/surprised by this release so I figured I would post it as soon as I heard it. Cats and Cats and Cats (if for some strange reason you haven't heard them by now) play fairly epic sounding twinkly music. Most of their stuff I would say sound like sped up postrock jams with vocals. They also have a violinist which sets them apart a bit (just like Yellowcard!). Like Maps and Atlases, CACAC seem to be branching out a bit with this release. If you enjoy what you hear, please think about purchasing this album.



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Owen - Abandoned Bridges 7"

Owen has a new 7" that's up for pre-order on Polyvinyl. I pre-ordered it and got the download code for the songs, so I'm sharing it with all you. But like everything else we post, you really should still buy the music or else it's kind of pointless for us to post this. So go do it.

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Castevet - The Echo & The Light

So because we are ballers at Twinkly Sh*t, here's the new version of Castevet's "The Echo & The Light". It was all re-recorded and with 2 extra songs and sounds somehow even better than the tape version! Not much else to say about this album, if you're at this blog you already know who Castevet is. PLEASE BUY THIS OR WE WILL FIND YOU AND KILL YOU.

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