After my first compilation Another Wave, the second free MP3-sampler released on CATCH FIRE is completely dedicated to True Panther Sounds, a small record label based in San Francisco which is the best proof that beyond the trend to self-promotion there is still an exciting label culture out there. TPS’s music ranges from the rather unconventional indie rock of bands like Girls, Magic Kids or Hunx and his Punx, to the experimental, mostly pretty hypnotic pop of acts such as Glasser, Lemonade or Teenage Fantasy and I guess it’s also worth mentioning here that an above-average level of these bands/acts have (or at least seem to have) a queer background or approach.
Like last time, the compilation is completely free, thanks to the guys of TPS who allowed me to collect my favourite ones of the free songs they’ve been released during the last few months and make a sampler out of them. I hope you like the result as much as I do. Below you find the track list, you can click on the single song links for the original sources of the tracks if you only want to download individual songs. The cover I posted on top of this post and a list of the tracks are included in the download file.
+++ Stream two new tracks by Andrew Butler’s project MR. INTL featuring his Hercules and Love Affair bandmate Kim Ann Foxman. The tracks are officially released on November 1st, you also find a nice interview with Mr. Butler on the website Expatriarch.com:
Travis Mathews, the director of the “In Their Rooms” series and the currently produced feature film “I Want Your Love” has just published a video interview with Girls-Singer Christopher Owens. In it Owens talks about the history of the band, San Francisco, his sexuality, the band’s relationship to pornography and a lot of other stuff and also plays an acoustic version of an unreleased Girls song called “Oh My Love”. I posted the second part of the interview (I found it a little bit more interesting than the first one) below, you find the first part and the clip showing Owens performing the song here. There’s also a new Girls song + video in the latest Music Ticker. Oh, and if you’re interested in playing a role in “I Want Your Love”: the casting takes place next week in Manhattan, you can apply here.
