Like Trains and Taxis? LOVE Trains and Taxis

We don't know about you, but we just love ourselves some new EP material, makes us feel hip and young, you know. The self-proclaimed "indie soul" band is releasing Charlie, their second EP which serves as teaser for their full-length.
And what a teaser it is! We remember seeing them in New Brunswick's Alfa Art Gallery a while back, and boy were they worth it. The music is real rich, loaded with smooth talent and a touch of wit--you can literally hear the girls and gay men melting in their seats.

They're playing around the Red Bank/Asbury Park area of NJ these next two weeks.

DOWNLOAD: Like Trains and Taxis "Charlie"
DOWNLOAD: Like Trains and Taxis "Day Wrecker"

Website: www.liketrainsandtaxis.com
Book 'em! www.sonicbids.com/liketrainsandtaxis

Enjoy!
-SD

The Veterans - The Screaming Females

They're that band. The band that made you care about live shows and being in a scene instead of knowing all the words to the latest song on the radio (bleh). They're just awesome; haphazardly fun with a quirky twist and a frontwoman with a penchant for vintage dresses. Hopefully they'll be as groundbreaking for you as they have been for New Brunswick. Check out they're myspace for a list of gigs -- they're playing everywhere!

Site: http://www.screamingfemales.com/
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/screamingfemales

DOWNLOAD: The Screaming Females "Fun"

Enjoy!

-SD

Longing for Some Good Music - Liz Longley

Not much time to write, but luckily, the music speaks for itself. Liz Longley is - flawless. Enough said. 

See for yourself. Liz is performing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston this Thursday, September 24th at College Night, 7pm-12am.

Free music. Free food. Free prizes.

You bet, free admission.

Watch this beautiful video of "Naked Trees"



MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/lizlongley

Twitter: http://twitter.com/Liz_Longley

-SK

Crunching On Max Vernon

Katy Perry's getting a run for her money. Seriously, you can't talk about Max Vernon without mentioning his "I Kissed A Girl" cover. You'd think that if a guy sang this song it would sound pretty, well, straight. But Vernon's slick. He changed all self-referrals in the song to male, but still kept the line "hope my boyfriend don't mind it," which adds a whole other level of ambiguity and scandal! Ya!

To top it all off he's one steamy piano man. He's incredibly witty lyrically, but not in that "I'm trying to be funny while talking about the stupid crap we fill our lives with" kind of way, it's more like "I'm just doing this because I want to. Yeah, while playing the piano incredibly well.. with my toes." Minus playing with the toes part though...

...But if he did play the piano with his toes we'd crunch on him twice.

Max Vernon, you are one sly son-of-a-gun.

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/maxvernon

DOWNLOAD: Max Vernon "I Kissed A Girl"

DOWNLOAD: Max Vernon "Politburo Technocrats and Prophesizing Maniacs"

PS: Check out his Ace of Base Cover here.

-SD

Wait For Green - Sitting, Waiting, Wishing

These Floridians are well ingrained in that cluster-fuck of a genre, you know, the one that blends funk, reggae, hip-hop and rock. Think of the white guys with dreads from Clueless that "belong on that grassy knoll ova there" as Brittany Murphy and Alicia Silverstone put it so cunningly.

Well, now that you've got that picture in your head you can imagine what the music sounds like. It's pretty much 311 that borders on Sublime... in the best way possible of course. In other words, addictively chill.

Yeah, we have a feeling "Wait For Green" doesn't really mean waiting for the traffic light...

Check out the grassy knoll in LA on October 2nd at Whiskey A Go Go.

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/waitforgreen
Twitter: http://twitter.com/WAITFORGREEN

DOWNLOAD: Wait For Green "Build It Up, Burn It Down"

-SD

Tha Shake - I Bet That You Look Good On The Dance Floor

There's been a long legacy of great American rock n' roll, and The Shake are making this legacy proud.

The guitar riffs tricky but catchy, perfectly suited for air guitar. The vocals present a kind of beautiful contradiction. On the one hand, the vocals are very in your face, but on the other they are quite aloof and nonchalant. Let's not forget to mention that girls are bound to swoon over this band like Penny Lane and the band aids from Almost Famous.

Here's to you guys being featured in the next Guitar Hero.

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/theshakeband
Twitter: http://twitter.com/theshakeband

DOWNLOAD: The Shake "Dyin' Ain't The End Of The World"
DOWNLOAD: The Shake "Princes & Kings"

-SD

Egon's Unicat - It's Alive!

Instead of trying to write something clever an witty about these guys from Illinois, we figured it would be better to post this storyline we stumbled upon. After all, that's what really sold us on the band.

"Egon's Unicat is a myth. It doesn't exist. For those of you who have stumbled upon this myth be wary that your life may be in danger. Egon was just a humble professor of Biochemistry and Law at the University of Vermont when he stumbled upon a most peculiar strand of DNA while doing his laundry in one of the campus dormitories. He took a sample of this DNA from an anonymous students "I'm With Stupid" shirt and went home that night to run some routine tests. The tests were anything but routine however when Egon's cat (named Johncat) became sick due to some spoiled tuna the professor had given him and spastically tore up the entire lab. During the chaos Johncat had been harmed due to broken class and the unidentified DNA crept into his blood stream causing both of his front legs to immediately rot and fall off of his body. Egon, immediately frantic ran to help the crazy critter, but at that very moment Johncat's body began shaking and bubbling violently and a brand new leg sprouted from the middle of Johncat's chest. The cat now had only three legs, but one of these legs was protruding from the middle of the cats chest as if he were a snowmobile or tricycle. Egon then decided that Johncat was no longer the same cat he had grown to love and cherish all those years of teaching, he had become a UNICAT....
or Egon's Unicat could just be a rock n' roll band having a schizo nature in appearance and sound that hails from the Illinois Valley... you decide."

They're playing all over Illinois these upcoming months, with a stint in Wisconsin:
Aug 14 2009 - Fox Valley Hot Topic (acoustic) in Aurora, Illinois (Woohoo Wayne's World) at 5:00PM
Aug 15 2009 - The Afterdark in Steven’s Point, Wisconsin at 6:00PM
Aug 22 2009 - The Mutiny in Chicago, Illinois at 9:00PM
Sep 5 2009 - Mary’s Place in Rockford, Illinois at 9:00PM
Sep 6 2009 - 9th St. Pub in LaSalle, Illinois at 10:00PM
Sep 26 2009 - CJ’s Lounge in Rockford, Illinois at 10:00PM
Oct 10 2009 - SOP’s in Peoria, Illinois at 10:00PM
Oct 20 2009 - Otto’s in DeKalb, Illinois at 8:30PM
Nov 25 2009 - 9th street Pub in LaSalle, Illinois at 10:00PM

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/egonsunicat

DOWNLOAD: Egon's Unicat "Silver Dragon Ninja" (Live)

-SD