New Lips

Hey, it's a new Black Lips video. The song's forgetable but at least you get to watch clips from this ancient anti-drug video. Things could be worse.

Last Try of July

Download 5 Free, Rad mp3s by Naomi Shelton, Cola Jet Set, Yonlu, Let's Wrestle, and Curious Mystery,

Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens -
What More Can I Do

The Deal: EN-D's not the church-going type but these Mrs. Shelton's the real deal. The Gospel Queens are quite oafish but they certainly bring it, along with the band, who play skin-tight country blues that occasionally favors Basement Tapes-era Bob Dylan. RIYL: Sharon Jones, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, The Band Makes EN-D Feel Like: Watching 227 with my great-grandmother.

Curious Mystery - Teeth of All Types

The Deal: Some moody, woozy, druggy kids from Seattle make sad music. Sometimes EN-D thinks "Jeez, this sounds a lot like early Catpower" right before they take a sharp detour into some strange jam. RIYL: Catpower, Silver Jews, Sonic Youth, Makes EN-D Feel Like: Laying around on an old couch, pointing the fan right at my face while I read an old book.

Yonlu - I Know What It's Like

The Deal: A tortured sixteen year-old Brazilian boy spent a lot of time playing online games like WOW and Counter Strike, but he took some time out for a bedroom recording project before taking his own life. The video seems especially fitting: an awkward medley of scenes from Donny Darko brings back the vulnerability of those teenage years. RIYL: Elliot Smith, Nick Drake, Radiohead Makes EN-D Feel Like: Wringing Yonlu's posthumous neck for being so short-sighted and wasting all that potential.

Let's Wrestle - My Arms Don't Bend That Way, Damnit

The Deal: Loosey-goosey rock n' roll made by young british guys who like to ape early 90's American Indie bands. Let's Wrestle are the kind of band that would play at a realy cool wedding. RIYL: The Breeders, Pavement, Sebedoh Makes EN-D Feel Like: Opening a beer, playing my air-guitar all around my apartment.

Cola Jet Set - En Ontro Pais

The Deal: Four Spanish Youths make bouncy pop that conjurs the sweet, bubbly taste that their name implies. RIYL: Aisler Set, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Apples In Stereo Makes EN-D Feel Like: Learning Spanish, drinking Jones' Soda

Ah Youth. . .

>Hey look, it's a new video from Girls.

Kind of sounds like East River Pipe or low-rent Beach Boys, and looks like what might happen if Urban Outfitters paid Harmony Korine to design heaven. Disheveled hipsters hang all over each other and eat in diners marked by ancient pinball machines.

Dumber in the Summer

Download 4 free mp3s by Lotus Plaza, Dent May, Thee Oh-Sees, and Hong Kong in the 60's

Lotus Plaza

The Deal: the guitarist from Deerhunter spends his free-time making songs that mimic the best Deerhunter songs. And that's not a jab. Sometimes EN-D wishes Deerhunter were this. . . predictable and consistantly enjoyable. RIYL: Deerhunter, My Bloody Valentine, Yo La Tengo Makes EN-D Feel Like: driving in a car with the windows down, finding backroads with steep hills that make your stomach queezy.

Dent May and His Magnificent Ukulele

The Deal: A Sailor from Texas turned EN-D onto Dent May, a former NYU film student living in Mississippi, writing whimsical little ditties on his ukulele. RIYL: The Magnetic Fields, Jens Lekman, Jonathon Richman Makes EN-D Feel Like: having a beer with friends, loafing around the streets of lazy, languid Lawrence, KS.

Hong Kong in the 60's

The Deal: Globetrotting Londonites create bittersweet pop songs with toy synths and tinny drum machines. If they were any sweeter they'd be lumped in with the scores of other keyboard projects. As it is, they've got just enough melancholy to balance out the candy-like hooks.
RIYL: The High Llamas, Stereolab, Air
Makes EN-D Feel Like: Perusing the aisles of a fine department store.

http://www.myspace.com/hongkonginthe60s

The Deal: A guy from San Fransisco forces his friends to play in his rockabilly freakout band, proving minimalism can still be cool if you slather on loads of reverb. RIYL: The Coachwhips, the Cramps, Panther Burns Makes EN-D Feel Like: drinking mooshine, starting fires, terrorizing the citizens of a small southern town.