Entertainment. Isn’t that all we really want. Something to make you smile and occasionally think and then maybe smile some more. Well today marks a day where you can get some pretty good entertainment at a price that is what you make it. Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, is back, with his hyper mash DJ style, for round two. Two years in the making Gillis’ new LP, Feed The Animals, comes at you with over 300 samples and over 50 minutes of audio bliss. Does he exceed the standards set on his debut, Nightripper? No. Does that matter? No. What matters is that every party for the rest of the summer is going to be cranking this. It’s pure fun all over again (the same way you probably felt when listening to his first). As if that wasn’t enough, Gillis has released it on Illegal Art for a price you can determine (Radiohead style…which he samples…of course). As an added bonus you get more if you pay more…any price grants the download of the entire album as high-quality 320kbps mp3s, $5 or more adds the options of FLAC files, plus a one-file seamless mix of the album, and $10 or more includes all of the above + a packaged CD (when it becomes available). Pretty good deal if you ask me. So go get it and set it off.
mp3: Girl Talk – Still Here
mp3: Girl Talk – Set It Off
Mates Of State just put out a new video for My Only Offer, a stand out track from their newly released Re-Arrange Us out on 
Tonight in Baltimore, Metro Gallery has the Ed Schrader show with Jason Dove performing. If you can’t make that one, perhaps you should consider shuffling on down to Virginia to catch Annuals, and Hymns playing Iota. That’s all!
Have you ever gone to a thrift store and scoured the dusty pile of records for some obscure albums you’ve never heard of before just for the fun of it. Most of the time it’s garbage (hilarious garbage), but occasionally there’s a gem. Tu Fawning feels like a gem from the past. A layer of history covers the soft echoing reverb painted vocals of Corinna Repp and lost basement melodies of Joe Haege. It reminds me that I need to search for that old Joan Baez record with the scratch on the third track for a nice sepia toned evening. So if you’re feeling a bit nostalgic, somewhat removed from the present, or just looking for a calm set of dusty songs to lay you into a somber mood, then Tu Fawning is waiting for you. Their new EP, Secession, comes out on July 8 via 
Tonight in Baltimore, The Dig, The points, The Jennifers, and The Swet play the Sidebar. In DC the F Yeah Tour rolls in with Dan Deacon, Matt & Kim, The Death Set, Monotonix, Team Robespierre, and Mannequin Man. Also in DC are These United States playing the Rock and Roll Hotel with The M’s and Centromatic while The Muslims play DC9. Finally in Philly, Johnny Brenda’s has Frog Eyes, Evangelicals, and Chet, The Khyber has Animal Style, Mark Denardo & Graffiti Monsters, One Eyed Stanley, and Holler, Wild Rose!, The Mann Center has R.E.M., Modest Mouse, and The National, and The Troc has the ver amazing Rickie Lee Jones.
Are you ever in a mood where you just need to franticly dance with nor rhyme or reason for it (or to it)? I’m in no way a dancer (trust me…I’m not…well… I can bust the cabbage patch or the running man if provoked), but listening to Does It Offend You, Yeah? makes me want to violently dance every ounce of energy out of myself. They combine that hardcore club electronic sound (that the Faint make so well) with computer thumping disco (like Daft Punk and Justice). The energy that forms when these two meet is phenomenal and dangerous. On the case of their debut LP, You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into, it should have a warning:
