New Music: MISSING!!!

I'm not sure if everyone has heard the story of The Turn-ons last album "Curse" but I'm going to give you a quick rundown of the events that lead up to it's release. We tracked 16 songs and on the last mixing day, our hard drive died causing us to lose everything. Luckily, I'm analogue guy and all but four of the songs were still on the 2" reels at MRX. After re-tracking the 4 missing tunes and remixing the album for the second time, nearly two years had passed from the beginning of the process. I thought it would be a good idea to name the album "The Curse of The Turn-ons" but Singapore Sling apparently has dibs on that title, so "Curse" had to do.


Today I listened to that album again for the first time in over a year and I STILL hate that we lost those first four songs. If only we had backed up that hard drive...

Cut to one month ago.

My home computer is acting all weird and suddenly I'm unable to access certain files. Particularly my iTunes library. Normally, this would have sent me into a fit, but as I learned from "Curse" about backing up, I'm sure we only lost maybe a month's worth of input, which I could easily get. WRONG! Last back up was in January. FUCK! 6 months of music gone! And I don't know about you, but for me that's a hell of a lot of music.

There is a happy ending to this story, though. I'm now almost completely whole again thanks to a new Mac and my beautiful friends (who are also avid music geeks.) Here's some of the new shit that's making me smile on my earbuds...


1. THEE Satisfaction - Thats Weird
Okay, so this wasn't one I lost, but it is one I found at the Bend It! festival on Friday June 26th in Cal Anderson Park. I had gone there to see Redwood Plan and afterwards gone to get some food. On the way back through the park, my friends and I were stopped dead in our tracks by this amazing hip-hop duo. Brian and I dragged a few more people with us to see them at the Pride festival on the following Sunday (Oh, did I forget to mention that they're a couple?) Really looking forward to their upcoming "Snow Motion" coming soon.


2. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
This was my most treasured loss of the last 6 months. Every song makes me bliss out in a summertime Supremes style shuffle down the street. No shit! If I'm at home, I pair Camera Obscura with a Firefly sweet tea vodka and lemonade. Thanks to John for bringing this to me.



3. Hunx and His Punx - EVERYTHING
No albums yet, but I have almost all of his singles now. I've been obsessing over "You Don't Like Rock and Roll" and "Cruising" since I saw his videos on You Tube. Bubblegum girl group tunes done by a punk fag is kind of the best thing ever. His set at The Funhouse on Pride day was a very intense 20 minutes. Read more about this show HERE!



4. Micachu & the Shapes - Jewellery
Damn! This is some crazy great shit. I don't even know what to say about it except listen to "Calculator" and if you dig it like I do, buy the whole album. Thanks to Frank for bringing this to me!



5. Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
When it comes to new music, I have a bunch of shit talking friends (and if you're friends with me, you know I'm one of them) but I'm happy to say that those who spoke ill of this Friendly Fires records are mistaken. The production is adventurous in cool way, the melodies are super addictive, and I've heard these boys are terribly cute. Thanks to Phil for bringing this to me!


SEE YOU AT THE COUNCIL!!!

XO