“15 tracks of haunting instrumental pieces composed by members of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum”. Featuring Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi and Dan Rathbun.

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The Tango Saloon (birthday show)
+ Captains (farewell show before US tour)

Saturday, 10th January
@ The Vanguard (42 King St Newtown)
Bookings: 9557 7992 / thevanguard. com. au

It’s gonna be a big one, hope that you can make it!”

Due out early next year, the new Suit of Lights album titled “Bacteria” features Joe & Arun with Trevor Dunn on bass, James Kluz (Me Talk Pretty) on drums, Jamie Egan (Catch 22/Streetlight Manifesto) on horns, and Dino Covelli (Rosenbergs).

They have posted five tracks from Bacteria on their myspace page.

Pitchfork media have put up a whole stack of photos from the various bands that performed recently at the Nightmare Before Christmas, curated by Mike Patton and The Melvins.

Check em out

So the Faxed Head DVD is out. Didn’t even realize. Gotta gets me a copy of that

Info at WoM

Great interview, have a read.

“I think the discipline it demands to pull things off is very healthy for the soul, and I am very proud of the members of SC3 for being LIFERS who are purified of all illusion having to do with what it means to be a “musician”. This is a great source of strength…”

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According to movieweb.com, Mike will be scoring the entire soundtrack to the film Crank 2: High Voltage.

More info at movieweb

Lots of info on Mike’s recent foray in to games voice acting.

So it’s not going to be a November 08 release

“Uh….the Album’s done….MMMMKay..?

Should be out early February. Sorry about the early misinformation (!) My distributor thinks the album will have a better chance if released at this later date, plus something to do with the prospects of radio-play here in Australia. If we put it out early November we’d stand little chance of it making any kind of splash at that point on radio…

I’m really excited for those who care to hear this thing since it’s my first ’solo’ album and it’s so long overdue. So hang in there all y’all and thanks for reading…”

A unique opportunity to see Trevor Dunn’s (Mr Bungle,Fantomas,Trio Convulsant,Electric Masada) new band MADLOVE (Hilmar Jensson,Ches Smith,Sunny Kim,Erik Deutsch,Trevor Dunn) playing their world premiere on Tuesday 2nd December 2008. 8PM. Bethnal Green Workingmen’s Club (Pollard Row, LONDON.E26NB).

Only £4 on the door. The bargain performance of the year to help you all in these times of financial hardship. With London based experimental duo CRACKLE.

Thanks to AJBlake for the tip.