The Killing Moon, once known as Animal Suit Drive-by, will have a cover of Alanis Morrisette’s “You Oughta Know” on a compilation to be put out by Fearless Records. The “Sibilance” staff has been made totally unable to think by this news. Do we make fun of Alanis? Does this mean she’s cool now? Was she always cool and we just didn’t know it? Are Killing Moon cool for doing a cover of a not-cool song? Did Alanis only get cool once she played God in that really bad Kevin Smith movie? Anyway, they recorded the track with Jon Wyman.
Speaking of Wyman, Now Transmission just finished a five-song EP with Portland’s uber producer. No word on title or release date.
Word has come in of JD’s Medicine Hat, a jazz, improv kind of thing featuring Jim D’amboise (we’re figuring he’s JD) on guitar, Shawn Boissonnault on drums, and Alfredo Grado on bass. They like to bring in Daemian Allen on sax and keyboards from time to time, and he’ll be filling that role at their next gig, March 23, at 128 Free Street.
Jonesin’ for that long-awaited Hi Fivin’ White Guys record? Well, the White Guys have a sneak peak from their Ate Songs, “Camouflage,” up on their MySpace page. It sounds like you might expect it to: pretty raw, pretty punk, fairly unintelligible.
Richard Fortin, the guy behind www.capturetheflagzine.com, an indie online zine that seems to have disappeared, and Burning Baltimore, the promotion house that fronts for Cambiata, Radiation Year and Sparks the Rescue, has a new project he’s calling the Summability. It’s ultra-minimalist (the songs he has online are called “F Major,” “B Minor,” “E Minor,” “A Major”), featuring techno-lite beats and strummed indie guitar chords. His site says he’s also working on a project called the Aborted. We’re trying to think of a way for that not to be a hardcore band.
Also look online for Radiation Year’s Gunsmoke EP, which apparently will only there for a limited time, at www.purevolume.com.
We’ve finally got a release date for Seekonk’s much-anticipated follow-up album to 2004’s wonderful For Barbara Lee, which was released on Kimchee Records. Paul Agnew’s North East Indie will release Pinkwood April 11. It’s going to be friggin’ great. That’s all we’ll tell you for now.
