hey, ho! you all see that you can watch every south park ever aired now via southpark studios? pretty freakin awesome. i watched a bunch this morning, including the classic manbearpig and faith+1 episodes.

dont know about you but i love diy/bedroom recordings ala jack logan’s bulk, daniel johnston, a lot of lou barlow stuff and one could probably even consider all the gbv recordings up to the ric ocasek era, etc. so, it is with very little surprise that i dig benji cossa’s brand of lo-fi pop goodness. check him out!

his vault volume 2: jewels and gems can be purchased here

april

landscape

with any luck

a rainbow off between the blue and the green

benji cossa site / myspace

next to the flaming lips there is no more frustrating artist than jason molina an his many monikers. one minute brilliant, the next not so much. i can take a dud here and there, its only human, but when the division between brilliance an snore city is so evenly split it makes loving him even more trying/taxing - even though i still do. anyone else have this issue with him?

for some reason you havent checked out his work here are some album tracks

the dark dont hide it off trials and errors

cross the road off trials and errors

leave the city off what comes after the blues

for those that are still with me, here he is @ saint-ouen in france on 11.21.07. its a lovely soundboard and from what i hear this and many other molina shows in flac an mp3 format can be found at archive dot org.

1. leave the city

2. what comes after the blues

3. oh, punishment

4. dont this look like the dark

5. the dark dont hide it

6. down the wrong road both ways

7. ive been riding with the ghost

8. its easier now

9. no moon on the water

10. hammer down

11. down the track

12. whip-poor-will

13. the only way