Humpday Derby: An Horse, Brakes, Bishops, Decks, Coast, (((S))), Koolaid Electric Co., Shoreline Dream, Lower Heaven

Saddle up, friends and neighbors, and let's take a few spins around some groovy tracks. (Awkwardly put, but it's only an intro.) Click colors to hear and see and feel and shell out.

An Horse - Camp Out mp3 - from Brisbane duo's Rearrange Beds, out since 17 March. Many thanks to Marni Wandner at Sneak Attack Media. We're still loving the following previously posted song as well.

Postcards mp3

Brakes - Two Shocks mp3- from Brighton band's Touchdown - You will sometimes find this group's name in triplicate (brakesbrakesbrakes), which can be confusing. Doesn't seem to affect the excellent music at all. We're still very much enjoying the following, which was in our first post of the magical year of 2009.

Crystal Tunings mp3

The Decks - What You Said mp3 - from Detroit darlings' Breath And Bone, due out 26 May

The Coast - No Secret Why mp3 - off Torontans' Expatriate, released in stores stateside yesterday. Thanks to Ian Anderson at Afternoon Records.

We found the following at the superb German site, Coast is Clear, and sincerely thank blogmeister Peter for the headsups. Please note he has more of some of them, so go visit if't please you.

The Bishops - Wandering By mp3 - from Londoners' For Now, available at Not Lame

(((S))) - Mesmerized mp3 - from Ghost - The guitar kind of reminds us of longtime faves The Cult. You? - Peter still has two more gooduns by this here Danish band here.

The Koolaid Electric Company - Untitled #1 mp3 - psuberb psych from Leighton Buzzard band - Peter has another here.

A Shoreline Dream - Hypermode (feat. Ulrich Schnauss) mp3 - Size 18 shoegaze from NYCers' Recollections of Memory

Lower Heaven - Knife mp3 - from Silverlake, CA band's 2008 release Ashes, available at CD Baby - My notes read, "picky atmospheric marcher w/ nice shifts" (That's right, sometimes I just go very, very deeep.) - Peter has two more here.

Die Tryin': Hives, Millencolin, Pristine, Bishops, Sounds

While making his daily rounds, Dr. Pplist got no further than the middle of the alphabet. There he discovered that Chris over at the venerable Swiss blog, Music of the Moment, had apparently stolen his "Around the Blogosphere" theme and posted some really nice finds from the 'sphere. (Totally kidding, Chris, totally. You've been at this game far longer than the doctor and are a model for him, not vice versa, mkay? Kid-ding. Cheesy Grin City. Yuk-yuk, etc., etc.) Well, to continue, MOTM directed Dr. P to a German indie blog called Die Stagediven. (Although one could well snuff it in such risky recreation, the doctor's elementary knowledge of Deutsch suggested that "Die" in this instance actually means "The." He could be wrong but he's not.) Much as Dr. P needs to come up with new terminology, "goldmine" pretty well sums up what he found at Die Stagediven. Not only are DS's current posts juicy with jewels, the 63 pages of mp3 archives are a veritable torrent of. . .juice. Anyway, the doctor extends thanks to these two excellent blogs. Posted are some favorites he found at DS. Sure, the first one's ancient, but he's been looking for a link to it for a long time. More will be decanted over the coming weeks. But, hey, go find some for yourself, if you're so inclined. Doctor's orders.

The Hives - Hate to Say I Told You So mp3

Millencolin - Kemp mp3

Pristine - King Without a Crown mp3

The Bishops - Higher Now mp3

The Sounds – Queen of Apology mp3

Aural Pleasure Candidates

I really like these songs but can’t seem to fit them into a thematic organizer at the moment. I’m providing links so you can explore them further. Pictured to the left are The Like Young.

The Like Young - For Money Or Love mp3
The Bishops—The Only Place I Can Look is Down mp3
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Oregon Girl mp3
Sunny Day Sets Fire - Wilderness mp3
Low Frequency in Stereo - Axes mp3
The Asteroid No. 4 - Ask Me About Pittsburgh mp3