Two Faves From TBTCI's Orange Comp: The Prefab Messiahs & Spationauts + Additional Goodstuff

Posted below are two poppsych favorites from The Blog That Celebrates Itself's most recent compilation. TBTCI offered the 15-song comp as a way of wishing us and all a fab 2017. We thank them sincerely and offer similar best wishes to them and you. (Full disclosure: all 15 songs are actually in each widget, so tee-hee.)

We've loved Wormtowners The Prefab Messiahs for quite some time and just now discovered their LP Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive, one of our very favorite LPs of 2015, is available for name-your-price download at Bandcamp. Cue the Hallelujah Chorus, maan.

Saskatchewan's Spationauts are new to us, so we delved a bit deeper and are posting a couple of faves of theirs we put in our shopping cart at Bandcamp.

From The Active Listener: Lovebyrd, Prefab Messiahs, Late Pioneers

Master Nathan Ford has just released The Active Listener Sampler 29 and, as usual, it's a doozy. We've posted our three favorites below and suggest you go to Bandcamp and check out the rest (although you could easily do so on any of the three widgets below. At Bandcamp, though, you will find multiple links to information about all 15 bands featured.)

We would like to make special note of the forthcoming (March 10) release of Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive, the first LP in 32 years by Wormtown (aka Worcester), Mass.'s The Prefab Messiahs. We've had the opportunity to hear the whole LP and can highly recommend seven of the eight songs (the last one seems kind of jokey, although maybe it's just on us). Anyway, be on the lookout for this excellent album.

We also found that Burger Records (which is co-releasing KYSDA along with label KLYAM [Kids Like You & Me]) has made a 27-song Prefab Messiahs compilation called Devolver available for name-your-price download at Bandcamp. It is highly lo-fi and not particularly representative of the forthcoming LP, but we found six songs we particularly liked. 

We'll also mention that The Late Pioneers' fine Walbum is available for n-y-p download at Bandcamp. Explore more by German band LOVEBYRD here, here, and here.

Velvet Crush & Friends

As Providence, Rhode Island's Velvet Crush are one of my favorite bands, I was pleased to find "Ash and Earth" at their MySpace site. I also listened to a number of the bands listed as their friends and chose the following for your consideration. Production values vary wildly, but each had some big or little something I liked. I'm dispensing with the commentary (cue applause). If you want to learn and hear more, click on the band names.

Velvet Crush - Ash and Earth - Link removed at site
army navy - Snakes of Hawaii mp3
Polara - Is This It
The Jellybricks - On to You
Dipsomaniacs - Calvin mp3
Gunston Midas - Great Lake, Deep Sea mp3
The Prefab Messiahs - Beyond All That mp3