WATERFALLS (formerly Dog Magic) AT RED STAR BAR MONDAY 8/31

Here's another excellent Oxford show planned at the last minute. Psych-pop band WATERFALLS (formerly Dog Magic) are an Oxford, MS 3-piece featuring Thomas Cooper and Peyton Houchins of GO FICTION and Jesse Coppenbarger of COLOUR REVOLT.

This shit is so fresh homeboys don't even have a Myspace page yet!

BRIGHTBLACK MORNINGLIGHT @ RED STAR BAR TUESDAY 8/18

LATE NOTICE! CATS PURRING EXCLUSIVE!

Psychedelic Folk duo from New Mexico BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT (Matador Records) play Tuesday August 18th at the RED STAR BAR in Oxford, MS.

Quoth Wikipedia,
"Founded by Naybob Shineywater as he was living in a tent "against babylon system," while rehearsing with Alabama friend and pianist Rachael Hughes, BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT has opened for Os Mutantes, Vashti Bunyan, Laurie Anderson, My Bloody Valentine."

See y'all there!

PRE-ORDER KITTY SNACKS #2

Head over to the KITTY SNACKS blog and pre-order the highly anticipated 2nd issue from N. Mississippi's very own DIY literary/culture/whatever zine. New issue includes literature from Mary Miller, John Brandon, and Leni Zumas. Not to mention interviews with Ross McElwee (director of our favorite movie ever SHERMAN'S MARCH) and Matt Wolf (director of the excellently touching Arthur Russell documentary from last year WILD COMBINATION).

Copies are limited to 250 copies. So GO AHEAD and reserve your copy now!!

WARD LONG PHOTOGRAPHY

Los Angeles native Ward Long recently stopped by Oxford/Taylor on his amazingly epic american road trip, and thankfully he snapped a few pix. Ward has worked at two of our favorite institutions (Family bookstore and Fader magazine) and is a fellow worshipper at the altar of Eggleston. We hope he comes back through soon!

CHECK OUT THE ENTIRE SERIES HERE.

As far as Cats Purring shizz goes, it's been a slow summer (par for the course in any college town) but we are planning some awesome shows and events for the fall. Stay tuned!

Flight - Flowers 7" Out Today

Flowers b/w Johnny's Mixed Up
Buy from Sweet Rot Records

WHEN YOU'RE A KID...

The short tirade that opens Summer Sequence II is from Dan Graham’s abstract video installation/puppet rock opera, DON’T TRUST ANYONE OVER 30. This piece, premiering at the 2007 Whitney Biennial included Brooklyn punks, Japanther, played as part of the show. While none of their songs made the tape, that’s only because Cats Purring is not so hardcore. Those guys are alright though.

- Synching seamlessly is, A Simple Man, the single from THE PRIDE OF CALLING PANTHER LAKE! Self-released earlier this year by Cats Purring’s own Dead Gaze, R Cole Furlow first brandished these stoned garage jamz with this album. He's put together an allstar band to play his songs live.

- Next are the Francophones on Sony, Ultra Orange and Emmanuelle, with Don’t Kiss Me Goodbye. Emmanuelle Seigner sings. The Parisian beauty starred in Le Scaphandre et le Papillon. The Julian Schnabel film includes this song on it's soundtrack. Guitars and static from Sonic Youth’s Goo help make this seemingly illogical transition.

- All of Gil Scott-Heron’s ‘In the Bottle’ didn’t make the tape, but a laugh that begins the track keeps it moving on to The Flaming Lips’ psychedelic folk, Five Stop Mother Superior Rain. Cats Purring recommends their album THE DAY THEY SHOT A HOLE IN THE JESUS EGG... Just raw Flaming Lips. Really, quintessential rock'n'roll.

Don't get me wrong, they got some great concept albums, but this ain't tryin to be no Yoshimi...

- David Shrigley wrote the lyrics for Whatcha Doin. In the song he wrote with P:ano, Nick Krgovich, Phil Elverum sings. Tomlab released several of these songs of Shrigley’s as companion double-discs to a book of his drawings. These were all WORRIED NOODLES. Each of the musicians, including David Byrne, admired Shrigley’s work and wanted to write music for his words. Double thanks to David Shrigley because he also drew the picture I (Samo) use as the tape's art.

- The Green Typewriters Suite, by The Olivia Tremor Control, is included on the second half of their DUSK AT CUBIST CASTLE. Truly, the album is a modern classic. Kevin Barnes, Of Montreal, covered Green Typewriters IV in Dallas a couple of years ago. Following in this Sequence is Olivia’s own Green Typewriter II. The point of these tapes is mainly to play at parties but also to encourage folks to go out and find music. Having only included just a cover of a song followed by the shortest on the record, I have to recommend what I'd call Athens, GA’s finest work… Pick up a copy!

- The odd mate to the psychedelic Georgians’ Typewriter pieces is a song written by Shankar Jaikishan for Merchant-Ivory’s ‘Bombay Talkie’. Wes Anderson also uses the song in The Darjeeling Limited.

- Staying on the soundtrack tip for a bit, the tape goes to David Lynch. Julee Cruise’s sang his ‘Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart’ for Twin Peaks. Thanks to Phil Elverum for motivatinging me to use this song on a mix.

- As it winds down, the tape plays SPIRIT THEY’RE GONE, SPIRIT THEY’RE VANISHED. The album, by Avey Tare & Panda Bear around the same time these guys started Animal Collective. Last year they recorded at Sweet Tea in Oxford, and just after New Years’ released their work, Merriweather Post Pavillion.

- ‘I Know A Girl’ opens SMALL LAVA but closes Summer Sequence II. Cats Purring recently released the new EP from Dead Gaze. It can be found on the blog. If you’re into having a good time, we recommend getting down to Mississippi and sweatin’ it out with us at one of their shows this summer.

Sequence II

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE OXFORD MS LIVE PIX FROM JOEY MILLER

The concert at Oxford's The Library last Saturday was by all accounts a success. Kids were really getting crazy, crowd surfing and the what have you, and it was amazing watching all those faces melt during the spectacular BLACK DICE set. Check out these sweet shots of the ANIMAL COLLECTIVE from Memphis's JOEY MILLER:





Our homie REVEREND GREEN has some nice shots right here of the show and the SWEET TEA studios where AC recorded their excellent new album.

DEAD GAZE - "SMALL LAVA"

Those who remember Cole's last band BOY SCOUT KNIFE might be surprised at the hazy, blissful psychpop of his new project DEAD GAZE. Dude was living in the MS delta crunching out some real filth, moved to the west coast for a hot second and came back with a ying yang tattoo, a sampler, and some weed popsicles. Here are some free jams that swing from dreamy ambience to fuzzy garage pop to heady dub groovez. We're proud to have "SMALL LAVA" as the fourth FREE release from Cats Purring.

TRACK LISTING:
1. I Know A Girl
2. Remember When We First Met?
3. You'll Carry On Real Nice
4. Enz
5. The Holy

DOWNLOAD HERE

RECOMMENDED FOR OXONIANS

Tonight is a momentous occasion for the N. Miss. local muzak thang. DEAD GAZE is the megahyped new project from Cole Furlow (formerly of BOY SCOUT KNIFE). We'll be posting a free digital E.P. from DEAD GAZE any day now (ahem awaiting artwork from Mr. Furlow ahem) called SMALL LAVA. Keep your eyes n ears peeled.

Also playing tonight is DOG MAGIC a.k.a. PENMAN COOPER & COMMITTEE OF STYLE (a new supergroop featuring Thomas Cooper, Je$$e Coppenbarger, and Peyton Houchinz). So fresh they don't even have a Myspace yet!!! The show's at the Red Star bar @ The Lyric. Showtime = showtime. See y'all there!

BIBLE ON HANNAH

It's no secret that we worship at the altar of Hannah. A couple of weeks ago, Michael Bible guest blogged at HTML GIANT about his time w/ Barry. Don't sleep on the scan of Barry Hannah's handwritten notes to Zita and the bonus epic interview sesh mp3 w/ Larry Brown, Brad Watson, and Barry which has been re-upped:

RIGHT HERE.

p.s. Copies of Michael's debut chapbook My Second Best Bear Rug may or may not still be available via ACHILLES CHAPBOOK SERIES or maybe in some gutter somewhere.

DENT MAY & HIS MAGNIFICENT UKULELE - "A BRUSH WITH VELVET"

We're in the process of re-uploading our old releases as well as several new ones over the next few weeks. Here's our first ever release, Dent May's debut E.P. "A Brush With Velvet" from 2007 (whoa).


TRACK LISTING:

1. Howard
2. College Town Boy
3. Meet Me In The Garden
4. Pierce Avenue
5. When You Were Mine
6. I'm An Alcoholic

DOWNLOAD HERE

*Some of these songs appear in re-recorded form on Dent's debut record, "The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele" available now from PAW TRACKS.

JAPANDROIDS at the Blind Pig on Friday, July 3