The Best of MySpace: Seaweed Jack

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MySpace: Seaweed Jack
Recommended if you like: Seaweed, The Carne, Kicking Ass

As you may already know, usounds listens to all 196,442 bands on MySpace. This is 97 more bands than last week! I was not enamored by any of these new 97 bands and crossed MySpace paths with Seaweed Jack instead.

Seaweed Jack is pretty much the shit out of Spokane, WA since the garbage-eating metal goat was erected in Riverfront Park during expo ’74. For those unfamiliar, you hold trash up to the goat’s mouth which triggers a suction and pulls the trash out of your hand, and shoots it out the goat’s ass into a trash compactor.

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Music News Highlights

Despite what Shane Mehling said about ghosts, (“hey fuckers, stop talking about ghosts…”) Band of Horses still name their first single “Is There A Ghost”. And you can stream it on MySpace.

Yahoo News: Did some asshole kill Beethoven?

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(Not the St Bernard dog even though in Beethoven I his vet secretly tried to kill him too)

NME: Billy Corgan thinks American girls are sluts.

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The only person who could legitimately write a song about ghosts or star in Powder II

Rolling Stone: You might sleep better at night knowing that “U2’s next album is ‘making itself'” according to producer Daniel Lanois.

Mick Harvey Two of Diamonds [Mute Records]

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Rating: 7.5

While Nick Cave has been recording with a group under the name Grinderman, longtime Bad Seed and fellow Birthday Party cohort, Mick Harvey, has just released his fourth album (not including soundtracks). For this recording, Harvey has employed the Bad Seeds’ Thomas Wydler and James Johnston to assist him with another amalgam of cover songs and a few original tunes. His first two solo records contained reinterpretations of Serge Gainsbourg songs that were translated to English while his last album, One Man’s Treasure, followed the same formula of the new disc, Two of Diamonds.

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