The Fleshtones in Your Stocking

Garage rock's elder statesmen The Fleshtones released a holiday CD called Stocking Stuffer this fall that is available on Yep Roc records. In addition, they recently appeared on the Cherry Blossom Clinic (hosted by Terre T.) on WFMU to perform some songs from their Xmas album live. You can still listen to the live performance here.

Big in Germany

Dan Baird, former lead singer of the Georgia Satellites, solo artist, and member of the Yahoos, has released a new record this year called Dan Baird & the Homemade Sin that sees him teaming up with Warner Hodges, former guitarist for Jason & the Scorchers. And it also has former Georgia Satellite member Mauro Magellan on drums. If you didn't hear about this record, don't worry, neither did I. Like a lot of recent efforts for Baird, they are only getting released in Germany. This one is no different and you can get yourself a copy through Germany's Blue Rose Records online shop.

Spaceships Landing Soon

Bob Pollard's new outfit, Boston Spaceships, will be releasing a new web only 7" single this coming Tuesday. It will contain a single from their upcoming release The Planets are Blasted along with three non album tracks. The single is available from Rockathon Music. Songs are as follows;

1. Headache Revolution
   
2. Demntia Is Rising
   
3. Take That Off (And Put This On)
   
4. 7 is the Hot Noose
   

Shriek meets the Church

Wyrm Publishing is releasing a limited edition of Jeff VanderMeer's science fiction book Shriek: an Afterward as a signed hardback that is limited to 500 copies. Of interest to music fans will be an accompanying CD of soundtrack music by The Church that the Australian band did in conjunction with a movie adaptation of the book. Information on the film can be found at Shriek: The Movie.

Merry Xmas Baby

Paul Westerberg has released yet another digital download, this time for the holiday season. D.G.T. can be purchased from TuneCore for a measly 74 cents. Tracks for the MP3 download are as follows;

1. Always in a Manger
   
2. Streets of Laredo
   
3. D.G.T.
   

Tell Me a Tale from Bonnaroo

The Raconteurs have released a Bonnaroo version of their latest single 'Old Enough.' The regular single contained that song (which features Ricky Scaggs and Ashley Monroe with the band) and a bluegrass version of 'Top Yourself.' But, this new version of the single, which is only available as a 7" contains the song 'Old Enough' which was recorded at the 2008 Bonnaroo festival. And the b-side contains an acoustic version of the same song that was recorded backstage at Bonnaroo. It can be purchased here.


In addition, the band are streaming several of their fall UK live shows on their website.

Join the Club

American Music Club released a
digital only single for song "All the lost souls welcome you to San Francisco." The single also contains demo versions of the songs "Stars" and "Who are you." All three songs, though not in demo form, are from their record The Golden Age. The single is availabe from iTunes and eMusic, but the eMusic one is very hard to find as it isn't listed on the band page and can only be downloaded at the following link;

http://www.emusic.com/album/American-Music-Club-All-The-Lost-Souls-Welcome-You-To-San-Francisco-MP3-Download/11270001.html


In addition to the single there are still three very limited CDs that can be purchased from the band's website. These were European tour CDs. The first is Atwater Afternoon, which contains in-the-studio recordings of songs in preparation of the tour with the new lineup. It also contains some covers, such as Sam & Dave's "I'm Your Puppet." The second disc is a collection of rehearsals for the album Everclear which is appropriately titled The Everclear Rehearsals Late 1990. And the third disc is The Mercury Band Demos April 1992. Get them while you can as they are very limited; disc one (1500 copies), disc 2 (600 copies), and disc 3 (700 copies).




Note 12/21/08: Unfortunately it looks like eMusic is no longer making the digital single available to U.S. customers.