I love comic books, but that Green Lantern movie looks AWFUL. No one I know who saw the movie said it was good, so I’ll just wait for the rental. If you’re looking to spend some greens, see below:

GREEN ROOM MUSIC SOURCE

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Green Room Music Source is sponsoring two shows at The Loring Theater in Minneapolis. Being from around here (and active in the music scene), I’ve seen many of these bands before. They are all pretty well-known if you live around here. The non-Minneapolis band is John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light (performing both nights), they are from Denver, Colorado.

The two nights are Friday (July 29th) and Saturday (July 30th) at The Loring Theater. Both shows are all-ages, which generally means the show starts really early: 8pm (but you may want to show up early). Both shows, I think are $10 in advance and $14 at the door.

I have been confirmed for Friday’s show (so come say hi if you see me).


Friday, July 29 Lineup: The Alarmists – 11:00pm Pictures of Then – 10:00pm John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light – 9:00pm Maudlin – 8:00pm Purchase tickets		Saturday, July 30 Lineup: Communist Daughter – 11:00pm Blue Sky Blackout – 10:00pm John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light – 9:00pm Greycoats – 8:00pm Purchase tickets

GREEN LIKE JULY

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Bad Panda Records, in association with Italian label, Ghost Records, wants us to know about the band Green Like July.

The band is offering two cover songs, available for download in a variety of formats at Bad Panda’s website and includes a John Lennon cover “Crippled Inside” and Big Star’s “September Gurls”*.

Green Like July – Two Cover Songs by Green Like July [ZIP]

01 Crippled Inside (John Lennon) [MP3] [WAV]
02 September Gurls (Big Star) [MP3] [WAV]

If you like what you’ve downloaded, check out Green Like July’s second album, Four-Legged Fortune, produced by Saddle Creek’s AJ Mogis and recorded at the ARC Studios (Bright Eyes, Pete Yorn, Julian Casablancas, Cursive).

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LITTLE GREEN CARS www.littlegreencars.net As usual with this company (Anorak London), they send very little detail about their bands and they often never send album artwork. Which means I have nothing to work with. All I know about this band, Little Green Cars, is that they’re from Dublin, Ireland, and their new single is called The John Wayne, out July 25th. You can preview the song at soundcloud.		CREEP officialcreep.com Creep are duo producers (Lauren Flax and Lauren Dillard), they recently remixed Memory Tapes’ song “Green Knight”. The video premiered on Stereogum in early July, and people really love the remix. Fader is calling it “moping to it all night” as well as XLR8R who said, “putting this one on repeat“. Just the recommendations alone, I went ahead and downloaded the free track at soundcloud without listening to it first.
GREEN RIVER ORDINANCE soundcloud.com/greenriverordinance Green River Ordinance (GRO) released an all-covers EP last April called Songs We Like From Before We Were Born. You can get various packages from physical CDs and T-Shirts at bandcamp.com if you like what you hear. Covers includes Stealers Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle” (you may have been scarred by that Tarantino movie with this song), Tom Petty’s “American Girl”, The Band’s “The Weight”, Fleetwood Mac’s “Go Your Own Way”, and The Beatles’ “With a Little Help From My Friends”.		CHLLNGR soundcloud.com/chllngr Green Owl Records released Copenhagen producer CHLLNGR (aka Steven Jess Borth II) new record, Haven, earlier this month I don’t know how to say CHLLNGR, is it “challenger”? “chillinger”? I have the same problem with MSTRKFT, which I thought was “mister kraft”, and RCRDLBL, which I could not pronounce for the longest time. Yes, it’s a real problem when words are missing some vowels. Anyway, you can download “May 3” free at soundcloud.