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Jesse Jarnow has written an excellent profile of Circulatory System, with much previously-unrevealed history, for Indy Week. It can’t be missed:

Elephant 6’s Circulatory System Returns: Dreams Less Sweet

Thanks to mgocze for posting on the Townhall a link to the Robbert Bobbert & the Bubble Machine video for “We R Super Heroes”:

Still Flyin’s “Good Thing It’s a Ghost Town Around Here,” from their album Never Gonna Touch the Ground, was recently featured on HBO’s Entourage.  Thanks to David Hugh for the tip.

Little Fyodor, one of the first artists to be released on the Elephant 6 Recording Company label, has a new album out, Peace is Boring.  You can order the CD here, or download it here.  He’s also featured, for the second time, in his own comic strip.

Umbrella Weather, the debut album from Laminated Cat, is out today from Garden Gate Records.  The cover art is by Will Cullen Hart (cat drawing) and Bill Doss (lettering), and the album was engineered by Craig Morris (Thee American Revolution).  Ordering info should be up shortly at the Garden Gate website.  My review is here.

Babelgum has posted a number of videos from XX Merge, including some delicious footage of The Ladybug Transistor.  View all the videos here.

Autographed of Montreal and Olivia Tremor Control merchandise is for sale in a charity auction from this eBay seller.  Thanks to James Brown for the link.

Barring any major news, this site will take a breather this week.  See you soon.

The new Music Tapes song “For the Planet Pluto 3″ recently made its debut via Merge Records.  (I posted the video back in August.)  Now Merge is making the song available for download.  Click here and enjoy.

Starting tomorrow, Athens welcomes a new pop festival: the Kindercore/Owl Scooters Hootenanny, which over three days and two venues (the Caledonia and the 40 Watt) will feature an impressive roster including Kindercore bands old and new.  Among those are a reunited Masters of the Hemisphere (I swoon!), which means, naturally, that offshoots Still Flyin’ and Je Suis France are playing as well.  Also reuniting for the festival: dance pop icons I Am the World Trade Center.  Plus the lovely Venice is Sinking, Ruby Isle, The Young Sinclairs, Maserati, The Agenda, Allison Weiss, and more.  Win a scooter, get a free scooter oil change, or just enjoy great music.

We’ve known for a while that Beulah’s Miles Kurosky is working on a solo album.  A MySpace page popped up a while back, and Miles posted a new song there, as well as some unused remixes Beulah did of Yoko Ono’s “Let Me Count the Ways.”

Then a lot of silence.

Or so we thought.  Apparently in January of this year animator Fran Krause of The Kraus Brothers posted on his blog that he was working on a video for one of the songs off Miles’ upcoming album, one “which is about a dog in a burning building.”  And I wouldn’t have known about this at all except that Nomad just discovered it and posted a link on the Townhall (thanks, Nomad).  Click here for Fran Krause’s whole piece, including images from the video.  He also points out that Miles worked on the soundtrack for The Upstate Four.

But whither this new Miles Kurosky album?  We’re still waiting…