In stereo

It's going to take me a little while to process my latest photos (if I've taken any - I'm actually writing this Monday, on the assumption that I've been to see The Jesus Mullet and Mighty Eagle Band in the meanwhile) so instead you will be subjected to a list of cool stuff I've been listening to lately, ranked in the order I thought of them (which may or may not be significant).

1. Young and Sexy Panic If You Find It. The other pop band on Mint now has three excellent albums of Beach Boys influenced boy-girl duets. I can hardly wait until April 15, when they play Zaphod's.
2. Mott the Hoople Mott. Reissued along with All The Young Dudes, the great lost rock'n'roll band of the 1970s.
3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Road to God Knows Where/Live at the Paradiso. A more ferocious live set than 2003's God Is In The House, and all the better for it - though the fact they spliced the performance so that Cave's suit jacket keeps appearing and disappearing is a little disconcerting.
4. Residual Echoes Phoenician Flu and Ancient Ocean. It's on Holy Mountain and it's the offspring of a fellow traveller of Comets on Fire. Needless to say, it is crazy-ass psychedelica.
5. Motorpsycho Black Hole/Blank Canvas. Damn - it looks like banjo-playing drummer Hakon Gebhardt has left the band, leaving core members Bent Saether and Hangus Magnus Ryan to cut back on the International Tussling and returns to the band's harder rocking origins. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
   

And now, a show reminder: Elliot Brood and the Golden Famile play Zaphod's tonight. They were scheduled to play Friday, but the date has been moved up.