Our friends over at Covert Curiosity are reporting on the new EP from Black Moth Super Rainbow titled Drippers, due out in September. According to the band, it’s 9 tracks of recent work from the past year that won’t make it on to the new album. You can pre-order it from their website.

The band are also giving away another collection of 9 “older unreleased and hard-to-find songs” called Bonus Drippers for free on their website. You can get it here (via Sendspace) or here (via Megaupload).

Check out an unreleased version of “Side 9,” from all the way back in 2004, as well as “Happy Melted City” off the upcoming Drippers EP (both after the jump).

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If you haven’t been following all the hype about the Walkmen’s new album You & Me, here’s the recap: it’s really good.

You & Me drops officially on August 19th, but for the next three weeks, you can get the album for only $5 right here. That’s not even the good part. As part of Amie Street’s “Download to Make a Difference” program, all proceeds go directly to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

To recap: $5 gets you 14 new Walkmen songs AND fights cancer. What’s not to like?

You can also pre-order the limited edition red 180 gram vinyl pressing exclusively from Insound right here (which I highly recommend, vinyl is the best way to enjoy The Walkmen). Use the code 10youandme to get 10% off your purchase (thanks Insound).

You can download the (excellent) new track “In The New Year” (off You & Me) after the jump.

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The good folks over at Do512 have a little contest going on that I think you all might be interested in, especially if you live in Austin. Here’s the deal: make one of their embeddable calendars (just like the one we have on the lower right hand side of our page) and embed it in a blog, Myspace, Facebook or any other internet site that you own and you get the chance to, here’s the good part, win tickets for you and a +1 to every show at Emo’s, The Parish, Antone’s, Flamingo Cantina, Beerland, Beauty Bar and Threadgill’s for the entire month of August. I know, holy shit.

Here’s what you do. Go to http://do512.com/VIP, login or register for an account with Do512, make your calendar, tell ‘em which shows you’re going to, post it on your internet, and then go to a ton of free shows next month. Trust me, it’s easy.

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I remember back during SXSW this past year, rumors were everywhere of Daytrotter recording this act or that act; one of those groups was Bodies of Water, and as of today it’s no rumor. The band’s new album A Certain Feeling (which we’ll have a review of soon) is out July 22nd on Secretly Canadian. By the way, it’s really good. Check out their Daytrotter session, which features a couple of tracks from the new album, here.

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If you didn’t already know, in addition to these here ramblings, I also write for a local Austin website called Austin Sound, which we hype as being the “independent music source for Austin.”

Recently, we put a good deal of effort into redesigning the entire site to make it more, as they say, “user friendly.” That means you should go check it out, read a little bit about what’s going down with Austin music (if you don’t already know!) and, of course, click on a shit ton of ads.

We’ll be doing some big renovations at another blog I write for (Side One Track One) later this fall, so be on the lookout for more shameless self promotion sometime in August.

Photo: Wired, Courtesy of Honda

The headline says it all. Oh, and congratulations, you picked up on the “Asian Robot in the Motor City” irony.

Speaking of which, the GMC robot they originally hired was let go after requiring three oil changes and a new transmission before Don Quixote even got his first lines in.

Read the rest of this nonsense here.