The second unreleased mp3 in our Brighten The Corners: The Nicene Creendence Buy Early Get Now went up yesterday! For those of you who for some inexplicable reason haven’t signed up yet the song is a live version of “Transport Is Arranged”.

We promised a some surprise goodies for Buy Early Get Now so without committing too much, there might…possibly….probably….be a few more incredible unreleased tracks coming along to supplement the two we promised and delivered

You can get into Buy Early Get Now on the Matador Store HERE or sign up at one of the fine retailers below….

1-2-3-4 Go! Records – Oakland, CA
Aboveground Records – Edgarton, MA
AKA Records- Philadelphia, PA
Atomic Records- Milwaukee, WI
Aural Exploits – Santa Monica, CA
Bull City Records – Durham, NC
Criminal Records – Atlanta, GA
Disconnected Records – San Diego, CA
Ear Candy Music – Missoula, MT
East Coast Music & Video – Greenville, NC
End Of An Ear - Austin, TX
Exiled Records – Portland, OR
Good Records – Dallas, TX
Graywhale – Salt Lake City, UT
Grimey’s New & Preloved Music – Nashville, TN
Guestroom Records – Norman, OK
Hard Boiled – Chicago, IL
Insound – New York, NY – Online Only
Jackpot Records – Portland, OR
Landlocked – Bloomington, IN
Laurie’s Planet of Sound – Chicago, IL
Lou’s Records – Encinitas, CA
Love Garden Sounds – Lawrence, KS
LUNA Music – Indianapolis, IN
Lunchbox Records – Charlotte, NC
Madcity Music – Madison, WI
Matador Records – New York, NY – Online Only
Mod Lang- El Cerrito, CA
Mojo- Tampa, FL
M-Theory – San Diego, CA
Music Saves – Cleveland, OH
Other Music – New York, NY
Parasol – Urbana, IL
Park Ave. – Orlando, FL
Paul’s Compact Discs – Pittsburg, PA
Permanent Records – Chicago, IL
Reckless Records – Chicago, IL
Repo Records – Philadelphia, PA
Siren Records – Doylestown, PA
Slowtrain – Salt Lake City, UT
Sound Fix – Brooklyn, NY
Square Records – Akron, OH
Stinkweeds- Phoenix, AZ
Tonevendor – Gainesville, FL – Online Only
Treehouse Records – Minneapolis, MN
Twist & Shout – Denver, CO
Underground Sounds – Ann Arbor, MI
Vintage Vinyl – St. Louis, MO
Von’s Records – West Lafayette, IN
Waiting Room Records – Normal, IL
Waterloo Records – Austin, TX
Wazoo Records – Ann Arbor, MI
Wuxtry Records- Atlanta, GA
Young Ones – Kutztown, PA
Zzz Records – Des Moines, IA

And, here are participating Canadian stores!
Blackbyrd Myoozik – Edmonton
Criminal Records - Toronto
Ditch Records – Victoria
Encore Records – Kitchener
Grooves Record Store – London
Listen Records – Edmonton
Music Trader – Winnepeg
Phonopolis – Montreal
Red Cat Records – Vancouver
Rotate This – Toronto
Scratch Records – Vancouver
Sonic Boom – Toronto
Soundscapes – Toronto
Zulu Records – Vancouver

Australian stores:
Big Star – Adelaide
Planet – Perth
Polyester – Melbourne
Red Eye - Sydney
Rockinghorse – Brisbane

indeed, “cheaper than a movie” (in Hollywood, anyway), unless you’re heading for the dollar theatre to see Quinton “Rampage” Jackson’s star turn in “The Midnight Meat Train“.

(Lavender Diamond’s Becky Stark, Saturday night at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre. Picture taken from Hazyskyline‘s Flickr stream)

OK, file this under an 11th hour announcement. After a pair of shows this weekend in LA and SF supporting Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, Lavender Diamond conclude their brief run with She & Him with the following shows :

Nov. 3 (tonight) – Bimbo’s 365, San Francisco
Nov. 4 – House Of Blues, Anaheim

(l-r : Pat Brady, Kenny Chambers, Pat Leonard. Photograph by Bruce Rhodes, taken from the cover of The Noise, March 1986, used without permission)

There’s a post about the passing of Moving Targets bassist Pat Leonard on the Targets’ MySpace blog, composed by his friend, guitarist/vocalist Kenny Chambers. You can read it yourself if you’re inclined, but here’s just one sentence that sticks out : “through out the post Targets years I lost count of the number of times that fans and fellow musicians came to me to sing the praises of his talent as a player. He really was someone they all looked up to.” Amen. The original Moving Targets were one of the greatest American bands of my youth (Mr. Amory’s as well), and their 1986 debut LP ‘Burning In Water’ (Taang) compares very favorably to many of the iconic works of that period. Our thoughts go out to Pat’s friends and family.

Fucked Up dropped by Matador UK today, to catch up on some paperwork.

We also managed to get some new press shots done, exclusively for the Matablog.

“THE BEATING HEART OF THE UNDERGROUND.”

Fucked Up’s Halloween weekender continues tonight and the UK tour kicks off next week :

07 Nov : 93 Feet East, London
08 Nov : Freebutt, Brighton
09 Nov : Barfly, Birmingham
10 Nov : The Zodiac, Oxford
11 Nov : Cavern, Exeter
12 Nov : Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
13 Nov : Sugarmill, Stoke
14 Nov : Bodega, Nottingham
15 Nov : Kasbah, Coventry
16 Nov : King Tuts, Glasgow
17 Nov : Corporation, Sheffield
18 Nov : Cockpit, Leeds
19 Nov : Roadhouse, Manchester
20 Nov : The GYC, Guildford