Casper & the Cookies

Pop champs Casper & the Cookies phone it from Bel Aire Studios in Athens, GA, before retiring to the hottub. "As sweet as the popsicle that you dropped on the ground the day that you saw your best friend with your sixth-grade crush. As strange as eating the popsicle anyway." Personell: Jason NeSmith, Kay Stanton, Jim Hix, Joseph Aloysius Rowe III, assisted by two telephones and a cd of sound effects. Special thanks to Dan Korn!

Awesome songs, unplugged:

Sid From Central Park / Kiss A Friend > Barking In the Garden of Ill Repute / Neo Dada Heyday / Krotenwanderung / Learn How to Disappear / Yer Birthday

Dialing In

Dialing In on Phoning It In, a combination better than peanut butter and jelly, or crunchy peanut butter on smooth peanut butter. Reita Piecuch phones it in from Seattle, WA. Gorgeous loops and loops and drone, beautiful scraping, lulled together into truly hypnotic stuff. Search "Dialing In" at Aquarius Records to buy albums and read even higher praise. Awesome awesome awesome.

Will Johnson (Centro-matic)

Will Johnson from Centro-matic and South San Gabriel phones it in from Austin, TX. "While Centro-matic is best known for their bombastic, fuzz-laden rock songs and Johnson's solo recordings tend toward the sad and sparse, South San Gabriel is the outlet for Johnson's open-ended, hallucinatory pop songs." Bee-yoo-ti-ful!

Songs:

Triggers and Trash Heaps / Atlanta / The Fugitives Have Won / I See Through You / Re-run Pills