Friday Odds and Ends

A few quick links before the weekend...

JAX over at Rock Insider is spotlighting an interesting L.A. band called The Front. She compares them to Mudhoney, Failure and Nirvana. I'll give the comparisons to her on the song "Social Bat", but the first song she posts, "Cavalier", sounds to me like a combination of Dramarama and Eugenius. Check it out.

The Torture Garden has a live track of Teenage Fanclub covering the Camper Van Beethoven classic "Take The Skinheads Bowling".

Idolator has a new track from Velvet Revolver called "She Builds Quick Machines". Not great. Edited to add: Crap, the MP3 link expired. Just watch the video:



And, finally, if you missed it earlier this week, Brooklyn Vegan (and others) had the new single from The New Pornographers called "My Rights Versus Yours" from their forthcoming album Challengers. I never love their lead singles.