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Such Fun/Can't You See 7"

'Such Fun/Can't You See' is the first release from Manchester's Milk Maid and the forth release on Suffering Jukebox Records. Milk Maid is a band built around the songwriting talents of Martin Cohen, the bassist from Nine Black Alps and the two jams on this single represent his first ever attempts at songwriting... attempts that in our opinion are a bit like someone attempting to play for Manchester United, scoring a hat-trick and ending the night making out with Winona Ryder on the Heathers set... that said; we think he rules.

No-one really sounds like Guided By Voices, but Milk Maid have a similarly laissez faire approach to recording solid gold melodies; throwing away songs most bands would kill for with a kinda swoony arrogance. This single wouldn't sound out of place on the Woodsist label, home of Kurt Vile, Woods and Real Estate...but y'know Suffering Jukebox got in first. Maybe they'll steal Milk Maid of us and we'd end up all bitter and broken.

'Such Fun/Can't You See' is out on October 18th on 7" Vinyl and Cassingle

BLOG FOLK & PRESS PEOPLE

Please feel to post up the MP3 I've attached to this email. It's not on the single but it does rule. If you want to do an interview with Milk Maid or just chat, you can contact Martin from Milk Maid at martinjamescohen@hotmail.com

RECORD STORES & DISTRO

Gimme a shout if you want to order the vinyl and/or cassette. Prices, delivery etc blah de blah

PROMOTERS

If you want to book Milk Maid you can either shout me or the band... they like getting enough money to cover petrol, drinking beers and being treated well

Expo$ure

Martin from Milk Maid was interviewed for the Manchester Evening News; he talks about how awesome Milk Maid are and what a rad dude he is. Not really... the MEN mainly focuses on the fact Martin used to be in Nine Black Alps, who are still one of the best bands I ever saw in Manchester.

The Milk Maid single has been delayed slightly thanks to incompetence from me and our pressing plant. That said, 'Such Fun/Can't You See' will be out on 18th October. Pre-orders up soon!

Suffering Jukecast #3

1. Cartoon Beginning - Eat Skull

2. The Kids Are Alright - Les Calamites

3. I'm Gone - The Bat Caves

4. Disguises - Of Montreal

5. Violet Execution - Sebadoh

6. Beach Comber - Real Estate (Radio Session)

7. Shock Town - The Sun Electric Band

8. Hammond Song - The Roches

A decidedly more autumnal feel to the latest installment; I think that's the theme. Autumn is alot of people's favourite season, hippies mainly...personally I prefer summer to getting drenched and everything dying. Saying that, there's definitely something brilliant about being bunked down and hearing rain on the window; it's like mocking God. So there's a couple of brand new bands; The Bat Caves & The Sun Electric Band and a couple of Who covers, which can't be bad. Stay tuned

Suffering Jukecast 3 by Suffering Jukebox

Milk Maid 6Music

Milk Maid killed it on Sunday night at The Deaf Institute label launch bash. I took some photos over the weekend which you can see HERE . Marc Riley at 6Music struck while the iron was hot and invited them in for a session last night. Marc's show is consistently great, he's a wonderful dude, has been in two of the best Manchester bands ever and has played host to a remarkable number of underground bands doing sessions. You can listen to the three Milk Maid tracks and a short interview with them HERE

Gun Outfit

Just got around to picking up the Gun Outfit album and I've finally stopped listening to REM who've soundtracked the last couple of months for me. Dean from No Age has just put out the album on his PPM label and they're heading over to the UK in November. I'm not gonna try and describe the album cos I haven't figured it out yet. You can get the original demos for their website HERE

Lilys

I'm mourning the loss of TOTP after a lunchtime trawling the YouTube archives. Obviously it was predominantly rubbish, especially in the 2000's, but the BBC/major label machine would occasionally drop it's guard and a band like Lilys would be on. Admittedly 'Nanny In Manhattan' was all over a Levis ad (I think it was for Silver Tabs, which my mum bought me in Fort Lauderdale that summer) but seeing them on TOTP seemed strangely subversive at the time. Looking back you have to admire a band that went on prime time TV and went out of their way to play their hit song absolutely nothing like the recorded version. Kurt Heasley's a totally underrated songwriter and this is just total magic imho.

The Sun Electric Band

I don't know much about this band except my buddy Paul at Too Cool To Die likes them and Ross from the band got in touch to buy an old 4Track of mine. Whether he buys it or not is still up in the air and I'll keep you informed on this issue obviously... Anyways, this song jumped up and bit me so I'm posting it here. Shock Town reminds me of Real Estate or The Mantles, both fine bands but not from the beautiful North West of England, which is a place close to my heart. Sun Electric Band play the Kings Cross Social Club on 28th October and Rossendale Football Club on 24th September. The Rossendale show sounds awesome

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Aias

Maybe soon I'm gonna get sick of reverb drenched sunshine lo-fi. Mike Sniper at Captured Tracks certainly isn't. Aias are the latest in a seemingly endless line of ace bands from the Brooklyn label and probably one of the best so far. According to their MySpace, they hail from Barcelona and they describe themselves as an 'All Girl Summer Fun Band' which is just about the best type of band. Anyways, I have good news and bad news... good news - they're playing London on 11th September... Bad news - it's at the Old Blue Last

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Download courtesy of Neu Magazine

Suffering Jukecast #2

Here's the second ever Suffering Jukecast and it's particularly copyright flaunting this time. The lousy British weather has been getting everyone down, so stick this on, close your eyes and imagine you're in California. These are some of my favourites

1. Gardening At Night - R.E.M.

2. Dance The Night Away - Colleen Green

3. Ginger - Lilys

4. Love Athena - Olivia Tremor Control

5. Lady Friend - The Byrds

6. Beyond The Shore - Former Bullies

7. Sparky's Dream (BBC Session) - Teenage Fanclub

8. Rain Of Crystal Spires - Felt

9. Anytime You Want - Eric's Trip

10. Jesus Was Way Cool - King Missile

Suffering Podcast #2 by Suffering Jukebox

Stuff Etc

A few people have written about us in the last few days (no-one from Manchester ha) including a really nice post on the Vice site about the label and all the bands. You can get a load of MP3s on there aswell. Pitchfork have this new Altered Zones blog that's made up of lots of other blogs... 20jazzfunkgreats, Transparent, Gorilla V Bear etc. 20jazzfunkgreats were nice enough to write about Colleen Green here

The Mazes tape that Italian Beach Babes issued last week has been repressed as the original bunch sold out. Couple of reviews on Tapelove and Norman's Records

OK back to work and listening to Sebadoh vs Helmet

Launch Night

We're having a special launch night for the record label at The Deaf Institute on 29th August... Bank Holiday Sunday! All of the bands on the label will play except for Colleen Green because she lives in America. Our friends from Comfortable On A Tightrope and the Pigeon Post blog will be DJing and I'm hoping for the greatest ever merch table.

We're not really gonna have a running order for bands...I guess you just have to get down early

You can attend on Facebook here

Rock Show

Mazes & Brown Brogues played in Manchester on Saturday with our buddies Waiters and Boy or Bison. Folly Of Youth was nice enough to document the show and post a couple of songs up on YouTube.

You Snooze, You Lose

The Brown Brogues tape album is out now from Rough Trade and our Big Cartel. It's warts and all account of their very first recordings but it's all killer. Only 50 copies in total, so don't snooze on it... Buy it HERE

Best Album Ever

So I think this was a pretty 'cool' album to like a few years back when Green Man was all the rage, nonetheless it's still a bit of a lost classic even though it's had a-lot more attention over the last ten years. Anyway for me, if I'm ever asked what my favourite album of all time is, I say 'Wolfking Of LA' cos it is. John Phillips may well have had a long term sexual relationship with his own daughter, but on Wolfking he made one of most beautifully trashy albums ever.

Obviously most people know of John Phillips from The Mamas & The Papas where he made his name as one of the sixties finest songwriters, as well as being a harmony arranger surpassed only by Brian Wilson. John's private life during and after his heyday was one of unparalled excess and debauchery and it's this that informs the album's unhinged romance. It's pretty much the only album that I know ALL the words to and I don't even know the words to our songs... please listen.

Listen to Harlem Tunnel

Girlfriends

I've spent all morning listening to Girlfriends on MySpace and subsequently pondering how great these songs are and how the hell did Tom and Rupert let MySpace get so outdated. Girlfriends are currently touring the US with our sis Colleen Green, probably having a complete blast and blowing minds. Like Jonathan Richman, Girlfriends hail from Boston and the songs have a similar bratty feel; all slurred words, skewed romance, lazy chord changes and those horizontal melody lines I seem to like so much. If you like Nodzzz and Box Elders, then I'm pretty sure you'll like Girlfriends

You can download a digital single HERE

Initials BB

I'm super into Brown Brogues today. Anyhows... Pigeon Post interviewed them and they were kind enough to mention us and talk about the tape which should be back any day now.

Here's the interview and here's their Flickr

Mazes Mixtape

Our friend Conan at Italian Beach Babes is putting out a Mazes Mixtape album. Keep checking his blog for updates but it should be available to order in a week or so. Here's the tracklist...

1. Huffing NV

2. Church Street

3. Urgh

4. I Don't Wanna Know (Fleetwood Mac)

5. Bowie Knife One

6. Shuffle Board

7. A Metric Tower

8. Athens Song

9. What D'Ya Reckon

10. I Don't Know What's Wrong

11. I'm A Smoker

12. No Way

13. Iz It?

14. Checkers

15. Jarin & Jay Don't Like This

16. Sand On Your Neck

17. Munchkins

18. Temperton Tecker

19. Jump (Van Halen)

20. Illegitimate Love (Ean Eraser)

21. Urgh x 100

22. Shit Priest

23. Don't Worry Baby (The Beach boys)

24. Dire Strait's Brothers In Arms

25. Vampire Jive 1

26. Fingers

27. Amelie

28. Eva

29. Till I'm Dead

30. Danny Elfman

31. Brazil

Monday Free Song

Here's a Colleen Green version of The Mission 120's "Just Like I Do". To my ears, Colleen's version is miles better than the original, but her new song on MySpace is miles better than that. Miles better! She's on tour with Girlfriends at the moment and has promised to write us a tour blog so watch out...

Mission 120's "Just Like I Do"

Grim Fandangle

If you're in Manchester and you're stuck for something to do tonight, you could do a-lot worse than head down to The Grim Fandangle at The Corner. I don't really know what a 'fandangle' is but I'm assuming it's a good thing. The name's irrelevant anyway... there's four bands playing... I've only ever seen Brown Brogues before and I've raved about them enough so I'm gonna leave it to the promoter to sum up BB, Cargo Cult, Rent Boys and The Graveyard Shift. Here goes...

THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT www.myspace.com/itsthegraveyardshift
"I saw these guys at Big Hands. I was sweating so fucking hard, man! I had to shove my arm down my fucking throat just to stop my heart beating so hard! They fucking chewed my ears out, man!" - 50 Cent, Voice Of A Generation.

BROWN BROGUES www.myspace.com/brownbrogues
"I used to go out with Mark from Brown Brogues. He ripped my shit up tough, you dig?" - David Cameron, iz my Daddy.

CARGO CULT www.myspace.com/cargoculteofficial
"Have you seen Fiddy lately? Dude's fucked up, man. He's all fucked up." - Paris Hilton, NTDuh1stWMN2MmmACHE$$$OUTTASEX.

RENT BOYS www.myspace.com/rentboysleeds
"You know that taxi driver? The Cumbrian bloke that shot all those people up? Well, yeah... He was pretty cool. But I like Rent Boys, so..." - Ian, Night & Day (NOT WHERE THIS IS)

*stares at screen*

Not a clue what any of that means, but Sex Is Disgusting are putting out the first Rent Boys single (buy it here) and that's a big thumbs up. I'd be there if I didn't live in London now and I'll let you in on a secret...there's NOTHING happening in London tonight. Manchester 1, London 0