You can also check out the Noun full-length, Holy Hell, or buy it (along with sick Screaming Females vinyl and The Measure [SA] gear) at Don Giovanni Records.

Many thanks to Marissa for sending these recordings along!

Enjoy! Oh, and be sure to check out the Screaming Females on tour throughout the US and Europe in the next few  months–you won’t be sorry!

Noun
Forgotten Grin (2009)

[Download]
[Noun @ Myspace]
[Don Giovanni Records]
[Screaming Females]

The track listing here is a bit different than what made it onto the final album (which you can buy at Don Giovanni Records), FYI.

Many thanks to Marissa and also to Star for sending along songs from the out-of-print Forgotten Grin tape and the Pink Couch Sessions rip.

Enjoy!

Noun
Holy Hell (2010)

Talk
Pearly Gates
So Rough
Brother
Old Friends
Holy Hell
Wrong Things
Call Earth
Black Lamb
Outerspace

[Download]
[Noun @ Myspace]
[Don Giovanni Records]
[Screaming Females]

Noun
Forgotten Grin (2009) & the IYMI Pink Couch Session Outtakes

Rid from Forgotten Grin
School from Forgotten Grin
Man and Dog from Forgotten Grin
Holy Hell from the IYMI Pink Couch Sessions

Scantron
Make Your Mark Heavy and Dark (2009)

01 Reggaeton.m4a
02 linear.m4a
03 tappy.m4a
04 country punk.m4a
05 sweet song.m4a
06 Nu.m4a

Brooklyn band featuring Angie Boylan and a heap of other talented lady musicians. I’m a bit late in posting this, but luckily their digital EP, recorded by Marissa of Screaming Females, just doesn’t get old. Enjoy!

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Teenage Cool Kids

First up: Teenage Cool Kids! Wait, did you hear that? It sounded like the collective “DUH!” of a thousand indie music bloggers. I guess that as per usual I’m tardy to the party. Oh, well. If you didn’t already do this a year ago, you can download their demo at DFW DIY.

Solanin

Next up: Solanin! Amy Klein of Titus Andronicus wrote me a few weeks ago to share this short, beautiful digital EP, For the Sky, from her solo project, Solanin. It’s quiet and thoughtful; has been compared to Joanna Newsom and Neutral Milk Hotel in terms of scope and sonic epicness. And yet, it’s only about 20 minutes long. You can download it at Solanin’s Bandcamp site.

Lava Lava

Finally: Lava Lava! A now-defunct DC twee/”cuddlecore” duo featuring Amina Althea (better known today as Amina Baird of Layers/Quake) and Spoonboy (of The Max Levine Ensemble). I can’t explain how the acoustic/pop-punk/acapella/drum machine mess that comprises the bulk of their two longest releases, Hey Fragile and Tour Demo, makes such magic in my brain when I listen to it. If I could, I’d definitely rip off their formula and team up with Santi Gold and make a bajillion dollars writing adorable hits for Miley Cyrus or some crap. I think it goes without saying that if you were to look at the “Play Count” on my iTunes for this band, it would read: “∞”. My point? Go download them both: Hey Fragile and Tour Demo. Oh, and to be clear: while my Google-stalking of Spoonboy’s sexuality is inconclusive, Ms. Amina is a BFD/Q. So, there you have it.

Gusto
No Evil Star (2002)

Hey Stranger
Rock Moves
Perfect Replica
Spiral Fracture
New Favorite
Nothing to Say
Teaching Smokey Robinson
I mean it!
Drive-by
The Down Town

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[Gusto at Banzan Records]

Sarah wrote in to offer a heap of amazing, OOP, indie queercore and riot grrrl-ish acts! First up: Gusto, a queercore guitar rock duo (with a drummer who happens to be queer) from the Bay Area. Thanks, Sarah!

Fleabag is a queer-fronted pop punk band from Oakland. They’re cranking out some really good, earnest, and catchy songs that remind me (and some other rad dudes) of everything I didn’t hate about high school: house shows, eating candy and, you know, really feeling stuff.

In about a month’s time, you can catch them on tour with Sourpatch, where you’ll probably be able to pick up a copy of this tape. (Yeah, it’s not technically “out of print,” but considering the fact that 95% of the US has no way of getting it, I don’t think it’ll do any harm to post it.) Also, I think I knew the singer, Marilyn, from my previous life in Bloomington, Indiana. (Seriously, though, does anyone know if she used to live there? This has been driving me nuts.)

Fleabag
Fleabag (2009)

Tangled Up
Nevermind
Wisdom Tooth
Coals
Curb Appeal

Hat tip, ICDT!

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[Myspace]