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The Beauvilles ARE Rock and Roll!

For The Beauvilles, October is Festival Month. Shawn Kyle and the band are performing at the Austin City Limits Festival Oct 2-4 including the ACL Fest After-Party at Trophy's Friday night and Roadhouse Rags ACL After-Party Saturday night. The Beauvilles will later head to New York City for the CMJ 09 Music Marathon & Film Festival, where they will be performing at Ace Of Clubs, Friday Oct 23rd.

POCKET pulls out something different this time: Two separate singles, each acting as the others B-Side!
 Craig Wedren (Shudder To Think) and Dave Smalley (Dag Nasty, Down By Law, ALL) both have connections to DC's hardcore scene and Dischord Records, so it seems like a fun idea to release them together! Videos for both songs will be released in conjunction with the singles.

Kites With Lights - The Weight of Your Heart (CD, 24 Hour Service Station, Pop)
Kites With Lights is the one-man band consisting of Jonah Cordy. While spinning The Weight of Your Heart the first couple of times, we were reminded slightly of Ronnie Martin's Joy Electric. Cordy's tunes and overall approach are somewhat similar...although less bubblegummy. The tracks on this five song EP recall a variety of artists from the 1980s when techno-based pop was just coming of age. Some of the electronic percussion and keyboard sounds on this EP may have even been lifted from vintage equipment (?). Jonah has a great understated voice that is a perfect fit for this style of music. The beats are steady and persistent...the vocals breathy and subdued...and the keyboards appropriately dreamy and distant. Top picks: "The Weight of Your Heart," "We're Ready," "Sound of the Rain." Nice, memorable, smooth stuff... (Rating: 4++++) BabySue.com

Words from 88.5 FM Program Director, Randy Wynne

Randy Wynne is still reeling from last night's Woodstock Tribute. "This was one of the best - if not the very best - WMNF events ever. Highlight after highlight, too many to list here but I may do so later, or post them from youtube if they show up there. ...Every band rose to the occasion with truly inspired music and theatrics. I dare say in some cases they surpassed the original Woodstock music.

The spirit of internet collaboration that drives Pocket's Singles Series has produced a complementary video concept: A webcam, a few simple video techniques and a copy of iMovie & voilla! -  Homespun Music Videos! Steve Kilbey of Australian alternative godfathers The Church, performed his part for the video in front of his computer's camera. He then emailed the file to Pocket AKA Richard Jankovich, who spliced them together with footage he shot of the lyrics in a flip book style montage reminiscent of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" video as seen through the eyes of Napoleon Dynamite

director Jared Hess.

Here's Steve Kilbey's take on the whole process from his blog, The Time Being: