Be Your Own Pet Breakup: A great loss?

I just read today in Pitchfork (which I've only recently started reading again) that BYOP will be breaking up after their current tour. Well, to tell the truth, I'm not surprised.

Their early music was raw, and full of promise. The cover they did of Queen's "Bicycle Race" was fun, and delivered the edge that the music scene was missing at the time.

The new album, however, showed that the music system had chewed them up, cleaned them up and pumped them out as berkeley-alike punkers. I had unsubscribed from their myspace updates a long time ago.

It's a shame. They were a good band, but that was over a long time before they split up.

Mountain Goats release EP Radiohead Style

The Mountain Goats are one of the bands I'm most looking forwards to seeing at End of the Road, but it was surprising to read that they're the latest band to release music for download at a price set by the buyer. They're hedging their bets by limiting to a 4-track EP, the physical version is available only at their tour dates. If I still bought CDs (I'm fairly strictly a download and vinyl man these days) it would certainly be mine.

Full story here

New Gigs Discovered: Yeasayer, Lovvers, Los Campesinos, Cats and Cats and Cats, Jay Reatard

20th Aug: Yeasayer @ KCSU
23rd Aug: Yeasayer @ Rough Trade East
26th Sep: Lovvers @ Old Blue Last
20th Oct: Los Campesinos! | No Age | Times New Viking @ Electric ballroom
25th Oct: Cats and Cats and Cats @ The Windmill
24th Nov: Jay Reatard @ Old Blue Last
27th Nov: Jay Reatard @ Banquet Records

Gigs Discovered Today: Featurecast, Boy Least Likely To,

2nd Sep: Boy Least Likely To @ 229
3rd Oct: Featurecast @ Big Chill House

Gigs added today: The Little Ones, Neon Neon

Sep 14th: The Little Ones @ QEH
Sep 23rd: The Little Ones @ 93 ft east
Oct 29th: Neon Neon @ KoKo

Gigs Discovered Today

Aug 12th: Inner City Pirates @ Metro
Sep 13th: Inner City Pirates @ New Cross Inn
Sep 19th: Florence & The Machine @ Spitalfields
Oct 29th: Headlights @ The Windmill
Nov 29th: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @ Troxy
Nov 30th: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @ Troxy

Nick Cave & Co to tour the UK in November

Luckily I haven't missed my last chance of the year to see NC&TBS this year. They've announced another tour - dates below:

UK NOVEMBER TOUR
23 Nov 2008 - Brighton, Centre
25 Nov 2008 - Manchester, Apollo
26 Nov 20088 - Edinburgh, Corn Exchange
27 Nov 2008 - Sheffield, Academy
29 Nov 2008 - London, Troxy
30 Nov - 2008 London, Troxy