While I Have Money To Spend

The Silures “21 Ghosts (Part One)” – This is new from Vitalic and Linda Lamb, who teamed up to make an electro rock EP under the name The Silures on the French label Citizen Records. If you’ve been looking for a catchy, anthemic, somewhat goth electro tune about demonic possession sung by a woman with the thickest Noo Yawk accent this side of Fran Drescher, well, then this should do the trick.

Crackhaus “Akufen’s Mornin’ Dump In The Bush Of God” – Likewise, if you’ve been looking for a house track built around samples from old blues and bluegrass 78s, you’ll probably dig this. This is from the new Blame Canada! 12″ on the Musique Risquee label out of Montreal, and it’s a lot better than you might be expecting.

Also: If you’re living in England, and specifically in the vicinity of Brighton, then you owe it to yourself to go to tomorrow night’s It Came From The Sea club night at The Hanbury Ballroom.

And: I was just looking through the concert ads in the Village Voice, and noticed what I think may be the weirdest bill I’ve seen in a long time: An Evening Of Comedy And Music: Al Franken and Michelle Branch. Huh? Wha? Part of me wants to stake out the venue before the doors open just to see what kind of crowd that show attracts.