I Can Taste The Sweetness On The Tip Of My Tongue

The Ark “Echo Chamber” – Long before The Darkness brought glam rock back to VH1’s regular rotation, there was The Ark, a flamboyant Swedish pop band which has been doing this since around the same time this sort of music fell out of fashion back in 1991. “Echo Chamber” was the lead single from the band’s 2000 album We Are The Ark, and has more than enough pomp and bombast to fill out a half dozen Spacehog albums.

As noted in the comments, this song was performed by WFMU station manager Ken Freedman during the annual Hoof And Mouth Sinfonia, which is when WFMU DJs get to perform the song of their choice with a band made up of WFMU staffers and friends. Other highlights of this year’s show include Pseu Braun’s “U Got The Look,” Megan Murphy’s “Kool Thing,” Irwin Chusid’s modified “Hot Cakes and Sausage,” and Tom Scharpling’s larynx-shredding version of “Paradise City.”

I should also send a shout out to Scott Williams, who is repsonsible for introducing me to this Ark song in the first place.

The Strike Boys w/ EMO “I Am A Witness” – There is nothing emo about this; that’s just the name of the Danish reggae artist (they exist!) that The Strike Boys are collaborating with on this track. The song is a nice blend of house and dub, and has a pleasant late summer feeling to it. This is taken from the new LP Playtime on the Stereo Deluxe label.

Elsewhere: Moebius Rex has converted his livejournal to the mp3 blog format. There’s some nice stuff up right now, but if you’re only going to get one thing, I’d suggest trying out the Irving song.

Also: Tickets for a new Scissor Sisters show at the Bowery Ballroom on May 22 will go on sale tomorrow on the Ticketweb website. I’m definitely going. If you’re going too, let me know, maybe we can meet up. Also there’s some good news for non-NYC Scissor Sisters fans – the band will be touring major cities in the US in June and July before the album is domestically released on July 27th. (Thank you, Eppy!)