02:25 AM - Subinev Holiday Party: Mussels

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I can't believe that in the (almost 50) bands that I've drawn as robots this year I haven't included Mussels. They were one of the first bands I posted photos of after the big overhaul of Subinev.com in January 2005 (yikes, that's just about two years ago!), I experienced some crazy weirdness with an advance copy of their cd and iTunes, and I wrote a few too many show reminder posts with not-so-witty plays on their band (which I won't bother linking to.)

Even though their album, Night Lights is a pretty substantial effort, especially considering that it's only an ep - and not a super long one, the boys quickly went back to work writing and recording, and supposedly are hard at work on a full length destined to blow some minds. As I've said before, fans of guitar-based indie rock with super pop hooks along the lines of Weezer and Jimmy Eat World, as well as some quirkier stuff like Pavement and the most similar current band, Hockey Night (who I love as well), and more rockin' and "guitary" stuff like Dinosaur, Jr. but even some of the newer "buzzy" indie bands (do I need to name them?) should absolutely check these guys out. How's that for a RIYL?

Mussels don't make any songs available for download (maybe it's because they don't even have a website right now?) but you can listen to some old and new tracks (Oh! You CAN download two tracks at Purevolume, hooray!) for now. Hey guys, how about some regular old mp3s somewhere?

You can stop worrying about hunting down tracks by Mussels and just come out and see them play tonight at the Subinev Holiday Party at Union Hall. They play 3rd, at 10pm. Walk past the bocce courts and head downstairs. They'll be waiting there to rock your face off.

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Robotinevs (bands as robots):
Old Robotinevs 1: Pela 2: Secret Machines 3: The Song Corporation 4: Mistakes 5: Glenn Branca 6: the Pinkmeat 7: DraculaZombieUSA 8: Hockey Night 9: Radio 4 10: El Jezel 11:the iOs 12: the Hard Lessons 13: Margot... 14: Planes for Spaces 15: Morning Theft 16: Mission of Burma 17: Be Your Own Pet 18: Up the Empire 19: Sonic Youth 20: Telenovela Star 21: the Secret Life of Sofia 22: Takka Takka 23: Unsacred Hearts 24: Lean Seasoned Beef 25: Sleater-Kinney 26: Professor Murder 27: Proton Proton 28: Agent Sparks 29: Tiny Masters of Today 30: Pretty Girls Make Graves 31: Ben Kweller 32: Gold Streets 33: Western Civ 34: A Place to Bury Strangers 35: TV on the Radio 36: the Zutons 37: the Thermals 38: the Big Sleep 39: Via Audio 40: Bling Kong 41: Beck 42: Spank Rock 43: Rainer Maria 44: the Harlem Shakes 45: the Muggabears 46: the Privates 47: Tim Williams 48: Alina Simone 49: Mussels 50: O'Death 51: The Black Swans 52: Lewis and Clarke 53: SHLSHKD 54: Grizzly Bear 55: Beat Radio 56: Sure Juror 57: A Sunny Day in Glasgow 58: UndisputedHeavyweights 59: Slim Cessna's Auto Club 60: Fulton Lights 61: Who By Fire 62: EZ Machine 63: Land Of Talk 64: Palomar 65: Mancino 66: Run Chico Run 67: The Robot Ate Me 68: The Shondes 69: Great Northern 70: Poingly 71: De Novo Dahl 72: Mason Proper 73: Finian McKean 74: Goes Cube 75: Liars 76: She Keeps Bees 77: Gorillaz 78: The XYZ Affair 79: Hotpipes 80: Phantom Buffalo 81: The Shamblers 82: DJ Shufflelovers 83: The Lisps 84: Raveonettes 85: Nada Surf 86: Renminbi
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