Euclid Records
1. Rosanne Cash - The List
2. Jay Farrar/Ben Gibbard - One Fast Move Or I'm Gone
3. Swell Season - Strict Joy*
4. REM - Live At The Olympia
5. OST - Where The Wild Things Are
6. Tegan And Sara - Sainthood*
7. Chuck Prophet - Let Freedom Ring
8. Michael Jackson - This Is It
9. Flaming Lips - Embryonic
10. Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
Saint Louis University's Billiken Club finished this semester's concert series last night with Vancouver's the Japandroids and Florida's Surfer Blood. Photographer Jason Stoff was in the sweaty mess of bodies during the Japandroids set and brought back 40 photos from the show: The slideshow is titled Japandroids, Surfer Blood at the Billiken Club, 11/20/09; view ten of them below:Photo: Jason StoffBrian King of Japandroids. See more photos from last night's show in our slideshow.
Indie-garage band the Radical Sons -- or rather, RS members Ben Goldstein and Nick Risler -- have relocated to Brooklyn, New York. The young act plans to record a new EP, the follow-up to last year's Throwing Knives, in April with Eli Janney. (While known for his work with Wilco and Ryan Adams, Janney is also known as a member of the before-its-time electro-rock act Girls Against Boys.) In the meantime, the band is playing a few shows in NYC, including one with buzzy band Surfer Blood. Here's a