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During the first few years of the twenty-first century, the Fucking Flame terrorized Utica, NY. In 2003, Sneaky Pete came up with the idea to project a band live on a screen in 3-D for an extra psychedelic twist for all the wasters and curiosity seekers, and who but the Fucking Flame would be able to provide a sufficiently psychedelic soundtrack? Luckily for us the show was put on, videotaped, preserved on digital video disc, and now that DVD has been recovered from the vaults. Thanks to the wonders of You Tube, it is now available for the whole world to see! So dig this: go get yourself a pair of those old blue and red 3-D glasses, turn off the lights and watch the video below on full screen mode in the highest definition possible for your connection. It ain’t perfect, but if you’ve ever been curious to see a Fucking Flame show in the Fucking Flesh, or if you’ve been part of the madness and feel nostalgia for those booze-soaked, drug addled nights of the early 2000’s, this is the closest you’re probably ever gonna get!

Out now is the newest compilation from our cousins overseas, the Daydream Generation. 2 downloads and 38 tracks make for one gigantic good listen!

Features new tracks from the Wheelies, Fig Mints, the Real Burnouts, handwithlegs, and Dead Canaries among many, many others.

Scoop it up by going here:

www.daydreamgeneration.com

It’s been reported that there’s a video floating around for the new Fig Mints track… Maybe we can dig it up for ya one day real soon!

Alright folks, so it has come to our attention that there were some imperfections in the initial release of the Dead Canaries’ Golden Sounds/Modern Day Carpetbagger double album. We just received the corrected versions from Mr. Fink, and they’re uploaded, so if you’ve already downloaded it, consider yourself the proud recipient of a limited release! Who knows, maybe it’ll be worth some money someday. Rumor has it that Jon has burned all evidence of the previous version, so whatever is out there is all that there is!

Stay groovy, ghoulies!

Out today is the latest offering from Dead Canaries: a double album download called Golden Sounds/Modern Day Carpetbagger. Roll up yr sleeves and get listening, cos you’re in for an extra helping of psychedelic serenades as only Mr. Fink can present them! Here’s what Jon has to say about his newest brainchildren:

These albums are the Let It Be and Abbey Road of the Dead Canaries’ catalog.  One being pieced together after a soured friendship/collaboration and the other arranged, recorded and ripened over a long weekend.

Golden Sounds was recorded during the summer that wouldn’t come in Ithaca, New York. Before anyone could make it to the swimming holes, the sun would be stuck, again, behind 100 miles of clouds, blowing through the sky at 20 miles an hour. And like a book where relating to the main character becomes too great to bear, Golden Sounds was put on the golden shelves and collected digital dust and digitally fermented.

After crossing the Mason-Dixon, the Mississippi River, and transcending time, in a musical conceptual kind of way, Modern Day Carpetbagger was recorded over a long weekend of reading John Wilmot.  It’s hard to explain what this album is expressing, but like everything, it’s something, but it’s also something else.

So a year after Something Else “tiptoed into greatness”, Golden Sounds and Modern Day Carpetbagger hope to continue in the tradition of Dead Canaries greatness.  We hope you enjoy them.

Love,
Jon Fink
(One dead canary)

So hop on over to the dead canaries page in the artists section to download this gem for absolutely FREE, as always.

Peace.

Ah, how sweet it is to be able to post more than one new update in a month! Up this Wednesday, 27 January is a Dead Canaries double album. The two new offerings from Mr. Fink are entitled Golden Sounds and Modern Day Carpetbagger, so keep yr eyes glued to this space and make sure you grab the downloads FOR FREE in the artists section!

Much to the dismay of those in the know, Tofu Delux has been on hiatus for quite a while, but that doesn’t stop their individual members from getting creative. Bad Cello is the name donned by Zeno, the melodically inclined, multi-talented singer/guitarist of the Tofus, and rest assured, the dreamy psychedelia continues to flow. Minimal guitar/vocal arrangements backed with occasional strings and synths provide perfect listening for a quiet winter’s day.

Listen to “Spirit Are You” below, then click on the artists tab to download Bad Cello’s album for FREE! Do it quickly though, cos Zeno could get sick of the sounds and ask us to take it down, though we truly can’t imagine why… (Hint, hint: Zeno, let’s just keep it up, eh?)

Bad Cello: “Spirit Are You”
Download audio file (Spirit_Are_You.mp3)

It’s been a rough-and-tumble couple of months, what with school starting up, followed by a computer crash that helped usher in a very lengthy bout of technophobia that hasn’t been completely kicked yet. We here at the Cozy Home feel as if we owe it to whoever might still be paying attention to get some more stuff up, cos it’s been bloody well long enough.

Coming up before the start of the new year is a release from Bad Cello, called “Naked on the Ground”. Keep yr eyes peeled for that one in a week or so…

Right now, though, is a release that has been needing to get done for about half a year now. The Wheelies are gone, officially. I know, we’ve all heard that one before, but this time feels… well, different. The Daydream Generation and Utica Flower Company have ceased their deafening roar and quieted down to a passive, but constant murmur. Smally has been the driving force for so many for so long, he was bound to burn out at some point, and many consider him superhuman to have lasted this long. In his own words about a month ago: “Think it finally reached breaking point last month. I’ve given this music trip a good shot for the last three years with varying degrees of success, but there comes a time when you turn around and feel like you’re throwing a load of energy at something and not really getting the satisfaction out of it. Things are predictable – the songs I write, the compilations – there just doesn’t seem to be the same spark anymore. So I figure dropping it at this point is the best thing I can do.”

So we arrive at this point, with the release of the Wheelies’ finally final album, a massive retrospective romp through a drug-addled age of relative innocence that has been dubbed “The Shite Album”. Rather than go on about it as if I was there (I wasn’t even old enough to get a passport at the time of the recording), I’ll let Smally do the rest of the talking.

“This is really it this time, no going back; my mind is well and truly made up. Finality is a funny thing. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve said that it was over, that I’d run out of songs, or the will to keep reaching for the record button. Here at the end, I got to thinking about how it all began some fifteen years ago when the world was there for the taking and absolutely anything was possible. And that in turn got me thinking about “The Shite Album”. Most of you unfortunate enough to download and listen to this record will only be aware of The Wheelies in its present form, mainly just me churning out the albums from 2006’s “Oh Happiness” onwards. Some of you have perhaps even seen the pictures that confirm that in actual fact The Wheelies were once upon a long time ago a band, dreaming the same daft daydream and foolishly recording it all as it fell apart. But very few of you will have actually heard what we sounded like.Once you hear “The Shite Album”, I guess you will see why.

This wasn’t a deliberate record in itself, but a posthumous celebration of “a unique collaboration” of songs recorded between 1994 and 1998, put together back in 2004 by Aliwheelie. Whereas the rest of us had long ago lost, destroyed or given away the reels of cassettes capturing numerous failed attempts to produce something of some musical value, he’d curiously managed to keep hold of almost all of them. With the technology at his fingertips to lift the recordings from cassette and burn them onto disc, he diligently set about torturing himself going through the entire back catalogue and compiled a 3-disc monster that was instantly recognized as “The Shite Album”. Four copies were made and given to each of the four founding members of the band. In fact it was one night in 2006 after digging my own copy out from the bottom of a beer-stained drawer that I listened back with horror and resolved to go out and buy a cheap guitar the very next day with the intention of somehow salvaging some semblance of pride. This is perhaps the only positive thing I have to say about this record – that if it wasn’t as bad as it is, then I wouldn’t be sitting here writing this today and you wouldn’t be reading it. So without further ado, allow me to take your hand and lead you through the twentyeight tracks I’ve chosen from the three discs as part of this digital download version of the record. I must warn you before we begin, it’s not going to be a pleasant journey. There are some terrible sounds, terribly played, and terribly recorded onto terrible equipment. To make matters worse, when the songs were lifted from cassette all of them had little unavoidable blips and jumps on the CD versions. To further compound the aural nightmare, the discs in my possession are so seriously scratched that many
of the songs skip and flicker. Several times I have sat down with the intention of remastering them all, but as you will hear, this wouldn’t just be a pointless exercise, it would also be completely impossible.”

Sook the bools.
Smally
3rd September 2009

Anyone interested in what Smally is up to right now can check out the Utica Flower Company blog at theuticaflowercompany.wordpress.com

Go to the artists section to download the Shite Album for free!!!

Once again, merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, and all the rest of the whatnot.

Don’t forget to smile at strangers.

Our good friend Smally, of Wheelies fame, has issued forth the challenge to all who would accept it to write and record as many songs as possible in one month for a gigantic collective release… again.

The first time around, it didn’t work out so well. The Cozy Home Christmas Project, AKA The Cardboard Box Set:  The Troof Over Your Head, saw many CHR bands put out at least one album in the month of December, 2006. Despite all the records being made available, though, it was never fully glued together in one piece (see Daydream Generation post by Smally HERE).

Now it’s for real, and The Invisible Box Set is born! It features The Real Burnouts, The October Terminus (a Rob Levy manifestation), Periwinkle Periscope, HANDWITHLEGS, The Wheelies (supposedly Smally’s last ever solo release, though he’s said that before), and The Painted Shuts from the Cozy Home camp, as well as wonderful Daydream Generation acts like Becky N, Simon Piler and the Atom Band, James Redmond (of Tramp Attack and the Sweetcorns!!!), Uberfuzz and more!

So get yourselves on over to thedaydreamgeneration.com and download the entire set for ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

Coming up in October from the Cozy Home is a gigantic Wheelies retrospective, and a new solo album from Zeno of Tofu Delux, so keep those mice clicking!

thefigmints.com is up!

Check out Bobby’s new website for info and stuff. You can buy the new record there, too! As always, special thanks to Tim of CHR and transatmospheric.com for the technical know how that it takes to get this stuff done.