Unreleased Shadowy Men tune on upcoming comp

cover-bloodstains-ontarioMammoth Cave Recording Co. releases the third volume in their Bloodstains series later this month. Coming on the heels of Bloodstains Across Ontario and Bloodstains Across British Columbia is Bloodstains Across Ontario. All of the 7-inches in the series features a selection of ten or so bands from the province featured, each doing a one-minute tune about where they’re from.

This new installment has music from hot garage acts like Peach Kelli Pop and the White Wires, but the real draw is an unreleased track from Canadian surf act Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet! They’ve been broken up for a decade and half, and we still get unheard music? Fantastic.
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Podcast #50, “Half a Hunnie”

50-dollar-billWe made it! Surprisingly, without any major incident or problems. Well … at least on this anniversary episode. This is the first show I forgot the whole “tell your friends” spiel, however. So, that could’ve gone better.

This whole fiftieth episode spectacular is all songs that’ve been played before. I thought about doing something where I played my favorite songs, but this is pretty damned close to that anyhow, and it gives an overview of the best stuff that’s made it onto the podcast, as well. The show is a full two hours and change long, so you’ve got a hefty dose of punk rock power pop to get you through the weekend. Oh, and if you’re wanting to know what album or single all these songs are on, search the archives.

Shit. I just now realized a better title for this would’ve been “FIFTY DOLLAR BILL, YOU GUYS!!!” Dammit.

Podcast #50, “Half a Hunnie”
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