come meet the buds at the avenues street fair! this saturday september 10th. our booth is on G street between 2 & 3 avenue. we have crafts for sale!

looks like the killer buds have been busy.  there are 5 new albums, including three newly signed bands; heavy petting is responsible for the other two releases.  the newcomers are jer (the cat), kasiopeia, and puppy street.  this post is necessarily a long one, so don’t stop scrolling too early.

first, a video.

kasiopeia

an ambitious project that translates the visual aesthetic of beloved movies into the sound of a thousand keyboards traveling through the vast nothingness of outer space from the four corners of the universe.
download it: kasiopeia .zip

jer the cat

the (now extinct) american lion was, by all accounts, the smartest cat in the history of the earth.  but jer the cat makes original music.  and he’s not extinct.  so who’s the smartest (but laziest) cat now?
downloads: adopt a pet .mov, adopt a pet .mp3, lazy cat .mov.

puppy street

the wait is finally over.  a number of bootleg copies of puppy street songs have been circulating for some time without any way of knowing if it was really puppy street or just an imposter.  with their first release they set the record straight.
download it: 2 puppies .zip

heavy petting

allibaster (one of heavy petting’s alter egos) is responsible for this new album.  it does not disappoint!
download it: the surgery .mp3

the other album of heavy petting is a companion album to dark victory.  if you haven’t listened to dark victory yet, download them both!
download it: 9:01 .mp3 (and dark victory .mp3)

spring to summer . . . the weather may be wonderful but allergies are at the worst.  zap gun has a mixtape to help you cope.

right-click to download it: living with allergies .m4a
living with allergies .mp3

it’s been awhile since we’ve had any updates.  doesn’t mean we’re not doing stuff…  in fact, there’s a new zap gun album that will be posted in the very near future (this week?!), as well as some other releases on the horizon.  in addition, some of the killerbuds have changed their last name to style and formed a new band called restless style.  the band members are victor style, deacon michael style, and daniel billy style.  they’re working on a live performance and we’ll let you know when they’re ready to perform.

in the mean time, tom yum has an album.  it’s really—really—great!  you should check it out.  who’s tom yum, you might ask?  well before he moved, he was a member of crime school.  he was part of the cover of the young and the restless theme as well as the cover of the theme to the blob.  his webpage is really cool.  so check the webpage and listen to his music.

tom yum loves jazz!

“some baby animals when they are born are weak and helpless” is the first split from mz mona mars and zap gun.  but it’s a split mixtape in sort of another sense: zap gun and mz mona mars each recorded one channel of the split.  if you’re the first one to guess which channel belongs to which, you might be eligible to win a collage!

right-click to download it: baby animals .m4a

look out for snakes! finished a second album with the sole purpose of educating the public about the dangers of snake encounters.  snakes could literally be anywhere and this is very well communicated throughout “call me pliskin.”

download it: call me pliskin .zip