Our man Geoff from Pizza! and Big Whup now has a second solo release, this time an EP of cover songs! There’s everything from Mariah Carey to Michael Stipe on here (oh, and a cameo with Michael Nhat), so download it before he gets famous and Warner Brothers makes him remove the link!

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Not only does this thing have TWO Michael Nhat collaborations, one of which with So Many Wizards, but it also has a response from Geis himself to Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy,” perhaps the best evocation of that song since Beavis and Butthead watched Death’s “The Philosopher.”

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Geis also manages to transform a political commentary on Saddam Hussein’s career as a dictator into a catchy party jam. His ability to inspire dancing to a chorus line of “and they won’t count the bodies” in reference to Hussein’s genocidal massacre of the Kurds is hilariously ingenious.

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This video from Pizza!’s Bogus Rimshots from the Fourth makes me fall in love with the album all over again. And it makes me wonder what my housemates get up to when I pass out in front of the TV with a beer in my hands…

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Cry a little more at the sadness of death-bed boob pillows.

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Travis Cthulhu just got a whole lot more sinister on The Cthulhus’ third CD-R release, EVAPR8. This collection of sci-fi sound poems, strung together with bedroom rock, bent electronics and musique concrète, sounds less like Wavves and more like Trout Mask Replica or early Zappa, with perhaps an assist from Bruce Haack on drum machines, which could easily be lifted from a Baldwin ’70s home organ.

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At the Smell, the spectacle had the effect of a crooked Tetris game. At the Alexandria, I felt like I was inside Luke Skywalker’s helmet as he took down the Death Star. It was otherworldly.

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GEOFF GEIS, BONOSSUS AND THE GNOMEFLY, PETER PANTS, SO MANY WIZARDS, AND HELLER KELLER ON THURSDAY FEB. 3RD AT PEHRSPACE, 325 GLENDALE BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:00PM/ $5/ ALL AGES

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