I was up late last night making the April mix, which features a track by Geek Love, a band a few of my friends were in during college. (One of them was named Josh Beaton, which is just one letter from my last name and thus caused endless mistaken identity hijinks, including a drunken woman stumbling into my room sophomore year who had to be convinced I wasn’t the other Josh.) Geek Love, to my knowledge, produced only a single 7″ (“Ariadne”/”Cost,” if you’re planning on running through the used 7″ bins of the East Coast), which I bought but had never listened to because I have no record player. Finally, a friend with the proper equipment burned it onto CD for me, and now this years-dead band will finally be shared with the world. Or at least the 50 or so people who signed up for the April trade.
Anyway, I mention this because the two ex-Geek Lovers I knew best, I-Huei and Greg, are in another great band that you indie rockers will be hearing more from soon, Sea Ray. (Their new single is getting radio play in all the right places, XFM in London and on Morning Becomes Eclectic out in L.A.) And they’ve finally put up a web site with MP3s (although they appear to download like molasses in winter) and a very nice streamed live show. If you’re in NYC, check them out.