Kill Your Stereo

Joan Of Arc, the experimental indie rock band fronted by Cap'n Jazz' Tim Kinsella, will be releasing an extremely limited cassette box set. Joyful Noise Recording will be releasing the box set - limited to 100 copies - along with digital downloads of the entire catalogue. The collection is housed in a custom-built wooden box, elaborately screen-printed, hand-numbered and each tape will be individually wrapped and featuring the original album art.  The $49 set will include Portable Model Of, How Memory Works, Live in Chicago, 1999, The Gap, So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness, In Rape Fantasy and Terror Sex We Trust, Joan Of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain... Eventually, All at Once, Boo! Human and Flowers.  Pre-orders are available here. It's due out September 14, 2010.  The label has also compiled their 10 favorite Joan of Arc songs into a free digital sampler. You can grab that here.

Brooklyn-based Sara Crow Goldstein has unveiled plans to shoot a new documentary about DIY ska/punk/etc. band Bomb the Music Industry!. She explains the project:   As the music industry shifts towards download and donation based formats for record release, my film surveys the current state of bands that have always used these methods. I take as my examples the Bomb the Music Industry! music collective, their label Quote Unquote records, and the DIY scene that has expanded outward from their base in Brooklyn. My hope is to expand the short cut of the film--which NYU's Gallatin Arts festival accepted for screening earlier this year--into a feature length documentary. The feature will further elaborate upon the philosophies of Bomb the Music Industry! and Quote Unquote records founder Jeff Rosenstock and more specifically the way in which these ideas and practices pervade and are representative of the current state of DIY music in the United States.  In order to approach this latter t...