Bit of news - February 2005 sees two Teenbeat 20th Anniversary shows in Washington DC, at the Black Cat. The Fontaine Toups & +/- play the first night (24th Feb), and Versus the second night (25th Feb). $12 per night, all ages. Well allright! Also - a +/- show from 2001 with Yo La Tengo is available for download at easytree.org.

You may have noticed on the Teenbeat Yahoo Group that there is a copy of Versus' MergeFest show available online - if you're in to the Bittorrent and FLAC thing then head on over to easytree.org to get it. You'll need to sign-up to download. Sound quality is pretty good.

The Fontaine Toups should be appearing at the CMJ Music Marathon in October, more details as they become available. Versus have one cut (Eskimo On Fire) on the Merge 15-year celebration 3-CD set Old Enough To Know Better (thanks to Justin in Australia for the tip).

Found some Versus photos from the Cat's Cradle Mergefest show around here. Enjoy !

Little bit about the Cat's Cradle show from Friday can be found on Merge Records discussion board.

Very quiet summer - just noticed you can get some Whysall Lane T-shirts for $10. Details at Blackball Records. { Plus / Minus } have a cut (All I Do) from their debut album on the soundtrack to the movie Wicker Park.

More great Chicago shots, this time courtesy of Bret Anderson. Versus play one of the Merge 15th year anniversary shows on July 30, and TFT have a couple of live dates coming up.

Some great photos from the April 10 Abbey Pub show courtesy of Sharon Dang.

There's another Versus live cut to be had, Dumb Fun from a live show in 1998 can be found at http://www.indiepoplive.com - go get it while you can.

Look out for the Chicago Sun-Times on Friday 9th, there's a Q&A session with James which you can also find on this very site here.

The Fontaine Toups have an album listening party scheduled for Apr 06 at River Gods, in Cambridge MA. Guest DJ is Evelyn Hurley from Hot Pursuit, check it out if you're in the area.

More great news - Versus headline the music showcase of the Chicago Asian American Film Festival on April 10 at The Abbey Pub, Chicago IL. Thanks to Jesse Gonzales for the heads-up.

Some great news from Fontaine - the self titled TFT debut album will be released on Teenbeat around April 12th. There will be a record release party in New York on April 1, and a tour to follow. Also, Whysall Lane open for Erase Errata on 25th March at San Francisco's Bottom Of The Hill. Finally, the Teenbeat 2004 sampler contains the following : { Plus/Minus } Walk In A Straight Line and the video for She's Got Your Eyes, TFT's I Don't Like What You're Saying, Whysall Lane's Everything Slows Down and The Pacific Ocean's People To People demo. Alright !

The video for the Versus track Linus will be shown at the 22nd San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival on March 8th, 2004, alongside a whole host of work by Asian American bands and directors. If you're in the area, check it out.

Another great Versus live track from 1998 on the Teenbeat mailing list (Underground), go get it while you can here.

Well, a Happy New Year to everybody! Seems like the New-Years Eve Versus show at N6 was a major event, this from Andy Eason - the set opened with Jealous and ended with Sea Girl and included (in no particular order): Silver Vein, Sea Girl, Crashing The Afterglow, Raining, Forest Fire, You'll Be Sorry, The Spell Your Under, Fredrick's of Hollywood, Jealous, Glitter of Love, Double Suicide, River, Mirror Mirror, Blade Of Grass, Solar Democrat, Atomic Kid, Underground and one cover.

Two encores in all, and midnight fell during the middle part of Fredrick's..., when Fontaine poured champagne and passed it to some of the people in the front rows. ...Afterglow ended the main set and people were invited onstage to slow dance.

Also - Whysall Lane have a new website under construction at www.whysall-lane.com, complete with an MP3 version of The Way Back for download (thanks to Bret Anderson for the tip).

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