So, umm, my garage and psych rock fascination may now be a full-blown obsession.  I actually hated pretty much all of the synth-based stuff submitted this week.  Everything from the sub-Animal Collective chant-alongs to apparent attempts at belatedly soundtracking Beverly Hills Cop, it was just one miserable synthesized Necco wafer after another.  I understand that many of the artists producing this crap are too young to have witnessed people wearing Members Only jackets without irony, or to suffer through " The Neutron Dance," but for crying out loud people: reminding those of us who were there is simply cruel.

With that in mind, today's brand new episode of  480 Minutes (Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.  Eastern U.S.Time) and debut songs by Feral Future (Austin, TX), Guided By Voices (Dayton, OH, @GBVTweets), Helm's Alee (Seattle, WA, @HelmsAleeMusic),  Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene, Montreal, Canada, @KevinSelection), Lost In The Trees (Chappel Hill, NC, @littband),  PyPy (Montréal, Canada), The New Mendicants (Teenage Fanclub/Pernice Bros, @NewMendicants), The Noise Figures (Athens, Greece, @TheNoiseFigures), Skaters (New York, NY, @SkatersNY),  Sleepy Sun (San Francisco, CA, @SleepySunMusic), and  The Tower of Light (Brooklyn, NY).

And, despite my obsession, there will be a couple of new things with synths.  Promise.

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