Another Mercury music section to read after you view the world’s greatest nerdiest personal ad.

The New Bloods are the polite punks. They’re down to smash the state, but just as long as they clean up the mess when they’re done.
MP3:
The New Bloods - Oh, Deadly Nightshade!

Fleet Foxes, Sub Pop’s latest buzz band with an animal name. They join the band zoo alongside: Wolf Eyes, Wolf Parade, Band of Horses, Pigeonhed, Tiny Vipers, Fruit Bats, The Monkeywrench, Zen Guerilla, Radio Birdman, Handsome Furs (this is a stretch), and Holopaw (this is really a stretch).
MP3:
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

I didn’t need Why? to tell me that gypsies (with “kniiiiiiiiiiiiiiives”) are dangerous, I read Stephen King’s Thinner in the 5th grade. Plot synopsis: An obese lawyer named William “Billy” Halleck, who has recently fought an agonizing court case in which he was charged with vehicular manslaughter after receiving a handjob from his wife Heidi while driving, causing him to run over an old woman who was part of a group of traveling Gypsies. I can’t believe I wasted so many years reading King’s books. Christ, that is depressing.
MP3:
Why? - The Hollows

Recently relocating to Portland from Canada, Josh Martinez rhymes about the hiphop holy trinity of weed, women, and beer. Wait until he finds out that our weed is illegal, our women have no health care, and our beer isn’t Molson.
MP3:
Josh Martinez - Just A Dood