Milwaukee, WI's Modern Machines have completed recording their debut for Dirtnap Records . The album, titledTake It, Somebody, will be released on May 30th (with a vinyl version coming from Recess). In addition in April the band will relase a split CD / picture disc LP with IfIHadAHiFi on Crustacean Records titled Hot Nuggets. Head to the label's media site to check out the Modern Machines covering IfIHadAHiFi's "Gotta Disappear" and IfIHadAHiFi rendition of the Machines' "Ay, Paisano!"
The Modern Machiens recently released a split 7" with the Ergs. Their new full length will follow up 2003's New Disorder released Thwap!
Modern Machines: Take It, Somebody
- Get It Right
- Flash Infatuation
- Elegy For Love
- (You're Getting) Married
- Pay Off The Hangman
- 'Cause I Do
- (Can't Let You Slip) Through My Hands
- Cheap Rent, Cheap Beer, Cheap Shots
- The Road I Didn't Take
- What I Be Leavin'
- The Treadmill Waltz
Hot Nuggets - Modern Machines songs
- Don't Send Me No Flowers (originally by Gentrys/etc)
- Now I Gotta Disappear (originally by IfIHadAHiFi)
- Unequipped
- Rosa (originally by the Fleshies)
- 455 S.D. (originally by Radio Birdman)
- Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner (originally by Warren Zevon)
Hot Nuggets - IfIHadAHiFi Songs:
- Spin Spider Spin (originally by Takako Minekawa)
- That's Almost Premeditated!
- Ayy Paisano! (originally by the Modern Machines)
- We Got the Beat (originally by the Go-Gos)
- Sleep! (originally by Big Black)
- That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate (originally by Mission of Burma)