Ooohhh, are you guys lucky or what?
So this time, I took a couple of days and just fleeced everything that wasn't nailed down around the inter-webs. And I thought to myself, “Self,” I thought, “Here I am sittin' on a mudda-fuckin' mountain of free SWAG from the five points and it's an awful lot. Should I sit on some and parcel it out to my devoted readers every so often and make myself look like a golden boy, just cuz I can? Fuck no! I'm laying it all on you all at once because dis'ere is a milestone event. Dis'ere is dah fifth SWAG Report goin' and the bag is overflowin'; so I'm a-gonna lay it all out right here for you to throw in the air and giggle at yer new mass o' wealth. There's some good stuff in'ere too – we got some Meatloaf, we got some Decemberists, we got some Sleater-Kinney… We got some o' every damn thing you can think of AND links to the old columns for ya to revisit too; in case you missed something! Dis'ere bein' the day after Record Store Day, think of dis SWAG Report as the mother of all Boxing Day sales – but better because it's free. So whatddaya doin' standin' there listening to me for? Go! Check it out! Pilfer your weaselly black guts out; take one, take 'em all, it's all free to you.
Yer welcome, ya filthy animals,
Don Loder.
Borrowed Eyes – "Slaves"
Bratmobile – "Die"
Brothers At Sea – "For Being Brave"
Brothers At Sea – "On My Shoulder"
Brothers At Sea – "Sad Freedom"
Brothers At Sea – "Sun In Her Eyes"
Brothers At Sea – "The Atlantic"
Comet Gain – "The Kids At The Club"
Dana Falconberry – "Crooked River"
Danko Jones – "Full Of Regret"
Deerhoof – "Believe ESP"
Deluka – "Cascade"
Demander – "Math"
Elliott Smith – "Angeles"
Emanuel and The Fear – "Dear Friend"
Gossip – "Standing In The Way Of Control"
Hail The Villain – "Take Back The Fear"
Horse Feathers – "Curs In The Weeds"
Jeff Hanson – "Hiding Behind The Moon"
Kaiser Cartel – "Ready To Go"
Lanterns – "Pharaoh Beach"
Lilliput – "Ain't You"
Marnie Stern – "Transformer"
Mathemagic – "Breaststroke"
Panther – "Love Is Sold"
Post Harbor – "Caves Hollow Trees"
Pretty Good Dance Moves – "Bad Habits"
Priestess – "Trapped In Skate And Time"
Quasi – "Repulsion"
Red Sparrowes – "Giving Birth To Imagined Saviors"
Sleater-Kinney – "Oh!"
Stereo Total – I Love You Ono"
Survive – "Lunar Eclipse"
Thao – "When We Swam"
The Decemberists – "16 Military Wives"
The Contrast – "Coming Back To Life"
The Morning Pages – "Telephone" (Lady Gaga cover)
The Most Serene Republic – "PhotoCall"
The Paper Chase – "The Lightening"
The Shaky Hands – "Allison and The Ancient Eyes"
The Thermals – "Now We Can See"
The Young Friends – "Make Out Point"
Unwound – "Corpse Pose"
Wake Up Lucid – "A Minor"
Xiu Xiu – "Dear God, I Hate Myself"
All Leather – "Mystery Meat" (Bloody Beetroots Mix)
Bikini Kill – "New Radio"
Burnt Ones – "Gonna Listen To T. Rex"
Choir Of Young Believers – "Claustrophobia" (Peter Antlers Mix)
Codeine Velvet Club – " Hollywood"
Deastro – "Mowgli The Lynx"
Deerhoof – "Hitch Hike" (Lilliput cover)
Drew Danburry – "Nirvana by Kurt Cobain"
Meat Loaf – "Prize Fighter Lover"
Mux Mool – "Wolf Tone Symphony" (Paul White Mix)
Nedry – "A42-28" (edit)
Osborne – "Afrika" (Bullion mix)
Pale Sketcher – "Plans That Fade" (Faded Dub mix)
People Like Us And Wobbly – "Giant Love Ball"
Philip Stevenson – "If You Ever Love SOmething"
Philip Stevenson – "Where I Don't Belong"
Richard McGraw – "Hunting Heart"
Richard McGraw – "My Life"
Ryan Bourne – "Love And Death"
The Austerity Program – "Song 26"
The Dø – "At Last"
Tycho Adrift – "Shigetos Adrift" (A Dream Mix)
Amanda Palmer – "Do You Swear To Tell The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But The Truth So Help Your Black Ass?"
Reports Passed:
The SWAG Report 001
The SWAG Report 002
The SWAG Report 003
The SWAG Report 004
