REST IN PEACE

PEYTON HOVIOUS "LARRY" HOUCHINS

December 19, 1986 - December 29, 2010

Many of you know we lost a beloved member of our family earlier this week, PEYTON "LARRY" HOUCHINS a.k.a. DJ SCARY MILK a.k.a. DJ KATE BUSCH. Peyton performed with GRAY THINGS and BASS DRUM OF DEATH, and he provided endless support to our music scene in Mississippi. He will continue to be a source of inspiration for his seemingly infinite number of friends, and we look forward to expanding the Cats Purring empire in his memory.

Here is a 2-hour-long mix of tunes, originally intended to be posted on this blog, that he put together in August of 2010 under the DJ KATE BUSCH moniker. Click the link to download:

DJ KATE BUSCH - "Z BED 'N BREAKFAST MIX"

THE 90S BUZZ-SCREW AFFAIR

Cats Purring's resident mixmasters DJ STINK PRIEST (Pink Priest, Malibu Wands) and DJ SCARY MILK (Gray Things) just dropped the perfect post-Yule hangover cure into our inbox. Pour some lean into your Crystal Pepsi, and take it back to junior high with two volumes of THE 90S BUZZ-SCREW AFFAIR, a nostalgic mix of melted jams from Oasis, Tonic, The Verve Pipe, Better Than Ezra, Sugar Ray and more.

DOWNLOAD VOL. 1 HERE.

DOWNLOAD VOL. 2 HERE.

JUNK CULTURE - "SUMMER FRIENDS"

Oxford, MS's sample worshiping psych-pop wizard JUNK CULTURE has an E.P. out in February via ILLEGAL ART. Check out an MP3 for the title track + some 2011 tour dates with GIRL TALK right HERE.

MP3:

JUNK CULTURE - "SUMMER FRIENDS"

FOLLOW CATS PURRING ON TUMBLR

We launched our new Tumblr page with a set of photos put together by FLIGHT. Go HERE to check it out and follow.

DENT MAY - "HOLIDAY FACE"

Listen to DENT MAY's brand new Christmas song "Holiday Face" HERE. Happy Holidays from the entire Cats Purring family!

MP3:

DENT MAY - "HOLIDAY FACE"

CATS PURRING NEW YEAR'S EVE 12/31/10

Come celebrate the dawning of 2011 with the CATS PURRING FAMILY this year at Ajax Diner in downtown Oxford, MS! DEAD GAZE, FLIGHT, and DENT MAY & FRIENDS will be playing live sets, with AIRSHIPS spinning tunes on the side. It's Friday night, so no excuses! The party runs from 8pm to 1am, and we're charging $5 for 21+ and $10 for 18+ at the door. See y'all there.

BASS DRUM OF DEATH LP

Oxford, Mississippi's BASS DRUM OF DEATH will drop their debut LP via INFLATED on February 22, 2011. Check out the cover photograph taken at our infamous CATS PURRING TEEN WING, and don't sleep on "Heart Attack Kid," the first MP3 from the record, available for download HERE.

MP3:

BASS DRUM OF DEATH - "HEART ATTACK KID"

DEAD GAZE ALTERED ZONES PROFILE

Our friend MARISSA A. ROSS interviewed DEAD GAZE via Skype for the delightful ALTERED ZONES. Click HERE to read the juicy profile.

FLIGHT - "TURNS TO BLOOD" VIDEO

directed by James Alexander Warren

MP3:

FLIGHT - "TURNS TO BLOOD"

WOLF PARADE @ THE LYRIC 11/13/10

Montreal indie rockers WOLF PARADE (led by the prolific Spencer Krug of Sunset Rubdown, Frog Eyes, etc) will be stopping through Oxford's THE LYRIC THEATRE this Saturday. Intriguingly-named Japanese band OGRE YOU ASSHOLE will be opening the show. Don't miss this one!
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NEW RELEASES FROM CATS PURRING ARTISTS

FLIGHT has a new 12" E.P. called THE LEAD RIDERS out now via ZOO MUSIC. You can purchase it HERE. DENT MAY has a new 7" single featuring the songs "That Feeling" and "Eastover Wives" out now via FOREST FAMILY. You can purchase it HERE.

MP3:

FLIGHT - "REAL ESTATE"

DENT MAY - "EASTOVER WIVES"

INDIAN JEWELRY + DEAD GAZE + WINTER SPORT @ PROUD LARRY'S TONIGHT 10/28/10

Prolific psychedelic group INDIAN JEWELRY (Houston, TX) bring their "droning vision music & seizure inducing stage show" (quoth Wikipedia) to Proud Larry's in Oxford, MS tonight. Demented psych-pop favorites DEAD GAZE (Jackson, MS) play for the first time since their NY Times approved CMJ run last week, and new freaks on the scene WINTER SPORT (Oxford, MS) open the show with their much anticipated debut live performance. Don't miss this amazing bill! Show starts at 10pm.

MP3:

INDIAN JEWELRY - "OCEANS"

PRINCE RAMA + LIGHT POLLUTION @ CATS PURRING TEEN WING 10/10/10

MP3:

PRINCE RAMA - "LIGHTENING FOSSIL"

Brooklyn's PRINCE RAMA and Chicago's LIGHT POLLUTION will be joining us for yet another psychedelic house party at the CATS PURRING TEEN WING in Taylor, MS on Sunday 10/10/10. Although the bands will play around 9pm, please come earlier as we'll be hanging out all day. Directions and more details after the jump.

TOMMY TOUSSAINT - "COSMIC CAVERNS"

CATS PURRING is proud to present COSMIC CAVERNS, a free digital E.P. of new material from TOMMY TOUSSAINT. Tommy was living in Athens, Georgia, where he played with RED LEGS and LITTLE FRANCIS and spent his spare time exploring caverns of the Deep South. More recently, he's traveled the world as a member of DENT MAY's band. According to Tommy, these six songs were recorded "in a cave in North Georgia," and the E.P. was mastered by Neil Zumwalde, who has worked with VELVET DAVENPORT. Drawing from influences as diverse as new jack swing, 60s pop, new age, and all forms of psychedelia, COSMIC CAVERNS is a warped and wonderful slice of pop magic.

Click HERE to download COSMIC CAVERNS for free. See the track listing after the jump.

TV BUDDHAS + DOOMSTAR! @ RED STAR 9/14

TV BUDDHAS (Tel Aviv, Israel + Berlin, Germany)
Self proclaimed kings of geek bubblegum! Heavily influenced by The Ramones, The Replacements and Richard Hell, with lyrics leaning more towards the outsider approach of Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers.

DOOMSTAR! (Cambridge, MA)
"’60s style R&B attitude a la The Pretty Things collide head-first with a jangly entanglement of treble and echo laden garage stomp brutality. This is the surf rock for oil contaminated beaches." -Decibel Tolls

DJ HARRY LOUCHINS (of Airships) on the virtual 1's & 2's!

Cover is $5
Doors at 9pm
Bands start promptly at 10pm

TENNIS + DENT MAY @ PROUD LARRY'S 9/1

Denver, Colorado's acclaimed husband-and-wife pop duo TENNIS will be at Proud Larry's this Wednesday (9/1/10) to show off their undeniably loveable tunes. For the background story on Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore's 8-month East Coast sailing trip that started it all, check out this fascinating NEW YORK TIMES piece on the couple. And if you haven't heard 2010 highlight "Marathon" yet, hop on over to PITCHFORK for a listen.

Opening the show will be Taylor, MS avant-lounge singer DENT MAY (backed by his esteemed sidekick BOBBY CHIZZZ). Listen to his latest single "Eastover Wives" HERE.

Cover is $7. Music begins at 10pm sharp.

GOBBLE GOBBLE LATE NITE HOUSE SHOW 8/26

"The space-time fluctuations between GOBBLE GOBBLE’s last hermetic flu-gaze sacrifice has eclipsed the infinitely-many quantum mechanical predictions. The 8-bit pop peculiarity has transcended into a neo-audible movement of Masonic proportions. On top of a dazzling live show, main songwriter Cecil Frena’s ability to funnel radio-pop insanity through a gnarled nozzle of chromatic-pop has aggrandized; jarring cut-ups, blasted synth workouts, and the crunchiest pop-riddums you’ve ever heard." - Weird Canada

GOBBLE GOBBLE will bring their MOBILE RAVE INFINITOUR to 401 S 18th St in Oxford, MS, after the COLOUR REVOLT show at Proud Larry's tomorrow (Thursday 8/26). See y'all there!

BACK TO SKOOL W/ G-SIDE @ PROUD LARRY'S 8/20

Internationally acclaimed Huntsville rap duo G-SIDE will be headlining our BACK 2 SKOOL BASH this Friday 8/20 at Proud Larry's. PITCHFORK describes their sound as "a woozy, synth-based, bottom-heavy crawl that treats big-room trance the way OutKast and UGK records used to treat 70s soul." For a sample of their distinctly Southern yet innovative jams, check out G-SIDE's essential HUNTSVILLE INTERNATIONAL MIXTAPE.

Opening the show will be the excellent Jackson, MS hip hop groop B.O.M.B. SQUAD w/ special guests! Tickets are $8, and the show starts at 10PM sharp. See y'all there!

BUFFALO MOON + CHELSEA BOYS @ RED STAR 8/18

BUFFALO MOON of Minneapolis (via Ecuador and South Dakota) will bring their wonderful bossanova/psych/pop sound to RED STAR on Wednesday 8/18. Their forthcoming 7" single on the great MOON GLYPH (Velvet Davenport, PC Worship, etc) has been receiving widespread acclaim, which is well-deserved considering the tropical perfection of its b-side "Low Tide Moon" (available HERE).

CHELSEA BOYS (also of Minneapolis) will be opening the show with their highly energetic synth-pop. The MN DAILY describes their performance as "a splash of Nintendo, a dollop of cocaine, a sprinkle of Black Flag and an ocean of sex," so in other words you're insane if you sleep on this one.

DJ HARRY LOUCHINS (of Airships) will man the virtual 1's & 2's, pumping out global synth and disco grooves between sets.

Doors at 9pm. Bands at 10pm. $5 cover.

RAYON BEACH + NAOMI PUNK + MASTERS & JOHNSON @ THE TEEN WING TONIGHT!

We're having another house party at the TEEN WING in Taylor, MS tonight!

RAYON BEACH (Austin, TX)

"Rayon Beach take us on an incredible ride through surreal soundscapes and off-center arrangements, and pull it all together under a tight black umbrella, soaked in afterbirth and glowing like weird moon rocks." - Hozac

NAOMI PUNK (Seattle, Wa)

"The fresh-baked melodies and jarring jangles are enough to induce a peyote trip. This is the kind of music that makes you stoked to be alive" - Weekly Tape Deck

MASTERS & JOHNSON (Olympia, WA)

"These young dudes look like they grew up in a Ballard tavern circa 1978. They sound like a grungy, fuzzy, northwest take on experimental post-punk." - Menthol University Press

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED DONATION OF $5 FOR THE TOURING BANDS.

Music starts at 8pm sharp, but come earlier if you want. We'll be hanging out all day! Directions after the jump:

FLIGHT "MI$$I$$IPPI LEAN" CASSETTE OUT NOW ON BATHETIC

FLIGHT's much anticipated "screwed" tape MI$$I$$IPPI LEAN is out now and available HERE. Limited to 100 copies via BATHETIC, so dust off your codeine stash and cop this thing ASAP.

DEAD GAZE + GRAY THINGS SPLIT CASSETTE OUT NOW ON CLAN DESTINE

Click HERE to purchase the new split cassette from two awesomely psyched out Mississippi bands, DEAD GAZE and GRAY THINGS. Limited to 60 copies via CLAN DESTINE.

GIRLFRIENDS + WEED HOUNDS @ RED STAR 7/8

Two killer bands are playing at RED STAR tomorrow night (Thursday 7/8):

GIRLFRIENDS (Boston, MA):

"a highly pleasant, bubblegum flavoured, lo-fi bedroom pop trio from Boston. their delivery has a nice snotty edge, almost like some weird garage group on K Hep." - The Wire

WEED HOUNDS (Brooklyn, NY):

"...catchy melodies, great boy/girl alternating vocals, and a whole lotta noise!" - Skatterbrain

Also, DJ HARRY LOUCHINS (of Airships) will be cranking out some space disco, cosmic funk, and soulful 80s R&B throughout the evening!

doors 9:30pm
cover $5

JULIAN LYNCH + DENT MAY @ RED STAR 7/1

Dear Oxonians, two good dudes will be performing tunes at Red Star tomorrow night. New Jersey native JULIAN LYNCH splits his time between working at a Ph.D in ethnomusicology and building a prolific collection of homemade experimental pop recordings. He uses diverse instrumentation to create warm and inviting sounds fit for soundtracking front porch hang sessions with friends or cannonballs into the neighborhood pool. His gorgeous new album MARE is out now on the excellent label OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE (Ducktails, James Ferraro, Rangers). Check out a video for the soothing track "In New Jersey" HERE and Pitchfork's glowing review of the album HERE.

Opening the show will be local breezy listening Paw Tracks popster DENT MAY, testing out the waters for some new electronic sounds and reimagining some of his ukulele-era favorites. Check out a summery smooth mix he put together HERE, dedicated to Pickwick Lake and posted by the promising new Brooklyn-based INTERNATIONAL TAPES.

Doors are at 9:30pm. Music starts at 10:30 sharp. Cover is $5. Hope y'all can make it!

MAGENTA'S CARESS 3 SCREENING 6/23 @ THE LYRIC

Mysterious Clarksdale, MS underground filmmaker WILL GOSS will present the highly anticipated third installment of his DIY classic MAGENTA'S CARESS series at 7PM this Wednesday 6/23 at The Lyric. Some of the first MC was filmed in the infamous jacuzzi at the now defunct Cats Purring Idea Trailer, so you know it's legit. GOSS writes, directs, and stars in MAGENTA'S CARESS, many clips of which can be found HERE.

JACUZZI BOYS + DEAD GAZE @ RED STAR 6/22

Good news, y'all: Miami, FL's fuzzy garage poppers JACUZZI BOYS return to Oxford on Tuesday 6/22. Those who experienced them with Woven Bones at the Cats Purring Cookout last year know these dudes rip. Listen to "Bricks or Coconuts," their delightful new single on MEXICAN SUMMER (Haunted Graffiti, Best Coast, Kurt Vile) HERE, then watch their creepy psyched out video for "Smells Dead" HERE.

They'll be supported by Jackson, MS's beloved lo-fi psych groop DEAD GAZE, the latest project from the prolific R. Cole Furlow, who have a cassette on MIRROR UNIVERSE (Toro Y Moi, Washed Out) under their belt and a split tape with Oxford's GRAY THINGS via CLAN DESTINE (Pink Playground, Pussy Patrol) on the horizon. Listen to one of his many blog hits HERE.

The show is at The Lyric's Red Star Bar. Doors at 9pm. Cover is $5. See y'all there!

IMPROMPTU WOODSMAN + FLIGHT HOUSE SHOW TONIGHT @ CATS PURRING TEEN WING 6/13/10

ATTENTION CREEPAZOIDS!

We're throwing a last minute house show tonight at the CATS PURRING TEEN WING with excellent Denver psych band WOODSMAN (Mexican Summer, Lefse) and local swamp things FLIGHT (Hozac, Kill Shaman). Read more about Woodsman HERE, HERE, & HERE.

Music will start around sunset (8pm), but feel free to come over earlier. Bring alcohol if you have it. Address is 662 CR-303 Taylor, MS. EMAIL US for more specific directions.

Parking is extremely limited, so CARPOOL. If the driveway fills up, we'll be directing people to park on a nearby street. Don't park on Old Taylor Road! Be safe. Buzzed driving is drunk driving, ya goons!

HIGHLY SUGGESTED DONATION OF $5 FOR THE TOURING BAND.

"LESBIAN MUSIC" MIXTAPE BY FLIGHT

FLIGHT made a mixtape for ACTUAL PAIN featuring a bunch of stellar tunes, and it's named LESBIAN MUSIC in honor of the world's greatest prank caller LONGMONT POTION CASTLE.

Click HERE to download, and while you're over there check out some other great mixes by the likes of oOoOO and PINK PRIEST.

DENT MAY + DEAD GAZE @ MARTIN'S JXN, MS 6/12

Capital city freaks, head to MARTIN'S this Saturday (6/12/10) for a fabulous feline friendly fiesta w/ DENT MAY & DEAD GAZE. 10pm. Directions HERE.

BARE WIRES + CCR HEADCLEANER + UNWED TEENAGE MOTHERS @ RED STAR 5/26

Excellent show coming up Wednesday 5/26 at The Lyric's Red Star Bar:

San Francisco's BARE WIRES describe their 70s glam inspired sound as "slop pop." The band's leader Matthew Melton was born & raised in Memphis, TN, and their excellent 2009 LP ARTIFICIAL CLOUDS was mastered by the late great JAY REATARD. Check the video for the album's title track HERE.

CCR HEADCLEANER also live in San Francisco, but they started as Athen's, GA noisy psych-rock band LONG LEGGED WOMAN. These guys also run the label POLLEN SEASON (Sic Alps, Dadfag, The Hospitals, etc). HERE's an interview with them from SF Weekly.

You're probably already familiar with Oxford's UNWED TEENAGE MOTHERS now, but they're basically a supergroop featuring members of Lover!, Bass Drum of Death, Black & Whites, The Sleepwalkers, etc. Don't sleep on their latest 7" single from Tic Tac Totally (Bare Wires, Lost Sounds, Wavves, etc) available HERE.

Doors at 9pm. $5 cover. Hope y'all can make it!