Action Painters Lay That Cable

Tomorrow, 3/31, marks the release of NYC's Action Painter's EP Lay That Cable.  The three songs will server as a sort of stop gap while we (read me) anxiously await the release of their debut album.  

The band knows how hard the economy is hitting all of us, so for a limited time they are making the EP available to download for free here.  In addition to getting their EP for free you can get a boatload of free music of there on their web site.  Check out the video for "456" from the EP as well as download the mp3 below.  Honestly, if you haven't downloaded the songs off of their web site I don't know what you're waiting for, it's all fantastically good.

MP3: Action Painters - 456

Biting Their Style

Okay, I'm going to admit that I'm totally biting this post from our good friend Cory at Subservient Experiment.  I saw this video, and listened to the song, and loved both of them.  I'm a fan of the girl in the vidie, nice.

The video is the greatest commercial for an album I think I've seen...ever.  According to Cory's post the band does all of their own promotion, marketing and booking.  How very DIY punk of them, right?  

What's the bands name?  Oh right. Action Painters are to the 2009 NYC music scene what Stellastarr* was five years ago.  A nice indie pop band with a great sound that owes more than little bit to the sounds of the 1980s.  Their song "Super Market" is a nice indie pop that combines the jangly geetars with some nice synths, good stuff.  I don't see why these guys can't get the same kind of hype as their Brooklyn colleagues.  They have the stuff that Subterranean was made for--and hipsters.

And, I think their keyboard player has just been added to my rock n' roll crushes.  Yeow!

If you like what you hear you can download a whole album by them here--for free--it's worth it, great, great songs y'all.

MP3:  Action Painters - Super Market