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jason on 12/22/2009 at 05:08PM
Wooden Shjips for the Holidays (2009 edition)
This time last year, San Francisco's Wooden Shjips released a Holiday Cassingle featuring psychedelic covers of "Auld Lang Syne" and "O Tannenbaum". The 4-piece -- who famously gave away all 300 copies of their debut 10'' -- offered free mp3 version of the cassingle to the WFMU blog. Meanwhile, the cassette itself, limited to 100 copies, sold out in no time, and -- in the spirit of The Holidaze -- all proceeds went to the San Francisco Food Bank.
This holiday season, Wooden Shjips' guitarist and vocalist Erik "Ripley" Johnson is continuing this tradition. He sent over an mp3 from his new project Moon Duo, a brilliant melding of "Silver Bells" with a bit of Hawkwind's "Silver Machine" thrown in the mix. [*Because of these references, we can't certify it as "FMA-safe", so you can grab it from this off-site locale: Moon Duo - Silver Bells (mp3)]
Moon Duo have also put together a new benefit for the SF Food Bank, in collaboration with Zola Jesus, Gary War, and Sacred Bones Records. From the Moon Duo blog (after the jump):
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