"Jumping Tiger Days" is part of Tiny Binary Life's latest show. That's at least three plays via the Podsafe Music Network.

"These guys are weird, man." Read more at Bigger Than Jesus: The Motion Picture

... about Pangs. The noun, not the band. If I wanted to be more Emo, I would totally print this in the liner notes of the next record.

The Oregonian featured Let Down Since Prom on their HyperMedia web log on November 12 last year. "Fuzzy grubby garage-y goodness."I'll take that. Pretty neat. Pretty sad I didn't see it until a year later.

A guy named Ken Clark is hosting a podcast called Seattle and Beyond. Pangs' "Way Wrong Love" was featured on the last show (10/20). Very cool, and at least the 3rd play of Pangs as a result of posting the songs on the Podsafe Music Network. And I only posted the songs up there a little over a week ago.

I haven't listened to the show yet, but I'll grab that today while I'm at work and give it a listen, and of course set up a link to his site from PDXBands.

This is one of my favorite Pangs reviews because a) it is not in english b) it indicates that someone in a foreign country listened to our free, web-released EP and c) it's right above a review of Warren Zevon.

Translated poorly by Bable Fish (it's better in the original Italian):

One of the struck roads more from the band that they want to put to disposition some brano gratis on Internet is that one of the EP, the minium-disc, irreperibile elsewhere and even offered to the occasional visitor with the attempt of solleticarne the appetite and (in the best one of the cases) to convince it to acquire official discs. E' more or less what they have made the Pangs, original quartet of Portland guided from chitarrista-singer-author Matt Mair Lowery.

On the situated official of the group it has been inserted just a EP, Let Down Since Prom, going back to period 2001-2002 and distributed exclusively online. A ten of insufficient minuteren, with two true and own songs (Count To Heaven and Jumping Tiger Days) and two short ones interludi, that Indians-rock of the band act as from pleasant introduction to the world of the Oregon, between spirit I give-it-yourself and vocal inflessioni that bring back to Elvis Costello.

If it is wanted to be deepened, then, the album of debut Stalemates & Sad Pastimes from the label Panther Fact Records (www.pantherfact.com) or with a simple one can be ordered directly click on iTunes. Also in this case on the situated one of the group a sturdy assay in download free is available: two entire brani Mp3 and three concerts record the slid year to you to the Tonic Lounge di Portland, in which the band have introduced nearly all the songs of the album.

Beat the Indie Drum talks up Pangs. No idea how old this is.

Also, from a while back, You Got Confusion included Pangs and our great friends International Falls and The Poison Dart, on their virtual compilation, The Tomorrow Button (scroll down until you see the virtual CD cover). Did I just use "virtual" twice? I did. It's like Lawnmower Man around here.

I love finding stuff like this. It makes me want to get the band playing again and make more records.

Can a non-touring band on hiatus like Pangs sell a significant amount of songs and records online (via digital downloads like iTunes, etc.) by allowing Podcasters and blog folk to play any or all of their music? This is the question. This is the Pangs Podsafe Challenge. Our record, Stalemates & Sad Pastimes came out at the end of 2003 and received decent write-ups both online and in print. So far, here's what's happened in terms of digital download sales:

• iTunes: 1 copy of the whole album, 2 individual songs
• MusicMatch: 6 songs (three of which were When We Were Friends, should probably try and figure out why that is)
• MusicNet: 8 songs (um, what's MusicNet?)
• Napster: 2 songs
  
• Rhapsody: 14 Songs (That's sort of a lot, I mean, at least relatively)

OK, again, what I want to know is: Can Pangs sell some more songs or albums online without playing out (for the time being anyway), and without spending any substantial money? We're going to try. We'll start by trying to get Pangs played on some podcasts and see what happens with that. I have, in fact, already started. Last weekend, I uploaded all of Stalemates to the Podsafe Music Network at Podshow. I also uploaded the four songs from our online EP Let Down Since Prom. And surprisingly, we were played on two shows within a couple of days. The shows were:

• Reaching for Lucidity Podcast, October 18th (Song played: Predilections and Pills)
• Gamechat Live, October 16 (Song Played: When We Were Friends)

Pretty cool. Will the play result in sales?