The Writing's on Your Bedroom Wall

If you live in the Oklahoma City area and have somehow missed the fact that 105.3 The Spy is back on the air, then get with the program. They've clued me in to some really great tunes over the past couple of months and I suspect that it could do the same for you.

One such song that caught my attention recently was "Is the Painting Changing," the titular track from the first and, so far only EP by Useless Keys. These guys hail from California and play a grungy brand of space rock, similar in some ways to Failure (if you don't know them, for the love of God, grab a copy of "Fantastic Planet" as soon as you can), but also drawing similarities in my mind to everything from Sonic Youth-type noise and indie rock to Battle of Mice-like, bludgeoning doom metal (though, admittedly more doom and much less metal).

Useless Keys - White Noise

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The only place you can reasonably get this right now is on digital music retailers like iTunes and Amazon's MP3 store. Their blog mentions a physical CD release limited to 1000 copies, so you may be able to sweet-talk them into mailing you a copy. I plan to do so because I really like this record.

Useless Keys - Is the Painting Changing (Explicit [he says the "f-word"])

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Dig on these tracks and just try to resist the urge to buy this. You will probably fail and, truthfully, that's for the best.