our album “New Best Friends” was released one year ago today. happy birthday! in celebration i am posting this song “rock n roll.” it’s a ryan adams cover that was on the Black Sheep EP from the ep initiative, but not on the bonus disc that comes with the album. we decided not to deal with getting permission for the song, so we just left it out of the ep initiative collection. i totally forgot it even existed until a couple weeks ago, but i actually really like it.

Mansions - LtsBSdTgthr

So “Best of the Bees” is also up on iTunes now, in case you havent already gotten it. So grab it there, or head over to bandcamp to pay what you want for it. Puhhlease.

Our b-sides collection “Best of the Bees” is still up for pay-what-you want at bandcamp! get it for free or throw us some bones, aint no thangggg.

today we are releasing “best of the bees,” a collection of our favorite b-sides we put out in 2008-2009.  if you like us, then you’ve probably already heard and/or payed for them in various form, but we wanted to make it easy to find the best ones, and give you digital versions of some that were in weird formats (ie cassette).  plus some of the mixes have been tweaked/improved, and it has been mastered.

that’s why we’re letting you PAY WHAT YOU WANT for it.  take it for free if you’re just interested in checking it out, toss us some dollars if you wanna be extra supportive.  any money goes straight to us, not to itunes or any of that jazz.

get it right here at mansions.bandcamp.com

please reblog to spread the word, complain that a certain track isnt on it, etc.  thanks!

David Bazan - Packt Like Sardines (Radiohead / live)

Land of Talk - It’s Okay

i was a little disappointed by the new david bazan album on first listen, but i think i had a strong case of demo-itis from listening to and loving the live version i’d heard.  but this week i’ve been coming around to it in a big way.  great lyrics, great production, great performances.  highly recommended.