Great live footage of Girlfriends.

Girlfriends - "Good to be True" - Live 2/8/10 from Extraneous Noise on Vimeo.

Just found this great live video of Boston trio Girlfriends recorded earlier this year.

The song is part of a 2 song digital single download available for free from Ampeater here.

Sweet Bulbs make arty guitar punk.

Sweet Bulbs are an unsigned three/four piece from Brooklyn who make some great lo-fi garage songs a bit like Girlfriends or Colleen Greene who I wrote about last week.

Its melodic and discordant, guitar driven with catchy female vocals but more Sonic Youth in its sound rather than straight out scuzzy punk. They have a few gigs this August in New York and though no record yet one is coming soon.

Colleen Green and Girlfriends summer tour.

Girlfriends are a trashy indie-punk three piece from Boston that make me think of The Pixies and The Moldy Peaches.

They have a free two track EP called "Good To Be true" available to download for free from their Bandcamp page (one is a Vaselines cover!) and two EPs to buy real cheap.

It's all really catchy stuff that has been stuck in my head for months! They also have a fun and constantly updated tour Tumblr here.

They are on a massive self booked tour around the U.S at the moment with Colleen Green.

Colleen Green is a one woman band from Oakland California who sings, plays electric guitar over a drum machine and generally make a great lo-fi garage punk sound. Kind of where the Anti-folk sound went after all the original bands started going in different directions and being over produced by hippies.

She has various tapes and Cds available from her Myspace and I guess from all her shows!

The tour is hitting up Wisconsin, Chicago, Ohio, Kentucky, New Jersey, Brooklyn, and loads of over places the listing are on both bands Myspace pages.