New Tracks on Myspace for your downloading pleasure!

Hello friends,

We have just added three tracks (available for you to download) in anticipation of our playing SXSW next month.

1) An untitled live improvisation in the studio. Load the Bong!

2) The rare and extremely limited issue #48 of the Grey Ghost Series by your truly - HAWG! here reduced to a 112Kbps but, hey, it's better than nothing - especially since the original was limited to 13 copies. Note: includes gratuitous sex, drugs, motorcycles, use of of the phrase "Motherfucker", and guaranteed to not contain more that two chords!

3) Alien Abduction - the opening track from our newest album "All Things are Light"

Here is the link: http://www.myspace.com/linuspaulingquartet

Enjoy!

The LP4

Catching up on LP reviews from around the world.

Sorry we've been slacking on the Blog here but we've been getting good feedback in the last few weeks or whatnot since our last post. Here they are:

• Phil McMullen of England's Ptolemaic Terrascope penned a lovely review (Link)
• DJ Astro of Finland's The Psychotropic Zone Psychedelic Music Club was just as gracious (Link)
• Mats Gustafson of Sweden's Broken Face chimes in on Jan 08 with a sweet review. (Link)
• Fred Mills at Harp magazine wrote some nice things (Link)
• Jerry Kranitz at Aural Innovations also was very kind. (Link)
• The Rice Radio Folio (KTRU) Dropped us in their top local albums (Link PDF)
• Andrew Nicolaou at Southern puts the album in his top 30. (Link)

• I can't read Poland's Tableau! but I do understand "Stoner-Fuck-Rock" (link)
  
• Greece's Electric Requiem wrote up a review but we honestly can't read a lick of Greek. I guessing it's favorable if only because we have a lot of very nice fans from Greece who we like very much. (Link)

• Additonally Space City Rock did a nice review of the LP4 itself. (Link)

more reviews - Holland's Roadburn and Joe Mathlete

Holland's Roadburn gave us some nice props: http://www.roadburn.com/

We also got some love from Joe Mathlete who put our album on his Top 15 Albums for 2007 -Yuss!!

Skyline and Space City Rock put us in some very good company

First off, we made The Skyline 50 which is pretty cool. You can find us in Part 1 but the rest of the list is pretty choice:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5

Then, as if that wasn't awesome enough, Space City Rock reviewed three Grey Ghost releases which included our good friends Mlee Marie (Mlee Suprean of Hearts of Animals' acoustic persona) and Ben Murphy (of Bright Men of Learning) as well as our humble entry into the series. Considering my* admiration for Mlee and Ben that is really awesome. Anyhow, very nice stuff and well deserved love for our good friend John Sears who has been behind the series. Here is the link:

• Mlee Marie, BDM, Linus Pauling Quartet

* I'm given to using we a lot but Charlie chided me for speaking of the band in the plural.

Shazaaam! We have achieved “heaviosity”

Foxy Digitalis gives us 8 out of 10 of these Shazaam! symbols and proclaims that we have achieved "heaviosity!" All right!

Read the whole review here: Jeff Penczak Reviews All Thins Are Light

More reviews/articles for your consideration

Ned Raggett at Allmusic reviewed All Things Are Light (4 out of 5 stars) saying "...a core point about the Linus Pauling Quartet isn't merely that they're a great psych band, but a great band period, able to embrace a lot of styles and moods and work them well" and comparing Enchirito to Psychic Powerless era Butthole Surferes is one very nice compliment indeed.

Here is the link to the article: [http:// wm08.allmusic.com / cg/ amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dvfuxzwhldse]

Also, Skyline posted a very cheeky "review" of Grey Ghost #48 - HAWG! YUSSSSS! \m/

You can see that here:
http:// www.theskyline.net/ 2007/ 12/ review-linus-pauling- quartet-hawg-grey.html

More Album Reviews this week

Hooray, more album reviews:

Ptolemaic Terrascope: Phil McMullen reveals to us that while an Enchirito may not be universal the glory that is a spork is:

Ptolemaic Terrascope November 2007 Reviews

Skyline Network: ADR makes a unique and not all inaccurate connection. Yes, I own a Superfuzz and a Bigmuff and saw Mudhoney play at the Axiom back in the late 80s.

Skyline Network Review

Local reviews, interviews, articles.

Well we've gotten some very nice press over the last week locally so here is a round up:

Space City Rock: A really nice album review from Jeremy Hart

• All Things Are Light by Jeremy Hart
• Rockin Your Shit (a record release preview)
  

Houston Press: Nick Hall wrote an article and two blogs on us within one week (nutters!!!)

• The Light Brigade
• Q & A: The Linus Pauling Quartet
• Two Nights Ago: Linus Pauling Quartet, the Jonx, Jenny Westbury at Proletariat

Houston Press Article (plus links to the referenced sword metal blogs)

Hey everyone, Nick Hall wrote a very nice piece about us in the Houston Press. You can read it here at: http://music.houstonpress.com/2007-11-08/music/the-light-brigade/

If you are coming upon our blog from the article, the blogs nick refers to in his piece are these two:

• http://linuspaulingquartet.blogspot.com/2006/04/another-fascinating-intellectual.html
• http://linuspaulingquartet.blogspot.com/2006/04/sword-metal-part-ii.html