did you say "broke wind"?

Flatulatory interlude and all, what a wonderful performance today by die Schwestern on KEXP. So great to hear Cindy and Mary live again (as the Feelies once sang: "Seven years, way too long"), and finally to gain aural witness to their atmospheric, somewhat spacey, much-written-about version of "Some Candy Talking," not even to mention the gripping new coda to "Dumbfound You":

I try and try and try
bury yourself alive
I try and try and try
buried yourself alive

you lie and lie and lie and lie
buried yourself alive
you lie and lie and lie and lie
barely got out alive

The very abbreviated setlist: Fine / Dumbfound You / Phoebe's Song / Some Candy Talking.

Other details: Cindy uses the accordion these days mainly for covers ("I like to use it in sort of nontraditional ways"). Only Cindy still lives in Brooklyn; Mary lives in Manhattan, while Kristin's a Jersey girl. Mary was the one who came up with the name "Caulfield Sisters." Cindy says they're trying to be more Zen, less goal-oriented about their career than Pee Shy was.

We even got an entry in our weekly Too Much Information sweepstakes, courtesy of KEXP's John Richards after Mary (or was it Kristin?) made her Brooklyn/"broke wind" crack as John was describing his reaction to the EP:

"I might have when I heard it," John admitted. "I'm not gonna lie -- I was very excited."

Please, John. Don't tell us you had to change your underwear. OK, I admit I did.

If you missed it, the show will be on KEXP's web site for at least the next two weeks. Just click on "streaming archive" and choose 9 a.m. April 5 (you have to wait for a Black Keys song to finish first). As of tonight, only the Windows Media stream was working -- sorry, Mac/Linux/BeOs users.

In other news, the Sisters could be playing in the Mercury Lounge in the May -- yet another chance in person to be beholdin' Caulfields.