MUZORAMA: April 2008

Monday, April 28, 2008

Giovanni Ferrario

ARTIST / BAND: Giovanni Ferrario

SONG (MP3): honeymoon in tribeka

ALBUM: Headquarter Delirium

FILE UNDER: Psychedelic / Punk / Rock

LABEL: solaris-empire

INFO: The long awaited solo record of Giovanni Ferrario will be out in April 2008! For those who don't know - Giovanni is a cult figure in the Italian Underground scene. While better known for his work with his band Micevice, as well as being PJ Harvey's current Ax-man, Giovanni's solo-debut is a force to be reckoned with. A homage to the sounds of the 60s and 70s, 'Headquarter Delirium' is a mix of psychedelic rock, electronic experimentation and classic songwriting.

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Pete Rock

ARTIST / BAND: Pete Rock

SONG (MP3): 914 (Main)

ALBUM: NSD 23

FILE UNDER: Hip Hop / Soul / Jazz

LABEL: Soul Survivor Records

INFO: He revolutionized rap production through groundbreaking studio wizardry. He made remixes matter more than the original songs. He established ad-libs as a standard recording asset. He introduced dramatic, forceful horns to rap’s sonic discussion. Pete Rock has notched these achievements during his impeccable recording, producing and remixing career, one of the most distinguished in rap history and one that includes collaborations with Nas, Common, Mary J. Blige, Ghostface Killa, Busta Rhymes, Public Enemy and Run-DMC, among many others. Showing that he remains sharp as ever, the Mount Vernon, New York rapper-producer returns with NY’s Finest, his best moment as an artist. “I called it that because I feel like that’s me,” Pete Rock explains.

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Eric Avery

ARTIST / BAND: Eric Avery

SONG (MP3): All Remote And No Control

ALBUM: Help Wanted

FILE UNDER: Rock

LABEL: Dangerbird Records

INFO: Avery has kept a fairly low profile since the demise of Jane's Addiction, participating in the Deconstruction project with Dave Navarro immediately after Jane's Addiction's breakup, but declining all invitations for Jane's reunions. The only reason Avery has ever given for his repeated rejections is that he feels the reunions are motivated purely by money. He has also recorded tracks for, toured with and briefly dated Alanis Morissette, as well as creating another side project, Polar Bear in 1994.^[1] Tool's Maynard Keenan invited Eric Avery to replace bassist Paul D'Amour. Eric Avery was once suggested as the replacement bassist for Tool by former Jane's Addiction and then-current Tool manager Ted Gardner. Eric declined the invitation, saying he wanted to concentrate on his band Polar Bear. As seen in the film Some Kind of Monster, Avery also auditioned to become the bassist for Metallica, after the departure of former bassist Jason Newsted.^[1] The job didn't quite fit right for Avery; instead the band went with Ozzy Osbourne bassist Robert Trujillo.^[1] Avery toured with the band Garbage during the promotion of their 2005 Bleed Like Me album.

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The Kills

ARTIST / BAND: The Kills

SONG (MP3): Cheap and Cheerful

ALBUM: Midnight Boom

FILE UNDER: Rock / Electronica / Indie

LABEL: Domino

INFO: Jamie Hince and his musical partner Alison Mosshart believe that your art is something you live, rather than something you merely do. Therefore, the conventional approach to recording an album - write some songs a bit like your last songs, book flashy studio and ear candy-providing producer, be professional and get home in time for tea - is not an option for them. The Kills make music that sounds like the stripped-to-the-bone nub of the crux of the sex and death and madness at the heart of the very best rock ‘n’ roll. And the only way to pull that off is to put themselves through the creative, physical, financial and emotional mangle. “It was definitely a journey,” confirms Alison, with the sanguine air of one who believes that anything that doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

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ATMOSPHERE

ARTIST / BAND: ATMOSPHERE

SONG (MP3): Shoulda Known (clean)

ALBUM: When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold

FILE UNDER: Hip Hop / Indie

LABEL: Rhymesayers Entertainment

INFO: Atmosphere is an American hip hop duo from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The members are rapper Slug (born Sean Daley, September 7, 1972) and DJ/producer Ant (born Anthony Davis). Active in various forms since 1993, they are one of the most commercially successful and long-lived independent hip hop acts.

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Cut Copy

ARTIST / BAND: Cut Copy

SONG (MP3): Lights And Music

ALBUM: In Ghost Colours

FILE UNDER: Electro Pop

LABEL: Modular Recordings

INFO: In Ghost Colours is the second studio album by Australian band Cut Copy. It comprises 15 tracks in total, including a re-recorded album version of the single "Hearts on Fire". The album was originally planned as an Australian release for 2007, but was delayed until 2008 to accommodate a simultaneous international debut of the recording

In Ghost Colours marked the band's debut to the Australian ARIA Albums Chart, reaching number-one on March 30, 2008. Pitchfork Media rated the album an 8.8, tying with Vampire Weekend's self-titled debut and Portishead's comeback album as the second highest score of the year, behind Hercules and Love Affair's eponymous debut album.

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Tokyo Police Club

ARTIST / BAND: Tokyo Police Club

SONG (MP3): In A Cave

ALBUM: Elephant Shell

FILE UNDER: Indie / Garage / Pop

LABEL: Saddle Creek

INFO: Elephant Shell lands roughly a year and half after A Lesson In Crime (with last year’s Smith EP and "Your English Is Good" digi-single and a ton of touring also bridging the gap) and barely four years from the band’s 2005 formation. Not bad for four friends who learned to play during senior year in high school, later naming themselves for a nonsensical lyric from the song that would become track one on their first EP, which would in turn sell over 30,000 copies-probably about 29,000 more copies than they expected-and garner accolades from Entertainment Weekly ("We can hardly wait for the full length” A-), Rolling Stone ("If only all young guitar bands were smart enough to rock out this fast, banging out seven first-rate mod-punk party starters in barely more than sixteen minutes"), Interview, Blender, Nylon and The New York Times among others.

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Tindersticks

ARTIST / BAND: Tindersticks

SONG (MP3): The Flicker Of A Little Girl

ALBUM: The Hungry Saw

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Beggars Banquet

INFO: The Hungry Saw arrives April 28 overseas in CD/vinyl/digital formats on Beggars Banquet and marks the first album of new material by the full band since 2003's lush and lovely Waiting for the Moon. A 7"/digital single for the title track, backed with a tune called "Back to the Earth", precedes the album on April 14.
And actually we can't say "full band" without qualifying it a bit, as the reduced Tindersticks lineup featured on Saw includes core members Stuart A. Staples, Neil Fraser, and David Boulter, with additional help from drummer Thomas Belhorn and bassist Dan McKinna. Frontman Staples, as you may recall, released the solo album Leaving Songs back in 2006.

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

ARTIST / BAND: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

SONG (MP3): Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

ALBUM: Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

FILE UNDER: Alternativa / Rock / Otros

LABEL: Mute

INFO: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! is the fourteenth studio album by international alternative rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The album was recorded in June and July of 2007 at The State of the Ark Studios in Richmond, London and mixed by Nick Launay at British Grove in Chiswick, and was released on March 3, 2008. On February 18 the title track "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" was released as the first single - on CD, limited edition 7", and as a digital download, with "Accidents Will Happen" as the B-side.

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Sunday, April 27, 2008

MUZORAMA <playlist 27 april>

RADIO MUZORAMA IS BROADCAST WEEKLY ON RADIO FORTUNA (FM106.9 , TBILISI , GEORGIA) PRODUCED BY KOMUNIKATORI

CAVEDOLL - DECODER

SOUNDPOOL - THE DIVIDES OF MARCH

DEMANDER - COOLIE

FRIGHTENED RABBIT - HEAD ROLLS OFF

BRIDGES AND POWERLINES - THE GOLDEN AGE

CIPES AND THE PEOPLE - FREE ME

ROYAL BANGS - CATSWALLOW

CHRIS MILLS - ATOM SMASHERS

MY MORNING JACKET - EVIL URGES

LANGHORN SLIM - REBEL SIDE OF HEAVEN

THE PEDALJETS - AGNES MIND

FROM BUBBLEGUM TO SKY - EVEN THE SUNBEAMS

MR. GNOME - NIGHT OF THE CRICKETS

THE ACORN - CROOKED LEGS

SOUNDPOOL - LUSH (WHAT BECOMES YOU)

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Friday, April 25, 2008

The Acorn

ARTIST / BAND: The Acorn

SONG (MP3): Crooked Legs

ALBUM: Glory Hope Mountain

FILE UNDER: Indie / Folk Rock

LABEL: paper bag records

INFO: Part biographical narrative, part surreal fairy tale, Glory Hope Mountain is the story of Gloria Esperanza Montoya. Based on interviews recorded in early 2006 by her son, Acorn songwriter Rolf Klausener, the album is a sonic retelling of the stories from her early life in Honduras to her eventual immigration to Montreal in 1972.

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Freddie Stevenson

ARTIST / BAND: Freddie Stevenson

SONG (MP3): If An Alien Astronomer Could See Us From Afar

ALBUM: All My Strange Companions

FILE UNDER: Folk Rock / Acoustic / Indie

LABEL: Juicy Musical Creations

INFO: Freddie is the eldest of three children born to Scottish artist and potter Charles Stevenson and children's television writer and producer Jocelyn Stevenson, co-creator of the popular programme Fraggle Rock.^[1] Freddie was educated at Harrow School in north-west London from 1993-1998 during which time he taught himself to play guitar before moving to RADA to study drama.

Stevenson originally trained as an actor at RADA. Upon graduating in 2002, he appeared in a number of television and stage roles^[2] including Cambridge Spies and State Of Play. Latterly he toured both the UK and USA in Sir Peter Hall's 2003 & 2004 production of As You Like It, which included significant runs at both Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Los Angeles Music Center, during which time he became involved in a long term relationship with co-star actress Rebecca Hall.^[3]

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mr. Gnome

ARTIST / BAND: mr. Gnome

SONG (MP3): Night of The Crickets

ALBUM: Deliver This Creature

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Rock / Psychedelic

LABEL: El Marko Records

INFO: The music of mr. Gnome has been described as utilizing elements of AltRock, Metal, Post Punk, and Prog, but lands in a realm of their own making, crafting a compelling sonic-psychedelic melange of indie rock. Since their conception in 2005, the Cleveland duo has released two EPs, receiving wide-ranging and honorable comparisons to Massive Attack, PJ Harvey, Tool, Portishead, Cat Power, Pelican, Death From Above 1979, Bjork and Blonde Redhead. While comparisons vary, one thing is certain - the duo's unique sound explores unpredictable shades of violence and intensity, while meshing the sludgy, reverberating monsoon of hardcore with the feminine. Their debut full-length CD, Deliver This Creature, hits stores May 6, 2008 on El Marko Records.

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My Morning Jacket

ARTIST / BAND: My Morning Jacket

SONG (MP3): Evil Urges

ALBUM: Evil Urges

FILE UNDER: Rock / Acoustic / Indie

LABEL: ATO Records

INFO: Evil Urges is the fifth studio album by My Morning Jacket. It will be released by ATO Records on June 10, 2008.^[1] Writing began in Colorado, while recording was done in Manhattan.^[2] Singer and lead songwriter Jim James said that the band wanted to get away from "normal rock and roll sounds" and emulate more of the band's live sound^[3]. The album is the first from My Morning Jacket to feature vocals from band members other than James. Many of the songs were previewed at the 2008 South by Southwest music festival^[4].

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From Bubblegum To Sky

ARTIST / BAND: From Bubblegum To Sky

SONG (MP3): Even The Sunbeams

ALBUM: A Soft Kill

FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop / Soul

LABEL: eenie meenie

INFO: From Bubblegum to Sky is an indie pop solo project created by Mario Hernandez of Ciao Bella. From Bubblegum to Sky's debut album Me and Amy and the Two French Boys was released in 2000 under the Eenie Meenie Records label. His second and most recent album, Nothing Sadder Than Lonely Queen was released on the same label in 2004. On December 12, 2005, Hernandez announced that he will no longer use the From Bubblegum to Sky moniker and start anew as Seiko and Salome, the names of his parents. However, as of March 2007, Hernandez seems to dropped the new moniker in favor of using From Bubblegum to Sky once again.

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The Pedaljets

ARTIST / BAND: The Pedaljets

SONG (MP3): Agnes Mind

ALBUM: The Pedaljets

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Powerpop / Psychedelic

LABEL: Throbbing Lobster, Twilight, Communion, Oxblood Records

INFO: Good fortune is often a function of timing and fate. Just ask the Pedaljets. By the end of 1990 the four-piece Kansas City band was defunct, yet rumors of its good health persisted. MTV was airing the video to the Pedaljets’ ‘Place in the Race’, and the band (via a concert poster) was a split-second contributor to the opening credits on ‘Saturday Night Live.’Yet months earlier the band had broken up, unware that the stars were aligning in their favor.’We toured so hard: We’d swing into town and swing out. We never really stepped back and said, ‘Maybe we are making an impact,’ ‘ said Mike Allmayer, the band’s vocalist, songwriter and rhythm guitarist.The Pedaljets broke up for many of the same reasons other good bands break up. For six years they’d taken their act all over the world, accumulating lasting friendships and die-hard fans but scant financial reward.The last act of misfortune came during the recording of ‘The Pedaljets,’ the band’s second album, thanks to a heated financial disagreement between their producer and his landlord.

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Langhorn Slim

ARTIST / BAND: Langhorn Slim

SONG (MP3): Rebel Side of Heaven

ALBUM: Langhorn Slim

FILE UNDER: Folk / Soul / Rock

LABEL: Kemado Records

INFO: Outside of Philadelphia I was born and raised, and in the playground I spent quite a few of my younger days. At the time I had a preference for brunettes but years pass and we change. When my tendencies turned toward blondes I began to hear the call of the big rotten apple and at eighteen, away I went. Gone were the lonely, sweaty summer nights of PA. The crickets were still cricken’ but not in my ears. I was in New York and I was looking for action. Some crave love, some seek danger but I was on the hunt for open mics and not to brag—I found ‘em. In a section of the city once referred to as alphabet on the lower east side there lurks a lot of white guys with acoustic guitars. This minor mass of songsters would meet one, two and sometimes three times a week in the back of bars, smoking, drinking and sharing with each other our newest creations. It was there that I met some good friends and came of age beginning to play my own shows and tour.

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Chris Mills

ARTIST / BAND: Chris Mills

SONG (MP3): Atom Smashers

ALBUM: Living In The Aftermath

FILE UNDER: Rock

LABEL: Ernest Jenning/Powerless Pop

INFO: Chris Mills is a roving troubadour, wandering the countryside kicking ass and taking names. He is also a Leo and enjoys holding hands and going to the movies.

This is what people are saying about his new record, THE WALL TO WALL SESSIONS:

"The most gorgeous piece of chamber pop released this year." - Atlanta Journal & Constitution

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Royal Bangs

ARTIST / BAND: Royal Bangs

SONG (MP3): cat swallow

ALBUM: We Breed Champions

FILE UNDER: Indie Pop

LABEL: AUDIO EAGLE

INFO: Royal Bangs from Knoxville, Tennessee, is a laser-fueled, turbo pop
musical group. Once or twice called "like Radiohead vs. fifteen
bottles of Southern Comfort" and "nerd fantasia" by members of the
press. They recorded "We Breed Champions," a full-length, on their
own at home, released on Audio Eagle records May 2008. They sound
awesome. They currently party in select areas of the south east,
traveling with too damn much gear, like a wall of beats from computer blasting dueling guitar wizards into hot dog hell, and sheets of red hot synth slam dunk, singing together as a dangerous old/new pop octopus.

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Cipes And The People

ARTIST / BAND: Cipes And The People

SONG (MP3): Free Me

ALBUM: Conscious Revolution

FILE UNDER: Rock / Pop / Reggae

LABEL: high valley ent.

INFO: Greg Cipes (January 4, 1980 in Coral Springs, Florida) is an American voice and film actor. He is also a singer, musician, composer, and professional surfer. He was ranked #3 Junior Professional Surfer in the U.S. in 1998—the year he began his career in cinema.

Since he was 8 years old he has been a vegan, a trait he shares with one of the most loved characters he voiced, Beast Boy. ^[1]

He was the voice of Atlas in the 2003 Astro Boy anime series.

He has made appearances in the TV series Gilmore Girls, in the season four episode "Ted Koppel's Big Night Out", and Deadwood, as well as the movie Ring of Darkness.

His ex-girlfriend, Juliana Redding was murdered in her apartment in Santa Monica, on the night of March 16, 2008. No indication as to whether Cipes is actually a suspect, but he has not been ruled out.

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Bridges and Powerlines

ARTIST / BAND: Bridges and Powerlines

SONG (MP3): The Golden Age

ALBUM: Ghost Types

FILE UNDER: Indie / Rock /

LABEL: CityBird Records

INFO: Writing the songs for their debut full-length, Bridges and Powerlines began to notice a recurring motif: the male struggle for maturity despite the persistence of boyhood impulses. The stories that populate "Ghost Types" include a diverse collection of such conflicted protagonists: a depression-era film director, a Bangladeshi cab driver, the captain of a doomed steam ship, and a host of others.

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Frightened Rabbit

ARTIST / BAND: Frightened Rabbit

SONG (MP3): Head Rolls Off

ALBUM: The Midnight Organ Fight

FILE UNDER: Pop / Folk / Indie

LABEL: FatCat Records

INFO: Though the past year has seen Frightened Rabbit finally step into public view, with more extensive touring and some recordings now publicly available, the past few years have largely been about the band quietly, commitedly honing their sound, and cultivating their art. Now a three-piece comprising Scott, Billy and Grant, the origins of the band are rooted in 2003, when Scott began playing solo shows under the name Frightened Rabbit, mostly in support of fellow art-schoolers Shitdisco. Recordings were made on a tascam 4-track recorder, with Scott playing all the instruments (some more proficiently than others). Though looser, sparser, and certainly more lo-fi in terms of production values, their early demo’s still attest to a burgeoning talent with a defined personality, and a now familiar penchant for being able to nail a near perfect pop song.

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Demander

ARTIST / BAND: Demander

SONG (MP3): Coolie

FILE UNDER: Rock / Indie / Happy Hardcre

INFO: The three members of Demander, perhaps New York City’s most boisterous, witty and good-natured group, have dug in deep at B-Side, a quaint but bombastic bar on the Lower East Side... The bar has become a second home, rally point and late-night rendezvous for a band devoid of an obvious scene affiliation. This is due primarily to their dizzyingly addictive sound, which siphons off progressive punk and metal while salaciously seizing Sleater-Kinney’s darkest shipwrecked moments

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Soundpool

ARTIST / BAND: Soundpool

SONG (MP3): The Divides Of March /Lush (What Becomes You)

ALBUM: Dichotomies & Dreamland

FILE UNDER: Shoegaze / Electronica / Psychedelic

LABEL: aloft

INFO: Soundpool is...
NYC based 5 piece shoegaze/space rock audio/visual recording artists with sweet girlie vox saturated guitar sounds lush synth arrangements and a danceable driving rhythm section who prefer to play out with the backdrop of self produced psychedelic visuals whenever they can.

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Cavedoll

ARTIST / BAND: Cavedoll

SONG (MP3): Decoder

ALBUM: No Vertigo

FILE UNDER: Pop / Rock / Electro

LABEL: Kitefishing Studio

INFO: One of the most innovative and exciting projects to come along in recent years, Salt Lake City based Cavedoll is perfectly poised to burst on to the international music scene. Cavedoll's modern take on rock music combines elements of the dancefloor, with thick guitars, vocal harmonies, huge hooks, and an impeccable sense of style. Cavedoll's debut album "The Harbor", co-produced by Mark Kendall of Great White, is heavily laden with fan-tested hit songs which grab the listener instantly and suck them in with their memorable choruses and catchy melodies.

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Yelle

ARTIST / BAND: Yelle

SONG (MP3): Je Veux Te Voir (Club-Club Version)

ALBUM: Electrofy Your Life!

FILE UNDER: Pop / Club

LABEL: source-etc.

INFO: Yelle grew up with music, her dad being a famous musician in the Côtes d’Armor region, where she still lives today. She played the piano, then went on to acting, and played in a few bands that never made it past the rehearsals, but whatever: she knew she was a born performer.
Five years ago, she met GrandMarnier at a marshmallow party. This young musician and producer, was going back and forth between his own band and his student room where he was making beats on his computer. Although his teens were all about Rock music, he was drawn to electronic music after listening to the Beastie Boys and started mucking around with his machines. Yelle started singing on GrandMarnier’s demos just for a laugh at first, but the combination of the boy’s electronic loops and the girl’s half-sung half-rapped voice worked so well that they naturally ended up producing an electro pop album all in French if you please. Yelle’s golden voice was in the house!

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MUZORAMA playlist 20 april

Tilly and the Wall

RADIO MUZORAMA IS BROADCAST WEEKLY ON RADIO FORTUNA (FM106.9 , TBILISI , GEORGIA) PRODUCED BY KOMUNIKATORI

LISTEN TO THE SHOW’S ARCHIVE

Mostly Bears - Melancholyism
Head of Femur - Jetway Junior
The Submarines - You, Me, & The Bourgeoisie
Temposhark - Crime
James Pants - We're Through
The Autumns vs. Evol Intent - Killer in Drag
Tilly and the Wall - Cacophony
Daniel Ahearn - Down for the count
Pattern is Movement - Bird
Constantines - Hard Feelings
The Terrordactyls - Overcast Summer
The Instruments - Ode To The Sea
Anthem In - Hold on to me
The Boy Bathing - The beaches meet the sea
David Ramos - Kings and Queens
Ghost Bees - Vampire of the West Coast
Tim Miller - Let Us End

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Saturday, April 19, 2008

Evol Intent

ARTIST / BAND: Evol Intent

SONG (MP3): Killer in Drag (The Autumns vs. Evol Intent)

FILE UNDER: Drum & Bass / IDM / Melodramatic Popular Song

LABEL: Evol Intent Recordings

INFO: Evol Intent is a hardstep drum and bass/IDM group formed in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. in 2000. The group is comprised of The Enemy (Ashley Jones), Knick (Nick Weiller), and Gigantor (Mike Diasio).

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Tim Miller

ARTIST / BAND: Tim Miller

SONG (MP3): Let Us End

ALBUM: Let's Go

FILE UNDER: Acoustic / Indie / Pop

INFO: My name is Tim - I'm a singer/songwriter based in Dallas, Texas. Like other artists on myspace, I made a list of those I’m influenced by (look left). I know it’s a lot - quite honestly, it’s not even complete. Anyway, I suppose my music sounds like some combination of them; that would make sense really. I've been told a young Bruce Springsteen, with touches of David Gray and Ari Hest. At the end of the day, it's pretty straightforward acoustically driven stuff.

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Ghost Bees

ARTIST / BAND: Ghost Bees

SONG (MP3): Vampire of the West Coast

ALBUM: Tasseomancy

FILE UNDER: Indie / Folk / Shoegaze

LABEL: Youth Club Records

INFO: Romy and Sari Lightman are the founding members of the Halifax based folk group, Ghost Bees. The twin sisters have been playing music together and writing songs for as long as they can remember. Their sound has been referred to by critics as an "eclectic brand of spooky folk", with musical comparisions to the avante garde, hand-spun tales of Joanna Newsom and the dark and playful harmonies of CocoRosie. Ghost Bees follow in similiar form, weaving delicate, haunting vocals accompanied by uncoventional, bold and poetic prose. They have been noted in reviews by Canada's Walk of Fame, as an up-and coming band involved
in the "midst of Halifax's musical renaissance" amongst the "stream of burgeoning folk-inspired bands who are carving out their own paths within the indie folk scene".

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David Ramos

ARTIST / BAND: David Ramos

SONG (MP3): Kings and Queens

ALBUM: This Up Here

FILE UNDER: Psychedelic / Pop / Hip Hop

LABEL: Fake Four Inc.

INFO: I finished this record early in the summer. But, because of some personal situations I have not been really thinking about much besides my family. However, things are getting much better and I am once again starting to think about music. My brother and eye are playing and preparing for the never ending/never to be released new Anonymous Inc record. Ceschi is writing a lot of new songs that are sounding really "prog." Speaking of "prog," I was recently in Modern Drummer where they named me one of the top ten prog drummers. Its funny cause I don't really think I am a prog drummer, but its nice to be in a magazine that I used to read when I was 12. Anyways......my record is done, and I put up a song that Ceschi sang on. It is called "one last stop."
ok I hope someone listens.

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The Boy Bathing

ARTIST / BAND: The Boy Bathing

SONG (MP3): the beaches meet the sea

ALBUM: AFTMP MASTER v1

FILE UNDER: Indie / Emo / Folk

LABEL: Cuddlecore

INFO: The Boy Bathing is an indie rock, emo, folk band from New York City. Their music focuses on prolific lyricism, extravagant arrangements and dramatic live performances. The band is fundamentally comprised of four members who use a variety of sounds to create micro-worlds out of the story or imagery of each song.
The first full-length record by The Boy Bathing is called “A Fire to Make Preparations” and it was completed in the fall of 2007 after almost two years of recording. Other songs of theirs have been featured on several European and US compilations alongside The Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens and Jens Lenkman.

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Friday, April 18, 2008

Anthem In

ARTIST / BAND: Anthem In

SONG (MP3): Hold on to me

ALBUM: Anthem In

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Quiet/Loud Records

INFO: Allen Orr and Ashley Proffitt met in the fall of 2000 in Atlanta and instantly became fans of each other’s music. Allen was in the band Igloo and Ashley was playing quiet solo shows. Over the next seven years the two of them each moved several times to different cities and countries, only to reconnect in New York. Allen had a bunch of songs, Ashley had a Wurlitzer and one thing led to another.

On September 15th of 2007, Allen and Ashley met in a rehearsal space in the Lower East Side, exactly seven years to the day after the two of them met for the first time in Atlanta. They bonded over a mutual love of Def Leppard’s Hysteria, and Anthem In was born.

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The Instruments

ARTIST / BAND: The Instruments

SONG (MP3): Ode To The Sea

ALBUM: Dark Småland

FILE UNDER: Indie / Experimental / Folk

LABEL: Orange Twin

INFO: McIntosh has been a staple of the Athens music scene for the past decade. She is a classically trained cellist and earned her bachelor's degree in music from the University of Georgia. She is currently a member of the Athens' bands Circulatory System, Elf Power and Japancakes and has also played or recorded with bands such as Superchunk, Of Montreal, The Gerbils, and Kevin Ayers.

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The Terrordactyls

ARTIST / BAND: The Terrordactyls

SONG (MP3): Overcast Summer

ALBUM: Mike Bowers EP

FILE UNDER: Indie / Powerpop / Acoustic

LABEL: Don't Stop Believin', Pankof, Rallytime

INFO: Originally a quartet, The Terrodactyls once featured Brendhan Bowers on drums and Scott Yoder on guitar. The two eventually left the band because they were no longer willing to participate in the rigorous daily regimens of weight lifting and jumping jacks required by the group’s image consultant, Extremeline.

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Constantines

ARTIST / BAND: Constantines

SONG (MP3): Hard Feelings

ALBUM: Kensington Heights

FILE UNDER: Rock

LABEL: Arts&Crafts:

INFO: The first pressing of the Constantines' self-titled debut (released on Canadian indie Three Gut Records in 2001) was fittingly packaged so that, upon opening the red cardstock booklet, you'd find a single strike-anywhere match. In an effort to not ruin the beauty and poignancy of a thing with a guided tour of its finer points and implications, suffice it to say that if your relationship with rock and roll is not fundamentally a quest for fire (elemental, transformative, consuming), you've utterly missed the point.

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Pattern is Movement

ARTIST / BAND: Pattern is Movement

SONG (MP3): Bird

ALBUM: All Together

FILE UNDER: Indie / Nu-Jazz

LABEL: Hometapes

INFO: Pattern is Movement is an American indie rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and established in 2001. The group's music often features repeating patterns that show their influence from minimalism. They have been categorized by some reviewers as a math rock group, and compared to groups such as Don Caballero, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Pinback. All of the group's members have a background in classical music.[1]

In 2006, producer/engineer Scott Solter (who has worked with John Vanderslice and the Mountain Goats) remixed the 2005 album Stowaway, which he had also recorded. This remix was considered unique due to its exclusivity to analog processes--Solter is credited on the album with "machines, razors, tape."[2]

As of 2008, Pattern is Movement are performing as a two-piece. The band are due to emerge with a new album documenting the lineup in the spring of 2008, also recorded with Solter.[3]

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Daniel Ahearn

ARTIST / BAND: Daniel Ahearn

SONG (MP3): Down for the count

ALBUM: Pray for me by name

FILE UNDER: Americana / Electroacoustic

Tilly and the Wall

ARTIST / BAND: Tilly and the Wall

SONG (MP3): Cacophony

ALBUM: O

FILE UNDER: Pop / Indie / Folk

LABEL: Moshi Moshi

INFO: The group formed in 2001 after the demise of several Omaha groups, including Conor Oberst's Park Ave., of which Neely Jenkins and Jamie Pressnall (then Jamie Williams) were members. Jamie brought along Kianna Alarid from another band that broke up called Magic Kiss. Derek Pressnall and Nick White, natives of Dunwoody, Georgia were drawn to the music scene in Omaha, Nebraska and moved. [1]

Their first show was an open-mic night at the now defunct Ranch Bowl. Their first release, Woo!, was recorded in Conor Oberst's garage, self-published, and distributed at shows around the Omaha area. The group released a limited-pressing eponymous 7" on Rue Royale Records, followed by their debut LP, Wild Like Children in 2004. It was the flagship release on Oberst's Team Love label and made with the help of Presto studios. Wild Like Children garnered the band a substantial amount of critical acclaim and propelled them to national tours with Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley, and Of Montreal. In early 2005, Tilly and the Wall became the first "band in residence" at Omaha's Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, using the Bemis Underground's Studio T to develop their follow-up album to Wild Like Children.

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James Pants

ARTIST / BAND: James Pants

SONG (MP3): We're Through

ALBUM: Welcome

FILE UNDER: R&B / Rap / New Wave

LABEL: Stones Throw Records

INFO: THE YEAR IS 2001 AND THE PLACE IS TEXAS. Stones Throw head honcho Peanut Butter Wolf is DJing while a sharply dressed young man approaches the DJ Booth with his Prom date in tow to formally introduce himself. Thus begins the story of James Pants.

What began as a dream Prom night to see his hero DJ went to an internship at the label to eventually landing the ultimate fantasy by being signed to the roster and championed as the ‘next big thing’ by none other than Peanut Butter Wolf himself – on top of critics like Busy P, Urb, XLR8R, & Dazed & Confused Magazines.

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The Submarines

ARTIST / BAND: The Submarines

SONG (MP3): You, Me, & The Bourgeoisie

ALBUM: Honeysuckle Weeks

FILE UNDER: Folk / Shoegaze

LABEL: Nettwerk

INFO: The Submarines are an indie pop band from Los Angeles, California. Working as solo artists in Boston, the two members of the band, John Dragonetti and Blake Hazard, were introduced through a mutual friend. Dragonetti and Hazard soon become romantically involved, and toured Europe together as members of each other's band. The relationship lasted for four years, but ended in the fall of 2004 when the pair moved to L.A.^[1] After the break-up, both Hazard and Dragonetti continued writing songs, and because Hazard still recorded her music in Dragonetti's home studio, the pair quickly discovered the songs they had written were about each other and their sadness in having broken up. Knowing this, the duo decided to work on a few songs together and eventually got back together. Declare a New State, The Submarines' first album, is what came out of these recording sessions. The album was mastered by a friend as a wedding present, and released in 2006 on the Nettwerk label.^[2]

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Head of Femur

ARTIST / BAND: Head of Femur

SONG (MP3): Jetway Junior

ALBUM: Great Plains

FILE UNDER: Rock / Pop / Experimental

LABEL: Greyday Records

INFO: Head of Femur is a Chicago band formed in November of 2001 by Nebraska natives Mike Elsener, Ben Armstrong and Matt Focht. The band was initially conceived as a forum for the three to compose pop songs while awaiting the reformation of their previous band, Pablo's Triangle. As the weeks passed the reformation looked unlikely.

With a large catalog of songs already taking shape by early 2002, Head of Femur began to recruit musicians to flesh out the lineup for live performance. The nature of the music demanded more than the traditional rock band instrumentation, so strings, trumpet, and orchestral percussion were added along with drums and bass guitar. Head of Femur played their first show at a small club in Chicago in March of 2002. They made plans to record a demo with local producer Jim Bentley and perform at Chicago's Empty Bottle.

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Mostly Bears

ARTIST / BAND: Mostly Bears

SONG (MP3): Melancholyism

ALBUM: The Ed Mitchell Clinic

FILE UNDER: Rock / Experimental / Psychedelic

LABEL: funzalo records

INFO: Formed a little over one year ago, this eclectic and lively trio merged right into the Tucson music scene and seemingly took it over. Talent like this doesn’t stay a secret for long. What takes most bands years to achieved seemingly occurred overnight for Mostly Bears. They scored a record deal, signed with booking agency Lost Barrio Artists, began to chart on college radio with an E.P. and served as the supporting band for indie rockers And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead.

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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Temposhark

ARTIST / BAND: Temposhark

SONG (MP3): Crime

ALBUM: The Invisible Line

FILE UNDER: Electronica / Pop / Rock

LABEL: Defend Music Inc

INFO: London-based electronic rock band Temposhark was formed in December 2004 by singer/songwriter Rob Diament and producer Luke Busby. The band immediately set up its own record label Paper and Glue as a means of releasing a series of limited edition singles; the first of which was the critically acclaimed EP Neon Question Mark. An instant hit with the UK underground, Temposhark, quickly collaborated on a duet with singer Imogen Heap (Frou Frou) and received club remixes from electro pioneers including Cursor Miner, Mark Moore (S'Express), Avril (F Communications), Metronomy, Melnyk, Crispin J Glover, Noblesse Oblige (Horse Glue) and hip-hop artists Border Crossing and Akira The Don

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Monday, April 14, 2008

MUZORAMA playlist 13 april

RADIO MUZORAMA IS BROADCAST WEEKLY ON RADIO FORTUNA (FM106.9 , TBILISI , GEORGIA) PRODUCED BY KOMUNIKATORI

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KITES - HEROES AND VILLAINS

THIS IS IVY LEAGUE - LONDON BRIDGES

LEMURIA - DOG - DOGS

LEE EVERTON - I FEEL LIKE DANCING

COMMON MARKET - BLACK PATCH WAR

CARTRIDGE - THE WOODS

MARBERT ROCEL - TTTICTICTAC

IN THE PINES - DRESS ON FIRE

MORNING STATE - OH YEAH

EVEREST - REBELS IN THE ROSES

JANE VAIN AND THE DARK MATTER - LOVE IS WHERE THE SMOKE IS

BESS ROGERS - SUNDAY

SHELLEY SHORT - SWIMMING

BROOKE WAGGONER - HUSH IF YOU MUST

LAURA CANTRELL - LOVE VIGILANTES

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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Laura Cantrell

ARTIST / BAND: Laura Cantrell

SONG (MP3): Love Vigilantes

ALBUM: Trains and Boats and Planes

FILE UNDER: Country / Alternative

LABEL: Matador Records

INFO: Trains and Boats and Planes features Cantrell’s first new recordings in three years, ending a temporary hiatus during which her attentions were focused on raising her new daughter. The new, all-covers collection adds a vibrant new chapter to the artist’s distinctive, deeply personal body of work, which has artfully merged her lifelong affinity for American country and folk traditions with an unmistakably contemporary sensibility. The result is timelessly resonant music that’s unmistakably personal and thoroughly original.

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SHELLEY SHORT

ARTIST / BAND: SHELLEY SHORT

SONG (MP3): Swimming

ALBUM: Water For The Day

FILE UNDER: Indie / Folk / Pop

LABEL: hush records

INFO: After recording Oh Say Little Dogies, Why? (Keep Recordings, 2003) in the desert of New Mexico and the industrial area of Portland, Oregon, Shelley Short left art school in the Pacific Northwest and headed eastward to Chicago for no good reason. Pressed in limited quantity, Oh Say Little Dogies, Why? reached an extensive musical network, building critical momentum along the way.

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Jane Vain & the Dark Matter!

ARTIST / BAND: Jane Vain & the Dark Matter!

SONG (MP3): C'mon Baby Say Bang Bang

ALBUM: love is where the smoke is

FILE UNDER: Indie / Electro / Pop

LABEL: rectangle records

INFO: From somewhere beneath the swelling strings and synths, the angular guitars and pulsating beats, cleaves the voice of Jamie Fooks of Jane Vain & the Dark Matter. In early 2003, Fooks started writing songs by her self in her basement apartment, to deal with the remaining demons of a reckless adolescence. Somewhat deterred by an open mic night that ended in tears, Fooks was encouraged to continue performing by the support of friends, and the interest of current guitar player Dillon Whitfield (of Raccoon). With the addition of Whitfield’s haphazard guitar playing, the foundation of Jane Vain & the Dark Matter was laid.

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Everest

ARTIST / BAND: Everest

SONG (MP3): Rebels In The Roses

ALBUM: Ghost Notes

FILE UNDER: Rock / Indie / Acoustic

LABEL: Vapor Records

INFO: Everest is a group of Los Angeles music community alumni and friends who decided to create music together. The result is the album Ghost Notes, to be released by Vapor Records on May 6, 2008. Everest was formed by Russell Pollard (vocals, guitar, drums), J. Soda (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Rob Douglas (bass, vocals), and Joel Graves (guitar, keyboards, vocals), with the help of friend and drummer Davey Latter. Kevin Bronson of the Los Angeles Times observed that the band members “sport resumes longer than the intro to ‘Cortez The Killer’” and it’s true – these guys have spent time in bands such as Sebadoh, the Folk Implosion, Earlimart, Mike Stinson, Slydell, John Vanderslice, and the Watson Twins.

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Morning State

ARTIST / BAND: Morning State

SONG (MP3): Oh Yeah

ALBUM: You Know People I Know People

FILE UNDER: Rock

LABEL: indie outlaw

INFO: We have finished recording our first full-length album titled, "You Know People I Know People". We recorded with our friend Asa Leffer @ DARC in Athens, GA. The release date for the album has been set for May 3rd. The first single off the disc is "Oh Yeah" and is available for download now. We will make some more tracks available before the release date so be checkin back in.
Blast off!

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In The Pines

ARTIST / BAND: In The Pines

SONG (MP3s): Dress On Fire / Never Say Too Much

ALBUM: In The Pines

FILE UNDER: Indie / Acoustic / Rock

LABEL: second nature recordings

INFO: In the Pines is a six piece musical endeavor from Kansas City, Missouri who look for that gift. Made up of two guitars, a bass, a violin, a viola, a pump organ, drums, and five vocals, their music is serene at times - other times brooding - creating an atmosphere ideal for their subject matter: narratives of a man wasted away in prison, a woman burning to death as her dress catches fire, a handless man intent on showing others the subtle gifts in life. It is dark, it is dirty, it is sometimes drunken. It is intimate...it is what we call In the Pines.

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Common Market

ARTIST / BAND: Common Market

SONG (MP3): Black Patch War

ALBUM: Black Patch War EP

FILE UNDER: Hip Hop

LABEL: masslinemedia

INFO: Before coming together to form Common Market in 2005, Sabzi and RA Scion both staked a name for themselves in the Seattle hip-hop scene – the former as an up and coming producer and one-half of the groundbreaking duo Blue Scholars, the latter as a humble, well-traveled solo emcee. Their paths crossed through the Baha’i faith and their political and spiritual approach to hip-hop music.
After collaborating on a couple tracks on RA Scion’s 2004 solo project, Live and Learn, the duo began work in the sweltering heat of an attic-based studio for what would eventually become the 14-track self-titled Common Market LP, released in October 2005. An advance copy caught the ear of KRS-One, who praised the album and RA Scion for “spitting in the Tradition of the conscious Hiphop movement.” The Blastmaster then flew up to rock Common Market’s album release party in Seattle, then taking the duo on the road with him on the Temple of Hip-hop tour.

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This Is Ivy League

ARTIST / BAND: This Is Ivy League

SONG (MP3): London Bridges

ALBUM: This Is Ivy League

FILE UNDER: Surf / Folk / Pop

LABEL: twenty seven records

INFO: Alex and Ryland met in 1997 in High School. Both were avid guitar players and both played in local bands with varying degrees of accolade. Alex got Ryland a job waiting tables at "Mr. Deli’s Jewish Delicatessan," in Boca Raton, Florida. A few years later, Alex went off to pursue a degree in the culinary arts while Ryland procured his BFA in Acting. The two lost touch for seven years. Ivy League formed in August of 2005 when Ryland discovered that his old friend Alex was not only still playing music but living just ten minutes away from him in Brooklyn, NY. The duo quickly began writing songs together. They hope you enjoy their music as much as they do.

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Friday, April 11, 2008

Kites

ARTIST / BAND: Kites

SONG (MP3): Heroes and Villains

ALBUM: You and I in the Kaleidoscope

FILE UNDER: Indie / Alternative / Pop

INFO: Kites mastermind Jean-Philip Grobler has been toiling away at his new EP You and I in the Kaleidoscope for nigh on three years. “I wanted the four tracks on the EP to represent everything that to me is beautiful about pop music, and that took a lot longer than I thought,” he laughs. With ...Kaleidoscope, Jean has gone beyond creating just beautiful pop music. He’s crafted a perfect pop record that is irresistibly catchy, while still being able to surprise you at every turn. The guitars are often loud and big, but they’re juxtaposed by Jean's layered, almost silk-like vocals and counter melodies. A delicate glockenspiel melody floating above a guitar rock apocalypse, fearing for its’ life. The Clash performing the Carmina Burana. A heartbreaking James Bond love scene soundtrack, covered by The Cure and produced by Phil Spector. Yes, classifications can be deceiving. There is incredible intimacy and tenderness in these four songs, as in the heart-wrenching “Game of Love and War,” but just as you're about to shed a tear, “Heroes and Villains” comes along blazing all of its ominous dance-rock cannons. For every inch of inspired pop-majesty on this EP, there are mountains of texture and aural-delicacies aplenty. Whether it be the Ska-meets-Baroque middle section of “Easy Now,” or the delicate melancholy of “Daylight”’s breakdown, the four tracks on ...Kaleidoscope contain enough auditory bliss to fill an entire sugar refinery.

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Cartridge

ARTIST / BAND: Cartridge

SONG (MP3): The Woods

ALBUM: Fractures

FILE UNDER: Indie / Electro / Afro-beat

LABEL: Glorious Records

INFO: New Danish extravaganza. Number one hit in Alternative charts.

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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

BESS ROGERS

ARTIST / BAND: BESS ROGERS

SONG (MP3s): I WOULD NEVER“ | “SEE ME? SEE YOU!“| “SUNDAY

ALBUM: Decisions Based On Information

FILE UNDER: Folk / Indie / Pop

LABEL: Self-Released

INFO: These three new singles only hint at the dynamic energy behind her new album, take note of Jenny Owen Youngs supporting vocals on “Sunday,” (MP3) but you can listen to other stand out tracks like “Modern Man” and “Only One” in the full album stream HERE. Fans of Kate Nash, Jenny Lewis, and Feist take note of, Decisions Based On Information will be self-released on April 4th. Bess Rogers will also be playing her new material in a stint of Northeast shows including stops in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and a special full band performance at her old college SUNY Purchase.

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Brooke Waggoner

ARTIST / BAND: Brooke Waggoner

SONG (MP3): Hush If You Must

ALBUM: Fresh Pair Of Eyes

FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop

LABEL: SwoonMoon Music

INFO: Brooke Waggoner began playing piano at age 4 and took classical lessons for a grand total of 17 years. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in music composition and orchestration, hoping to one day score films and orchestrate her own projects. She says her songs tell of a "lone 23-year-old girl, sagas of daily life, [and] bits of poetry" that are "all melded with honest proclamations and confessions."

At performances, she says she "tries to create pictures and take people on journeys." She pulls from many artists to create her sound, such as Electric Light Orchestra, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Aaron Copeland, David Bowie, and Chopin. Doo-wop, droopy melodies and sighs and swoons also find their way into her songs.

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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Marbert Rocel

ARTIST / BAND: Marbert Rocel

SONG (MP3): Tttictictac

ALBUM: Speed Emotions

FILE UNDER: Electronica / Emo / House

LABEL: compost records

INFO: Sunny sound dots appeared all over the wide valley of Thuringia, Germany - the place where lush moving meadows outshines the ways of masters and servants. Everything began with two upright guys and a fly girl, who had a cup of milk and honey at the late club. By every slug they spread a warm and cosy beat over the folks hearts. Beats like birds flap their wings in the rhythm of warm house and understatement pop. For five years to date they keep to the big bang jigger kings with delight uptempo emo and frickelchick. Recently Marbert Rocel plucked up their samples and sent good feeling track cards from their train station Zughafen to their main station, Compost Records. United they are devising the new zippy album to bring your birdy hearts to fly. Do you need a new dash on your way up?

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Lee Everton

ARTIST / BAND: Lee Everton

SONG (MP3): I feel like dancing

ALBUM: Inner Exile

FILE UNDER: Roots Music

LABEL: Rootdown Records

INFO: From his early teenage days Lee Everton was fascinated with Black Music. Searching for the right song and the perfect sound he travelled to Jamaica when he was 18 to spend a year at the Jamaican School of Music in Kingston. The sessions with musicians from all over the Caribbean had a lasting impact on him. Working later at the Quad Recording Studios in New York he assisted sessions with Alicia Keys, Kanye West and Celia Cruz. Only recently he attended a workshop for songwriters in Los Angeles where he met the successful songwriter Penny Framstad who offered him to coach him on two of his songs. A chance he took gladly.

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Saturday, April 05, 2008

MUZORAMA playlist 6 april

LADYTRON

MUZORAMA IS BROADCAST WEEKLY ON RADIO FORTUNA (FM106.9 , TBILISI , GEORGIA) PRODUCED BY KOMUNIKATORI

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KID DAKOTA - CHUTES + LADDERS

LEMURIA - GET SOME SLEEP

GHOSTY - YOU ARE A BIG SCREEN

A BRIEF SMILE - BIG SKY

BIRDS OF AVALON - MEASURE OF THE SAME

LADYTRON - BLACK CAT

ADAM GREEN - MORNING AFTER MIDNIGHT

THE BILLIE BURKE ESTATE - EVERYBODY'S GONNA DIE

THE PLASTIC CONSTELLATIONS - STAY THAT WAY

THE PHARMACY - ADEIU, ADEIU

CASSETTES WON'T LISTEN - PAPER FLOAT

COLOURMUSIC - YES!

THE BALUSTRADE ENSEMBLE - THE DROWNING CALM

GREGOR SAMSA - JEROEN VAN AKEN

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Friday, April 04, 2008

Kid Dakota

ARTIST / BAND: Kid Dakota

SONG (MP3): Chutes + Ladders

ALBUM: A Winner's Shadow

FILE UNDER: Rock / Indie / Country

LABEL: Speakerphone Records / Graveface Records

INFO: With their 2008 release, A Winner’s Shadow, Jackson and drummer Ian Prince leave behind that dusty, windswept panorama and trade it for an urban landscape that crackles and pulses with electric life. Against this backdrop, we experience the awe and terror of the songs’ narrators as they navigate loneliness, loss and love

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Gregor Samsa

ARTIST / BAND: Gregor Samsa

SONG (MP3): Jeroen Van Aken

ALBUM: Rest

FILE UNDER: ambient / indie

LABEL: The Kora Records

INFO: Originally from Richmond, VA, and now based in Brooklyn, this band exhibits a talent and grace well beyond their years. After the release of two stellar EP's, Gregor Samsa delivered their much anticipated debut full length55:12, an eight song journey submerged in dreamy, multi-layered atmospherics. The band blurs the lines of ambient and indie, from heavy and dark one moment to hushed and serene the next, all while angelic guy/girl vocals drift overhead.

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The Balustrade Ensemble

ARTIST / BAND: The Balustrade Ensemble

SONG (MP3): The Drowning Calm

ALBUM: Capsules

FILE UNDER: Ambient / Other / Visual

LABEL: Ominous

INFO: An otherworldy collection of adroitly-crafted pieces of dense, acoustic guitar pickings, mellotron, orchestron, claviola, cello, piano, pedal steel, and voice (Wendy Allen). Delicate and sometimes spooky, Capsules is like the lost soundtrack to a Brothers Quay film, a collection of lovely, brittle compositions viewed through a hazy, antique looking-glass.

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Colourmusic

ARTIST / BAND: Colourmusic

SONG (MP3): Yes!

ALBUM: Colourmusic

FILE UNDER: Hardcore

INFO: Playing on his rich family history, Colourmusic is the first musical venture of one Roy G. Biv--a descendent of the famous alchemist, Sir Isaac Newton. Roy’s name is not his real name, it’s a pseudonym to protect his identity, and it is based on the silly child mnemonic device to remember the colors R(ed)O(range)Y(ellow)G(reen)B(lue)I(ndigo)V(iolet).

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Cassettes Won't Listen

ARTIST / BAND: Cassettes Won't Listen

SONG (MP3): Paper Float

ALBUM: Small-Time Machine

FILE UNDER: Rock / Electronica / Pop

INFO: Cassettes Won’t Listen was initially just a bedroom affair; in 2004, he picked up the microphone for the first time in years and sang over a new track he had recently written. The result…future fan favorite and eventual single, “Cutting Balloons”, He sent the track out to a few friends and never expected anything more. He soon saw the mp3 appearing on influential blogs including Gorilla vs. Bear and Scissorkick. As this fan base grew, Jason served up the digital-only EP Nobody’s Moving in October of 2005. "Cutting Balloons" reached 1 on WOXY’s Top 20 charts after just weeks of being added to rotation.

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A Brief Smile

ARTIST / BAND: A Brief Smile

SONG (MP3): Big Sky

ALBUM: Now We All Have Horns

FILE UNDER: Rock / Indie / Alternative

LABEL: Wrecking Ball Music

INFO: The music echoes of dreamy idealism and youthful lust, blasting along in an orgiastic fire of Rhodes-driven excess and feedback heavy guitar squalls. From the stark depictions of the lonesome detached situations in their lyrics to the crashing fervor and squalor of their choruses, the New York five piece are out to rethink expectations in sound and song alike, all the while grounding their melodies in classic pop influences. Buzzing with the energy of open-eyed youth and ambition with no end in sight. A Brief Smile, I think not.

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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

The Pharmacy

ARTIST / BAND: The Pharmacy

SONG (MP3): Adeiu, Adeiu

ALBUM:Choose Yr. Own Adventure

FILE UNDER: Psychedelic / Thrash / Classical

LABEL: dont stop believin

INFO:The Pharmacy is a psychedelic/indie punk band from Seattle, Washington, consisting of three members: Scott Yoder (guitar, lead vocals), Brendhan Bowers (drums, backing vocals), and Stefan Rubicz (keyboards, backing vocals). They also have been known to record with a wide array of other instruments including strings, horns, and many different types of synthesizers/keyboards. They occasionally play live with cellist Calvin Havnaer.

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The Plastic Constellations

ARTIST / BAND: The Plastic Constellations

SONG (MP3): Stay That Way

ALBUM:We Appreciate You

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: french kiss

INFO:With twelve years, four albums (& one EP), a dozen tours, two vans, several hundred shows and an endless collection of warm cans of domestic beer under their collective belt, The Plastic Constellations (TPC) have done a lot in their years together. And now as the members approach the ripe old ages of 26, they’re releasing an ambitious new album that marks a new era for the band.

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The Billie Burke Estate

ARTIST / BAND: The Billie Burke Estate

SONG (MP3): Everybody's Gonna Die

ALBUM: Let Your Heart Break

FILE UNDER: Pop / Rock / Soul

INFO: The Billie Burke Estate celebrates ambitious smart pop. Inspired by the adventurous free spirit of the Beatles and Nilsson, the literate songcraft of Randy Newman and Elvis Costello, and the soulful compassion of Cat Stevens and Stevie Wonder, the Billie Burke Estate makes music that is cinematic, emotionally resonant, and has more hooks than a tackle shop. The brainchild of Seattle singer-songwriter Andy Liotta, BBE is the product of a decade of patient craftsmanship and mad science, developing a sound that is succinct, unpredictable and fun. Rolling Stone endorsed the result, writing that “Liotta tops off studied pop-rock craft with homespun charm and a big dollop of sunshine: Seventies-style piano pop with melodies upfront…and bright hooks.”

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Birds Of Avalon

ARTIST / BAND: Birds Of Avalon

SONG (MP3): Measure Of The Same

ALBUM:Outer Upper Inner

FILE UNDER: Rock / Psychedelic / Progressive

LABEL: VOLCOM

INFO:Recorded without the use of any computers whatsoever, the band opted instead for ½ inch tape on 4-track recorders, which was actually half of the old Columbia Records remote recording unit. It was as if the band traveled back in time to 1967 to enter the studio. Mitch Easter, who was the championing force behind such an experimental test, produced pinnacle recordings for REM, Pavement and Wilco and is one of the few people qualified and motivated enough to take on such a project today.

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Annuals

ARTIST / BAND: Annuals

SONG (MP3): Sore

ALBUM: Wet Zoo EP

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Experimental / Pop

LABEL: canvasback music

INFO: Annuals are friends. Annuals are plant enthusiasts & animal lovers. Annuals are part of a harmonious family and Annuals also happen to be a band (and quite a good one at that). Hailing from the tranquilly artistic town of Raleigh, NC, Annuals are a talented assembly of young musicians, all of whom are barely of legal drinking age and whose debut was released just short of their twentieth birthdays. And when Annuals get together, the music they create, in Annuals or otherwise, is very special indeed.

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Ghosty

ARTIST / BAND: GHOSTY

SONG (MP3): You Are A Big Screen

ALBUM: Answers master

FILE UNDER: Rock / Pop / Other

LABEL: OxBlood

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Lemuria

ARTIST / BAND: Lemuria

SONG (MP3s): Get Some Sleep / Dog - Dogs

ALBUM: Get Better

FILE UNDER: Indie / Punk / Powerpop

LABEL: Asian Man Records

INFO: Lemuria is a three piece from Buffalo, NY. Bob from Shinobu is sitting right next to me trying to come up with adjectives to describe how good they are, but his vocabulary mostly just consists of "Niiiiiiice." Basically, they are an awesome indie pop band in the vein of Superchunk, The Weakerthans, Jawbreaker, and Discount. They've self-released a bunch of EPs and 7"s over the past couple years, and we're proud to be putting out their first full length.

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