THE STREETS ON FIRE

ARTIST / BAND: THE STREETS ON FIRE
MP3: "No One's Fucking to the Radio"
ALBUM: This Is Fancy
FILE UNDER: Post punk / Alternative / Rock
LABEL: The Currency Exchange
INFO: With a growing loyal fan base and a reputation for keeping the dance floor moving, The Streets On Fire has been rocking Chicago venues the Metro, Double Door, Debonair, and Empty Bottle and was recently featured on WLUW’s Razor and Die show as well as Q101’s Local 101 show.
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Oval

ARTIST / BAND: Oval
MP3: Ah!
ALBUM: O
FILE UNDER: Electronica / Experimental / IDM
LABEL: Thrill Jockey
INFO: Markus Popp’s first “Oval” release after almost a decade of silence is a spectacular departure from the deconstructivist electronica that made him a laptop legend. Instead, and totally out of nowhere, this 15-track EP establishes Popp as an accomplished musician, who is delivering a glimpse of his very own exciting flavor of "free" music in the best sense of the word.
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Jews and Catholics

ARTIST / BAND: Jews and Catholics
MP3: "Up For Days" / Jews and Catholics -- "Fevers"
ALBUM: Who Are?  We Think We Are!
FILE UNDER: Post punk / Rock / Indie
LABEL: 307 Knox Records
INFO: When Ryan Olson decided to make a record with Solid Gold members Zack Coulter and Adam Hurlburt, it was clear to them what the result would be: a collection of drugged-up keyboards and slick bedroom production almost exclusively inspired by 10cc's "I'm Not In Love." To be fair, they weren't entirely off. What they didn't know was that it would spiral into a project of epic proportions, enlisting the talents of over 25 musicians from various scenes around the country, relocating the base of operations from Olson's Minneapolis bedroom/studio to the Wisconsin-based studio April Base, and the genesis of a musical family, GAYNGS.
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Miniature Tigers

ARTIST / BAND: Miniature Tigers
MP3: Gold Skull
ALBUM: FORTRESS
FILE UNDER: Indie Pop
LABEL: Modern Art Records
INFO: Miniature Tigers haven’t been discussed around here much, but it seems inevitable that they would pop up: The Brooklyn-via-Phoenix band has been around since 2006, picking up spots on many festival to-watch lists along the way to recording their upcoming album Fortress. And morning bender Chris Chu produced Fortress, communing with the band for a three-week recording session at Dreamland Studios in Woodstock, NY earlier this year. Miniature Tigers then spent the spring opening for the morning benders on tour.
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Faded Paper Figures

ARTIST / BAND: Faded Paper Figures
MP3: Invent It All Again

ALBUM: New Medium
FILE UNDER: Indie / Electronica / Rock
LABEL: none
INFO: In their much-anticipated second album, New Medium, Faded Paper Figures return with a richer, fuller sound, even as they maintain all of Dynamo's indie-tronica charm. Fans of the band will be happy to hear all of the familiar blips, harmonies, and intellectual pop-references, but with even more life and energy this time around. Striking melodies, lyrical images, and classic pop forms--New Medium's lush electronica feels both intimately familiar and astonishingly new.
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The Radio Dept.

ARTIST / BAND: The Radio Dept.
MP3: Never Follow Suit
ALBUM: Clinging to a scheme
FILE UNDER: Indie Pop Rock
LABEL: Labrador
INFO: The Radio Dept. was formed as a loose collective of people coming and going in the beginning of the 21st century. The name was taken from a gas station/radio repairer in Lund (Sweden) which had a large sign with the name “Radioavdelningen” (The Radio Department in Swedish) hanging outside their sho
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The National

ARTIST / BAND: The National
MP3: Bloodbuzz Ohio
ALBUM: High Violet
FILE UNDER: Indie / Rock / Alternative
LABEL: 4ad
INFO: High Violet is the fifth studio album by The National, which was released on May 10, 2010 in Europe and on May 11, 2010 in North America via 4AD.^[1] The band produced the album themselves with Peter Katis, whom they worked with on their previous albums Alligator andBoxer at their own studio in Brooklyn, New York, and at Katis' Tarquin Studios in Bridgeport, Connecticut.^[2] The sculpture on the album cover was created by artist Mark Fox, and is calledThe Binding Force.^[2]
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BIG TREE

ARTIST / BAND: Big Tree
MP3: The Concurrence Of All Things
ALBUM: Home(here)
FILE UNDER: Indie / Folk / Psychedelic
LABEL: s/r
INFO: Big Tree is an angular pop band for naturalists at heart. Good friends Kaila McIntyre-Bader, Luke Bace, Colin Fahrner, and Dan Pirello, and recent addition Madeleine Miller-Bottome tap into organic folk, greasy blues, ambient rock and modal jazz. Big Tree has shared the stage with Megafaun, Akron/Family, and La Strada and continues to build momentum with the release of their most recent EP, Home(here), on June 1, 2010.
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TBA (Tusja Beridze) & Nikakoi (Nika Machaidze)

TBA and NIKAKOI - “This isn't right, this isn't even wrong” (Performed live on Electronauts)

A very rare joint  live performance of TBA and Nikakoi was filmed during the Electronauts 2009 – Award ceremony for innovative music, held 16th of April 2010 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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VILLAGERS

ARTIST / BAND: VILLAGERS
MP3: Becoming A Jackal
ALBUM: single
FILE UNDER: Indie, Pop
LABEL: DOMINO
INFO: From the very first seconds of Becoming a Jackal, he’s got you. A faint drone of organ, joined by eerie strings and a cascade of piano that collectively casts a Hitchcock movie shadow before a hushed voice asks, “Have you got just a minute? / Are you easily led? / Let me show the backroom / Where I saw the dead / Dancing like children on a midsummer morn / And they asked me to join” – and then the music obliges by with a similar spectral sweep. ‘I Saw the Dead’ is not just the album intro of 2010 to date but also a magnificent intro to the vivid narratives, gripping poetry and melodic depth of Conor J. O’Brien – or as he likes to call himself and his cohorts, Villagers.
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Lisa Papineau

ARTIST / BAND: Lisa Papineau
MP3: White Leather Pants (MP3)
ALBUM: Red Trees
FILE UNDER: singer songwriter
LABEL: Sargent House
INFO: The highly-accomplished singer/composer Lisa Papineau releases her Sargent House debut, Red Trees this spring. The album is the second solo venture from the active collaborator known for her vocal contributions to Air and M83, as well as writing with The Mars Volta bassist Juan Alderete de la Peña in Big Sir. The ever-active Papineau also works with soundtrack composer Tyler Bates, Japanese artist Jun Miyake, The Anubian Lights, Bron Tieman's Crooked Cowboy and countless other projects. Red Trees was recorded with French musicans Matthieu Lesenechal and Johan Guidou, and features guest vocals from singer/songwriters Matthieu Boogaerts and Mark Eitzel of American Music Club.
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Johnny Bertram & The Golden Bicycles

ARTIST / BAND: Johnny Bertram & The Golden Bicycles
MP3: "At The Wake" / "Private Land"
ALBUM: Days That Passed
FILE UNDER: Folk, Indie, Rock
LABEL: Esperanza Plantation
INFO:
Jackson, Mississippi label, Esperanza Plantation (home to The Weeks & Colour Revolt), is proud to announce the debut release from Johnny Bertram & The Golden Bicycles.  Days That Passed will be available everywhere tomorrow, April 27th, 2010.
A Boise, Idaho transplant, Johnny Bertram sonically channels the influences of the Pacific Northwest's musical forebears (think Pedro the Lion, The Decemberists, Built to Spill) in his acoustic-based songwriting.  A Mississippi resident for the past five years, his songs are steeped in indie-rock and Americana and filtered through a Deep South lens that generates an interesting perspective and sound.
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TBA (Tusja Beridze) & Nikakoi (Nika Machaidze)

  

A very rare joint  live performance of TBA and Nikakoi was filmed during the Electronauts 2009 – Award ceremony for innovative music, held 16th of April 2010 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

The  video version of the whole ceremony is coming soon on
   
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Night Driving In Small Towns

ARTIST / BAND: Night Driving In Small Towns
MP3: "Come & Tell Me" "Barstool"
ALBUM: Serial Killer
FILE UNDER: Indie
LABEL: Lower 40 Records
INFO: Night Driving in Small Towns are land dwellers. Having moved from small south Georgia towns to the city of Atlanta in 2008, the band has seen its share of topography. So has their music. Having navigated the spaces between artsy folk pop and brazen indie rock, their sound is sometimes gutsy, sometimes reserved, but always premeditated.
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Broken Bells

ARTIST / BAND: Broken Bells
MP3: The Ghost Inside, The High Road, Broken Bells, Vaporize
ALBUM: The MySpace Transmissions
FILE UNDER: Rock, Indie
LABEL: Sony
INFO: Broken Bells is an American indie rock band featuring artist–producer Danger Mouse (billed by his real name, Brian Burton) and James Mercer, the lead vocalist and guitarist for the Portland indie rock band The Shins. The project was first announced on Tuesday, September 29, 2009.^[1] The pair decided to work together after meeting at a Danish music festival in 2004 and finding they were fans of each other's work. Mercer and Burton began recording together in secret at Burton's Los Angeles-based studio in March 2008 and describe their material as "melodic, but experimental, too".^[2]
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Morningbell

ARTIST / BAND: Morningbell
MP3s: "Hello, Dali"
ALBUM: Sincerely, Severely
FILE UNDER: Psychedelic / Rock
LABEL: self released
INFO: Gainesville, FL’s Morningbell is back with its fourth full-length,Sincerely, Severely.
Brothers Eric and Travis Atria have been playing music together their whole lives. Stacie, Eric’s wife, joined the band years ago, and drummer Chris Hillman rounds out the mostly family affair that is Morningbell. Throughout the 2000s, Morningbell developed its own brand of melodic, psychedelic rock, rooting itself as a well-established tradition in the Florida music scene. After four successful national tours supporting 2007’s Through the Belly of the Sea, the band holed up in its home studio to record the group’s most ambitious effort to date.
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The Mary Onettes

ARTIST / BAND: THE MARY ONETTES
MP3: The Night Before The Funeral
ALBUM: single
FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop / Rock
LABEL: Labrador
INFO: Starting out in the Swedish town of Jönköping in 2000, The Mary Onettes has since then been on a long journey containing a few downhill slopes and a lot of brick walls. The band was drawn together much due to their common interest for the 80´s and the 90´s music, with bands such as the Stone Roses and the Cure. The band first years weren’t unlike most bands, members came and went and their sound changed from one week to another.
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To Rococo Rot

ARTIST / BAND: To Rococo Rot

SONG (MP3): Horses

ALBUM: Speculation

FILE UNDER: IDM / Electronica

LABEL: Domino

INFO:"Horses" is the first offering from the new record, and the serene track features a bubbling synth intermingling with light percussion and pastoral melodies. These days it seems like anyone with a budget bedroom setup can crank out a mellow tune and slap the "chill" label on it, but To Rococo Rot is still showing us how the pros like to get down.

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How To Dress Well

ARTIST / BAND: How To Dress Well
MP3: "Decisions"
ALBUM: Can't See My Own Face - The Eternal Love 2
FILE UNDER: slow jam
LABEL: self
INFO: At the time I suggested maybe those dense, colorful canvasses had something to do with “Decision”’s denser, bolder vibe than the Brooklyn/Köln crew’s whispered offerings. I stand by that. After watching this visually rich Jamie Harley-directed video, you’ll have some other angles.
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Wild Moccasins

ARTIST / BAND: Wild Moccasins
MP3: "Skin Collision Past"
ALBUM: Skin Collision Past
FILE UNDER: Pop / Indie /
LABEL: none
INFO: With a collection of songs that web male-female vocals of couple Zahira Gutierrez and Cody Swann, as well as pop-infused percussion and string work, Wild Moccasins, a quintet of 20-somethings from Houston, TX, offer a sound that balances a musical guile beyond the band’s years. Winners of “Best EP” in this year’s Houston Press Music Awards, the two-year-old band is now finished recording it’s first full length, Skin Collision Past, and will be touring the United States this spring, summer, and fall to support the newest release.
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Hole

ARTIST / BAND: Hole
MP3: "Samantha"
ALBUM: Nobody's Daughter
FILE UNDER: Rock
LABEL: Island records
INFO: Nobody's Daughter^[7] is the fourth studio album by Hole and is set for Worldwide release in April 2010 (see release history).^[8]

History

In September 2005, after violating a legal drug probation, Courtney Love was sentenced to a six-month program in a lock down rehabilitation center, which she was released after one half of the sentenced time and completed the other three months left in house arrest. During the period on the clinic, friend and producer Linda Perry visited Love and supported her by encouraging to write new songs, giving her a Martin acoustic guitar
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Lost in the Trees

ARTIST / BAND: Lost in the Trees
MP3: "All Alone In An Empty House"
ALBUM: All Alone in An Empty House
FILE UNDER: indie folk
LABEL: ANTI-/Trekky
INFO: Lost in the Trees is a folk orchestra from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Led by composer Ari Picker, the band merges the dramatic symphonic elements of classical music with the accessibility of American folk, creating a sound that is simultaneously intimate and sonically ambitious.

DIN A TESTBILD

ARTIST / BAND: DIN A TESTBILD
MP3: Neu Berlin
ALBUM: PROGRAMM 6
FILE UNDER: Electro / Experimental / Indie
LABEL: Testbild Music
INFO: Few bands of the German post punk/new wave era can lay claim to "cult" status, but DIN A TESTBILD most certainly can. Formed in 1978 by Mark Eins and Gudrun Gut, the combo played a significant role in defining the avant-garde music of Berlin and were among the pioneers of Electroclash, long before the genre even existed. In the year they started out, DIN A TESTBILD played at the opening of the legendary Berlin underground club S.O. 36 and in 1980 they appeared at Hamburg's first "In die Zukunft" (Into the Future) festival, organized by Alfred Hilsberg. "Abfall/Garbage", their first single, is emblematic of the entire West Berlin music scene from 1978–1982. The group also participated in the seminal "Geniale Dilletanten" event at the Tempodrom in Berlin (1981). Their contribution to German underground cinema and the art scene cannot be captured in a few simple words. Such is the measure of the cult and legend of DIN A TESTBILD.
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Household Names

ARTIST / BAND: Household Names
MP3: "Driving To LA"
ALBUM: No Names
FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop / Rock
LABEL: Unsigned
INFO: Household Names is a four-piece alternative pop band from Austin, Texas, featuring vocalist and guitarist Jason Garcia, bassist Chris Peters, guitarist Eric Roberts, and drummer Joey Spivey. The band will self-released its third record, Stories, No Names on May 11, 2010. “Driving To LA” starts the album off with guitar and beat-driven wistful nostalgia; “Every Third Time” keeps up the band’s signature hooky rock and adds some moody atmospherics. “Definitely” is pure pop- a Beatles and Beach Boys sing-along, while “Firefly” showcases a quiet, minor-key, Elliot Smith-esque sound. “Got A Good Thing” shimmers with atmospheric, yearning guitars and simple piano, creating the album’s prettiest track. As with the band’s previous albums, Stories, No Names is co-produced with Lars Goransson (Blondie, The Cardigans).
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Yukon Blonde

ARTIST / BAND: Yukon Blonde
MP3s: "Rather Be With You" / "Wind Blows" / Blood Cops
ALBUM: Yukon Blonde
FILE UNDER: rock
LABEL: Bumstead Productions Ltd.
INFO: After returning from a cross-Canada tour with Jon-Rae Fletcher, both as his backing band and his opening band, Alphababy packed their bags and moved from Kelowna to Vancouver.  Big changes lead to new beginnings, and with that, the band changed their name to Yukon Blonde, signed to Toronto-based Nevado Records (Bahamas, Fox Jaws), put their 300 show history behind them (including performances alongside Ladyhawk, Black Mountain and Women), and set out to write all new material, which they recorded in Vancouver with Shawn Cole (Bend Sinister, You Say Party! We Say Die!).
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Fang Island

ARTIST / BAND: Fang Island MP3s: Daisy / Life Coach ALBUM: Fang Island FILE UNDER: Indie / Progressive LABEL: Sargent House INFO: Fang Island describes its sound as "everyone high-fiving everyone." And, the Brooklyn quintet's anthemic and soaring songs make it quite possibly one of few bands befitting such description read more from the source...

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MEGAFAUN

ARTIST / BAND: MEGAFAUN
MP3s: The Fade / "Kaufman's Ballad"
ALBUM: Gather, Form & Fly.
FILE UNDER: Folk
LABEL: Hometapes
INFO: Hometapes is pleased to announce that it will be releasingMegafaun’s highly-anticipated second album Gather, Form & Fly on July 21st, 2009.
Gather, Form & Fly is a monument to a band that hundreds have experienced on stages, under trees, in galleries, on floors, in headphones, and through radios-with-the-windows-down over the past three years. All the hints they’ve given us — from songs Stereogum described as “mournful, slow-blooming banjo-and-white-noise-laced epics” to tours with The Rosebuds, Arnold Dreyblatt, and Akron/Family — have culminated in a record that is an ode to death, love, musical history (from blues to musique-concréte), community, tradition, and experimentation. In all, it’s an ode to the listener.
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The Dustbowl Revival

ARTIST / BAND: The Dustbowl Revival
MP3s: "Marching On" / "Dan's Jam" / "Falling Down"
ALBUM: You Can't Go Back To The Garden Of Eden
FILE UNDER: Post punk / Blues / Folk
LABEL: s/r
INFO: The Dustbowl Revival is a Venice, CA-based folk orchestra that merges old school gypsy rhythms with bluegrass, gospel, jug-band, jump blues and the hot swing of the 1930’s to form a spicy roots cocktail. Known for their raucous dance-inducing live sets, the Dustbowl Revival plays what some call hillbilly jazz—the original front porch rock n’ roll. Think Dylan and The Band in Newport meets Louis Armstrong in New Orleans meets Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes on the beaches of LA. It’s young people playing upbeat, vintage music and it’s all written and composed by howlin’ and stompin’ 24 year old frontman Zach Lupetin who first envisioned putting together a kind of roots supergroup when he moved from Chicago (his father is a blues harp virtuoso who sometimes sits in), to Michigan and then to sunny Los Angeles three years ago. The goal? Why, to make people feel good, of course.
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Penny Hill

ARTIST / BAND: Penny Hill
MP3: Salem
ALBUM: Music To Unbutton Your Heart
FILE UNDER: Folk / Indie / Melodramatic Popular Song
LABEL: Slanty Shanty Records Tape Club
INFO: Penny Hill is an alter ego of Norman, Oklahoma's Hilary Pitchlynn, but shhh... don't tell anyone. Hesitant to ever step on a stage, Penny wrote songs late at night in her bedroom long before ever letting anyone in. Her poetic lyrics, wandering melodies, and penetrating vocals create songs that are somehow larger than their component parts. A self-taught guitarist, Penny Hill is not interested or motivated by theory, she prefers to just let the instrument speak.
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Relation

ARTIST / BAND: Relation
MP3: Optimistic
Relation - Optimistic - Urban Torque®  by  Urban Torque®
ALBUM: single
FILE UNDER: Electro / Indie / Techno
LABEL: Urban Torque
INFO: Relation are Andy Leary and Oliver Keech. They first met through a mutual friend at their local sixth form college in Essex. Both played and sang in separate guitar bands, Oli in the popular beat combo The Wayfarers (then known as Crayola) and Andy in a band called Velcro. A couple of years later Andy headed to university in Sheffield and, possibly due to his increasing preference for techno and house music, Velcro called it a day shortly after he completed his course. Andy then moved to London, bought a second-hand computer and some synths. Inspired by Jeff Mills, Carl Craig and Orbital, he set about composing melodic techno pieces. Some labels started to show an interest with support coming from XFM’s Nick Luscombe, but unfortunately the material remained unreleased. It wasn't until Andy penned the lyrics and melody of 'Superenlightened' that a new chapter began..
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The Consulate General

ARTIST / BAND: The Consulate General
MP3: What Time Is It Now
ALBUM: Person Number
FILE UNDER: Indietronic
LABEL: Circle Into Square
INFO: The Consulate General is a new project led by Taiwanese-American Alexander Chen of Boy in Static, currently a resident of Gothenburg, Sweden.
A multi-instrumentalist who often performs live on viola, Chen´s first recordings were released in 2004 by Markus Acher of The Notwist, who later invited him on tour opening for 13 & God. Chen has also toured with Freezepop and Lymbyc Systym, and collaborated with artists such as Her Space Holiday, Helios, and Montag.
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Pacific Theater

ARTIST / BAND: Pacific Theater
MP3: "Lions"
ALBUM: Animals At Night
FILE UNDER: New Wave / Visual / Shoegaze
LABEL: Whale Heart Records
INFO: Brooklyn quartet Pacific Theater recorded their full-length debut "Animals at Night," an artful blend of New Wave, Art Rock, and Shoegaze, with Mark Lawson at Montreal studio Petite Eglise. The band began when two co-workers from NYC's Bowery Ballroom, Dan Ryan and Adam Travis, tried out a few songs together. Dan quickly enlisted his old bandmate Daniel Bellury and the trio spent a year writing the album and playing shows. Realizing another component was needed, Adam petitioned his old friend Gina Yates to come aboard. With the addition of Gina, the band was able to fully realize their signature sound: a balancing act of sonic assault, pulsing rhythms, and a light layer of delicate melodies.

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Shark Speed

ARTIST / BAND: Shark Speed
MP3: Killing Kind
ALBUM: Education
FILE UNDER: Indie Rock
LABEL: s/r
INFO: Shark Speed began in winter 2008 in Provo, Utah as two brothers and a friend playing straightforward, energetic rock and roll. Growing up playing the Vegas scene, their sound evolved into jangly guitar riffs, driving math-rock rhythms, danceable electronic melodies, and anthemic pop-rock hooks. Heating up snow-covered Utah houses, they packed sweaty crowds in basements, living rooms, and whatever spaces they could play.
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Okinawa Lifestyle

 
ARTIST / BAND: Okinawa Lifestyle
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FILE UNDER: Tropical
LABEL: s/r
INFO: Okinawa Lifestyle is a music project from Tbilisi, Georgia, formed by David Datunashvili and Gigi Jikia in 2009.
We've currently finished our first full length album.
It is called "Naha" and includes 12 Tracks.
We plan the release on March 12th. Album will be available for free downloading at our blog. (also at last.fm)
It's a home recorded album, all tracks are written and produced by us.
We're also going to make about 10-15 CDs for friends, because there is no need to make more copies. (yet)
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Zechs Marquise

ARTIST / BAND: Zechs Marquise
MP3: Chase Scene" / "Sirenum Scopuli"
ALBUM: Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare
FILE UNDER: Rock / Progressive / Psychedelic
LABEL: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
INFO: Zechs Marquise formed in El Paso, Texas during the spring of 2003 when brothers Marfred and Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez came together with childhood friends Matthew Wilkson and Marcos Smith. The group soon named itself after a popular Japanese anime character and hit the studio to record its first album during the late summer months of 2004. That studio effort was later scrapped and in June 2006 the band instead released 34:26, a live improv set that showed its great range of talents and influences. By fall of 2006, Zechs was touring the west coast consistently, sharing the stage with such eclectic acts as Daedelus, Busdriver, The Album Leaf, (DJ) Nobody, Daddy Kev, The Gaslamp Killer, and Totimoshi.
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MGMT

ARTIST / BAND: MGMT
MP3: FLASH DELIRIUM
ALBUM: Congratulations
FILE UNDER: neo psycho pop
LABEL: Sony
INFO:
MGMT has unveiled the first single, "Flash Delirium," from its forthcoming sophomore set "Congratulations," and it sounds like the Beatles and the B-52's at a key party.
Look it up, kids.
As a follow-up to their very famous single "Kids," the fellas blend a track that is impossible to comprehend on first listen. Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, the guys behind MGMT, somehow make their vocals blend with so many different percussions and instruments without reaching the annoying levels most experimental pop rockers do.
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Shearwater

ARTIST / BAND: Shearwater
SONGS (MP3): Black Eyes / Castaways
ALBUM: The Golden Archipelago
FILE UNDER: Indie / Experimental / Southern Rock
LABEL: Matador
INFO: Buoyed by Jonathan Meiburg’s tremulous vocals and constantly in thrall to the natural world, Shearwater’s music is a rich, suggestive thing. Probing appreciation of our environment has manifested itself across their discography; most recently on 2008’s excellent Rook, which masterfully evoked all manner of avian concerns (principally, that of flight itself). The Golden Archipelago is the third in a loose trilogy also comprising 2006’s Palo Santo, and finds Meiburg broadly contemplating life on remote islands, many of which he’s actually visited.
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Nom de Guerre

ARTIST / BAND: Nom de Guerre
MP3: Everybody Knows
ALBUM: Love Thy Neighbour
FILE UNDER: power pop
LABEL: Tapete Records
INFO:
After their debut album La La La received rave reviews and resulted in a couple of successful Swedish and German tours, power pop trio Nom de Guerre went back home to Stockholm to ponder their next move. How could they take things to the next level?
The answer was to discover new horizons. Lead singer Hector moved to Berlin and immersed himself in the music and art scene. Over the course of countless emails and endless phone calls, the de Guerre brothers realised that they didn’t want to just record another bunch of songs.
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1986

ARTIST / BAND: 1986
MP3: "Black Spring"
ALBUM: Everybody Is Whatever I Think They Are
FILE UNDER: Rock / Celtic
LABEL: Palentine Records
INFO:
The long-awaited sophomore release from 1986, Everybody Is Whatever I Think They Are,releases tomorrow, March 9, 2010;  and they're giving it away for free!  Kind of.
Influenced by the seemingly infinite cases of pyramid schemes that riddled the headlines of global news papers in 2009, 1986 thought they would take a page from the play book of the likes of Bernie Maddoff to service the record to the general public. After all, if he was capable of swindling some of the richest and brightest that the world had to offer, beguiling the youth of America seemed highly achievable.
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Label of the week: Marathon Of Dope

Lable: Marathon Of Dope
File under: Indie
Info:
The music on offer at Marathon Of Dope is available for free download. We feel very strongly about delivering our music to your ears. After all, we make the music for our fans and listeners to enjoy. When you like the music you've downloaded (and we know that you will), you have the option to make a purchase to help offset the costs involved in producing the music. All artists have expenses related to creating their music. Studio time, equipment rentals, engineers, and advertising are just a few of the things that require money when a new project is developing.
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Artists:

Birdapres

Elissa P

Nestor Wynrush

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Latest free download albums:

Elissa P – Quickie Calendar (mod006)

Zucchini Drive – Shotgun Rules (mod005)