PLAYLIST MUSICHALL 1 OCTOBER 2005

Supergrass_Vs_Dylan Rhymes - Super Ryhmes Vox
Rocker - Ego On Fire (Geek Ghastley's breaks mix)
Nasty Tales – Come On My House (Red RMX)
Splitloop - Both Knees (Breakfastaz Remix)
Backdraft – Labrat
DJ Clipz - Kung Fu
Technical Itch - The Hex
Mindcontroller - Mindcontroller 2005 (Unusual Inscident RMX)
Moving Fusion And Eddy Woo – Triumph
Daft Punk – Make Love

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PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 2 OCTOBER 2005

NEW BLACK - NOTHING SCARES US / TIME ATTACK
AMERICAN PRINCES - ROCK N' ROLL SINGER/ LITTLE SPACES
THE KING OF FRANCE- MEXICO
THE HOMESICKS – MICHELLE / POLAROID02
THE CONSTANTINES - LOVE IN FEAR / TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS
KID CONGO AND THE PINK MONKEYBIRDS - BLACK BAG
GODS OF BLITZ - FULL TIME HALF NELSON / STOLEN HORSE
DENYO - THE DENYOS / THE DENYOS
KELPIE – DUBAI / HEY FRIENDS, IT'S
LUCERO - SWEET LITTLE THING
BANDITAS - SAN FRANCISCO / BANDITAS
LOGH - FELL INTO THE WELL / A SUNSET PANORAMA
MINUS STORY -LITTLE WET HEAD / NO REST FOR GHOSTS
MARAH -SO WHAT IF WE'RE OUTTA TUNE
SONO OTO- LISTEN
KELLEY STOLZ - THE SUN COMES THROUGH / THE SUN COMES THROUGH

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KELLEY STOLZ

Artist / Band: KELLEY STOLZ
Song: THE SUN COMES THROUGH
Album: THE SUN COMES THROUGH EP
File Under: Indie Pop
Label: Sub Pop
Info: Kelley Stoltz is originally from Detroit, but he lives in San Francisco now. He's put out a couple of records: 1999's The Past Was Faster (The Telegraph Company), 2003's Antique Glow (Jackpine Social Club), and, most recently, his own version of Echo and the Bunnymen's Crocodiles entitled Crock-O-Dials read more from the source...

SONO OTO

Artist / Band: SONO OTO
Song: LISTEN
Album: I'm In August Till July
File Under: Indie Pop
Label: Unsigned
Info: When drummer Nick Kinsey and keyboardist Mark Phillips met in the back-country of Wyoming six years ago they had no idea that it was the beginning of Sono Oto. For a month they hiked and talked about music. By night they banged on pots and pans. When they returned to NYC they both played in different groups and worked together on occasion. Kinsey began playing with bassist Brigham Brough, starting a relationship that would continue to blossom as the two studied in Havana's top-music conservatory in Cuba. read more from the source...

MARAH

Artist / Band: MARAH
Song: SO WHAT IF WE'RE OUTTA TUNE
Album: If You Didn't Laugh You'd Cry
File Under: Rock
Label: Yep Roc
Info: It was around ten years ago that my brother Dave and I began writing tunes, drinking a lot of beer, and playing shows around our hometown of Philadelphia with our band Marah. It wasn’t until 1998 that we released our first album Let’s Cut the Crap And Hook Up Later On Tonight, a record we wrote, produced, and recorded above Frank’s Auto garage in South Philly. What followed was a decade of touring in a van (the late, beloved Adrian) playing countless shows, recording two more self-produced LPs (one with a big name producer) -- with as many rotating band members than I could keep track of. So, this year, when it came time to begin work on album number five, we decided to try something we’ve been dying to do for quite a while – record our band live in the studio – swift and raw. And so we did. read more from the source...

MINUS STORY

Artist / Band: MINUS STORY
Song: LITTLE WET HEAD
Album: NO REST FOR GHOSTS
File Under: Rock
Label: Jagjaguwar Records
Info: If we could hear the angels singing about us, they would be in harmony with the chosen sons of Boonville, Missouri. With No Rest for Ghosts, their second full-length record for Jagjaguwar, Minus Story have arrived. Their heavenly racket shuffles, flutters, crashes and bangs all about us. Their reedy artistic voice nears multi-octave range. Their rhythmic presence delights us in a sublime collision of the conventional and the experimental. And while their trademarked “Wall of Crap” sound is still present to some degree, No Rest for Ghosts has transcended the earnest collage aesethic of sounds battling it out for attention and now fully exhibits a depth and subtlety of performance not found on their critical darling The Captain Is Dead, Let the Drum Corpse Dance (their first full-length for Jagjaguwar, released in 2004). read more from the source...

LOGH

Artist / Band: LOGH
Song: FELL INTO THE WELL
Album: A SUNSET PANORAMA
File Under: Indie Rock
Label: Hydra Head
Info: Logh released their first album in January 2002. Three years, five European tours and 200+ shows later, they felt a strong urge to try something different for album No. 3.So the band rehearsed for 6 months straight. Then, on September 26th 2004, they entered Studio Gröndahl in Stockholm, Sweden together with Pelle Gunnerfeldt (producer of The Hives, Sahara Hotnights etc) and in about ten hours (including a short lunch break) they recorded “A Sunset Panorama”! The entire event was filmed with five cameras and the music was mixed in both stereo and 5.1 surround. The full multimedia experience, which is presented on a DVD that comes with the CD, gives the viewer/listener the impression of actually being with the band in the middle of the recording room.read more from the source...

BANDITAS

Artist / Band: BANDITAS
Song: SAN FRANCISCO
Album: BANDITAS
File Under: Punk
Label: Last Drag Records
Info: This was supposed to be one show! Five years ago, we began with a few months of practice and played a show for friends and family. It was fun. So we played another several months later. We played about 5 shows in the first two years. Then came the dramatic change. I wanted to play the first Ladyfest in Ottawa and we needed to be at least read more from the source...

LUCERO

Artist / Band: LUCERO
Song: SWEET LITTLE THING
Album: Tennessee
File Under: Southern Rock
Label: Liberty & Lament
Info: Fans of Southern-rock luminaries Bob Dylan and Tom Petty will feel at home with Lucero's Nobody's Darlings, but in this case, home isn't always where the heart is. Whatever inventive country stylings the Memphis quartet nurtured over their first three releases have been largely eschewed on their almost-major-label debut - a less-than-subtle transition that is certain to divide fans between intrigue and alienation. Newcomers won't know any better, but they'll still work themselves like dogs attempting to locate the album's elusive and barely-distinct spiritual core. read more from the source...

KELPIE

Artist / Band: KELPIE
Song: DUBAI
Album: HEY FRIENDS, IT'S
File Under: Indie Pop
Label: Birthday Party Records
Info: Much like the Morrissey single "November Spawned a Monster," the band Kelpie is a result of the bleak November of 2002. In the song Moz sings, "What can make good all the bad that's been done?" Taking this to heart, drummer John Momberg, vocalist/guitarist Casey Burge, bassist Nate Harold, and keyboardist/guitarist Josh Atkinson, used the untimely disintegration of their long term musical projects to form the monster known as Kelpie. read more from the source...

KID CONGO AND THE PINK MONKEYBIRDS

Artist / Band: KID CONGO AND THE PINK MONKEYBIRDS
Song: BLACK BAG
Album: Philosophy And Underwear
File Under: New Wave Rock
Label: Transsolar Records
Info: The retro haze has obscured some of the original "new wave" era's more risk-taking artists, especially those from the West Coast and left side of the stage . As a member and co-founder of legendary/seminal The Gun Club with Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Kid Congo Powers made a unique brand of rock that mixed blues, fire and brimstone theatrics, nihilistic punk and tribal beats. Yet unlike other acts making a revival, Powers never truly went away.
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THE CONSTANTINES

Artist / Band: THE CONSTANTINES
Song: LOVE IN FEAR Album: TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS
File Under: Rock
Label: Sub Pop
Info: Constantines are inoffensive animals whose only form of defense lies in the strength of their forearms and long claws, particularly in the middle fingers, which are most useful for repelling attacks by predators. They are powerful diggers and have been known to uncover fresh graves to feed on corpses.
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AMERICAN PRINCES

Artist / Band: AMERICAN PRINCES
Song: ROCK N' ROLL SINGER
Album: LITTLE SPACES
File Under: Punk
Label: Yep Roc
Info: American Princes formed when Little Rock, Arkansas welcomed three New York City transplants with open arms in early 2003. “It was the worst trip of my life,” says David Slade, rhythm guitarist and the band’s primary songwriter. “We decided to try and live cheap so we could focus on writing music so we packed up my truck and headed south. The only problem was that the engine blew up 45 minutes into our move, leaving us stranded at a TGI Friday’s in New Jersey. We were stuck there for three weeks.” read more from the source...

THE KING OF FRANCE

Artist / Band: THE KING OF FRANCE
Song: MEXICO
Album: THE KING OF FRANCE
File Under: Indie Pop
Label: The Echo Label
Info: "...In an age of overwhelmingly derivative rock music, the King of France is simply a great rock band, one that draws extensively and subtly on the great rock bands of the past without ever allowing the weight of history to overwhelm its singular vision. There are three demos available for free on their Web page, but I urge you to spend a couple dollars and hear this band at its best. Download "The Beast," "Notion" and "Sick of Life" from iTunes, all off the King of France's as-yet-untitled new record..." read more from the source...

NEW BLACK

Artist / Band: NEW BLACK
Song: NOTHING SCARES US
Album: TIME ATTACK
File Under: Punk, Alternative
Label: Thick
Info: What if the B-52's had just one night of wild sex with Q and not U? And the resulting bastard child was neither boy nor girl, new wave nor no wave? What if were called New Black?
Quirky and complex, yet catchy as all get-out, New Black is your new tweak. Amid the yin and yang, the tension and release of this burning boy/girl pop explosion, are danceable backbeats, howling guitars, wailing keys and growling bass lines. And like a simmering love affair, New Black is addictive.
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PLAYLIST MUSICHALL 17 SEPTEMBER 2005

CHICKEN LIPS - HE NOT IN (STANTON WARRIORS SHE NOT IN EDIT)
THE NEW ORIGINALS – 1799
BLUE AMAZON - THE LIGHTS GO OUT [BREAKS MIX]
UNKNOWN ARTIST - AMERICAN CREAM
VIRTUALISMO - MISMOPLASTICO (LEE COOMBS BACK TO FUTURE RMX)
WHOMADEWHO - SPACE FOR RENT (DIRT CREW REMIX)
DEXTER - ECHT VET
THE KILLS - THE GOOD ONES (REMIXES) VLS
GORILLAZ - DARE (DFA MIX)
ROY AYERS - HOLIDAY - DJ SPINNA VOCAL RMX

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PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 25 SEPTEMBER 2005

MAGNAPOP - SATELLITE /MOUTHFEEL
ART BRUT- FORMED A BAND
HEADPHONES - PINK AND BROWN
CRYSTAL SKULLS - NO ROOM FOR CHANGE / BLOCKED NUMBERS
BAGHEERA - LONG DIVISION
THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES - A ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW/A ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW
SIX.BY SEVEN - NOWHERE TO GO BUT HOME
KAIZERS ORCHESTRA- KGB
CRITERIA- PREVENT THE WORLD
THE WALKABOUTS -DEVIL IN THE DETAILS
FLOTATION TOY WARNING - HAPPY 13 / BLUFFER'S GUIDE TO THE FLIGHT DECK
PIANO MAGIC - NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
WORLD LEADER PRETEND- BANG THEORY
CRYSTAL SKULLS- HUSSY/ BLOCKED NUMBERS

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FLOTATION TOY WARNING

Artist / Band: FLOTATION TOY WARNING
Song: HAPPY 13
Album: BLUFFER'S GUIDE TO THE FLIGHT DECK
File Under: Baroque Pop
Label: Talitres
Info: Following two critically acclaimed EP's, the London five piece have been winning people over with their accessible baroque pop. It has already been made album of the week by Rough Trade. And they are headed for big things in France too with a support slot with Air at The Route De Rock Festival in St Malo in August.
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The Walkabouts

Artist / Band: The Walkabouts
Song: Devil in the Details
Album: ACETYLENE
File Under: Indie Rock
Label: Glitterhouse
Info: We made this album during the run-up to the last presidential election. Our collective mood was angry and frustrated. The world beyond us seemed to be happily headed to hell. The songs I had been writing were wake-up calls, to myself, if no one else. Everything I was reading, hearing and seeing seemed to be foreshadowed with stark, apocalyptic tones. A sound started to form in my head. I wondered what it would have been like if Neil Young had stopped by Wire's rehearsal space, sometime in 1977? That seemed like a good place for us to start. read more from the source...

Criteria

Artist / Band: Criteria
Song: Prevent The World
Album: When We Break
File Under: Indie Rock
Label: Saddle Creek
Info: Picture, if you will, a diffident young professional. By day, he is entrenched in the beige, climate-controlled world of corporate law. By night, he tirelessly melds face-searing riffs with pounding, syncopated drums, awaiting a rock-n-roll miracle.Criteria's Stephen Pedersen need wait for that miracle no longer. And neither must you.Pedersen wet his pubescent feet playing with a score of Omaha stalwarts, rocking the house with Cursive through multiple tours and the band's first two full-lengths. Then he went to Duke law school, moving on to rock houses in Durham, North Carolina with The White Octave, who released two albums and embarked on several successful tours before Pedersen returned to Omaha in 2001.
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THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES

Artist / Band: THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES
Song: A ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW/A ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW
Album: Websingle
File Under: Indie Rock
Label: Warner
Info: Old demo recording with Björn. A beautiful and simple song recorded in 1995 with Björn and Ebbot.read more from the source...

Bagheera

Artist / Band: BAGHEERA
Song: LONG DIVISION
Album: TWELVES
File Under: Rock / Pop
Label: Asian Man Records
Info: A new band from St. Louis, MO, bringing together female/male vocal harmonies with layers of guitar melodies to creating awesome rock songs about love, space/time travel and the promise and fear of scientific endeavor.
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CRYSTAL SKULLS

Artist / Band: CRYSTAL SKULLS
Song: NO ROOM FOR CHANGE
Album: BLOCKED NUMBERS
File Under: Indie Pop,
Label: Suicide Squeeze
Info: The debut full length "Blocked Numbers" introduces Seattle's Crystal Skulls. The album takes a snapshot of a band less than one year in the making, a preserved document of smart and stylish indie-pop music. Built on the strikingly mature singing and songwriting of frontman Christian Wargo, the group's sound is made whole by the dead-on instincts of his bandmates (Yuuki Matthews on bass guitar, Ryan Phillips on guitar and keyboard, Casey Foubert on drums). Recorded and produced at home by the Skulls, "Blocked Numbers" presents a wholly satisfying batch of songs undeniably refreshing yet immediately familiar. read more from the source...

Headphones

Artist / Band: Headphones
Song: Pink And Brown
Album: Headphones
File Under:
Label: Suicide Squeeze
Info: Headphones features David Bazan (Pedro the Lion), Tim Walsh (Pedro the Lion, TW Walsh), and Frank Lenz (Starflyer 59). Headphones was engineered and mixed by Jared Hankins in Seattle in the early days of 2005.
Built wholly from synthesizers (that’s right, no guitars), live drums, and the familiar warmth of Bazan’s syrupy vocal delivery, Headphones boasts deft arrangements with timeless melodies and uncanny lyrical depth, finding Bazan, Walsh and Lenz at their best. Clean, open room recording; digital subtleties with analog affectations; seamless integration of electronic and rock and elements — Headphones is a striking, sophisticated success.
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Art Brut

Artist / Band: Art Brut
Song: Formed a Band
Album: Bang Bang Rock&Roll
File Under: Punk, Indie Pop
Label: Fierce Panda
Info: That it's difficult for me to find a recent point of reference for Art Brut is a testament to just how self-serious indie rock has become-- although they do share a refreshingly bratty quality with proto-punks like the Buzzcocks and Television Personalities. Frontman Eddie Argos even appears to share Joey Ramone's love for first-person narratives that sound no more complex than a transcript of just-some-guy's thoughts on a completely unremarkable day. Ruminations on ex-girlfriends, new girlfriends, little brothers, modern art, his band, other bands, Italian currency, Los Angeles-- all are expressed in language too shallow for even diary-scrawling, but lifted up to anthemic status through sheer multiple exclamation-point enthusiasm.
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Magnapop

Artist / Band: MAGNAPOP
Song: SATELLITE
Album: MOUTHFEEL
File Under: Indie Pop
Label: Daemon Records
Info: Magnapop are a fantastic four-piece pop-core band from Atlanta, GA. Singer Linda Hopper and Guitarist Ruthie Morris have been playing together for years. After a self imposed hiatus, and the addition of Scott Rowe on bass and Chad Williams on drums, the band is back and better than ever. After two sparkling albums on Priority Records, “Mouthfeel” is everything you’ve come to expect from this great band. read more from the source...

PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 18 SEPTEMBER 2005

1. FLEEING NEW YORK - HOLLYWOOD BOWL (MP3)
2. MINUS THE BEAR – HOORAY (MP3)
3. DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 - LITTLEGIRL /YOU'RE A WOMAN, I'M A MACHINE (MP3)
4. DEUS - POCKET REVOLUTION / POCKET REVOLUTION
5. HUND AM STRAND - JUNGEN MÄDCHEN /ADIEU SWEET BAHNHOF
6. EPO-555 - LE BEAT'S ON FIRE
7. ORENDA FINK - BLOODLINE (MP3)
8. THE BOSS - DISCO (MP3)
9. GRANDADDY - PULL THE CURTAINS
10. VEDA - THE FALLING KIND (MP3)
11. VIETNAM- PRINCESS (MP3)
12. BLUSOM-ASTRONAUT (MP3)
13. ROSIE THOMAS- PRETTY DRESS (MP3)
14. HOLOPAW - CURIOUS (MP3)
15. DEUS - INCLUDE ME OUT


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PLAYLIST MUSICHALL 17 SEPTEMBER 2005

1. CUT & RUN - MURDER IN THE JAMROCK
2. AQUASKY - DIRECT HIT ('05 ALIVE MIX)
3. BACKDRAFT - R U READY PART 2
4. DJ WOOD - BUN DEM
5. SUGASHAK - SUNSHINE DAZE
6. KELIS - MILKSHAKE (FREQ NASTY HIP HALL RMX)
7. PORTABLE - DOWN STREAM / VERSION
8. LOS HERMANOS - OLMC MY BROTHER / ON ANOTHER LEVEL
9. MICE PARADE -THE BOAT ROOM
10. TIEFSCHWARZ-SCHMETTERLINGSGEFÜHL/ EAT BOOKS (MP3)
11. MOCKY - MICKEY MOUSE MUTHAF****S/ARE+BE (MP3)
12. AIR-BIOLOGICAL/TALKIE WALKIE

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HOLOPAW

Artist / Band: HOLOPAW
Song: CURIOUS
Album: Quit+/or Fight
File Under: Indie
Label: Sub Pop
Info: In 2003, Holopaw's self-titled debut prodded the overlap between vague electronic twitterings and scrappy folk tradition-- its follow-up, Quit +/or Fight, sees Holopaw striking a slightly more symbiotic medium, the line between their blips and strums now appropriately faded. Quit +/or Fight may lack the immediate melodic punch of the band's debut-- it forsakes pristine strums for skewering electric guitar and scrappier arrangements-- but what the record sacrifices in warmth, it makes up for in atmospherics. Quit +/or Fight is Holopaw's first Christmas record, alternately sweet and grim, an impeccable homage to snow and weird, wintry disembodiment. These songs are dark and cold, and their August release-- sent squirting out into an expanse of rotting, hundred-plus days, drifting over boiled trash and limp, floppy gardens-- proves oddly apt. All the chills you'll feel will finally do some good.
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ROSIE THOMAS

Artist / Band: ROSIE THOMAS
Song: PRETTY DRESS
Album: If Songs Could Be Held
File Under: Indie Pop
Label: Sub Pop
Info: Careful listeners will recognize Rosie’s lilting vocals from her appearance on Damien Jurado’s Ghost of David (that’s her singing on “Parking Lot”) and on last year’s Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska (she and Damien duet on “Wages of Sin,” lending a rare validity to the term “bonus track”). Now, she’s showcasing her own songs, and in retrospect, picking the newcomer for the daunting task of a classic Springsteen ballad was no mistake. Songs like “October,” “Charlotte” and the traditional-based “Have You Seen My Love?” fit right inside the mood she so effortlessly conveyed on “Wages of Sin.” read more from the source...

BLUSOM

Artist / Band: BLUSOM
Song: ASTRONAUT
Album: The Fundamental Drift
File Under: Indie Pop
Label: Second Nature Recordings
Info: Denver’s Blusom continue to look toward the future: coinciding with the release of their second album, The Metapolitan, Blusom and Second Nature Recordings present a digital download EP of like-minded tracks, entitled The Fundamental Drift. Over the two years of consistent songwriting and studio experimentation in preparing The Metapolitan, Blusom found itself happily having created more than an hours worth of new music. After carving out a succinct, well-balanced 13-song album in The Metapolitan, the band (duo Mike Behrenhausen and Jme White) decided to craft a 5-song EP, The Fundamental Drift, as a digital sister and ideal companion available only online. read more from the source...

VIETNAM

Artist / Band: VietNam
Song: Princess
Album: Concrete
File Under: Rock
Label: Vice Records
Info: Vietnam are a rock band tried and true. The guitars are thick like the summer air in New York City, vocals, dry like the Texas dirt. The history of what's been played before is revered, but not imitated; Vietnam is everything you'd wrongly suppose. There are stories in these songs. Vietnam will give you something to dig on and get your head around, give you something to feel about. This is failure and strife and conflict and redemption and hope. This is the sound of self-induced suffering, lovers that have lost for loving too much, losers that keep on losing for the love of the fight. This is Vietnam, three dudes, their music, the history, desperation and the dream! read more from the source...

VEDA

Artist / Band: VEDA
Song: THE FALLING KIND
Album: The Weight Of An Empty Room
File Under: Indie Rock
Label: Second Nature Recordings
Info: The band Veda was born in Kansas City, Missouri during the spring of 2004. The rock quartet started with Brian Little and Kristen May playing in a previous band together for about a year. With Kristen's unique powerful vocals and Brian's inventive ambient guitar riffs, Veda began. Soon came Jason Douglas on bass and Drew Little on drums and Veda was complete. The musical influences of the band collectively are the Joy Division, the Foo Fighters, A Perfect Circle, Bjork and Coldplay. read more from the source...

THE BOSS

Artist / Band: THE BOSS
Song: DISCO
Album: Single
File Under: New Wave / Post Hardcore / Rock
Label: Unsigned
Info: It's new-wave, post-hardcore, disco-punk with one-guitar, minimal drums and plenty of vocals, say The Boss, a trio from Kent who are influenced by The Fall and Q Not U. the source...

ORENDA FINK

Artist / Band: ORENDA FINK
Song: BLOODLINE
Album: Invisible Ones
File Under: Indie Rock
Label: Sanddle Creek
Info: One of the reasons that I chose to make a solo record was that I was ready to take a different approach to songwriting than I had used previously with Azure Ray. After traveling extensively in India, Cambodia and Haiti, I began to focus more on the external world instead of the internal. I was drawn to issues like spirituality, oppression, and the mystical and interminable spirit that underlies the human condition. The challenge that I faced was representing these issues with songs. This collection of songs is my attempt at that. It is an expression of my personal experiences, revelations, and observations. - Orenda Fink read more from the source...

DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979

Artist / Band: DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979

Songs: ROMANTIC RIGHTS
LITTLE GIRL
BLOOD ON OUR HANDS
Album: YOU'RE A WOMAN, I'M A MACHINE
File Under: Rock
Label: Vice Records
Info: In the corner of every show-- even if it's the dirtiest, smelliest AS220 showcase or an impromptu Lightning Bolt concert in a Jamaica Plain kitchen-- there's always some guy with a beard talking to another guy with a beard about feelings. There they are, right in the thick of no-bullshit rock 'n' roll-- fucking noise rock, mang-- bitching about trust and love and What She Did, while all their buddies are breaking dishes during "13 Monsters" and sweating in the July heat and Spiewak sweatshirts they all secretly bought off Karmaloop. Today the noise is just too much-- something Beard Guy No. 1 never thought he'd say-- and he takes a taxi back to his parents' house in Greenwich, climbs into his Throbbing Gristle pajamas, and cries cries cries until his hornrims fog up.
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MINUS THE BEAR

Artist / Band: MINUS THE BEAR
Song: HOORAY
Album: Menos El Oso
File Under: Rock
Label: Suicide Squeeze
Info: I'm sure you've heard of Minus the Bear before. The banter usually goes a little like this: "Oh, their songs are totally funny. They sing about kickin' it like wild donkeys..." For anyone cares, Minus the Bear might be the best band in the world, but the full scope of band's achievements, for the most part, seem to have fallen on deaf ears in favor of stabs at one-dimensional song titles. "[In] almost every interview we've ever done, the song title thing has come up, and we just want to get people to think about what's going on musically," says MTB vocalist and guitarist Jake Snider. read more from the source...

FLEEING NEW YORK

Artist / Band: FLEEING NEW YORK
Song: HOLLYWOOD BOWL
Album: Single
File Under: Brit Pop, Indie Pop
Label: Stuckup Music
Info: Coming out of Southampton, we like them lots (just see out gushing reviews) and here is their last single for you gratis which will undoubtedly convert you. read more from the source...

TIEFSCHWARZ

Artist / Band: Tiefschwarz
Song: Schmetterlingsflügel
Album: Eat Books
File Under: House
Label: Fine Records
Info: Much like Underground Resistance in 1994, Daft Punk in 1997 and Felix Da Housecat in 2001, Tiefschwarz are about to leave an imperiously sized impression upon 2005. Germany’s electronic funk soul brothers, Ali and Basti Schwarz, are as cool, hip and any other adjective declaring them to be implausibly great as it gets right now. In the words of the tragic Nathan Barley, they are ‘totally Mexico’. And if you thought dance music was only populated by po-faced, studio bores, Ali and Basti’s infectious enthusiasm will soon have you thinking otherwise. Faceless they are not. read more from the source...

Playlist MUZORAMA 11 September 2005

1. EDITORS- MUNICH / THE BACK ROOM
2. HAIL SOCIAL - HANDS TIED (Free MP3)
3. BRITISH SEA POWER -PLEASE STAND UP/ OPEN SEASON (Free MP3)
4. GANG OF FOUR - DAMAGED GOODS / RETURN THE GIFT (Free MP3)
5. ROGUE WAVE - 10:1(Free MP3)
6. ELBOW - PICKY BUGGER / LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD
7. TIM FITE - NO GOOD HERE (Free MP3)
8. STARS - YOUR EX-LOVER IS DEAD / SET YOURSELF ON FIRE
9. SLOW DAZZLE- FLEUR DE LIS / THE VIEW FROM THE FLOOR (Free MP3)
10. EDITORS -CAMERA / THE BACK ROOM
11. HARD-FI - CASH MACHINE (Free MP3)
12. THE DEAD 60S - TRAIN TO NOWHERE
13. PORTASTATIC-I WANNA KNOW GIRLS/ BRIGHT IDEAS (Free MP3)
14. WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY- GIVING UP (Free MP3)

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WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY

Artist / Band: WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY
Song: GIVING UP
Album: Difference and Repitition
File Under: Indie Rock
Label: Young God Records
Info: Windsor for the Derby stake out their own highly personal and original terrain of organic guitar soundtrack music. Augmented with sensuous analog keys and delicate vocals, the guitars are uneffected and interwoven in complex patterns that shift ineffably over time. The resulting atmosphere is intimate and unpretentious - handmade extended county-folk ballads laced with a gentle sadness, as if Brian Eno had a hand in remixing Harry Smith's anthology of American folk music. read more from the source...

ROGUE WAVE

Artist / Band: ROGUE WAVE
Song: 10:1
Album: Descended Like Vultures
File Under: Indie Rock
Label: Sub Pop
Info: Rogue Wave began almost by accident. In early 2002, faced with the sort of existential crisis unique to the newly unemployed, Zach Rogue decided to take some time off from his home base of San Francisco. He set off with a one-way ticket to New York in March with the intention of recording one or two songs with a friend, in an effort to exorcise his demons both artistically and personally. read more from the source...

Playlist Musichall 10 September 2005

1. OLAV BASOSKI FT. MICHIE ONE - WATERMAN (FRIENDLY'S FRESH REMIX)
2. FRIENDLY - S & M
3. STANTON WARRIORS FEAT TWISTA - POP YA CORK
4. THE ROGUE ELEMENT – BACKBREAKER
5. UNKNOWN VS JIMI_HENDRIX - UPTOWN TRAFFIC
6. ISOLÉE –PICTURELOVED / WE ARE MONSTER
7. GOLDFRAPP - OOH LA LA (PHONES-RE-EDIT-RADI)
8. RALPH MYERZ - ESCAPE FROM THE ISLAND / YOUR NEW BEST FRIENDS
9. CHRISTIAN VOGEL - NEON UNDERGROUND / STATION 55
10. CHRISTOPHER JUST - A TURNKEY SOLUTION / ROLAND FLICK FAIRMONT PRINCESS

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PORTASTATIC

Artist / Band: PORTASTATIC
Song: I Wanna Know Girls
Album: Bright Ideas
File Under: Indie / Rock
Label: Merge
Info: In one sense, Mac McCaughan's repetitions are a key to his longevity. Structurally, he makes excellent use of run-on sentences for exclamatory emphasis; doubled lines (or more often quadrupled hiccups) propel his best songs. The oldie "My Noise" jumps with a row of fluctuating "It"'s: "It rides beside me/ It has no choice/ It's my life/ It is my voice/ It is stupid/ It is my noise." This sort of stutter pops up time and again in McCaughan's back catalogue, and judging from Bright Ideas, the sixth Portastatic full-length in 13 years, he wisely avoids a Mouldian aim at mid-career eclecticism, and continues the practice.

SLOW DAZZLE

Artist / Band: Slow Dazzle
Song: Fleur de Lis
Album: The View From the Floor
File Under: Rock
Label: Misra Records
Info: Slow Dazzle are an alternate incarnation of the Mendoza Line, their two members comprising a core of the Athens folk-rock mainstay. This side debut from members Shannon McArdle and Timothy Bracy doesn't wander far from the homestead, though it wears its plodding simplicity freshly, unadorned and unweighted by Mendoza's nine-year history. read more from the source...

THE SCRIBBLED OUT MAN

Artist / Band: THE SCRIBBLED OUT MAN
Song: Heroics
Album: All different
File Under: Rock
Label: Zunior.com
Info: The Scribbled Out Man is a fab new rock group from toronto. The group has four members and each man plays a musical instrument and sings... And when the sounds of these instruments and voices blend together in harmony - the resulting effect has been called "serendipitous".
Bassist Douglas Friesen says,"I feel one of our strong points is our facility with the art of musical arranging. This talent gives our ensemble a crucial edge - in concert and in the studio. Linklater can write songs for us in a broad array of styles - folk rock, psychedelic folk rock, power-pop, and even bitchin' cock rock- and we can always deliver a tight, poppin arrangement... with just the right vocal and instrumental colours!"

HARD-FI

Artist / Band: HARD-FI
Song: Cash Machine
Album: Stars Of CCTV
File Under: Ska/Grime/Rock
Label: Necessary Records
Info: Lock up your iPods, Middle England: here come Generation Asbo. Scowling into rock’s Bluewater with their disco-sequinned hoodies pulled over their brows and glowstick ankle tags flashing, Hard-Fi watch the security cameras whirr in their direction and clock the undercover filth taking up pincer formation. They take a moment to pose for the lenses – hey, they’re superstars of the surveillance room after all – then LLLLEEEGGGIIIITTT! Tearing down the aisles of punk heritage, they snatch and grab with well-cased precision: ‘London’s Calling’ into an inside pocket, ‘The Marshall Mathers LP’ into a thigh pouch of their combats, the skankier bits from the first Gorillaz album and The Rapture’s spare cowbells down the front of their pants. Then they burst out of the fire escape and burn off in a stolen Fiesta, stopping only to happy-slap The Dead 60s for trying to start a shit copyist ska revival in the car park. Bare rock-pilfering, bruv! read more from the source...

GANG OF FOUR

Artist / Band: GANG OF FOUR
Song: DAMAGED GOODS
Album: Return the Gift
File Under: Post Punk
Label: V2
Info: Gang of Four, who originally formed in Leeds, England in 1977, reunited last year following heavy encouragement from industry folk. "It got to such a pressure from the outside that we all at least had to sit down and talk about it," bassist Dave Allen said in a recent interview at a neighborhood pub. "It would be stupid to say 'Nah, can't be bothered.' read more from the source...

BRITISH SEA POWER

Artist / Band: BRITISH SEA POWER
Song: PLEASE STAND UP
Album: Open Season
File Under: Brit Pop
Label: Rough Trade
Info: There is a minority of music fans that already proclaim British Sea Power as genius. There are some that happened across them and fled, after stumbling into a festival tent to find air-raid warden hats and swinging guitarists. Others ran scared from a friend's copy of their debut, The Decline Of British Sea Power, hearing nothing but organised madness. Open Season is the welcoming wonder that will change that read more from the source...

MOCKY

Artist / Band: MOCKY
Song: Mickey Mouse Muthaf****S
Album: Are+Be
File Under: Weird Electronic
Label: Fine Records
Info: The Canadian born and Berlin based Musician Dominic Salole aka Mocky started at 17 by signing himself and his various alter-egos and releasing cassettes and 7''es on his label Mocky Recordings under different pseudonyms.
In 2002 Mocky was playing much publicized concerts for the animals at zoos across Europe (and getting kicked out more than once). This is where Mocky learned the sensitive skills of the improviser.