THOMAS LUNCH

ARTIST / BAND: THOMAS LUNCH
SONG (MP3): LEONARD NIMOY
ALBUM: Diagrams Without Instructions
FILE UNDER: Indie / Experimental / Rock
LABEL: hifi alliance

INFO: A fresh departure from the genre specific, mass marketed, cookie cutter commercialism typical of many bands today, Thomas Lunch covers a diverse landscape with a unique blend of experimental, soulful, indie/electro fusion.

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THE MAKES NICE

ARTIST / BAND: THE MAKES NICE
SONG (MP3): ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
ALBUM: Candy Wrapper and Twelve Other Songs
FILE UNDER: Garage / Pop / Psychedelic
LABEL: Frenetic Records
INFO: The Makes Nice fucking explode with music. Do you like Freakbeat Nuggets2 Kinda Stuff? Fuck off, of course you do!! LesFleurs de Lys, Creation, Small Faces, Pretty Things, The Who, Cindermen, Light, Tomorrow, Idle Race, Powder, SRC.
Yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah. Psychedelic Pop Power's blinding assault of Massive Pop Power. Soaring,Wilson-esque vocal harmony. Bashing Keith- Moon-on-11 drums. Giant Jeff Beck fuzz shred solos. Power, power, power trio.
Featuring (ex-)members of The Fucking Champs, Harold Ray Live in Concert, and the Mothballs. Rawrgh!! Check out their bubblegum bllitzkrieg "Candy Wrapper and 12 Other Songs" on Frenetic Records.
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THE CINEMATICS

ARTIST / BAND: THE CINEMATICS
SONG (MP3): BREAK
ALBUM: A Strange Education
FILE UNDER: Rock / Alternative
LABEL: http://www.tvtrecords.com/
INFO: The Cinematics are a Scottish band currently based in Glasgow. They formed in Glasgow in autumn 2003, although they already knew one another from their hometown of Dingwall. Scott Rinning (lead vocals, guitar) and Ross Bonney (drums) relocated to Glasgow for university, whilst the other two band members Ramsay Miller (lead guitar) and Adam Goemans (bass guitar) moved to Glasgow to attend music college.
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RAGAZZI

ARTIST / BAND: RAGAZZI
SONG (MP3): MEMORY MATE
ALBUM: lumber
FILE UNDER: Pop / Rock / Healing & EasyListening
LABEL: www.staatsakt.de
INFO: band very good looking new album 'lumber' will be out april 2007 on briliiant staatsakt label vinyl-single 'not exactly' /w rare bonus track out now!

PLAYLIST MUSICHALL 19 APRIL

MUSICHALL IS BROADCAST WEEKLY (Thursdays, 23:00) ON: RADIO FORTUNA+ (FM103.4, TBILISI, GEORGIA) & RADIO DANCE.GE

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UNKNOWN - OPERATION BLADE
UNIQUE 3 - THE THEME (ROGUE ELEMENT REMIX)
SANTOS - COMBINATION
FREQ NASTY - MAD SITUATION
JHZ - CLIPS
AQUASKY & RAGGA TWINS - ALL IN CHECK
SPORK - FREEK LIKE ME (SCANTY REMIX)
DREADZONE - MASH UP THE DREADZ
MATTY G – WAR
COTTI & CLUEKID - FLASHBACK
SKREAM - MIDNIGHT REQUEST LINE

Bloc Party

ARTIST / BAND: Bloc Party
SONG (MP3): Vision Of Heaven
ALBUM: A PureVolume Exclusive
FILE UNDER: Alternative / Indie / Rock
LABEL: Wichita / Vice Records
INFO:
This is A Weekend in the City, Bloc Party’s all-guns-blazing war on street-level terror. “East London is a vampire that sucks the joy right out of me.” And only on Pure Volume you can hear an unreleased track from the album called “Vision of Heaven.” It’s a present from Bloc Party to you.
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PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 15 APRIL

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

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GRANT LEE PHILLIPS - SOFT ASYLUM
CHRISOPHER BLUE - GHOST IN THE NIGHT
THE PRIMIDONNATIVES - I DEVIATED
WALKER KONG - EXECUTIONER SONG
NORTHERN STATE - DYING IN STEREO
THE BLOW - PILE OF GOLD
PELA - LOST TO THE LONESOME
RICHARD HAWLEY - THE NIGHTS ARE COLD
THE SAPS - COUP DE GRACE
THE BIRD & THE BEE - I HATE CAMERA
BILL CALLAHAN - SYCAMORE
MONTAG - GOING PLACES
CHET - DON'T LET YOUR CRUEL HEART COUNT ME IN,
TOBIAS HELLKVIST - STEP ASIDE (EFTERKLANG COVER)
RICHARD REAGH FEAT. EL PERRO DEL MAR - HANGIN' ON A LIMB

RICHARD REAGH FEAT. EL PERRO DEL MAR

RICHARD REAGH FEAT. EL PERRO DEL MAR
SONG (MP3): HANGIN' ON A LIMB
ALBUM: "Is This The Blues I'm Singing?"
FILE UNDER: Electronica / Pop / R&B
INFO: Canadian-born Swedish resident Richard Reagh’s music divides itself into two layers: at the bottom you’ll find a balanced blend of crackles, tinkles, squeaks, techno drums and trumpets with the vocals floating around over top. His melancholy talking and singing sounds like a choirboy almost stuttering his words making the whole thing sound like the British sample-o-phonics, The Go! Team.
In the music, there’s embedded textual and sound references, like the line, “I live on the second floor” from Suzanne Vega’s “Luka”. Or “Ring my Bell” with Anita Ward’s voice mixed together with a piece from an American gangster movie; or something like that.
Sometimes chirping birds, sometimes Limahl; sometimes REM and falsetto singing with Montt Mardié. It’s perfect game for a boring party: who can find the most unexpected ingredients at this smorgasbord’s of sounds?
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TOBIAS HELLKVIST

ARTIST / BAND: TOBIAS HELLKVIST
SONG (MP3): STEP ASIDE (EFTERKLANG COVER)
ALBUM: unreleased
FILE UNDER: Electronica / Ambient / Acoustic
LABEL: Unsigned
INFO: Tobias Hellkvist is a Swedish singer/songwriter/guitarist who came to me by way of Efterklang, whose sweetly melancholy “Step Aside” Hellkvist treats with great charity on his own cover. His winsome yet penetrating vocals might remind you of Iron & Wine, as will his gentle acoustic melodies. Likewise his instrumental tracks hang in the air like autumn leaves. Sorry, MySpace seems to have made it next to impossible (at least to my limited abilities) to directly link to their MP3s anymore, but after downloading “Step Aside,” head to Hellkvist’s MySpace page and give your day an extra dozen minutes of sublime reflection. the source...

CHET

ARTIST / BAND: CHET
SONG (MP3): DON'T LET YOUR CRUEL HEART COUNT ME IN
ALBUM: FIGHT AGAINST DARKNESS
FILE UNDER: Soul / Rock / Indie
INFO: There's a certain rare chemistry that occurs when gorgeous, sweeping pop melodies are passed through 15 feet of plate reverb before being committed to hundreds of yards of analog tape; the promise of a polished outcome is forfeited for something more genuine. It was a process so common place 50 years ago that it was less a gamble than an endeavour in the sweaty performance & hopeful calculation of the outcome.Equally, it is a process in which Victoria BC's Chet thrive.read more from the source...

MONTAG

ARTIST / BAND: MONTAG
SONG (MP3): GOING PLACES
ALBUM: Going Places
FILE UNDER: Pop / Western Swing / French pop
LABEL: Carpark Records
INFO: Going Places was entirely self-recorded and self-engineered at Montag’s home studio, Micro Ohne Studio 3 in Vancouver. Adding to his solo-project, Montag assembled an all-star line-up of guest artists including long-time collaborators and friends Anthony Gonzales of M83, Amy Millan of Stars, and Québécois hip-hop artist, Ghislain Poirier. Label-mate Victoria Legrand of Beach House and touring partners Au Revoir Simone add vocals, as do Vancouver-based singers Ida Nilsen of Great Aunt Ida and Leah Abramson. One of the record’s most beautiful moments is the duet, Softness, I Forgot Your Name, featuring Polaris-prize winning Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy. Recorded long-distance, the duet features surprising touches of modern opera, and as a man-on-man duet, is a rarity in indiepop music.
On the title track, Going Places, Montag recruits even more collaborators (70 to be exact) from 15 different countries. Wishing to capture new sounds and to charge the song with a real sense of traveling, Montag launched an open call for clips, the online “We Have Sound Cyber-Collaboration Project.” The result is a condensed collage of motion and travel and a sort of thesis statement for the entire album. Going Places is an experience of the love of music, life and movement.
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BILL CALLAHAN

ARTIST / BAND: BILL CALLAHAN
SONG (MP3): SYCAMORE
ALBUM: Woke on a Whaleheart
FILE UNDER: Progressive
LABEL: http://www.dragcity.com/
INFO: Callahan started out as a highly experimental artist, using substandard instruments and recording equipment. His early songs often nearly lacked melodic structure and were clumsily played on poorly tuned guitars (possibly influenced by Jandek, whom Callahan admires), resulting in the dissonant sounds on his self-released cassettes and debut album Sewn to the Sky. Much of his early output was instrumental, a stark contrast to the lyrical focus of his later work. He used lo-fi techniques not because of an aesthetic preference but because he didn't have any other possiblitiy to make music. Once he signed a contract with Drag City, he also started to use recording studios and a greater variety of instruments for his records.
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THE SAPS

ARTIST / BAND: THE SAPS
SONG (MP3): COUP DE GRACE
ALBUM: C'mon Already, Start A Fire
FILE UNDER: Indie / Rock / Country
LABEL: THE SAPS
INFO: The Saps take whatever they want, and baby, they want you. In a world overflowing with bands begging for that next level of success, The Saps have sidestepped the groveling stage and proceeded directly to the main stage. As one of Chicago’s best live acts prepares to take the rest of the world by storm with their second full-length album C’mon Already, Start A Fire, you can call The Saps ambitious; you can call The Saps audacious; and you can call The Saps the 6th best rock n roll band in the world.
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PELA

ARTIST / BAND: PELA
SONG (MP3): LOST TO THE LONESOME
ALBUM: Anytown Graffiti
FILE UNDER: Rock
LABEL: http://www.worlds-fair.net/
INFO: Pela is an American rock & roll band. At a time when the word “America” has never been more fraught with meaning, songs that speak to our basic feelings and emotions about life could never be more resonant. Lost amongst all the geo-political tumult are the stories of every day America; the aches and pains and the beautiful possibilities. Yet amidst this turmoil and uncertainty, new stories are being written and told by a new generation of American bands. Pela is clearly one of those voices.

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THE BLOW

ARTIST / BAND: THE BLOW
SONG (MP3): PILE OF GOLD
ALBUM: Paper Television
FILE UNDER: Tropical / R&B / Jam Band
LABEL: Tomlab
INFO: Hold a piece of pop music in your hand. How heavy is it? If you threw it, could you break the window of a passing car? Could you break a tooth? For several years, The Blow have been hard at work developing an essential pop music formula, fashioned, as the best popular music is, with the function of getting under the skin of the people. What that music does once it gets there is what makes The Blow worth thinking about. Fascinated with the physics of pop construction, The Blow makes music that holds a weightless gravity.

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NORTHERN STATE

ARTIST / BAND: NORTHERN STATE
SONG (MP3): dying in stereo
ALBUM: Dying in Stereo
FILE UNDER: Hi p Hop
LABEL: Ipecac Records
INFO: There are three of us, and we’ve been friends for a very long time. Our names are Sprout, Hesta Prynn and Spero. Our government names are Robyn Goodmark, Julie Potash, and Correne Spero, respectively. We grew up on Long Island, in the real suburban part, not in some seaside town.
Sprout and Hesta Prynn lived down the block from one another. Spero grew up south of the Expressway and met Sprout in High School. Sprout knew every word of every old-school hip hop song. Spero had purple hair but surprisingly knew most of the words to ‘O.P.P’. Spero and Sprout became connected at the hip and tore it up on the dance floor to ‘Black Sheep’ at every sweet sixteen. Eventually Sprout introduced Spero to her friend Julie Potash. Julie was just a young Hesta Prynn waiting to happen. Spero was into it.

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WALKER KONG

ARTIST / BAND: WALKER KONG
SONG (MP3): EXECUTIONER SONG
ALBUM: there goes the sun
FILE UNDER: Pop / Folk Rock / Experimental
LABEL: http://www.magicmarkerrecords.com/

INFO: Walker Kong was formed in the the spring of 1998 when Jeremy Ackerman called upon four musically untrained female friends to help perform a collection of simple pop songs he had written over the course of a long, hot New Mexico summer. Sounding like a cross between the Modern Lovers, Elvis Costello and the Shaggs, the band began a strange assent through the ranks of a Minneapolis music scene. During these early years there was a vital music community in the Twin Cities that shared a sense of purpose and encouraged many styles of music to coexist on the same stage. Minneapolis based groups of the time such as Smattering, Lifter Puller, Triangle, the Selby Tigers and Florida were all friends and inspirations to WK as they progressed into a more refined ensemble. read more from the source...

THE PRIMIDONNATIVES

ARTIST / BAND: THE PRIMIDONNATIVES
SONG (MP3): I DEVIATED
ALBUM: In the Skanky Workshop
FILE UNDER:
LABEL: Vague Moon
INFO: GROTON-In the makeshift studio in back of Mo Digliani's old farmhouse, his "art rock" band The Primidonnatives have created some of the weirdest--and most interesting--music to be released in the past few years.
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CHRISOPHER BLUE

ARTIST / BAND: CHRISOPHER BLUE
SONG (MP3): GHOST IN THE NIGHT
ALBUM: Room tones
FILE UNDER: Acoustic / Indie / Soul
LABEL: kufala.com , sarathan.com
INFO: Down and out, tired of the Seattle music scene and his place in it, Chrisopher Blue was ready to call it quits.
“I was walking around telling myself ‘I’m fucking done with this shit, I don’t want to do it anymore and was ready to stop music entirely,’” explains Chrisopher Blue.

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GRANT LEE PHILLIPS

ARTIST / BAND: GRANT LEE PHILLIPS
SONG (MP3): SOFT ASYLUM
ALBUM: Strangelet
FILE UNDER: Rock / Acoustic / Alternative
LABEL: Zoe Records
INFO: A good handful of stations across the US have been playing the album already, most especially the song “Soft Asylum”. Meanwhile, advance orders for the album are being taken at amazon.com and other online outlets. There’s a lot of excitement about the album. I for one, feel the most eager to share the new songs and take out it on the road some. April will find me in a select number of cities including, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, New York and Boston to begin with.
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RICHARD HAWLEY

ARTIST / BAND: RICHARD HAWLEY
SONG (MP3): The Nights Are Cold
ALBUM: Accoustic Recording For Website
FILE UNDER: Folk / Country / Rock
LABEL: http://www.mute.com/
INFO: Richard Hawley, (born January 17 in Sheffield, England) is a critically acclaimed guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. Hawley initially found success as a member of Britpop band The Longpigs in the 1990s. When a drug-filled torpor after an extensive tour of America brought the band to the brink of extinction in 1997, Hawley was asked to play with Pulp by his close friend and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker. "They saved my life," Hawley later recalled, "I was going mental with drink and drugs."

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PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 1 APRIL

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

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RINGO DEATHSTARR - SOME KIND OF SAD
DOLLYROTS - BECAUSE IM AWESOME
BLACK LIPS - BURIED ALIVE
THE LITTLE HEROES - TEETH
EVERYBODY ELSE - IN MEMORIAM
JARVIS COCKER - DON'T LET HIM WASTE YOUR TIME
ASTRID SWAN - GOOD GIRL
SARA CULLER - ARE YOU SLEEPING
LOVEDRUG - HAPPY APPLE POISON
BUTTERFLY EXPLOSION - NEXT YEAR
SLEEPING IN THE AVIARY - ANOTHER GIRL
AEREOGRAMME - CONSCIOUS LIFE
COCOROSIE – RAINBO WARRIORS
WILLY MASON - WHEN THE RIVER MOVES ON
THE NATIONAL - FAKE EMPIRE
GOLDRUSH - HEAVEN'S MY DESTINATION

Goldrush

Artist / Band: Goldrush

Song (MP3): Heaven's My Destination
Album: The Heart Is The Place
File Under: Indie
Label: http://www.betterlookingrecords.com/
Info: With their new album, released throughout the world in late Jan/early Feb, Goldrush have pulled it back. With The Heart Is The Place they have created a stunning and defiant record that warms our hearts to the core. It’s a turning point for a band that were on the verge of throwing it all in… a record that signals triumph over adversity. When Goldrush started trying to work on the first couple of tracks (over a year ago) they felt utterly burned out. To them, none of the new material sounded powerful, emotional or original. They couldn’t get anywhere near where they wanted to be, and they had spent most of their recording budget. One member left the band, another moved to New York whilst the rest hid in their homes in Steventon Oxfordshire. For the first time in two years of constant touring, the band came to an abrupt halt.?Fortunately Goldrush had a ‘cowshed, turned studio’ to fall back into. They started from scratch, and hired producer / musician James Rutledge (has worked with Dangermouse, Kevin Shields etc) to work things out with them. Goldrush had previously worked with the legendary David Fridmann (Mercury Rev / Flaming Lips), but Rutledge took a different tag, and encouraged the band to be more sonically adventurous, whilst simultaneously helping them re-discover their supreme song writing ability.
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THE NATIONAL

Artist / Band: THE NATIONALSong (MP3): FAKE EMPIRE
Album: Boxer
File Under: Indie / Rock / Gothic
Label: Beggars Banquet
Info: The National are a band of New Yorkers transplanted from Cincinnati, Ohio: Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, and Scott Devendorf. What each member of the band does is not that important, but what they do together seems increasingly more so… When last we heard from The National, they’d released and toured behind their Beggars Banquet debut, Alligator, an album whose reception closely mirrored the kind of sounds they made on record—it started out quiet, and ended up very, very loud. Alligator became one of the most widely discussed and critically acclaimed independent albums of 2005—“album of the year” to one Los Angeles Times critic. read more from the source...

WILLY MASON

Artist / Band: WILLY MASON

Song (MP3): WHEN THE RIVER MOVES ON
Album: If The Ocean Gets Rough
File Under: Rock / Blues / Country
Label: http://grandmas-basement.com/
Info: Willy Mason (born 21 November 1984) is an American singer-songwriter. He is the son of Jemima James and Michael Mason, both folk singers who - according to Willy - have influenced his music. When Mason was five, he and his family moved from New York to West Tisbury, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard. He attended West Tisbury Elementary School and Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, where he participated in several local bands such as Keep Thinking, Cultivation, and Slow Leslie.

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COCOROSIE

Artist / Band: COCOROSIE

Song (MP3): RAINBO WARRIORS
Album: The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stillborn
File Under: Christian Rap / Black Metal / Disco House
Label: Touch and Go Records
Info: Sierra Rose and Bianca Leilani (a.k.a. Red Bone Slim) were born in Fort Dodge, Iowa and the big island of Hawaii respectively. They are the third and fourth daughters of spiritualist Timothy Casady and artist/teacher Tina Hunter. As a small child, Red writes, I was carried in a papoose around sacred Anasazi grounds by my mother and her partner, Brook Medicine Eagle. Periods of my adolescence were spent living in a trailer on the outskirts of Joseph City, Arizona with my father. We spent our time burning ants and hunting rabbits from the burned out chassis of a station wagon. I left at fifteen owing to a feeling of alienation caused in part by my reticence toward a formal education. As soon as I was able to garner the necessary means I sold both day-old flowers in restaurants and expired raffle tickets to the elderly I boarded a bus north to San Francisco.
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SLEEPING IN THE AVIARY

Artist / Band: SLEEPING IN THE AVIARY

Song (MP3): ANOTHER GIRL
Album: Oh, This Old Thing?
File Under: Rock / Classic Rock / Comedy
Label: Science of Sound
Info: Thanks to intense, highly entertaining live shows and their addictive, spastic pop songs, Sleeping in the Aviary has in short order become one of Madison, Wisconsin's most intriguing young bands. Their sound could be described as The Thermals vacationing with some Buzzcocked White Stripes, sharing hot tubs with The Kinks and saunas with Nirvana--often sounding frenzied or angry, but strangely good-natured about it. Flashes of rock and roll's history percolate throughout their authentic brand of catchy songs which are of the kind that immediately become implanted in one's brain upon hearing them.The band has also nailed down their ability to play acoustic sets that have proven to be quite intimate and intriguing to witness. read more from the source...

BUTTERFLY EXPLOSION

Artist / Band: BUTTERFLY EXPLOSION

Song (MP3): NEXT YEAR
Album: Turn the Sky
File Under: Alternative / Rock / Shoegaze
Label: Killing Pop Records
Info: The Butterfly Explosion came together in the latter part of 2004 with the full line-up completed as recording began on their debut EP "Vision" in the Spring of 2005. Championed by 2FM's Dan Hegarty, the EP has also received radio support from Glasgow(Jim Gellatly XFM) to L.A.(Nic Harcourt KCRW) and college stations throughout the US where they played several shows in NYC and at the SXSW music festival in Austin, March 2006.
In June 2006 they were one of eight artists selected to perform at the IMRO "Best Of Tour" showcase - an annual showcase featuring the best upcoming acts in Ireland.
Their new 5-track mini-album/EP, 'Turn the sky', was released in September 2006. With radio distribution from May, tracks from the EP have received airplay from XFM Scotland, XFM London, Ireland's 2FM, Phantom FM and Today FM where the track 'Sophia' earned them 'Rising Artist of the Week' at the end of May. Another of the tracks 'Car Park' featured in the Top Ten

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LOVEDRUG

Artist / Band: LOVEDRUG

Song (MP3): HAPPY APPLE POISON
Album: Everything Starts Where It Ends
File Under: Rock / Indie
Label: The Militia Group
Info: Like many great bands, there is something hauntingly spiritual and honest about Lovedrug. The Ohio-based rock band delivers a highbrow sound akin to Spiritualized, Sunny Day Real Estate, or Muse, crossed with the arena grandeur of Queen. A unique crossbreed of art and accessibility, powerful melodies are driven by smartly crafted lyrics of truth, intrigue, love, spite, death and damn near everything in between. Only those who have seen the band live can truly understand the growing phenomenon that is Lovedrug. Regardless of how clich? it may sound, Lovedrug live is truly less a show and more an experience. In playing to a variety of audiences (the band has shared the stage w/ The Killers, Robert Plant, Switchfoot, Sam Phillips, Creeper Lagoon, Eisley, Something Corporate, and Matchbook Romance, to name a few), Lovedrug have won over virtually every audience they?ve met. read more from the source...

Black Lips

ARTIST / BAND: Black Lips
SONG (MP3): Buried Alive
ALBUM: Los Valientes Del Mondo Nuevo
FILE UNDER: Flower Punk
LABEL: Vice
INFO: The Black Lips are what you could call true visionaries of a skeptical age. Even from their very first 7" EP, you could tell they were doing their own thing on their own terms, and of course it didn't sit well, even with the dawning of the 21st century and all it promised. Wildly cross-eyed broken stars destined to waver in their importance in the cosmos, they know no boundaries and they take no pretense. Like a volatile and teetering amalgamation of the SWELL MAPS trying to cover the SWINGIN' MEDALLIONS, it's just not right for this world. Unless you long for theunhinged freedom that comes with music that challenges everything without becoming an unlistenable mess of sound. It's a dazzling catastrophe that needs to be absorbed before it vaporizes into thin air. The fun these guys have is hard to hide either live or on record. Seriously slurred swashbucklers living out the ultimate teenage dream, yet breaking through another layer of remarkable idiocy, transcribed through hallucinations, exasperation, and perfectly casual dick fumbling. Such perennial sophistication causes the very foundation of "FLOWER PUNK" to be lysergisized, germinated, fertilized, and fully pollenated. Let it Bloom, and it's fruit, will feed the next generation of off-centered, slop-a-licious rock'n roll pioneers for years to come.
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PLAYLIST MUSICHALL 29 MARCH

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

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DJ GERARD - ATYPICAL
PLUS DEVICE – BODY HEAT
GOLDLUST BONJELA - SANDWICH
FUNKSTÖRUNG - 1ST STROKE (FUNKSTÖRUNG REMIX)
SOI - SOSS
WORD - A DIFFERENCE IN LIFE
CHRIS HERBERT-SUASHI
KATE HAVNEVIK - NEW DAY ONLINE EDIT
POLE - SYLVENSTEIN
PLANET BLISS - NOMAD SOUL
JANNER – THE POWER OF SOUND
SYBARITE - CUT OUT SHAPE
SONIC WALLPAPER - AQUADUB

SECRETARY BIRD

Artist / Band: SECRETARY BIRD

Song (MP3): SOMEWHERE GIRLS
Album: Secretary Bird
File Under: Rock
Label: In De Goot Records
Info: Secretary Bird is the brainchild of Mike Semple who is mostly known for his work with Bill Elm in Friends of Dean Martinez (Semple is credited on 7 albums from 2000-2005). Semple and Elm co-wrote and recorded the score to the Richard Linklater’s new major motion picture, Fast Food Nation, starring Ethan Hawke, Bruce Willis, Patricia Arquette, Wilmer Valderrama and Greg Kinnear. Along with creating music in Friends of Dean Martinez, Mike Semple played in Los Angeles’ Campfire Girls and has circled the globe playing in Giant Sand. Howe Gelb recommends, “I play guitar just good enough, thank you. And when I don't, I call on Mike Semple to bolster. He's better than good enough, and he's a hoot to boot.” Mike Semple’s undeniably sincere songwriting is enhanced by a singing style that’s hypnotic and lackadaisically melodic like Lou Reed or Paul Westerberg. Add Semple’s distinctive guitar work, born of a 70’s British influence, and it is laid beautifully and softly down at the foot of your soul. Think Psychocandy meets The Days of Wine and Roses and add a bit of Wilco. Thomas Froggart (She Wants Revenge) and Eric Avery (Jane’s Addiction) also play on the album. Enlisted for the live touring band are Austin-based drummer, Kirke Jan and bass player, Einar Pedersen. Secretary Bird is a musical hybrid inspired by Mike Semple’s boyhood home of Tucson and his current home of Los Angeles. The album melds the countrified-influence of the desert and the rock and roll expanse of Los Angeles. They are songs that bring celebration and sadness, breaking your heart just for the pleasure of healing it.
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SARA CULLER

Artist / Band: SARA CULLER

Song (MP3): ARE YOU SLEEPING
Album: Miss Takes - Light The Night!
File Under: Indie / Electronica / Alternative
Info: Sara Culler was born in Sweden on July 23rd 1978 - The daughter of a Swedish mother and an American father. She grew up in Dallas, Texas, USA with an American citizenship. After two years of school, Sara moved back to Malmö, Sweden 1987 - pushed and mashed herself through more school - gathered "some" skills - got calluses in her head and in her heart thick enough to be able to write songs about 1996-97. Sara still lives in Malmö and is currently recording more songs than ever before -Very much hoping for a record deal...
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ASTRID SWAN

Artist / Band: ASTRID SWAN

Song (MP3): GOOD GIRL
Album: Poverina
File Under: Other / Pop / Rock
Label: www.mintyfresh.com
Info: ASTRID SWAN Who is Astrid Swan? She is from Finland. She writes songs, sings and plays instruments. Astrid asks of herself “Am I a conflicting figure, a radical annoyance with my own songs but also with my masquerades and games of beauty? Am I to be seen with the Marilyns or with the Jonis? Why can I not be with the Bobs or the Antonies?” She has enjoyed playing shows with Jose Gonzalez, Mew, Loney Dear, Jamie Cullum & Lou Barlow. None of these people look or sound like Astrid Swan. Poverina is the title of her debut album. People who have heard it love it. Now you have the chance to hear & love the record as well, when Minty Fresh Records releases Poverina this spring 2007. If you really want to experience who Astrid Swan is, listen to her music. Astrid Swan is not heavy metal.
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JARVIS COCKER

Artist / Band: JARVIS COCKER

Song (MP3): DON'T LET HIM WASTE YOUR TIME
Album: Jarvis
File Under: Alternative / Indie / Rock
Label: http://www.roughtraderecords.com/

Info: In 2006 Cocker appeared on albums Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited (song "I Just Came to Tell You That I'm Going", co-performed with Kid Loco) and Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys (song "A Drop of Nelson's Blood"). His song "Running the World" appeared over the closing credits of the film Children of Men. Also in 2006, along with Steve Mackey, he 'curated' the 2-CD Compilation, The Trip, which featured a wide selection of tracks by artists as varied as The Fall, Gene Pitney, The Beach Boys, and The Polecats. He also co-wrote lyrics on the Charlotte Gainsbourg album 5:55, with Neil Hannon and members of Air. On October 12th 2006, a fictional Jarvis Cocker was a lead character in a drama on BBC Radio 2, as part of their 'Imagine' competition.


DJ Jarvis. Cocker putting a palazzo through its paces during the opening week of the 2005 Venice Bienniale
Jarvis Cocker is now following a solo career, after his father Matthew Cocker-Logan, suggested he needed him to buy a retirement home - his debut album, Jarvis, came out in the UK on November 13, 2006. In March 2007 he appeared on French band Air's new album Pocket Symphony.
On Valentine's Day 2007, he was chosen to give the award for Best British Newcomer (awarded to the Fratellis) at the Brit Awards.
Jarvis and Beth Ditto (The Gossip) recently collaborated on a cover version of the classic 80s track Temptation by Heaven 17 at the NME Awards in London.
Jarvis is due to Curate this year's Meltdown Festival at the South Bank Centre in London this June. [3]

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EVERYBODY ELSE

Artist / Band: EVERYBODY ELSE

Song (MP3): IN MEMORIAM
Album: Everybody Else
File Under: Rock / Indie / Alternative
Label: The Militia Group
Info: In the olden days, before “pop” was a dirty word, there were rock bands imitating the punchy soul of Motown and Stax, playing something that was bubblegum but still raw, pop music that was not too polished or too dumbed-down. Every generation since the birth of rock ‘n’ roll has had bands in this tradition, on both sides of the Atlantic—the Rascals, the Lovin’ Spoonful, the Jam, Elvis Costello, Squeeze—but in the past decade or so, music in this vein has been conspicuously lacking.
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THE LITTLE HEROES

Artist / Band: THE LITTLE HEROES

Song (MP3): TEETH
Album: Cinematic Americana
File Under: Indie / Alternative / Rock
Label: http://www.wednesdayrecords.com/
Info: The Little Heroes are the new Promise Ring. It would be cool if they'd play the roof of the Oklahoma University parking garage while they're still little enough, before exploding into full-blown rock arena heroes. Cinematic Americana is the 12-track freshman disc from this all-male twentysomething San Jose guitar band quartet with keys. It's delightful. Bright and up-tempo, the songs are wonderful at high volume.
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DOLLYROTS

Artist / Band: DOLLYROTS

Song (MP3): BECAUSE IM AWESOME
Album: BECAUSE IM AWESOME
File Under: Rock / Punk / Pop Punk
Label: BLACKHEART RECORDS
Info: The Dollyrots are one girl and two boys. They're a fukin punk band but their CDs are very pop. Kelly is sugar sweet but mischevious and might sucker punch you if you're dumb enough to try her patience. Which she has a lot of, if she hasn't been visiting with her friends Jack, Jim or Jameson. She likes to do girl things like grow plants and sew up her t-shirts and crochet and make strawberry cakes. read more from the source...

RINGO DEATHSTARR

Artist / Band: RINGO DEATHSTARR

Song (MP3): SOME KIND OF SAD
Album: Ringo Deathstarr
File Under: Ambient / Shoegaze / Pop
Label: http://www.svcrecords.co.uk/

Info: Ringo Deathstarr: "Some Kind of Sad" [MP3] Austin, Texas' Ringo Deathstarr have a few things working against them. First, there's that almost too kitschy name. Then there's the fact that they meant to start a Jesus and Mary Chain fanclub, but started a band instead. But the winking self-awareness and punk throttle showcased on "Some Kind of Sad" bring toughness to their geeked-out moniker and put their Reid brothers fandom to good use. Their pulsing layers of feedback and those droll, deadpan vocals are ripped straight from Psychocandy, but the galloping, amphetamine rhythms are harder charging than even the most amped up track on that album. read more from the source...

PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 25 MARCH

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

PRODUCED BY KOMUNIKATORI

LISTEN TO THE SHOW

HAIL SOCIAL - HEAVEN
JE SUIS FRANCE - THAT DON'T WORK THAT WELL FOR US
MAXIMO PARKS - YOUR URGE
VOXTROT - KID GLOVES
DATAROCK - FA-FA-FA
MODEST MOUSE - INVISIBLE
EL-P - FLYENTOLOGY (CASSETTES WONT LISTEN REMIX)
JAMIE T - OH MY GIRL
MANIC STREET PREACHERS - UNDERDOGS
THE LOCUST - WE HAVE REACHED AN OFFICIAL VERDICT: NOBODY GIVES A SHIT
THE STOOGES - MY IDEA OF FUN
CENTRAL SERVICES - 4 LETTER WORD
THE SAFES- PHONE BOOK FULL OF PHONIES
WALKER KONG - ANDY WARHO AND THE HONEY BEES
THE BOOK OF KNOTS - PRAY
THE RIFLES - PEACE AND QUIET [UNPLUGGED]

Hail Social

Artist / Band: Hail Social

Song (MP3): Heaven
Album: Modern Love & Death
File Under: Pop / Rock / Indie

Aereogramme

Artist / Band: Aereogramme

Song (MP3): Conscious Life
Album: My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go
File Under: Rock / Electronica / Experimental
Label: Chemikal Underground
Info: Ensconced in Glasgow’s Nice N’ Sleazy, Aereogramme’s Craig B and Campbell McNeil are discussing all things related to their third full-length album while outside, the rain drums down in rhythmic, ice-cold sheets. It’s nearly four years since the release of their last long player, Sleep And Release and over two and a half since their six-track mini-album Seclusion, so it’s little wonder that the miserable conditions outside are not dampening their enthusiasm over the creation of “My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go”
It’s an enthusiasm that’s both well placed and richly justified. Their new album is an intensely rewarding experience: the literate flair of the song writing, effortlessly matched by the project’s musical ambition and creative scope. Aereogramme are no strangers to ambition of course – an entirely self-sufficient collective who write, record and produce their own material, with a film and television composer in their ranks – their previous albums have always been visceral, emotional and inspiring affairs. It’s with their new album though, that Aereogramme have found their most compelling form and, through trusting their instincts and pleasing themselves first and foremost, have produced their most accessible work to date.

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The Book Of Knots

Artist / Band: The Book Of Knots

Song (MP3): Pray
Album: Traineater
File Under: Progressive / Other / Metal
Label: Anti
Info: The Book of Knots, a New York based studio-collective, was formed by Matthias Bossi (Skeleton Key, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) Joel Hamilton (Shiner, Battle Of Mice, Sparklehorse, Elvis Costello, Unsane) and Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, Frank Black, They Might Be Giants) in the spring of 2003. What initially started as an excuse to write songs for their friends, took a decidedly serious turn when Mauro Arrambide from Austin Texas' Arclight Records stepped in and offered to release their recorded ramblings. Halfway through the making of record #1, violinist and vocalist Carla Kihlstedt (Tin Hat, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, 2 Foot Yard) joined them, and what is now known as the core quartet solidified. Soon after, it was decided that the band would release 3 records, the first being an ode to the rotting seaside towns of Matthias and Joel's youth, the second a tribute to the American rust-belt, and the third, a praising of all things aeronautical. Anti Records has gracefully stepped in to bring to the world installment #2, "TRAINEATER."
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Artist / Band: The Locust

Song (MP3): We have Reached An Official Verdict: Nobody Gives A Shit
Album: New Erections
File Under: Punk / Experimental / Progressive
Label: Anti
Info: Here is New Erections, eleven tracks deep and somehow totally anthemic, throbbing in the void of those past limps crumbled by planes and bleak brains, blanketed by soft skulls with electric socket glory holes for eyes that worship the steel wool pulled over them. New Erections, a celebratory prost! to the old photos of you, mid-twenties, with friends pissing on GG's shallow grave now under-exposed by the current you, over-miserable hollow white-collar power-slave. New Erections, later Saddam, hey Gomorrah... read more from the source...

Artist / Band: El-P

Song (MP3): Flyentology (Cassettes Wont Listen Remix)
Album: I'll Sleep When You're Dead
File Under: Hip Hop / Rap / Indie
Label: Def Jux
Info: the following was written by people trying to make me look cool: To simply say that El-P is serious about his music would be an understatement. Upon first listen to his upcoming album, I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead, it's readily apparent that this record – a magnum opus 4 years in the making - represents a culmination of profound musical, personal, and political experiences reaching their tumultuous climax. This record is about the struggle faced by those living in a rapidly changing society, El himself calling this his post-traumatic stress album where he attempts to capture the political by representing the internal. Evoking vocals and production aesthetics so viscerally indicative of the current era, El-P has outdone himself yet again, effectively mastering his brand of cutting-edge head-nodders and pushing forward a genre that has long held him as an undisputed kingpin. I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead embodies everything that is El-P – a groundbreaking artist, virtuosic producer, profound lyricist, label founder, A&R maverick and underground icon reacting to the malignant societal changes occurring today – a very serious matter indeed. This record is an urgent document, a collective representation of a critical individual crossing their personal Rubicon, assessing the dismal reality inherent, and deciding to forge on despite the cost. With appearances by Trent Reznor, The Mars Volta, Cat Power, Aesop Rock, Cage, Matt Sweeney, Tame One, and others, this is an album poised to extend a genre into a new realm of artistic expression.
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Jamie T

Artist / Band: Jamie T
Song (MP3): Oh My Girl
Album: Panic Prevention
File Under: Rap / Reggae / Punk
Label: Pacemaker Recordings
Info: Jamie Treays, known by his stage name Jamie T, is a 21-year-old English singer/songwriter from Wimbledon, South London. He went to Reeds school in Cobham, Surrey until he was 18 and is currently signed to Virgin Records, but released his Betty and the Selfish Sons EP on his own Pacemaker Records label.
He has been tipped to be "the next big thing" by the NME[citation needed] and has often been compared to the likes of Bob Dylan and Mike Skinner (The Streets)[citation needed]. He has also been nicknamed "one man Arctic Monkey"[citation needed]. Canvas Magazine have described him as "like the bastard lovechild of Billy Bragg and Mike Skinner doing his best Joe Strummer impression" [1]

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The Rifles

Artist / Band: The Rifles
Song (MP3): Peace And Quiet [unplugged]
Album: "No Love Lost"
File Under: Rock / Punk / Ska
Label: 679/ Universal Publishing
Info: The Rifles are an English rock band from Walthamstow, London. They are heavily influenced by The Clash, The Jam and 90s Britpop. Their debut album "No Love Lost" was released on 17 July 2006 and was produced by Ian Broudie.
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Manic Street Preachers

ARTIST / BAND: Manic Street Preachers
SONG (MP3): Underdogs
ALBUM: Send away the tigers
FILE UNDER: Alternative / Indie / Rock
LABEL: Major
INFO: Manic Street Preachers (often known colloquially as "The Manics") are a Welsh rock band often associated (erroneously) with the Britpop scene, who gained mainstream popularity in the UK in the late 1990's. They are known for their intelligent and often political lyrics and have a dedicated cult following. Although during the early part of their career they were regarded as a punk rock band, their music is now often generally regarded as alternative rock, due to changes in their sound. Co-lyricist and guitarist Richey James Edwards (Richey James, as he preferred to be known) mysteriously disappeared in 1995; his whereabouts are unknown.
Politically, the Manics appear as a socialist group — a stance inflected by their working class upbringing in Blackwood, south Wales (they grew up during the miners' strike of the 1980s) as evidenced by their often highly politicised lyrics and actions (they once dedicated an award to Arthur Scargill, leader of the National Union of Mineworkers and later the Socialist Labour Party). The band also played a highly publicised gig in Cuba.[1]

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The Stooges

ARTIST / BAND: The Stooges
SONG (MP3): My Idea of Fun
ALBUM: The Wierdness
FILE UNDER: The Stooges and Iggy :)
LABEL: Major
INFO: The Stooges are an American rock band that was first active from about 1967 to 1974, and then reformed in 2003.
The Stooges sold rather few records in their original existence and often performed for indifferent or hostile audiences. Nevertheless, The Stooges are often regarded as hugely influential both on the nascent heavy metal and punk rock. Singer Iggy Pop and his wild onstage antics were often the focus of attention.

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WALKER KONG

ARTIST / BAND: Walker Kong
SONG (MP3): Andy Warho and The Honey Bees
ALBUM: Deliver Us From People
FILE UNDER: Pop / Folk Rock / Experimental
LABEL: www.magicmarkerrecords.com
INFO: Walker Kong was formed in the the spring of 1998 when Jeremy Ackerman called upon four musically untrained female friends to help perform a collection of simple pop songs he had written over the course of a long, hot New Mexico summer. Sounding like a cross between the Modern Lovers, Elvis Costello and the Shaggs, the band began a strange assent through the ranks of a Minneapolis music scene. During these early years there was a vital music community in the Twin Cities that shared a sense of purpose and encouraged many styles of music to coexist on the same stage. Minneapolis based groups of the time such as Smattering, Lifter Puller, Triangle, the Selby Tigers and Florida were all friends and inspirations to WK as they progressed into a more refined ensemble.
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