Rainbow Arabia

ARTIST / BAND: Rainbow Arabia

MP3s: Haunted Hall

ALBUM: Kabukimono

FILE UNDER: Live Electronics / Tropical / Zouk

LABEL: manimal vinyl

INFO: For their unexpectedly oddball "Omar K" video, L.A. couple Danny and Tiffany Preston, aka Rainbow Arabia, took their Basta EP tune into a grocery store where a mom and her kid Gang Gang Danced-away their demonic possession. "Haunted Hall," from the forthcoming mini-LP Kabukimono, continues the supernatural theme, though we don't currently have any moving images to go with it. It was produced by Pit Er Pat's Butchy Fuego and, like last time, sounds like someone overlaying colorful electronics and new wave beats and a Sublime Frequencies compilation (or, fair enough, a compilation of Arabic music not stamped by Alan Bishop). The results aren't necessarily distinctive, but it's a fun hodgepodge.

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PAUL "SNOWFLAKE" TAYLOR

ARTIST / BAND: PAUL "SNOWFLAKE" TAYLOR

MP3s: Candle

ALBUM: Share It!

FILE UNDER: Rock / Psychedelic / Experimental

LABEL: Makeshift Music

INFO: Paul “Snowflake” Taylor is a self taught musician, has played on over a hundred records, has received 3 NARASmemphis chapter “premiere bassist “ awards, (which reside in his bathroom over the toilet), and has (at one time or another) been a member of North Mississippi Allstars, Big Ass Truck, Bloodthirsty Lovers (w Dave Shouse of The Grifters), Gamble Brothers Band, Eric Gales, Shawn Lane, Shelby Bryant (including legendary record “Cloud Wow Music” on Smells Like Records), Jimbo Mathus (founder of Squirrel Nut Zippers), Ann Peebles and so many more. Yet, this is probably the first time you’ve heard of him.

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Josh Ottum

ARTIST / BAND: Josh Ottum

MP3s: The Easy Way Out

ALBUM: Like The Season

FILE UNDER: Indie Pop

LABEL: Cheap Lullaby Records

INFO: Josh Ottum (born Mar. 1978) is an American musician and songwriter. Ottum recorded Like The Season, his solo debut, from October 2005 - June 2006. The album was released in the fall of 2006 in Europe by Tapete Records along with an EP entitled Who Left The Lights On?. Ottum was part of the 2006 Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, Germany and toured extensively through Europe in November 2006 and May 2007. Mill Pond Records released an EP entitled It's Alright in May 2007. Ottum was part the Sit Down and Sing tour with Rosie Thomas andNicolai Dunger in April 2008.

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David Mead

ARTIST / BAND: David Mead

MP3s: Last Train Home

ALBUM: ALMOST AND ALWAYS

FILE UNDER: Indie Pop

LABEL: Cheap Lullaby Records

INFO: Almost and Always is David Mead’s fifth full-length release. His most intimate work to date, the album examines life after marriage and the promise of things to come. Mead collaborated with producer Brad Jones (Over The Rhine, Josh Rouse) and new songwriting partner Bill DeMain (Swan Dive) to create a quiet, soulful collection that sets his 21st century pop songs in classic arrangements that recall Harry Nilsson, Paul Anka and Harry Belafonte. As always, Mead’s honeyed voice is front and center, gently accented with classical guitar, woodwinds and string quartet. Almost and Always will be released in Japan on October 22 and the U.S. and Europe in Autumn 2008. In the U.S., the album will be released digitally in two parts through NoiseTrade, a new service that allows users to pay what they want or download for free. Mead will be touring throughout the rest of 2008 and 2009 in support of the album.

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Headless Heroes

ARTIST / BAND: Headless Heroes

MP3s: "Nobody's Baby Now"

ALBUM: The Silence of Love

FILE UNDER: Psychedelic

LABEL: Headless Heroes

INFO: The Silence of Love is a beautiful themed album of covers, dreamt up by a chap named Eddie Bezalel, helped and produced by Hugo Nicolson, who pulled together the songs and a bunch of great musicians (Josh Klinghoffer, Woody Jackson, Joey Waronker, Leo Abrahams and Gus Seyffert) to play on it, all topped off with the voice of one Alela Diane. The record is a simply beautiful collection of lost classics and unearthed gems sung with arresting clarity by Nevada City's emerging new folk star Alela.

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Foreign Born

ARTIST / BAND: Foreign Born

MP3s: Early Warnings  | Vacationing People"

ALBUM: Person To Person

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: secretly canadian

INFO: A holiday escape to the oceanside is meant to keep the tribulations of daily life at bay. Yet every joyous moment of vacation is undercut with a strange melancholy as you do the math on the finite nature of your getaway. So, you take your sweet, sweet time with that cold drink and offer a cheers an extra time or two.

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Jeniferever

ARTIST / BAND: Jeniferever

MP3s: Lives Apart

ALBUM: Spring Tides

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Gothic

LABEL: Monotreme Records

INFO: Jeniferever is a four-piece band from Uppsala, Sweden. They have previously released four EPs and one album since 2002, and have played over 250 live shows across Europe. Over the years, they have gained an ever-growing band of  admirers, who have bestowed descriptions such as ‘lush’, ‘melodic’, ‘swooping’, ‘glacial’, ‘beautiful’, ‘shimmering’, ‘sublime’, ‘electrifying’ and ‘atmospheric’ on their music. 

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Wunderblock

ARTIST / BAND: Wunderblock

ALBUM (MP3s): Act!

FILE UNDER: Techno / House / Dub

LABEL: astorbell

INFO: Astor Bell's eastern outpost is Wunderblock, a collaboration project out of Moscow, Russia. Three masterminds met up to create something new, all adding their different spice to the soup. Michael Teploff is known for his Ill Doggy releases on Salo Records, Berlin and as one half of Multipliar (the other half being Anton Kubikov aka SCSI-9) on the infamous Cologne imprint Trapez. Here he has teamed up with ambient producer Igor Ivanov and local DJ Vladimir Kochenov to push his own limits.

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Savath & Savalas

ARTIST / BAND: Savath & Savalas

MP3s: La Llama

ALBUM: La Llama

FILE UNDER: Latin / Psychedelic

LABEL: Stones Throw Records

INFO: Savath & Savalas is Guillermo Scott Herren (perhaps best known as Prefuse 73), Eva Puyuelo Muns and Roberto Carlos Lange. We’ve been experimenting with some different ways of releasing our records, just as Guillermo Scott Herren is experimenting with a new way of releasing Savath & Savalas, his Catalan acid-folk project which even pre-dates Prefuse 73. We are proud to release the new album La Llama digitally next Monday 3/16, exclusively through stonesthrow.com. The worldwide release of CD/LP will be May 19.

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am architect

ARTIST / BAND: am architect

MP3s: Next of Kin (Bro Safari remix)

ALBUM: The Road to the Sun

FILE UNDER: Electronica / Experimental / Ambient

LABEL: Exponential

INFO: The core of A.M. Architect's inviting sound—laid-back, hip-hop-inflected beats paired with Fender Rhodes melodies, acoustic and electric guitar shadings, and an occasional sample—speaks volumes about its appeal. Though it may be a side project for Diego Chavez (aka Aether216) and Daniel Stanush (aka Magic Note, lead guitarist for the Panic Division), there's nothing half-assed about the dozen fresh cuts that compose The Road to the Sun.

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Dark Knights Of Camelot

ARTIST / BAND: Dark Knights Of Camelot

MP3s: Purple Undertones

ALBUM: Hurrication EP

FILE UNDER: Indie Rock

LABEL: Olympic Records

INFO: Dark Knights of Camelot’s debut release, the HurricationEP, is their valiant, heavy-hitting response to modern day lackluster music. Born in Hattiesburg, MS this robust power trio sets themselves apart by embedding structurally complex songs with accessible melodic hooks. The songs mix epic and soulful themes with elements of Alternative, Classic Rock, Grunge, and Stoner Rock creating a bittersweet and hypnotic mood.

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DEPEDRO

ARTIST / BAND: DEPEDRO

MP3s: Don't Leave Me Now

ALBUM: DEPEDRO

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Folk Rock / Latin

LABEL: Nat Geo Music

INFO: DEPEDRO is the musical Project of Jairo Zavala, singer and guitar player with a long carrer behind him as a session musician. He is front man and foundation member of the rock band VACAZUL, with 5 published records and of 3000 HOMBRES, a blues band with 3 published records. He now starts DEPEDRO, his most personal project. A mixture of latin, border fusion, folk, african music, reggae and blues. The lyrics talk to us directly, making us think about what..s going on in the world and inviting us at the same time, to look into ourselves. His singing and playing brings up all type emotions and lots of magic.

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Post Honeymoon

ARTIST / BAND: Post Honeymoon

MP3s: Night Guard / First-World Problems

ALBUM: Post Honeymoon

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Two thumbs down records

INFO: Post Honeymoon's roots go back to a summer night in 2001, when drummer Nick Kraska met keyboardist Rachel Shindelman (both ex-Bang! Bang!, New Black) and brought her to a show at Chicago's Empty Bottle.

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Monahans

ARTIST / BAND: Monahans

MP3s: It’s Enough to Leave You

ALBUM: Dim the Aurora

FILE UNDER: Absolutely Kosher Records | Misra Records

LABEL: Indie

INFO: Dim the Aurora is the new album by Austin, Texas’ Monahans, the follow up to their promising debut Low Pining. The journey to this point spans ten years, two bands, and five prior releases. You don’t need to know that to enjoy Dim the Aurora, but it certainly helps to appreciate its achievement.
Greg Vanderpool and bandmate Roberto Sánchez started making music in alt.country outfit Milton Mapes in 2001. Milton Mapes eventually grew to include current Monahans members Britton Beisenherz and Jim Fredley.  After recording three full length albums and performing countless shows, the musicians had outgrown the very band they had created and realized the needed to kick their alt.country habit and explore outside their comfort zone.  They wanted more from their music than Lone Star beer and cowboy boots. The band changed their songwriting process from the old singer-songwriter-with-a-band model to a more collaborative effort, allowing the different talents of all of its members to emerge. The change led to a dramatic evolution away from the dusty alt.country influence of their surroundings in Austin to the poppier anthems of early U2 and the earthier feel of Nebraska-era Springsteen. They realized that what they were doing was so different that it deserved a new beginning, and Monahans was born.

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Sinner DC

ARTIST / BAND: Sinner DC

MP3s: Glass Alley

ALBUM: Crystallized

FILE UNDER: Techno Pop

LABEL: Ai Records

INFO: sinner dc have been forging an increasingly solid reputation for impeccable tunes and sweeping electronic sounds for
themselves over the years. the minimal vocals, captured sound waves and clever programming all pull together to create
another doorstep slice of goodness that ai records are getting renowned for...

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Magic Wands

ARTIST / BAND: Magic Wands

SONG (MP3): "Black Magic"

ALBUM: Magic, Love and Dreams EP

FILE UNDER: Rock

LABEL: Bright Antenna

INFO: Magic Wands formed in 2007. While living in Nashville, Chris found a song on Myspace that he listened to repeatedly, day and night. Soon he discovered it was a song by Dexy, called ‘Teenage Love’. During the course of the summer 2007 Chris and Dexy started talking on the phone until dawn, writing songs for each other and mailing gifts such as toy lions, old records, handwritten poems and one glowing heart lamp. Though 2000 miles apart, they decided they were destined to be. Two weeks later Chris was back in L.A. helping Dexy pack up her old Mercedes Benz for a trip across the country.  

Magic Wands have spent the last 6 months touring relentlessly, and writing and recording the tracks that will make up their debut album. They’ve been on a monster East-West Coast US tour with Black Kids and the Virgins as well as returning to the UK to support CSS on their October dates. 

Tiga

ARTIST / BAND: Tiga

MP3s: Shoes

ALBUM: Ciao!

FILE UNDER: Last Gang

LABEL: Electro

INFO: Tiga (IPA: /tiːgə/) is the stage name of Montreal-born DJ/producer Tiga James Sontag (born 1974). His album Sexor won the 2007 Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year.

He graduated from Selwyn House School, a prestigious school in Westmount. Before producing music, he was involved in the promotion ofrave parties in his native city during the early 1990s, also Tiga was involved in the creation of world renowned afterhours club SONA. In 1994, he opened a record store named DNA Records, and in 1998 founded his own label, Turbo Recordings.

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DINOSAUR JR

ARTIST / BAND: DINOSAUR JR

SONG (MP3): I Want You to Know

ALBUM: Farm

FILE UNDER: Indie Rock

LABEL: Jagjaguwar

INFO:The worry about the reunion of the original Dinosaur Jr. line-up, more than 20 years after their formation and legendary dissolution, was that these guys were just flogging the back catalog as a marketing gimmick. With the release of Beyond, in 2007, the band gave a hearty Marshall-driven "F**K YOU!" answer to those inquiring ears. Restoring the sound established by the opening hat-trick gambit of Dinosaur, You're Living All Over Me, and Bug, the Beyond record continued the band's march into rock greatness by making old ears smile and new ears bleed afresh. And now comes Farm, Dinosaur Jr.'s first double LP and their fifth full length record by the original line-up -- J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph -- set to release on their new label home Jagjaguwar on June 23rd.

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SCRIPTS ‘N SCREWZ

ARTIST / BAND: SCRIPTS 'N SCREWZ

MP3s: “BRICK“ | “BIG CITY LIGHTS“ | “FAIRY TALE”

ALBUM: The New Noise

FILE UNDER: Experimental / Hip Hop / Indie

LABEL: The V.E. Company

INFO: The group's resident producer, Loose Screwz, has spent years perfecting his trademark eccentric sound. His lyrics have a cinematic, story-telling quality, and his versatile production makes his next musical moves unpredictable.
Diehard wordsmith Scripts adds an edge to the equation. His vivid wordplay and crushing punchlines about a wide range of subject matter will appeal to any hip hop fan. These two have been working together for close to a decade, and with their unique blend of experimental innovation and mastery of hip hop fundamentals, Scripts 'N Screwz will take the music world by storm.

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Little Big Adventure

ARTIST / BAND: Little Big Adventure

MP3s: Happiest Times

ALBUM: The Hateful Eye EP

FILE UNDER: Pop / Indie / Down-tempo

LABEL: Labrador

INFO: Things turned when I took all my savings and bought a Casio-keyboard. Instead of writing boring guitar songs I could now play everything on this. I’m not exactly a skilled keyboard player so I recorded everything note by note and then cut it all together in my music program. To cover up all my technical flaws I put a noise filter on everything so that no one could hear the glitches between the notes, and no one could hear the noise from the microphone, as everything was noisy.

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Nite Club

ARTIST / BAND: Nite Club

MP3s: Left Right /Good Life (Kanye West) /No Matter Which Way

ALBUM: My Tronic

FILE UNDER: Club / Indie / Live Electronics

LABEL: Tape Theory

INFO: Spitzer started performing at rave events at 16-years-old. He blossomed as a player with prog rock, punk and live drum n' bass groups using modern classical composition as his backdrop. Spitzer pursued a music education in college where he was composition classmates with electronic artist Dan Deacon.
Spitzer has performed across the US, Europe and Japan opening for The Rapture, The Roots, Jamie Lidell, Lightning Bolt, DJ Oscar G, DJ DB, Kool Keith, and The Locust. Spitzerhas also performed at major international superclubs such asCrobar, Avalon, and Spirit.

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TRASHED ON FICTION

ARTIST / BAND: TRASHED ON FICTION

MP3s: “JANUARY“ | “SAFETY NET“ | “KILLING GROUNDS“

ALBUM: Words Trails Maps

FILE UNDER: Indie / Rock / Alternative

LABEL: ESCHE Records

INFO:

Trashed On Fiction synthesizes these bands into infectious, noisy rock and roll songs about awkward romantic relationships, an apathetic folk hero, baggage (lots of baggage), The Woolworth building, a celebrity stalker and removing  your clothes. That's the first half of the new record anyway.

Trashed On Fiction spent a better part of two years working on their album, Words Trails Maps,  scrapping the initial entire studio recording and redoing it themselves after-hours in a music store, a kitchen, the back of a van, and the theater stage of a certain college very late at night. The result giving the songs a warm, intimate, lived-in feeling while still sounding like it could have been recorded at Abbey Road.

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Deleted Scenes

ARTIST / BAND: Deleted Scenes

MP3s: Fake IDs /Ithaca / One Long Country Song

ALBUM: Birdseed Shirt

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: What Delicate Recordings

INFO: Months after releasing their debut album to little fanfare and no press campaign, a lucky Pitchfork review ("brave and ferocious," 8.0) suddenly makes people listen. Band does it the hard way, develops as a live force over three years, and is said to deserve every kind word. Yards of local column inches tell the story of a band "doing it right," in the words ofWashington Post music editor David Malitz.

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FOMA

ARTIST / BAND: FOMA

MP3s: Seraphim Succubi

ALBUM: Inverness

FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop

LABEL: Self-Released

INFO: Soaring swells of strings come to the forefront, providing effortless counterpoint to striking vocal melodies and varied instrumentation in the fourth release of San Francisco via Albuquerque indie pop outfit Foma.

With Inverness, Foma departs from the story telling format of 2006’s Phobos, but maintains the band’s strongly motif driven approach to album making.

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JARVIS COCKER

ARTIST / BAND: JARVIS COCKER

MP3s: Angela

ALBUM: Further Complications

FILE UNDER: Rock

LABEL: Rough Trade Records

INFO: Cocker insists that he hasn't "gone rock" for Further Complications, but production maven Steve Albini (of Pixies and Nirvana fame) was nonetheless posted in the booth for this offering. The two met while the former Pulp frontman was in Chicago for last year's Pitchfork Music Festival; Jarvis paid a visit to Albini's Electrical Audio studio to put some new songs through their paces. The experience (and the price: "very cheap") was perfect, and thus a partnership was born.

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Hermas Zopoula

ARTIST / BAND: Hermas Zopoula

MP3s: Courons Courez /Alpha et Omega

ALBUM: Espoir

FILE UNDER: world music

LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty

INFO: Hermas Zoupula is many things. He is the youngest of 36 children. Born in a small village named Yoro, he is Burkinabe, a citizen and resident of Burkina Faso, West Africa. He is a moped enthusiast, orphanage volunteer, and internet cafe proprietor. Hermas is also a psalmist, and Espoir is his first international recording.

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Pattern is Movement

ARTIST / BAND: Pattern is Movement

SONG (MP3): "Right Away" / "Jenny Ono"

ALBUM: All Together

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Hometapes

INFO: Last fall our friend Travis came to visit...we hadn't seen him in years. As usual we started talking about music. He gives me two cds, stating, "This is your favorite new band"...I say, "Pattern Is Movement...who's that?" He reiterates,"You will love this." Turns out, Travis was right. We pretty much completely wore out those cds. It's all we could listen to. It was complex, but easy. Ultra palatable, but completely fresh and new. We played their records for others to get a second opinion...could it really be that good? The Hometapes Round Table spoke, and with voices in booming unison we heard, "This rips." We tracked them down, and let it be known that we would be the peanut butter to their jelly. Discussions over what type of bread we would be between were negotiated, and a deal was struck. Classic country white bread it would be. Pattern Is Movement, welcome to Hometapes.

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BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW

ARTIST / BAND: BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW

MP3s: Born On A Day the Sun Didn't Rise

ALBUM: Eating Us

FILE UNDER: Experimental / Pop / Psychedelic

LABEL: Graveface

INFO: hailing from the creepiest of states, this 5 piece junk band grew up watching “321 Contact” and “The Letter People Show” and has found a way into my listening routine on a daily basis for several years. they say their primary focus is turning their childhood memories into songs and feel much more at home playing music in the woods or an old barn than an electro club. every person i have ever played their music to has ended up humming the child-like melodies all night long. so, go drop your feelings of depression for a few minutes and download an mp3. odds are, you'll be back to this site to hear more in no time.

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Sunset Rubdown

ARTIST / BAND: Sunset Rubdown

MP3s: Idiot Heart

ALBUM: Dragonslayer

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Jagjaguwar

INFO: Sunset Rubdown is an indie rock band from Montreal, Canada. The band began as a solo project for Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade, who released his debut, Snake's Got a Leg, in July 2005. Eventually the group expanded to include Camilla Wynne Ingr (Pony Up!), Jordan Robson-Cramer (XY Lover, Miracle Fortress and Magic Weapon), and Michael Doerksen (Deep Sleepover). Krug is the main writer of the songs, and the other members add their ideas in as well. ^[1]

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Mistress Stephanie & Her Melodic Cat

 

ARTIST / BAND: Mistress Stephanie & Her Melodic Cat

MP3s: I Hate Cabaret / Grey  / Little Death

ALBUM: Take That!

FILE UNDER: Sado-vaudevillian punk

LABEL: Pressing Records

INFO: Initially a cabaret act influenced by Weimar Republic Berlin,Mistress Stephanie and her Melodic Cat soon expanded into what one critic calls “Sado-vaudevillian punk.” Their diverse sound combines everything from classical music to classic rock, performed with outrageous style and irreverent humor that touches on half a century’s worth of history.

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Robert Gomez

ARTIST / BAND: Robert Gomez

MP3s: Middle Of Nowhere

ALBUM: Pine Sticks & Phosphorus

FILE UNDER: Rock / Acoustic

LABEL: Nova Posta Vinyl

INFO: Robert Gomez began making music at the tender age of 7 putting on his first ‘show’ for friends and family at a Baldwin piano store in his hometown of Corpus Christi, TX. His years to follow could be considered that of a musical vagabond moving through an eclectic run of various side man stints with the likes of Cuban guitar (tres) master Nelson Gonsales, Turkish singer
and multi-instumentalist Omar Faruk Tekbilek and the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus band.

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ApSci

ARTIST / BAND: ApSci

MP3s: Under Control

ALBUM: Best Crisis Ever

FILE UNDER: Hip Hop / Electro /

LABEL: Quannum Projects

INFO: They also could’ve simply followed the same path on Best Crisis Ever that they did on their 2005 Quannum debut,Thanks for Asking, a dark, collabo-heavy hip-hop electro album that UR Chicago named “the freshest hip-hop album that’s come out so far [that] year,”SPIN.com described as a mixture of “Eminem and Bjork,” and XLR8R called “the real deal.”

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Mocky

ARTIST / BAND: Mocky

MP3s: Feather

ALBUM: Saskamodie

FILE UNDER: Pop / Jazz / Experimental

LABEL: Crammed Discs

INFO: Mocky will release his new album "Saskamodie" on Crammed Discs on March 23rd 2009. The album was co-produced by Renaud Letang in Paris' famed Ferber Studios (Nina Simone Serge Gainsbourg and others have recorded there). This gives the album a unique quality that blends a classic feel with a modern sound. Mocky signed the album with the legendary Crammed Discs from Belgium (Bebel Gilberto, Konono Number 1, Balkan Beatbox ). On "Saskamodie" Mocky is listed as playing drums, bass, rhodes, piano, guitar, percussion, bells, recorder, vocals, whistle, organ and toys as well as writing string arrangements. Taylor Savvy, Gonzales, Jamie Lidell & Feist contribute additional instrumental and backing vocal performances that make this record sound more like a live performance than a studio creation.

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Headless Heroes

ARTIST / BAND: Headless Heroes

MP3s: True Love Will Find You In The End"

ALBUM: The Silence of Love

FILE UNDER: Psychedelic

LABEL: Headless Heroes

INFO: The Silence of Love is a beautiful themed album of covers, dreamt up by a chap named Eddie Bezalel, helped and produced by Hugo Nicolson, who pulled together the songs and a bunch of great musicians (Josh Klinghoffer, Woody Jackson, Joey Waronker, Leo Abrahams and Gus Seyffert) to play on it, all topped off with the voice of one Alela Diane. The record is a simply beautiful collection of lost classics and unearthed gems sung with arresting clarity by Nevada City's emerging new folk star Alela.

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The Dandy Warhols

ARTIST / BAND: The Dandy Warhols

MP3s: "The Legend Of The Last Of The Outlaw Truckers AKA The Ballad of Sheriff Shorty"

ALBUM: Earth To The Dandy Warhols

FILE UNDER: Rock

LABEL: Beat The World Records

INFO: The members of rock band the Dandy Warhols will appear on the TV Series Les Invincibles during the next episode, broadcast on Radio-Canada, Wednesday March 18, 2009, at 9:00 PM.Earlier this season, Jean-François Rivard, director and co-author of Les Invincibles, used The Dandy Warhols’ song “The Legend Of The Last Of The Outlaw Truckers AKA The Legend of Sheriff Shorty” (from their album …Earth To The Dandy Warhols…) on an episode. Rivard then decided to send the Dandy Warhols an English-subtitled version of Les Invincibles to see if they would be interested in appearing on the show.

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Linda Draper

ARTIST / BAND: Linda Draper

MP3s: Time Will Tell

ALBUM: Bridge and Tunnel

FILE UNDER: Folk / Pop / Acoustic

LABEL: Planting Seeds Records

INFO: The album showcases 10 fresh new songs further exploringDraper's signature sound - light, enchanting music with gentle, heartfelt honest lyrics. "Limbo" leads off the LP capturing the very essence of morning's first ray of sunlight. It is followed by the stripped down splendor of  "Sharks And Royalty". The collection's charm continues to shine bright in the tracks "I Will" and "Pushing Up The Day" - both primed to be sure classics.

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Loxsly

ARTIST / BAND: Loxsly

MP3s: Battalions

ALBUM: Tomorrow's Fossils

FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop / Rock

LABEL: Little Mafia

INFO: Fresh off the heels of the Flashlights EP, Austin’s Loxsly emerge from the lab with their third LP, Tomorrow’s Fossils (Little Mafia/Texas Heat, May 2009). This newest and perhaps most ambitious edition to the Loxsly discography retains the band’s signature synth pop sensibilities while revealing a darker layer.

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SAINT BERNADETTE

ARTIST / BAND: SAINT BERNADETTE

MP3s: Already Gone

ALBUM: Word To The Lourdes

FILE UNDER: Rock / Pop

LABEL: www.exoticrecordings.com

INFO: On Saint Bernadette's third release, WORD TO THE LOURDES, lead singer Meredith DiMenna emerges as Madonna's rock n' roll kid sister. 'In the 80s, Madonna kicked the door down. She was powerful and positive and singing that women should express themselves,' Meredith says.

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Barbara Trentalange

ARTIST / BAND: Barbara Trentalange

MP3s: “VALENTINE“ | “SHADOW MAN” | “FEVER”

ALBUM: Awakening, Level One.

FILE UNDER: Indie / Gothic / Emo

LABEL: Coco Tauro Records

INFO: After fronting the darkly sophisticated Seattle band Spyglassfor five years, Trentalange released her first solo project onCoco Tauro Records in 2006 called, Photo Album of Complex Relationships. The critic's response to the record was overwhelmingly positive.  Trentalange's haunting voice and hypnotic beats grabbed the attention of the music editors atMTV, VH1, and the Oxygen channel, where her music is in regular rotation on a wide variety of dramatic series.

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Rainbow Arabia

ARTIST / BAND: Rainbow Arabia

MP3s: Omar K (Ghosts On Tape remix)

ALBUM: Kabukimono

FILE UNDER: Live Electronics

LABEL: Manimal Vinyl Records

INFO: Rainbow Arabia marry electro-acoustic dance sounds and world music with the youthful energy of punk using an array of Lebanese synthesizers and drum machines, serpentine guitar lines, live percussion, and Siouxsie-esque vocals that are at times war calls while beautifully spectral at others

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Big Fresh

ARTIST / BAND: Big Fresh

MP3s: W.L.U.V.

ALBUM: B.F.F. (Big Fresh Forever)

FILE UNDER: Pop / Soul / Psychedelic

LABEL: Garden Gate Records

INFO: Lexington, Kentucky's beloved pop superheroes have been hard at work in the laboratory since Yes, Nice, Please, Thanks(2001, Aquapop Records) electrified the regional college radio airwaves.
Their U.S. tour last year opening for The Apples in stereobroadcast their pop manifesto to head-bopping masses, disseminating a 150-copy limited pressing of their newly completed album.

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Robert Gomez

ARTIST / BAND: Robert Gomez

MP3s: On This Day

ALBUM: Pine Sticks & Phosphorus

FILE UNDER: Rock / Acoustic

LABEL: Nova Posta Vinyl

INFO: Robert Gomez began making music at the tender age of 7 putting on his first ‘show’ for friends and family at a Baldwin piano store in his hometown of Corpus Christi, TX. His years to follow could be considered that of a musical vagabond moving through an eclectic run of various side man stints with the likes of Cuban guitar (tres) master Nelson Gonsales, Turkish singer
and multi-instumentalist Omar Faruk Tekbilek and the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus band.

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Pete Doherty

ARTIST / BAND: Pete Doherty

MP3s: New Love Grows On Tree

ALBUM: Grace / Wastelands

FILE UNDER: Rock

LABEL: Parlophone

INFO: Think you know Peter Doherty? Think again. Vilified by the world’s press and written off at every turn, Peter Doherty finds himself constantly at the centre of a media maelstrom, a frenzy that bombards his private life with allegations, accusations, invasions and intrusions. They say that it’s calmest in the eye of the hurricane, and that’s where you’ll find Peter; coolly strumming his guitar while the storm around him carries him ever closer to Arcadia.

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Boozoo Bajou

ARTIST / BAND: Boozoo Bajou

MP3s: Grain

ALBUM: Grain

FILE UNDER: Down-tempo / Electronica / Dub

LABEL: !K7

INFO: Boozoo Bajou is a musical duo from Germany. They are noted for their distinct blend of Cajun sounds with island rhythms. Their first album, Satta, was released in 2001. In 2005 they released Dust My Broom to much critical acclaim. The Nuremberg natives behind the music are Peter Heider and Florian Seyberth. The list of Boozoo Bajou remixes for other artists includes Common, Tosca, Trüby Trio, and Tony Joe White.

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Royksopp

ARTIST / BAND: Royksopp

MP3s: Happy Up Here' (Holy F--- Remix)

ALBUM: Happy Up Here

FILE UNDER: Techno

LABEL: Astralwerks

INFO: We just offered you a jam-packed Röyksopp Progress Report and before that the Norwegian duo ushered in their 10th birthday with an appropriately titled "Happy Birthday" song. Here they give us another one with happy in the title, "Happy Up Here." It's the first single from the forthcoming Junior. As mentioned, the collection will include guest spots by Lykki Li, Robyn, Anneli Drecker, and the Knife's Karin Dreijer. There are vocals on this one, but it's apparently Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland holding court.

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Maximo Park

ARTIST / BAND: Maximo Park

MP3s: Wraithlike

ALBUM: Quicken the Heart

FILE UNDER: Rock / Pop

LABEL: Warp

INFO: Quicken the Heart is the third album by Maxïmo Park.^[1] It is to be released on 11 May 2009.^[2]

The album is now available to pre-order on vinyl, regular CD and a special edition CD & DVD pack. It will also be available to download once released.

The special edition contains the regular CD album along with a DVD featuring a 65-minute long tourfilm taken from the band's sold out show at Newcastle Metro Radio Arena in December 2007, including live performances and exclusive backstage footage.

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Little Boots

ARTIST / BAND: Little Boots

MP3s: Stuck On Repeat

ALBUM: Arebico EP

FILE UNDER: Pop / Disco House

LABEL: 679/ Atlantic

INFO: Victoria Hesketh (born 1984),^[3] known professionally as Little Boots, is an English electropop musician.^[4] She sings, plays synthesizers,Japanese electronic instrument the Tenori-on, piano and the stylophone.^{[2]Hesketh was born in Thornton-Cleveleys on the Fylde coast in Lancashire and now lives in London.[5][6] Her father is a businessman and her mother is an author of children's books. She has three younger brothers.[1] She attended Rossall School,[7] Blackpool Sixth Form College[8]and then the University of Leeds, where she gained a first-class honours degree in Cultural Studies, with a dissertation on "The concept of originality in the music of Jamie Cullum".[9][10]}

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Golden Bear

ARTIST / BAND: Golden Bear

MP3s: Night Light /All The Stars

ALBUM: Everest

FILE UNDER: Rock

LABEL: c-siderecords

INFO: Following its inception in 2003, Golden Bear determinedly and steadily worked their way into the bulging Austin music scene and built a loyal and devoted fan base before releasing its debut LP in August 2006. The self-titled album won praise from national publications such as Magnet, Entertainment Weekly, Spin, and The Onion, as well as from DIY bloggers and prominent internet sites such as Pitchfork and Tiny Mix Tapes. Additionally, the record spent three weeks on the CMJ top 200 college radio chart.

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My Dear Disco

ARTIST / BAND: My Dear Disco

SONG (MP3): White Lies /Ulysses/ Love Lockdown /

ALBUM: Dancethink LP

FILE UNDER: Disco House / Techno / Funk
LABEL: Dancethink Records
INFO: Known for their distinctive, "DanceThink Music," their debut has been meet with critical acclaim since it's release in 2007, described as, ". . . at once a psychedelic exercise and a grasp at the Top 40," (CD Reviews.com), "Ultimately the successful delivery of  many musical variables, tastes, and influences into one final product  . . . " (The Sentinal-Tribune), and " . . . from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to Daft Punk and Tom Waits." (The Battle Creek Enquirer).
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Maximilian Hecker

ARTIST / BAND: Maximilian Hecker

MP3s: The End Of Longing

ALBUM: One Day

FILE UNDER: Pop / Alternative / Acoustic

LABEL: Louisville Records

INFO: After a long journey, Berlin-Mitte's favourite adopted son Maximilian Hecker finds his way back home. In his luggage: a new record. His fifth studio album called "One Day". Where the hell did Maximilian Hecker hang around? In Asia. His personal interpretation of "Big in Japan" became "Big in Taiwan, China and Korea". This might sound strange at first, but it certainly makes a lot of sense. Hecker's pop is characterized by two constant components: his musical proximity to british music like Radiohead or Oasis and his lyrical proximity to german romantic modernity. This combination falls on fertile grounds in traditionally und culturally sentimental Asia.

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