Jail Weddings

ARTIST / BAND: Jail Weddings

MP3: I Thought You Were Someone I Knew

ALBUM: Love Is Lawless

FILE UNDER: Melodramatic Popular Song / Pop / Soul

LABEL: play white noise

INFO: Love Is Lawless the new album from Jail Weddings that the LA Weekly calls “a big, fine mess of weepy, quavering, hiccupy hurtin’ hurt, plowed through with a way-tough punk-rock theatricality and welcome good humor” is out today! Get it on-sale for only $7.69 (until 11/1) from Insound, with every order receiving a bonus CD containing songs from Jail Weddings first two out-of-print 7″ singles as well as a live cover of The Cramps’ “Beautiful Gardens”.

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Los Coming Soon

Latest tracks by Los coming soon

La Resistance

ARTIST / BAND: La Resistance

MP3: Understanding / Isolation

ALBUM: Philosophy

FILE UNDER: Rock, Indie, Pop

LABEL: Superphonic Records

INFO: La Resistance is the brainchild of Greg Summerlin, who after releasing several solo albums on Superphonic Records formed the new Birmingham, Alabama band with three friends that have played with him over the past several years. The band's debut album, "Philosophy", will be released through Superphonic Records this February and recalls various musical influences from the last three decades. Greg is joined by Wil Drake on drums (formerly of Moses Mayfield - Columbia Records), Jake Blount on bass and Erin Tumlin on keys and vocals.

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RYAT

ARTIST / BAND: RYAT

MP3: "Superficial Friction"

ALBUM: Avant Gold

FILE UNDER: Indie / Live Electronics

LABEL: Obvious Bandits

INFO: Ryat is a cutting-edge producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, who transfers her compositions into an improvisation based live looping project featuring guitarist/composer Tim Conley.  Compared to artist like Panda Bear and Bjork, Ryat's multidimensional musical approach is an array of effects processed raw organic pop.

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The Caribbean

ARTIST / BAND: The Caribbean

MP3: Mr. Let's Find Out / Outskirts

ALBUM: Discontinued Perfume

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Hometapes

INFO: Quite possibly the best demo we will ever receive came in the mail from our nation's capital thanks to The Caribbean. Originally in D.C. area bands Townies and Smart Went Crazy, the boys followed up their astounding album on Tomlab and Endearing (History's First Know-It-All) by coming to Hometapes and recording the William of Orange EP with studio collaborator Chad Clark (Beauty Pill / Silver Sonya Studios). After a few brief tours on America's coasts they have returned with Plastic Explosives, again recorded with Chad Clark and at their own home studio. They consistently amaze us with their musical knowledge, witty charm, epic email threads, and skill at navigating the murky waters where pop and not-pop collide. They make lovely house guests and would love to play your local venue at the nearest convenience.

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ALSO

ARTIST / BAND: ALSO

MP3: True

ALBUM: Music Belongs In The Background

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Indie / Rock

LABEL: s/r

INFO: Los Angeles natives, ALSO, will release their third full-length Music Belongs In the Background on February 22, 2011.

In many ways, the guys from ALSO are an anti-rock band. Drew Conrad, Scotland Stephenson, and Mark Zelen are all self-proclaimed neat freaks with families and day jobs. They don’t have tattoos. They don’t do drugs. They take naps.

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Snowblink

ARTIST / BAND: Snowblink

MP3: Ambergris

ALBUM: Long Live

FILE UNDER: folk, pop

LABEL: Fire Records

INFO: Recently back from a six-week US tour opening for Owen Pallett, Snowblink‘s debut album Long Live, is now available on Fire Records, in conjunction with a European tour centered around The Sounds Quixotic festival in Vevey Switzerland.

Currently a Toronto-based duo comprised of Daniela Gesundheit (Bruce Peninsula) and Dan Goldman, the line-up of Snowblink past has been known to expand to include other extended-community members — MGMT, Nat Baldwin (Dirty Projectors), Frank Lyon (Keepaway), Caley Monahon-Ward (Extra Life), and fellow Fire artist Ryan Driver among them.

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SISTER CRAYON

ARTIST / BAND: SISTER CRAYON

MP3: I'm Still The Same Person / I'm Still The Same Person (Free The Robots remix)

ALBUM: Bellow

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Manimal Vinyl

INFO: Something small and quiet at first, Sister Crayon began with vocalist Terra Lopez playing classical guitar and pre-programmed beats on a loop pedal to attentive house crowds. With the addition of members Dani Fernandez (MPC 1000 and Microkorg), Nicholas Suhr (Drums and Percussion) and Jeffrey LaTour  (Keyboards, Synths, Guitars, etc.),  Sister Crayon has emerged as a four-piece whose emotional live performances along with their styles of ambience, hip-hop, and “hysteria” have created a stir with their EP release, “Enter Into Holy (or)ders”. With their debut LP entitled “Bellow” set to be released February 28th, 2011, Sister Crayon spreading the word of their music any and every way possible.

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Loch Lomond

ARTIST / BAND: Loch Lomond

MP3: "Blue Lead Fences" , "Elephants & Little Girls "

ALBUM: Little Me Will Start A Storm

FILE UNDER: Experimental / Folk / Pop

LABEL: Tender Loving Empire

INFO: After a string of head-turning, critically acclaimed releases on Hush Records, Portland's Loch Lomond is bringing their unique brand of raw symphonic chamber pop to the growing Portland label/media arts collective/store/gallery, Tender Loving Empire. Responsible for recent releases from the likes of Y La Bamba, Typhoon, Jared Mees & The Grown Children and more, Loch Lomond has slated their much anticipated second full length 'Little Me Will Start A Storm' for release on Tuesday, February 22nd. The album was mixed by Adam Selzer (who has recorded all of M Ward's records), Tucker Martine (Laura Veirs, The Decemberists), and Kevin Robinson (of Viva Voce). The stunning track

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Marthas & Arthurs

Torpedo

ARTIST / BAND: Torpedo

MP3: Waiting For The Fall [Single Version]

ALBUM: WE

FILE UNDER: krautpop, alternative, electronic

Waiting For The Fall [Single Version] by flagstone

INFO: Torpedo play kraut influenced electronic alternative rock/pop. The band call it Krautpop. A Swedish music blog recently described Torpedo as a mix between Miike Snow and The Knife which could be a good description. Torpedo just finished their second album "We", produced by Christoffer Berg, first single "Waiting For The Fall" is released February 14th and album April 29th.

25 years of Giant Sand

ARTIST / BAND: Giant Sand

MP3s: "Graveyard"(from Ballad Of A Thin Line Man)

            "Uneven Light Of Day"(from Storm)

            "Valley Of Rain"(from Valley of Rain) 

ALBUM: Giant Sand back catalog

FILE UNDER: IAlternative / Americana / Indie

LABEL: fire records

INFO: 2010 marked the 25th anniversary of Valley Of Rain - the debut album by Giant Sand, the ever-shifting alternative rock band overseen by "the Godfather of Alt. Country" Howe Gelb. With that in mind, the band will spend the next year celebrating in the only way they know how: with a flurry of great music! There is a special one-off show at the City Winery in New York City tomorrow, February 1st!  The newest Giant Sand album,Blurry Blue Mountain, will be released on vinyl tomorrow, as well.

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Mathew Sawyer And The Ghosts

ARTIST / BAND: Mathew Sawyer And The Ghosts

MP3: "Myna Birds Call"

ALBUM: How Snakes Eat

FILE UNDER: Indie, Pop

LABEL: Fire Records

INFO: If you were to make maps of the human voice, Mathew Sawyer is someone you'd balk at starting with. A vocal cartographer would have an easier ride with an X-Factor pop vocalist. The resultant sketch would be of somewhere abstract, featureless and dull. A moneybound R&B diva might lead to an Ordinance Survey Map of a smooth and well functioning future city with symmetrical civic parks and equidistant train stations. The growl of a death metal bellower would reveal itself in a landscape of Tolkienesque volcanoes, castles and dragons lairs.

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SuprA! ft. 1ino1eum - Musique Mécanique

SuprA! ft. 1ino1eum - Musique Mécanique by 1ino1eum

Sun Wizard

ARTIST / BAND: Sun Wizard

MP3: World's Got A Handle

ALBUM: Positively 4th Avenue

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Grunge / Powerpop

LABEL: Light Organ

INFO: Sun Wizard are your favorite band from when you were in high school, back when the whole world was a little bigger and everything you touched was a bit more golden. You knew all the words to their songs, you bought every last one of their records, and rushed out to the record store every time their new single came on the radio. They were the soundtrack to that endless summer, and they colored your adolescent fever with the helpless optimism that everything was going to be just fine.

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ZOEY VAN GOEY

ARTIST / BAND: ZOEY VAN GOEY

MP3: The Cake And Eating It

ALBUM: PROPELLER VERSUS WINGS

FILE UNDER: Experimental / Other / Pop

LABEL: CHEMIKAL UNDERGROUND

INFO: Zoey Van Goey are an indie pop band from Glasgow, Scotland, made up of Matt Brennan, Michael John McCarthy, Kim Moore and Adam Scott. Brennan, McCarthy and Moore, hailing from Canada, Ireland and England respectively, formed the initial trio in Glasgow in 2006, with Scott becoming a fully-fledged member in 2010.

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Jeniferever

ARTIST / BAND: Jeniferever

MP3: Waifs And Strays

ALBUM: Silesia

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Gothic

LABEL: Monotreme Records

INFO: Monotreme Records is very proud to be releasing ‘Spring Tides’, the second full-length album by Jeniferever.
Jeniferever is a 4-piece band from Uppsala, Sweden. They have previously released 4 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.
Some have compared their sound to the physical beauty of their native country, with its aural landscapes of slow-paced melodies which build to orchestral-like climaxes.

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Jeniferever 'Waifs & Strays' by Monotreme Records

Nightlands Drops

ARTIST / BAND:  Nightlands Drops

MP3s: "Suzerain (A Letter to the Judge)" / "300 Clouds"

ALBUM: Forget The Mantra

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: secretly canadian

INFO: Nightlands is the recording project of Philadelphia-based multi-instrumentalist Dave Hartley. The music he creates in his bedroom is itself a bed of delicate, chiming strings and bubbling synths beneath a blanket of choral vocal arrangements. It's dreamy in the literal sense -- the seeds for the album were sown when Hartley began archiving musical ideas that occurred in his sleep with a simple bedside tape recorder. As a result his debut album Forget the Mantra is, in essence, a field recording of Hartley's dreams -- a travel journal through pop music and a collection of psych-hymns from the first human lunar colony. The songs sound both huge and intimate, breathy and cavernous like massive echoes of a faraway concert. It's the big, shadow music from just across the lake.

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All Tiny Creatures

ARTIST / BAND: All Tiny Creatures

MP3: An Iris

ALBUM: Harbors

FILE UNDER: Electroacoustic / Minimalist / Rock

LABEL: Hometapes

INFO: Stacked melodies, distorted organs, stretched chords, reimagined vocals: Collections of Colonies of Bees/ Volcano Choir multi-instrumentalist Thomas Wincek drops his Emotional Joystick handle for the glorious themes of All Tiny Creatures. ATC's debut release is Segni, a vinyl-only document of four engrossing instrumentals that kindle the fire of something-like-Krautrock through the lens of both rigid methodolgy and a wholehearted embrace of rhythm and its unpredictable results.

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All Tiny Creatures - An Iris Mixtape SIDE A

All Tiny Creatures - An Iris Mixtape SIDE B

Modern Skirts

ARTIST / BAND: Modern Skirts
SONG (MP3): "DUI" / Modern Skirts -- "Rebecca St. Claire" / "Happy 81" / "Bumper Car"
ALBUM: Happy 81
FILE UNDER: Alternative / Indie / Pop
LABEL: s/r
INFO: Modern Skirts’ Happy 81 EP marks a stark contrast to their previous records. The band flexed its pop muscle on the debut record, Catalogue of Generous Men, and their sophomore effort, All Of Us In Our Night, found the band starting to push its own boundaries.  The Happy 81 EP and the forthcoming full length record (tentatively scheduled for a November 9th release date) both have their origins in singer Jay Gulley’s bedroom four track cassette recordings. Through the years, while Modern Skirts was touring and recording their studio albums, hundreds of cassette demos were being recorded in the off time. These songs were purely for enjoyment, never to be heard by anyone outside of the band. This is a rare treat.  A peak into the fetal stages of many of the songs that will see their finished versions on the soon to be released full length. read more from the source...