Sóley

 

ARTIST / BAND: Sóley
SONG (MP3): I´ll Drown
ALBUM: We Sink
FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: morr music

INFO: This is the debut EP by Sóley Stefánsdóttir, a 23 year old girl from Reykjavik, student of composition and a member of the Icelandic indie-collective Seabear - it's the debut of a singer and a dreamer: Six songs held together by Sóleys piano play and her voice - because every of her compositions come into being while she is singing to the piano. Sóley loves this: by her own account she's actually singing all day long. On 'Theater Island' she uses a lot of instruments though: Strings, guitars or just some electronic crackles and noises.read more from the source...

Gregory Scott Slay

ARTIST / BAND: Gregory Scott Slay

SONG (MP3): Keep It Secret

ALBUM: Horsethief Beats

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Communicating Vessels

INFO: In his final public statement the late Gregory Scott Slaypronounced,

“Horsethief Beats is now marching on ether towards you. I invite you to drop in for a listen. ! am grateful that i have completed this piece of work and would like to share it with all peoples creatures.peace, strength, & clarity gregory slay”

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Scuba

ARTIST / BAND: Scuba 
SONG (MP3): M.A.R.S. (Machinedrum Remix)
ALBUM :DJ-Kicks
FILE UNDER: Electro,  remix,
LABEL: !k7
The one thing that Paul Rose, better known as Scuba, really doesn’t want you to do is to try and pin him down. His roots are in London’s dubstep scene, but he lives in the techno metropolis of Berlin. His music is located at some unspecified point between those two cities - bass heavy, sparse, full of atmosphere and with propulsive rhythms, but above all impossible to define. His label, Hotflush, is one of dubstep’s spiritual homes, with releases by Distance, Benga and Mount Kimbie, but it also has that hard-to-categorize quality Warp had in the ’90s. He is, in a word, a maverick.

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Arcade Fire & Neil Young - Helpless

 
 

Zambri

ARTIST / BAND: Zambri
SONG (MP3): Heather
ALBUM: Glossolalia
FILE UNDER: vocal, Indie, dark, experimental, pop
LABEL: kanine records
INFO: For a first introduction into the world of Cristi Jo & Jessica Zambri, Kanine Records will be releasing Zambri’s debut EP “Glossolalia” on Nov. 8, 2011.
Zambri mixes experimental beats and dueling female vocals with captivating melodies to create unromantic love songs. Filled with gothic and avant-garde pop vocals, the songs might sound familiar, like a lost Siouxsie and the Banshees or Kate Bush classic, but they manage to bring it to an altogether new place. As if remixed by Gang Gang Dance, Zambri lands perfectly amid contemporaries Health, Grimes, Lykke Li, and The Knife.read more from the source... 

Feist

ARTIST / BAND: Feist
SONG (MP3): Pine Moon
ALBUM: Metals
FILE UNDER: folk, indie, pop, singer songwriter,
LABEL: Arts &Crafts
INFO: Metals is the fourth studio album by Feist, released on September 30, 2011 in Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and Belgium; October 3, 2011 in the United Kingdom; and October 4, 2011 in the United States and Canada.^[1][2][3]. Promotion for the album began with short viral videos which featured snippets of tracks and making of the album which featured on her website and other social networking sites. Artwork for the album was revealed on August 2, 2011^[4], previously fans were given the opportunity to select the color design for the album cover, the overall winner was announced on her facebook page. It was announced on August 12, 2011 the first single from the album is "How Come You Never Go There"^[5]. The single was released in late September 2011. On September 26, 2011 the album leaked onto the Internet.
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My Brightest Diamond

ARTIST / BAND: My Brightest Diamond 
SONG (MP3): Reaching Through to the Other Side 
ALBUM: All Things Will Unwind
FILE UNDER:
LABEL: asthmatic kitty
INFO: As impressive as her list of recent collaborators, Shara Worden’s voice and arresting live performances have left audiences thunderstruck from the Sydney Opera house to Lincoln Center to the House of Blues.  She’s performed under the experimental-pop moniker My Brightest Diamond for the last seven years, and counts Bryce Dressner (The National), The Decemberists, Bon Iver,David Byrne and Laurie Anderson among friends and fans. They are just a few of the many who’ve fallen in love with Worden’s mystical voice and mythic storytelling. read more from the source...

Other free mp3:

"Reaching Through to the Other Side" All Things Will Unwind (Download)

"Be Brave (Prefuse 73 Remix)" Be Brave (Download)

"Ice & The Storm (DM Stith Remix)" Shark Remixes(Download)

"Inside a Boy (Son Lux)" Shark Remixes (Download)

"To Pluto's Moon (Son Lux)" Shark Remixes (Download)

"Manzanas (Roberto C. Lange)" Shark Remixes(Download)

"Gold Chains - Freakout" Tear It Down (Download)

"Alias - Golden Star" Tear It Down (Download)

"Something of an End" Bring Me The Workhorse(Download)

Communicating Vessels

Communicating Vessels is proud to present part two of the lavishly packaged 7" vinyl recordings of secret songwriters from the southeast. While being of a limited-edition, these songs will have an enduring quality that will likely spread beyond this little corner or the world.

The Grenadines - "Shake"

Preston Lovinggood - "Duncan"

Green Seed - "Crack Kills"

 

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Inspired and the Sleep

Little Red

ARTIST / BAND: Little Red 
SONG (MP3): "Get A Life" 
ALBUM: Midnight Remember
FILE UNDER:pop, Rock, 
LABEL:true panther
INFO:Melbourne’s Little Red have been away a while, growing up, growing down, tasting the sweet and the bittersweet in equal measures. The band now returns with the historically ‘difficult’ second album, but in this particular case they have delivered an album that is truly a quantum leap in songwriting and production. It is an inverse manifestation of the natural rock’n’roll order that stumps so many. Midnight Remember is a true accomplishment and a marked and impressive step forward in craft for primary songwriter Dominic Byrne. In the last 6 months the album has found an amazing breadth of fans in the band’s native Australia and on 10.25 it will finally see it’s remastered (with bonus tracks) release in the United States and Canada. read more from the source...

Cargo Collective Free Compilation

download the compilation with featuring Artery, Blanche Hudson Weekend, Blueneck, Darren Hayman, Extra Classic, Giant Sand, Lafaro, Muck and the Mires, Piney Gir, Psychic Ills, Reigns and Siskiyou here

 

Graveface Records

Graveface Records

 

Monotreme Records

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Keith Kenniff's (aka Helios)

ARTIST / BAND: Keith Kenniff's (aka Helios)
SONG (MP3): Shenandoah 
ALBUM: All Will Prosper
FILE UNDER: Minimal, Post-Classical 
LABEL: Western Vinyl
INFO: Keith Kenniff is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and electronic music producer. He composes ambient/electronic music under the moniker Helios and post-classical piano music under Goldmund (the latter’s music once described by no less an authority than Ryuichi Sakamoto as “…so, so, so beautiful…”). He is also half of the indie band Mint Julep, and ambient project "Hollie & Keith Kenniff". Keith is also a composer for film, television, dance and performance art. In 2010 he began the record label Unseen.
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EXITMUSIC

ARTIST / BAND: EXITMUSIC

MP3: "The Sea"

ALBUM: From Silence

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: secretly canadian

INFO: Sometimes, listening to Exitmusic, it's hard to tell exactly whether the goosebumps you're getting are from the parts that are chillingly beautiful and melodic or the ones that are aching and guttural. Or further, the ones that are creepily sparse and disembodied. The New York City duo -- Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church -- doesn't care when the chill runs down your spine, they just hope their music provokes some kind of primal feeling. Church explains, "It's like what Aleksa sings at the end of 'The Sea': 'And you turn your back to life... Oh, sorrow.' We want our music to confront people in a gentle but powerful way, to make them feel something."

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EXITMUSIC - "The Hours" from stereogum on Vimeo.

Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun

ARTIST / BAND: Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun

MP3: We Were Wild

ALBUM: WILDFIRE

FILE UNDER: Electro / Indie / Rock

LABEL: Greyday Records

INFO: I’ve always been a bit ambivalent about Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun. On the one hand, their dance-infused electro rock tunes have always been well-constructed and easy on the ears. On the other, their music has always had an air of timidity about it, lacking in bite and urgency. But all that may change with the release of their upcoming full-length, Wildfire, due out May 7th. The band recently posted the album’s opening track and lead single, “We Were Wild,” to their Soundcloud page and while all the familiar elements remain — the pulsating synths, the punchy percussion, the fuzz-ridden bass and effects-laden guitars — there is a tenacity to the track, both in the music and in Lauren Gibson’s vocals, that has been lacking in prior efforts. There’s also an aura of bigness to the song, a swelling grandiosity that feels neither forced nor overbearing. It remains to be seen what the rest of Wildfirehas in store for us, but if the rest of the album can measure close to “We Were Wild,” you can count me among the believers.

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Latest tracks by TodaytheMoon

Sleepy Vikings

ARTIST / BAND: Sleepy Vikings
MP3: Calm / Flashlight Tag/ Calm (Peace & Quiet Mix) by her space holiday
ALBUM: They Will Find You Here
FILE UNDER: Indie / Shoegaze / Southern Rock
LABEL: new granada
INFO: Sleepy Vikings had only been together for two months when we were offered our first show… with the Vivian Girls. We were excited, terrified, and about four songs short of a full setlist. We accepted the show and spent two weeks frantically writing and having nightmares about the Vivian Girls laughing at us.
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THE PAUSES

ARTIST / BAND: THE PAUSES

MP3s: Go North / Hands Up

ALBUM: A Cautionary Tale

FILE UNDER: Electronica / Indie / Rock

LABEL: New Granada

INFO: Despite amassing a following, scene status, and praise from regional press right out of the gate, Orlando indie-rock band The Pauses released their debut album A Cautionary Tale after only about, oh, TWO YEARS of existence. The official excuse is something about wanting do to things "properly." So they saved money through a successful Kickstarter campaign (a marvel since their fans' bank accounts have a perfectly inverse relationship with their obvious wealth in taste) spurred by a cute handmade video (http://vimeo.com/10712285) and headed up to Baltimore to record this bad boy with the legendary J. Robbins (Jawbox, Burning Airlines), even enlisting three-quarters of the dude's own band. His wife too? Sure, why not.

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James Vincent McMorrow

ARTIST / BAND: James Vincent McMorrow

MP3: Wicked Game

FILE UNDER: Folk / Pop

LABEL: Vagrant Records

INFO: James Vincent McMorrow is an Irish folk music singer-songwriter. His debut album Early in the Morning was released in February, 2010.^[1] He wrote the album during a self-imposed seclusion in a beach house in Ireland.^[2] His music has been compared to Bon Iver,^[3] Sufjan Stevens,^[4] and Ray LaMontagne.^[5] Tracks from Early in the Morning have already been used in American television programs.^[6] He was nominated for the Hope for 2009 Award at the 2009 Meteor Awards, but ultimately lost to Wallis Bird.^[7]

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Latest tracks by jamesvmcmorrow

Like A Stuntman

ARTIST / BAND: Like A Stuntman

MP3: Yesterday Euphoria

ALBUM: YOY

FILE UNDER: Indietronic, Krautpop

LABEL: bureau-b

INFO: These four gentlemen play eccentric weird folk electro-kraut-melodic indie rock like you never heard before. Their first release on Bureau B ("Original Bedouin Culture", released 2009) was highly acclaimed by the critics ("krautrock for the post Radiohead generation", see below). The band had raised the bar to dizzying heights on their first album – with "YOY" they have risen even higher.

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Like A Stuntman - Yesterday Euphoria by Bureau B

 

yesterday euphoria from like a stuntman on Vimeo.