we all know that i'm the best about posting to the blog, especially when it comes to my well thought out little entries about the album/artist. anyways, conor posted the single bicycles one time and this really nice girl on last.fm just shared the album with me!

kind of m83/ariel pink? more m83 though. idk, i'll let you decide

https://www.yousendit.com/download/YkxKd0VHRStEbUpFQlE9PQ

His Name Is Alive - Home Is In Your Head

dream pop. fuckwin. listen. dream. sleep. keep listening.
this album is close to perfect.

"pornography" by the cure

under-appreciated by cure-heads and seemingly sidestepped by newbies, pornography represents the cure at their very best, and ultimately the furthest away from pop they would ever stray. desperate, primal, and altogether sinister, it's one of the 80's seminal albums.

"exploding head" by a place to bury strangers
their new record! tags: shoegaze, noise, post-punk. yeaaaaah.

Post-Rock Post-Post

Dreary days really put me in a post-rock mood, and since it's been raining for the better part of the last month, might as well post what I've been playing.

Sharks Keep Moving has been my favorite rainy day/night driving band for the last four years or so. With great off-time playing, sparse vocals perfectly placed, and all around fantastic instrumentation, it's really worth a listen. Jake from Minus the Bear is the vocalist of SKM, and he really does a great job.

Sharks Keep Moving

Desert Strings and Drifters

Pause and Clause

Everything is Made in China kind of came out of nowhere for me. I was in some random chat where some dudes were talking about their first EP that they were really proud of, and linked it to everyone in the room. I downloaded it and was amazed with how damn good these dudes were. I asked them the obvious few questions, their name and where they were from. It ended up being EIMIC, a group of dudes from russia who just liked the music they played. Great melodies, fantastic vocals(english oddly enough) that aren't stressed but play into the overall song, and just an overall great sound.

4

Everything is Made in China

Mexico 1910 is a very hard band to find, or get ahold of. Their EP doesn't have any album art, neither does their new album. I only have their EP but give me a day or so and I'll have their album, which is also a great listen. Their EP sounds like the darker heavier moments of Godspeed, with their own twist. They keep it interesting, and cut out all the fat and keep the delicious meat.

Sharpen Your Crutches

o hay

look down here vvvvvvv



Tinariwen-Imidiwan

New album from the finest African act making music today. Effff that Very Best shit, this here's the real deal. Easily one of the best albums this year. Nothing short of beautiful.



Silk Flowers-Silk Flowers

Upcoming stars from Brooklyn, sad to see so little love from our neck of the woods. This is an oddly unique album, very dark, very mysterious. Reminds me of the fantastic Teenage Panzerkorps but with synths.



Many Mansions-Return To Source

Wonderful worldly musings, like el guincho's first album, with a bit of high places and AC's sung tongs. lush sound scapes with tribal drums and chants. oh so excellent.

xoxoxoxoxo
-james.

Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

Early 90s sounding twinkly emo with warbly guitars and vocals, in the vein of the emo revolution/revival stuff that's been happening. If you enjoy bands like American Football, Mineral, and Sunny Day Real Estate, this is really going to tickle your fancy.

Year of the Rabbit 7"

When the Sea Became a Giant

Happy Hollows

I first became aware of Happy Hollows in 2007 when they were the Los Angeles support for Why? and I immediately noted them as a band to watch with their raucous, noise pop and exciting live performance. I picked up two of their EPs: SELF-TITLED from 2007 and BUNNIES & BOMBS from 2006. Since then, Happy Hollows have been cutting their teeth as featured support for bands as different as Deerhoof and Silversun Pickups and in 2008 they added a third EP IMAGINARY. These three EPs should be an excellent primer for their upcoming self-released debut LP, currently scheduled for September 2009. The most notable tracks here are the insanely catchy "Monster Room," "Vietnam," and "Tambourine" in which lead-singer Sarah Negahdari sings about romantic woes with a young Republican who looks like Billy Corgan.

The Three EPs (Bunnies & Bombs, Happy Hollows, Imaginary EP) are available below. Please support the artist if you enjoy them.

try it

AUS but not australia

i knew i liked this as soon as the first song started
felt like i was on the beach
the rest of the songs don't really sound like that so far
but i still like it, makes me wiggle around in a good way
last.fm labels them as:
ambient, idm, electronica, japanese, electronic
not usually my thing but i am really enjoying it,
so maybe it is my thing and i didn't know it yet?
i see myself using some of this for choreography in the near future

Favorite Track: What's Eating You

Aus - Antwarps

Little Walter

Delta Blues. The Jimi Hendrix of the harmonica. Lived life hard as fuck, and died at the age of 37. There is a lot of cool shit to know about this guy if you feel like looking into it.
Do you want to know why I play harmonica? Listen to the man who revolutionized the way I listen to and create music. kthx

Get it here

everybody knows guy in the back seat doesn't have a cock

well my kristy darling inspired me to post this.
this is my favorite soundtrack.
it's magical and fun.
also one of my favorite movies so if you haven't seen it yet...do so immediately.
mediafire for kweestie

since we're all lovers

i love movie sountracks/scores and thought this was fun. the person who posted the mediafire link had a much cuter blog post haha i'll show you





enjoy!!

Rushmore Soundtrack

sunny day real estate !

following the absolutely fantastic news of their much anticipated full reunion, i've come to realize way too many people have overlooked this band. jeremy enigk brings so much emotion to the table, it's absolutely brilliant. check these out, diary and the pink album are my faves. and see them on tour. xoxoxo.


Diary (1994)

LP2 (The Pink Album)(1995)


How It Feels To Be Something On (1998)

The Rising Tide (2000)

Castanets - Cathedral

Basically, why the fuck don't you have this? Uh, describe. My all-time favorite album. Taken from last.fm: The music has been described as gothic country, avant-garde indie, psychedelic neo-folk, and a slew of other labels. Fundamentally, the music of Castanets is built on the clash between traditional music styles (folk, country) and modern intuition (avant-garde, psychedelia).
Seriously, my favorite album of all time. FUCKING GARABE IT!

kristy take two!

soooo, landon's dear friend ian posted a video about his silly cat and had some pretty cute xylophone music playing in the background.. so here it is !!

(posted by accident) (but works quite well i suppose) ahaha

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wm42ml42wyk

fresh off the waffle iron

i figured this would be my moment to post in the blog since i never would otherwise.

i can't even find an image!?!? haha actually this one works since i saw them perform at the natural history museum last. enjoy!
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wm42ml42wyk

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jn2cnntdnjt

Gotye - Like Drawing Blood (2007)

Australia trip-hop. May not sound like much, but what if i were to tell you this is what would have happened if Beth Gibbons was a dude?...influences so varied, i'd insult you all by trying to list them. Great album full stop, but an absolute joy if you're chemically influenced, or to hell with it...ALWAYS.

Treat Yourself...

Anni Rossi - Rockwell

Bastard lovechild of Regina Spektor and Final Fantasy. Not really all that much to say...could be wrong, but i think it was recorded at Electric Audio with Steve Albini. Really nice, chilled multi-instrumentals (mostly violin)

http://www.mediafire.com/?ymr0eytzjwn

Junior Boys

sssexy-ass music.

cop it

Colossal

I was looking at my friend's last.fm page one day and saw he was listening to Colossal, which was really weird since my middle school band teacher was in Colossal. Anyway, it reminded me of how much i loved/love them and I've been listening to them again and I think you guys should too!

Includes members from:

The Smoking Popes

Slapstick
Tuesday
Duvall
The Lawrence Arms
The Falcon
Seedy Sea Controversy
The Heavens.

labeled as indie, math rock, emo, indie rock, post-rock

Colossal - Brave the Elements EP



Colossal - Welcome the Problems

Jeff Hanson - Self Titled (2005)

I really wanted to get this out. Jeff Hanson died in his apartment in Minneapolis a few weeks ago. I enjoyed his songs. His voice is a bit high pitched and often mistaken for a girls. Many would compare him to Elliott Smith.

Get it here

Pictureplane

Pictureplane - Slit Red Bird Throat
I love this album. It's really enjoyable. Pictureplane has done remixes of HEALTH, which are not quite as good, but on his own he is a monster.
It makes wading through all the other lo-fi indie electronic garbage worth it, which would be he bio I posted on last.fm


down down down, we're all a little lonely

The Littlest Viking

Guitar/drums math rocky goodness. Definitely cop this album.

Download

Alberta Cross - The Theif and The Heartbreaker

shits hot. nuff said. low man is one of my favorite tunes.

http://www.last.fm/music/Alberta+Cross

download it hurrr

Infinite Body-White Hymn

The world of drone and ambience is full of mystery, you never quite know what sounds will soon enter your ears. I ask you not to be afraid of Infinite Body. In White Hymn, Kyle Park creates beautiful organic soundscapes, then paints them in every which way. As if his wires and gadgets are counting sheep. A journey in abstract experimentation, Parker brings such a gentle distortion to many songs that is never too harsh and always whimsical. Please check out this stunning album and let it take you on an ethereal journey.

Download

a weather

I just downloaded this tonight and i'm already on my third listen. So enjoyable and soothing, plus look at that chick. Anyway here's something about them actually worth reading.
Oh and Team Love Records...so...obviously $$$

"A postcard from the green and gray environs of Portland, Cove ismoody and warm, rife with odes of looming loss, hopeful notes to self and hushed revelations that speak directly to the yearning heart. Produced by Adam Selzer (M. Ward, The Decemberists, Norfolk and Western), the songs on Cove are marked with an intimacy so striking that it feels like you’re eavesdropping on the pillow talk of two forlorn lovers. Indeed, this is music to curl up with.

At the core of A Weather’s warm, soft-spoken sounds are the comely vocals of frontman / singer / songwriter Aaron Gerber and singer/drummer Sarah Winchester. With remarkable restraint and understated delivery, their harmonies trace each other, cross paths, diverge and intertwine, undercutting the gravity of AWeather’s material. “In one way Cove is a catalogue of closely observed moments and particulars,” says Gerber. “In another it is an oddly inspirational document of transience and entropy and trying to keep yourself together when things are falling apart.”

Cove swells with layers of sound (organs, Mellotron, percussion) and then drifts downward into moments of sparse acoustic guitar or a single piano. Winchester’s drumming (using only an upturned bass drum, a snare and a cymbal) is rock solid, uncluttered and highly musical. Meanwhile, guitarist Zach Boyle’s meandering, sinewy lines of electric guitar have been compared to a babbling brook – and why argue with that?"

A Weather - Cove

Random Violence - Jak Progresso

relentless in its psychopathic vision. the only formally released album by hip-hop artist jak progresso.

Seal Cub Clubbing Club - Super Science Fiction

Re-up not so much by popular demand, but my bonnie's demand...

I am mad about these guys...post punk/alt-rock loveliness from 4 livepool dudes with one of the finest crafted names in music history. Compared to the fall, not really fairly but there's definitely something quirky and yummy about them...great lyrics too...these guys should be enormous by summer's end...



The Seal Cub Clubbing Club - Super Science Fiction

HARLEM

"Last year Harlem, an Austin based group, released their frantically exciting debut record title Free Drugs. The album has all the right components of garage rock, with the drums bleeding into jangly guitars and some great harmonies over the energetic and frenzied songs. The highlight is the first song released from the album, a pulsing and rhythmically dense song called “South of France” that has a great melody hidden beneath some fuzzy vocals and tinny guitars, just like our recently freed heroes at their very best. While the production on Free Drugs, which even at “garage rock” standards is pretty loose, has many more highs than it does lows (and has some great song titled like “I’m on Drugs” and “Psychedelic Tits”) it is a great album that lays the groundwork for the band to make a huge splash in the very near future."

Harlem - Free Drugs

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