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Real Estate (top) & Woods (bottom) About Real Estate "Real Estate waft in on vibes of hazy summers past.  The New Jersey quartet of Martin Courtney IV, Matthew Mondanile III, Etienne Pierre Duguay and Alex Bleeker cut the sleeves short and the pop smooth to shade you from the midday heat.  Every song works its wa...

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December 15, 2009 // Toronto, ON – Calgary’s Woodpigeon has announced a Winter tour of Canada that includes record release celebrations in Vancouver and Calgary in January and Ontario/Quebec dates in February in support of Die Stadt Muzikanten which arrives in stores January 12 on Boompa. Produced by Arran Fisher (acoustickitty), the fifteen tracks on Die Stadt Muzikanten are stunning, lush and orchestral, inspired by songwr...

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Moon Duo San Francisco's Moon Duo was formed in 2009 by Sanae Yamada and Erik Johnson (Wooden Shjips). Inspired initially by the legendary duo of John Coltrane and Rashied Ali, Moon Duo counts such variant groups as Silver Apples, Royal Trux, Moolah, Suicide, and Cluster as touchstones. Utilizing primarily guitar, keyboards, percussion and vocals, the duo plays space against form to create a pr...

December 9, 2009 // Toronto, ON – On the heels of what has been an ecstatic start to the holiday season, last night's second installment of the third annual Jason Collett’s Basement Revuesaw Collett debut songs from his forthcoming album Rat A Tat Tat, to a sold out and enthusiastic crowd. Arts & Crafts is excited to announce details for the new album from Toronto-based Jason Collett, set for official release on March 9, 2010 in North America.

Mixed by Robbie Lackritz...

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MP3: "Don't Haunt This Place" -
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The Rural Alberta Advantage "Drain the Blood" is the first official single from the Hometowns LP and will be released on 7" vinyl (w/ download code) and digital formats on Jan. 12. The single includes the newly recorded B-side cover of Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger". The Rural Alberta Advantage was born out of singer / songwriter Nils Edenloff's exodus from the province that i...

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DOWNLOAD TITLE TRACK "EVERYBODY KNOWS IT'S GONNA HAPPEN, ONLY NOT TONIGHT" HERE




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This Christmas if you find no Hallmark moments, nor jewelry boxes under a tree. If you encounter a Grinch with a heart three sizes too small, or endure ghostly midnight text visits from an unrepentant Scrooge . . .                                You may conclude,    "I guess you'll be leaving me this Christmas."

"This Christmas"               by        The Elves of Hea...

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Merge Records is excited to announce that Sweden's Shout Out Louds will be releasing their new record, entitled Work, on February 23, 2010. Work is the band's third album and second for Merge. It was recorded in Seattle and produced by Phil Ek (The Shins, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses). The band has made a song from the record available for free download at the link below. The song is called "Walls."
 
http://www.mergerecords.com/audio/sol/work/walls.mp3
 
The video for "Walls" can be seen here:
 
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The Art Museums photographed by Jeff Manson The Art Museums tell sordid tales of artists, lovers & poseurs with cult new wave jangle. Bay Area psych burnouts, Josh Alper & Glenn Donaldson converged in San Francisco in the Summer of '09 to record Anglophile jams on a Tascam 388 tape machine (state of the art home-recording circa '85). ROUGH FRAME is their debut LP for the WOODSIST label. They would make a hi...

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Hold Steady and World / Inferno Friendship Society member Franz Nicolay will begin a two-week tour of Germany and Austria tomorrow with Sweden's Moneybrother. The mustachioed multi-instrumentalist is playing shows in support of his latest solo offering, St. Sebastian Of The Short Stage.

Released on November 10th, 2009 by Team Science, the four-song EP is available in both 10-inch vinyl and digital formats. The label has pressed 500 copies (200 clear, 300 black) and each record includes a f...

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MP3: "Bedroom Anthem"
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Lymbyc Systym With their new full-length, Shutter Release, Lymbyc Systym's Jared and Michael Bell are redefining what it means to be an instrumental band. The brothers make music that sings through you, and their impossibly personal vividly intimate melodies are the product of a lifetime of making music together. Seamlessly blending precision precise pop hooks, grandiose orchestration and experimental str...

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Album Snippets:

01. Little Drummer Boy
02. What A Wonderful World
03. O Come All Ye Faithful
04. Do You Hear What I Hear
05. Jungle Bells
06. Deck The Halls
07. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
08. My Favorite Things
09. Silent Night
10. Carol Of The Bells
11. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
12. Away In A Manger


Late one cold winter night, our Little Drummer Boy found himself alone in his chilly recording studio. Busting out the Jingle Bells he decided ...

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Young Heretics are set to launch their debut EP ‘The Dreamers’ in early December. The two piece will be playing with a full backing band, bringing to life the epic layers and textures that have made the 4 song EP such a hit amongst media and fans alike. Formed early in 2009, Young Heretics is the brainchild of Matthew Wright and Kitty Hart, who have found a connection through their love of warped pop and sonic invention.

Having only played a handful of shows, they were given a birth by ...

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MP3: "Baltimore Blues No. 1 (Live)" -
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Cover art for new Deer Tick EP As the title would suggest, Deer Tick's More Fuel for the Fire EP tops off an explosive 2009 for the band that released Rolling Stone's "country-rock breakthrough of the year" nine months earlier. Taken mostly from a month-long recording session in upstate New York nicknamed "The Black Dirt Sessions", More Fuel for the Fire features th...

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The Mother Hips have added dates to their 2009 Fall / 2010 Winter tour schedule. The Bay Area psych-rockers continue to tour nationally behind their brand new 11-song studio album, Pacific Dust, which reached # 82 on Billboards Heatseekers chart this week. After a recent return from the Northwest and a series of warm-up festival plays over the summer (including their own "Hipnic" Festival in Big Sur, CA) The Hips are excited to bring Pacific Dust and their "California-soul" to fans around Nor...
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Josh Mease, originally from Houston, Texas, lives in Brooklyn, where he can often be found exploring the abandoned corners of the city, finding peaceful solace in cemeteries, empty swimming pools, and abandoned waterfronts. His debut LP, Wilderness, is the result of these wanderings. It was patched together from various recording sessions in Texas, Connecticut and most notably the closet of his Brooklyn apartment, where neighbors’ loud parties, clanking pipes, and the sound of traffic on th...
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MP3: "Hellfire" -
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Yellow Fever Austin, TX band Yellow Fever play minimal art pop a la Young Marble Giants, Stereolab, and 80s Rough Trade. Formed in the summer of 2006, they have released two EPs as well as a 7" on Hugpatch records. Band members Jennifer Moore and Adam Jones coordinate as an engaged bass/vocal/drum/keyboard duo by default, though they have been periodically accompanied by additional musicians. After a summer s...

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“A Glorious Dawn” is a moving arrangement of Carl Sagan’s sagacious words culled from his magnificent “Cosmos” series. The piece initially gained recognition when composer John Boswell uploaded to YouTube his remixed Sagan dialogue edited, Auto-Tuned and put to a beat and coupled with a guest appearance by Stephen Hawking. At well over one million views, this is a project that goes far-beyond the buzz of “Internet phenomenon.”



You can download the single here plus other remix...
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Beginning on Sunday and through the month of November, PJ Bond (New Brunswick, NJ) will be touring the U.S., covering most of the East Coast and parts of the Midwest.

The ex-Outsmarting Simon front man - fresh off a two week trek across the U.K. - is playing shows in support of his latest full-length, You Didn't Know I Was Alphabetical ... not to mention the homeless / life on the road experiment formally known as the Year Of A Thousand Roommates. You can read about PJ's daily nomadic adve...

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MP3: "Cold Hands" -
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Pants Yell! Life, you will have observed, is not a series of epic epiphanies and seismic milestones, but a succession of quiet weeks and months, interrupted at rare intervals - if you're lucky - by fleeting moments of significance or grace: a new crush, a break-up, the discovery of a particularly good book or song or film, an intense conversation with a friend that you know you won't forget. Some of the best...

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Real Estate "Real Estate waft in on vibes of hazy summers past.  The New Jersey quartet of Martin Courtney IV, Matthew Mondanile III, Etienne Pierre Duguay and Alex Bleeker cut the sleeves short and the pop smooth to shade you from the midday heat.  Every song works its way to that part of your consciousness that reveled in the fleeting waves of freedom that eked in once classes broke and the sun linger...

On Friday, One Win Choice (Toms River, NJ) will embark on an extensive six-week tour of the U.S. that will take the band from coast to coast and just about everywhere in between.

Teaming up with the New Jersey five piece for a week's worth of shows leading up to the The Fest is Canada's Junior Battles. Label mates Astpai will then join One Win Choice for the remaining five weeks.

The band is touring in support of Define / Redefine, which was released as a 3-song 7" by Jump Start Records ...

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MP3: "A Beautiful Day" -
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Seven Saturdays Jonathan D. Haskell describes his brand new project: Seven Saturdays began during the FIRS sessions with Daniel Farris in East Los Angeles. I began working with Mr. Farris (engineer/producer) in December, 2007 in a small, smoke-filled room just east of the LA River where East LA meets Boyle Heights. And what began as one song ('New Hope In Soft Light'), ended up a year later as a full-l...

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Athens, GA garage rockers The Whigs are very excited to hit the road this month and premiere songs from their upcoming album, In The Dark (ATO Records). The headlining tour covers 29 cities in seven weeks and The Features, The Dead Trees and Mean Creek will support the run at different stages.
 
Set for an early 2010 release, In The Dark follows up the highly successful album Mission Control, a record that captured the raw and gritty spirit of rock n roll and had countless critics scrambling t...
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MP3: "You Ain't It" -
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DOWNLOAD - theFREEhoudini mixtape -
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Themselves Seven months after the release of theFREEhoudini - the celebrated mixtape that announced Themselves' return - Doseone and Jel will drop CrownsDown, a careful and vicious exhibition of mastered rap tactics and sampling ethics. Themselves' third album proper has been gestating in the gut of this seminal group for some time. It's ...

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Artist: Sole & The Skyrider Band

Title: Battlefields

Label: Fake Four Inc.

Genre: Hip Hop/Rock/Electronica

Just click on the album cover for the link to the free mp3 download. Also view or short review of the EP here.

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NEW VERSION OF "TESTIMONY" AVAILABLE FOR FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD

Real Estate "Real Estate waft in on vibes of hazy summers past.  The New Jersey quartet of Martin Courtney IV, Matthew Mondanile III, Etienne Pierre Duguay and Alex Bleeker cut the sleeves short and the pop smooth to shade you from the midday heat.  Every song works its way to that part of your consciousness that reveled in the fleeting waves of freedom that eked in once classes broke and the sun linger...

After a handful of east coast dates earlier this summer, Hatcham Social announces their first full-fledged US tour, with fellow Englishmen Echo & The Bunnymen.  The band is touring in support of their debut album You Dig The Tunnel, I'll Hide The Soil which was released on tbd records (home of Radiohead) and produced by Charlatans lead singer Tim Burgess.
 
Hatcham Social has drawn critical praise from Paste Magazine, who compared them to The Smiths as well as their soon-to-be-tour mates.  The ...
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MP3: "Invisible Forces" -
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The Fresh & Onlys photographed by Brian Pritchard When Tim Cohen told Shayde Sartin he was writing a song called "Be My Hooker," the Fresh & Onlys bassist looked at the singer/guitarist and said... "'There's no way we're gonna have a song with that title, dude,'" explains Sartin. "But sure enough, he laid a riff down and I was like, 'Jesus Christ, I can't believe you pulled something meaningful out o...

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Black Numbers is pleased to announce that it will release You Didn't Know I Was Alphabetical, the latest full-length from New Brunswick, NJ native and ex-Outsmarting Simon front man PJ Bond.

The album, which will be released November 10th on both vinyl and CD formats, is now up for pre-order from the label. Black Numbers will press 300 copies of the LP (100 white, 200 blue), as well as a short run (200) of hand-screened CDs with liner notes personally written by PJ. No two of these limited...

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ARTERY COVER "HEINZ," FOR FREE DOWNLOAD


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FIRST CFCF TRACK "MONOLITH," AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD
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After a year of snowballing success, Sydney three piece PHILADELPHIA GRAND JURY announce the release of their debut album HOPE IS FOR HOPERS for September 25^th 2009.

The album comes after the highly successful digital / vinyl EP, GOING TO THE CASINO EP in June of this year. The EP featured three Triple J hits including Going to the Casino (Tomorrow Night), Ready to Roll and current single – I’m Going to Kill You. All three tracks were also featured on popular TV show Underbelly: A Tale o...

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The Sydney music scene was introduced to the four inner-city lads from Sailmaker with the release of their first EP ‘Build A Fire’ back in June 2008. The release of this EP resulted in radio play on triple j, FBi and various local radio stations across the country.

Fast forward one year and Sailmaker find themselves in their own project built studio tracking not one but two EPs. With multi award winning producer Paul McKercher guiding the somewhat rocky boat, Sailmaker has finally comple...

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MP3: "Freedom" -
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Daniel Johnston Put the name 'Daniel Johnston' into any Internet search engine and you will find hundreds of pages about America's most unlikely pop phenomenon. Dating back to the earliest compilation of Songs of Pain in 1981, Johnston has spent nearly three decades exposing his heartrending tales of unrequited love, cosmic mishaps and existential torment to an ever-growing international cult audience.  As a...

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Beginning today and continuing for the next two weeks, New Jersey independent punk label, Black Numbers, will partner with Bandcamp.com to offer its entire catalog as a donation-based digital download. All albums are available in several bitrates and formats, including mp3, AAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and Apple Lossless.

To start downloading - and ideally, donating - go here. If you chose not to donate (and why should you? I mean, it's not like the label and bands dumped a ton of cash into record...

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Somewhere At The Bottom Of The River Between Vega And Altair, the critically acclaimed debut full-length from La Dispute (Grand Rapids, MI), will finally receive the vinyl pressing it deserves, courtesy of the venerable No Sleep Records.

The official street date for the double 12" release is 09/22/09, but the label is taking pre-orders now. To snag your copy, go here.

Originally released as a CD in November of 2008, the 2xLP is being pressed on brown / black and clear / black color ways,...

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MP3: "You Can Have What You Want" -
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Papercuts Papercuts' You Can Have What You Want is the newest phase in Jason Quever's ongoing pop investigations. The relatively earthbound happy-sad pop of Mockingbird & Can't Go Back is now launched into the vault of the skies. Here Quever delves further into epic, hazy pop using mostly vintage organs, pulsing bass & Kraut-via-Ringo-inspired drum rhythms. Intact from those earlier efforts are ...

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After ten years, four full-lengths, a handful of EPs, singles and comp tracks, countless DIY tours and basement shows, and a tireless dedication to an independent punk rock ethic, to boot, Nakatomi Plaza has decided to call it a day. And while there are plenty of great ways to say "goodbye" to everyone who supported your band for a decade, two of the very best include releasing one last amazing record and subsequently backing it up with a tour and a two-day fest with awesome bands and some o...

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MP3: "Which Song"
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Max Tundra Max Tundra, real name Ben Jacobs, is an English multi-instrumental musician, singer and music producer. He has released two well-received albums for Domino Records: Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be (2000) and Mastered By Guy At The Exchange (2002). He released his third album, Parallax Error Beheads You on Nov. 18, 2008 in the US.  Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) says, "What sets Max Tundra apart ...

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Lipona (Tallahassee, FL) has made its latest EP, the digital-only Pigeonholed, a lot less digital-only by pressing a CD version of the five song release. The band will have copies of the record at shows and will also sell the EP online beginning September 1st.

Pigeonholed was originally offered up by the fiery punk rock quartet as a free digital download earlier this year. It is the follow-up to Lipona's self-released and highly acclaimed 2008 debut full-length, Atlas, and is still availab...

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MP3: "Get Going" -
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Headlights photographed by Grady Highberry    Wildlife, Headlights' poignant third album, stems from particularly troubled beginnings. "It was a very difficult record," relates guitarist and songwriter Tristan Wraight. While Wraight, fellow songwriter and keyboardist Erin Fein, and drummer Brett Sanderson have been touring and recording since 2004, this year found the band as a five p...

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Check out MySpace Music's latest "Transmissions" session featuring EELS. The session was recorded at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles (a classic studio used by Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Steely Dan and many more). Four of the recordings from the MySpace "Transmissions" session are re-records from the band's latest body of work titled HOMBRE LOBO, as well as a cover of Bob Dylan's "Girl From the North Country" and the song "My Beloved Monster" from the 1996 album...
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Beginning tomorrow, Provo, Utah's Shark Speed will leave for a two week tour of the West Coast in support of its debut full-length, Sea Sick Music.

Overflowing with wonderfully tangled chords, summersaulting rhythms and vocals that easily hit all the highs without sacrificing the lows, Sea Sick Music keeps you intrigued with unexpected electronic flourishes and subtle touches of brass. Still, the unforgettable melodies and hook-filled choruses are the real show stoppers. For a debut album ...

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DOWNLOAD: Lefse Records Compilation -

We're pleased to share with you the Lefse Records FREE Fall/Winter 2009 digital compilation! Most of the artists below will be releasing albums, split 7 inches, singles, and whatnots with the label in the near future. Lefse Records is run out of a tree house in Northern California, their first release is Neon Indian's debut album, Psychic Chasms, out October 13th followed by many great artist...

Beginning tomorrow, Balance And Composure (Doylestown, PA) and Transit (Boston, MA) will join forces for a two week tour of the East Coast and Midwest in support of new releases - Only Boundaries for the former and Stay Home for the latter.

Only Boundaries is Balance And Composure's second EP and first for No Sleep Records. A smoldering, slow-burning and often explosive affair, the four-song effort was recorded at Skylight Studios by Vince Ratti (Tigers Jaw, Circa Survive, None More Black)...

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Billy Wallace marks the release of his latest musical endeavor with a string of East Coast dates. The Wading Girl front man is playing in support of his solo debut, The Road Spit Me Out, which comes out on his own Uneasy Records. Wallace will have copies of the album at shows and it's available from iTunes as well.

Wallace has spent the last six years playing in indie / folk band The Wading Girl, as well as touring in Tim Barry's backing band. The Wading Girl has released two full length a...

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MP3: "Vamos Companeros" -

Magical moments cannot be fabricated at the push of a button, they simply come to be. In the late summer of 1976 such a moment of revelation befell the musicians of Harmonia as if by chance. The band had made two albums up to then, Musik von Harmonia (1974), and Deluxe (1975). Both works are now considered classics of krautrock and electronic music; nonetheless, afterwards the creative co...

MP3: "Contour and Context" -
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Brown Recluse Brown Recluse formed in 2006 around the core of Timothy Meskers and Mark Saddlemire. Taking influence from the psych pop of The Zombies and Margo Guryan, the tropicalia of Os Mutantes, and 60s producers like Joe Meek and Phil Spector, the two recorded the bulk of the six-song Black Sunday EP. A brilliant blast of pop invention, Black Sunday easily rates as one of our favorite records of the l...

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MP3 : "Stone's Ode" -
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Mount Eerie What if the sound of wind through trees could be translated into human words?  What is it saying? For WIND'S POEM by Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum spent almost two years out behind the house, at the edge of the woods, listening into the night and finding these words.  Songs of impermanence, dark change, destruction, temporary blossoming, mortality, and an immense river of air tearing through the world...

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Thirsty Ear Recordings is excited to announce the release of DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid's latest manifesto titled "The Secret Song." Set for an Oct. 6 release, the new record marks DJ Spooky's sixth full-length album and will feature guest appearances from notable artists and musicians such as Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, The Jungle Brothers, The Coup, Rob Swift, Mike Ladd and many others. "The Secret Song" is a groundbreaking meditation on hip-hop and electronic music's relationship to ...
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Raleigh, North Carolina's Gray Young have a busy August ahead with a string of shows in the Mid-Atlantic region, as well as a live taping and interview on NPR's The State Of Things. The band is supporting their self-released debut full-length, Firmament.

Listen to "Tilling The Wind" (mp3)

Expansive in their approach but retaining brilliant brevity, Gray Young confidently defy classification. Equally gripping and immediate, Firmament runs the gamut of atmospheric rock. From ambient instru...

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MP3 - "Digital Haircut" -
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DD/MM/YYYY They don't have a name, but they now have a U.S. label to call home. Toronto, Canada's DD/MM/YYYY (there's no wrong way to say it) has signed on with Brooklyn's Impose Records to re-release their critically acclaimed third LP, Black Square, digitally and as a limited edition cassette tape on September 15th. After originally releasing Black Square in Canada in April -- where it reached nu...

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  MP3: "Datura" -
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STREAM: More tracks from new LP -
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VIDEO & LIVE MP3S via LUXURY WAFERS SESSION -
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Or, the Whale "Voices everywhere, caught again in the devil's snare," belts lead vocalist and guitarist Alex Robins of San Francisco-based Or, the Whale on the second song of the band's newest album. ...

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MP3 - "Ida Walked Away" -
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VIDEO: AU on Dig For Fire TV -
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AU From 20 to 2, AU's new EP, Versions, builds joyously from the successes of it's previous LP, Verbs. Shifting from AU's previous albums, which saw lengthy lists of friends helping out and a live act that could swell to 20 with a revolving door of players from Portland, OR, Versions marks the evolution of it's sound into something more singular and...

Check out MySpace Music's latest "Transmissions" session featuring Cambridge-based electro-pop band Passion Pit. Since first emerging onto the music scene in late 2007, Passion Pit has been met with support and encouragement from the MySpace Music community and has received consistent exposure on the site through featured artist promotions, the exclusive premiere of their debut album "Manners," and even a special segment in the launch episode of the MySpace Music Feed, the company's weekly ne...
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Scottsboro, Alabama's Latin For Truth - with help from their friends at Pitfall Records - have released a free digital version of their latest EP, We Are Sick of Not Having The Courage To Be Absolute Nobodies. To download all three songs, as well as lyrics, artwork and a bio, go here.

Latin For Truth consists of two twenty somethings taking the high road and three teens taking the low. The teens destroy, the elders think. The teens skate, the elders work. Together the five young men conver...

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MP3: The Rural Alberta Advantage - "Don't Haunt This Place" -
http://www.saddle-creek.com/sounds/RuralAlberta_DontHauntThisPlace.mp3

The Rural Alberta Advantage About The Rural Alberta Advantage The Rural Alberta Advantage was born out of singer/songwriter Nils Edenloff's exodus from the province that inspired the band's name and many of the songs from their enthralling debut album, Hometowns. Edenloff grappled with homesickness after his move from Edmonton, Alberta to Toronto, ...

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MP3: Slow Club - "It Doesn't Have To Be Beautiful" -
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MP3: Casiokids - "Gront Lys I Alle Ledd" -
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MP3: The Wave Pictures "Just Like a Drummer" -
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Slow Club    Moshi Moshi Records started off as a hobby in 1998. Set up by three friends who had jobs working for major record labels. It was intended as a means to work with the bands that they loved but which di...

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VIDEO: "Warm In The Shadows" -
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MP3: "Warm In The Shadows" -

Music Go Music The members of 'Music Go Music' met at a party in the home of a man who was, at that time, called "The Condor."[1] Over the rager's din we made a connection. It was mild at first, but fermented for a couple of weeks until Torg invited me and Gala Bell over to make a song together. We met several days later and, i...

MP3: "Smith Hill" -
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Deer Tick on The Pentagon Channel  -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8y90bH_zQI

My Old Kentucky Blog Laundromatinee Session - http://www.laundromatinee.com/sessions/video_session__deer_tick

Deer Tick Bio: Deer Tick began in December of 2004 in the bedroom of Providence native, John McCauley. With a tape recorder and a nylon string guitar, he did what most anybody would do; he made tapes for his friends. ...

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DOWNLOAD - theFREEhoudini mixtape -
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Themselves Seven months after the release of theFREEhoudini - the celebrated mixtape that announced Themselves' return - Doseone and Jel will drop CrownsDown, a careful and vicious exhibition of mastered rap tactics and sampling ethics. Themselves' third album proper has been gestating in the gut of this seminal group for some time. It's both a return to form and a honing of what's come before (Subtle, ...

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MP3: "Fear" -
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Benjy Ferree For all of Peter Pan's fantastical, magical skills (flight, expert swordsmanship, voice mimicry, flute proficiency) the one power above all others that captures the imagination of children is his ability to never grow up. Gone is the foreboding future of jobs, bills, and responsibility. All that remains is playing, singing, dancing, and a magical land where you have friends with names like Nibs and Tootles. Fo...

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Music Go Music The members of 'Music Go Music' met at a party in the home of a man who was, at that time, called "The Condor."[1] Over the rager's din we made a connection. It was mild at first, but fermented for a couple of weeks until Torg invited me and Gala Bell over to make a song together. We met several days later and, in the space of an hour, the first Music Go Music song was written. We reco...

VIDEO: "No Hope Kids" (Dir. by Pete Ohs) -
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MP3: "So Bored" -
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WAVVES WAVVES Fri-Aug-28    San Diego, CA    Street Scene Sat-Sep-05    Los Angeles, CA    FYF Fest presents: Save Our State Parks @ LA Historic State Park Sun-Sep-06    San Francisco, CA    Rickshaw Stop * Sun-Sep-13    Salt Lake City, UT    Urban Lounge * Mon-Sep-14    Denver, CO    Larimer Lounge * Tue-Sep-15    Lawrence, KS    Jackpot Music Hall *...

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MP3: "Ashes Grammar / Ashes Maths"
http://www.forcefieldpr.com/asdigashes.mp3

A Sunny Day in Glasgow Opening with a ten second homage to Estonian composer Arvo Part, it's immediately apparent that A Sunny Day in Glasgow's new album, Ashes Grammar, is going to be a much more visceral outing than their 2007 album debut, Scribble Mural Comic Journal. It takes a few minutes for the record to even begin to reveal itself, as a swarm of 1950s acapella ("Secrets at the prom") gives way...

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LAKE photographed by Sarah Cass LAKE's new album Let's Build A Roof [KLP213], produced by Northwest legend Karl Blau, is sweet, funky and nostalgic - a paragon of psychedelic pop. Their previous album, Oh, the Places We'll Go, contained lighter, more upbeat numbers, but its theme of wonder and idealism foreshadowed the next album to come. Let's Build a Roof is like a travelogue of the places they went, the sto...

MP3: "My Patriotism" (WHY? remix) -
http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2009/07/exclusive-my-patriotism-why-remi

MP3: "Call the Law" (Greetings From Tuskan Remix) -
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Serengeti__Polyphonic/track/Call_The_Law_Greetings_From_Tuskan_Remix

MP3: "My Patriotism" (Album version) -
http://www.forcefieldpr.com/spmypatriotism.mp3

Serengeti & Polyphonic Serengeti and Polyphonic's Terradactyl is an album about place-losing place, mostly, struggling to find it again, and succumbin...

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Princeton Los Angeles-based Princeton is releasing their debut record, Cocoon of Love, September 29th on Kanine Records. Growing up on Princeton Street in Santa Monica, the group now lives in an aging green house on a hillside in the Eagle Rock district of LA where their album was recorded.      Among the many detrimental effects that love has on the mind, one of the more subtle is the way it litters t...

The Fresh & Onlys photographed by Brian Pritchard When Tim Cohen told Shayde Sartin he was writing a song called "Be My Hooker," the Fresh & Onlys bassist looked at the singer/guitarist and said... "'There's no way we're gonna have a song with that title, dude,'" explains Sartin. "But sure enough, he laid a riff down and I was like, 'Jesus Christ, I can't believe you pulled something meaningful out o...

MP3: Deer Tick - "Easy" -
http://partisanrecords.com/mp3s/deertick-easy.mp3

Deer Tick Bio: Deer Tick began in December of 2004 in the bedroom of Providence native, John McCauley. With a tape recorder and a nylon string guitar, he did what most anybody would do; he made tapes for his friends. When McCauley, then 18 years old, got his hands on Hank Williams Sr.'s "Gold" collection and locked himself in his room listening to it on repeat until he finished his bottle of brandy, it a...

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MP3: "This Blackest Purse" -
http://www.forcefieldpr.com/whythisblackestpurse.mp3

VIDEO: "Eskimo Snow" (Live on the Take Away Shows) -
http://crackle.com/c/Take-Away_Shows/Take-Away_Show_Why_-_Eskimo_Snow/2367025/

WHY?   A year and a half after releasing the acclaimed Alopecia LP, WHY? returns with their fourth album, Eskimo Snow (out Sept. 22, 2009). The two records are each other's perfect foil: While last year's release found Yoni Wolf and the gang delivering a tight set of i...

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What do you get when you get together Conor Oberst, M. Ward, Yim Yames, and Mike Mogis? You get the Mosters of Folk and a free download! Download the latest single from their newest ablum to be released on September 22.

Download it here: www.MonstersofFolk.com
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Check out the new single,"Beatbox", from The Sounds new album Crossing The Rubicon. 

Hey Champ (who have recently remixed Yeasayer, Cut Copy, T-Paine) have put their own spin on "Beatbox", and we've got both the album track and the remix as free MP3s at the following link:

http://drop.io/thesounds_songs

Also, The Sounds are back on tour with No Doubt after spending a few weeks on the European festival circuit.  Stay tuned for a full North American headline tour in the fall!


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Mixing classic pop and disco with an expansive, emotionally sophisticated attitude to indie rock, The Jezabels present like few bands in recent years. With front woman Hayley’s dazzling vocals, their on stage presence and purpose is emotionally raw, brittle, directed and genuine. Crowds can’t help but entrust themselves into the energy, intelligence and the gritty realism of the lyrics that is embodied by them.

Born out of a childhood in  Byron   Bay  on the north coast of  New South Wal...

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MP3: Slow Club - "It Doesn't Have To Be Beautiful" -
http://www.forcefieldpr.com/slowclub.mp3

MP3: Casiokids - "Gront Lys I Alle Ledd" -
http://www.forcefieldpr.com/casiokids.mp3

MP3: The Wave Pictures "Just Like a Drummer" -
http://www.forcefieldpr.com/wavepictures.mp3

Slow Club    Moshi Moshi Records started off as a hobby in 1998. Set up by three friends who had jobs working for major record labels. It was intended as a means to work with the bands that they loved but which di...

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MP3: "This Blackest Purse" -
http://www.forcefieldpr.com/whythisblackestpurse.mp3

VIDEO: "Eskimo Snow" (Live on the Take Away Shows) -
http://crackle.com/c/Take-Away_Shows/Take-Away_Show_Why_-_Eskimo_Snow/2367025/

WHY? A year and a half after releasing the acclaimed Alopecia LP, WHY? returns with their fourth album, Eskimo Snow. The two records are each other's perfect foil: While last year's release found Yoni Wolf and the gang delivering a tight set of intricate rhymes, live lo...

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MP3: "When I'm Gone" -
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Vivian_Girls/track/When_Im_Gone

VIDEO: "Moped Girls" -
http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/musicvideo/2020-vivian-girls-moped-girls-for-us

Vivian Girls    Swirling noise Brooklynites, Vivian Girls have confirmed the release of their sophomore album via the ever wonderful In The Red label on September 8th, 2009. Released almost exactly a year after In The Red's reissue of their self-titled debut, the new album, Everything Goes Wrong promise...

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In The Loop 5 Dublab's In the Loop vinyl series continues with a new home on Anticon and fresh sounds from the most vivid music-makers around. Like the previous four installments - which have included celebrated names like Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Caribou and Prefuse 73 - this fifth chapter rightly represents a wave of pure creativity: diverse gems from a shining ci...

July 13, 2009 - MySpace Music (http://www.myspace.com/music), the world's leading online music portal, is proud to announce the latest "Transmissions" session with the Atlanta-based rock band Manchester Orchestra. The session is now live at http://www.myspace.com/transmissions and available for all MySpace users to download for free. MySpace Music "Transmissions" is an in-studio session and interview that empowers top recording artists with a new platform to create and distribute exclusive vi...
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Beginning tomorrow, Denver's Esprit De Corps will hit the road for a short 11-day tour of (mostly) the East Coast. The five piece is playing shows in support of their newest EP, Under Constant Influence.

An entirely DIY, self-released affair, the album was recorded locally at the famed 8 Houses Down (Teenage Bottlerocket, Discount, Ninja Gun, Planes Mistaken For Stars) and was then hand screen printed on chipboard by the band. It will be available from The EDC at shows, but you can also pi...

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Fat Possum Records just announced that the Heartless Bastards have confirmed a very impressive and exciting summer 2009 touring schedule. The band recently finished their first tour overseas and are fresh off a powerfully memorable performance at Bonnaroo as well as some dates supporting Wilco; one look at their summer tour schedule proves 2009 is undoubtedly their year. 

Next up for the Austin, TX-based quartet are three of this summer's most high profile tours supporting Jenny Lewis, The De...
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National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master and 10X Grammy-winning, legendary musician George Benson will release his new album on August 25th entitled Songs and Stories, his second for Concord Records / Monster Music. The album is a collection of tunes penned by some of the most prolific and enduring songwriters of the last half-century. Some were written specifically for this new recording, such as Bill Withers' (who came out of retirement to write "A Telephone Call Away" for George), Rod Te...
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Afternoon Records just announced the October 13 release of The Shape of Energy, the sophomore release from the Sioux Falls, SD band We All Have Hooks For Hands. The nine-piece group are giving away an mp3 of the infectious new song "Made Up of Tiny Lights," as well as streaming it on their MySpace page, and they've revealed the track listing and album art to give fans an early peak at what's is to come from the forthcoming release.

http://www.myspace.com/weallhavehooksforhands

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The Sounds are making their single "No One Sleeps When I'm Awake" available as a free mp3 beginning today!  The MP3, along with four brand new photos, can be pulled down from: http://drop.io/TheSounds_Songs As the first single from their new album, Crossing The Rubicon, they performed "No One Sleeps" on The Late Show with David Letterman on June 19th, and have released an official video: Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zetfo9VFN3I Letterman:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

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Scottish rock band Twin Atlantic release opening track "Lightspeed" from their John Travis (Sugar Ray, Kid Rock and Static X) produced forthcoming mini-album, Vivarium, starting Monday, June 29th. The track is available for free download exclusively at www.TwinAtlantic.com for a limited time only.

As frontman Sam McTrusty explains, “We’ve been away for a little while recording Vivarium, so we wanted to give something back to our fan base as a thank you for their patience and continued su...

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Boston based indie-pop-shoegazers, The Hush Now, released their debut self-titled album in late October of 2008. After a life changing experience in L.A., Noel Kelly (former guitarist of L.A.'s Cerulean) has solidified his life, line up, and track list for his debut with The Hush Now. For fans of Apples in Stereo, Guided By Voices, Shout Out Louds, Built to Spill, even Hall & Oates and 10cc, The Hush Now's self-titled release will easily fit in with your favorites.


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Celebrate the 4th of July in patriotic style with this free download by Documentary Recordings. You can download the album through our widget above or by searching for this album in our store.

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Favorite Gentlemen/Columbia Records are very pleased to announce that Manchester Orchestra have announced a string of tour dates as direct support to Silversun Pickups in August. Cage The Elephant will also be joining the bands in the opening slot. After wrapping up a successful headlining US tour earlier this month, the band is excited to be back on the road in support of their latest album, Mean Everything To Nothing. Manchester Orchestra will kick off the tour on August 3rd at the Ram's He...
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Head over to iTunes or the iPhone app store to download a cool free app that lets you scratch along to an old school record player that plays Taking Back Sunday’s latest single “Sink Into Me”.

Click on the link below to download the app on iTunes or go directly to the iPhone app store and enter “Taking Back Sunday” in the search field.

Link: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=318736702&mt=8

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The U.S. release of Biagio Antonacci's Il Cielo Ha Una Porta Sola ("HEAVEN HAS ONLY ONE DOOR") by the SIN (SonyMusic Independent Network) imprint introduces American audiences to one of the brightest stars of the Italian European music scene. Featuring stunning re-interpretations of his biggest hits, as well as brand new material, Il Cielo is the perfect primer on Biagio's powerful appeal as both vocalist and a songwriter and already 4x Platinum at home. It is his first work to be released in...
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Andy Bull – ‘Young Man’

Sydney based musician Andy Bull started his musical life as a young child playing the keyboards that his father had collected throughout his travels. It didn’t take long for his obvious musical talents to shine through, eclipse his fathers own abilities and set the path for Andy Bull’s rise into the world of soulful melodies and thoughtful lyrics.

He has become known for more than the singer/songwriter label that he carries but as a power house of harmon...

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“…steady synth untz and 4/4 low end push the Followills' arena ambitions into more relatable, and enjoyable, territory.”

http://www.rcrdlbl.com/2009/04/08/exclusive_new_download_kings_of_leon_use_somebody_rac_remix_

“This flip of the most U2-biting track on Kings Of Leon's recent album Only By The Night came across our desks and easily warmed its way into our ears, likely because the best thing about the original was the arching vocal, which goes completely untouched here. The remai...

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Bonnaroo is very excited to announce the second installment of BONNAROO 365, which will feature streamed footage from Phish's The Clifford Ball DVD box set.  Bonnaroo 365 is a program by which fans can enjoy the festival experience year round.  The program debuted with the The Raconteurs complete live performance from Bonnaroo 2008.

The second installment will have a full set from Phish's The Clifford Ball DVD box set.  Classic footage of the second set of night two from the now legendary "fa...
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In recent weeks Petra Haden's stunning a capella reworking of the Bellamy's Summery classic "Let Your Love Flow" has been omnipresent on the small screen courtesy of an extensive televions advertising campaign for Toyota's Prius. Now they're offering the full length version of the track for free download

http://www.myspace.com/toyotamusic#&lid=tuesdayDownloadAnchor

Petra Haden currently lives in Los Angeles where she is working on her next solo a-cappella record recorded by Justin Burnett...

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You can now download all four of How I Became The Bomb's free EPs they have released this year. Later these EPs will be combined into their first yearly album they plan on producing each year. You can download each EP by clicking on the album or by going to www.HowIBecameTheBomb.com for more information.







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These songs can be downloaded for free here.

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You can download the FREE MP3's from this album here.

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Download the track for free from here:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/60030108afd9c8ef/

If you think you recognise the track that's probably because you may have heard an unmastered sample in a chase scene on Underbelly a few weeks ago. Aside from that, this recording is nowhere else to be found until it comes out on the band's self-released debut seven inch vinyl EP, and on iTunes, from June 1st.

It's been a little while between drinks for The Philly Jays. Thhie first two tracks 'Going To...

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Matt Walters – ‘Echo On’

Matt Walters began his love affair with folk from a very young age. Driven by the discovery that music need not be an over-produced affair to be powerful and moving, he embarked on finding his own voice with which to create a brand of evocatively unadorned music.

His teenage years spent in the self-imposed isolation of his bedroom recording studio led on to become a journey of discovery from Melbourne to Sydney to London . On return to his hometown in southwes...

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