Some music to ease you into your Monday, here’s hoping the happy hand-clappy art helps ease the swings and sways of these crazy times for you:
Sub Pop’s digital summer 2009 cybersex sampler is on the interwebs, full up with the new usual suspects, Vetiver, Fleet Foxes, Handsome Furs, Iron and Wine…:
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Now this is a true music story with not too much PR polish, and the sound is the same: raw, raucus, but hopeful. The kind of brief, bright, wholly fuuking free-wheeling joy of the kind that steps out of smashed beer bottle chaos to live a lovely new life making music with dear friends. And [...]
Check out this banging, full throated, lady rock from Swallows, members of Church of Girl Records, recorded live at the Wonder Ballroom:
Recorded live over two nights during the first year of the Siren Nation Annual Women’s Music, Art and Film festival, the 13-track CD features new, rare recordings by legendary queercore punk rockers, Team Dresch [...]
Amandine are signed to FatCat Records in the UK, along with others like Mice Parade, Sigur Ros and Animal Collective. Their music threaded and wound us in and around until we’d listened to everything and sat quietly feeling a folk hum between Sweden and Americana and wondering when the next record, self-produced, will drop…for now [...]
You asked for more indie downloads and we’re here to hook you up. As one of the newest indie music blogging members of IODA Promonet we get access to thousands of indie tracks we can legally make available to you and we’re super stoked, not just because this is a great way to give you [...]
UK Indie label Lojinx released a mini album of Christams songs this week for free, legal download by acts representing the label’s international ear:
Featuring new and current artists from the Lojinx roster, the Mini-Album consists of tracks from international acts including Nate Campany (Brooklyn, USA) and The Wellingtons (Melbourne, Australia), as well as British pop [...]