Archive for April, 2006
Sing Song Sung gives a brief glimpse of what is expected for the band’s debut release later this year, The Truth. Recorded under the guidance of Tony Hoffer (Beck, Belle & Sebastian) in LA, La Rocca take a brash step into blue collar indie with this 4 song EP. The title track’s coarse [...]
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Rebel Meets Rebel (David Allan Coe, Rex Brown, Vinnie Paul & Dimebag Darrell) have released an eCard at this location (link). You can also check some of their material out at the MySpace site (link) or here with some mp3s:
Rebel Meets Rebel “Get Outta My Life” (mp3) (mirror)
Rebel Meets Rebel “No Compromise (sample)” [...]
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Saturday, April 29th, 2006
A tremendous thing happened to me while listening to this album. The realization of just how dense I truly am popped out at me as it finally occurred to me that Ane Brun is a folk singer. I hadn’t really considered this too much as I usually tend to think of Guthrie, Seeger and Baez [...]
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Saturday, April 29th, 2006
01 - After The Garden (mp3)
02 - Living With War (mp3)
03 - The Restless Consumer (mp3)
04 - Shock And Awe (mp3)
05 - Families (mp3)
06 - Flags of Freedom (mp3)
07 - Let’s Impeach The President (mp3)
08 - Lookin’ For A Leader (mp3)
09 - Roger And Out (mp3)
10 - America The Beautiful (mp3)
I hope that some positive [...]
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
I was lucky enough to have had the chance to see The Fever in Minneapolis a little while back and I was absolutely blown away. Before seeing the show, I hadn’t heard the band, but for some reason I had this inkling that they’d be a heavy-on-the-electronic light-on-the-rock type. Also on the bill [...]
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
Out of Nashville, Be Your Own PET offer a brand female fronted rock that I have been waiting for. It seems that a female can’t front a band without immediately being compared to the likes of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs or any number of other modern acts. Yeah, they all play rock, we [...]
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
Detroit’s Saturday Looks Good To Me come highly recommended from a few friends. One calls them “sort of Beach Boys, Camera Obscura, Belle and Sebastian - real lo fi, very pretty stuff.” Another, Bethanne, says of the band “they’re really poppy and fun. You can listen to them and feel better about [...]
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
Where did you first hear The Sounds? I heard the band far before I ever heard of the band, on a television commercial. Some might have first heard the group on a video game. No matter where you heard the band, your reaction was probably similar to mine and you probably thought they rocked. I [...]
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
It’s Contrast Podcast time again, and various blogs have divested their time and thoughts into this wonderful mix surrounding the theme “quadruped.” I, myself, have contributed a track by Minus The Bear entitled “Lemurs, Man. Lemurs.” And Tim’s introduction…well, it’s out there, man. (feed) (link)
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
Amazon has an exclusive in studio Pearl Jam performance of the track “Life Wasted.” It’s pretty fantastic, I have to shrug when I hear less than supportive comments about the band. They keep layin’ it down pretty solid.
Pearl Jam “Life Wasted” (Amazon video link)
Pearl Jam “Life Wasted” (YouTube video link)
Pearl Jam “Life Wasted [...]
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Sometimes it’s really hard for me to determine whether or not hype is a good thing. Sometimes it can lead to a situation where expectations are far too demanding of a band, movie, book, television show, or anything along those lines. I can look back, and honestly remember hearing about how great Coldplay were. Point [...]
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I’m taking down the mp3 Audio Archive site, but here’s all the links just in case you didn’t get a huge pull of ‘em yet.
Bootlegs/Studio/etc.
3 Doors Down - Live Acoustic
311 - Glen Burnie, MD (02/08/96)
311 - Various Live Shows - 311Unity
311 - Various Live Shows - Archive.org
A.C. Newman - CBC Studios
A.C. Newman - Vancouver, BC [...]
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Check this trailer out for the film Too Tough To Die about the Ramones’ 30th Anniversary tribute show from the Tribeca Film Festival (link).
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Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
Kool Keith’s Dr. Octagon project was a surprising pleasure when I initially heard it. The man is back with a new release, The Return of Dr. Octagon, and the first single, “Ants,” is terrific. Check out the MySpace site for a few other tracks as well.
Dr. Octagon “Ants” (mp3)
Dr. Octagon - MySpace Site
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Thursday, April 20th, 2006
It’s National High Five Day, and there’s nothing more worthy of a high five than some crazy jams.
Ben Harper “Burn One Down” (mp3)
Black Sabbath “Sweet Leaf” (mp3)
Tom Petty “You Don’t Know How It Feels” (mp3)
Cypress Hill “Hits From The Bong” (mp3)
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