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Okkervil River
Okkervil River are giving away a collection of cover songs that they've been recording from around the world over the past year and a half. Also ... check out the new video for A Girl In Port.
Courtesy of Jagjaguwar Records
The latest installment in redefining the notion of a recording label is RCRD LBL ... they've kicked things off with a bunch of free tracks from Justice feat. Mos Def and Spank Rock, Jacques Renault, Meanest Man Contest, Bad Veins, Kings and Queens, Grizzly Bear, Softlightes, and Junip.
Courtesy of RCRD LBL
Called a "bedroom art-pop project" by Cardboard Records, the album is a mixture of electronics, drone, noise, and singed circuits.
Courtesy of Asthmatic Kitty Records
Called a "bedroom art-pop project" by Cardboard Records, the album is a mixture of electronics, drone, noise, and singed circuits.
Courtesy of Cardboard Records
Part of the Super Epic Thrill Jockey Mega Massive Mix by Trey Told 'Em. This features selections from the Thrill Jockey catalog reinterpreted by Girl Talk and Trey Told Em' for their 15th anniversary.
Courtesy of Thrill Jockey Records
Black Moth Super Rainbow have made their first two albums available with a repackaging treatment that includes new music. Check out one of the tracks from this wildly experimental band!
Courtesy of Fanatic Promotion
60 Watt Kid is on the far side of far out. Experimental, fuzzed out sounds encroach on a tribal, thumping rythym while the dry sounds of the vocals keeping yelling "every day!" Courtesy of Absolutely Kosher
Ben + Vesper make the kind of folk-inspired warmth that you can listen to over and over again. Nice vocal harmonies (they're married) with steady and lively songs about existential things like maxing out the credit cards. Courtesy of SoundsFamilyre
Ladies and gentlemen, with Clipd Beaks, I give you the first band offering worthy of the Fall season. Experimental and scary, Clipd Beaks uses subconscious themes to a devastating effect, and the power of that sound might freak you out.
Slow and abstract, but with a sharp focus. The strings glide in over the top
of the music and the piano provides a dry backbone to the melody. Then the
vocals mesmerize the song.
Though many tracks out on the indie airwaves these days are bleak and forlorn, Jens Lekman's lyrics and music would taste like sugar crystals and gum drops if you could take a bite out of them. I kid you not, if you're looking for some feel good music this is the album to buy, it is (for the most part) audible sunshine. Even during the song that is written about a job that sucked, Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo you just want to hum and bounce around while you listen and relate.
Deerhoof have released a free MP3 album of live performances,
outtakes, remixes, and covers. It's currently being offered on the
Kill Rock Stars web site.
Mr V returns to form with White Dove, the first single off his new album Emerald City. It's a distorted acoustic guitar workout, filled with paranoia and the great songwriting we've come to expect from John Vanderslice. Courtesy Of Barsuk Records
Evoking the air and gloom of a carnival at night, stripped down guitar, bass and drums are paired with bizarre sound effects -- from banging on metal to turtle dove keyboards. Courtesy of Sub Pop Records
Part circus, part cult, part realtime experimentation, TSHDT drop their pateneted sounds on their new album Pick Up Sticks. Courtesy of Kill Rock Stars
Nothin No is an incredible track and further proves why Vandervelde is already claiming fame and being compared to the greats of decades past. With Courtesy of Secretly Canadian
What would goth sound like if it were acoustic and had all the superficial elements stripped away? It would sound like Jesy Fortino in Tiny Vipers. Brooding, contemplative, serious, and good. Courtesy of Sub Pop Records
Caribou is back with the kind of trippy, experimental, choppy music we've come to expect. The new album Andorra is out later this summer, check out an advance track. Courtesy of City Slang
New music from Mali on the new Drag City imprint of Yaala Yaala Records. Experimental, a little distorted, groove oriented, and something like you've never heard before. Courtesy of Yaala Yaala Records
It sounds quiet and innocent enough when the song starts, but Rose Kemp lets loose a torrent of rage that has to be heard to be believed. Courtesy of One Little Indian
Now on Barsuk Records, David Bazan has rereleased his Fewer Moving Parts EP. Check out this track and then go buy the album! Courtesy of Barsuk Records
Tribal muttering, bass squelching and electronic whirring. If downbeat electronica is your thing, Reflection is bound to catch your gaze as you graze. Courtesy of Mush Records
Pit Er Pat is in the midst of U.S. tour and has offered up a bunch of covers for free downloadable hype. Cools songs, including some Yoko Ono and Oneida action. Courtesy of Thrill Jockey Records
Expiremental sonification catharsis. Tulsa Drone is a deep approach to music for your mind, and good for iPod soundtracks. The music will become the life music of your soul as you wander the landscape.
Australian noise, space, and experimental label Hidden Shoal recordings celebrates one year of being in business with a free compilation album that features music from the past year of releases with acts like The Hero Cycle, My Majestic Star, and Colour Kane, and more and is available for the month of May. Courtesy of Hidden Shoal Recordings
Positively thrilling with its rapid-fire-yet-tipsy drums (courtesy of Jon Crellin) and cycling melody delivered by vocalist Caila Thompson-Hannant, who also plays keyboards. Courtesy of Asthmatic Kitty Records
Snowden is putting together a remix album to be released at a later time... check out one of the advance tracks - it's remixed by DJ Le Castlevania. Courtesy of Jade Tree
Word on the digital street is that there's a new album coming out with their patented 'deep groove, ambient folk and post-punk bombast.' Eyelids is from the new album. Courtesy of Temporary Residence Records
Ambient electronica with subtle and pleasantly haunting vocal themes that accentuate the plaintive melancholia of the piece while remaining an organic layer in the fabric of the lush, thoughtfully crafted whole. Courtesy of Nice Promo
Syrupy harmonies and jangly guitars, but this time they sound fuller and decidedly more polished with a variety of appreciated embellishments. Courtesy of Sub Pop Records
Music never stops flowing out of Wooden Wand. Delia The Folk on soft vocal harmonies approach never seems to grow tired, only everlasting. Courtesy of Ecstatic Peace
Another free album from John Vanderslice. It's called the Pixel Revolt Remixes In Analogue, and it's an experimental combination of sounds that sound nothing like the original sounds.
Analogue drones for your headphone mind. What would folk music be like if it took a modern electronic approach and ditched all the trappings of last century's folk music? It would sound like OV. Courtesy of Soft Abuse
Volker Bertelmann, aka Hauschka, deconstructs the sonic quality of his music by changing the piano, i.e. modifying it to his liking. Courtesy of FatCat Records
World music has taken on a new form... a heady mix of afrobeat tribalism to a global and worldly mix of jazz, horns, latin, and funk. Courtesy of Anti- Records
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