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White Rabbits - Fort Nightly 2008-03-10 11:11:05 Download (rapidshare)VBR / 59.4mbYear: 2007Label:Say Hey(website)More about the bandSimilar artists: Wolf Parade, Tapes 'n Tapes, Clap Your Hands Say YeahAMG: 4"Vague recollections of a surreal 1940's movie scene eddy up. Six musicians enter a room, take their seats, and begin to play...six different pieces of music. They stop, look at each other, nod, and begin playing again...all different songs. They exchange sheet music, but cacophony still ensues. The memory is dim, but the White
Rabbits bring it vividly to life with their strange, but brilliant, Fort Nightly
album.The sextet sashay in with the Latin flavored "Kid on My Shoulders", a track infused with a 50s feel, but a dark and dangerous atmosphere that evokes The Specials, and lyrics that put even Terry Hall's most obscure lyrics to
The Sea and Cake - Oui 2008-03-10 11:09:40 Download (rapidshare)256kbps / 74.5mbYear: 2000Label: Thrill Jockeytheseaandcake.comMore about the bandSimilar artists: Broken Social SceneAMG: 4"In the three-plus years following the release of 1997's The Fawn, the Sea and Cake's ever-busy membership dabbled in solo albums, touring with side projects, and various other responsibilities that come with the territory in the Chicago indie rock scene. But as effortlessly as an April breeze, the quartet reconvened to turn in Oui, quite possibly the finest of the group's five albums to date. Oui brightens up the electroacoustic hybrids first heard on The Fawn with guidance from frontman Sam Prekop's Brazilian-influenced 1999 solo debut and drummer John McEntire's production work on two Stereolab albums. While the looping synths often bogged down
The Sea and Cake - The Sea and Cake 2008-03-10 11:08:37 Download (rapidshare)192kbps / 66.5mbYear: 1994Label: Thrill Jockeytheseaandcake.comMore about the bandSimilar artists: Broken Social SceneAMG: 4.5+"The Sea and Cake's buoyant debut is a breath of fresh air, an utterly distinctive and innovative work that expands the scope of frontman Sam Prekop's work in the great Shrimp Boat to incorporate a new fascination with Afro-Caribbean rhythms and textures. Recorded by Brad Wood, the album simply glows -- Prekop's dry vocals and free-associative lyrics skip along a shimmering and lushly pastoral backdrop that nimbly fuses pop, soul, jazz, and even prog rock; tracks like "Jacking the Ball," "Flat Lay the Water," and "Showboat Angel" are as seductive as they are elusive."Previously:The Sea and Cake - Everybody
Foals - Antidotes + Bonus CD 2008-03-09 19:38:10 Download (rapidshare)Download Bonus
CD (rapidshare)256kbps / 86mbYear: 2008Label: Transgressive Records/ Sub Popwearefoals.comMore about the bandSimilar artists: Bloc Party, The Pleased, Franz Ferdinand, InterpolYet another Oxford band, Foals claim to be different. "We play guitar in a different way from pretty much any other mainstream indie band," declares Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis. "We have a piano which is used in a different way to how most other bands would use it." Finally, guitar effects pedals are employed to "mimic the sound of the solar system". As pretentious as it sounds, it might be the truth. Foals endeavor to make a pop record which you don't feel embarrassed to show to your hipster friends. Someplace it's even catchier and cockier than Franz Ferdinand ("Cassius")
Quick post 2008-03-08 17:42:07 No time to make normal posts, yet. Just so you don't get bored:The Enemy - We'll Live and Die in These TownsAmerican Music Club - The Golden Age part1, part2also this thing:Radiohead - Kid 17
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The Comas - Conductor 2008-03-07 08:00:45 Download (rapidshare)VBR / 67.6mbYear: 2004Label: Yep Rocthecomas.comMore about the bandSimilar artists: Luna, Vivid Low Sky, Apples in Stereo, SpoonAMG: 4+"Voted one of the best 2004 albums you didn't hear from both Spin and Rolling Stone, the third release from this Chapel Hill, NC, combo revels in its gloomy indie pop roots. Fuzzed-out guitars mesh with soaring, edgy melodies on a song cycle exploring the collapsed relationship between Comas auteur Andy Herod and TV star Michelle Williams. But you'd probably only know that from reading the press kit, since Herod's lyrics are typically obtuse. [..] The disc kicks off with plenty of sludgy pop hooks roughed up by unfussy production, but gradually morphs into a more internally wracked affair. The sum of these songs equals more than their m
Arctic Monkeys (Music Videos) 2008-03-06 06:11:30 Arctic Monkeys
- BrianstormVideo: XVID 512x288 25.00fps 1654Kbps Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 44100Hz stereo 235KbpsArctic Monkeys
- Fake Tales of San FranciscoVideo: XVID 640x480 25.00fps 2646Kbps Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 231KbpsArctic Monkeys - Fluorescent AdolescentVideo: XVID 640x432 25.00fps 2488Kbps Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 44100Hz stereo 254KbpsArctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the DancefloorVideo: XVID 640x480 25.00fps 2418Kbps Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 206KbpsArctic Monkeys - Leave Before the Lights Come OnVideo: XVID 640x368 25.00fps 1873Kbps Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 197KbpsArctic Monkeys - Teddy PickerVideo: XVID 576x432 25.00fps 1539Kbps Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 44100Hz stereo 210KbpsArctic Monkeys - The View From the Afternoo Read more:Arctic
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Tapes 'n Tapes - Walk it Off 2008-03-05 20:31:42 Download (rapidshare)192kbps / 60.7mbYear: 2008Label: XLtapesntapes.comMore about the bandSimilar artists: White Rabbits, Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Modest MouseNo reviews, it has just leaked. Wiki says: "The album was leaked to the internet March 4th, 2008. On March 5th, the band put up a link on their website, streaming the entire album." I wanted to post it asap, but i'll try to add a small review later. So far it sounds like it's much safer than The Loon was. Not so acute, I'd say. Hang Them All is the only track preserving the shadow of the Loon's glory so far.Update: I might need to take my words back. The album is undoubtedly different, and you have to get used to appreciating Tapes
'n Tapes in some different way.Previously:Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
The Sea and Cake - Everybody 2008-03-05 16:38:52 Download (rapidshare)192kbps / 52mbYear: 2007Label: Thrill Jokeytheseaandcake.comMore about the bandSimilar artists: Broken Social SceneAMG: 3.5"You could call the Sea and Cake classic underachievers, since they unerringly turn out the same album nearly every time (or simply apply shadings yet more subtle with every subsequent release), but two qualities get in the way of that diagnosis. First, the four members have so many outside interests -- solo albums, production work, other bands, photography, comic books, etc. -- that they could never be called lazy. Second, the Sea and Cake have continued making records that possess an exquisite beauty, a quality their fans would never want to give up for the sake of experimentalism. All this is to say that the band has produced another gorgeous al Read more:Everybody
Dig deeper 2008-03-02 20:48:31 Everybody loves Arctic Monkeys. Favourite Worst Nightmare is completely hilarious. If you don't think so you should probably listen to it a couple more times. But it's not what i wanted to tell about, breaking the standard radiobutt blogging format. OK, so I've been following these guys since their first LP but only an hour ago realized that I knew no context. I mean, who the hell are Arctic Monkeys? So I google 'arctic monkeys wiki', obviously. Here are some excerpts that made me not just like their music, but somewhat respect them personally:"Arctic Monkeys achieved their success through fan-made demo tapes and online file sharing. They were heralded as one of the first acts to come to the public attention via the Internet, with commentators suggesting they represented the possibility of Read more:deeper
RADIOBUTT Weekly Top 5 [#3] 2008-03-02 18:45:33 01. Foals - Cassius (Antidote)02. Stars - Your Ex-Lover is Dead (Final Fantasy remix) (Do You Trust Your Friends?)03. Múm - There Is a Number of Small Things (Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today is OK)04. The National - Baby, We'll Be Fine (Alligator)05. Naomi - King Kong Is Not Dead (Pappelallee)Download (rapidshare)Get it All:Foals - AntidoteStars - Do You Trust Your Friends?Múm - Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today is OKThe National - AlligatorNaomi - PappelalleeDon't forget to share Your top-5/10/or whatever in the comments!
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Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche: Outtakes & Extras from the Illinois Album 2008-03-02 18:00:25 Download part1, part2 (rapidshare)192kbps / 105mbYear: 2006Label: Asthmatic Kittymyspace.com/illinoiseisprettyMore about the bandSimilar artists: Stereolab, Jim O'Rourke, Cass McCombs, The Choir Practice, Elliot SmithAMG: 3.5"SufjanStevens
' Come on Feel the Illinois
e was a long, gorgeous, and occasionally convoluted kaleidoscope of folk, pop, and orchestral rock fused with personal regional history that somehow managed to lure listeners of all ages and genre allegiances into its pompon-wielding arms. Like Illinois, The Avalanche
-- leave it to Stevens to release a 21-track collection of outtakes and extras from a record that boasted 22... [..] The Avalanche slows down considerably near the record's end, but so did Illinois, making an even better case for the "Super Director's Cut" that w Read more:Extras
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Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise 2008-03-02 17:59:32 Download part1, part2 (rapidshare)192kbps / 110mbYear: 2005Label: Asthmatic Kittymyspace.com/illinoiseisprettyMore about the bandSimilar artists: Stereolab, Jim O'Rourke, Cass McCombs, The Choir Practice, Elliot SmithAMG: 4"With two states down and only 48 to go, SufjanStevens
' ambitious musical map of the Unites States of America should be completed -- if he puts out one a year -- sometime around 2053. It's a daunting task (and not an entirely original one at that), but if each subsequent record is as good as Illinois, fans who live long enough to witness the project's completion will no doubt find themselves to be scholars of both state history and its narrator's shape-shifting soul."Pitchfork: 9.2"The best travel writers skew their journeys into pointed narratives, writing the story o
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans 2008-03-02 17:58:29 Download (rapidshare)VBR / 61.7mbYear: 2004Label: Sounds Familyremyspace.com/illinoiseisprettyMore about the bandSimilar artists: Stereolab, Jim O'Rourke, Cass McCombs, The Choir Practice, Elliot SmithAMG: 4"After completing the first installment of his planned series of 50 records -- one album dedicated to each state in the U.S. -- indie folk overachiever SufjanStevens
returns with Seven
Swans, a collection of stripped-down, introspective musings on life, love, and faith that chart the geographic location of the heart and soul. Many of these themes were dealt with eloquently on Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State, presenting the singer/multi-instrumentalist as a first-rate interpreter of the human condition, as well as a gifted musician. [..] By the time he reaches the spirit
Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State 2008-03-02 17:58:02 Download (rapidshare)192kbps / 91.1mbYear: 2003Label: Asthmatic Kittymyspace.com/illinoiseisprettyMore about the bandSimilar artists: Stereolab, Jim O'Rourke, Cass McCombs, The Choir Practice, Elliot SmithAMG: 4+"Stevens
often plays his Jim O'Rourke and Stereolab cards, riffing along with complex polyphony in building loops and dynamics, but he also frequently imports lightly strummed guitars and stark banjo picking to break up the album and give it a rustic northern folk aesthetic. Stevens comfortably handles nearly every instrument on the album -- an impressive task that includes various keyboards, woodwinds, guitars, and percussions -- but also enlisted the help of Megan, Elin, and Daniel Smith from the Danielson Famile to help out with vocal duties, and the outcome is a haunting and h Read more:Great
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Naomi - Pappelallee 2008-03-01 11:57:50 Download (rapidshare)VBR / 76.6mbYear: 2004Label: Mole Listening Pearlsthisisnaomi.comMore about the bandSimilar artists: AirI'd mark it: 7Do you often base your music choices on albums' cover art? Do you love music to the extent when you have certain tracks connected with certain periods of your life? Do you have the feeling there's this special kind of music that fits for becoming a soundtrack of your life - it's simpler than the music you normally listen to, but it speaks for you better? I do. Naomi
is a German indie electronic duo making this kind of music. Pappelallee is the band's second - and I believe the best (out of three) - studio album. Even though each track on Pappelallee is very different from the other, the album still manages to stay in a single piece. It sounds cozily epi
Patrick Wolf - Magic Position 2008-02-29 09:03:58 Download (rapidshare)VBR / 77.7mbYear: 2007Label: Loogpatrickwolf.comMore about the bandSimilar artists: The Divine Comedy, Final Fantasy, Andrew BirdAMG: 3.5"Brooding, multi-talented indie prince Patrick
Wolf lets a little sunshine in on his third full-length album, the undeniably catchy but highly unstable The Magic
Position."Pitchfork: 8.3"Patrick Wolf
is growing up. The classically trained, left-of-center indie star's colorful adolescence and early twenties were unusually productive, resulting in two charming albums that found delicate string-and-piano pop pieces laced with guttural electronics. Both were charismatic but maudlin efforts, full of bittersweet montages, percussion-heavy compositions, and pissy, spit-out vocals that documented search after fruitless search for enlightenmen
Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires 2008-02-29 08:53:50 Download (rapidshare)192kbps / 57.1mbYear: 2005Label: Tomlabpatrickwolf.comMore about the bandSimilar artists: The Divine Comedy, Final Fantasy, Andrew BirdAMG: 4+"There's little doubt that the emotional turbulence of youth serves as the artist's first muse. As we grow older that muse takes on more and more baggage, rendering its initial miserable/joyous purity lost amongst the responsibilities of adulthood. Multi-instrumentalist/singer/songwriter Patrick
Wolf harnessed that angst on 2003's moody and apocalyptic Lycanthropy, and has refined it without losing any of its edge on his latest: the elegant, volatile and still kind of apocalyptic Wind in the Wires
. Wolf's voice has matured -- he's still only 21 -- into a lonely and powerful tool of judgment. [..] Lyrically, Wolf may revel in the Read more:Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf - Lycanhtropy 2008-02-29 08:43:19 Download (rapidshare)192,VBR / 72.9mbYear: 2004Label: Tomlabpatrickwolf.comMore about the bandSimilar artists: The Divine Comedy, Final Fantasy, Andrew BirdAMG: 4"Patrick
Wolf has no insecurities about his last name, identity, and supposed upbringing among animals. In fact, Lycanthropy (the belief that one is a wolf) begins with a wolf's howl. None of this, however, should detract from his formative compositions. This debut is relentlessly resourceful, never failing to reveal a new instrument (accordion, violin, recorder, to name a few). Augmented by laptop, Wolf's curious stories come to fruition with his accent-thick vocals and dark, biographical lyrics. [..] Known to keep a bird's nest in his hair, this young, eccentric prodigy is well beyond his years, making the most from a completely Read more:Patrick Wolf
Guillemots - Get Over It (Single) 2008-02-29 04:20:40 Guillemots - Get Over It (Radio Edit)Guillemots - Get Over It (Album Version)Get both (rapidshare)Also:Guillemots - Get Over ItVideo: MPEG4 Video (H264) 672x384 25.00fpsAudio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 44100Hz stereo
The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers 2008-02-27 12:51:21 Download (rapidshare)Download (sharebee)VBR / 78.6mbYear: 2003Label: Brasslandamericanmary.comMore about the bandSimilar artists: Dream City Film Club, Filmschool, TindersticksAMG: 3"With so many influences rearing their heads and ample musical chops in the bag, the National
might not be masters of any one genre, but it creates a fine amalgam nonetheless."Pitchfork: 8.4"Since The National's excellent self-titled debut in 2001, the Brooklyn-via-Cincinnati quintet has continued developing its hard-knock aesthetic, and lucky for the listener, Berninger's relationships don't appear to be getting any better. [..] Though it sometimes lacks the soft intimacy and hidden corners of the debut song cycle, the addition of viola, violin, piano, keyboards, french horn, and Wilco-styled electronics crea Read more:Lovers
The National - Boxer 2008-02-27 11:05:51 Download (rapidshare)320kbps / 99.5mbYear: 2007Label:Beggars Banqueamericanmary.comMore about the bandSimilar artists: Dream City Film Club, Filmschool, TindersticksAMG: 4"The National
don't do anything radically different on Boxer
, but then again, they don't really need to: their literate, quietly anthemic take on indie rock seemed to have arrived fully formed on their 2001 self-titled debut. Boxer just hones in even more precisely and intimately on the heartfelt territory the band covers, with punchy-yet-polished production and orchestration by the Clogs' Padma Newsome giving these songs an intimacy and widescreen expansiveness that rivals the Arcade Fire."Pitchfork: 8.6"Among critics and fans, the National's third album Alligator has become synonymous with the term grower. Released to m
The National - Alligator 2008-02-27 11:05:28 Download (rapidshare)256kbps / 88.1mbYear: 2005Label: Beggars Banquetamericanmary.comMore about the bandSimilar artists: Dream City Film Club, Filmschool, TindersticksAMG: 4"While Matt Berninger's lyrics and conversational delivery rely heavily on the kind of literate self-absorption that fuels so much of the indie rock scene today, he never comes off as preachy or unaware that the world would manage just fine without him; rather, he uses metaphor and humor as bullet points for a profound sense of displacement and anger. Out-of-the-blue statements like "f*ck me and make me a drink," from the brooding but lovely "Karen," are effective because the listener is brought into the story slowly, almost amiably, before being led to the plank. Berninger's wry, filthy, and often eloquently sad tales Read more:National
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The National - Cherry Tree [EP] 2008-02-27 11:05:07 Download (rapidshare)192kbps / 39.1mbYear: 2004Label: rasslandamericanmary.comMore about the bandSimilar artists: Dream City Film Club, Filmschool, TindersticksTracklisting:"Wasp Nest" - 3:22"All the Wine" - 3:20"All Dolled-Up in Straps" - 4:11"Cherry
Tree" - 4:27"About Today" - 4:11"Murder Me Rachael" (Live) - 3:37"Reasonable Man (I Don't Mind)" - 5:22Previously:The National
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Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP 2008-03-12 17:12:53 Download (rapidshare)Download (sharebee)Download (ifolder)256kbps / 36.1mbYear: 2008Label: Sub Popmyspace.com/fleetfoxesSimilar artists: Delays, Grand Archives, Damien Jurado, SpoonPitchfork: 8.7"The first official release from Seattle-based Fleet
Foxes may be largely influenced by vintage folk and rock LPs, but this pastoral psych-pop band does something special with these elements. Fusing classic rock, church music, old-timey folk, and epic, reverb-drenched harmonies, the group's brilliantly rustic songs never go quite where you expect them to, instead taking more scenic routes to arrive at perfect, natural conclusions."
NME Presents: Love Music, Hate Racism 2008-03-11 20:51:14 Download part1, part2 (rapidshare)VBR / 157mbTracklist:CD 1:01. The Enemy - Fear Killed The Youth Of Our Nation (3:33)02. Lethal Bizzle - Babylon's Burning The Ghetto (2:43)03. Roll Deep - Racist People (Vocal Remix) (3:43)04. Helsinki - Ampersand (3:36)05. The View - Fireworks & Flowers (2:02)06. Hard-Fi- We Need Love (Wrong Tom Mix) (2:52)07. MIA feat. Afrikan Boy - Hussle (4:26)08. Bloc Party Vs Diplo - Where Is Home? (Diplo Remix) (6:26)09. Carbon/Silicon - The Network's Going Down (5:12)10. Natty - If I... (3:04)11. Babyshambles - Stone Me - What A Life! (3:03)12. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - If I Could Build You A Tower (Demo) (4:48)13. The Charlatans - Blank Heart, Blank Mind (3:43)14. Dirty Pretty Things - 9 Lives (3:55)15. Albert Hammond Jr. - Cartoon Music
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NME Awards 2008 BIG GIG (Video) 2008-03-11 20:50:08 NME Awards
2008 BIG GIG.part1NME Awards
2008 BIG GIG.part2NME Awards 2008 BIG GIG.part3NME Awards 2008 BIG GIG.part4The video features: The Cribs, Bloc Party, Klaxons, Kaiser Chiefs, Manic Streat Preachers
NME Awards 2008 2008-03-11 20:37:08 Download (rapidshare)VBR / 77.4mbTracklist:01. Manic Street Preachers - Umbrella (Rihanna) (3:35)02. Futureheads - Picture Of Dorian Gray (Television Personalities) (2:50)03. Lightspeed Champion - Back To Black (Amy Winehouse) (3:48)04. CSS - Knife (Grizzly Bear) (3:15)05. The Cribs - Modern Way (Kaiser Chiefs) (3:39)06. Kaiser Chiefs - Golden Skans (Live At Radio One) (Klaxons) (2:43)07. The Kooks - Young Folks (Peter Bjorn And John) (4:00)08. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Whip It (Live) (Devo) (3:10)09. Kate Nash - Men's Needs (The Cribs) (2:59)10. My Chemical Romance - Song 2 (Live At Radio One) (Blur) (2:03)11. Get Cape. Wear Cape.Fly. - D.A.N.C.E. (Justice) (3:57)12. The Wombats - Bleeding Love (Live) (Leona Lewis) (4:10)13. Bloc Party - Say It Right (Live At Radio One) (Nelly Furtado) Read more:Awards
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Born Ruffians - Red Yellow & Blue 2008-03-11 20:22:47 Download (rapidshare)VBR / 49mbYear: 2008Label: Warpbornruffians.comMore about the bandSimilar artists: Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Modest MouseDon't miss it! Just give it a try and then decide.AMG: 3+"Red Yellow
& Blue's primary colors are an apt metaphor for Born Ruffians' sound: The band sticks mostly to indie-rock basics on their debut album, delivering lots of strummy guitars and yelped call-and-response vocals that can trace their roots back to the Pixies and Modest Mouse and through to Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown. [..] Red Yellow & Blue is far from bad -- and fans of the bands mentioned above may find them quite good -- but next time, Born Ruffians should try for the musical equivalent of orange, green and purple instead."Pitchfork: 8"Scenes often imply a style, but for
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