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Sleep Bellum Sonno – A House Of Spades – MP3 Download & Song Review


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Sleep Bellum Sonno - A House Of Spades

“A House Of Spades” could have made it on the soundtrack to the new Alice In Wonderland flick. Instead the people that came up with the tunes for that movie decided to put a bunch of watered down tracks on it instead of material worthy of such a tripped out subject. Needless to say “A House Of Spades” succeeds at entertaining even with duo vocals that are as opposite as day is to night but fit the odd composition well. I’m imagining people that are way into Cursive and mewithoutYou liking Sleep Bellum Sonno, let me know if I am wrong.

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MP3 Grab Bag #9


With brand new, free MP3s from Red Sparrowes, Nada Surf, The Pack AD, and many more why wouldn’t you download this weeks Grab Bag straight to your desktop with one easy click?

Click here to download Grab Bag 9 (Zip File)

Featuring new songs by these bands:
Dan Falconberry – Nightingale
Red Sparrowes – Giving Birth To Imagined Saviors
N.A.M.B – L.O.N
Nada Surf – Electrocution
Nick Jaina – Sleep Child
The Pack AD – Crazy
Velvet Davenport – Get Out
Hoquiam – Zombies of the Sea
Josiah Wolf – Master Cleanse
Linfinity – Martians Bloom

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MP3 Grab Bag #8


Alas, there is so much music these days. How is one to sift through all the seemingly endless amount of bands out there? Here’s the answer – you don’t have to because we do it for you. Each week we post the best new songs to download with only the click of a mouse and voila…. they show up on your desktop. You’re welcome.

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Songs featured on this weeks MP3 Grab Bag:
Aloha – Moonless March
Communipaw – Take Over
Communipaw – 23
Hooray For Earth – Surrounded By Your Friends
Karnivool – Set Fire To The Hive
Lawrence Arabia – Apple Pie Bed
Ted Leo – The Mighty Sparrow
Via Audio – Babies

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Awesome Color new MP3 Download – Transparent


Awesome Color – Transparent

One of the hardest working bands in the business, Awesome Color has spent the better part of the past six years touring their asses off with bands like Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr, winning over fans the old fashioned way- word of mouth.  Detroit Rock City’s finest delivers their 3rd full length this Spring and will be touring this March through April with a stop at Austin’s SXSW music festival.

Awesome Color on tour:

3/3   Rochester, NY             Bug Jar
3/4   Poughkeepsie, NY      Vassar (students only)
3/6   Purchase, NY              Purchase (students only)
3/7   Brooklyn, NY               Market Hotel
3/8   Baltimore, MD             Ottobar
3/9   Raleigh / Chapel Hill    Local 506
3/10 Atlanta, GA                  529 Club
3/11 New Orleans, LA         Circle Bar
3/12 San Antonio,TX           The Ten Eleven
3/13 Monterrey, MEXICO    Festival Nrmal
3/17-20    Austin, TX    SXSW
3/21 Oklahoma City, OK      Sauced
3/22 Little Rock, AR             Vino’s Brewpub
3/23 Nashville, TN                Little Hamilton Art Collective
3/24 Lexington, KY               Al’s Bar
3/25 Cincinnati, OH              Art Damage
3/26 Toledo, OH                   Woodchuck’s
3/27 Detroit, MI                    CAID

* all dates with TYVEK except SXSW

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Vicelords – I Christen Thee Vicelords – Album Review


Written By Tony Martin
Score: 10/10 (Flawless Victory)

Local music is a mixed bag, in the sense that most of it is a popularity contest. Where I come from is no exception. Elgin, Illinois is filled to the brim with good to great punk rock bands. So when members of some of those great bands got together a few years ago to form Vicelords, I was blown away.

Aside from a few tracks on MySpace, all I have heard was the tracks they play live. Their full length, “I Christen Thee Vicelords” has been in the making for what seems like three years or so. It became Elgin’s version of “Chinese Democracy”, and nobody talked about it for quite awhile. Well, it’s out now, and it seems like the wait was completely worth it.

Fans of 80s hardcore punk will find this album completely essential. It doesn’t sound or feel like it came out just less than a month ago. The cover art, drawn by local artist Natalie Wiseman, is insane to say the least. Cats with all sorts of stuff coming out of their eyeballs are an abrasive image, but it serves the record perfectly.

Vicelords – Gnats Between Our Teeth

Opener “Gnats Between Our Teeth” is the best song I have heard in years, and there isn’t a song that even touches the shit fit of balls out punk rock that this song packs into its one minute and twenty four seconds. The next two tracks, “Through the Blackened Eyes of Reginald Denny” and “You Look Fat in That” ripped through my car speakers and had me so blown away I had to play them both again before I could even move on. The bass heavy melodies and off the wall drum beats drive all these songs like Husker Du’s “Land Speed Record” and Big Black’s “Atomizer”, two of my all time favorite records.

The rest of the record flows without a lull. Eleven songs in seventeen minutes will do that, and “I Christen Thee Vicelords” never lets up. Even the slower “Blubber” fades into “Box Cutter Rebellion”, a song that might make you want to just start punching shit. “Chinese Finger Trap” and “Dana Plato” left me speechless, and those songs I have heard on the Internet for years. They are just that good.

If you have any concept of 80s hardcore, you know that this isn’t your typical chug chug hardcore, equipped with breakdowns and fashion sense. There is a keen sense of melody and there are hooks all over the place. I have had the album for three weeks now and it hasn’t left my car stereo. I love it so much that I brought my laptop out to my car and chain smoked in the freezing cold listening to it. Its so good that I want to make all my friends hear it, so I have been driving people everywhere so they can get a taste of this classic album. Yes, it is so good that I consider it classic.

I cannot repeat this enough: FIND THIS RECORD AND GET A HOLD OF IT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. It is everything that it good about punk rock, and its got a Minutemen cover on it. People who don’t like the Minutemen suck, and people who don’t like this record simply haven’t heard it. Get it, play it loud, and be converted to the way of the Vicelords.

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THE SECRET HISTORY unveil new single “Johnny Anorak”


Having written an album that was just labeled “best of the decade” by Kip Berman (of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart) as a guest editor for Pitchfork, Michael Grace, Jr. (of cult indie-pop icons My Favorite) and his decade long collaborators have remodeled their sound for the new decade with The Secret History.  This band’s upcoming debut full-length album, The World That Never Was, declares the beginning of the ‘Post-Pop’ era with a conceptual record concerned with the monsters and ghosts of youth. Now joined by singer Lisa Ronson (daughter of glam rock legend Mick Ronson), both the bright lights and shadows of Grace & Co.’s songs come to life in a wholly new way.

They’ve reconciled all their musical pasts into a sound that has been compared to The Smiths, Roxy Music and Felt.  Their debut EP was described as if one “imagines that if Dusty Springfield were alive and young today (and a fan of Bikini Kill and glam rock), she may have released something just like Desolation Town.” (PopMatters)

Listen to their new single “Johnny Anorak” (MP3)

The World That Never Was is released on March 22 on the Le Grand Magistery label.

Upcoming Live Dates:

02.14.10 @ Zebulon in Brooklyn, New York

03.18.10 @ Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, New York

05.23.10 @ Littlefield in Brooklyn, New York

For more information:

www.thesecrethistory.net

www.myspace.com/friendsofthesecrethistory

www.magistery.com

www.myspace.com/legrandmagistery

Biography:

The Secret History is an NYC-based band featuring cult songwriter Michael Grace, Jr. and his decade-long co-conspirators from the adored (but obscured) indiepop group My Favorite. The band also features the debut of vocalists Lisa Ronson (daughter of glam rock legend Mick Ronson) and Erin Dermody. Grace’s lyrics turn bare bedsit walls into drive-in theatres, while Ronson’s singing alternates between the emotive and the plaintive — one minute channeling Dusty Springfield, the next, Kirsty Macoll. Behind them, guitarist Darren Amadio, keyboardist Kurt Brondo, bassist Gil Abad, and drummer Tod Karasik tailor soundscapes to suit each changing mood. Together, they are creating a new kind of cinematic post-pop, drawing from the rainy jangles of C86, the buzz & stomp of glam, and the light & air of the classic girl groups (particularly apparent in Ronson and Dermody’s harmonies). The end result has drawn comparisons to The Patti Smith Group, Roxy Music, The Smiths, and Felt.

The Secret History crystallized when Ronson answered an ad placed by Grace, Jr. in the Village Voice seeking a “tragic female voice.” She noted that the influences he listed — Dylan, Bowie, Lou Reed, Morrissey — had all worked with her father. Living with her mother on the edge of Chelsea, Ronson had never been in a band before, content to occasionally sing back-up for artists like Ian Hunter. After growing up around great music in London and Woodstock, NY, she was willing to wait until she happened across songs (and people) she could believe in. As she explains:

“I always thought a memorable song was one that seemed to have existed before anyone ever wrote it. Like all of the music and lyrics were there just waiting to be found. That’s the sort of thing I wanted to be a part of. When I met Michael and the boys, I felt like I had finally found it.”

Michael Grace, Jr., for his part, spent the late Nineties as the prototypical small town savant. Reading Saint Augustine while kicking around with a suedehead gang on Long Island made him an enigma, even as his songs made him a contender. His first foray into music was My Favorite, formed with childhood schoolmate Amadio, which overcame its DJ-befuddling name to release two critically acclaimed records at the turn of the century. Many of their favorite artists took note, leading to opening slots for Belle & Sebastian, The Magnetic Fields, and The Bouncing Souls. Morrissey featured one of their tracks on his between act concert mix and the second My Favorite album, 2003’s The Happiest Days of Our Lives, was named “Best of the Decade” in Pitchfork by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart frontman Kip Berman.

Shining moments aside, My Favorite became used to swimming against the tide, pushing literate new wave on a nation still in the lingering throes of grunge. After a decade as perpetual outsiders, the band broke up in 2005, a mere two years before The Killers would ride a similar sound into the mainstream charts.

The demise of My Favorite left a handful of unfinished songs, the first inkling of a much-rumored “B-Movie Monster” album. In 2009, The Secret History came together to expand on those early sketches and breathe new life into a cast of characters that includes zombie hipsters, suicidal vampires, flickering phantoms, and the occasional Sicilian saint. Grace, Jr. elaborates:

“I began to see so many of my friends and other people of my generation as haunted creatures. The Smiths, drugs, the end of the century…something had cast a long shadow over us. We began this record wanting to make heroes out of them, but ended up with only monsters.”

The resulting full-length, entitled The World That Never Was, was recorded with Josh Clark (Beirut, The New Pornographers) with a little transatlantic help from Woodie Taylor (Love Is All, Comet Gain). Like The Secret History’s debut EP Desolation Town, it will be released by the seminal Le Grand Magistery label, responsible for bringing literate and provocative artists like Momus, Stars, Baxendale, and PAS/CAL to American audiences.

The band has been building a steady buzz with events like their quarterly Modern Problems parties, and the recent Salon Des Refusés event at The Bellhouse. At NYC Popfest, they’ve shared the stage with Love Is All and The Radio Dept. Now, at long last, they’ve collected all their demons together into a monstrously beautiful record, a glittering thing made from the broken bits of their pasts.

The World That Never Was will be released by Le Grand Magistery on March 22, 2010.

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Extra Life – (Pay Up) The Ladder – Free MP3 Download


Extra Life – (Pay Up) The Ladder

Brooklyn experimental group Extra Life’s new album Made Flesh will be coming out March 30.  Extra Life is fronted by guitarist/composer Charlie Looker, a core member of legendary brutal chamber ensemble Zs who has worked with Dirty Projectors, Glenn Branca, William Parker and the S.E.M. Ensemble. The band will head out on tourstarting in February.

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MP3 Grab Bag #4 (free music)


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Bands are only as good as you allow them to be. See if these bands have what you are looking for. These songs are singles from their albums, and they are Free!

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Songs featured on our Grab Bag #4:
Avi Buffalo “What’s In It For?”
Efterklang “Modern Drift”
Fang Island “Daisy”
Fang Island “Life Coach”
Fools Gold “Weird Tapes Version”
Little Girls “Growing”
Olof Arnalds “Growing”
Shearwater “Castaway”
Tigercity “Ancient Lover (fhrremix)”
Tristeza “Manitas”
Vulture Whale “The Pipe”

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MP3 Grab Bag #3


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You want some great free new music by amazing bands? Well then, here you go!

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Featuring these great new songs:
Alvin Band “Mantis Preying Ate Single”
Beach House “Norway”
CFCF “Monolith”
The Dead Trees “Rayna (demo)”
Fredrik “Locked in the Basement”
Furcast “Greyls Old”
Holly Miranda “Forest Green Oh Forest Green”
Letting Up Despite Our Faults “In Steps”
Mean Creek “(OrTheUnderground)”
Midnight Masses “Walk On Water”
Miracles of Modern Science “Bossa Supernova”
Summer Dregs “Bones”
Tape Deck Mountain “On My Honor”
Tape Deck Mountain “Scantron (remix)
Technoir MA “Roundabout”
The New Loud “Dont Dance”
Toro Y Moi “Blessa”

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MP3 Grab Bag #2


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You want some great free new music by amazing bands? Well then, here you go!

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Featuring these great new songs:
A Sunny Day In Glasgow “Failure”
Atlas Sound “Doctor (Five Discs Cover)”
Bluebrain “Bring Out Your Dead”
Jasone Boesel “Hand Of God”
Joan Of Arc “Friend In Common”
Josh Ottum “Like the Season, it’s Alright Single”
LoneLady “Immaterial”
Midnight Masses “Walk On Water”
Mother Hips “Third Floor Story”
Mother Hips “White Falcon Fuzz”
Pants Yell “Cold Hands”
Princeton “Sadie And Andy”
The Bravery “The Spectator”
The Wooden Sky “Something Hiding For Us in the Night”
The Mercury Program “Arrived Departed”

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MP3 Grag Bag #1


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New bad-ass Grab Bag songs:
ARMS “Kids Aflame”
ARMS “Tiger Tamer”
Atlas Sound (Feat Noah Lennox) “Walkabout”
Bluebrain “Ten by Ten”
Cat Party “Rhapsody In Black”  (from their Bionic Ear session)
Fitz and The Tantrums “Winds of Change”
Matt Pond PA “Halloween”
Mr. Gnome “Slow Slide”
Mr. Gnome “Vampires”
PJ Bond “You Too”
Radiohead “These Are My Twisted Words”
The Soft Pack “Answer To Yourself”
Thomas Function “Belly of the Beast”

- Every week we will be stuffing our little grab bag full of the best new free music from bands you may or may not know. Oh what a surprise you are in store for.

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