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Thursday, May 06, 2004

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more instudios from seattles kexp

the shins
iron and wine

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short wave

throwing muse kristen hersh gets in touch with her inner cobain with her 50 Foot Wave project.

mp3s live in studio at KEXP seattle, wa


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rat race

"Formerly known as Cherry, this NYC duo is already familiar to hipsters from touring with Interpol. (In fact, Interpol's Paul Banks occasionally guests on guitar.) Ratatat's founders, Mike "Snake" Stroud and Evan ''E*Vax" Mast, have been making music out of a Crown Heights apartment in Brooklyn since 2001, their unique sound born of a combined love of Jay-Z, The Rolling Stones, Timbaland, and Beethoven. Mike is one of New York's best guitarists and has spent his time touring the world with Ben Kweller and Dashboard Confessional; Evan has been producing music as E*vax for the past few years. Now back in their bedroom studio, the pair have made a sing-along record, just without words. While dance music is trying to re-invent itself and rock is returning to its roots, Ratatat seem to make a happy mess in both fields."

mp3 seventeen years


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magic acts

"One of the advantages of being almost as tall as Muggsy Bogues is being able to sneak to the front pretty easily even in a packed house - and I must say that the kids there to see Mira and and the other "complicated" bands on the bill were amongst the nicest I've ever come across. To the music - White Magic sounds kinda like what Qix*o*tic would be if it was just Mira's parts. She plays both the keys and guitar and performs each song with a depth and poignancy that echoes 'White Rabbit" under water on shrooms in December. Well, to me at least."

mp3 one note from through a sun door


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lali lali lali

new lali puna streaming and quicktime vid

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zip it up

"When you listen to the wonky and warm harmonies found throughout Joy Zipper, you might be reminded of the first stirrings of a good trip (that slight, buzzy bump of well being and of everything just beginning to detach). And then you learn and understand that LSD was the key to much of Vinny's writing, on this five-years-in-the-gestating, two-years-in-the-making home project. "My father died when I was five, and I accepted it," says Vinny. "But acid freed my mind during a very depressed period of my life, and now it's great to be rid of it and pass it on to other people. The music isn't as morbid as some of the words. I've constructed a false reality around the subject. It's a lot like Long Island itself, with its beautiful lawns; when there is a lot going on unseen." Hence the reason why this cartharsis doesn't seem much like a burden at all."

mp3 check out my new jesus


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autoban

"2 years ago I first heard the crude home made recordings of Devendra Banhart, then a homeless, wandering, neo psych/folk hippie artist and musician, not yet 21 years old. We released these recordings on YGR because we'd never heard anything quite like them, ever. His voice - a quivering high-tension wire, sounded like it could have been recorded 70 years ago - these songs could have been sitting in someone's attic, left there since the 1930's. The response was astounding . Devendra soon moved here to NYC (from SF), where he lived in squats, couch-surfed, and finally found himself a home (very recently), suddenly riding a tidal wave of press acclaim, 3 or 4 US tours, tours in Europe, a special feature on NPR (for God's sake) – in short, a seismic shift in his fortunes. He's the most genuine, least cynical and calculated artist I've ever known, and he deserves every bit of the good things now coming his way. He's also one of the most innately talented, magical performers I have ever heard. Period. He GIVES. This kind of generosity and breadth of emotion is all too rare these days. Whether the songs are pained, twisted, whimsical, or even sometimes weirdly silly, aside from being fantastically musical and expertly played, they are also utterly sincere, and devoid of a single drop of post modern irony. In short, he's the real thing."

mp3 the body breaks from rejoicing in the hands


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chew on this

"If it's ever been on K-Tel or Ronco, it's in. If it features hand claps, cow bells, syrupy orchestration, walls of sound, wrecking crews, sha-la-las, toothy teen idols or candy-based metaphors for carnal acts, it's in."

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major booty

get your bootleg on

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mp3sus

mp3 laden blogs

fluxblog
said the gramophone
mystical beast
stereogum
the suburbs are killing us
moistworks
teaching indie kids...
the tofu hut
nevercamehome
chromewaves

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