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[scarred]

fucking sexy. dl'ing.

[scarred]

no laserdance in the tracklist. a little disappointed, but I have their discography so I'm not complaining too much.

[Zingoleb]

Both Glitter and Doom Tour uploads aren't working.

Fuck.

[De_El]

Yessss Spacer Woman is so good Valerie Dore is so good

[Professor Snuggles]

I know you guys hate me as a rule, consider this a peace offering cuz this record is fucking great.

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[valley_parade]

Errorrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[Professor Snuggles]

That's a bummer, cuz I'm really enjoying it

[JD]

Me too

[JD]

I'll re-up it when I get the chance.(if kieff doesn't)

[scarred]

I MISS EVERYTHING FUN

[JD]

Plastic Beach

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[abel]

new album coming real soon. check him out live even sooner.
heres 3 tracks to whet yo appetite.
Tobacco - Maniac Meat (samplr)

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[Scandanavian War Machine]

this page has won my heart

[scarred]

Plastic Beach

Is track 13 corrupt for anyone else?

[JD]

track 13(if anyone has that problem)

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[E. Spaceman]

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Can - Tago Mago

[Dimmukane]

Pretty Lights released a new EP for download today, here.  It's free, and it is really good electro-dub-triphop-whatever.

[KvP]

Interestingly enough, those guys are from this town. I was just talking with the other radio guys about how they're blowing up. Strange as really, nothing ever happens in this town (except the Balloon Boy shit). Scalpers are selling tickets to their show at the local theater for hundreds of dollars. I played one of their songs on my show by request, it was pretty good.

[E. Spaceman]

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Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising

[gospel]

Titus Andronicus - The Monitor

"A More Perfect Union" (YouTube)
MySpace

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http://www.mediafire.com/?tnyhz1mwnmoBasically, a concept album about the civil war (shocking, right?). It's been described as less Springsteen and more sloppy Oberst. Needless to say, it's had some good reviews and some snarlingly contemptuous ones. Perhaps, it's best to not go over this one with a fine tooth comb.

I also find it odd that this is the second song/album that mentions the civil war ship (i.e. Bishop Allen).

4.5

Everything about The Airing of Grievances indicated to me that Titus Andronicus are supposed to be a terrible band. Their vocalist can’t sing, their musicianship is sloppy, and they always sound a tequila shot away from puking and passing out on your mum’s unreasonably expensive couch. Not to mention, they’re named after the most woefully violent play Shakespeare ever put his name to, of which even smarmy, toupeed scholars gawk as they polish their monocles. But The Airing of Grievances was brilliant; a breath of fresh air amongst the growing number of bands experimenting with a lo-fi aesthetic experiencing a revitalization. Enter The Monitor and with it dispel every doubt Titus Andronicus aren’t one of the best. For one thing, it’s only the bands second album and one of the most ambitious sophomore efforts in recent memory at that. Even from the bands own mouths, its absurdity is a little difficult to explain. It’s been touted as a concept record for the civil war, except anachronistic and with pop culture references to The Dark Knight and Curb Your Enthusiasm, amongst others. It’s about how “they’re all out to get us” but “maybe not”. Perhaps most fittingly, it’s about “trying to live decently in indecent times”. And that’s all before you get to the intimidating track listing, which includes a 14-minute closer and two 9-minute back-to-back centre pieces. You certainly can’t accuse these guys of shying away from a challenge.

The truth is The Monitor basks in its own self-hyped extravagance. Though everything about it just reeks of wild, exorbitant self-indulgence and complete disregard for what anyone thinks, that’s a huge portion of its charm. The very fact that a 14 minute closer from a no-frills punk band actually works, and with an energy that often seems unparalleled, is reason enough for a ‘holy ***’ to pass appropriately through the lips of any doubtful listener. It isn’t just the sign of a band coming into their own but of breaking every barrier they once had. This is Titus Andronicus clutching their balls and jumping straight into the deep end, with no Wendy the lifeguard to bail them out if they can’t quite hack it. Where The Airing of Grievances preached, The Monitor calls to arms.

A lot of this flair comes down to the image the band projects of themselves through their music, and particularly lead singer Patrick Stickles. He operates under a makeshift working mans existentialism, articulating bar-lit tales of failure and boozy self-loathing in a way that almost feels inspiring, betraying its subject matter to a point where you’re singing along to the “you will always be a loser!” gang vocals as if it's something to be celebrated. His cynical, strained shouts instill a sense of urgency, paranoia, as if his life and yours depend on what he’s saying, though underlined by an obvious inclination for the melodramatic. Stickles falls perfectly between the point of being too disenchanted to be content with a middle class existence and too carefree to be nihilistic. He’s sarcastic, he’s bitter, he’s angry, and he is, simply put, one of the finest purveyors of the modern, sordid, post-teen anthem, perhaps only outshined by the fanatical Jeff Rosenstock.

Yet for all of Stickles’ street corner philosophizing, there’s always a constant: the music chugs along, like a locomotive, reflecting on his sharp introspection with enthusiastic, galloping instrumentation. And at its finest, The Monitor is bustling and rowdy, brave and joyfully uproarious. “A Pot In Which To Piss” begins slow and slurred before shifting gears into a Springsteen-esque hair-in-the-wind E Street jam, though vacant of The Boss’ aged optimism (“You ain’t never been no virgin, kid / You’ve been ***ed from the start”). “Titus Andronicus Forever” is a 2-minute gang shout of “The enemy is everywhere!” and the reflective “Theme from Cheers” explodes with the rallying cry: “Give me a Guinness / Give me a keystone light / Give me a kegger / on a Friday night!” and it suggests exactly what Titus Andronicus excel at: peel away the layers and what you have here is a damn good time. These songs feel equally at home on a battlefield as they do in your buddy’s crazy, liquor-stained basement; sprawling tributes to artists like Bruce Springsteen and The Replacements that beg to be shouted and screamed far above the volume knob on the stereo will turn.

The basis on which everything really falls into place, where this becomes more than just a lo-fi punk album made by indie kids with a Springsteen fetish, is one that is sure to polarize opinions, particularly critical; it shoots for the gut. It’s an album that focuses so heavily on feeling and of hitting whatever connection it can with a listener, grabbing them by the scruff of the neck and pulling them into their world. You don’t feel a connection with Stickles but rather with everything he represents, everything he sings about, you’re shoulder to shoulder in a crowded room of everyone else going through the same problems, the same worries and when he cries: “It’s still us against them!” you know whose side you’re on. The aesthetic built off Stickles’ heightened sense of discontent isn’t one of overwhelming self-pity but rather acceptance, to make the most of what you have, and the music echoes those sentiments in its carefree extravagance. At the end of the day, The Monitor’s brashness pays off through the ambition, confidence, and talent of its visionaries. This is what punk rock is all about.

[scarred]

There is too much 'real music' in this thread. Time to bring in the wrecking ball.

Erasure - I Say I Say I Say [1994]

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Ignore the atrocious art and download it because this is the album that features the song ALWAYS from the game ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK.

[SWOON! at My Gravitas]

Scarred, you are my favorite thing ever

[the_pied_piper]

You all want this album so download it fuckers.

Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This

... loud, fuzzy, unapologetic and catchy.

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[blackfeltfedora]

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Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising

An amazing album, get it!!!

[youthcant]

I can't think of many concepts much worse than "Xiu Xiu plays with 8-bit".

Xiu Xiu makes another music video

Humph...
This video was terrific!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJFmpLvofrM

[Orcusmars]

Erasure - I Say I Say I Say [1994]

You are my new best friend.

[E. Spaceman]

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Nation of Ulysses - 13 Point Program to Destroy America

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Haddaway - What Is Love

[KvP]

Classic.

[Catacombs]

Rules:

No hot-linking images or albums. You can re-host images at http://imageshack.us.

Ensure your tags are correct and that you have specified both Artist/Album in your post.

Upload your files in either a .zip or a .rar archive to mediaf!re.com, in multiple parts if the album is over 100mbs. The reason for this is that we know mediaf!re is safe and efficient and allows multiple downloads. The ads on other sites, such as Sendspace, are known to contain viruses on the page. Get yourself checked out.

Post your link using code tags. It's the # icon above the policeman emoticon. This prevents the links from being traced back to the forums, lowering the chance that the wrong people notice the thread, potentially threatening Jeph with legal action.

Also, please do NOT request albums. This includes requests for re-uploads; if you miss it, try looking for it somewhere else.

Repost the rules at the top of each new page.

[A Wet Helmet]

I saw these guys last night.   Middle Class Rut-- or MC Rut if you prefer-- is a noisy, post-punk (for lack of a better genre) duo that creates a whole lot of sound for just two guys.   A crack-addict-skinny drummer with "FOR SALE" tattooed on his chest in four inch tall letters and a J'Lo inspired headset mic coupled with a Melody Maker playing guitarist who (at least last night) was trying like hell to look like Darby Crash.   How can you go wrong, right?

Having had this EP for awhile, I was honestly expecting a Melt-Banana sized pedal board and a whole lot of knob fiddling  before, during, and after every song.  It didn't happen.  A couple of guitar swaps and one instance of knob fiddling was all I saw which makes me wonder...  How do they get all that sound?


Middle Class Rut - 25 Years EP

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[pogonrudie]

Sounds great, thanks.

[scarred]

Plastic Beach

just noticed track 12 cuts out in the middle... can i get an up on that? *puppy dog eyes*

[JD]

Fine jeez alright hold on

shabang

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[scarred]

you're the prettiest

[DMart]

I make a share:

Fritzwicky - Time Flies (2009)

[a thing]

Local (Melbourne) band, of which I am a member. Making CD attempt number 1.

We put them in a shoe box, hoping someone would give them a good home - but the time has come let go and release them into the wild.

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Our influences include Zappa, Volta, Faith No More and the Wiggles - though they don't come out so much in these recordings. Bit of a variety here - Ian is a hip-hop tinged alternative do, Bam is a much more basic and rhythm driven pop-punk-ish (?) tune, Index 13 jumps around a bit (but ends on a nice relaxing note), and L'allemand Souirant is kind of melodic and i guess a little more emotional (?!?) than the others... or something.

(god damn I hate describing music when I've had anything to do with it)

You're a pretty cool dude for putting this up for free

I am genuinely uncertain about whether that comment was genuine or not.. but hey, a free bump's a free bump!

Anyway sorry for hijacking the thread a little, but I've noticed we got a few people downloading this - if anyone would like to shoot through opinions or anything please PM me, we're always looking for feedback.

Cheers guys - and in the spirit of the thread, I now give you:

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Calibration (2008)

Anyone who has grokked the deep magical hoodoo from Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's solo projects knows he's nothing if not prolific. In 2007 alone he issued a 12" EP with former Can vocalist Damo Suzuki, the barnburner Se Dice Bisonte, No
Bùfalo album, and a five-track EP with spoken word artist, novelist, essayist, and expatriate American artist Lydia Lunch — on three different labels — and composed the soundtrack to the Guillermo Arriaga film El Bufalo de la Noche. All of this was apart from his recording, writing, and touring duties as lead guitarist of the knottiest, most admittedly self-indulgent band in rock. Calibration is the logical successor to his Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo set (an actual rock tribute to Arriaga's film) and the Mars Volta's Bedlam in Goliath, which was released on January 29, 2008, a week before this. That said, don't expect this to be simply a follow-up album in the same vein. Rodriguez-Lopez is far too mercurial for that to be the case. This one is almost equal parts loopy, knotty progressive and experimental rock and electronics. Yes, all the members of the Mars Volta are present in various places, but so are Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante (as "vocalist" on "Glosa Picaresca Wou Men") and Money Mark (on synths on "El Monte T'aï" and "...Is Pushing Luck" — with Cedric Bixler-Zavala from the Volta on vocals) as well other friends and numerous family members. The influence of artists like Frank Zappa on Rodriguez-Lopez in terms of both his truly amazing guitar playing as well as his manner of composing actual rock songs is uncanny.

But the guitar is only one element that Omar uses on Calibration. Given that this was recorded for N2O, a label known for its DJ mashups (DJ Starscream from Slipknot is also on the roster), Rodriguez-Lopez uses more electronics on this set than he has ever employed on his solo projects in the past. The way in which they are used, however, is anything but "danceable." They add noise, texture, dimension, atmosphere, humor, and even terror. Check the soundtrack-like feel of "Grey (Cancion Para El)," with its user of various televisions, guitars, Kim Humphries violin, and overdriven pedals to stretch time and even the sense of dimension in the piece. Dynamics are turned inside out, and this begins as a lament, and perhaps ends as a funeral travelogue, but in the middle? Entire sonic universes get jarringly complex. The guitars sting and play off one another as disembodied voices and noises from television programs past and present shift through the soundscape, sometimes violently. Frusciante chants like a deranged Zappa in the backdrop about the devil until the tune gets cut in the middle of a phrase as "Sidewalk Fins," with its sinister, acid-damaged sense of foreboding, tension, and doom, slowly creeps into the center. Thomas Pridgen's drumming is a signature in this piece, as breakbreats, Tony Williams-like drum rolls, and fills cross the middle of the mix and are painted by Omar's Rhodes, guitars, and drum loops. "Lick The Tilting Poppies," where Omar is singing, playing bass, guitar, synths, clavinet, and of course guitar, is accompanied by Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez and Humphries in an unhinged cruise through the nightmare side of dope-a-vision. The melody and lyric, both in Spanish mode and language, evolve into something grand, majestic, and utterly beautiful. The album ends with its longest track, "Las Lagrimas de Arakuine," with a simple quartet as Omar plays guitar and synths, Juan Alderete de la Peña plays bass, Pridgen plays drums, and Marcel colors with more synths. It's a long drum- and guitar-driven jam that feels in its own way out of place on the set, until a bit later on. It's haunting, intense, spaced-out, and is a transcendent work of futuristic beauty and melody. If Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo was Omar's rock & roll tribute to cinema, this is its doppelgänger in reverse, an aural cinema of sound that offers a new direction for rock that is not only listenable for all of its excesses and indulgence, but compelling and actually emotionally moving. Calibration is Omar's most adventurous yet most realized moment as a solo artist thus far, and given his other work, and especially the Mars Volta's Bedlam in Goliath, that's saying plenty.

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[JD]

genuine

[DarkAvenger]

If this was posted then I missed it:



Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

The Brutalist Bricks

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[SWOON! at My Gravitas]

Not really a mf!re link, but there is a good sludge band called Thou that has their discography available for free download on their website.  The website design is pretty bad, but if you just keep scrolling down you'll come to the downloads section.

Their two full lengths, "Peasant" and "Tyrant" are more atmospheric, while the buttsload of EPs they've done are heavier and dirty as fuck.

[amok]

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

The Brutalist Bricks

yesssssssssssss

[De_El]

Thou are legit. I like them a lot. I played some of their stuff on my student radio show last year when I was playing all stoner/doom/sludge/drone metal

[medicatesleep]

400 Blows - Black Rainbow

"This three piece (Skot-vocals, Christian-guitar, Ferdinand-drums) hails from Los Angeles, CA. They've been playing together for about 5 years. They describe themselves as an anti-melody band. Probably because the drummer and the guitarist lock themselves into taut, relentless, rhythm heavy grooves. The vocalist then skillfully bobs, weaves and jabs his way around these syncopated, complex compositions of noise with his caustic brand of story telling. Their live performances are well known for being extremely tight, powerful, and unique. The sole guitar player flanks the stage with two 100 watt half stacks that provide for an interesting blast of sonic intensity. The long awaited follow up to "3.19.98", "Black Rainbow" is now available through Rehash Records. Not exactly anything you'd expect. Simply a distinctive fusion of power, rhythm, and energy. This is 400 BLOWS."

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[KvP]

Skot

Skot

Skot

Skot

[JD]

There are weirder names.

[Scarychips]

S E L F H E L P -- T H O M A S (2009)

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Thomas Gill, the mastermind behind T H O M A S, hails from Toronto and is best-known these days for being the guitarist/percussionist who accompanies Owen Pallett on tour. When he has a break, he usually tours with his own music, his own band. Differing from Owen Pallett symphonic/orchestral pop, Thomas Gill makes straight-up pop. It is both catchy, soulful, humourous and goddamn good. Live, he plays the guitar magnificiently and has no trouble falsetto-ing and singing in his normal voice right after.

[geodescent]

Natural Wonders - Thunderstorms: Soothing Sounds of Nature (1995)

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Story
Some back-story is available about the Natural Wonders stores that used to be in some malls. Just Google "Natural Wonders - Thunderstorms" and take a look at the Ask MetaFilter link. I can't really place the true release date of the CD, but I know mine was listed as 1999 on the back cover, as my tags will show, but it may have been released as early as 1995. Others say the CD was released in 2000. I guess on this one you have to make up your own mind on the release date. Also, I have different album art (from a 2006 version) embedded into the MP3s than posted above, because at the time I tagged them, the above album art did not exist online. This release is very rare as far as I can tell.

Description
There is no annoying accompanying music; it is just the thunderstorms. These MP3s were encoded by me in 2008 via Exact Audio Copy at 192kbps Stereo.

Track 1: Big Sur, California (30:01)
Track 2: Florida Everglades (30:00)

[JD]

The Soviettes - LP

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http://www.mediafire.com/?wltzg12vqtmThe Land of the Clear Blue Radio

Andrew Jackson Jihad - People That Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World

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http://www.mediafire.com/?yzz5cncnithRejoice!

[E. Spaceman]

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Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy

[De_El]

Phil Lynott wants YOU


to download that record. And so do I, cus it's great.
I know back in the day they were considered "hard rock" or whatever, but I tend to think of Jailbreak more as power-pop than anything else.

[E. Spaceman]

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VA - Raiders of the Lost Dub

A selection of fine dubs mostly by Sly & Robbie but with some other choice artists.

[Kai]

I have Raiders of the Lost Dub on vinyl. It is excellent! Highly recommend it to everyone and anyone forever.