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[Vendetagainst]

That first album of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's really good, it was a slow download though. Thanks.

[gospel]

One of my favorite albums of the year. Low production, post-punk stuff.  No AMG review, so you'll have to put up with a Pitchfork one.


Titus Androncius - The Airing of Grievances

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http://www.mediafire.com/?6spzmc2izqd
http://www.myspace.com/titusandronicus
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/44095-titus-andronicus-fear-and-loathing-in-mahwah-new-jersey-stream

Titus Andronicus:
The Airing of Grievances
[troubleman Unlimited; 2008]
Rating: 8.5
Before writing the bulk of his legendary canon of plays and sonnets, William Shakespeare penned the charmingly flawed revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus. Due to its laughable bombast and over-the-top violence, its influence on contemporary culture has emerged mainly in dark comedies like Sweeney Todd or "South Park", and many Shakespeare scholars still balk at seriously analyzing the work. Of course, all these factors make the play a perfect moniker for an indie band as violent, overblown, and irreverent as Glen Rock, New Jersey's Titus Andronicus.

Despite its title's implied politeness, The Airing of Grievances qualifies more as existentialism wrapped in an anti-suburban screed. Frontman Patrick Stickles howls with anguish way beyond his 22 years, often cramming lyrics into tight spaces just to make sure he gets the last word in. Plus, as anyone who's heard five seconds of this band already knows, he sounds like Conor Oberst screaming from the bowels of hell. However, to peg these guys as "emo" would be sadly inaccurate. Sure, torn diary page scribbles clutter Airing's heart-on-sleeve, fist-in-air anthems, but the drama's more Boss than Bright Eyes, fueled by blue collar frustration and, most notably, beer.

So far Titus's rowdy live shows have generated the most buzz around the group; check your local listings, they're probably playing in a friend's tool shed near you. Those small venue acoustics translate wonderfully on the band's debut, its muffled mixing reminiscent of listening to a bar band from the men's room. Yet this inebriated aesthetic only intensifies the literary streak running through Stickles' easily excitable veins. A brusque "fuck you!" cues the band on Pogues-like opener "Fear & Loathing in Mahwah, NJ", but once the rubble clears it's a villainous quote from Titus Andronicus's Aaron the Moor that most elegantly expresses Stickles' bile: "I have done a thousand dreadful things/ ...And nothing grieves me heartily indeed/ But that I cannot do ten thousand more." As if the dreary title and playful, mock-optimistic guitar riffs of "No Future Part II: The Day After No Future" aren't enough to wrench your soul, the song ends with the closing passage from Albert Camus' The Stranger, in which the narrator wishes to be jeered by a large crowd on the day of his execution.

Of course, none of these highfalutin' shout-outs will grab your ear as powerfully as the demonic E Street Band arrangements, rife with constant builds and breakneck rhythms. Nearly every track here starts innocently, usually with a straightforward eighth-note strum or folksy melody unaware of the beating it's about to go through. Whereas a band like Arcade Fire likes to gradually crescendo to enhance the dramatic oomph, Titus can't enjoy that luxury-- not when Stickles is already screaming by the second lyric. Fortunately the band finds unconventional ways to heighten its music, like "Arms Against Atrophy", which waits three-quarters of its duration to unveil a killer, song-altering guitar riff, or the outro on "Upon Viewing Brughel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'", when the band corrals a maelstrom of stop-start solos into a steady, almost rockabilly groove.

Three-minute war cry "Titus Andronicus" best encapsulates Airing's pathos, and serves as a fitting primer for an otherwise hefty and (initially) inscrutable album. Bemoaning the creativity-crushing effects of his environs ("I'll write my masterpiece some other day"), Stickles imagines a conformist nightmare of no sex, no booze, and no cigarettes, blurting "fuck everything, fuck me" in between two verses just for effect. As Airing's most memorable moment, the song's taunting chorus maxim "Your life is over!" becomes to these guys what "In the name of love!" was for early U2. On a lyric sheet, Titus Andronicus may appear to espouse the sort of wrist-cutting histrionics emo's typically lambasted for, but the magic lies in the band's oddly enthusiastic grass roots delivery. They've studied their philosophy and found that life actually is pointless, so why not go down swinging?

Enjoy

[PECOAE]

My friends in the band the So So Glos and the band Fiasco play with Titus Andronicus all the time, they rule.

Much appreciated!

[Fifle]

oh my gawd!! thank you for the kings of leon!!!

[Ballard]

Does anyone in here have BRMC's American X: Baby 81 Sessions?

[LemonOfPink]

here is arthur russell's 'world of echo' it's a gorgeous album somewhere between elliot smith, nick drake and carla kihlstedt.

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I can't really emphasize my thanks for this enough. I had calling out of context and was just alright with it....but this.

[MrBlu]

Mr. Lif...


Thaaaaank you.

Next things I'm going to upload are:

Micheal Jackson "HIStory: Past, Present and Future Disc 1"
Musiq (Soulchild) "Juslisen"
Daddy Yankee "Barrio Fino En Directo [live]"
Kanye West "College Dropout" and "Late Registration"
Nas "Untitled" (as far as you all are concerned)
Mick Boogie + Busta Rhymes "Dillagence"
The Official Boondocks Mixtape
DangerDoom "The Mouse and The Mask"

So, I'm gonna get to uploading... After I play Ace Online...

[Mazeraski]

Haven't posted in a while, but I acquired something that needed to be posted.

Formerly making up half of the band Death From Above 1979, Sebastien Grainger started working on a solo career while Jesse F. Keeler formed MSTRKRFT.  This is the EP he released recently. 

Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains - American Names EP

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From his label (Saddle Creek):

When Sebastien Grainger, former drummer/singer of Death from Above 1979, set out to make his first solo record he weighed his options – in one hand he held a guitar and a microphone and, in the other, he held everything else. For the last year, amidst sporadic emergences onstage, he’s been in his studio working and reworking a set of songs that have become the EP American Names.

While Grainger will modestly tell you “every song is a problem, or an equation that I have to resolve,” it’s obvious that the outcomes are richer and more soulful than mere resolvability. Feeling like he is finally expressing himself on these new recordings, Grainger is eager to return to the road and entwine himself in the cultural fabric. Although he’s a self-described “domestic person,” Grainger’s penchant for singing loud, performing and getting sweaty is real--as real as people’s enthusiasm for him to keep doing so.

“I still haven’t written my ‘Thunder Road’” and, like all craftsmen enamored with their craft, Sebastien Grainger wouldn’t stop even if he did.

It is good.

[imagist42]

Oh thank you very much. He was supposedly on the bill here when Islands were touring after the release of Arm's Way, but was replaced by some really shitty hip-hop act. Glad to be able to hear what I assume is similar material in some form or other.

[theoryC]

Blitzen Trapper - Furr

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Blitzen Trapper - Blitzen Trapper

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Often compared to the early lo-fi eclectic mixtures of Beck, Portland, OR's Blitzen Trapper had already gone through various genres on its first few records. Led by guitarist/vocalist Eric Earley, the band is also comprised of Erik Menteer (guitar, keyboard), Brian Adrian Koch (drums, vocals), Michael Van Pelt (bass), Drew Laughery (keyboard), and Marty Marquis (keyboard, vocals). The band self-released two albums, a self-titled effort in 2003 and Field Rexx in 2005. Wild Mountain Nation came out in mid-2007.

allmusic doesn't have the scoop on Furr yet, but it's good.

[windinthewires]

Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted

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[youthcant]

Robert Fripp & Brian Eno - Evening Star

This is so FUCKING AMAZING!

Does anybody have anymore of their collaborations?  Or Ambient 2 onwards?

this is a direct download link, no alternate page. not my link.
david byrne & brian eno - everything that happens will happen today [2008]

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http://philes.spb.ru/today.rar
source = http://sadsongsfordirtylovers.blogspot.com/

[sean]

Low & Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Do You Know How to Waltz?

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No picture, no amg, for obvious reasons.

For those unfamiliar with this track, this is a bootleg of Low and Godspeed You! Black Emperor Low's absolutely incredible track Do You Know How to Waltz? in Chicago from 1998, if I am correct. The track is already at 14 minutes, and it has of the saddest wall of noise I have ever heard. However here, this song becomes something even more. At 27 minutes, this track will probably drive you insane. This is an absolutely stunning bootleg. Highly Recommended.

[yipinglim]

Jóhann Jóhannsson - IBM 1401, A User's Manual



No AMG Review, so make do with the one from Pitchfork:

The first bit of music I heard from Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson was "Odi et Amo" from his 2002 album Englabörn. The song opens with a string quartet weaving a terribly sad and romantic little platform, and standing on top is an operatic tenor run through a vocoder, voicing a poem by Catullus, sounding for all the world like a heartsick cyborg mourning the loss of power to the circuits of his beloved. Right away, Jóhannsson was presented as a composer with interesting ideas about technology and music, ideas about the sorts of feelings that might be evoked through juxtaposing electronics with history-rich references like a string quartet and an ancient poem.

On his first album for 4AD, Jóhannsson takes the ache of nostalgia for obsolete technology and inflates the melodrama to airship proportions. IBM 1401 - A User's Manual comes with a compelling back-story. Jóhannsson's father worked at IBM as a maintenance engineer for the 1401 Data Processing System, an early and popular business computer that arrived in Iceland in 1964. At that time, keeping a computer up and running involved knowledge of machinery as much as electronics; you needed to understand how ball bearings worked and know where to pour the motor oil. His father was also a musician, and he figured out a way to program the machine's memory so it emitted electromagnetic waves in a pattern that could be picked up by a radio receiver. The IBM 1401 was taken out of service in 1971, and his father gave it a farewell ceremony that included playing some of the short melodies he had composed. These tracks were recorded.

You can see where this is going. Jóhannsson found the tapes and began to write an elegy of sorts for the 1401, using some of his father's pieces as a starting point. It developed into a dance work created in collaboration with choreographer Erna Ómarsdóttir and has now been expanded into an album, complete with full orchestra. Among Jóhannsson's music that's found its way stateside, this is the most dramatic and sweeping by some margin. Gushing, cinematic strings rise and fall next to subtle electronic treatments, IBM instructional tapes on machine maintenance, and the occasional vocodered voice that hearkens back to "Odi et Amo".

The long fade into the opening "Part 1 - IBM 1401 Processing Unit", in which a crude electronic sound repeats the theme that will appear repeatedly throughout the piece, begins on precisely the right foot. The eight-note refrain drips with loss, the kind of sad tune would imagine for a mainframe about to be put out to pasture. And when the orchestra emerges and plays with the central pulse, which never wavers, Jóhannsson seems to be probing, poking at the refrain to see what else sort of feelings might be drawn out of it.

"Part 2 - IBM 1403 Printer" combines a dry recording of a voice giving instructions on the machine's maintenance over a minimal backing of bells and strings that builds in intensity as the piece goes on. There's something wonderfully Disneyfied about it, a vision of the future frozen in the 1960s accompanied by twinkling, sentimental orchestrations. Here, too, the contrast between the voice and the arrangements is enough to maintain interest.

"Part 3 - IBM 1402 Card Read-Punch" and " Part 4 - IBM 729 II Magnetic Tape Unit" however, are the album as its blusteriest, with huge swells that feel less earned and fail to resonate. "Part 5 - The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black" ends the record on a redemptive note, a robotic vocal intoning a hearbreaking little tune over a more muted backing, which then climbs to a vast climax that alternates wailing strings with the sound of malfunctioning machinery.
It's a powerful finish to a record that begins equally beautifully, but the long sag in the middle makes IBM 1401 - A User's Manual a bit harder to recommend overall. To ears conditioned by syrupy Hollywood film music, some of these orchestrations can sound over-egged, almost to the point of crass manipulation. They're pretty, no question about that, but that's not enough for a composer like Jóhannsson; the best moments come when the sweetness is heard in contrast, usually cut by a pang of longing engendered by the aching nostalgia of a future imagined in the recent past. Jóhannsson remains a fascinating composer, and the highs here can induce gooseflesh, but the record never quite gels into a coherent album-length statement.

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[Be My Head]

this track will probably drive you insane

Well damn, how can I NOT download it now? What will it do to the previously insane, I wonder...

[Vendetagainst]

Pavement

YES.

[theoryC]

Was horrified to run a search and discover no Mew in this thread.

Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites

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Mew - Frengers

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[pinkpiche]

Fuck! Both that Mystery Jets, Kings of Leon and Friendly Fires are AWE. SOME.

I think I might have to buy it all

[RedLion]

This page is made of absolute awesome!!

Mystery Jets? Kings of Leon?! TV On The Radio?!!! YES!

[gospel]

Low & Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Do You Know How to Waltz?

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?53xtfn8yr4r
No picture, no amg, for obvious reasons.

For those unfamiliar with this track, this is a bootleg of Low and Godspeed You! Black Emperor Low's absolutely incredible track Do You Know How to Waltz? in Chicago from 1998, if I am correct. The track is already at 14 minutes, and it has of the saddest wall of noise I have ever heard. However here, this song becomes something even more. At 27 minutes, this track will probably drive you insane. This is an absolutely stunning bootleg. Highly Recommended.

Thanks for this!

[rynne]

Whale - We Care

Whale isn't necessarily a band, it's a studio project by a pair of Swedish television personalities, who also happen to be ex-lovers. In other words, it's a highly stylized and manufactured album that is proud of its artificiality. Even more than that, Whale is about sex, particularly dirty, tawdry sex. From the blunt come-ons of "I'll Do Ya," to the lesbian fantasies about Saint Etienne's Sarah Cracknell on "Eurodog," We Care positively seethes with sex. No matter how dirty Whale gets ("Young, Dumb & Full of Cum" is about as far as they go), there is a jokey sense of good humor that keeps We Care from being an oppressively sleazy affair. What also helps is their reckless mixture of styles. Taking elements of trip-hop beats, heavy metal guitars, sing-song pop, and football chants, the band creates a joyously noisy racket that emphasizes their humor and their sexiness. The sound might grow a little monotonous at various points on the album, but We Care succeeds on its own raunchy charm.

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New Kingdom - Paradise Don't Come Cheap

New Kingdom's second album of twisted, slow, and dirty queasy-psychedelia funk-blues hip-hop arguably beats out the fine debut Heavy Load -- there's something even more belligerent, raunchy, and fiery about Furlow and Laws this time out. In light of later years where any number of acts wore their swampy roots heritage with pride, Paradise Don't Come Cheap seems even more prescient, at points suggesting a Goodie Mob/Bubba Sparxx collaboration produced by the RZA -- or, say, Eminem's "Square Dance" completely gone to hell -- well before its time. Indeed -- with a song title like "Kickin' Like Bruce Lee" as a perhaps fortuitous sign -- the Wu-Tang Clan probably could be the only easy comparison to New Kingdom at this point, the duo exhibiting the same confrontational attitude and attack on the verses as the larger collective. There's a less immediately desperate sound, though -- the delivery throughout, as songs like the low-speed brawl of "Terror Mad Visionary" and the absolutely mind-blowing "Co Pilot" and "Suspended in Air" easily show, flows with the beat rather than fights against it. Still, the generous echo on top of the rough-voiced sass of the two often turns particularly claustrophobic and oppressive, especially on the brief singing turns here and there -- the result is often disturbingly threatening, a slow-motion nightmare. The Lumberjacks' production, with the sharp help of folks like Scott Harding on guitar and, on a couple of cuts, the assistance of John Medeski from Medeski, Martin & Wood (his amazing organ performance on "Unicorns Were Horses" is a clear standout), makes for a clattering, woozy flow that more than once suggests what a Tom Waits -- or a Foetus! -- hip-hop album might sound like. Consider the haunted, off-kilter cabaret blues and breaks of "Infested" or the muted but snarling brass section on the title track -- or even the brief "Half Asleep," which touches on everything from James Brown to Arabic music in under a minute.

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[johnny5]

fairly low quality but cmon, it's stand up

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the last from a great

[Vendetagainst]

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[Scandanavian War Machine]

thanks for the Mitch Hedberg! he's my most favoritest comedian and it still bums me out that he's gone.

everybody, listen to Mitch Hedberg and honor his hilarity!

[Catacombs]

mitch hedberg album

I wasn't even aware this existed.  I thought he only put out Mitch Altogether and Strategic Grill Locations.  Thanks!

[johnny5]

indeed, this is actually about 40 mins worth of unreleased material, recorded about 2 months before his death

[sean]

Oh nice! Thanks dude!

[PECOAE]

So I know this will come off as shameless self-promotion but my old band Tinselfish broke up, depressingly, a few months ago today.  It consisted of forum members mfpole and myself.

Right before we broke up, we recorded three songs into an EP.  It's really lo-fi but it's fun.  It's a combination of Explosions in the Sky, Sonic Youth, Slint and a bunch of other post rock/noise bands.  No vocals, just guitar and drums.  I think this was our best stuff, it's too bad it ended so fast.

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Just putting this up as a tribute, I'll put up something by a real band later this week - tired of leeching, ha.

[fatty]

I HAVE MUSIC, THIS STUFF IS AWESOME.

Chali 2na - Fishmarket (2004)
2na, the distinctive low voice of Jurassic 5, is also really good at producing his own music - this is his mixtape.

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Chromeo - She's In Control (2004)
<3<3 I think this is called Electro-funk? Anyway, they make awesome fun music.

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T.Z.U. - Computer Love (2008)
This is an Australian hip-hop band - they are heaps fun. Kind of went a bit electro in this album, but overall it is really polished and fun.

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?bddiberl8tw

[Albatron]

I loved that Low and Godspeed on the last page, so I'll post this

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Live at All Tomorrows Parties 2003

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Tracklist

1. 3rd part
2. Dead Metheny
3. World Police
4. 12-28-99
5. Gathering Storm
6. Moya
7. Blaise Bailey Finnegan III
8. Blaise Bailey Finnegan III
9. Outro

[johnny5]

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fair warning - i'm on shitty laptop speakers so i cant tell if this is a webrip or not...it's in 192kbps but that doesnt really mean anything

there was a shitty webrip floating around earlier

p.s. it is really really good

[kifsteve]

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fair warning - i'm on shitty laptop speakers so i cant tell if this is a webrip or not...it's in 192kbps but that doesnt really mean anything

there was a shitty webrip floating around earlier

p.s. it is really really good

All the file names are messed up but it sounds good so far, thanks for the up! Also thanks to whoever posted the Stars EP before, amazing.

[johnny5]

all the filenames are correct for me (in itunes)

[Tom]

So I know this will come off as shameless self-promotion but my old band Tinselfish broke up, depressingly, a few months ago today.  It consisted of forum members mfpole and myself.

Right before we broke up, we recorded three songs into an EP.  It's really lo-fi but it's fun.  It's a combination of Explosions in the Sky, Sonic Youth, Slint and a bunch of other post rock/noise bands.  No vocals, just guitar and drums.  I think this was our best stuff, it's too bad it ended so fast.

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Just putting this up as a tribute, I'll put up something by a real band later this week - tired of leeching, ha.

Pretty sweat stuff, reminds of an indie band from Perth, Tame Impala.

[DMart]

^I saw them open for Rocket Science recently - after listening to their myspace I wasn't too enthused, but they were actually really good live. They're playing Meredith too.


Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter - Oh My Girl

Oh, My Girl, the second album by singer/songwriter Jesse Sykes and her band the Sweet Hereafter — led by Phil Wandscher — picks up where her debut, Reckless Burning, left off. Songs are played at cough-syrup tempo, production is sparse, instrumentation equally so, offering just enough of a frame for the melody and lyrics to hang themselves on, and everything, absolutely everything, is underplayed. There is plenty of dynamic tension, but little to no dynamic range. Yes, this is a good thing. Sykes' ghostly voice, which hovers about her words more than inhabits them, has enough old-world folkiness, raw — if intentionally muted — willingness, and lonesome country pain in it to carry off these tunes with authority. Produced, mixed and engineered by multi-instrumentalist Tucker Martine, Oh, My Girl is full of slow, dipping passion, moody expressionism and poetic smarts to make it stand out in a sensual, narcotic way from the rest of the gothic alterna-twang pack. And one more thing: Sykes has more emotion in the grain of her halting, cracking voice than a whole army of Margo Timmins'es — so let the comparisons stop now, please.

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By the way, I hate to be pedantic, but there's been quite a bit of stuff gone up lately that I have no idea what it is (and as far as I understood the idea of the thread was to share new and interesting musics)... reviews or at least genres are appreciated.

Thanks to whoever put up the Dirtbombs, that made my week.

[fatty]

I have some music i am thinking of uploading, give me a shout if you want more chromeo and t.z.u, urthboy, mos def, wu tang clan. blackalicous?

[valley_parade]

Chali 2na - Fishmarket (2004)

I'd heard about that a few years back but could never find it. o/!

[gardenhead_]

I have some music i am thinking of uploading, give me a shout if you want more chromeo and t.z.u, urthboy, mos def, wu tang clan. blackalicous?

oh, Blackalicious please!

[McTaggart]

urthboy

I have both his albums already, but they're pretty great if you upload this I am thoroughly recommending everyone gives him a listen. If you don't then I'll probably upload them myself. The last four or five tracks off Distant Sense... is probably my favourite side of a hiphop album I've heard.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

thought i'd upload a special little gem that none of you have ever heard before. this is a band from my area that literally destroyed every house they ever played a show at. they're legendary and, like most good bands, broke up before the world at large will realize their greatness.

The Scum Sluts - Get Shitty

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no reviews or anything available but here is their myspace if you want a better idea of what they're all about. i highly recommend this cd; it's a special kind of genius and they have a very unique sound for a punk/shitrock band.

[theoryC]

Heidi Talbot - In Love And Light

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If you're a fan of Celtic music, then Heidi Talbot's voice will likely sound familiar -- she's been the lead singer for Cherish the Ladies since 2003. On her second solo album she continues exploring a number of non-folk genres, though without completely leaving the acoustic-based context in which she has done most of her previous work. Guest musicians include folk-pop legends Boo Hewerdine and Eddi Reader, as well as former Battlefield Band fiddler John McCusker and flute/whistle virtuoso Michael McGoldrick. Talbot's breathy voice is perfectly suited to quiet songs of longing like "If You Stay" and Hewerdine's "Invisible," and she long ago learned how to make sprightly trad fare like "Bedlam Boys" her own. What's more impressive is the way she's able to deliver a hymn of grizzled regret like "Time" (the Tom Waits song) with both tenderness and convincing authority. Strangely, she fails to invest "Cathedrals" with quite the same gravitas -- Jay Clifford sang it less prettily but more convincingly with Jump, Little Children. But her version is still plenty enjoyable, and if it's the weakest track on this album -- and arguably it is -- then that just goes to show what an impressive record this is. Very highly recommended.

[MrBlu]

I have some music i am thinking of uploading, give me a shout if you want more chromeo and t.z.u, urthboy, mos def, wu tang clan. blackalicous?

Blackalicious. Mos Def. Wu-Tang.

Make it happen, and Nas' new album goes up now.

[PECOAE]

So I know this will come off as shameless self-promotion but my old band Tinselfish broke up, depressingly, a few months ago today.  It consisted of forum members mfpole and myself.

Right before we broke up, we recorded three songs into an EP.  It's really lo-fi but it's fun.  It's a combination of Explosions in the Sky, Sonic Youth, Slint and a bunch of other post rock/noise bands.  No vocals, just guitar and drums.  I think this was our best stuff, it's too bad it ended so fast.

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?2mimiyabdxh
Just putting this up as a tribute, I'll put up something by a real band later this week - tired of leeching, ha.

Pretty sweat stuff, reminds of an indie band from Perth, Tame Impala.

it's very beatlesesque harmonies with indie distortion - that's awesome!  that's kind of what we were going for, the psychadelia...

[imapiratearg]

All the Phoenix.

Awesome.  They play on a couple of my Pandora stations all the time and they've kind of grown on me.

[windinthewires]

Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia

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[Daft pun]

Anyways, I've been on a mission/hunt for Phoenix. It started after hearing Too Young on daft pun's mix CD for Tommydski a few months ago. I got distracted, but I finally hit pay dirt. First, the Allmusic summary:

Phoenix became well acquainted with labelmates Air when they acted as their backing band on several U.K. TV appearances. The result of the electronic exposure was a single called "Heatwave," which was very similar to a '70s disco tune. Shortly after, they were signed to the Paris-based Source Records.  United, the group's debut album, appeared in 2000 on Astralwerks and was recorded over two months. The album featured guest appearances from friends and family, including Thomas Bangalter (Daft Punk), Philippe Zdar (Cassius), and d'Arcy's mother's choral society on the track "Funky Squaredance." Alphabetical followed in 2004 and It's Never Been Like That in 2006.

Phoenix = win

Here's the Heatwave single AMG mentions in that bio for the completists out there. It's good fun, has that French house trademark grooving bassline going on.

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?jctiiyjrjyo

[fatty]

Aidan: I would really like the urthboy's Distance Sense also!

MrBlu: you have Untitled? I haven't got any Nas later than 2001, so that would be interesting.

i will upload some things tonight.

[Jrod]

Ok so sort of a stupid question, but my university does not allow students to illegally download music and they have some way of checking to see if you're running a program like Limewire, Kazaa, torrents, etc. So my question is that if my university can catch me doing that, can they catch me using mediafire or websites or music blogs like that?
Thanks a lot guys!

[fatty]

Well the programs you mentioned are all peer-to-peer softwares that need installing and be constantly streaming information from the internet. Most university systems allow downloading but not installing (software and such). Technically they can monitor where all your downloads come from, but since mediafire is a direct download site, it is less likely that they would be monitoring that.

[pwhodges]

It depends what they are monitoring.  If they are just looking for the P2P protocols (or behaviour that characterises them), you would be clear.  They might monitor or block known file-sharing sites like mediaf!re - but possibly not if they are aware of legitimate users of them.  They might be recording the amount of data being downloaded to a specific machine (I presume you have to register your machine with them in some way) or location (such as student residence) - in which case they could come looking for you.

In the university where I work (as a department computer manager), the central computer service blocks the various torrent services but does nothing more other than acting firmly on specific cease and desist requests.  However, within that, the colleges (where students live) tend to monitor their sub-networks very heavily, but not all in the same way.