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We know little about Vacationer save they are a band from Philly and have just released their debut album, Gone.
Their website is very clever and worthy of your exploration. And you can receive a free download.
Love the beautifully written song “Trip” from the album.
Break It Yourself is Andrew Bird’s 6th solo album.
Violinist and multi-instrumentalist, Bird is also found of whistling.
“Eyeoneye” is the first single and a free download from Noise Trade.
“Lusitania” features St. Vincent.
“EyeonEye”
“Lusitania”
More free downloads of Indie bands performing at SXSW, today courtesy of Spin.
There are a few dups from yesterday but most will add to your collection.
A number of these bands from the past two days have been featured here in the past couple of years. Pleased to see that they are being recognized.
2:54 – “Scarlet”
Ava Luna – “Ice Level”
A.Dd+ – “Sh*t Got Crazy”
Bear in Heaven – “Sinful Nature”
Bleached – “Searching Through The Past”
Blondes – “Wine”
Blue Sky Black Death – “Sleeping Children Are Still Flying”
Chelsea Wolfe – “Tall Bodies”
Cities Aviv – “Jaguar”
Class Actress – “Weekend”
Cloud Nothings – “No Future/No Past”
DaVinci – “D.R.E.A.M.”
Django Django – “Default”
Dope Body – “Lazy Slave”
Hospitality – “Betty Wang”
Hull – “In Death, Truth”
Jacques Greene – “Arrow” ft. Koreless
King Tuff – “Wild Desire”
La Sera – “Break My Heart”
Main Attrakionz – “Bossalinis & Fooliyones pt. 2”
Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire – “The Gold Watch”
Natural Child – “Ain’t Gonna Stop”
Screaming Females – “It All Means Nothing”
Sharon Van Etten – “Serpents”
Spoek Mathambo – “Let Them Talk”
St. Lucia – “We Got It Wrong”
Star Slinger – “Dumbin’” ft. Reggie B
The Coathangers – “Smother”
The War on Drugs – “Baby Missiles”
Thee Oh Sees – “The Dream”
Thundercat – “For Love I Come”
Torche – “Kicking”
Tycho – “Hours”
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – “FFunny FFrends”
Xray Eyeballs – “Four”
White Fence- “Swagger Vets and Double Moon”
Widowspeak – “Harsh Realm”
Youth Lagoon – “July”
Zola Jesus – “Seekir”
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Music, Film and Interactive Festival begins tomorrow in Austin, Texas.
The music portion takes place from the 13th to the 18th.
Over 2000 bands and artists will perform!
For a very large taste of some of the best, spinner.com is offering 129 free downloads of participating bands. Yes, you read it right: 129.
Here is the list: download at your pleasure.
A Classic Education , ‘Forever Boy’
Alice Russell, ‘Got the Hunger’
Andrew Bird, ‘EyeonEye’
Apparat, ‘Sayulita’
Balkan Beat Box, ‘War Again’
Band of Skulls , ‘Blood’
Beach Fossils, ‘Youth’
Bear Hands, ‘What A Drag’
Bear in Heaven, ‘Fake Out’ (Glass Ghost Remix)
Beat Connection, ‘In The Water’ (E Russell Remix)
Big Deal, ‘Chair’
Blitzen Trapper, ‘Heaven and Earth’
Cassettes Won’t Listen, ‘Dirt on Purpose’ (Remix)
Sally Shapiro, ‘Time to Let Go’ (CFCF Remix)
Chad Valley, ‘Fast Challenges’
Chairlift, ‘Evident Utensil’
Choir of Young Believers, ‘Claustropho’ (Peter Antlers Remix
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, ‘Statues’
Cloud Nothings, ‘Should Have’
Com Truise, ‘Cathode Girls’
Cory Chisel And The Wandering Sons, ‘Home in the Woods’
Cotton Jones, ‘Glorylight and Christie’
Crocodiles, ‘Sleep Forever’
Crooked Fingers, ‘Phony Revolutions’
Crystal Antlers, ‘A Thousand Eyes’
Dark Dark Dark, ‘New York Song’
Deleted Scenes, ‘The Days of Adderall’
Diamond Rugs, ‘Mellow Doubt’
Dirty Ghosts, ‘Ropes That Way’
El-P, ‘Flyentology’ (CWL Remix)
Elizabeth & the Catapult, ‘Taller Children’
Emil & Friends, ‘Prescriptions’
Eternal Summers, ‘Pogo’
Fake Problems, ‘Soulless’
Family of the Year, ‘St. Croix’
FIDLAR, ‘Oh’
Flosstradamus, ‘Big Bills’ Feat.CAROLINE POLACHEK (Flosstradamus Power House Remix)
Fort Lean, ‘Sunsick’
Mexicans With Guns, ‘Highway To Hell’ Feat Freddie Gibbs and Bun B
Freshkills, ‘Positive Vibes’
Futurebirds, ‘Nearsayerfive’ (Eddie the Wheel Cover)
Ganglians, ‘Sleep’
Gemma Ray, ‘Fist of a Flower’
Girl in a Coma, ‘Smart’
Guards, ‘Do It Again’
Gypsyblood, ‘My RKO is MIA’
GZA and Blacklips, ‘The Drop I Hold’
Harriet, ‘I Slept With All Your Mothers’
Hey Marseilles, ‘Rio’
Horse Feathers,’ Curs In Weeds’
Hunters, ‘Brat Mouth’
Indian Jewelry, ‘ Oceans’
Ivan & Alyosha, ‘Glorify’
Jennifer O’Connor, ‘Here With Me’
Jukebox the Ghost, ‘Empire’
Julia Nunes, ‘I Think You Know’
Kevin Devine & The Goddamn Band, ‘Between the Concrete and Clouds’
Korallreven, ‘As Young As Yesterday’
Laura Gibson, ‘La Grande’
Lee Fields and The Expressions, ‘Love Comes and Goes’
Lightouts, ‘The Eloise Suite’
Lily & the Parlour Tricks, ‘The Good One’
Lissy Trullie, ‘Madeline’
Lovedrug, ‘Pushing the Shine’
Lushlife, ‘Meridian Sound [Part Two]’ (Abacus Remix)
M. Ward, ‘Never Had Nobody’
Madi Diaz, ‘Gimme a Kiss’
Magic Wands, ‘Black Magic’ (The XX Remix)
Margot and The Nuclear So and So’s, ‘Lunatic, Lunatic, Lunatic’
Miike Snow, ‘Animal’
Mind Spiders, ‘No Romance’
Miniature Tigers, ‘Cannibal Queen’
Miracles of Modern Science, ‘Eating Me Alive’
Motion City Soundtrack, ‘Her Words Destroyed My Planet’
Motopony, ‘King of Diamonds’
Neon Indian, “Should Have Taken Acid With You’ (Future Rock Mix)
Niki & The Dove, ‘The Fox’
Nite Jewel, ‘Am I Real?’
Oberhofer, ‘Gotta Go’
Papa, “I Am the Lion King’
Pennywise, ‘We’re Gonna Fight’
Plants and Animals, ‘Lightshow’
Princeton, “A Rememberance of Things to Come’
Pujol, ‘Mayday’
Reptar, ‘Stuck in my ID’
Rubblebucket, ‘Michelle’
Saint Motel, ‘Puzzle Pieces’
Santigold, ‘Creator Main’
Savoir Adore, ‘Dreamers’
Say Hi, ‘Devils’
Screaming Females, ‘Wild’
Sean Bones, ‘Dancehall’
Sepalcure, ‘I’m Alright’
Sharon Van Etten, ‘Serpents’
Shearwater, ‘Leviathan Bound’
Shout Out Out Out Out, ‘Dude You Feel Electrical’
Slam Donahue, ‘It’s Scary’
Slow Club, ‘It Doesn’t Have to Be Beautiful’
Strange Boys, ‘Me and You’
Talkdemonic, ‘Revival’
The Big Pink, ‘Velvet’
The Big Sleep, ‘Pinkies’
The Black Angels, ‘Telephone’
The Drums, ‘Down By the Water’
The Ettes, ‘No Home’
The Good Natured, ‘Be My Animal’
The Heavy, ‘That Kind of Man’
The Henry Clay People, ‘Your Famous Friends’
The Spinto Band, ‘Pumpkins and Paisley’
The Ting Tings, ‘Hands’ (Passion Pit Remix)
The Wooden Sky, ‘Child of the Valley’
Titus Andronicus, ‘Titus Andronicus’
Toddla T, ‘Cherry Picking’
Tribes, ‘We Were Chosen’
Tristen, ‘Baby Drugs’
Two Gallants, ‘Seems Like Home to Me’
Tycho, ‘Hours’
U.S. Royalty, ‘Equestrian’
Ursula 1000, ‘Baby Laser love’ (DJ Love Remix)
WATERS, ‘O Holy Break of Day’
White Rabbits, ‘Percussion Gun’ (Live)
William Elliott Whitmore, ‘Hope for You’
Y La Bamba, ‘Juniper’
YACHT, ‘Dystopia’
YAWN, ‘Acid’
Young Buffalo, ‘Only We Can Keep You From Harm’
Young Magic, ‘Sparkly’
Yukon Blonde, ‘Choices’
Zola Jesus, ‘Sea Talk’
Strange Mercy by St. Vincent was one of my favorite albums of last year.
“Cheerleader” is the new single and new video.
And the song is free from Google Music in the US only.
Sharon Van Etten’s 2010 album Epic was a showcase for her delicate yet powerful voice. We featured the song “Don’t Do It”.
Her new album Tramp is due in a couple of weeks, recorded with the help of some members of The National.
“Serpents” is the first single and a free download as well.
Cass McCombs is an itinerant American singer/songwriter.
Last year he released two albums. The latter, his sixth, is entitled Humor Risk.
It contains this dark hypnotically beautiful song “The Same Thing”. (Free download)
“Like a ring gone down the drain
Our love in sunlight, at evening, pain
Like vermin Roman sewers bring
Pain and Love, oh yeah, are The Same Thing”
If corporations were people many would be in jail for destroying so many American lives.
All true change in this country has come from the streets, from the first American Revolution to the Civil War to Civil Rights.
Occupy Wall Street is in this great tradition and what we experienced last year is only the beginning.
And hopefully, our musical artists, unlike their disgraceful silence during the Iraq War, will make themselves heard and once again sing for justice, equality and basic human rights.
OWS has grown into a global movement. Inequality is intercontinental. Our foray into the sounds of the protest begins with a band from North America. Our Lady Peace, from Toronto, encourages us to “Fight the Good Fight”.
Frankie Rose is now a solo artist, no longer Frankie Rose and the Outs as featured in 2010.
This Brooklyn-based darling will release Interstellar in Late February.
“Know Me” excites us for the album and a new year of new music. It’s also free from RCRDLBL.
Before we move into the new year allow me to suggest the free download from Spin.
24 tracks from 2011 including Deer Tick, EMA, Fucked Up, Kurt Vile, Zola Jesus, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Phantogram, and Wild Flag, all heard here last year.
Also featured is Yuck, the quartet from London, who made their debut in 2011.
“Shook Down’ is from their self-titled LP.
Jaggery is a quintet out of Boston with piano, viola, harp, contrabass, percussion and the striking ethereal voice of songwriter Mali Sastri coalescing into their own magical universe.
For Christmas they have created a most beautiful rendition of “Coventry Carol.”
From their website and Wikipedia, Jaggery informs:
The Coventry Carol is a Christmas carol dating from the 16th century. The carol was performed in Coventry in England as part of a mystery play called The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors. The play depicts the Christmas story from chapter two in the Gospel of Matthew. The carol refers to the Massacre of the Innocents, in which King Herod orders all male infants under the age of two in Bethlehem to be killed. The lyrics represent a mother’s lament for her doomed child. It is the only carol that has survived from this play.
“Coventry Carol” is available as a no-minimum pay-what-you-want download.
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Phantogram is a duo from Saratoga Springs, NY.
Sarah Barthel (vocals, keyboards) and Josh Carter (vocals, guitars, drums) have recently released an intriguing EP entitled Nightlife, late-night songs for the nocturnal.
“Don’t Move” is the first single and is free in the December issue of Spin.
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Electronic duo Holy Ghost! from NYC have been producing, remixing and creating music since 2007.
This year they finally released their debut album, eponymously titled.
On their website they freely give us a Cosmic Kids remix of “Hold My Breath “from the album.
Here is unreleased track, a very cool Holy Ghost! cover of Ministry’s “I Wanted to Tell Her” featuring Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem on vocals. (Free from Green Label Sound.)
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Surfer Blood, the indie rock band from West Palm, released their critically acclaimed debut Astro Coast in 2010.
They follow now with the new EP Tarot Classics.
“Miranda” is the featured track. Listen here to two completely different versions of the song: the up-tempo original (a free download from the band’s website) and the dirge-like remix from School of Seven Bells (free from RCRDLB).
Which version do you prefer?
“Miranda”
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“Miranda” (School of Seven Bells Remix)
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Spin’s November offering of free downloads includes the band Veronica Falls.
This quartet from London recently released their eponymously titled debut.
Hear charming indie pop in the song “Bad Feeling” via Spin and “Right Side of My Brain”, free from the band’s website.
“Bad Feeling”
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“Right Side of My Brain”
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