D+- On Purpose

Artist: D+
Album: On Purpose
Country of Origin: USA/Cascadia
Genre: Indie, Alternative
Year: 2008

D+ are almost a pacific northwestern supergroup; D+ is comprised of Bret Lunsford, Karl Blau, and Phil Elverum. They were on K records for most of their releases thus far. On Purpose is a compilation of sorts with re-done songs from earlier albums. If you like the Microphones, Mount Eerie, Thanksgiving, Beat Happening, Calm Down It's Monday, or any of the well-known K records/pacific northwestern artists connected to these, then I can almost guarantee you'll like it.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5F5ANB59

Tiny Vipers- Life on Earth

Artist: Tiny Vipers
Album: Life on Earth
Country of Origin: USA/Cascadia
Genre: Minimalist, Folk
Year: 2009

This is pacific-northwest folk at its finest. Tiny Vipers, the stage-name of Jesy Fortino, while minimalist in sound, leaves a profound impact. The sheer amount of genuine feeling is apparent in her vocals as well as her music, which is droney and atmospheric despite its minimalistic elements. If you're looking for some easy listening along the lines of Jolie Holland or Julie Doiron, give this a shot. I was definitely very impressed.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6H6SPOIZ

Spiral Stairs- The Real Feel

Artist: Spiral Stairs
Album: The Real Feel
Genre: Indie, Alternative, Classic Rock
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2009 (Advance)

So just after announcing a Pavement reuinion world tour, yes, a Pavement reunion world tour, I found that Spiral Stairs (Pavement's lesser known co-songwriter and guitarist who also formed a post-Pavement band called Preston School of Industry) was releasing a solo album. I searched for an advance copy and I luckily found one. It's really good; a lot of the guitar tone is reminscent of Pavement's heyday, but is significantly more refined. Overall, the album has a really classic rock feel to it; if I'm not mistaken Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys did some work with him on it. Check it out if you're looking for some legitimate rock and roll.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HQFH309S

this one'll get sheriff'd i'm sure so get it while it's hot and working.

Jeffrey Lewis- 12 Crass Songs

Artist: Jeffrey Lewis
Album: 12 Crass Songs
Genre: Anarcho-Folk, Alternative
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2007

Not too much explanation needed, this is a folk album of Crass covers. I figured a lot of people here would be interested in it, or at the very least a few. It's good for the novelty of folk Crass covers, but is a pretty good standalone album. So even if you aren't into Crass, but are feeling a little adventurous on this Friday, give it a try.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5SE51C4I

cave in - jupiter

Hey kids! It's been a while since i posted anything for you, so here's an album by the late, great Cave In.

Early in their career, the band played crushing hardcore with crunchy guitars and occasional rocking melodies. Somewhere along the way, they decided to drop the hardcore thing and make spaced out rock with heavy guitars and some metal undercurrents.

Jupiter is probably my favorite of their un-hardcore days, this release containing demo versions of "Stained Silver" and "Rubber and Glue" (titled "Bigger Riff" here) from the follow-up album Antenna. These versions are better than the ones that made it to Antenna, in my opinion.

ANYWAYS, just check it out. It's a solid album from a solid band.

sendspaaaaaaaaaace!!!

Ajattara - Noitumaa

Everyone who knows Finlands Ajattara knows of hateful metal about whores, hell and sin. well. this album is a bit different. Still the same old hateful Ajattara but.... acoustic. and with a Didgeridoo no less. And the bass parts played on a Nylon String acoustic. I had my doubts and they were squashed. Its nothing less of amazing. This is quite a huge departure from previous albums and it turned out very well. Good on them for taking a chance like this. Ikuisen Aamun Sara has even been described by some as "Tribal Rape Music"

1. keuhkosi
2. massat
3. mitä kuolema parantaa?
4. saatana palvoo meitä
5. saveen saarnattu
6. ikuisen aamun sara
7. kielletyn sanat
8. säkeitä riippuneesta lihasta
9. lammas

Heres a little preview in the form of the video for the single
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SzsHOjnVMY


Album Download

Circulatory System - Self Titled

Artist: Circulatory System
Album: ^
Year: 2001
Genre: Psych Rock/Pop

Debut album from the great Elephant 6 band. Saw them live this past Thursday, spectacular. Kinda sounds like a psychedelic love child of the Beach Boys.

Linky-Loo

Built to Spill "Hindsight"/New Single

If you're anything like me, you're a *huge* Built to Spill fan. You love everything from "Ultimate Alternative Wavers" to "You In Reverse"; in fact, you even like "Ancient Melodies of the Future". I've been anxiously awaiting not only the release of their newest album, "There is No Enemy", scheduled for release on October 6th, but the leak as well. I search for it every morning before class/work and have been consistently dissappointed. However, today (yesterday), they leaked a track from the album, titled "Hindsight". The track itself is solid; there's no epic guitarwork, but rather, more "sophisticated" guitars. The content and melody hearkens the "Keep it Like a Secret" days, which is by no means a bad thing.
Anyway, here's the track and I hope at least some people dig it.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GL4F4SAG

The Babys - Paradise Kiss OST CD2

Track Listing:
1. Prologue
2. Kibun ga Yokute Nani ga Warui
3. No No Future
4. Fumenshou no Debu
5. Extra Dialogue #1
6. Alien
7. My Little Girl
8. Shounen Knife
9. MC
10. Kikoenai Uta
11. RRPP
12. Extra Dialogue #2
13. Anarchy in Kobayashi
14. Fujirokku
15. Kimi no Yoru, Boku ni Dake Kurenai ka
16. Extra Dialogue #3
17. Romantic na Speed de
18. Epilogue

This is the second CD packed in with the OST for the anime series Paradise Kiss. It is comprised of singles from the Japanese indie band The Babys over the years, since Paradise Kiss used these as background music during some scenes in the show (and the vocalist is a voice actor for one of the main characters).

If you're into softer J-rock at least give a few tracks a listen like Alien, My Little Girl, RRPP, Kimi no Yoru, and Romantic na Speed de.

Download link

Eikichi Yazawa - Loser

Track Listing:
1. Loser

This is Eikichi Yazawa's (矢沢永吉) latest single that was released earlier in the year. It was the theme song used for SEGA's newest installment in their Ryu ga Gotoku series (or Yakuza, as it's renamed in the United States and Europe). It's more upbeat then rock, though. But still a great single from the legendary Yazawa.

Download link.

Flow - WORD OF THE VOICE

Single to the second opening theme song of Persona -Trinity Soul-

Track Listing:
1. WORD OF THE VOICE
2. ESCA
3. Always
4. WORD OF THE VOICE -Instrumental-
5. WORD OF THE VOICE -PERSONA Opening Mix-

Download link.

The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning Of, And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading

Continues the surreal story of The Dear Hunter, begun with Act 1 (posted below).

This is my personal favorite of the 3 albums released by The Dear Hunter thus far, as well as their first with a full line-up (the first album was essentially a solo effort).

Track Listing

1. The Death and the Berth
2. The Procession
3. The Lake and the River
4. The Oracles on the Delphi Express
5. The Church and the Dime
6. The Bitter Suite 1 & 2
7. The Bitter Suite 3
8. Smiling Swine
9. Evicted
10. Blood of the Rose
11. Red Hands
12. Where the Road Parts
13. Dear Ms. Leading
14. Black Sandy Beaches
15. Vital Vessle Vindicates

Get it fo' free

RIYL: The Mars Volta, The Receiving End of Sirens, The Sound of Animals Fighting

Heathers - Here, Not There.

Band: Heathers
Album: Here, Not There.
Genre: Folk
Country of Origin: Ireland
Year: 2008

Track Listing:

1. Remember When
2. Honey Please?!
3. Margie
4. Reading in the Dark
5. Fire Ants
6. What's Your Damage?
7. Hush, Hush
8. Bloodpact
9. Slices of Palama
10. Veronica
11. Moose

I heard these gals for the first time in a restaurant while eating lunch with a friend earlier today. I was so taken by the music, I asked the waitress who it was and went and downloaded it. Delightful Folk from a pair of Irish sisters. Incredibly heartfelt and often exciting, topped off with the duet's wonderful vocal harmonies. Like Folk? Grab this.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ygdhodndz33

Leviathan - A Silhouette in Splinters

Band: Leviathan
Album: A Silhouette in Splinters
Genre: Dark Ambient
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2005

Track Listing:

1. Traveling Over The Ocean's Skull
2. It Comes In Whispers (Part II)
3. Particular Dis-ease
4. Shimmering With Horn Of Woe
5. A Silhouette In Splinters
6. Blood Red And True Part II (A Spell To Vanquish Sea Serpents)

On this 44 minute long EP, Wrest takes Leviathan out of the project's usual raw Black Metal and emotes the disturbing emotions and terror, so evocative in Black Metal form, through Dark Ambient. Much of the music is created by guitar, resulting incredibly eerie strains of distorted guitar drifting over waves of haunting ambience. Incredibly atmospheric and transcendentally dark.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mhg5dz5xyzm

Movits! - Äppelknyckarjazz

Band: Movits!

Album: Äppelknyckarjazz
Genre: Hip-Hop/Jazz/Swing
Country of Origin: Sweden
Year: 2008

Track Listing:

1. Ta på Dig Dansskorna
2. Lite Som...
3. Swing för Hyresgästföreningen
4. ...Fast Tvärtom
5. A-kasseblues
6. Fel Del Av Gården
7. Epistel N:o 1
8. Tom Jones
9. Äppelknyckarjazz
10. Stick Iväg Jack Del II
11. 2 Dollar på Fickan
12. Det Vete Fan
13. Har du Soul?
14. Vals på Vinkelgränd

Swedish Hip-Hop group that heavily mixes Swing and Jazz into their music. It sounds amazing and the album is full of great beats and catchy music, and most importantly, rapping in Swedish.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mykzzztxmyn

The Dear Hunter - Act 1: The Lake South, The River North

The Dear Hunter's debut. Layered and complex instrumentals make up the musical heart of the album, primarily in the style of progressive rock but also incorporating elements of orchestral music, blues-rock, jazz, ragtime, and ambient, sometimes several times in the space of a single song. The vocals are similarly varied, with pop-ballad sections giving way to dense harmonization that would shame a barbershop quartet.

The album is also a concept album, the first in a set of 6 telling the surreal story of the titular character The Dear Hunter.

I like this one a lot, but Act II (The second album) is better in my opinion.

Get it!

RIYL: The Mars Volta, The Receiving End of Sirens, Portugal. The Man, The Sound of Animals Fighting

Sune Rose Wagner

artist: sune rose wagner
album: self titled
year: 2008

like the raveonettes? wondering how you didn't hear about this album? well don't feel bad, apparently no one really did. and sune seemed to be pretty okay with that, as the release of this album was about as low key as the album itself. maintaining his lo-fi sound from the raveonettes, but presented in a more shoe-gaze fashion, this is some norweigian goodness that sounds a bit like sigur ros having a love affair with the 60's.

linkity lou

Cymbals Eat Guitars- Why There Are Mountains

Artist: Cymbals Eat Guitars

Album: Why There Are Mountains
Genre: Indie, Alternative, Post-Punk
Year: 2009
Country of Origin: USA

I don't remember how I stumbled upon these guys (it might have even been through last.fm), but they are amazing. I love their sound, which is reminiscent of Modest Mouse as well as Colour Revolt. They do, as well, have a slight shoegaze sound to them. If you're looking for something that is destined to become one of the next big(ger) indie bands, Cymbals Eat Guitars are who you're looking for.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beck- One Foot in the Grave (Deluxe Edition)

Artist: Beck
Album: One Foot in the Grave
Genre: Folk, Alternative, Indie
Year: 1994, 2009 remaster
Country of Origin: Pacific Northwest, USA

Beck is fairly well known, even internationally, from his album "Odelay!" and songs like "Loser" and "Devil's Haircut". His newer releases, however, have found him going back to his roots, so to speak. This album, "One Foot in the Grave", is much more folk driven and was originally released on K Records in colaboration with Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic Sound System, the Halo Benders +. This year, Beck chose to re-release this album with 13 previously unreleased tracks that were recorded around the same time. This is that album.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oingo Boingo - The Anthology

If you don't listen to this, you'll find yourself missing your teeth. It has Danny Elfman. That is all you need to know.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A5UGZGWI