The Witchies

Don't have much time to write a full post (not that I ever really do), but I up'd this for a friend and might as well post it here too. Heres a great 5 song EP from (yet another) Canadian band that I expect much from in the future. They kinda sound like if Wolf Parade played dark power-pop in the late 60's.

Ho-didly-hum

satanstompingcaterpillars - Flower Slides

satanstompingcaterpillars is the first incarnation of that spectacular fusion of psychedelic rock and electronica we all love, Black Moth Super Rainbow. Here's my favorite album of theirs- 2000's Flower Slides.

1. Aphid
2. Trillium
3. Oxeye
4. Satanstompingcaterpillars
5. Theexactsamenoiselevelasbirds
6. Moveintoblue
7. Goodbye Method

Get it here

Rusted's HOLY FUCKING BLACK METAL BATMAN pack

Not much else to say. awesome albums uploaded for someone and i'd figure some of you peoples would appreciate some of them too. Included are:

Enslaved - Frost

Absurd - Der Fünfzehnjährige Krieg

Ahnenstahl - Zwischen Tod Und Leben

Angantyr - Sejr

Behemoth - And the Forests Dream Eternally EP

Cold Void/TOD - Black Metal Armageddon split

Darkest Hate Warfront - Satanik Annhilation Kommando

deathspell omega- si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice

Drudkh - First 4 albums *in the Drudkh Prt 1 and 2 rars*

Frozen Shadows - Dans les Bras Immortels

Helheim - Jormundgand

Helrunar - Baldr Ok Iss

Horde - Hellig Usvart

Isengard - Høstmørke and Vinterskugge

Kvist - Demo and For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike

Borknagr - Olden Domain

Silencer - Death, Pierce Me

Leviathan - Verrater

Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God

Xasthur - A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors

Wolven Ancestry - The Wrath Of Gaia

Slavia - Strength and Vision


Have fun

Warpaint - Exquisite Corpse

Artist: Warpaint

Album: Exquisite Corpse

Genre: dream-pop/shoegaze

Year: 2009 (but most of the songs have been around for longer I believe)

Heres a link to the song Billie Holiday, after listening you'll know if your onboard or not. It feels like the group has been around forever but this album has only (or rather finally) been released this past year. Dreamy, a little fuzzy around the edges, Warpaint has a sound that truly takes you elsewhere. And oh yeah, Shannyn Sossaman was originally the drummer for band.

Hop to it.

Emmy the Great - First Love (Deluxe Edition)

Band: Emmy the Great
Album: First Love
Genre: Folk, Antifolk
Country of Origin: England
Year: 2009

Track List:

1. Absentee
2. 24
3. We Almost Had A Baby
4. The Easter Parade
5. Dylan
6. On The Museum Island
7. War
8. First Love
9. MIA
10. The Easter Parade Part 2
11. Bad Things Coming, We Are Safe
12. Everything Reminds Me Of You
13. City Song
14. Edward Is Dedward
15. A Bowl Collecting Blood
16. Two Steps Forward
17. Canopies And Drapes

My favorite album of 2009, the debut full length by folk songstress Emma-Lee Moss, aka Emmy the Great. Lovely, well arranged Folk and well written lyrics make for a great mix, I find. It's the deluxe edition (received it for Christmas!) so it comes with the Edward is Dedward EP (tracks 14 through 17).

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

P.O.S. - Never Better

Band: P.O.S.
Album: Never Better
Genre: Hip-Hop
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2009

Track List:

1. Let It Rattle
2. Drumroll (We're All Thirsty)
3. Savion Glover
4. Purexed
5. Graves (We Wrote The Book)
6. Goodbye
7. Get Smokes
8. Been Afraid
9. Low Light Low Life
10. The Basics (Alright)
11. Out Of Category
12. Optimist (We Are Not For Them)
13. Terrorish
14. Never Better
15. The Brave And The Snake

Latest album by Doomtree member P.O.S., continues his visceral, Punk influenced style of Hip-Hop and has some killer drum machine stuff going on in a number of songs. If you liked Audition or Doomtree, grab this.

http://www.mediafire.com/?gngzo1fmmwy

Suffocate for Fuck Sake - Blazing Fires and Helicopters on the Front Page of the Newspaper. There's a War Going On and I'm Marching in Heavy Boots.

Band: Suffocate for Fuck Sake
Album: Blazing Fires and Helicopters on the Front Page of the Newspaper. There's a War Going On and I'm Marching in Heavy Boots.
Genre: Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, Post-Sludge Doom Metal
Country of Origin: Sweden
Year: 2008

Track List:

1. Blue Lights and Sunshine
2. I Got Worried... I Was so Freaking Scared of that Window, You Know
3. We are Driving through Darkness
4. Twentysix and Full of Plans
5. A Japanese Flag
6. I Keep my Eyes on the Ground, Afraid of Meeting Someone I Know
7. Empty
8. They Try to Cheer Me Up by Saying I Did Once Live a Functioning Life

Debut album by an interesting and little known Swedish band that blends Post-Rock, Post-Hardcore and the Post-Sludge Doom Metal of bands like Isis and Pelican, mixing it with clips of conversations. Great stuff.

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

Dessa - False Hopes

Band: Dessa
Album: False Hopes
Genre: Hip-Hop
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2005

Track List:

1. Mineshaft
2. Everything Floats (feat. Cecil Otter)
   
3. Press On (feat. Sims)
   
4. 551
5. Kites

EP by Doomtree member Dessa. Highly suggested for fans of female MCs. She has an album due out this year, and if this EP is any sign of what it will be like, it's something I'm looking forward to.

http://www.mediafire.com/?yd23utmn10g

Doomtree - Doomtree

Band: Doomtree
Album: Doomtree
Genre: Hip-Hop
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2008

Track List:

1. Close Your Ears (Intro)
2. Drumsticks
3. Gander Back
4. The Wren
5. Gameshow Host
6. Dots & Dashes
7. Game Over
8. Reak Class (interlude)
9. Last Call
10. Accident
11. Sadie Hawkins
12. The Walrus (interlude)
13. Twentyfourseven
14. Let Me Tell You, Baby
15. Down the Line
16. Kid Gloves
17. Popgun War
18. Reintroduction (interlude)
19. Liver Let Die
20. I'm Talking
21. Jaded

Eponymous release by Hip-Hop collective Doomtree, which consists of MCs P.O.S., Sims, Dessa, Mike Mictlan, and Cecil Otter and DJ/Producers Paper Tiger, MK Larada, Lazerbeak and Turbo Nemesis. For information on how produces and raps on each track, see here.

http://www.mediafire.com/?t4iymt1zwnj

The Blood Brothers - Crimes

Band: The Blood Brothers
Album: Crimes
Genre: Post-Hardcore
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2004

Track List:

1. Feed Me To The Forest
2. Trash Flavored Trash
3. Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck
4. Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers
5. Teen Heat
6. Rats And Rats And Rats For Candy
7. Crimes
8. My First Kiss At The Public Execution
9. Live At The Apocalypse Cabaret
10. Beautiful Horses
11. Wolf Party
12. Celebrator
13. Devastator

My favorite album by seminal Post-Hardcore band The Blood Brothers.

http://www.mediafire.com/?m1lni0zoztw

Amanda Woodward - La Décadencede De La Décadence

Band: Amanda Woodward
Album: La Décadencede De La Décadence
Genre: Screamo
Country of Origin: France
Year: 2004

Track Listing:

1. La Décadence De La Décadence
2. Binaire Et Lisible
3. "On" Est Un Con
4. Le Temps Du Deuil
5. Sous Le Feu Nourri
6. Dans Le Cas Où Les Flammes
7. Mise À Sac
8. Massacre À La Poinconneuse

French Screamo.

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

Murder By Death - Finch

Artist: Murder By Death
Album: Finch
Year: 2009

A book with an official soundtrack? A bit odd. But having it composed and performed entirely by Murder By Death? A bit awesome. Having 7 instrumental tracks inspired by the book 'Finch', "a sci-fi novel along the lines of BladeRunner" (note that Blade Runner is a movie, not the book Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?), Finch is quite the pleasure to listen to. Full of tension and a distinctly cinematic feel I can't help but wish MBD would do a OST for everything I do in life.

I'm also coping out a bit by linking to a blog I've recently run across. Some good stuff there, so dig around a bit.
AFTER ALL, HE WAS SAD

Nouvelle Vague

Artist: Nouvelle Vague
Album: Nouvelle Vague
Year: 2004
Country: France
Tracks:
1. Love Will Tear Us Apart
2. Just Can't Get Enough
3. In A Manner Of Speaking
4. Guns Of Brixton
5. This Is Not A Love Song
6. Too Drunk To Fuck
7. Marian
8. Making Plans For Nigel
9. A Forest
10. I Melt With You
11. Teenage Kicks
12. Psyche
13. Friday Night Saturday Morning

I could have sworn I've uploaded this already, but apparently not. My hard drive filled up last night and in the midst of the chaos I re-found this album. What say you to bossa nova covers of punk rock, post punk, and new wave? Anything with a dedicated whistle solo instantly gets my respect.
Whistle whistle whistle

Butch Cassidy Sound System

Artist: Butch Cassidy Sound System
Album: Butches Brew
Genre: Dub Funk

I up'd this album for a friend and figured, hey, might as well post it here. Well, a lazy post at least. Here's the track that introduced me to them (and also on the Late Night Tales: Belle & Sebastion mix). It's got some dub, it's got some funk. What's not to love?

Get in da choppah

WHY? - Alopecia

A spectacular psychedelic hip-hop album from Yoni Wolf, the master of the genre. One of my all-time favorite albums.

1. "The Vowels, Pt. 2" – 4:04
2. "Good Friday" – 3:50
3. "These Few Presidents" – 3:04
4. "The Hollows" – 3:55
5. "Song of the Sad Assassin" – 4:13
6. "Gnashville" – 3:49
7. "Fatalist Palmistry" – 3:53
8. "The Fall of Mr. Fifths" – 3:16
9. "Brook & Waxing" – 2:35
10. "A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under" – 2:29
11. "Twenty Eight" – 0:44
12. "Simeon's Dilemma" – 3:33
13. "By Torpedo or Crohn's" – 4:04
14. "Exegesis" – 1:37

Get it here
(no pass)

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.

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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.