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.

Linky-Loo

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

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 explores a similar aesthetic with Dark Ambient. Much of the music is created with guitar strains and feedback, lending an almost Drone feel to it.

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

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

Moon Hips + Spoon Lips

Artist: Big Old Eyes

Album: Moon Hips + Spoon Lips

Genre: Alternative, Rock, Indie

Year: 2005

Country: Canada

You are not a gentleman.

The Pecker EP

Artist: Big Old Eyes

Album: The Pecker EP

Year: 2005

Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock

Country: Canada

The first release from Prince George's own Big Old Eyes, essentially known as the greatest band to come out of PG. It's only two songs, but it certainly showcases the talent that the band was only just beginning to discover.

More to come! I plan on uploading their discography, as well as frontman Rob Dunlop's solo material.

riyl: The Beatles, Pavement, Halo Benders

Big Old Eyes hates you.