
We’re delighted to announce that for the third year running, TVD will be taking SXSW. In tandem with our partners Audible Treats and Flüd Watches, we’re presenting Speakers Push Air, an official SXSW artist showcase this Friday night (3/15) at Austin’s Parish Underground. This week we’ll be introducing you to the evening’s line up and talking what else, but vinyl. "A 1940 Rock-Ola record player that spun 78s and modified to play 45s as well. Our father had found it for our mother as a Christmas [...]

The Biscuits and Gravy mixes are the results of "leftover" promotional mp3s from past mixes. For one reason or another, these mp3s didn't fit onto a mix at the time of release. The mp3s sit on a hard drive, all alone until they are united with mp3s who have suffered a similar fate. These tracks are ready to make you sing out loud, dance, ponder your existence, and prevent you from smashing in your dashboard on that long commute to work. Download it, burn to CD, load it on your audio device, do what you want, but most of all [...]
![[LIVE] SXSW Day 3 Recap + 360 Interviews](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4137973_lg.jpg)
Day 3 was the smoothest yet. An eclectic afternoon lineup led into a rock party evening that had the whole Firehouse moving. Here are the few interviews I was able to grab. If I survive today I'll have more tomorrow! Paula & Karol / Paula & Karol - Whole Again LuckOne / Luck-One - Sounds Of My City Brown Shoe / Brown Shoe - Colt Rider [...]
![[EVENT] The Burning Ear’s 2012 SXSW Showcase](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4124065_lg.jpg)
Click to enlarge Yes, the rumors are true. The Burning Ear is in full effect at this year's SXSW. With the help of Joel's Lights & Music Entertainment and the awesome people at The Firehouse Lounge & Hostel we have cooked up the biggest blog curated lineup Austin has ever seen. Seriously. Sit down before you click through to the full event page . I wont even get into too many details here lest those of you not in Austin this week flip out with jealousy. If you feel [...]

“I’m looking for something that’ll… break through. You know?” James Woods’ Max Renn yearns in David Cronenberg’s 1983 cult classic Videodrome . Oh, how things have changed. In today’s day and age, we’ve already drowned in media. It’s swallowed us. We’re nothing but a bubble amidst one infinite, engulfing abyss. Intimidated? You should be. With each passing second, you’re losing opportunities to take advantage of a culture that’s moving ahead and at an exhausting rate. You could very well be alone… left behind… abandoned. Terrified yet? Yes? Well, that’s more like it. -Michael Roffman [...]
What: Stepping out from the shadows of a stage, Ryan Baggaley and the boys from Brown Shoe hit some spot-on harmonies in their new video for "Sweet Crazy Baby". The stripped down closer from last year's The Gift Horse is presented in equally stark settings, a lone ballerina's graceful movements the sole spectator.

Songs are pretty amazing things. It's magical that such a small thing can be so powerful. In the blink of an eye a song can make you smile, dance, cry, think, laugh, etc. These are the ones that did all those things for me the second half of 2011. ♫ = Click to play & right-click to download 25. ♫ The Lisps - Try / A late addition in the year but after it became a family anthem during the holidays it solidified it's greatness. A paerfect song to kick [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Brown Shoe : "Sick Man" [mp3] from The Gift Horse search for more Brown Shoe posts at Largehearted Boy Chain of Lakes : "Bourbon [...]
![Brown Shoe - "Sick Man" [Earmilk Exclusive]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3942355_lg.jpg)
Back in October , we introduced to you all to Brown Shoe , a five-piece, indie-rock outfit that recently released their latest LP The Gift Horse . EARMILK had the pleasure to debut the band’s “Diving Bell” single prior to the album’s release, and we are pleased to present another track from The Gift Horse with “Sick Man.” During the recording process of The Gift Horse, frontman Ryan Baggaley fell ill due to a rare and unusual blood infection. Following his dismissal from the hospital, Baggaley began to write the [...]
![Brown Shoe – "Sick Man" [Earmilk Exclusive]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3942384_lg.jpg)
Back in October, we introduced to you all to Brown Shoe, a five-piece, indie-rock outfit that recently released their latest LP The Gift Horse. EARMILK had the pleasure to debut the band’s “Diving Bell” single prior to the album’s release, and we are pleased to present another track from The Gift Horse with “Sick Man.” [...]
by teepoo Here is this week's chart of your most visited single-song posts! Some new, some returning. Happy listening! Position Last Song Link 1 - Young Empires- White Doves post 2 8 Florence and the Machine- What the Water [...]
by teepoo Here is this week's top single song posts! Position Last Song Link 1 - Still Life Still- Kid post 2 7 Dance Movie- Benson post 3 [...]
![[Listen/Download] Brown Shoe- Pauper](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3885153_lg.jpg)
by teepoo I haven't posted anything non-Canadian in a while but here's Brown Shoe from Folsom, California with uplifting music that would probably end up on a prime time television show one day. Brown Shoe- Pauper Bandcamp

Here is another collection of tunes we've gathered from our in-box and the internet - we'd like to have more time to do them justice, but nevertheless a cornucopia of pleasures awaits you we promise! First up is the consistently wonderful Damien Jurado with some authentic, strummed desert blues. Nothing Is The News is the first taste of his forthcoming album Maraqopa . Download Damien Jurado - Nothing Is The News mp3 (from Maraqopa) Indie-folksters The Dodos have made a previously unreleased track, So Cold [...]
Tweetvaso link Comprised of four brothers and a close friend and hailing from Folsom, California, Brown Shoe turn out an honest feeling, earnest kind of Americana rock 'n' roll that should endear them to denizens of their town, who have a storied musical tradition of their own. Their album, The Gift Horse, was released back...

I’ve kind of gotten to the point here at Sirens where I can’t write something substantial and deserving of every piece of music that comes my way. This is not because I receive an ungodly amount of submissions (though there are plenty), it’s more because of other commitments like work, school, being a husband and raising a child. With that said, I feel bad to skip and hop through music looking for easily recognizable diamonds and possibly overlooking others that I should have wrote more about. So I’m going to compromise in the only way I can think [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Brown Shoe : "Pauper" [mp3] from The Gift Horse search for more Brown Shoe posts at Largehearted Boy Damien Jurado : "Nothing Is the [...]
Take Band Of Horses, throw in some Rogue Wave, a dash of Fleet Foxes and some unique California charm and you’ll get Brown Shoe, a band of brothers and friends that has been making music since 2005. Expressing heartache and loss through grand, daring musical compositions, “Diving Bell” is a song that's easy to play [...]
the BROWN SHOE 's newest LATE SHOE video is about being in that all-too-desperate situation in which you just .. wotyougot
From their latest release The Gift Horse we have the video for their single, "Late Nights" from Brown Shoe . The video is all sorts of random with its men in animal masks on public transit and beautiful women wandering around in lingerie/underwear, but somehow manages to execute the surrealness that comes from sleepless nights when a relationship is starting to go south. You can pick up The Gift Horse now over on Bandcamp for however much you'd like to pay.