Mar 10, 2007, 10:41am
3hive

Kinetic Stereokids hail from Flint, Michigan (third most dangerous city in the U.S. and one of the most depressing), where I reckon they hear a lot of car alarms. But you know what they say...when life gives you car alarms, make samples. And why stop with car alarms? KSK's debut Basement Kids is an enticing grab bag of found sounds and samples, as well as free-range rap, folk and rock guitar, drowsy ballads, garage beats, cuttin' and scratchin', experimental knob noodling, and other random bits. Beck employed similar means to reach a different end on records like [...]

I could wait until tomorrow to do this, but I'm not sure if I'll have a load of time. Here are all the free mp3s that were sent to me this week that I just didn't get through or have already been covered extensively on the blogs. Feel free to enjoy/recommend/filter on your own. I am loving this new Wilco album, but it's been covered a ton on the internerd...from Sky Blue Sky : Wilco - What Light [...]
Revolver Magazine has a new readers poll. The winners include, Best Band Ever: Pantera; Album of the Year: Sacrament, Lamb of God; Hottest Chick in Metal: Lacuna Coil frontwoman Christina Scabbia; Breakthrough Band: Trivium and Who Should Be The Next President: Rob Zombie - he couldn't do much worse than what we've got now! John Ondrasik (Five for Fighting) - who recently donated some music to the MusicForTroops project that Earvolution is supporting, has put together a charity-driven video upload site where you can submit a video for the song "World" [...]

Bjork Talks 'Volta' Bjork is set to release her new album VOLTA May 7th and perform at Coachella the week before in California. She recently sat down with pitchforkmedia.com to discuss the new album. Visit this link to read all about it. --- Means "Sending You Strength" In Stores Tomorrow!!! MEANS SET TO RELEASE "SENDING [...]

The Kinetic Stereokids hail from Flint, Michigan. Frontguys Justin Ford and Michael Steibel discovered their intense mutual tastes for Beck, church music, and collage art while at soccer camp in 1997. Okay, forget the Beck references (although it's easy to make comparisons), but there's much more going on with this fresh-faced foursome of post-prog indie-beatbox-rockers Their album Buy Basement Kids is a wildly eclectic collection of songs that owes as much to Beck as it does to the Sterokids other influences - cited on their myspace as: CAN. [...]