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from the youtubes! second edition

Jan 20, 4:07pm Captain's Dead
tragically hip - wheat kings live
as with the first edition, these are just a bunch of videos from youtube, duh!, that i have been diggin on lately. enjoy... from their reunion show! awesome...
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Best of 2011: Top 5 Shows I Saw But Didn't Bother Writing About At The Time

Dec 21, 2011, 9:08am The Panic Manual
Best of 2011: Top 5 Shows I Saw But Didn't Bother Writing About At The Time Much of my 2011 was dedicated to travelling to various locations around the world and seeing as much music as I could. As a result, I saw a lot of music, and tried to write about as much of it as possible, but of course a number of great shows fell through the cracks for various reasons - laziness, distraction, or simply not knowing what to say at the time. The end of the year is a perfect time to revisit some of the "ones that got away." Now their stories can be told ... Hazel Dickens, March [...]
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Cast a Long Shadow: Summer Fridays 4.17

Sep 16, 2011, 10:41am Sound Bites
Cast a Long Shadow: Summer Fridays 4.17 It dropped 25 degrees yesterday and now feels like Fall but that season doesn't technically drop for five more days, so here's the final Summer Fridays mix of 2011 on an autumnal tip. Which means some '70s folk, sad strings, and mellow grooves. But as always, there's some great new music on here: new singles from Django Django (the first in a year and a half), Still Corners and Radio Dept. offshoot Korvallren and Junk Culture (featuring Phantogram's Sarah Barthel). Plus some oldies, cult obscurities (Yes that's Matt Berry of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and The IT Crowd [...]
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Richard Thompson at Koerner Hall in Toronto

Sep 12, 2011, 8:29am Chromewaves
Richard Thompson at Koerner Hall in Toronto Frank Yang I've been mentally composing my writeup for Richard Thompson's visit to Toronto last week, as I do, and went digging through my archives for past pieces on the artist to perhaps link to as relevant, also standard procedure, which brought this piece I wrote back in 2005 . And it's helpful, as it actually covers a lot of the preface that I was preparing, but also mortifying as I didn't realize that I'd already written - sometimes verbatim - what I was planning to write with regards to my personal history with [...]
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Artist:Maria Taylor
Title:Bad Idea?
Link Text:Maria Taylor - “Bad Idea?”
File Name:MariaTaylor-BadIdea.mp3
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Genre:Alternative
Year:2011
Artist:Maria Taylor
Title:Matador
Link Text:Maria Taylor - “Matador”
File Name:MariaTaylor-Matador.mp3
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Genre:Alternative
Year:2011
Artist:New Artist (6)
Title:Track 05
Link Text:Richard Thompson - “Hard On Me”
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Genre:255
Artist:New Artist (7)
Title:Track 02
Link Text:Richard Thompson - “Vincent Black Lightning 1952″
File Name:VincentBlackLightning1952.mp3
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Artist:New Artist (8)
Title:Track 11
Link Text:Richard Thompson - “Keep Your Distance”
File Name:KeepYourDistance.mp3
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Genre:255
Artist:Richard Thompson
Title:“Uninhabited Man”
Link Text:Richard Thompson - “Uninhabited Man”
File Name:RT_toss_the_feathers.mp3
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Artist:Richard Thompson
Title:banks_of_the_nile
Link Text:Richard Thompson - “Banks Of The Nile”
File Name:banks_of_the_nile.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Genre:Traditional
Year:2002
Artist:Richard Thompson
Title:Dear Janet Jackson...
Link Text:Richard Thompson - “Dear Janet Jackson”
File Name:dear_janet.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2004
Artist:Richard Thompson
Title:I_Agree_With_Pat_Metheny
Link Text:Richard Thompson - “I Agree With Pat Methany”
File Name:I_Agree_With_Pat_Metheny.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2000
Artist:Richard Thompson
Title:Pibroch14
Link Text:Richard Thompson - “Treadwell No More”
File Name:Treadwell No More.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Genre:Soundtrack
Year:2005
Artist:Richard Thompson
Title:Sights and Sounds of London To
Link Text:Richard Thompson - “The Sights And Sounds Of London Town”
File Name:sights_and_sounds.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Genre:81
Year:1999

We've Got It Covered #66

Sep 10, 2011, 2:30am Peenko
We've Got It Covered #66 Seeing as I am starting work at an ungodly hour this morning I'll spare you from my ramblings and just get on with introducing this weeks cover version. It comes from Edinburgh folk-rockers Broken Records and their take on Mercury Rev's classic Goddess On A Highway, enjoy... Broken Records-Goddess On A Highway (Mercury Rev cover)
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Link Text:Broken Records-Goddess On A Highway (Mercury Rev cover)
File Name:Broken Records-Goddess On A Highway (Mercury Rev cover).mp3

Review of Widowspeak's Widowspeak and giveaway

Sep 8, 2011, 8:17am Chromewaves
Review of Widowspeak's Widowspeak and giveaway Sebastian Slayter I've read a few things about Pacific Northwest by way of New York trio Widowspeak that reference the darkness of their music; the haunting tones, yearning vocals and occasional forays into guitar squalls. Perfectly fair. And most everything written about them mentions the smoky vocals of Molly Hamilton and its immediate reference points of Hope Sandoval and Cat Power. Also totally valid. And yet listening to their self-titled debut , despite the truth of those points and the fact that I like amounts of all of these things [...]
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Artist:WIDOWSPEAK
Title:Harsh Realm
Link Text:Widowspeak - “Harsh Realm”
File Name:Widowspeak-HarshRealm.mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Year:2011

Harvest Festival 2011 Lineup

Sep 7, 2011, 12:34am Scenewave.com
Take the line-up of your typical European multi day event, cut out the filler and the acts that everyone has seen once too many times and pack all the greatness into one incredible day for discerning music lovers. TV on The Radio, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Mogwai are just a few bands added to an already impressive lineup of local and international acts. The Lineup: The Flaming Lips Portishead TV on the Radio Clap Your Hands Say Yeah The National Mogwai [...]
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Voor Built Like Alaska gaat het leven na Grandaddy gewoon door

Aug 28, 2011, 4:13pm Ketelmuziek
Voor Built Like Alaska gaat het leven na Grandaddy gewoon door Je kunt het niet over Built Like Alaska hebben zonder ook Grandaddy te noemen. De leden van beide bands zijn bevriend, komen uit dezelfde streek, de eerste albums van Built Like Alaska kwamen uit op het label van Grandaddy en muzikaal hebben beide bands veel overeenkomsten. Zou Built Like Alaska op eigen benen kunnen staan nu Grandaddy niet meer is en het ook al weer twee jaar geleden is dat we iets van Jason Lytle hoorden? Dat gaat ze prima af als je het nieuwe album In Troubles Times beluistert. Al [...]
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Artist:Built Like Alaska
Title:John Henry
Link Text:Built Like Alaska - John Henry
File Name:BuiltLikeAlaska-JohnHenry.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2011

Wilderness Festival – Free Mix

Aug 13, 2011, 2:00pm Mad Mackerel's Blog
Wilderness Festival – Free Mix Tomorrow we head down to the first Wilderness Festival , taking place on our back door in the beautiful Cornbury Park Estate. Previously this lovely venue has hosted the Cornbury Festival, which has thankfully now moved elsewhere as (trust us) it has the worse possible line-up you could ever imagine for an event of this type. Anyway, the Wilderness is, as we say, a different kettle of fish featuring Gogol Bordello, Toots and the Maytals, Dry The River, Hypnotic Ensemble, CW Stoneking and Hayseed Dixie all creating the sounds today. Antony and the Johnsons [...]
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Artist:Antony & The Johnsons
Title:Hope There's Someone
Link Text:Hope There’s Someone mp3
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Bitrate:160 kbps
Genre:Alternative
Year:2005
Artist:CW Stoneking
Title:Seven Nation Army
Link Text:Seven Nation Army mp3
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Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Daniel Johnston
Title:Life In Vain
Link Text:Life In Vain mp3
File Name:j8cofq0pxgrrh03xdtfr.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Genre:Rock
Artist:Gogol Bordello
Title:Not A Crime
Link Text:Not A Crime mp3
File Name:2lkzijtj3qm42ictgtav.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Genre:Folk Rock
Artist:Guillemots
Title:Made Up Love Song #43
Link Text:Made Up Love Song #43 mp3
File Name:jolk8hvzcdlcvpppbdva.mp3
Genre:Indie
Year:2005
Artist:Hayseed Dixie
Title:Enter Sandman
Link Text:Enter Sandman mp3
File Name:9rtg1clunkhy8gp8hosz.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Genre:Folk
Artist:Laura Marling
Title:Sophia
File Name:SoundCloud
Artist:Mercury Rev
Title:Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp
Link Text:Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp mp3
File Name:nhuu2np26teg1ok033kp.mp3
Genre:Alternative
Year:1998
Artist:Toots & The Maytals
Title:54-46 Was My Number
Link Text:54-46 Was My Number mp3
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Bitrate:128 kbps
Genre:Reggae

[Introducing] – Little Jungles

Aug 4, 2011, 12:00pm Listen Before You Buy
[Introducing] – Little Jungles Tweet Brazilian Money , a band that we've featured before who have a new and mightily focussed 6-track EP out, turned me on to Little Jungles, and I'm sure glad they did: "Winter Was Warmer", an impossibly delicious slice of shoegaze that's drenched in early nineties influences, has instantly become one of my favourite tracks of the year so far, and the rest of Little Jungles' debut "Wuts Goin Thru Yer Head" is pretty gorgeous too. "Drive Yerself Crazy" opens [...]
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Mercury Rev feat. Dean Wareham - "Car Wash Hair"

Aug 3, 2011, 10:01am Everybody Taste
MERCURY REV - CAR WASH HAIR
After having a discussion on Twitter last week about the lack of Luna vinyl in the world and the desperate need for some re-pressings, I stumbled through a black-hole of Luna factoids and into the arms of "Car Wash Hair" by Buffalo, New York band Mercury Rev . The track features a rather hypnotic Dean Wareham guesting on lead guitar in-between his gigs fronting Galaxie 500 and Luna. I know little about Mercury Rev—I was 6 years old in 1991 when "Car Wash Hair" was originally released—but over the weekend I developed a serious infatuation [...]
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Artist:Mercury Rev
Title:Car Wash Hair (Debut single, e
Link Text:"Car Wash Hair"
File Name:i38q85mkysa0tqt2ddto.mp3
Genre:Alternative
Year:2007

Episode 85 Re-Run – Danger Radio Podcast

Aug 2, 2011, 1:58pm Your Music Is Awful.com
Jake Ryan had a HD disk crash this week, Tyler's computer was out for repair. It returned on Monday, the same day he had to have his car towed to a shop. All of this results in a REPEAT! YEAH! WOO-HOO. (Oh, you're so lucky. What have you done to deserve such gifts?) Jake Ryan joins us via phone from Shermer, Illinois. PLAYLIST: Airiel – Airtight Angels The Drums – Me and the Moon The Clientele – I Wonder Who We Are Eggstone – If You Say [...]
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Mercury Rev: Deserter's Songs Instrumental

Jul 29, 2011, 2:00am PopMatters
Mercury Rev - Pick Up If You're There
The word "classic" applies to Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs nicely, and the word "redundant" applies to Deserter's Songs Instrumental regrettably. Buffalo's Mercury Rev have remixed and released an instrumental edition of their seminal album Deserter's Songs. Their press release gives no clear reason for this, other than the fact that the album was great. It was released around 13 years ago, so this isn't some kind of magic-number anniversary year. It could be an attempt to gain some traction on the market with their new label, Excelsior Melodies. Mercury Rev might also have a small...
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Upstate

Jul 1, 2011, 12:00am Now you're at Songblague!
Continuing with late masterpieces...Mercury Rev is another one where I depart from the longtime faithful. I appreciate the psychedelic mess of the early albums, but can't say I'm ever really compelled to jump into those worlds. Gotta say I'm with the masses on applauding the symphonic highs and lyrical lows of Deserter's Songs . But you've probably heard all that, so here are some of the creeky upstate ambient interludes between the pop payoffs. Which segues nicely into a note about my own upstate jaunt this weekend. I can think of no better salute to [...]
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Artist:Mercury Rev
Title:I Collect Coins
Link Text:I Collect Coins
File Name:i_collect_coins.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Indie Rock
Year:1998
Artist:Mercury Rev
Title:Pick Up If You're There
Link Text:Pick Up If You're There
File Name:pick_up_if_you're_there.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Indie Rock
Year:1998
Artist:Mercury Rev
Title:The Happy End (The Drunk Room)
Link Text:The Happy End (The Drunk Room)
File Name:the_happy_end.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Indie Rock
Year:1998

Mercury Rev: Deserter's Songs [Deluxe Edition]

Jun 27, 2011, 6:59am The Fire Note
Mercury Rev: Deserter's Songs [Deluxe Edition] Mercury Rev Deserter's Songs [Deluxe Edition] Co-Operative Music [1998; re: 2011] Fire Note Says: Reissue spotlights a stand out record from Mercury Rev that should be sought out from a new generation! Album Review: When Deserter's Songs released in 1998, Mercury Rev surprised both critics and fans as the group's fourth record was full of lush harmonies, atmospheric arrangements and fragile song structures. It is [...]
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@mercuryrev Mercury Rev – Deserter's Songs album review

Jun 22, 2011, 11:04am MVRemix Rock
In 1998, American alternative rock group, Mercury Rev released what they thought would be their last record. Deserter's Songs, recorded as a sort of final hoorah with little-to-no regard for public opinion, resulted in massive commercial and critical success effectively launching the band to heights previously unmatched. Five years prior, lead singer, David Baker had left the group following the release of Boces and with his departure so left the darker, less-palatable side of the group – something that undoubtedly paved the way for the strange but accessible mood of Deserter's Songs. Now, in [...]
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Mercury Rev – Deserter's Songs (Re-issue)

Jun 19, 2011, 2:24pm Bowlegs Music Review
Mercury Rev – Deserter's Songs (Re-issue) Being that Mercury Rev's 'Deserter's Songs' has just been reissued (with an extra disc of out-takes, demos and rarities), what better time is there to pay tribute to the band's bonafide 1998 masterpiece. From Jonathan Donahue's opening lines on 'Holes' - where his warbling, high pitch is backed by wavering synth lines and a deep melancholy, to the opened-up, widescreen, blown-out chorus on 'Goddess on a Hiway'. The album's success lies in the deep atmospherics perfected on pretty much every track. With the band's collection of weaving keyboard lines and orchestral flourishes, spread thickly, mixed with theatrical climbs, [...]
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Here Comes The Rain Again

Jun 8, 2011, 7:00am A Town Full of Losers
It's time for some singin' in the rain as wintry weather conditions threaten to dampen Irish spirits.
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Artist:Grace Jones
Title:Walking In The Rain
Link Text:Walking In The Rain - Grace Jones
File Name:walking-in-the-rain-grace-jone s.mp3
Genre:12
Year:1981
Artist:Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs
Title:I See the Rain (Marmalade cove
Link Text:I See the Rain (Marmalade cover) - Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs
File Name:i-see-the-rain-marmalade-cover -matthew-sweet-susanna-hoffs.m p3
Genre:12
Year:2006
Artist:Mercury Rev
Title:Raindrops Keep Falling On My H
Link Text:Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (BJ Thomas cover) - Mercury Rev
File Name:raindrops-keep-falling-on-my-h ead-bj-thomas-cover-mercury-re v.mp3
Genre:12
Artist:Teenage Fanclub
Title:Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (CCR cover)
Link Text:Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover) - Teenage Fanclub
File Name:have-you-ever-seen-the-rain-cr eedence-clearwater-revival-cov er-teenage-fanclub.mp3
Genre:TFofL
Year:1995
Artist:The Jesus & Mary Chain
Title:Happy When It Rains
Link Text:Happy When It Rains - The Jesus & Mary Chain
File Name:happy-when-it-rains-the-jesus- mary-chain.mp3
Genre:TFofL
Artist:The Lackloves
Title:Summer Rain
Link Text:Summer Rain - The Lackloves
File Name:summer-rain-the-lackloves.mp3
Genre:12
Year:2010

2011 Annual Primavera Sound Festival

Jun 6, 2011, 7:19am Draw Us Lines
2011 Annual Primavera Sound Festival Words, videos, and pictures by Rick Moslen The 11th Annual Primavera Sound Festival assaulted my ears at the end of May in its regular home alongside the marvelous shores of Barcelona, Spain. For three full nights (and two shorter evenings bookending the event), the eight main outdoor stages and massive auditorium hosted over two hundred of the best artists in the world of indie rock/pop/hip-hop/noise/folk/et c without the burden of dirty camp sites (visitors retreat to their hostels or apartments), or the overcrowded frustration of not sharing the same time zone as the band you're [...]
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Primavera Sound 2011 (VII) - dzień 5. (niedziela)

Jun 5, 2011, 11:36am louder than bombs
Primavera Sound 2011 (VII) - dzień 5. (niedziela) PS11 | środa | czwartek | piątek | sobota | niedziela | ME AND THE BEES – przyjemne hiszpańskie gitarowe granie, DEAKIN – odwołał, a szkoda, MY TEENAGE STRIDE – słabo, BMX BANDITS – jw., MERCURY REV PERFORM DESERTER'S SONGS W książeczce niedawno wydanej kolekcjonerskiej edycji albumu „Deserter's Songs" czytamy: „We [...]
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