
I was going to post this yesterday as a March Madness mix, but as I did not, it is now an April Fool's Mix. Anyway, I haven't posted up a mix since last November, and this is a fast and easy way to throw a good variety of music at all you Internet dwellers out there. And remember, if you've got some songs to throw my way, e-mail them to me at eitheror.hugh (at) gmail.com . Thanks and enjoy the free tunes! Oh, and if I hear any complaints about the picture, well, I won't know WHAT to tell [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Amanda Palmer : "Astronaut" [mp3] from Who Killed Amanda Palmer other Amanda Palmer posts at Largehearted Boy Chester French : "She Loves Everybody" [mp3] from She Loves Everybody EP other Chester French posts at Largehearted Boy Fred : [...]

Photo By Carla Cummings We've mentioned the Rosewood Thieves before, but I'm pretty excited about introducing the band's very own Samuel Markus , who left the band and has been working on his solo career for the past few years. In the healthy Rosewood vein, Markus expands upon his smoky vocals, throughout his full-length album New Dawn . Any 22 year old who can reach towards a Peter Case mystic, combining folk and a small pinch of pop into a storybook of an album, is just fine by me. Check him out immediately. [...]
Please forgive us (oh, such self-delusional comfort in the plural) if we don't fiddle with thematic groupings and such in this post. Just call it a loose concatenation of songs we're enjoying and hoping you will, too. Setting Sun - They're Calling mp3 - from the Hudson Valley/Catskills cats' EP, Children of the Remix - Thanks to Fanatic.Built By Snow - Everything in 3D mp3 - from the Austin
"Rosa" - Samuel Markus A full-bodied helping of quasi-psychedelic neo-folk rock, or some such thing, "Rosa" treads an alluring line between the contemporary and the classic, mixing a Derek & the Dominoes-like guitar-band drive with crispier beats and 21st-century production effects. Holding it all together--because I have to admit, that description doesn't sound all that alluring as I read it back to myself!--is 22-year-old Samuel Markus, whose voice contains something of Grant Lee Phillips' deep melodrama, but with a lighter touch and self-effacing tone. The song is pretty much [...]
Twin Cities: - The Swing State Voter Awareness Tour will be hitting the Twin Cities with Beastie Boys, Ben Harper and Tenacious D - Roy Wilkins Auditorium - Nov. 1. - While in town for a show at the State Theatre , Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields recorded a studio set at The Current. ( link ) - The Star Tribune's Chris Riemenschneider interviews Brendan Canning of Broken Social Scene. ( link ) - Oh, and Broken Social Scene is playing an in-store today. ( link ) [...]