
The long awaited follow-up to the first-half-of-the-year in quasi-review. As was the summer post, nothing more than 25 songs released during the second half of the year that I liked and though deserved to be mentioned again. The year-end version will encompass all of '08, so watch for that too. Enjoy! mp3: Celestina VIII artist: 17 Pygmies album: [...]

Six Red Carpets Genre: Rock / Alternative From: Milan, Italy Italian trio Six Red Carpets have taken a leaf out of the Radiohead book in releasing their debut album 'Nightmares & Lullabies' as a free download via their website. Yes that's free, gratis, without the need to part with any money! [...]
Six Red Carpets, a Milanese 3-piece, released their debut album 'Nightmares + Lullabies' at the end of June. As is fast becoming the norm the album was issued free of charge for anyone with the time/inclination to download it. So Six Red Carpets were accorded no headlines or calls from important media outlets about their novel approach. Freebies are so passé these days you see, we've become

The Six Red Carpets are a 3-piece band out of Italy. I know of very few bands out of Italy and at best I don't think there's a booming indie scene in Italy, at least it's not known for that. The Six Red Carpets have gone to great lengths in attempts to promote their music. First off their album is available free on their website . They are currently signed to no label and are promoting their LP Nightmares + Lullabies by themselves. They actually asked me for some advice on promoting their records, [...]

"Now, we need your help...share it with your friends...our album is free, and we made it for you!" Na aber gern doch , vor allem dann, da die Italiener Majlco, Mills und Leaf ganz feinen Alternativrock, der mich sehr an die guten Zeiten der Smashing Pumpkins erinnert, abliefern. Six Red Carpets - Fall Asleep Download: Nightmares + Lullabies (ZIP) » Links: Band | MySpace | [...]

As much as I try to stick with the old way of picking up entire records, I'm finding myself drawn more and more to single tracks. I'm meticulous about archiving all of my mp3s and try and keep full albums together if at all possible. But lately I've been using shuffle pretty often and I tend to end up listening to a lot of crap in my collection, i.e. songs from comps, tracks that were recorded live and sound horrible, or bands that I really only liked one or two songs but I still imported the entire record. That's a [...]