Sometimes it's scary how well li'l ole last.fm knows our likes and. . .loves. Here is a sampling of what "they've" recommended or made available for free downloading activity. Left click arrows to listen, right click bandnames or song titles to download. We kind of went "Grrrr" when Blogger wouldn't let us include more than 200 characters' worth of labels, so we'll be adding some more last.fm
Filed under: News , Exclusive Collin Erie for AOL This past week, Andrew W.K. 's cultural ambassadorship to Bahrain was cancelled by the U.S. State Department. Despite the buzz kill, the rocker still intends to get over to the Middle East to spread his message of positive partying. But W.K. isn't the only artist reaching out to other countries through music. Springfield, Mo.'s Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin is making a [...]

Andrew W.K. may have had his dreams rock and roll diplomacy crushed , but that doesn't mean someone else can't make the world a better place one guitar solo at a time. As The News-Leader reports , Springfield, MO indie-pop rockers Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin have been appointed Cultural Ambassadors to Russia by the United States' State Depatment. What's more, they've been invited to headline a Russian music festival, which coincidentally is being sponsored by the Boris Yeltsin Foundation. Let those who ever critiqued their name feel [...]

Hesitant adult despair gives way to wholesome adolescent angst. I never would've thought that this slight (and terribly named) band would've popped up a second time on the 'blague. But these kids have good pop sense and a dorkiness you can't help but nod along to, even as you tune out the insipid words. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Dead Right

It's been a great year - arguably the best since Prince's pre-"formerly known as" glory days - for soulful, chanteuse-driven electro. Look no further than Jessie Ware, Sky Ferreira, Solange Knowles and now Dragon Inn 3, a trio led by Roni Dickey and fleshed out with her brother Phil (of indie-pop geniuses Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin) and Brook Linder. The group's latest, "Rocket Launcher," finds Dickey getting breathy and calling in "late for work" over humming synths and drum tracks straight from the John Hughes IMDb page. The soundtrack to your next montage. [...]
Listen to Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin offshoot Dragon Inn 3 cover the 'Top Gun' standout, exclusively at Cover Me.

When Philip Dickey starts a band, he looks to his closest compatriots to fill out the ranks. In high school, he hooked up with his friend Will Knauer to form Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin , adding his new pal John Robert Cardwell as a college freshman. For his latest endeavor, he looked no further than his own family and the man who's been behind the lens for each SSLYBY video. With his sister Roni Dickey and camera-man-turned-bandmate Brook Linder, they became Dragon Inn 3 . The new band is set to self-release their debut [...]

St. Louis is mostly known for beer and baseball- and those few years in a row where it was ranked as the country's most dangerous city, but Detroit took that title from them recently. While some of music's most famous stars are from the St. Louis area (Miles Davis, Chuck Berry, and Ike Turner to name just a few), it has never been a well-known music town. Growing up in the area, I remember the closest St. Louis came to widespread fame was The Urge's "Jump Right In" playing on MTV, and being the closest major city to where Jeff [...]
Soundsupply Drop 2 from Soundsupply on Vimeo . We previously wrote about Soundsupply a few months ago, but with the release of the second bunch of albums we thought it was something worth revisiting in more detail. Over the past two years, the bundle model has become a viable distribution channel in the world of games. The idea is simple: gather up a bunch of independent games and sell them for cheap, usually without digital rights management (DRM) and with the bulk of the money raised [...]

I've been digging through my old records lately and I can't believe just how awesome music was between 2003 and 2007. This awesomeness has inspired a new series, The Throwback Mix Series , which will be a six or seven installment set of mixes each containing 20 songs that I loved during that time span - and each mix will be completely rad. Spread the word and be sure to support the artists you enjoy. Neutral Milk Hotel - "Holland, 1945" [...]
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Some Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin is a great band with an even greater name. Unfortunately, in this grab bag of outtakes and demos, they fail to live up either.

Each of our writers who posted this year worked tirelessly to cover bands that normally don't appear on your FM radio stations, and in the true spirit of the season, here are their lists. All albums are linked to iTunes. To play all Soundcloud clips continuously, click on the play button in the bottom right of the screen. TOP 10 ALBUMS 10. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues 9. [...]

The last 2011 song is by the Springfield, Missouri bases Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. They have recently released their forth album. Tape Club documents the story of the band aurally, beginning with lo-fi home recordings (of the type found on their self-recorded debut Broom ) and ending with more polished studio tracks (like those found on the Chris Walla-produced Let It Sway ). For those unfamiliar with Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Tape Club serves as an introduction to the evolution of the band's [...]
RFT Music, in conjunction with Tangent Mind, set out to create a series of distinctly St. Louis videos featuring touring bands playing in our hometown. Someone Still Love You Boris Yeltsin is a f... Continue reading "RFT Music Presents Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin at Art Hill: Video" >

Somebody Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin 's latest release, Tape Club is a mammoth collection of 26 songs, each hand picked lovingly from the band's archive of songs they have been crafting in the 10 years that they have been together. The tracks span from the Broom- era release to their last release Let It Sway . Like an aural timeline of the band's progress, Tape Club starts off with their earlier lo-fi tape recordings and moves into the professional studio tracks of later releases towards the end. Here's a few [...]

This band knows how to put on a show, but they ain't no clowns // Follow Owl and Bear on Facebook and Twitter for contests, MP3s, and links that don't make it onto the blog.
The latest Insound free digital mix for December is up - this time it requires a click through on their Facebook Like button to grab yourself eleven of the latest tracks from Bon Iver, Bowerbirds, Sharon Van Etten, A Place To Bury Strangers and plenty more. As usual, you can grab a couple of our favourites below or click here to go get the whole thing. Download The War On Drugs - Come To The City mp3 (from Insound December Mixtape 2011) Download Someone Still Loves [...]
COPY, ONUINU ( Bunk Bar , 1028 SE Water) Portland's electronic music scene has never been stronger, and tonight's lineup is an excellent sampler of what's out there. Dry your rain-wet clothes with the super chill, videogame stylings of Copy and the sophisticated ambient house of Onuinu. WILL ELDER THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION, CHELSEA WOLFE, DRAMADY ( Doug Fir , 830 E Burnside) With frightening album art and song titles like "Primal/Carnal," it's impossible to not [...]
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - it's a mouthful, ain't it? Often abbreviated SSLYBY, this band is one that has been making music and performing for over 10 years. Formed in Springfield, Missouri in 1999, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin consists of John Robert Cardwell, primarily the vocalist, Will Knauer who plays guitar, [...]

Live This Month: December 2011 (Podcast #262) In Live This Month , we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. For a month when few new records are coming out and music journalists spend a lot of time meticulously crafting numerical lists of their favorite albums of the year, there are still a wealth of great live shows hitting the San Francisco area in December. Bands that had big years in 2011 - including Other Lives, Cass McCombs, and [...]