
Every Monday, we'll be offering you early picks for some of the week's best concerts. Do you think we omitted something worthwhile? Let us know in the comments! Be sure to visit our Local Concert Calendar for an expanded set of daily listings. Regional Bias is Saturday night! Hopefully you aren't yet sick of us writing about Regional Bias , our fifth birthday party/annual fundraiser, which is taking place at [...]

So here we are at Day 2 of the "Best of 20093 Blogger Crew and today is a monster post from E. over at Das Klienicum . It's a monster because he is posting on his top 50 albums of the year and he even has ratings broken out by number of stars (ranked out of 5 as best)....ummm, top 50 people!! There isn't gushing, there isn't microscopic dissection of each album in order to create some sort of reasoning, there is simply that feeling when you just know that this album is good and [...]

We posted about this back in August , but here is a word from TJO and her tour schedule: From TJO: hello people autumn tour of the eastern US is happening. the record came out in may, and now i am touring it. come over, pass it on.... *tjo art sale in a box- ill bring some drawings and prints to sell on this tour. cheap and good looking. all shows all ages. all shows with no kids and mount eerie. ill be playing guitar in mount eerie as [...]

A volte, con il peso che va più su quasi mai che su non sempre, è il sendo di incompiutezza delle cose ad innalzarne il valore. Ed è questo il caso che può riguardare il quinto lavoro di Tara Jane O'Neil A ways away, primo per la K Records di Calvin Johnson (per cui subito la pronuncia del nome da molti parte un "sia lode e gloria a Cristo") per cui il vero punto di forza è il senso di incompiutezza e di tensione. Di nervosismo, a suo modo, stretto fa passaggi rarefatti di post rock e [...]

Akron Family - Set Em Wild, Set Em Free Listen: " River " (mp3) Buy It: Amazon | iTunes Ben Harper & Relentless7 - White Lies for Dark Times Listen: Full Album Stream Buy It: Amazon | iTunes Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band - Outer south Listen: Full [...]
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Akron/Family - Set Em Wild, Set Em Free MP3: Akron/Family - "River" Alasdair Roberts - Spoils MP3: Alasdair Roberts - "Hazel Forks" British Sea Power - Man of Aran MP3: British Sea Power - "Come Wander With Me" [...]

Tara Jane O'Neil is an artist , songwriter, poet, guitarist, and so much more. She has been in Portland for the last six years, and now she is preparing to release her first album (fifth overall) on K Records . A Ways Away finds Tara at a point in her career where she is fully comfortable with every aspect of her sound and she is able to explore all of the angles. She began her career in music at the age of 19 as the bass player for the influential and short lived art-punk ensemble [...]

[Culled from recent electronic correspondences:] Singer, songwriter, composer and arena rocker Mark Mallman says via press release that his is re-recording his forthcoming album, tentatively titled "Invincible Criminal," on Badman Recordings. Yeah, he had one done, and then, "I sat back and listened to a record in the major key, when my life had gone totally sour — my girlfriend was screwing her tango instructor, I ran my car into a light pole, and I had a never-ending fever and no health insurance. So I was [...]

sensationelle nachricht: ein neues album von tjo ! "a ways away" wird es heißen und auf k records am 05.05. erscheinen. wow, das blieb aber lange im verborgenen. kaum zu glauben. damit einher ging eine neugestaltung der website von tara, leider nicht zu ihrem besten. war früher etwas charmanter, nun sieht sie aus wie zum angriff auf den geldbeutel ihrer fans. "drowing" gewährt einen ersten eindruck. schwebender sound, keine eile, eine herrlich mäandernde gitarre, der stoische gesang o'neils, ein fliessen über gute drei minuten. an das release wird sich auch eine europatournee anschliessen. [...]
*Tara Jane Oneil - Drowning* Laura Barrett - Nobody Cares About The Railroads Anymore Meho Plaza - We'll Drink The Blood (Nopse Mix) Panther - Like A Bridge On Fire The Sway Machinery - Anim Zemiros Pree - In The Parlor Black Lips - Short Fuse The Chap - Proper Rock
Randall Bewley, founding guitarist of seminal Athens, Ga., band Pylon, passed away February 25. Bewley suffered a heart attack while driving two days earlier and lapsed into a coma. Download Pylon's "Cool" here … Wilco is promising a new LP in June; don't ask for a title because it doesn't have one yet. Jeff Tweedy [...]

Tara Jane ONeil signs to K Records, new album on the way. "A Ways Away" is out on May 5th. A Ways Away her fifth album and first for K. The first track available from the record is for download. Download: Tara Jane ONeil - Drowning
Hello! Welcome to another news roundup! Expect all the latest news from on the amazing Cloud Speakers website all the way through to Southern Records latest releases. Read on for more info! Cloud Speakers The amazing music aggregator Cloud Speakers ( www.cloudspeakers.com ) has recently added our site to it's source list and we wanted to thank them by giving them a shout out. It's a great site and the guy that runs it (Chris Bol) is a very nice guy indeed. [...]
February may be the shortest of the year, but by no means is it the slowest when it comes to news. Between festival lineups and reunion news, showcase announcements and new albums, the last 27 days certainly brought many sleepless nights and vivid memories. So what better way to cap off the month then by offering another edition of our Friday Mixtape. As always, below you'll find a mix of the week's best new singles, remixes, and covers, along with mp3s from a few up-and-comers you may just want to check out. NEW Singles: [...]

There's something to be said about a young soul with the spirit of a wise one, and Tara Jane Oneil is precisely such a person. She's got the spirit of wonderment, and despite the beauty of this song, "Drowning" there's something haunting in her delivery, but in a completely endearing way. Yea, it's a mellow number for sure, but one to ease you into the weekend with the magic of her voice alone. Her record A Ways Away comes out via K Records on May 5th. Also, be [...]

HANK ALTOGETHER: I don't know what part of your brain it is that allows you to recognize repetition. But, this part must have a field day when you listen to Tara Jane O'Neil. Her songs aren't so much songs as they are chamber compositions for the mythical parts of your brain: haunting, repetitive, melodic, you can just as easily imagine a tree growing as a snake eating it's own tail in the chords of her looped guitar. So, it's always a big day at my house when Tara Jane puts out a [...]

Every Friday we bring you our weekly batch of uploads. Download all the songs that went up the week of 2/23-2/27 right here, right now. You can download the following mp3s individually OR play them all in a row. Click on the artists at the right under Related Downloads to learn more about each band and see similar music suggestions. [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO VIEW ON SITE] Play All [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO VIEW ON SITE] [ [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: All the Saints : "Fire on Corridor X" [mp3] from Fire on Corridor X other All the Saints posts at Largehearted Boy The Instruments : "For Travel, pt. 2" [mp3] from Examined Life (soundtrack) other Instruments posts at Largehearted Boy Jessie Kilguss [...]
Shunda K - "First Encounter" Yo! Majesty leader Shunda K collaborates with Peaches Of Montreal - "First Time High(Reconstructionist Remix of "An Eluardian Instance")" Jon Brion's reinterpretation of the songs takes the basic tracks and adds more instrumentation and backing vocals - including the work of Nickel Creek vocalist and mandolin-player Chris Thile Tara Jane ONeil - "Drowning" There's compassion and concern, wisdom and heartbreak, moving on [...]