
mp3s :: One Year Ago Mix > February 2012 Downloadables: Cold Sweat (mp3) by YVETTE What A Mess (mp3) Mr. Dream BIRDS OF PARADISE (mp3) by ✌ICUH8N✌ [d/l the #OCCUPY EP LP @ icuh8n.bandcamp.com ] Good Gun Time (mp3) Moonmen On The Moon, Man Black Practice (mp3) [...]

Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago ? Listen to the February 2012 One Year Ago Mix and find out. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: [...]

Cat Power | Photo by Stefano Giovannini Hey, hey! It's Friday. And I guess that would make it Halloween Friday? Well, if you want a list purely of Halloween shows, then head check out our buddies Windy City Rock who have a great list of spooky cover shows happening this week. But we decided to keep it a bit more broad naming some of our favorite shows happening this weekend of both the Halloween and non-Halloween variety. We're talking Santah at the Burlington, Jan Terri at Ultra Lounge, Cat Power [...]
Garage rock band Xray Eyeballs have announced tour dates supporting their recent album, Splendor Squalor, released earlier this year through Kanine Records. In our review of that album, we stated, Whereas on 'Not Nothing' Xray Eyeballs appeared to have lacked confidence and focus, 'Splendor Squalor' takes the bands’ Velvet Underground obsession and mixes [...]

Frank Yang Every good thing you've heard about Cat Power live is true, and also a lie; the same goes for every bad thing. The reputation that Chan Marshall gained as a fragile, erratic performer over the first decade or so of her career may have seemed overstated to mythic proportions, but few have made great efforts to dispute it. I can't speak from experience - though a modest fan since Moon Pix , I'd avoided seeing her in concert because of that reputation and reports from the Toronto shows I'd [...]

Recommended Show: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012 X-RAY EYEBALLS @ DEATH BY AUDIO 49 S 2nd St Brooklyn, NY 11211 $7, 8PM It's nice that the cool October air is now here. Death by Audio should now be a comfortable temperature, so why not go see X-Ray Eyeballs there tonight? LP @ Mercury Lounge M83 & Sun Airway @ Hammerstein Ballroom Django Django & Lemonade @ Bowery Ballroom Tennis, Wild Belle, & The Shilohs @ Maxwell's [...]

Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago ? Listen to the September 2011 Mix and find out. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: [...]

Life Size Maps is getting ready to release their latest EP of noisepop. Gone is Jordyn Blakely (ex- Night Manager ) and gone is the electric cello as Matt Gaffney moves to the drums and Emily Panic has joined in on bass. Frontman Mike McKeever continue to provide lead vocals and guitar. Their new EP is called Excavate and this here is the title track. Listen. Downloadable: Excavate (mp3) The Excavate EP will be available (very soon) as a free download @ lifesizemaps.bandcamp.com . [...]

This is the 2nd GIMMETINNITUSCAST. Downloadable: GIMMETINNITUSCAST ep 2 (mp3) Streamable: GIMMETINNITUSCAST ep 2 (mixcloud) Tracklisting: 1. A Place to Bury Strangers :: So Far Away 2. Ex Cops :: Broken Chinese Chairz 3. Mr. Dream :: Fatherland 4. Throwing Up :: Big Love 5. Xray Eyeballs :: X 6. The Coathangers :: Smother 7. White Fence :: Swagger Vets and Double Moon 8. Dinowalrus :: What Now 9. The Clean :: Tally Ho 10. Frankie Rose :: Know Me [...]

Cursive Three cheers for the weekend! After a scorcher of a week, we're in for a nice (slight) cool front. But it doesn't get any cooler than this weekend's lineup. Sure, that was a lame segue, but it doesn't make the statement any less true. We're highlighting sweet shows featuring such artists as Blizzard Babies, Radar Eyes and Cursive. C'mon ride the train... FRIDAY BLIZZARD BABIES [...]

London's French Kissing release their, previously mentioned , 7" double a side of "Wild Woman" and "Love is For" today. continue reading >>

It is time for the first volume of the Best Downloadables of 2012 . You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can download any or all of the tracks at your leisure (with the usual right-click or control-click) and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Listen. Downloadables: Old Nirvana (mp3) by Stickers [d/l the Brother Keith EP [...]

It is time for the first volume of the Best Downloadables of 2012 . You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can download any or all of the tracks at your leisure (with the usual right-click or control-click) and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Listen. Downloadables: Old Nirvana (mp3) by Stickers [d/l the Brother Keith EP [...]
Here's the playlist from today's My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRIUS XMU , Channel 35! You can listen at 12pm ET or you can stay up late and catch the show replay at midnight ET. Turn your dial to channel 35 on either SIRIUS or XM. Listen online with a free trial here . Check out this week's playlist below! Death Grips - Get Got Ex Cops [...]
It doesn’t roll off the tongue with quite the same alliterative ease but let’s call this Freeloader Monday. If you’re heading down to Austin next week, it’s a good bet that you have started to assemble an elaborate SXSW itinerary that will take you all over the city to see ...
Wow, this is yet another great week for new releases. The singles from new albums have been sifted through and arranged into the following playlist - and it's just one great track after another, and we hope you agree. The lead off track for this week's Best New Releases was not easy to pick with [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe

Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the February 2011 Mix and find out. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: Deadbeat [...]

Here is what is on our radar in this weeks batch of new releases. Dirty Three; Toward The Low Sun Dirty Three; Rising Below Disappears; Pre Language Disappears; Replicate Memoryhouse; The Slideshow Effect Memoryhouse; The Kids Were Wrong Water Liars; Phantom Limb Water Liars; $100 Xray Eyeballs; Splendor Squalor Xray Eyeballs; X
Seething Gothic undertones create a mixed orgy of street-wise influences in Xray Eyeballs' sophomore album.

In this week's list of new releases, you'll find a handful of bands you've likely heard about first while listening to KEXP or reading this blog. As we're currently deep into our Spring Membership Drive , we're asking you to consider all this new... and often free!... music we've helped you discover over the years and to help us continue to do so by making a gift of support . In features like Out This Week , we hunt down the latest MP3s and other downloads, plus many interesting new videos, for you sample [...]