![EAR CANDY | [MP3] “Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely” (Ryan Hemsworth Remix)](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4908851_lg.jpg)
Official | Facebook | Twitter | Bandcamp | Soundcloud [MP3]: "Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely" (Ryan Hemsworth Remix) (click through for download pg) Backstreet Boys > N*Sync I don't know about you, but I was a BSB girl back in the day (N*Sync who?). M illennium was the first album I ever owned (sorry Britney), and if last.fm scrobbling and the Internet had existed back then, you best [...]
Just kidding... I also got this shitty iPhone photo that was so shitty it couldn't even be saved by an Instagram filter! taken during the first 2 songs when we *accidentally* sat in the "good" seats First and foremost-this is not a review. Secondly-I enjoyed the show. It was, oh yes I know, "once in a lifetime." Also, I, like everyone else in the room, fell in love with Stevie Nicks all over again (but I already predicted [...]
![[MP3]: Pandercakes – ‘Paint By Numbers’ EP](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4135046_lg.jpg)
PANDERCAKES @ Columbia, SC Facebook | Bandcamp | Soundcloud For fans of: Twin Sister, Oberhofer, Cults, Summer Camp Sounds like: hearing your neighbor's noisy 90s party through the wall and not getting mad because you know they're all probably wearing neon windbreakers and spandex over there I downloaded Pandercakes ' debut EP Paint By Numbers last week and finally got around to listening [...]
![EAR CANDY | [MP3] Sweet Hearts EP](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4062493_lg.jpg)
SWEET HEARTS @ Los Angeles, CA. Pop, Acoustic, Indie Official | Facebook If you know me (I'll assume you don't), you'll know that I'm not much for belt-y, powerhouse vocals; I'm more keen on whisper-sweet serenades that require you to almost lean in (even if you've got headphones on). Priscilla Ahn more than checked off that box for me when I first came across her sparse 'girl with a guitar and a loop and sometimes a harmonica' easy listening [...]
![EAR CANDY | [MP3] Memoryhouse – “Walk With Me”](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4019273_lg.jpg)
Official | Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr It's been a bit of a whirlwind for Guelph, Ontario dream-pop duo Memoryhouse . Having just self-releasing their digital EP The Years the year before (2010), Sub Pop quickly snatched them up in them in 2011, remastered the EP, added a couple of new tracks, and re-released it-this time with a full-fledged physical release (cd and vinyl). Their debut full-length, entitled The Slideshow Effect , is due out February 28 . [...]
![EAR CANDY | [MP3] Oberhofer – “HEART”](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4006765_lg.jpg)
Facebook | Myspace | Twitter The recent couple years have seen an uprising of lo-fi bedroom musicians (see: Youth Lagoon, Coma Cinema) and when Brad Oberhofer appeared on the scene in 2010 unsigned and with a free EP for download, he was no different. "Heart," the first single from Oberhofe r's debut LP Time Capsules II (out March 27), is a departure from the reverb-laden fuzz-filled soundscape that we've come to identify with him. From the crisp and clear opening notes of a solitude [...]
Official | Bandcamp | Myspace | Twitter Ever been to a drag show? (Yes/No.) If yes , have you ever wanted to enjoy a drag show in the comfort of your own home? (Duh.) If no , you've secretly (or not-so-secretly) wanted to but never had the opportunity-correct? (Maybe.) Would you like to enjoy a drag show right now in the form of a character-based musicalesque ditty? (Uhhh...) It's free. (Okay yes.) Click play. [LISTEN]: [...]
Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Label Getting to know an artist is like making a new friend. There are some people that seem standoffish in the beginning (maybe because they're shy or because they've eaten a crap sandwich and it's ruined their entire day-sandwiches have that kind of effect on people, y'know), so it takes a couple of visits or run-ins for them to get comfortable around you and for you to warm up to them; then there are those people you take an instant liking to [...]
![EAR CANDY | [MP3] St. Vincent – “Surgeon”](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3633367_lg.jpg)
Myspace | Official | Facebook | Twitter "...But where is her face?" I'm sure this was the first thought to cross the mind of every single longtime St. Vincent fan when they saw the album art for her forthcoming album, Strange Mercy (out Sept. 13 via 4AD ). When it was first released, I was pretty stunned not to see Annie Clark 's [...]
So Kanye and Jay-Z have released the appropriately titled, "Otis," (it features a sampling of Redding's "Try a Little Tenderness" ) the first track off their highly anticipated collab album, Watch the Throne . Cue a million pre-teens professing that they have always loved Otis Redding before it was "cool" and before this song even came out and then cue their parents eye-rolling the hell out of their eyes because they actually were fans. Yeah, no. Look at it this way, at least a whole generation is being introduced [...]
![EAR CANDY | [MP3] Memoryhouse – “Modern, Normal”](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3539315_lg.jpg)
Myspace | Official | Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr | Bandcamp [MP3]: Memoryhouse - "Modern, Normal" ( via ) I have so much love for Memoryhouse that it's seeping out of my every pore. But it is summer, so it could just be the heat. I don't know. Regardless, here is the just released "Modern, Normal" -one of two new [...]
I have always and will always be a fan of good pop music. And Robyn 's "Call Your Boyfriend" is a prime example of what I would personally call 'good' pop music. It's got everything going for it: a message that is quite relatable for many with the whole meeting-someone-new-when-you'r e-still-in-a-relationship-and- having-to-break-it-off thing; it's emotional but not dissolve-into-tears-worthy (simply because it is quite upbeat) unless you're a melodramatic Pisces (hey, that's me!) so it's still something you can sing along to for fun at the right moments. Or if you've just broken up and you [...]
Myspace | Official | Facebook | Twitter I have always and will always be a fan of good pop music. And Robyn 's "Call Your Girlfriend" is a prime example of what I would personally call 'good' pop music. It's got everything going for it: a message that is quite relatable for many with the whole meeting-someone-new-when-you'r e-still-in-a-relationship-and- having-to-break-it-off thing; it's emotional but not dissolve-into-tears-worthy (simply because it is quite upbeat) [...]
WIDOWSPEAK @ Brooklyn, NY Myspace | Bandcamp | Facebook | Twitter "I thought about you, because I always think about you." [MP3]: Widowspeak - "Harsh Realm" Languid, hazy, lilting and lulling are few adjectives that can be used to describe the music Molly Hamilton, Michael Stasiak, and Robert Thomas craft on Harsh Realm [...]
![EAR CANDY | [MP3] Bon Iver – “Calgary”](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3446151_lg.jpg)
Myspace | Official | Facebook | Twitter Eargasm. I’ve been waiting for an eternity for some new Bon Iver , and finally, we get our first taste of new material with the release of the first single off the band’s doubly self-titled sophomore LP- Bon Iver, Bon Iver (due out June 21 via Jagjaguwar ). [MP3]: Bon Iver - "Calgary" ( via ) [...]
Myspace | Official | Facebook | Twitter Yes, I will admit that sometimes I will search up a musician just because their cover art or album title intrigues me. It's a superficial method, but hey, I've stumbled across many of my favourite artists this way. It happened again a couple days ago. Pitchfork did me a solid when I happened across the cover art for Des Ark 's sophomore album Don't Rock the Boat, Sink the Fucker along with a review [...]
Myspace | Official | Facebook They say the best things in life are free, and in the case of Coma Cinema , that saying holds up. Mat Cothran , the guy behind this gem of a music find, equates music to something like oxygen , saying that it would be ridiculous to charge for the air we breathe so why charge for something as vital as music? Accordingly, all three of Coma Cinema's full-length records are available for free download on the official [...]
![EAR CANDY | [MP3] Fleet Foxes – “Grown Ocean”](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3422297_lg.jpg)
Myspace | Official | Facebook | Twitter Fleet Foxes' highly regarded sophomore album, Helplessness Blues , was released May 3, but that isn't stopping Sub Pop from giving away another freebie: "Grown Ocean. " [MP3]: Fleet Foxes - "Grown Ocean" (right-click, save as) If you haven't already, you can also grab the lead single and title track that was given away as a [...]
Bandcamp | Facebook The moment I saw that We Are Trees had a song entitled "Dear Chan Marshall," I was all 'hell yeah, I'm up for the ride.' (I'm a huge Cat Power fan and any reference to her will get me giddy.) That fact alone, for me, warranted them a listen-and I was not disappointed. [MP3]: We Are Trees - "Dear Chan Marshall" [ via ] [...]
![EAR CANDY | [MP3] Russian Red – “I Hate You But I Love You,” “Fuerteventura”](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3372021_lg.jpg)
Myspace | Official | Facebook [LISTEN]: Russian Red - "I Hate You But I Love You" Last time I spoke with Russian Red (Lourdes Hernandez) back in the 2010, she mentioned that she was hoping to start recording the new record this year. Since then, she has played a couple of shows in the States and released "I Hate You But I Love You" -the first single off her highly anticipated sophomore [...]
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