ARTIST: The SWAG Report 94 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by Jack White, Cuff The Duke, Turf War, KNTRLR, Fort Lean, Chains Of Love and more! So much more! DATE: 02-10-12 WRITER: Don Loder Hey ya funky junky monkey, Sorry, I ben listenin' to a lotta da Beastie Boys over da last couple o' days. So how's tricks, ya reprobates! How's things in yer life? Things're goin' great fer me, an' I think this week's SWAG Report [view [...]
ARTIST: The Unique Brand of Elliott BROOD Singer/guitarist Mark Sasso gets prepared to turn Days Into Years loose on the United States. DATE: 02-08-12 WRITER: Bill Adams It's easy enough to get a bit cynical at the thought of a rock band inciting hysteria at a concert in the twenty-first century. It's not uncommon to assume that, for some bands, the joy of music-making and the thrill of presenting that work on stage is a bit overstated; there have been more than a few bands who [...]
![Useless ID - [Album]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4039204_lg.jpg)
ARTIST: Useless ID - [Album] with free mp3 download for 'Before It Kills' from Symptoms DATE: 02-05-12 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams Let it never be said that hard work doesn't eventually get rewarded. For the last eighteen years, Israeli punks Useless ID have released albums and toured at a tireless rate and built a devoted fanbase (among which Jello Biafra numbers himself) which each successive move they've made. There's no doubt it must have been a [view more]
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ARTIST: The Blank Fight - [LP] 10th Anniversary reissue DATE: 02-04-12 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams While it's true that rock history sports no shortage of great but widely overlooked or underrated bands (the 1980s proved to be full of them), sometimes it's just impossible to decide how it could have happened – what averted the public's attention so completely - that a fantastic record passed through [view more]
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ARTIST: Van Halen - [Album] DATE: 02-03-12 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams After so many years of Van Halen actively holding the possibility of a reunion with David Lee Roth in front of fans like a carrot only to pull it away when it looked like they might get excited, can anyone blame those spurned supporters for not wanting to play along anymore? In the last sixteen years, Roth has passed through the [view more]
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 93 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by artists including Useless I.D., Copywrite, Cursive, Shigeto, Bonesetters, oOoOO, Real Estate, Escort and more! So much more! DATE: 02-01-12 WRITER: Don Loder Awright Junky, Yeahyeahyeah, I know whatcher thinkin'. My bag o' SWAG is a little lighta dis week right? Yeah, I heardja, but ya know what? What I missed out in quantity, I made up for in quality - le's get inta da SWAG Report. Once agin dis [...]
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ARTIST: [STRAIGHT TO PRINT] Willie Nelson Signs Historic New Deal With Legacy Recordings Artist Comes Home To Sony Music Entertainment With Upcoming Releases to Include New Recorded Material & New Archival Titles Personally Curated By Willie Nelson DATE: 02-01-12 WRITER: Randy Haeker of Sony Music, Legacy Division Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, has entered into a historic new record deal with American legend and innovator Willie Nelson. The deal marks a label homecoming for Nelson, who, from 1975-1993, cut a phenomenal string of top-selling [...]
![Lana Del Rey - [Album]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4029900_lg.jpg)
ARTIST: Lana Del Rey - [Album] DATE: 02-01-12 REVIEW BY: Jackson Main It's difficult to judge Lana Del Rey's record without addressing the media hype that has surrounded her for the past six months. If you haven't heard, just type her name into Google; you'll find blogger backlash about her image change, a highly criticized performance on Saturday Night [view more]
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ARTIST: Gotye - [Album] DATE: 02-01-12 REVIEW BY: Nicole Beckley If there's a canon of musicians who craft music driven by experimentations in sound – Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, Tune-Yards – it would only make sense to add Gotye to that list. Gotye (pronounced "gore-ti-yeah," or "Gaultier," as in the [view more]
ARTIST: Baby Eagle & The Proud Mothers DATE: 01-31-12 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams It has never been analyzed too deeply before, but the fact is that all of the great collaborative rock bands and albums start out as loose, fun affairs which only become serious later – after the players who came together to contribute to the project discovered they might just be onto something. For perfect examples of such artistic [view more]
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ARTIST: Leonard Cohen - [Album] DATE: 01-29-12 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams As has been the case every other time Leonard Cohen has released a new album since 1969, the first question which really begs asking when one examines Old Ideas is how much rhetoric inspired it, how much rhetoric was required to produce it, how much wry wit has been laced into it and how many perfectly polished double [view more]
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ARTIST: The Poor Choices - [Album] DATE: 01-28-12 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams Now about eighteen years after bands like Green Day, NOFX and Rancid broke through into the mainstream, punk rock has changed in some most peculiar ways. After the great renaissance happened in 1994, it didn't take long for other young, hopeful bands to formalize punk rock (see the results in Blink 182 and all of the side projects from [view more]
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ARTIST: Caiiro Foster - [7'' single] DATE: 01-27-12 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams It might not sound like it should make sense initially, but sometimes the flaws in a record's presentation can actually enrich the experience of hearing it. Believe me when I say that such an inference is only that – an inference – and not not an ironclad rule, but it was certainly proven to me definitively when I [view more]
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ARTIST: Snow Patrol - [Album] DATE: 01-26-12 REVIEW BY: Chris Nelson My understanding of Snow Patrol is perhaps best summed up by a scene from the mediocre comedy Hall Pass . Owen Wilson, whose character is free to cheat on his wife, visits a coffee shop to hit on a sexy barista. He complements the music, which she explains is Snow Patrol. "Ah yeah, good soundtrack. Pretty good movie. [view more]
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ARTIST: Real Estate - [Live] VENUE: Lee\'s Palace - Toronto, ON - 01/20/12 DATE: 01-25-12 REVIEW BY: Jackson Main PHOTO: Jackson Main I missed the first song of Real Estate's show – and it was awkward. I gauged time badly and arrived approximately ten minutes into the band's set and quickly made my way to the front to appreciate the second half of "Municipality." When I yelled out "Suburban Beverage" after [view more]
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 92 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by Will Currie and the Country French, Bleeding Knees Club, Brendan Benson, Halestorm, The Darcys, Seether and more! So much more! DATE: 01-25-12 WRITER: Don Loder Heya junky, Awright, I ain't got a whole lotta time ta dink aroun' witchu tuhday ya twerps, so's I'mma jus' get in, getchu yer SWAG an'get gone - ya get me? The upside fer you izzat I nabbed some pretty primo gear fo'ya dis week, [...]
![[STRAIGHT TO PRINT] Patrick Watson To Release New Album](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4013502_lg.jpg)
ARTIST: [STRAIGHT TO PRINT] Patrick Watson To Release New Album Adventures In Your Own Backyard on April 17, 2012 via Secret City DATE: 01-25-12 WRITER: Charlotte Thompson of EMI Music Canada Secret City is pleased to announce the release of Patrick Watson's new album, Adventures In Your Own Backyard , on April 17th in Canada. The 12-track album will see release in the rest of the world via Domino. Adventures In Your Own Backyard , the fourth [view more]
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ARTIST: Devo - [Photos] VENUE: The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA - 01/14/79 DATE: 01-24-12 REVIEW BY: Raymond Ahner PHOTO: Raymond Ahner Devo brought their Something For Everybody tour back to San Francisco for the second time in less than a year this past weekend, and judging from the capacity crowd who were dancing and spilling their drinks for the entire set, the band did indeed bring something for everybody. Opening with [view [...]
![The Doors - [Album]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4008983_lg.jpg)
ARTIST: The Doors - [Album] Fortieth Anniversary reissue 2CD DATE: 01-23-12 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams The peril that every record label faces when they consider reissuing an augmented edition of a record which is already considered a classic is that they run the risk of alienating some fans and/or challenging their perception of it. For some fans of any band, the music is special for them precisely as they first heard it; whether it was [view more]
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ARTIST: Nada Surf - [Album] with free mp3 download for 'When I Was Young' from The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy by Nada Surf DATE: 01-22-12 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams It might surprise readers to discover that Nada Surf never dissolved after their fifteen minutes ran out in 1996 and their hit single, "Popular," went stale. Readers may be floored to learn that, since then, the band has kept a consistent release schedule (five albums since High/Low came out in 1996 [view [...]
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