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Amazon is offering a $2 Mp3 credit when you enter the code FALLMP3S . You need to use your credit by the end of the day. May I suggest one of the two dollar classical albums: 99 Must-have Classic Gold , 50 Must-have Strauss Family Masterpieces , or this two hour Beethoven opera, Fidelio . And while we are on the topic of Amazon classical albums, here is some hilarious cover art: Maybe someone can explain to me why the production team [...]

Drive made me think of an 80s branded Ghost Dog . Instead of Rza jams , we get vocoder and 80s synth plugins. The movie was fantastic--it had great atmospherics. Check out this sweet font that overlaid a beautiful nighttime aerial shot of Los Angeles during the title sequence, made even more excellent by the Kavinsky vocoder soundtrack:

The band whom I gushed about in my first blog post ever , will be in Los Angeles at the Echo on Wednesday August 17th for a reasonable $8 cover: "We so excited." This band is really worth your ears' careful consideration. Free high fives for everyone I meet at the show. <p&a mp;amp;amp;gt;&amp ;amp;lt;a href=" http://candyclaws.bandcamp.com /track/sunbeam-show"&a mp;amp;amp;gt;Sunbeam Show by Candy Claws</ a>& amp;amp;amp;lt;/p& amp;gt;

Active Child will delight your ears every Monday of this month for free at the echo . This dude rocks the falsetto like one of my other falsetto heroes, DM Stith . Pat Grossi uses his falsetto more often than Stith, but I never grew tired of it or thought it grating. The drum pad beats, the harp, and his soaring falsetto were gorgeously overlaid. Here is a new song off his forthcoming album, You Are All I See. Listen on repeat! Active Child - Hanging On [...]

• Active Child - Hanging On

"Midnight City" is an amazing track from M83's forthcoming album "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming." Take a listen and download it for free at soundcloud.com. The song has the characteristic synthy fullness that has made M83 so great, but it also features Europop-like verses and a killer saxophone outro. Midnight City by M83 Here is another short preview from the new album:

• M83 - Midnight City

Washed Out's new album is out today. This chill bro makes some really great music, and Within Without seems to be no exception. Sample his song "Amor Fati," the third track on the album, which can be had for free at Amazon. <A HREF=" http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q ?rt=tf_w_mpw&a mp;amp;ServiceVersion=20070822 &Marke tPlace=US& amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fhobogh ost-20%2F8014%2Fcee5c0ea-a1e8- 4771-b8c3-9eb7c16b33b3&amp ;amp;amp;amp;amp;Operation=NoS cript"> Amazon.com Widgets&lt ;/A> And here are clips of the rest: <A HREF=" http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q ?rt=ss_w_mpw&ServiceVe rsion=20070822&MarketP lace=US&ID=V20070822%2 FUS%2Fhoboghost-20%2F8014%2F50 018dc0-6862-4342-889e-d092cd44 241f&Operation=NoScrip t">Amazon.com Widgets</A>

I recommend "Ram Ram" by The Deer Tracks; it's a good mellow song with subdued glitchy beats and a catchy chorus. "Fight For Me" by Wildbirds and Peacedrums is also decent; it is an experimental mix of drums and choir. The rest while not bad, never matches the quality of the first song. <A HREF=" http://

So the Mount Eerie show on Friday was superb. There are a few videos out there on the internets of it, but this video of the following night at The Che Cafe does the sound much more justice than the others. These were the first two opening numbers at The Center for Arts in Eagle Rock. The incredibly loud gong feedback at the beginning made the relative hush of the rest of the glockenspiel-keys-centered show that much more enjoyable. What a contrast! Talk-box harmonies were also quite a treat. [...]

At some point a google image search for "Mr. Little Jeans" stopped producing the Wes Anderson source material: And started spamming me with some cute girl with a fake mustache: I guess I don't really mind. She does make good music, and she will be performing for free on July 8th at noon on Grand Avenue . Check out her cover of [...]

Do you like European indie-pop like Phoenix? If you do, you will probably really enjoy "Fireworks" by Polock, which is free to download right now at Amazon. Listen! It's sweeeeeede! &a mp;amp;amp;lt;A HREF=" http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q ?rt=tf_w_mpw&a mp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Ser viceVersion=20070822&a mp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp ;amp;MarketPlace=US&am p;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fhobogh ost-20%2F8014%2Fe1205261-ed79- 41ce-b680-af545b4695b5&amp ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;a mp;amp;Operation=NoScript"& ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;a mp;amp;gt;Amazon.com Widgets&am p;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/A&am p;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; amp;gt;

Mount Eerie, Key Losers, Nicholas Krgovich, and Catwalk are playing tonight at the Center for Arts in Eagle Rock. Mount Eerie is the main draw for me. Just check out the impressive critical acclaim at Metacritic .If you like emotional folk music with compelling lyrics and a chance for fuzz you ought to check it out. Listen to the samples of his live performances; it may not be for everyone. Bad ass song: Bad ass performances: Also, Nicholas [...]

• P.W. Elverum & Sun, ltd. - It Never Was You by Nicholas Krgovich

You can get in on some pretty awesome concerts for really cheap (a dollar and seventy-five cents!?) if you are quick enough on the draw. Philip Glass , here I come. Here is the bowl's calendar . The National plays with Neko Case on September 11th; Hall and Oates for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of July; and Rodrigo and Gabriela play the 12th and 13th of August. Those will cost you more but they will be a lot of fun. Everything on the Summer and Fall schedule for the bowl goes [...]

Veckatimest is an awesome album that received near universal acclaim--an 85 out of 100 at Metacritic . Get this album, put on a sweet bear-related outfit , and get your harmony on. In fact, with all the money you'll save on the album, you might as well put together the most ridiculous bear-listening outfit you can conceive. Below are some helpful suggestions. Amazon.com Widgets Head: Bear Hug Hat $15.99 [...]

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The Weeknd make some of the best nsfw soul / R&B music I've heard. I always appreciate bands/artists that can make autotune and pitch shifting sound authentic and soulful rather than the shallow saccharine drivel it is usually associated with. Bon Iver's "Woods ," for example, uses autotune to create one of the best folk-freak-out a cappella choirs I've heard. Burial uses it to great effect in songs like " Archangel ," sampling and modulating simple emotional fragments--"holding you / kissing you / Tell me I belong." The Weeknd actually sound a lot like a [...]

Ryan Adams - "Damn Sam" "Damn, Sam. I love a woman that rains" The Magnetic Fields - "The Book of Love" "The Book of Love is long and boring / no one can lift the damn thing" The Mountain Goats - "International Small Arms Traffic" "Our love is like the boarder between Greece and Albania" Okkervil River - "A Stone" "You love the hallowest tone / you love a stone" [...]

Do you like dancing to glitched-out dance music? Do you like free music? I do. Amazon has a free South by Southwest sampler with some great tunes on it. My favorite is the opening track "You" by Gold Panda. The creative use of pitch shifted vocal samples and dynamic beats had me popping and locking in front of the mirror with funkified abandon. I like this sound; I even wrote a song this FAWM called "Crumbs" with a similar formula: take one or two words, tweak them and repeat them. Gold Panda's [...]

Glasser's "Mirrorage" is hymnal, danceable, experimental fun. The vocoder at 2:22 is the sickness. Download it for free at Amazon.com Amazon.com Widgets

Phlex and Schmuck are bringing the indie-rock freak-out jams: sounds like a Spiritualized, Yeasayer, Fiery Furnances hippie drum circle on British street drugs no one knows about yet: Enjoy " Season 3, Episode 1 ." Don't do drugs kids. Listen to this instead; it is much more satisfying. Evin Wolverton has a gift, and he is sharing it with you; he brings some tasty reverbed-Graceland-like harmonies on this sweet tune: " In the Midnight Hour ." [...]

There will be a horse in my backyard very shortly. So here for February is a horse-themed mix to prepare me for all those horse-centric moments of the near future.