Here is day three of my favorite albums of the aughts. There's a lot of good stuff here (in my opinion). I hope you are taking advantage of the full album streams via LaLa.com . I will continue with the posts next Monday. I hope you enjoy. View 50-41 After the Jump… 50: Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street (2004) [...]

From our friends at AltCountryTab.ca , this month's forum comp. Download the zipped comp for one week only . Enjoy! 1. Chuck Prophet - "American Man" Let Freedom Ring (2009) 2. Willie Nelson - Still Is Still Moving to Me.mp3 Buy : Across the Borderline (1993) 3. The Dustin Bentall Outfit - "Three Thousand Miles" Six Shooter (2009) 4. [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alejandro Escovedo : 2009-07-12, Santa Monica [mp3,ogg,flac] "Dear Head on the Wall" [mp3] other Alejandro Escovedo posts at Largehearted Boy Billy Corgan : 2009-11-08, Los Angeles [mp3,ogg,flac] "Plastic Fantastic Lover (Jefferson Airplane cover)" [mp3] other Billy Corgan posts at Largehearted Boy Blitzen Trapper : [...]

Download Mp3 Special folk, rock, blues, acoustic show featuring new songs from Monsters Of Folk, The Devil Makes Three, Blitzen Trapper, Iggy Pop and The Raconteurs also tracks from Bright Eyes and T- Bone Burnette. Playlist by Artist, Track, Release and year The Devil Makes Three Poison Trees Do Wrong Right 2009 Monsters Of Folk Man Named Truth Monsters Of Folk 2009 The [...]

Featuring Blitzen Trapper, X, Kermit Ruffins, Motion Man, More. Various "Xmas In My House feat. Motion Man" (mp3) from "This Is Your Brain On Xmas" (troublewith2 productions, LLC) More On This Album CSSR State Philharmonic [...]

Beard City! Bliss City! To be sure, Thursday night at the Metro Theatre was a joyous concoction of melodies and good times. Blitzen Trapper were playing Sydney for the first time and they must come again. Melodies flowed like honey and tasted just as sweet. The venue was not close to being sold out, which was a pity because those that were not there missed a night of harmony and balance. A night that celebrated the power of song. Blitzen Trapper I think were made just for me. They encompass everything [...]

Who likey the R.E.M.? Me do! If you want a free copy of R.E.M.'s double live album, R.E.M. Live At The Olympia , all you gotta do is read this post and figure out the magic secret! The two-CD set, produced by Jacknife Lee , features 39 songs that capture the best moments from the band's 2007 working rehearsals at Dublin ¹s fabled Olympia club, where singer Michael Stipe , guitarist Peter Buck, and bassist Mike Mills tested out new songs for R.E.M.'s 2008 studio album Accelerate. [...]
After following this local Portland band's success these past few years and watching them go from a completely unknown band to one that was heralded as the best live show in town this past year, we finally got to witness the amazing boys of Blitzen Trapper personally. They performed before a sold out crowd last month here at the Doug Fir Lounge. As we anticipated, the band played their bread and butter songs, "Furr", "Black River Killer", and "Sleepytime In The Western World", which are the band's sweet spot, nice slower story telling folk songs. However, led [...]

Bowerbirds - Upper Air There are many, many things to love about folk music, one of which is that it is relatively timeless. Yes, it fell out of favor with the "hip youth" for a while there (at least for the most part). But luckily there have been dozens of excellent releases in the past few years that have revived the genre and made it possible for bands like Bowerbirds to find mainstream success. The Raleigh, North Carolina three piece first caught indie/nu-folk [...]

Top Album Releases: October 2009 Nick's Top Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms Black Heart Procession: Six Califone: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3 The Flaming Lips: Embryonic Monsters Of Folk: Monsters [...]

Download/Stream: Blitzen Trapper - "Black River Killer"

Loch Lomond Night Bats (Hush) [FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION] If local chamber-folk outfit Loch Lomond can be accused of anything, it's being too nice. The band's songs, which take singer Ritchie Young's quivering voice—one that often switches from a deep register to an androgynous falsetto in the same verse—and surround it with layers of baroque instrumentation, have always been pretty. Direct? Not so much. That is, until you hear the band's lovely new EP. Night Bats strives to separate Loch Lomond from the [...]

The Shaky Hands Let It Die Kill Rock Stars [2009] Fire Drill Review: Portland, Oregon's Shaky Hands offers up a nice slice of retro-indie rock on their third record Let It Die . The album contains some of their most straightforward tracks to date, as they keep a mostly mid tempo pace and have a very Big Star meets the Stones delivery from frontman Nicholas Delffs. For the band, Let It Die [...]

There are probably only three improbable bands that are more ingrained into my being than The Mother Hips (three guesses on who they are). Bands whose songs have been there through the best and worst times of my life, songs that bring the warmth and comfort of mom's homemade mashed potatoes. That's saying a lot. And The MoHips seem to get better with age. The San Francisco four-piece just released Pacific Dust , which continues where 2007's Kiss the Crystal Flake left off-breezy harmonies tempered [...]

It's time to dress up and head out to your favorite Halloween haunt. We've got our annual round-up of Halloween related songs to get you and yours in the spirit. So, grab your favorite brew and find some creatures to enjoy this year's monster mash-up. Bodysnatchers - Radiohead [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Blitzen Trapper : 2009-08-02, Happy Valley [mp3,ogg,flac] "Jericho" [mp3] other Blitzen Trapper posts at Largehearted Boy Carla Bozulich : 2009-10-24, Innsbruck [mp3,ogg,flac] "You Are a Jaguar" [mp3] other Carla Bozulich posts at Largehearted Boy Grace Potter : 2009-08-12, West Allis [mp3,ogg,flac] [...]

Remember Radiohead's "From the Basement" videos ? It turns out those weren't the only videos being captured by Nigel Godrich and crew. I'm not sure exactly when this new site launched, but FromtheBasement.tv is now a virtual treasure trove of amazing live (in studio) performances by a veritable who's who of amazing contemporary bands and artists. There's simply so much good video on this site and it's all high-quality. Here are just a few choice selections: Andrew Bird | Beck | Cold [...]

Photography by Herky It's Friday but it's a gloomy, cloudy, and busy one, meaning the sooner we get this day done and start our weekend, the better! Personally, I can't think of a better way to finish off this week than with the shot of throat burnin' bourbon in an old motel that is Whodat Peckerhead's, from our Facebook community , new mixtape ! YAY! It's a wonderful [...]

Photo by: Abrah True Thought I'd throw a couple mixes your way tonight. TRACK LIST: 01 I Wanna Be Ignored - Ezra Furman And The Harpoons 02 Rush Apart - The Rural Alberta Advantage 03 Pills I Took - Hank Williams III 04 If Only You Were Lonely 05 Look at Me [...]
Like New Year's Eve , Halloween is another holiday that a lot of bands choose to celebrate in style. There's just something about mixing the live concert experience with all the fun and choas of Halloween that really brings out the freaks. While most bands typically play into the Halloween vibe in some way, touring bands often approach Halloween as an opportunity to really create a unique live music event. Just as we did with our New Year's Eve concert round-up , we've compiled a list of Halloween concerts that will be going on this weekend (see below [...]