
00:00:02 Bad Lieutenant "Sink Or Swim" (Triple Echo Records) 00:03:51 The Rifles "The Great Escape" (679/Nettwerk) 00:07:08 These United States "I Want You To Keep Everything" (United Interests) 00:11:08 Scotland Yard Gospel Choir "Tear Down The Opera House (feat. Ezra Furman)" (Bloodshot) 00:12:54 Islands "Vapours" (Anti-) 00:15:31 Hugh Cornwell "Please Don't Put Me On A Slow Boat To Trowbridge" (Invisible Hands) [...]

FRIDAY Mika Miko / Strange Boys / Bad Sports / Rocket for Ehtiopia (Rubber Gloves): It sucks that Mika Miko dropped their former drummer, Kate Hall, for a new bro drummer, since she was probably my favorite thing about that band. I heard a rumor that it was because she wasn't "good enough." [...]

Too many good shows Friday to name, but we'll hit up the highlights. If you don't see live music in Austin on Friday, I'm not sure we can be friends anymore. Really. Bonnie Prince Billy , Howling Hex @ The Mohawk - Tickets Animal Collectiv e DJ Set @ Waterloo Records @ 5 PM - Free Animal Collective, Black Dice @ Stubbs - [...]

Our friends at the Granada have hooked us up with three pairs of tickets to catch Bonnie Prince Billy and the Howling Hex this Saturday night, and if you want to win a pair, just email us at weshotjrtix@yahoo.com any time between now and Tuesday at 5PM with "Bonnie Prince Billy" as the subject line and your full name in the body. We'll pick three winners at random. Good luck, nerds!

June is finally here Austin! Get ready for a bunch of AMAZING concerts this week in our great city! Just a reminder, we're also throwing a show this week with some help from our friends at Bleach Online and City on Fire . We're excited to present The Morakestra and The White White Lights this Thursday (6/4) at The Parish ( map ). The cover is only $5, with the doors opening at 9pm and the music set to start at 10pm. Read more about the [...]

I caught Bonnie 'Prince' Billy in Alexandria, VA over the weekend and thought it a terrific show. Will's brother Ned opened the set in the duo Old Calf which was also very good. Oldham's band was really excellent: great singing and very tight. They even played Glenn's and my favorite selection from the Superwolf collaboration . As a further sample, here is one of my favorite tracks for a rainy day: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "Raining in Darling" from I See a Darkness (1999) [...]

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published books. Patrick deWitt's Ablutions is a short, dark, wickedly funny novel. deWitt has already been championed by Waterstone's books as a "new voice" for 2009 . Seattle Weekly called deWitt's writing "a hypnotic cross between Lorrie Moore and Denis Johnson." In his own words, here is Patrick deWitt's Book Notes essay for his debut novel, Ablutions : [...]
so, wie stets, heute die playlist der gestrigen radiosendung, die zwar nicht eine riesige masse hörer erreichte, dafür aber ganz gut ankam. radio stone.fm bleibt eine hoffnung in der landschaft an formaten und eintönigkeit. dagegen zu setzen, ist auf jeden fall der richtige weg. ein bißchen nachhören, ist nun erstmal bei uns möglich: 1) AC Newman - There Are Maybe Ten Or Twelve (get guilty, 2009) 2) the welcome wagon – up on a mountain (welcome to the welcome wagon, [...]
Thanks to everyone who voted in this year's Readers Poll. Once again you, the Brainwashed readers, have voiced your opinion on the best and worst of the year and the Brainwashed staff and contributors have voiced our own—occasionally clashing—opinions. All the best wishes for 2009! Album of the YearMatmos, Supreme Balloon (Matador) This is far and away the best record Matmos has ever released. Their signature cadence, abrupt editing style, and virtuosic tendencies are all present, but without a gimmick in sight. I've loved many of their past albums, but this one is more pure and potent. [...]
endabrechnung 2008, beste alben top 150, plätze 51 - 100 ***1/2 51.) bowery boy blue – stalk that myth 52.) james yorkston – when the haar rolls in 53.) constantines – kensington heights 54.) ignatz - III 55.) vampire weekend – s/t 56.) benjamin wetherill – laura 57.) the moondoggies – don't be a stranger 58.) okkervil river – the stand ins 59.) anthony rochester – music for in the spaceship 60.) pocahaunted – island diamonds 61.) adem - takes 62.) mates of state – re-arrange us 63.) glorytellers – s/t 64.) [...]

photos by Natasha Ryan Walkman/Dodo Walt Martin of The Walkmen's Top 10 of 2008 1. Thee Oh Sees , The Master Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In (astleface/Tomlab) 2. Thee Oh Sees , The Hounds of Foggy Notion (Castleface/Tomlab) 3. Thee Oh Sees , Thee Oh Sees/The Intelligence Split EP (Mt. St. Mtn.) 4. Fleet Foxes , Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop) 5. The [...]

Herkesin sevgilisi Pitchfork Beach House 'tan Diplo 'ya favori isimlerine 2008'in en iyilerini sorgulatmış. Marnie Stern 1. Ponytail: Ice Cream Spiritual 2. Zach Hill: Astrological Straits 3. Krallice: Krallice 4. Talk Normal: Talk Normal 5. Gang Gang Dance: Saint Dymphna 6. Extra Life: Secular Works 7. Pterodactyl: Blue Jay and Upcoming Pterodactyl Record 8. Women: Women 9. High Places: High Places [...]

The spookiest day of the year is here, and since there's no upcoming Batman movie to hype (yet), I'm gonna recommend a novel. Richard Brautigan's The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western is not necessarily more spooky than Trout Fishing in America or Sombrero Fallout , but if you've recently read Ray Bradbury's The Halloween Tree , why not? It's as much a Western as it is a Horror novel, but it's not really either in anyway that fevered [...]
The latest album from the ever-shifting avant-rock project of Neil Michael Hagerty, formerly of Royal Trux, has the general ambience of late-60s psych and plenty of room for his dynamic guitar work. read more

Top Album Releases: September 2008 Nick's Top Mother Mother: O My Heart ( sample ) Starf*cker: Starf*cker ( sample ) Islands: Arm's Way ( sample ) Girl Talk: Feed The Animals ( sample ) Cold War Kids: Loyalty to Loyalty ( sample ) [...]

I'm a week late with this post. I get so absorbed with trying to listen to everything that's sent my way..... Noteworthy Albums Released on 9/23/08: Records I've Heard: Brightblack Morning Light : Motion to Rejoin (Matador) – They don't seem to play LA ever since his meltdown at the Troubadour a couple of years ago. No loss, the music's average, neo-hippie stuff that we have our fair share of. MP3: Oppressions Each [...]

This month seems to just improve significantly from week to week in terms of new releases, as once again we're overwhelmed with some great albums. Many of which come from some well known names including TV on the Radio's latest, Dear Science ; Jenny Lewis' second solo effort, Acid Tongue ; Mogwai's The Hawk is Howling , and Blitzen Trapper's Furr . There are also a couple of albums from some lesser known bands that have piqued my interest after hearing a couple of songs [...]
Here are The Wheel's Still In Spin 's suggested new releases. Blitzen Trapper – Furr | CD Vinyl MP3 Download "Furr" (mp3) After self-releasing their first three albums and receiving a lot or acclaim for 2007's Wild Mountain Nation , Blitzen Trapper signed with Sub Pop. Luckily on Furr , the band's fourth album and first for [...]
Try It Before You Buy It features free and legal music downloads and full album streams from the week's music releases . MP3 downloads and full album streams from music released this week : Astronautalis: Pomegranate full album stream Bette Midler: [...]