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IYS Interview: First albums, tours and the future with The Postelles Daniel Balk

Dec 1, 2011, 8:42am Inyourspeakers Media
The Postelles - 123 Stop
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Oddisee - Ci’iy Life (Ft. Tranqill)

Jun 2, 2011, 9:00am videoboutique
Oddisee - Ci'iy Life feat. Tranqill
Oddisee - Ci’iy Life (Ft. Tranqill)
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Oddisee “Ci’iy Life” ft. Tranqill **Video**

May 10, 2011, 3:18pm Raw Drive- The Vice President of Soul
"Ci'iy Life" Oddisee ft. Tranqill
Ci'iy Life' is based off the song of the same name produced by oddisee featuring the rapper Tranqill. Pre-Order: Oddisee - Odd Seasons
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[Hip/Hop] Talib Kweli – Gutter Rainbows (Album Review)

Mar 3, 2011, 12:04pm The Music Ninja
[Hip/Hop] Talib Kweli – Gutter Rainbows (Album Review) If Rakim is your favorite rapper's favorite rapper, and Jay-Z is New York's native son, where does that leave Talib Kweli ? He's the socially conscious, forever-underground guy, continually burned by the rap "game", or, the money game - where lyrical talent and flow take backseats to branding, image, and monetizing talent. But Talib carries his burdens well. He does what he wants to do, fuck all, and in the end, we're the ones who benefit, especially when it comes to Gutter Rainbows . The latest from the BK MC has a few stumbles, but mostly [...]
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Artist:Talib Kweli
Title:Cold Rain
Link Text:Talib Kweli - Cold Rain
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Bitrate:186 kbps
Genre:255
Year:2011
Artist:Talib Kweli
Title:Gutter Rainbows
Link Text:Talib Kweli - Gutter Rainbows
File Name:TalibKweli-GutterRainbows.mp3
Bitrate:187 kbps
Genre:255
Year:2011

[New] DeVotchKa – 100 Lovers (Album Review)

Mar 1, 2011, 11:20pm The Music Ninja
[New] DeVotchKa – 100 Lovers (Album Review) DeVotchKa lead singer Nick Urata sang "I Cried Like a Silly Boy" on their 2006 cutely-titled Curse Your Little Heart EP. It's a song that aptly demonstrates the gimmick of a band that combines the sounds of traditional eastern Europe, roma culture, and circus acts - it's a traveling group of broken hearts and cabaret musicians. With their latest release, 100 Lovers , from ANTI records, DeVotchKa's eclectic influences and sounds from the periphery of mainstream music, almost a vintage sound you can call it, resurface, yet their polka-like energy and [...]
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Artist:DeVotchKa
Title:100 Other Lovers
Link Text:DeVotchKa - 100 Other Lovers
File Name:DeVotchKa-100_Other_Lovers.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2011

[Album Review] Rachel Goodrich

Feb 25, 2011, 1:47pm The Music Ninja
[Album Review] Rachel Goodrich The Sunshine State is more famous for its oranges and elderly than its music scene. In the last year the only notable band to emerge from the land of tropics and Everglades was Surfer Blood … until now. Rachel Goodrich is a Miami native playing music that's very authentic, especially when you consider she hails from one of the plastic surgery capitals of the U.S. The young singer-songwriter narrates tales of heartbreak and love and all that good stuff in her self-titled LP. Read the full review here . [...]
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Artist:Rachel Goodrich
Link Text:Rachel Goodrich - Na Na Na
File Name:Rachel_Goodrich-02_Na_Na_Na_0. mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Genre:148

[Album Review] Stateless – Matilda

Feb 23, 2011, 11:42am The Music Ninja
[Album Review] Stateless – Matilda Label Ninja Tune has time and again been the place to go discover great acts. It has put out some sick albums like Bonobo's Black Sands … but has also given us some so-so flops like Duppy Writer from Roots Manuva vs. Wrongtom. Like any label, it can be a haphazard mix of mind-blowing amazingness and mind-numbing mediocrity. Which is a good way of describing the label's upcoming release, Matilda , from Stateless . It's a dubstep/rock/R&B/pop album that aims for a crazy, eclectic mix [...]
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Artist:Stateless
Title:Ariel
Link Text:Stateless - Ariel
File Name:Stateless-Ariel.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2011

[Album Review] Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo

Feb 21, 2011, 6:07pm The Music Ninja
Since the release of his 2008 debut LP, Constant Hitmaker , Philadelphian Kurt Vile has in fact been, if not a hitmaker, at least a constant music maker. His latest release for Matador, after 20092s fuzzy, lo-fi Childish Prodigy , is Smoke Ring for My Halo . Vile has kicked aside his DIY aesthetic aside for a CD-quality, shiny and clear folk sound. All you low-tech fans who shudder with ecstasy at the sound of a dust pop as your player whips around an LP, need not immediately dismiss [...]
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Artist:Kurt Vile
Title:Baby's Arms
Link Text:Kurt Vile - Baby’s Arms
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Year:2011
Artist:Kurt Vile
Title:Jesus Fever 192
Link Text:Kurt Vile - Jesus Forever
File Name:kurt_vile_jesus_fever.mp3
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[Review] Blackbird Blackbird – Summer Heart LP

Aug 11, 2010, 4:29pm The Music Ninja
[Review] Blackbird Blackbird – Summer Heart LP During the continued rise of electronic music over the past several years, countless acts have attempted to take the basic facets of the genre and make it their own with little twists of psychedelia and the like. It’s a tricky endeavor, for sure, so we’re glad that bands like Blackbird Blackbird have joined in on the fun with songs that pick and choose the best styles to create something that is at once familiar and fresh. Though their debut doesn’t have any ceiling-shattering moments, it is unfailingly pleasant in its entirety because of its apparently innate carefree breeziness. [...]
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Artist:Blackbird Blackbird
Title:Heartbeat
Link Text:Blackbird Blackbird - Heartbeat
File Name:09 Heartbeat.mp3
Artist:Blackbird Blackbird
Title:Sunspray
Link Text:Blackbird Blackbird - Sunspray
File Name:06 Sunspray.mp3

[Album] Arcade Fire: The Suburbs

Aug 10, 2010, 4:36am The Music Ninja
[Album] Arcade Fire: The Suburbs You can call the overwhelming earnestness of The Suburbs , the latest Arcade Fire effort, something of a return to form, but I won’t. Clearly, there is retrospect and nostalgia that colors this album, but as Régine put it on “In the Backseat”, “I've been learning to drive. My whole life, I've been learning.” It’d be great if we could all just be passengers on the journey of our lives, watching life as it unfolds, but eventually we have to grow up and take the wheel. The Suburbs is a new [...]
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Artist:Arcade Fire
Title:Rococo
Link Text:Arcade Fire - Rococo
File Name:Arcade Fire_04_Rococo.mp3
Year:2010
Artist:Arcade Fire
Title:Suburban War
Link Text:Arcade Fire - Suburban War
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Artist:Arcade Fire
Title:The Suburbs
Link Text:Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
File Name:01 - The Suburbs.mp3
Year:2010

[Album Review] Best Coast: Crazy for You

Aug 10, 2010, 4:16am The Music Ninja
[Album Review] Best Coast: Crazy for You Crazy for You doesn’t feel forced or contrived, but more genuinely lackadaisical. The Best Coast album is a nice blend of shoegazey sixties girl pop more akin to Vivian Girls or Dum Dum Girls than, say, She & Him. Frontwoman Bethany Cosentino has damn near perfect old-school rocker pipes with sneer to match, but the tracks tend to run together. All of the tracks on the first side are enjoyable in their own right, they’re just somewhat indistinguishable from one another. I do really love the stand-out songs, but they’re [...]
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Artist:Best Coast
Title:I Want To
Link Text:Best Coast - I Want To
File Name:best-coast_i-want-to.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Best Coast
Title:When the Sun Don't Shine
Link Text:Best Coast - When the Sun Dont Shine
File Name:08-When-the-Sun-Dont-Shine.mp3
Bitrate:252 kbps
Year:2010

[Review] Here We Go Magic: Pigeons

Jul 9, 2010, 3:53pm The Music Ninja
[Review] Here We Go Magic: Pigeons If one more stellar indie band comes from Brooklyn this year, scientists should probably start testing the water in the East Side area. With their 2009 self-titled debut under their belts, the Luke Temple-fronted quintet is ready to deliver unto us their fantastic sophomore effort, Pigeons . Significantly, where the band’s debut was essentially a Luke Temple solo project, Pigeons represents a more collaborative effort between Temple, Michael Bloch, Jen Turner, Kristina Lieberson, and Peter Hale. The record opens with the funky, pop-driven “Hibernation.” For a record with such a sleepy title, [...]
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Artist:Here We Go Magic
Title:Casual
Link Text:Here We Go Magic - Casual
File Name:03 Casual.mp3
Year:2010

[Album Review] Fol Chen: Part II: The New December

Jul 8, 2010, 1:07am The Music Ninja
[Album Review] Fol Chen: Part II: The New December Understanding the ever strange and mysterious Fol Chen is a lot like solving a Rubix Cube without first studying the algorithms. Either you’re a genius, or you’re full of it, and just pulled the stickers off. Signed to the prestigious Asthmatic Kitty label , which was founded by none other than Sufjan Stevens and his stepfather Lowell Brams, Fol Chen’s previous releases have been met with high praise, not to mention anticipation for the next album from these new hit-makers with their bitingly intelligent, if whimsical, musical tendencies. Part II: The New December [...]
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Artist:Fol Chen
Title:The Holograms
Link Text:Fol Chen - The Holograms
File Name:The Holograms.mp3
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[Album Review] The Gaslight Anthem: American Slang

Jul 2, 2010, 1:21am The Music Ninja
[Album Review] The Gaslight Anthem: American Slang Bruce Springsteen is, without question, the hip old-school rocker of the moment. Everybody loves the guy, and with that love comes the unfortunate side effect of hundreds of ham-fisted and half-assed attempts to rip off the guy’s music and persona, or at the very least to toss out the requisite namecheck in an interview. Fortunately The Gaslight Anthem ’s music can be described as anything but half-assed, and in many respects, it could be said that the Jersey foursome are well adept at using their whole asses. Indeed, their previous album, 2008’s The ’59 Sound , offered [...]
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Artist:The Gaslight Anthem
Title:We Did It When We Were Young
Link Text:The Gaslight Anthem - We Did It When We Were Young
File Name:10 - We Did It When We Were Young.mp3
Year:2010

[Glitch Hop] Steamy Experimental Baths

Jul 1, 2010, 9:50am The Music Ninja
[Glitch Hop] Steamy Experimental Baths Released under the Baths moniker, Wiesenfeld’s Anticon debut is a solid and mature vision sutured by a few elements that Wiesenfeld has mastered. First and foremost, Baths is a beat maker. He reigns in the propensity to let auxiliary instrumentation and formless segues wreak havoc on his airtight beats by never straying too far out of a lock-step, definable beat pattern as a sturdy backbone. Baths’ use of sampled acoustic guitars, organic, household sounds, and piano lines often fall a half-step behind the propulsive beat, deepening the texture, but they always support and lend to the musical superstructure. [...]
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Artist:Baths
Title:Hall (The One AM Radio Remix feat. The Los Feliz Ladies Choir)
Link Text:Baths - Hall (The One AM Radio Remix Feat. The Los Feliz Ladies Choir)
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Artist:Baths
Title:Lovely Bloodflow
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Artist:Baths
Title:Maximalist
Link Text:Baths - Maximalist
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[Indie/Pop] Rafter : Animal Feelings

Jun 25, 2010, 4:15pm The Music Ninja
[Indie/Pop] Rafter : Animal Feelings To quote the venerable MrFukhed’s musing on Rafter ’s YouTube video for “Paper,” “i bet theres gonna be a bunch of indie fucks swingin from the balls of this group.” As a dyed-in-the-wool indie fuck, I can attest to the categorical truth of this statement. Although Rafter Roberts has been releasing albums for almost five years, there really couldn’t be a better jumping off point into the world of Rafter than Animal Feelings . Working backwards through his catalogue ought to increase your appreciation of his earlier, more difficult material. Rafter has always had [...]
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Artist:Rafter
Title:Fruit (Baths Remix)
Link Text:Rafter - Fruit (Baths Remix)
File Name:rafter_-_animal_feelings_remix es_-_fruit_(baths_remix).mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Rafter
Title:No Fucking Around
Link Text:Rafter -No Fucking Around
File Name:Rafter_-_No_Fucking_Around.mp3
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Year:2010
Artist:Rafter
Title:Timeless Form, Formless Time
Link Text:Rafter - Timeless Form, Formless Time
File Name:Rafter_-_Timeless_Form_Formles s_Time.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2010

[Album Review] Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti: Before Today

Jun 25, 2010, 3:40pm The Music Ninja
[Album Review] Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti: Before Today Imagine this: Nightmare on Elm Street is real, you just fell asleep, and now you’re in the boiler room of a creepy sleep away camp building where a bunch of teenagers were murdered last year. You’re with a gang of rockabilly motorcyclists and a friendly cannibal and you just heard a strange noise nearby. You walk towards what could either be an inevitable doom or your salvation from this nightmare….Ok, so what’s the soundtrack? Answer: Before Today. If the album’s track titles (“Fright Night (Nevermore),” “Beverly Kills,” “Butt-House Blondies,” etc.) sound kitsch it’s because Ariel Pink [...]
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[Album Review] Cloud Control: Bliss Release

Jun 17, 2010, 1:18pm The Music Ninja
[Album Review] Cloud Control: Bliss Release After just a cursory listen it would be easy to write off Cloud Control completely. The Laurel Canyon hippie vibes of Bliss Release can be found in the music of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes; its twee boy-and-girl vocals are present on any one of Camera Obscura or Belle & Sebastian’s albums; its semi-mysticism put to more obviously stunning effect on Animal Collective’s best work. But on Cloud Control’s new disc there’s this intangible, indescribable something that completely evades any cheap “this sounds like so-and-so” commentary. It’s the [...]
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Artist:Cloud Control
Title:Gold Canary
Link Text:Cloud Control - Gold Canary
File Name:cloud-control-gold-canary1.mp3
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Artist:Cloud Control
Title:Gold Canary (Danimals Remix)
Link Text:Cloud Control - Gold Canary (Danimals Remix)
File Name:01 Gold Canary (Danimals Remix).mp3
Artist:Cloud Control
Title:There's Nothing In The Water We Can't Fight
Link Text:Cloud Control - Theres Nothing In The Water We Cant Fight
File Name:02-Theres-Nothing-In-The-Water -We-Cant-Fight.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2010
Artist:Cloud Control
Title:This Is What I Said
Link Text:Cloud Control - This Is What I Said
File Name:this is what I said.mp3
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[Album Review] Tame Impala: Innerspeaker

Jun 15, 2010, 8:23am The Music Ninja
[Album Review] Tame Impala: Innerspeaker Imagine this: John Lennon has been reincarnated. His new birth name is Kevin Parker, a co-founding member of Australian trio Tame Impala . This band is the closest thing to how The Beatles would sound if they had been cryogenically frozen for the past thirty years and had decided to modernize their chops upon thawing out. And yes, that’s a compliment. Though the music is recorded in a similar fashion as the fab four’s later, more expansive albums, Innerspeaker doesn’t seem derivative in the slightest. It is fresh and stunningly original considering the [...]
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Artist:Tame Impala
Title:Solitude Is Bliss
Link Text:Tame Impala - Solitude Is Bliss
File Name:Tame Impala - Solitude Is Bliss.mp3
Year:2010

[Stream/Album Review] Ratatat : LP4

Jun 11, 2010, 11:24am The Music Ninja
[Stream/Album Review] Ratatat : LP4 Ratatat are back. Guitarist Mike Stroud and bass/synth/production maestro Evan Mast have come a long way since 2004. Back then, all they really needed was one decent hook they could stick on repeat, with small splashes of variation, to achieve a sort of hypnotic effect. The trickiest aspect of creating good instrumental music is making sure it can hold the listener’s interest. To stay interesting, Ratatat had to evolve. With barely any vocals, and without the basic verse-chorus-verse structure used by 99% of popsters on the radio, this kind of electronic music needs some kind [...]
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