Every Tuesday, Hypeful teams up with Salad Days Music to pick and preview the week's best new album releases. Bend an ear to this week's choicest selections after the jump! The Bird and the Bee - Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future MP3: The Bird and the Bee - "Ray Gun" STREAM: Full ...
2009 is doing well musically, as it is another good week for releases. The new albums from The Bird and the Bee, Loney Dear and A. Armada as well as the Of Montreal EP are all excellent. This week features a good mix of pop, folk, electronic and post-rock for everyone to enjoy. The Bird and the Bee Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future - " Love Letter to Japan " Full Album Stream Of Montreal [...]
Every week we team up with our friends at Hypeful to bring you the week's best new album releases. Check out the new releases, album art, MP3's and streams after the jump. The Bird and the Bee - Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future MP3: The Bird and the Bee - "Ray Gun" STREAM: Full Album Stream [...]

Every Friday we bring you our weekly batch of uploads. Download all the songs that went up the week of 1/19-1/23 right here, right now. You can download the following mp3s individually OR play them all in a row. Click on the artists at the right under Related Downloads to learn more about each band and see similar music suggestions. [ play ] | [ download mp3 ] Julie Doiron - Consolation Prize [ play ] | [ download mp3 ] A.C. Newman [...]

Matt And Kim (a/k/a Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino) have a new album Grand . It is filled with Vermont-recorded BKLYNsynthpop. Get ready for handclaps everyone. First off, this one is less punky, more mid tempo. I am kind of interested in hearing how some of the songs will sound live. Plus, I must say I am surprised that the album doesn't come preloaded with remixes (note: there is one "outro mix"), but I guess we will have to wait for the remixes in the coming months. Anyway, the new album looks like this: [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Aidan Moffat & The Best Ofs : "Big Blonde" [mp3] from How To Get To Heaven From Scotland (out February 17th) other Aidan Moffat posts at Largehearted Boy Flashguns : "Roshambo" [mp3] other Flashguns posts at Largehearted Boy It Hugs Back : "Work Day" [...]
Lithops is the solo disguise of Jan St. Werner known for his work in Mouse on Mars, Microstoria and his most recent collaboration with Mark E Smith and Andi Toma as Von Sudenfed. With Ye Viols!, Lithops presents a selection of installation soundtracks assembled from several recent exhibitions. Ye Viols! can be seen as soundtrack music for a visual utopia: a recombined industrial iconography of
Lithops, so wikipedia tells me, are flowers which look like stones, existing on the boundary between warm and cold, between beautiful and brick. Lithops is also the side project of Jan St Werner, of Mouse On Mars, a band who hold a special place in my heart, being the first band I saw live [...]
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Written by Fense Listening to Lithops for the first time, I had the distinct feeling I was watching someone play a video game. It took me back to the days of the original Nintendo. But not the game console, the games themselves. The music is much too advanced for such a system. When I hear Lithops, I can't help but think I'm watching Super Mario Brothers On Crack played by a wide-eyed meth head. Level Two, "Rosa In A Light Speed Vessel" finds [...]

>> [PHOTO: Valérie Jodoin-Keaton] Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr. in recent years has proven himself a more reliable purveyor of solid indie rock music than The Strokes themselves. This is unfair to the group, of course, which still struggles with meeting the insurmountable expectations set by its stunning 2001 debut. But Mr. Hammond 's records sound unencumbered by such concerns and embrace and deploy a broader arsenal of textures and tones, and his forthcoming collection ¿Cómo Te Llama? may be his best yet. Highlights include the straight-ahead rock of "In My [...]
EAR FARM's Three for Free: three EF approved, free and legal MP3s posted whenever the mood strike us. This time around we've got three songs that have recently found their way to us via email. And yes, that's Extreme. Extreme ! As in Nuno Bettencourt. As in GUITAR GOD ferociousness. Click on the artist/band name to go to their site, click on the song name to listen to the song. Listen: Extreme - "Star" Computer vs. Banjo [...]
Fresh releases out this week from Nurse With Wound, Pelt, Hecules Love Affair, Odd Nosdam, and Sigur Rós. Reissues include classics from Glenn Branca and Gore, as well as a deluxe edition of Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville. Also of note is a live CD+DVD package from Babyshambles and the second volume of Sub Rosa's Musics in the Margin series entitled Bôkan!.

Of Norway - Arch Enemy (Mix 1) ( alt link ) Taken from the excellent new compilation I Love Norway this track from duo Of Norway provides an atmosphere that swathes its listener with an abundance of exquisitely applied sounds layered over an inherently minimal backbone. Nice. John Tejada & Arian Leviste - Mathemagician ( alt link ) This could soundtrack the workings of a complex machine. Formulaic and crisp. The machine would be [...]