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Exclusive MP3: Manouk: Untitled (Sigur Ros Cover)

It's been years since Manuok's Scott Mercado emerged on the music scene - Dave Eggers dubbed Manuok "the best new band name" at its inception - and he's spent most of the time since on the road. After his cover of "Untitled" won praise from Sigur Ros as the best cover they've heard, Mercado was spurred on to work not only on The Old Horse, but also on multiple independent film soundtracks. Every moment on The Old Horse was mixed, mastered and recorded by Mercado himself and the album is a profound reaction to the death of his grandfather. There are hours of secret recordings of his grandfather's stories and life lessons.

Manouk's Website

Exclusive MP3: Oholics: Lose It

Oholics are a six-piece psychedelic rock band hailing from Gothenburg, Sweden. They formed in 2005, when they discussed the lack of real rock acts in Sweden. Since then the mission has been to create mind-blowing, beer-fueled rock tunes. The music is often described with reference to early Stones mixed with Pink Floyd, Primal Scream, Oasis, Strokes etc. London meets New York. All songs, except the Syd Barrett cover; Lucy Leave, are written by Oholics and produced in a higher state of consciousness together with their somewhat confused but highly spiritual guide Ebbot Lundberg (The Soundtrack Of Our Lives), in the inspiring Svenska Grammofon-studion, Gothenburg. Disgraceland is available now.

Oholic's Website

Exclusive MP3: White Apple Tree: Mr. Sanity

San Diego based electro-rockers White Apple Tree first turned heads when their 2008 release Snowflakes was featured on the hit TV show Gossip Girl. The success of the pick up and the audience’s reaction to the song created strong demand for this full-length album release. With Velvet Mustache, brothers Ryan and Taylor Lawhon along with Stefan Mac use quirky synths, lush ambient guitars and the occasional four-on-the-floor kick to create a unique and refreshing take on modern electronic music. Lead single, Youth, has already caught onto the ears of many with its edgy electro-rock beats and insightful lyrics.

White Apple Tree's Website

Exclusive MP3: Standing Shadows: Desert Rain

From Los Angeles, Dan Silver and David Miltenberger have put their hearts and souls on the line to create Standing Shadows. Combining elements from progressive, alternative, indie, and electro-obscura-shoegazer-rock, Standing Shadows have dared to push the envelope of sonic creativity, while remaining catchy and intoxicating. If you think you’ve heard their music on TV already - you have! The band has earned placements in the new 90210, The Cleaner, The Shield, and Harper’s Island TV shows. Standing Shadows can also be heard in the in-game Trailers in Guitar Hero 5, backing the interviews with Matt Bellamy (Muse) and Shirley Manson (Garbage).

Standing Shadows' Website

MP3: The Black Atlantic: Heirloom

The Black Atlantic is an acoustic indie pop band from Groningen, the Netherlands. Their music is an introspective and intimate affair of melancholy, folk influenced acoustic pop, relying heavily on vocal harmonies and melody on soft strummed guitars, piano and minimal percussion. The band often uses nature imagery to express their stories on love, death and family. The band has toured in various incarnations around the world (US, EU, UK) and have played with bands such as Nada Surf, Patrick Watson and Saturday Looks Good to Me. Their debut album, entitled “Reverence for Fallen Trees”, was recorded in a log cabin in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.

The Black Atlantic’s Website

MP3: The Middle East: The Darkest Side

What we do know is that The Recordings Of The Middle East was originally self released by the band in 2008 and sold through their website. Thanks to Spunk records it was re-issued for the first time with new packaging and a new tracklisting in 2009. 2010 will bring with it their first SXSW. We have yet to see how their beautiful live show and songs will translate in front of an American audience for the first time. Armed with lush-layered melodies, gut wrenching lyrics and polished sound I would aim to bet that they will win over many ears and hearts down in Austin. Stay tuned...things are only heating up for this pack of Aussies.

The Middle East’s Website

MP3: Califone: Funeral Singers

In an underground music landscape where 140 characters equals "journalism" and lone MP3s propel bands to momentary internet stardom, bands are here today and gone tomorrow. Califone is a band that defies this blueprint. Their albums are full of layers and textures, offering endless depth, entire universes to lose yourself in – and beyond the thick spectrum of sound, they do something even more important: They write great songs. Califone is a band that will stand the test of time.

Califone’s Website

MP3: The Ruby Suns: Cranberries

Fight Softly is the second album for Sub Pop by New Zealand’s pop masters The Ruby Suns. Ryan McPhun (their prime mover) has the kind of voracious musical mind that cites as equal influences ‘80s New Jack Swing and modern Angolan kuduro, Fleetwood Mac and Britney Spears, Brazilian tropicalia and Argentinean cumbia. He’s the kind of diligent, meticulous soul that spends days hunched over a laptop in a tiny rented studio in Auckland, NZ just to perfect a sequenced drum track (mission accomplished). And Fight Softly is the kind of head-spinning combination of big-picture vision and sumptuous detail that only comes from an artist with an urgent need to express all the stuff he’s seen. And you can dance to it!

The Ruby Sun’s Website

MP3: Sharon Van Etten: Love More

The Brooklyn-based songstress sings folk music for lovers—lovers of heartache, of life, of raw human emotion—laying graceful vocals like lace over crooning, acoustic guitar that feels straight out of the bedroom. Her lyrics seem to come from the depths of midnight thought, speaking to us as if in moonlit conversation over life’s great truths. Yet she achieves this intimacy not through grandiose statements, but in tiny details: a toe-touch, a bloody knee…the little moments we’ve all known that take on meaning far greater than they may at first seem to possess .With guitar in hand, she is the first featured artist in the Shaking Through music series from WXPN and Weathervane Music.

Sharon Van Etten’s Website

MP3: Lou Barlow: Gravitate

On October 6, Merge Records will release Lou Barlow’s new album, Goodnight Unknown. From the surging opening track "Sharing" to the surprisingly soulful performances on "The Right," Goodnight Unknown benefits from Barlows tunefulness and his decision to record the record relatively quickly, with old friends and new. The Melvins Dale Crover adds inspired drum work throughout, and Goodnight Unknowns urgent sound owes just as much to frequent Barlow collaborator Imaad Wasif (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, alaska!). The records considerable power also stems from the new talents on board, including producer Andrew Murdock and Lisa Germano.

Lou Barlow's Website

MP3: Wye Oak: Take It In

Wye Oak will release their new album, The Knot, on July 21st. The Knot was written and recorded by Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner in rural Cumberland, MD and in their Baltimore living room. Jenn and Andy spent much of If Children, their debut album, submerging their songs of youthful love and dread in a distortion haze, but The Knot starts with a bell. From the first clarion-clear note, Wye Oak’s collective vision is sharpened on The Knot, a set of songs that sway, stretch, and scream while always reaching outward for a personal connection.

Wye Oak's Website

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