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MP3:
Nada Surf: See These Bones
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Lucky, the title of Nada Surf’s fifth album, is at once literal and ironic. Like the songs that singer-guitarist Matthew Caws, bassist Daniel Lorca and drummer Ira Elliot crafted for their previous two albums, let go (2003) and the weight is a gift (2005), lucky is filled with images of restlessness, longing and the elusiveness of love. Yet the band counterbalances the lyrical bittersweetness with a musical buoyancy. Intimate songs become in-it-together anthems, thanks to the chiming guitars, propulsive rhythms, and the emotional candor in Caws' vocals.
Nada Surf's
Website
MP3:
Nicole Atkins: Party's Over
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Nicole's latest release, Neptune City,
produced by Tore Johansson (Cardigans, Franz Ferdinand,
OK Go, Saint Etienne, New Order), an album that sounds
like it came from anywhere but the New Jersey Americana
rock tradition made famous by Bruce Springsteen. Her
music ranges far afield: at some times vaudevillian,
at others psychedelic, a little bit country, a dash
from early musicals, all under a cloud of pop-noir,
often all coming in the very same song. Atkins writes
songs that could have come from an episode of Six Feet
Under, or an updating of Grease, as directed by David
Lynch.
Nicole
Atkins'
Website
MP3:
Pleasant Grove: Elaborate Son
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Pleasant Grove so named for a Dallas,
Texas suburb, was formed by co-vocalists / guitarists
Bret Egner and Marcus Striplin. They were drawn together
by a vision to write and play music that captured raw
melancholy melodies laid out over slow spacious rhythmic
harmonies.
Pleasant Grove at MySpace
MP3:
Headlights: Cherry Tulips
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Based around Tristan Wraight's acoustic
guitar and Erin Fein's keyboards, the songs on Some
Racing, Some Stopping purposefully lack much of the
spacey atmospherics that define the band's earlier work.
Instead the album is steeped in a classic pop sensibility,
reminiscent of the '60s, Brill Building song craft, and
Phil Spector production. Songs like the chiming, harmonic "Catch
Them All," the light and airy "Cherry Tulips," the solemn "January," and
the driving, string-touched "Market Girl" are evidence
of an album that is more focused than any of the band's
past work.
Headlights' Website
MP3:
Mark Kozelek: Up To My Neck In You
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Kozelek has toured the world extensively
as a solo artist and with Red House Painters. His songs
have appeared in numerous movie and television soundtracks.
Kozelek recently acted in the Cameron Crowe film "Almost
Famous" to be released this fall. He also compiled, and
contributed tracks to Take Me Home - A Tribute to John
Denver.
Mark Kozelek's Website
MP3:
The Lonely H: The Meal
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Swaddled tight in the electrified buckskin
of their classic rock-n-roll forefathers, our five Washington
braves set out to blanket America in a hot winter blizzard.
Don't be fooled by the silk strands tucked behind their
ears on New Years Eve: what the maps don't tell you is
that all-night drives make for better lives, deer come
out of nowhere, and what parents don't know (night after
night) wont kill them.
The Lonely H on MySpace
MP3:
The Raveonettes: Aly, Walk With Me
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Coasting is the easy option. Having
the balls to recognize that things aren’t right
and doing something about them is much harder. It may
have taken Sune and Sharin a little while but they made
the right decision in the end- both personally and creatively-
and ‘Lust, Lust, Lust’ is where the two worlds
collide. The songs cover the toughest decisions, the
fondest of memories, the scariest of fears and the most
tempting of desires all from the most personal viewpoint
yet captured in The Raveonettes back-catalogue.
The
Raveonettes' Website
MP3:
Say Hi: Northwestern Girls
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Say Hi was founded in Brooklyn, NY
in late 2002, as was Euphobia Records, a label started
by Elbogen to facilitate the release of that year’s
Discosadness LP. Three more records followed over the
next few years (2004’s Numbers & Mumbles, 2005’s
Ferocious Mopes and 2006’s Impeccable Blahs). Immediately
after relocating to Seattle, Elbogen wrote and recorded
The Wihses And The Glitch at his home studio over the
bulk of 2007. And yes, his studio inhabits the same room
he sleeps in. Touring keyboardist / vocalist Nouela Johnston
(the touring line-up for Say Hi is ever-evolving) contributed
vocals on three of the songs. The Long Winters’ John
Roderick and Pedro The Lion / Headphones’ David
Bazan also sing on a track each. Everything else was
performed by Elbogen, himself.
Say
Hi's Website
MP3:
The Black Angels: The First Vietnamese War
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These are fighting times, people. We
are surrounded by grit, spit, and bloody war, but in
the distance moving forward is The Black Angels. They’ve
returned unscathed from their first tour of duty with
Seattle-based Light In The Attic Records, still armed
with their self-proclaimed "Native American Drone 'N'
Roll" and set to release their debut long player. Passover
speaks of real-life horrors, death, and destruction with
doses of love, sex, and healing. Don’t lose track,
these are caring times as well.
The
Black Angels Website
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