Sub Pop Records just posted a free album sampler for download on their site including tracks from artists such as Fruit Bats, Fleet Foxes, Mark Sultan, Pissed Jeans, Iron & Wine and Vetiver among others.
You can download the “Cybersex” sampler from this site, which is a treat in itself if you are sucker for the [...]
Wilco, together with Billy Bragg, did a great job of adding music to Woody Guthrie’s lyrics on the Mermaid Avenue records a few years back.
While working on their new upcoming album, “Wilco (The Album)”, they have made a cover of Guthrie’s “The Jolly Banker” with Feist on Garden Weasel percussion. The song relevant as ever, [...]
“Sacred Trickster” is now available for download over at the Matador blog. The track, which is being described as a 2:10 out-of-the gate hardcore matinee track with Kim singing salutes to French painter Yves Klein and Western Massachusetts noise artist Noise Nomads, is said to set the tone for the band’s upcoming album “The Eternal”. [...]
For many Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest is one of the year’s most anticipated records. It is unfortunately still a while until it is available in it’s intended format (vinyl), but to shorten the wait Warp is offering up a high quality (192 kbps) free download of “Cheerleader”, one of many standout tracks on the new album. [...]
A different twist if we may, meet Joe Frank. He delivers radio shows across the pond in New York (and previously for the wonderful KCRW) in a Tom Waits styled smokers growl
Taken from Joe’s website: long-time favorites with public radio audiences, Joe Frank’s programs are sometimes dark, sometimes absurdist, sometimes solo recitations, sometimes ensemble [...]
Thanks to the folks at Resident Advisor for making this available to us all. Ramadanman heads this awesome label with Pangea (srsly, go find a better track than Router in 2008) uniting dubstep and techno heads in equal fanfair and glorious admiration in love of dark atmospheric and body jerking rhythms that run into the [...]
From Canada, They Said Ok ‘because we want to make you dance’. Well indeed friends, this wee mix will indeed make you dance, the perfect warm up for a night of italo-disco, fused minimal techno, dubstep, classics end of year tunes, indie disco gems and perhaps an Elton John cover
1- Better off alone – Cosmo
2- [...]
Of the ever brilliant London Dubstep label Hyperdub, Zomby has mixed up a slab of steaming hot dubstep, 90’s rave, early house and some sure footed techo in a nice wee mix at for fashionista magazine Dazed and Confused. Well worth downloading and checking. You can expect more dubstep vibes and love in general on [...]
