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• Artist:
  Erykah Badu
• Album:
  New Amerykah, Pt. 2: Return of Ankh
• Track:
  Jump Up In The Air And Stay There

Over on Erykah's fansite in the forums, Erykah's website administrator dropped a bomb on us yesterday 10/4/09! It was announced that 'New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh' will be released(FINALLY) on February 23rd, 2010! Been waiting for an official drop date for a over a year now.Apparently the first single 'Jump Up In The Air And Stay There' will be released shortly. No concrete release...

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• Artist:
  The Big Pink
• Album:
  A Brief History of Love
• Track:
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  Frisk

The Big Pink finally sunk in to my thick skull. It took posts from Neill, Marigold & Dachmo(last two, over on the dark side) to finally get me hooked. Marigold had posted a pre-album download which was less than stellar(not his fault, just what was available). Dachmo then posted the official album & the difference was incredible.I was encouraged to give it another listen & chance by Dach, and ...

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• Artist:
  World Party
• Album:
  Dumbing Up
• Track:
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  Who Are You?

October 2-4th was the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival( link here: http://www.strictlybluegrass.com/ ) in Golden Gate Park and as the fest name implies there was a bevy of bands playing for our musical pleasure. It was actually a gorgeous, sunny fall day with a bit of brisk breeze coming off the ocean and perfect temperature when in the sun. There were something like 5 stages spread throughou...

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• Artist:
  Erykah Badu
• Album:
  New Amerykah, Pt. 2: Return of Ankh
• Track:
  Jump In The Air

Finally getting around to mogging about seeing Erykah again with Mos Def headlining & Jay Electronica opening for them, September 3rd in San Francisco at Davies Symphony Hall. I was surprised Erykah was playing San Francisco so quickly after her amazing headlining back in June. All I knew was that I HAD to see her again!Now, I haven't been much of a Mos Def fan until I got his 'The Ecstatic' al...

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• Artist:
  Fol Chen
• Album:
  Part 1: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made
• Track:
  The Longer You Wait

Check this out, more FREE music! Fol Chen is giving us a grand present of 11 songs remixed called 'The Longer You Wait'. There are other songs from their debut remixed on it as well as songs by other artists they've remixed, so it's not all the same song.It's so good! And you know me, FREE is a very good price!You can pick it up here:http://asthmatickitty.com/music.php?releaseID=1072Here's a vi...

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• Artist:
  MeLo-X
• Album:
  Maxwell BLACK Summers' Night Remix EP
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  The Highest

. . . like me, it gets a second chance with MeLo-X's remix album. Now this is much more like it. Unfortunately most of the remixes are under 2 minutes but if Maxwell's original album had been anywhere near as interesting as this it might have had a chance with me. Thank goddess for second chances eh?I found this on okayplayer.com here: http://www.okayplayer.com/news/Maxwells-BLACKsummersnight-I...

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• Artist:
  The Fiery Furnaces
• Album:
  I'm Going Away
• Track:
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  Charmaine Champagne

The Fiery Furnaces have released their latest album back on 7/14/09 on Amazon.com with a wide release today 7/21/09. And what makes this even more exciting is the price on Amazon.com! Only $3.99!!!!! What a deal.(UPDATE 7/22: I just clicked on the following link and it's now $8.99, that didn't last long! Damnit, sorry gang. Glad I got it before it changed.) You can find it here:http://www.amazo...

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• Artist:
  Nickelus F & Portishead
• Album:
  R.A.R.E.(Reliving A Real Experience
• Track:
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  Abandoned

Since Rawkiddo is into threesomes these days, I figured, hell why not up the ante, eh? heheI don't even know where I got this from but picked it up a month or so ago. I think I might have found out about this free ep on okayplayer.com but don't hold me to that(and no I didn't find out about the Atmosphere ep there, although they picked up on it too). Anyway, Nickelus F is a Richmond, Virginia a...

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• Artist:
  The Black & White Years
• Album:
  BWY EP
• Track:
  • PLAY
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  To Modern Science

So Rawkiddo was asking me for a third post of FREE music cause he likes threesomes! So here you go Kev. The Black & White Years from Austin, TX are giving away a free 3 song ep of some of their new songs. If you're not familiar with TB&WY you might recall that I did a review of their self titled debut a year ago May here: http://mog.com/Augusts1/blog/162985. If you like a retro '80s sound clic...

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