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Rafter and Label Asthmatic Kitty Announce Video Contest
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From Asthmatic Kitty: Asthmatic Kitty and our friends Microcinema invite you to create a music video for one of three Rafter songs. Below are three links. Download the mp3s, pick your favorite song and make a music video. Upload your music video to YouTube and add it to the Rafter Sweaty Magic Group. The contest begins August 27th and will run until [...]~~
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Damien Jurado: “Caught In The Trees”
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DAMIEN JURADO's newest release, "Caught In The Trees", is now available for pre-order on both CD & LP from Secretly Canadian. "Caught In the Trees" is not a major departure from his past minimalist folk albums, but lyrically Jurado shows strides of maturity with his new release. Best known for his first person (fictional) tales, Jurado now invites [...]~~
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Sam Champion Pre-Release $3 at AmieStreet.com
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--- - |- Sam Champion's anticipated sophomore release "Heavenly Bender" is only three bucks at AmieStreet.com. The three dollar pre-release deal lasts until this Friday!! Snag this release before it jumps to a mainstream release and full price on September 2nd. Listen to Sam Champion's first single: Sam Champion's "Be Mine Everyone" From Heavenly Bender. ~~- Sam Champion
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Bon Iver Joins Okkervil River’s “The Stand Ins” Project
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YouTube - Blue Tulip - Bon Iver. OKKERVIL RIVER have added another artist cover to the video project for their upcoming release "The Stand Ins". BON IVER provides his cover of "Blue Tulip" (above). Keep checking Okkervil River's youtube page HERE, as they will be uploading more videos soon. Past performances have included singer/songwriter David Vandervelde and Will Sheff and Carl Newman of Th...
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Anthony and the Johnsons to Release New EP & Full-Length
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From Secretly Canadian: Antony and the Johnsons emerged onto the international stage in 2005 with their breakthrough I Am A Bird Now. The group were awarded the Mercury Prize in the UK and toured the world. Since then Antony has collaborated on tracks with Bjork for her latest album Volta, appeared in the Leonard Cohen documentary [...]~~
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The Best Children’s Albums Ever
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--- - |- Inspired by today's post by Boing Boing about Kimya Dawson's new children's album Alphabutt, I made a list of children's albums for a friend today and thought I should share for all you parents. These are albums you will like as much as your kids. Elizabeth Mitchell - You are My Flower Taking a step away from [...] ~~- Kimya Dawson
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TV on the Radio Streaming New Single
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TV on the Radio are streaming their new track "Golden Age" at TVontheRadio.com. The Brooklyn based quintet follow-up 2006's universally acclaimed Return to Cookie Mountain with the release of Dear Science on September 23rd via DGC/Interscope Records. New songs on third full-length album will be unveiled throughout North America in September starting in Portland, OR, with festival appearances in...
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Ra Ra Riot - Ghost Under Rocks video
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Ra Ra Riot released Ghost Under Rocks, their first video from the upcoming The Rhumb Line full-length on Barsuk Records. This album is solid from start to finish. ~~
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“Night of the Crickets” music video by Mr. Gnome
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YouTube - "Night of the Crickets" music video by mr. Gnome. Mr. Gnome debut their new video "Night of the Crickets". The powerful pair rose as the #1 blogged about band on the Elbo.ws blog aggregator immediately after release of their first MP3 from the album "Pirates".More >
The Amazing Memory of The Library of Congress
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The coolest cats in the indie folk scene pretend to know just about every artist out there but I would bet few know The Four Brothers. So for all the music Snoots I submit the largest library on the planet, The Library of Congress. The Library of Congress has 32 million books on its shelves, but [...]~~
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Rocky Votolato: A Brief History re-released
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Rocky Votolato has consistently released solid albums, first with Waxwing and then as a solo artist. In 2000 Rocky entered the recording studio with Matt Bayles to record seven songs in three days… recording songs he had written between the ages of sixteen and eighteen. For years this album, A Brief History, has been out of [...]~~
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White Lies: Death
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--- - |- White Lies have a new music video for Death which they filmed in Sweden, in just two 23 hour days. Death will be released as their first single on September 22 on Fiction and Polydor Records. The Joy Formidable will be opening for White Lies on tour, and have been added to Reading and Leeds Festival [...] ~~- White Lies
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The Acorn Conquer North America on Co-headline Tour with Ohbijou!
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--- - |- After a very successful summer festival season, The Acorn will be making their way across the continent this fall joined by long-time friends and collaborators Toronto's Ohbijou. The 30-date tour will take them across Canada and much the West and Mid-west United States. US dates will feature said bands as well as Portland Oregon's The Shaky Hands. The Acorn On [...] ShareThis ~~- ...
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Bob Dylan: in person
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--- - |- Since Bob Dylan came onto the scene in 1962 at the age of twenty with his first Columbian album, simply titled Bob Dylan, he quickly became one of the most influential artists of our lifetime. Heralded as an icon of the folk movement, then doing the unthinkable of mixing rock with folk, Dylan was rarely [...] ~~- Bob Dylan
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Brian Wilson Releases New Material
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--- - |- Brian Wilson is one of music's most revered figures as a legendary writer, producer, arranger and performer of some of the most cherished music in rock history. He is set to release his new recording, "That Lucky Old Sun". The new album will be released on CD, CD/DVD, and digitally on September 2 (September 1 internationally). On [...] ~~- Brian Wilson
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The Archive of Paul Mawhinney
Paul Mawhinney has the biggest record collection in the world at over three million albums. The amazing thing is nobody wants it. With plaguing health problems he's trying to sell. It's been appraised for 50 million dollars. He's selling it for three million and can't find a buyer. If anybody wants to give Chasing Lions [...]~~
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New Concept Album Created by Gorillaz Members
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The debut album by Monkey, Journey to the West, is currently available on CD in the UK and digitally in both the UK and US (the CD will be available on the 23rd September in the US) via XL Recordings.Monkey, Journey to the West is performed by European and Chinese musicians and singers. It is produced [...]~~
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Drones: The Minotaur video
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--- - |- The Australian band, Drones, kicked off their US tour with a music video for The Minotaur, and a picture disc EP featuring the single. Their final four US shows will be with Built To Spill and The Meat Puppets. Their full length, Havilah, is coming out in in January, 2009. Drones - Baby Squared August 24 - [...] ~~- The Drones
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Death Cab Announce Tour Plans
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Death Cab for Cutie announce their fall North American and European tour, which will include the band’s first performance at the legendary Radio City Music Hall. U.S. and Canadian shows with Neil Young and European dates are also in the mix. The tour is the band’s first visit to most of the U.S. since the release [...]ShareThis~~
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