It’s not often that we talk about films or documentaries on this site, but every now and again we watch something that we feel obligated to share. In this case I am referring to a documentary directed by Tim Irwin and produced by Keith Schieron in association with Rocket Fuel Films entitled We Jam [...]
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Our Band Could Be Your Life…
The 2nd Annual Norman Music Festival
The 2nd Annual Norman Music Festival is fast approaching, and the lineup is shaping up quite nicely. In my opinion last year’s festival was a smashing success and the way things are looking now this year is all but guaranteed to fall in line. The lineup isn’t complete just yet, but we will [...]
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New Releases - 2/17/2009
Every Tuesday we team up with our friends over at Hypeful to bring you the week’s best new album releases. There is a lot to choose from this week but, if you’re only going to purchase one item this week might we recommend the Dark Was The Night (A Red Hot Compilation). This [...]
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Pitchfork Perfect 10.0’s and 0.0’s…
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This has been updated to reflect the addition of the Beastie Boy's 20th anniversary reissue of their second album "Paul's Boutique" on 2/13/2009. Regardless of how you feel about Pitchfork, I don't think any of us can argue the sites relevancy within the small confines of our music world. Pitchfork is always a polarizing topic. You [...]
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Woodhands Cover “Electric Avenue”
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Toronto's favorite sexy-electro duo Woodhands is back with a brand new digital EP that is a broad collection of remixes, restylings, and reworkings of the killer track "Dancer "from their acclaimed full-length debut, Heart Attack! Set for release on March 3rd through Paper Bag Digital, the Dancer EP includes remixes by labelmate CFCF, Philly MC [...]
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New Releases - 2/10/2009
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Every Tuesday, SDM teams up with Hypeful to pick and preview the week's best new album releases. Bend an ear to this week's choicest selections after the jump! Autopilot Is For Lovers - To the Wolves MP3: Autopilot is for Lovers - "Pine Box Town" Ben Lee - The Rebirth of Venus Burning Hearts - Aboa Sleeping MP3: Burning Hearts - "I [...]
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Band to Watch - Wild Light
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Wild Light is a four-piece hailing from New Hampshire. Their forthcoming album, Adult Nights, was recorded in Los Angeles with Producer Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck, Guided By Voices) and features 13 original tracks co-written by all four members. The result is a traditional pop album that concentrates on warm harmonies and dynamic [...]
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New Releases - 2/3/2009
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Every week we team up with our friends at Hypeful to bring you the week's best new album releases. Check out the new releases, album art, MP3's and streams after the jump. Ben Kweller - Changing Horses MP3: Ben Kweller - Homeward Bound Stream: Entire Album Heartless Bastards - The Mountain MP3: Heartless Bastards - The [...]
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The Bonnaroo Lineup Is Here…
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Last week the Coachella lineup was released and this week we get Bonnaroo. The lineup looks rather, solid with top acts consisting of the Boss, a reunited Phish, The Beastie Boys, NIN, David Byrne, and Wilco. The lineup is also chalked full of excellent middle tiered bands like TV on the Radio, [...]
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Coachella Lineup Is Here…
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The lineup for the 2009 Coachella Music Festival has finally been announced, and it looks pretty great. Friday looks as good as any festival day I've ever seen with Macca, Morrissey, and Leonard Cohen. Aside from the Killers I have to say Saturday looks pretty great as well, with TV on the [...]
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New Releases - 2/27/2009
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Every week we team up with our friends at Hypeful to bring you the week's best new album releases. Check out the new releases, album art, MP3's and streams after the jump. The Bird and the Bee - Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future MP3: The Bird and the Bee - "Ray Gun" STREAM: Full [...]
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New Releases - 1/20/09
We've teamed up with Hypeful again to bring you the new releases that we think are worth hearing, and as far as new releases go it doesn't get much better than this week. If we've missed anything feel free to let us know, but then again this is the internet and you were going to do [...]
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New Illinois’ song - “Are You Coming With Me?”
Back in June of 2007 I saw Illinois open for the Hold Steady and left the venue a fan. I became even more of a fan when I read a quote from a Daytrotter interview with lead singer, Chris Archibald, talking about touring with the Hold Steady. The quote went on to say:Daytrotter: [...]
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New Decemberists Download - “The Rake’s Song”
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I'm sure that we can all agree that the new Decemberists album, The Hazards of Love, is one of the most anticipated albums of 2009. While we still have to wait until March 24th to enjoy a full listen, The band has been kind enough to offer "The Rake's Song" as a free download. Head [...]
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Band to Watch - Francois Virot
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With all the glowing reviews of Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavillion recently, I imagine the imitators will be coming out of the woodwork in droves. I bet I will read something along the lines of "they sound like Animal Collective" a thousand times this year. The truth is nobody sounds like Animal Collective, [...]
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Stream The New Fever Ray Album…
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Let my start by emphatically declaring that this album is the real deal. I've listened to it twice this morning and I don't see that changing as the day progresses. Being a fan of the Knife I naturally had high hopes when I first heard about the album, and I can assure you [...]
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New Releases - 1/13/2009
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We are teaming up with Hypeful again to bring you the week's best new releases. This week is kind of slow, but I can assure you that isn't the case for next week. Enjoy. New Releases, Album Art, MP3's and Streams after the Jump… Franz Nicolay (of the Hold Steady) - Major General MP3: Franz Nicolay - World/Inferno [...]
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New Blitzen Trapper Viedo - “Furr”
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(via pitchfork.tv) Blitzen Trapper's Furr was one of the best albums of 2008, and one of the most underrated albums of 2008 at the same time. We weren't afraid to give it some love here at SDM, but unfortunately it didn't get anywhere near the large scale respect it deserved. I'm optimistic in hoping a lot [...]
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New Releases - 1/6/2009
Now that the hustle and bustle of the holiday season end-of-the-year-list season is behind us we can all start concentrating on new music again. That means we are continuing to team up with our friends over at Hypeful to bring you all the noteworthy new releases each Tuesday.The first week of 2009 isn’t going to [...]
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Apparently the Kings of Leon are Sooner Fans…
Logan just forwarded me a link to this video of the Kings of Leon tailgating before an Oklahoma Sooner football game. I’m not sure how I feel about what I saw on the video. I’ve always had this mental image of KOL as these cool, well-dressed, debonair dudes who can’t walk 50ft down the [...]
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