new music
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Have a spooky Halloween with the evil Yeh Deadlies…
It’s Halloween tomorrow – All Hallow’s Eve, the night where all sorts of spooky happenings and evil deeds are done. It’s also a night where folk from around the country get dressed up in costumes and facepaint and meet friends to imbibe substances which may cause them to have an out of body experience….or wake…
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New Music for Your Ears: I Hate You, Just Kidding
Oh yes, this duo is cute: boy-girl couple Jessi Fulghum and Jeremy Brock, aka I Hate You, Just Kidding, who make cute folk-dashed indie-pop that is just on the right side of twee. I found them via the lovely Gluttonous Vegan, who knows her shiz. I Hate You, Just Kidding are based in Costa Mesa,…
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For Your Ears: Elliott Smith Mixtape
Can it really be seven years since Elliott Smith passed away? Every year that his anniversary rolls around, every 21st October, I’m still taken aback by how long it has been. If he were alive now, he would be in his forties. Would he still be making records? What would he be doing? We can…
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Windings Grows Old Like J
You can’t fight the ageing process – no matter how much you try and deny Old Father Time, he’s going to visit you eventually. Even a hefty dose of botulinum toxin won’t stop him. One man who recently found himself preoccupied with growing older is Windings, aka Steve Ryan (and band), and he came to…
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S Carey – All We Grow
S Carey is the percussionist and pianist for Bon Iver’s band, but he’s also the creator of one of this year’s most beautiful albums. Heart-swelling, hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck-standing-up type stuff. All We Grow Jump in. (via Brooklyn Vegan)
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Evil Uncle plots secret guerilla campaign
Want to get your music out to the masses? Well, why not take a leaf out of Evil Uncle‘s book and stick 5,000 copies under the windscreen wipers of cars at Electric Picnic? When Evil Uncle released a new EP Songs for the Road on September 6th, he decided to take an unusual route in…
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Squarehead K9 session – download
Squarehead are bloody amazing, so I suggest you get your ass down to bandcamp and download their free K9 Sessions release immediately. Just click here and you’ll find three delicious tracks waiting for you: Axes of Love, an amazing cover of Cathy’s Clown (The Everly Brothers) and Circle. All three tracks were recorded for Phantom105.2…
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New Land Lovers track
Well will ya look at this – a new track by Land Lovers, re-recorded and mastered and mixed and spit polished, all for your delicate ears to enjoy. Have an aul’ gander and a listen here at the Popical Island tumblr. Visit their myspace and send them love letters signed ‘yours, Owly’.
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New Benoit Pioulard album due in October
Hooray! Benoit Pioulard (aka Thomas Meluch) is bringing out a new album in October – according to his official website: i am pleased to annouce [sic] the release of the next benoît pioulard album for the fine folks at kranky. it is called lasted & will be released in cd, vinyl & digital formats as…
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