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| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:35 PM CST Kingsbury
Kingbury - “Back in the Orange Grove” – Hunter’s, Run!
Each 7″ in the series is limited to just 200 physical copies – available only to residence of NYC and aficionados of the internet. The stellar art for this release was produced by acclaimed Californian artist Josh Keyes; and each of the 3 remaining releases will feature artwork by different prominent artist. Give “I Didn’t Mean To Hold You Personally Responsible” and see if you don’t want to catch the next train into Penn to snag a copy of EP1. EP1 Tracklisting: Hunters, Run! - “I Didn’t Mean To Hold You Personally Responsible” – Alela Diane
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| Anya Marina T-Shirt and Signed CD Giveaway! Posted: 16 Jan 2009 12:45 PM CST
**To win, leave a comment with what moves you! A winner will be drawn on January 30th** Watch “Move You” Slow and Steady Seduction: Phase II will be available through Chop Shop/Atlantic Records on January 20, 2009. Anya Marina: website | myspace | Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II review  Most Commented Posts |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 11:25 AM CST The soul-folk singer Justin Vernon, better known as Bon Iver, is putting out a new EP this month titled Blood Bank. It is scheduled to hit stores Tuesday, January 20th. Having gone from rock bottom to this musical career, his story was featured on NPR. His new EP is nothing less then perfect. Blood Bank is a phenomenal piece of musical work. Title track “Blood Bank” is a calming and inspirational song that hits you deep. The song is about how we are all brothers and sisters and how we should all act as such. No matter what skin color a person may have, we all have the same color on the inside, blood red. This EP of his was a high bar to start the year off, but having heard his other works, I have no doubt in my mind that he will be able to stay at this level of perfection. If you are a fan of easy listening music (such as Coldplay), I highly recommend that you check out this man, Bon Iver, and his new Blood Bank EP that hits stores on January 20th on Jagjaguwar. Tracklisting:  Written by: Kyle Thurin Related Posts |
| New M.Ward Download from ‘Hold Time’ Posted: 16 Jan 2009 09:31 AM CST
M. Ward - “Never Had Nobody Like You” Hold Time is out on February 17th on Merge Records. You can preorder it from MergeRecords.com. M. Ward: website | myspace | @ austin city limits 2008  Related Posts This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Sweet Water - Clear the Tarmac Posted: 16 Jan 2009 08:45 AM CST Some albums are a pleasure to listen to (as they're supposed to be). Many, however, are not. Clear the Tarmac, a comeback album of sorts from Sweet Water, a semi-grunge 90's band that was on hiatus from 2000-2006, falls into the latter. It's an album so methodically produced, shoddily written and moronically performed that it has no place existing in 2009, let alone in Sweet Water’s 90's heyday. In addition to possessing the already stated qualities, Clear the Tarmac is an uninspired and stylistically-inconsistent mess on which the Sweet Water attempts to be all the bands that have done them a charity by allowing these schmucks to tour with them. Speaking of being a mess, Clear the Tarmac begins with singer Adam Cziesler singing "Hey / oh / I can't believe / that grass is green," in the radio-ready alt-rock of "Grass is Green". Really? You really can't believe grass is green? I don't know, I find it really easy to believe that grass is green, but maybe that's just because I'm not hopped up on all kinds hallucinogens ALL the time. I don't know, maybe; I'm not a scientist. But speaking of being hopped up on drugs, Sweet Water try their hand at writing an Oasis song with "Stereo". With its horn-laden chorus that sounds a lot like "Dear Prudence", and its George Harrison-esque guitars, Sweet Water manage to imitate The Beatles just as well/lamely as the Gallagher brothers have been doing for over a decade. And, speaking of British bands, on "Tonight" and "Moonless Sky", Sweet Water try their hand at being some kind of abominable hybrid between U2 (who are British) and Bon Jovi (whom, I realize, are not British, but from New Jersey). And they fail horribly…so horribly. While attempting to write detailed, literate lyrics like Bono's, Sweet Water churn out pointless and pathetic pap that never manages to convey anything close to meaningful, while the soaring vocals (the imitation of Bono is actually pretty close) try and convince otherwise. Not to mention, speaking of horrible lyrics, "Dogs at Bay" is inexplicable. It's supposed to be a toast to…people that Sweet Water like? "Keep the dogs at bay let nothing harm you," Cziesler sings after every verse of a clichéd pseudo-philosophical schpeel sung over a featherweight four-chord rhythmic pattern. "Protect the children / show no fear / they're the ones / that you hold dear": really? That's what passes for lyrics these days? Wow, very lame. By the way, speaking of things that are very lame, Clear the Tarmac is very lame. It has the honor of being the first album I've been given to the review that I literally could not listen to straight through. I tried: I failed. However, Sweet Water deserve at least a little credit for warning listeners about the quality of the album in the title, as in: clear the tarmac, because this is gonna crash and burn. Hear “Rock Steady” Clear the Tarmac will be available January 20th from Golden City Records. Tracklisting: Sweet Water: website | myspace  Written by: Marc Z. Grub Related Posts |
All on their own merit, Florida band Kingsbury has shared the stage with names like Stellastar*, The Honorary Title, Matt Pond PA, and French Kicks, and self-released two highly praised EP’s, released their full-length debut on Post Records in 2007 and followed up with another EP, Lie To Me, late last year. Their music draws influence from Calla, Low, Sigur Ros, and Mogwai. In an effort to “completely embracing digital culture,” the fellas have everything they’ve ever recorded available for free download on their website.
Following 2 full-length releases in 3 years, New York City post-pop outfit Hunters, Run! are thinking bigger for 2009 and will release a series of four 7-inchs over the course of the year. Fans of Elvis Costello, Husker Du, and The Talking Heads should be on the look out for these Battle Standard Recordings releases, the first of which, aptly titled EP1, dropped this past Tuesday, January 13th.
Alela Diane is about to release the follow-up album to her 2006 debut The Pirate’s Gospel. Titled To Be Still, which lands February 17th on Rough Trade, Diane has already 
Upon our discovery of the lovely and talented Anya Marina, we’ve been playing 
Now available for free download is a track from the amazing Mister M. Ward’s new album Hold Time. The free track, “Never Had Nobody Like You”, features the backing vocals of the She to his Him, Zooey Deschanel. Much like their debut She & Him release, 
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