[Listen] – #MusicMonday – 20 Songs Of The Week – August 30th
If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too. Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted by the thousands of people making recommendations each week.
Every #MusicMonday I upload a playlist of 20 songs that I’ve been listening to (new and old) over the past week and hopefully you’ll enjoy some of them. Want me to check someone out? Let me know at that Contact Us thinger up there.
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This week’s #MusicMonday playlist:
“Hey Joe – Jimi Hendrix”
“I’m Not Driving Any More – Rob Dougan”
“Woman – John Lennon & Yoko Ono”
“NYC – Interpol”
“Top Expert – Cat Power”
“Nowhere Again – Secret Machines”
“Standing In The Way Of Connection (The Gossip Vs. Elastica) – A Plus D”
“Whiskey and Fish – Joe Purdy”
“Pimp Millennium – Trouble Andrew”
“Eat Your Heart Up – The Blow”
“Jetstream – Doves”
“What New York Used To Be – The Kills”
“Fuck You! – Cee-Lo”
“Change Of Time – Josh Ritter”
“Wide Eyes – Local Natives”
“Know Better Learn Faster – Thao With The Get Down Stay Down”
“Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? – She & Him”
“Oh Mandy – The Spinto Band”
“One (Blake’s Got a New Face) – Vampire Weekend”
“It’s Always Been You – Thomas Dybdahl”
[Listen/Download] – Entire Debut Album By Junip – “Fields”
This debut album by the Jose Gonzalez-led Junip has been in the pipeline for about five years now, but it’s finally here.
Actually, it’s probably been in the pipeline for longer than that, the band having formed 10 years ago, but we’ve been waiting at least five years for it since that’s when they released their debut EP “Black Refuge”. Back in May they released another EP called “Rope And Summit” which you can listen to and download for free, but now they’re debut album is here, and thanks to NPR you can listen to the entire thing below, two weeks before it’s released.
If you like what you hear below, then buy it:
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- Insound – CD | Vinyl
Junip – “At The Doors”
[Listen/Download] – Entire New Album By The Weepies – “Be My Thrill”
At first listen, The Weepies might seem as wet as their name implies – a country-tinged guitar pop band with high-pitched female vocals placing it slightly in the “twee” category. But as you get further into their new album, “Be My Thrill”, the country influence becomes ever more pronounced, and a certain darkness creeps in on songs such as “Hard To Please” and “How Do You Get High”. The album’s closer, “Empty Your Hands” takes all the conflicting impulses throughout the record and wraps them up in a sweet, melodic package that does justice to the preceding songs.
The Weepies, centered around duo Steve Tannen and Deb Talan, are planning to play at 32 tour dates throughout the US in 2010. The whole album is available to stream from Paste Magazine’s website (and below), before it’s released next week on Nettwerk Records.
The Weepies – “Be My Thrill”
If you like what you hear below, buy it from here:
- Amazon - CD | Vinyl | MP3
- eMusic – Sign up and get your first 25 songs absolutely free. Tracks start at just $0.50, half the price of iTunes.
[Listen] – #MusicMonday – 20 Songs Of The Week – August 23rd
If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too. Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted by the thousands of people making recommendations each week.
Every #MusicMonday I upload a playlist of 20 songs that I’ve been listening to (new and old) over the past week and hopefully you’ll enjoy some of them. Want me to check someone out? Let me know at that Contact Us thinger up there.
In order to listen to the playlist you’ll need to have Flash enabled.
This week’s #MusicMonday playlist:
- “Crazy – Katie Herzig”
- “Make It Wit Chu – Queens of the Stone Age”
- “Clawing Out At The Walls – Dominant Legs”
- “Da Funk – Daft Punk”
- “Cape Dory – Tennis”
- “Dino Damage – Miniature Tigers”
- “Maria – Rage Against the Machine”
- “Too Many Questions – Sam Sparro”
- “The Crystal Lake – Grandaddy”
- “I Have Nothing – Noah and the Whale”
- “Use Somebody – Kings of Leon”
- “Breakaway (feat. Jahmal of the Carps) – MSTRKRFT”
- “Kids on the Run – The Tallest Man On Earth”
- “Reckoner – Radiohead”
- “Sunrise Sunset – We Are Trees”
- “Black & Blue – Mike Snow”
- “Intergalactic – Beastie Boys”
- “Close To Me – The Cure”
- “I Can Talk – Two Door Cinema Club”
- “Pon de Floor (feat. VYBZ Kartel) – Major Lazer”
[Introducing] – Brett Shady
A few days ago on Twitter I mentioned that when I come across that one gem in my inbox, it makes it all worthwhile when you’ve spent an hour wading through all of the submissions that are either tedious or terrible.
Well that one gem I was talking about was Brett Shady, a dude from Burbank, California who just released his self-released debut album “The Devil To Pay” on August 10th. The song that got me hooked and swaying from side to side like an impatient drunk was “Angels, Ghosts And Demons”, an upbeat barnstormer with a ubiquitous and infectious chorus that has about 182 people yelling and all stomping their feet. The verses are similar to Glasvegas’ “Daddy’s Gone” but he makes it all entirely his own with the last minute of the song trailing off into an ethereal tunnel of harmonics.
Songs like “God, Change The Laws Of The World” and “Somebody Else” will get you lost in his voice and his lyrics as he wails over the top of his guitar and banjo, making people who don’t like even a hint of country music get right the fuck into it. You can hear three songs from his debut album below and on his MySpace page he has a couple of others.
He’ll be starting a three-week U.S. tour with Golden Shoulders starting on September 1st and you can see the dates on either his MySpace or Last.fm pages below.
Keep up to date with Brett Shady – MySpace | Last.fm
Brett Shady – “Somebody Else”
Brett Shady – “God, Change The Laws Of The World”
Brett Shady – “Angels, Ghosts And Demons”
