The Unknown & Unheard Show 137!!!

Stream & Download The U & U Show 137 Right Here, Right Now! Portugal, The Man – Work All Day – The Satanic Satanist (2009) - 4th album - This band has had a huge sound from the start. - They are always putting out changing and innovative tracks and this album seems to show a change on a bigger scale. - This album sounds more restrained than some of their previous stuff… more acoustic than anything else. - ‘Church Mouth’ is my favorite album. - RIYL The Raconteurs/Jack White/Brendan Benson Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Ha Ha Tonka – Walking On the Devil’s Backbone - Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South (2009) - 2nd album - great building folk track. I may have been sold simply by the Dostoevsky reference. - RIYL Kings of Leon and AA Bondy Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Brendan Benson – Don’t Wanna Talk – My Old, Familiar Friend (2009) - forthcoming album, first since Raconteurs work - out 8-18-09 - for those not near and dear to his previous solo work you should be able to at least clearly hear his contribution to the Raconteurs’ sound. Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Free Energy – Free Energy - Free Energy (2009) - Forthcoming debut full length. - 2nd song to slide out… I think every band should have a title track on their self titled debut. Black Sabbath sold me on that idea… not so much Bad Company. - This band could’ve had the year’s best summer album if they’d just release this thing already. 'Dream City' is another brilliant track - formerly known as Hockey Night - Produced by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem. Myspace : Stream on HypeMachine We Were Promised Jetpacks – It’s Thunder and It’s Lightning – These Four Walls (2009) - Debut album - Scottish band with a very similar sound to Frightened Rabbit on the mellower tracks but seem a bit more aggressive when they amp up their sound. - This week’s track that is lodged in my head. Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Japandroids – Darkness on the Edge of Gastown - Debut, critical praise is pouring down on this album. - raucous post punk rock - huge energy and distortion. You’ll want to see this song live and as loud as possible. - This track was a stand out in their Pitchfork set, but it’s not on an album unfortunately. You can hear it on RCRDLBL.com though. Official Site : Myspace : Stream on HypeMachine : RCRDLBL.com Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home – Up From Below (2009) - debut album… also on their debut EP, out earlier this year. - Big folk band that makes deeply layered songs - Arcade Fire + Margot & the Nuclear So & Sos? - Really liking the vocals from one of the female ‘Magnetic Zeros’ on this track - The horns and whistling bring to mind the sounds on Andrew Bird Myspace : Buy On Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Netherfriends – TAC TAC – Feathers and Dots (2009) - debut full-length - Chicago band - Only three members despite the rich compositions. Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine The Rural Alberta Advantage – Don’t Haunt This Place – Hometowns (2009) - debut album - playing Bloomington august 25th - songs are really marked by the bands drumming. Fast paced and light Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Modest Mouse – Perpetual Motion Machine – Perpetual Motion Machine (2009) - Single preceding their forthcoming EP - They’ve released about an album’s worth of music this year but have just spread it out… a lot of it is pretty damn good too! Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Lost In the Trees – Walk Around The Lake – All Alone in an Empty House (2008) - 2nd album - Ari Picker’s 3rd band (B-Sides & the Nevers) - Really cool string section in their music. It gives them a considerably larger sound. - If you like this song you should definitely get the Iron & Wine EP with Calexico ‘In The Reins’ Official Site : Myspace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Bowerbirds – Beneath Your Tree – Upper Air (2009) - 2nd album - Primarily Phil Moore and Beth Tacular - Reminds me a lot of Ryan Adams’ mellower tracks. Official Site : Myspace : Buy On Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Yim Yames – Behind That Locked Door – Tribute To (2009) - Solo project from My Morning Jacket’s Jim James - An album of George Harrison covers. - Part of the Monsters of Folk: Playing the Louisville Palace Halloween night! Official Site : Stream on HypeMachine Todd Snider – America’s Favorite Pastime – The Excitement Plan (2009) - 8th studio album - The Devil You Know was best/most commercial to date… this is working on surpassing that. - Peace Queer came out before this and was obnoxiously political… this album, thankfully, shows a return to what got him where he is. - This song is perfect for summer (and drug abusers too, I guess), it’s the story of MLB pitcher Doc Ellis threw a No-Hitter high on LSD. Official Site : Myspace : Buy On Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine