Shout Out Louds – Walls - Work (2010)
- forthcoming 3rd album. Out Feb. 23rd
- Debut album was howl howl gaff gaff.
- If you like this you should check out Matt Pond PA.
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Black Keys – Summertime Blues
- Eddie Cochran cover
- latest sounds the most affected by outside/big label influence, but still good.
- Just put out an album called 'BlakRoc' on which they provide the instrumentals and backing vocals for some big name rappers.
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Wounded Lion - Friendly? (2009)
- Forthcoming debut album
- Punchy hard rock that keeps you moving.
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Lifter Puller - Double Straps - Lifter Puller (1997)
- opening track on debut album
- The Hold Steady's Craig Finn and Tab Kubler's first band
- Hold Steady meets Les Savy Fav
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Steve Mason - All Come Down - Boys Outside (2010)
- Forthcoming debut album
- Member of the Beta Band
- You can feel the Beta Band influence here in the vocals and beat of the song.
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Shearwater – Castaways - Golden Archipelago (2010)
- Forthcoming 6th album. Out Feb. 23rd
- Austin band with ties to Okkervil River
- Almost a voice you’d expect at the opera
- Palo Santo is a great album by them.
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Lightning Dust – Ho Ho Ho - Eggnog Experience (2009)
- Christmas compilation put together by Mental Beast
- Another Black Mountain side project… you can really hear the Black Mountain in this track.
- Great vocals
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Deer Tick - Axe is Forever - More Fuel to the Fire EP (2009)
- latest release. 2 full lengths out.
- sounds like it could be from a long lost CCR album.
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Thee American Revolution - Power House - Buddha Electrostorm (2009)
- Debut full length
- side project from the Apples in Stereo's Robert Schneider.
- big garage/glam rock sound!
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Christmas Island - Twenty Nine - Christmas Island Single (2009)
- Debut release. Debut full length is out already and is entitled 'Blackout Summer'
- King Khan light.
- Garage soul.
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tUnE-yArDs - Sunlight - BiRd-BrAiNs (2009)
- Debut full length
- Eclectic, spastic indie pop sound.
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Foreign Born – Early Warnings - Person to Person (2009)
- 2nd album
- Out of LA
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We All Have Hooks for Hands - Better to Live Than To Die - The Shape of Energy (2009)
- 2nd album from the Sioux Falls, SD sextet
- Big indie rock sound with vocals that sound like a less dreamy/more anthem rock version of Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell
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The Features - Thursday - Thursday/Rabbit March 10" (2001)
- Limited edition single. first release after their 1997 debut EP
- Full length debut was out in 2004. Released two other EP's in there
- Kings of Leon fans can definitely find something here.
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The Art Museums - Sculpture Gardens (2009)
- forthcoming debut
- On Woodsist Records. Home of Kurt VIle, Wavves and Woods
- 2009 hardest band/song to google.
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Rain Machine – Give Blood – Rain Machine (2009)
- solo debut from TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone
- this is this week’s song that will get you moving. Very funky sound to this one
- I hope he can keep the energy up this successfully on the entire album.
- Also in the band Iran
- Out September 22nd
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Rock Plaza Central - Oh I Can - …At the Moment of Our Most Needing Or If Only They Could Turn Around, They Would Know They Weren’t Alone (2009)
- 2nd album from the Chris Eaton led rotating group of musicians
- Another track that packs a boatload of intensity.
- Strained feel to the song that you get from The Builders and the Butchers and even the Mountain Goats… comparable vocals as well.
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The Mountain Goats – Genesis 3:23 - The Life of the World to Come (2009)
- NEW MOUNTAIN GOATS!
- If that alone is not worthy of a play, I don’t know what is
- This seems to be some relative of a concept album based around lessons he’s learned. Each track’s title is a specific bible verse.
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Prabir & The Substitutes – Five Little Pieces – Five Little Pieces (2008)
- 3rd Full length. Two EP’s out also.
- RIYL Ike Reilly Assassination
- Jangly 60’s bar room rock… hard not to enjoy.
- Their full-length debut was a double disc, but the 2nd disc was a copy of the first that they encouraged people to share with others.
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Ha Ha Tonka –Hold My Feet In the Fire - Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South (2009)
- 2nd album
- RIYL Kings of Leon and AA Bondy
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We Were Promised Jetpacks – Roll Up Your Sleeves – 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.
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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Janglin’ – 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
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White Denim – Paint Yourself – Fits (2009)
- 2nd album
- Enjoyably schizophrenic compositions.
- The hand claps and a catchy guitar progression on this one just seem to be smile-inducing.
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Portugal, The Man – Guns and Dogs – 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
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Faux Hoax – Foxworthy - Your Friends Will Carry You Home EP (2009)
- debut EP from Danny Seim of Memomena, Dave Allen of Gang of Four
- pronounced ‘Folks’
- incredibly layered tracks like that which you find on all the Menomena stuff
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Lackthereof – Chest Pass - Your Anchor (2008)
- 2nd solo album from Danny Seim of Menomena
- He does a brilliant cover of the National’s ‘Fake Empire’ to close this album
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Ramona Falls – I Say Fever – Intuit (2009)
- forthcoming solo debut from Brent Knopf of Menomena
- Out August 18th
- 2nd member to put forth a solo effort
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Timber Timbre – We’ll Find Out – Timber Timbre (2009)
- 2nd album, debut was out in 2007 ‘Medicinals’
- M. Ward + Bon Iver + Tom Waits’ ‘What’s He Building In There?’
- Eerily cool spooky tracks… slogan on Myspace is ‘Creep on creepin’ on.’
- Toronto duo
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Lightning Dust – Never Seen – Infinite Light (2009)
- 2nd full length
- Another Black Mountain side project
- Great vocals
- This track in particular reminds me of Gary Jules’ cover of Tears for Fears’ ‘Mad World’
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The Builders and the Butchers – Golden and Green – Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well (2009)
- Sophomore album out June 16th
- From the previews of this album I’ve heard, they’ve really stepped up the sounds and progressions… and that’s saying a lot if you are familiar with their debut.
- Such a powerful track!
- Get excited about this album!
- Playing the Volrath August 6th
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Rock Plaza Central – (Don’t You Believe the Words of) Handsome Men - …At the Moment of Our Most Needing Or If Only They Could Turn Around, They Would Know They Weren’t Alone (2009)
- 2nd album from the Chris Eaton led rotating group of musicians
- Another track that packs a boatload of intensity.
- Strained feel to the song that you get from The Builders and the Butchers and even the Mountain Goats… comparable vocals as well.
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Seasick Steve – Walking Man - I Started Out With Nothin' and Still Got Most of It Left (2008)
- 3rd album, I think… he’s released some in the UK and here
- Slower style of blues than what he grabbed me with initially.
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White Denim – Heart From All of Us – Workout Holiday (2008)
- debut full length
- new album on its way, ‘Fits’
- Check out the video for ‘I Start To Run’ the first video single off the new album
- Their music follows no pattern and never gets boring… enjoyably schytzophrenic.
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Modest Mouse – Autumn Beds – Autumn Beds EP (2009)
- 2nd of two 2-song singles released by the band
- this set of two is much more mellow that the ‘Satellite Skin’ pair
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Hockey Night – Renegades – Keep Guessin’ (2005)
- 2nd album
- This is that band that’s grown into Free Energy
- Not quite as big of a sound, almost more modest mouse type of feel.
- Really wanting to hear the entire Free Energy
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Drummer – Mature Fantasy - ??? (2009)
- debut album
- ‘Supergroup’ of drummers compiled by Pat Carney, drummer of The Black Keys
- Don’t come here expecting anything resembling the Keys though
- Reminds me of some early 90’s alt rock… early Offspring? Bush?
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The Henry Clay People – You Can Be Timeless – For Cheap Or For Free (2008)
- 2nd album… debut out in 2006
- Some part of this band makes me thing the presidents of the USA. That is a very good thing!
- Big energetic anthem rock
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Eels – Tremendous Dynamite – Hombre Lobo (2009)
- Newest album
- Translates to ‘Werewolf’
- There is a really interesting look into Mark Everett’s past on a NOVA on PBS, ‘Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives’
- This is the next album on my must have list.
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Jay Reatard – It Ain’t Gonna Save Me – Watch Me Fall (2009)
- first album since relaunching his label, Shattered Records.
- Out August 18th
- This is a musician that has taken some time to grow on me.
- Made up a lot of ground in an onstage incident where he punched an idiot fan who jumped on stage.
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Matt & Kim – Lessons Learned – Grand (2009)
- 2nd album, debut out in 2006, Self-titled.
- just added to the Pitchfork Music Fest, which is one of the more relevant festivals you’ll find
- keyboard & drums that sound like much more than that… sum of the parts
- Big indie rock sounds without a doubt… the sound of the vocals scream it.
- This band is growing on me tremendously!
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Lightning Dust – Listened On – Lightning Dust (2007)
- debut full length
- Another Black Mountain side project… you can really hear the Black Mountain in this track.
- Great vocals
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Cave Singers – I Don’t Mind - Welcome Joy (2009)
- 2nd album
- An eerie style of folk… the vocals really stand out and perfectly compliment the sound of Lightning Dust
- The lead singers sound like they could be brother and sister
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Sunset Rubdown – Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh! – Dragonslayer (2009)
- 4th album… out June 23rd
- Eagerly awaiting this album
- One of Spencer Krug’s many bands
- Playing Jake’s in Bloomington July 8th
- This album has some epic sounding tracks.
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