The Unknown & Unheard Show 183!!!

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Arcade Fire – Ready To Start – The Suburbs (2010) - 3rd album - Go French Canada! Official Site : MySpace : Buy on Amazon : Stream on HypeMachine Black Lips – Before You Judge Me - Adult Swim Singles Project (2010) - 5 albums out - Velvet underground/Guided By Voices - Known for their wild live shows Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Suckers - 2 Eyes 2 C - Wild Smile (2010) - Forthcoming full length debut - big pounding, distorted anthem with a couple huge builds - loads of hype around this short 4 song release… deservedly so! - Love this Song! MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Les Savy Fav – Patty Lee - Let's Stay Friends (2007) - debut album - one of the truly unique bands going. - Latest album, Let’s Stay Friends is flawless. - Lead Singer Tim Harrington is the best frontman I’ve ever seen live. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Maps & Atlases - If This Is - Perch Patchwork (2010) - Debut full length, but have a handful of EPs out. - Chicago experimental folk outfit. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Locks - The Sergeant's Daughter - Suicides Don't Commit Themselves (2010) - This is a band that makes me think the band WHY? - They have a unique, almost monotone, delivery a bass heavy beat throughout this track. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell – Fight Fire With Fire – Sunday At Devil Dirt (2008) - album full of incredibly contrasting vocal duets that come off so well - Lanegan’s hoarse moans fit perfectly with Campbell’s sweet comforting voice Isobel Campbell MySpace : Mark Lanegan MySpace: Amazon : HypeMachine Beck w Annie Clark of St. Vincent - Never Tear Us Apart (INXS) - Record Club (2010) - Very cool project Beck is doing. - Invites various musician friends in to his studio and they cover a classic album. Official Site : MySpace : Beck’s Record Club Megafaun - Volunteers - Heretofore (2010) - 2nd album - members of this act were in DeYarmond Edison with members of Bon Iver. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Tunng - It Breaks - …And Then We Saw Land (2010) - 4th album - Experimental Folk band from the UK. - Their sound is getting dubbed as ‘folktronica’ because of their interesting blend of two very different styles. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Blue Giant - Blue Sunshine - Blue Giant (2010) - Debut full length - This is a side project from members of Viva Voce. MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine David Vandervelde - Checkin' Out My Baby - Checkin' Out My Baby/ Fancy Friends Single (2010) - From his forthcoming 3rd album. - ‘The Moonstation House Band’ is his best to date. - Huge T. Rex sound. - Just did a collaborative album with Bobby Bare Jr called ‘American Bread’ Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine J Roddy Walston and the Business – Brave Man's Death - J Roddy Walston and the Business (2010) - 2nd album - Baltimore band - Rock and roll feel to some of the tracks - Makes me think of Dr. Dog here. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Ryan Adams & the Cardinals – The Shadowlands – Love is Hell (2003) - Last pre-cardinals work - book of poetry - new albums coming… The Cardinals III/IV and Love Is Hell 3 Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine

The Unknown & Unheard Show 173!

Stream & Download The U & U Show 173 Right Here, Right Now! (MediaFire) Black Keys – Next Girl - Brothers (2010) - 6th album - this track, like their entire 5th album Attack & Release, was produced by Dangermouse. - very similar feel to their last. - Releasing their album on vinyl on Record Store Day. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Houses – Red Feather – Fall EP (2009) - 3rd of three season-themed EPs in 2009

- Great vintage classic rock sound. Official Site : MySpace :HypeMachine Deer Tick –20 Miles –The Black Dirt Sessions (2010) - 3rd album - Rambling folk duet. A bit of Dylan coming through Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Roky Erickson & Okkervil River – Goodbye Sweet Dreams – True Love Cast Out All Evil (2010) - Latest solo album from Roky Erickson with Okkervil River as his backing band. - Erickson’s past is a wild one: One of the leaders of the psychedelic rock movement with the 13th Floor Elevators, lots of drugs, marijuana arrest, insanity, electroshock therapy, musical reemergence, obsession with junk mail, mail fraud arrest and finally back to music. - One of many acts participating in Record Store Day. Roky Erickson Official Site : Okkervil River MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Harlem – Gay Human Bones – Hippies (2010) - 2nd album - Excellent debut was called ‘Free Drugs’ - Fuzzy style of indie garage rock. MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Dr. Dog – Jackie Wants a Black Eye – Shame, Shame (2010) - Forthcoming 5th album - Finally a new album is on its way from this super talented Philly band. - 2nd single out. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Horse Feathers – Thistled Spring – Thistled Spring (2010) - Forthcoming 3rd album - Stripped back sound featuring all strings - Painfully sad at times - unmatched in it’s raw emotion… like the earliest Iron & Wine albums - This music makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Titus Andronicus – A More Perfect Union – The Monitor (2010) - Civil War-themed 2nd album - Out march 9th - Named after the Shakespeare play - This is a enjoyably raucous anthem. Myspace : Amazon : HypeMachine Mark Sultan - Go Beserk - $ (2010) - latest vinyl single release. - AKA The BBQ Show Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Tunng - Hustle - …And Then We Saw Land (2010) - 4th album - Experimental Folk band from the UK. - Their sound is getting dubbed as ‘folktronica’ because of their interesting blend of two very different styles. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Steve Poltz – Digging For Icicles - Dreamhouse (2010) - Singer/songwriter - 9th album - This is a more standard effort from him. Where last week's was stripped back and acoustic this one is filled out a touch more. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine MGMT – I Found A Whistle – Congratulations (2010) - 3rd album, debut was out in 2005 when they actually went by Management. - Can get significantly more spacey and electronic than this enjoyably straightforward track. - Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine The Frequency - Carbon People –We Are The Same Machine (2008) - Debut full length. 2nd is on it’s way. ‘Absence of Giants’ - Psychedelic/electronic music. - Big in LA Official Site : MySpace : HypeMachine

The Unknown & Unheard 172!

Stream & Download The U & U Show 172 Right Here, Right Now! (MediaFire) Steve Poltz – Brief History of My Life – Traveling (2008) - Singer/songwriter - Just released Dreamhouse, his 9th album - This is a song I haven’t seen officially on any album, but one of my favorites for this time of the year as baseball starts. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Dead Weather – Die By The Drop – Sea of Cowards (2010) - 2nd album - Jack White project with the female half of The Kills, Alison Mosshart, a Raconteur and a Queen of the Stone Age - White is playing the drums apparently even though the guitar in this track wreaks of his styling Official Site Band of Horses – Compliments – Infinite Arms (2010) - Forthcoming 3rd album - First album in a couple years Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine The Hold Steady – Rock Problems – Heaven Is Whenever (2010) - Forthcoming 5th full length. - First since 2008’s Stay Positive. - This is one of the best bands we are lucky enough to enjoy in their prime. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Wounded Lion - Carol Cloud - Wounded Lion (2010) - Forthcoming self-titled debut out April 27th - Grungy garage rock with vocals that make me think of Dinosaur Jr. MySpace : HypeMachine Dr. Dog – Shame, Shame – Shame, Shame (2010) - Forthcoming 5th album - Finally a new album is on its way from this super talented Philly band. - 2nd single out. Official Site : Myspace : Amazon : HypeMachine The Mynabirds - What We Gained in the Fire - What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood (2010) - Forthcoming full length debut - if this doesn’t fit perfectly with the brand new She & Him track, nothing does. - 60's folk pop vocals. - Download this song for free on their site! Official Site : MySpace : HypeMachine Tunng - Don't Look Down or Back - …And Then We Saw Land (2010) - 4th album - Experimental Folk band from the UK. - Their sound is getting dubbed as ‘folktronica’ because of their interesting blend of two very different styles. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Portugal, The Man – When The World Ends - American Ghetto (2010) - 5th album… they all seem to sneak out quietly. - 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. - ‘Church Mouth’ is my favorite album. - RIYL The Raconteurs/Jack White/Brendan Benson Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Mark Sultan - I Get Nothin From My Girl - $ (2010) - latest vinyl single release. - AKA The BBQ Show Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Ty Segall - Ceasar - Ceasar (Single) (2010) - single out in March - 2 full lengths out currently MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Sonny & the Sunsets – Too YOung to Burn – Tomorrow Is Alright (2009) - Debut album - Raven Sings The Blues is one of my favorite blogs when I want something raw, garage, psychedelic, bluesy or any combination of those in the form of a band no one knows about - Sonny Smith is the leader and has release more work under his given name. Official Site : Sonny Smith Official Site : Stream on HypeMachine The Strange Boys – Friday In Paris - Be Brave (2010) - Forthcoming 2nd album out February 23 - This is definitely a more filled out Strange Boys track. MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Jonsi - Tornado - Go (2010) - Solo debut from the lead singer of Sigur Ros - Sigur Ros brings more of a lush orchestral approach, where this is brings in a bit more pop. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine