The Unknown & Unheard Show 170!

Stream & Download The U & U Show 170 Right Here, Right Now! (MediaFire) Black Keys – Tighten Up - Brothers (2010) - 6th album - this track, like their entire 5th album Attack & Release, was produced by Dangermouse. - very similar feel to their last. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Frightened Rabbit - The Loneliness and the Scream - The Winter of Mixed Drinks (2010) - 4th album, Midnight Organ Fight is their best to date. - This band had a lot of hype from the start, and that combined with a ‘far from album best’ first single pushed me away at first, but the deeper I dug into this album the more I was blown away - Scottish accent stands out, but there seems to be something more than that to his vocals and make them truly unique. - SXSW performer Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Drink Up Buttercup - Seasickness Pills - Born and Thrown on a Hook (2010) - Debut full length album - When looking these guys up reviewers frequently refer to this band as a circus or a carnival. - They have a prominent feel of the Beatles more psychedelic albums. - Check out their official site for videos for a handful of the tracks off this album. - SXSW performer. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - The Toll - Beat The Devil's Tattoo (2010) - Forthcoming album! Finally! - You just feel cool listening to these guys. - Brilliant lengthy live performers. - Played SXSW Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Bright Eyes – Happy Accident – One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels (2004) - Being re-released with new tracks. - Originally done during my personal favorite cross section of Conor Oberst’s recording career. - Stream an album preview mash-up HERE! Bright Eyes Official Site : Bright Eyes MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Neva Dinova MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine The Happen Ins - Baby - The Happen Ins (2010) - debut full length. - Played SXSW - Formed in 2009 and unsigned as of yet. MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Jason Collett - Love Is a Chain - Rat A Tat Tat (2010) - 5th solo album - Member of Broken Social scene. - SXSW Performer Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Snowglobe - Love - Little More Lived In (2010) - 4th album - Members from Memphis, but started in Athens. Two other prominent music rich locales. - ' Snowglobe is a rather amorphous, unwieldy group of artists who share a love for all things honest, poppy, and psychedelic.' - RIYL Polyphonic Spree. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Portugal, The Man – The Dead Dog - American Ghetto (2010) - 5th album… they all seem to sneak out queitly. - 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 - SXSW performer. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine ARMS - Heat & Hot Water – ARMS EP (2010) - 2nd album from the Harlem Shakes' Todd Goldstein. - The song Tiger Tamer from their debut album is a brilliant track - SXSW Performer Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Thrushes - Crystals - Night Falls (2010) - 2nd full length - One of many bands rising out of Baltimore in the past few years. 'Wilderness and Lord Dog Bird are two others I've featured on here repeatedly. - The bands never seem to lean towards pop either. They have a more serious feel to them. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Twin Tigers - Automatic - Gray Waves (2010) - Full Length debut - Certainly a significant amount of psych here. - SXSW performer. MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Foals - Spanish Sahara - Total Life Forever (2010) - Forthcoming 2nd album. Out May 10th - Their 2008 debut, Antidotes, was included on most best of the year lists. - Mellow musically and vocally at first, but warms up, builds and gets even a bit spacey once it speeds up Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine

The Unknown & Unheard Show 154!

Stream & Download The U & U Show 154 Right Here, Right Now! (MediaFire) The Features - The Idea of Growing Old - Exhibit A (2004) - debut full length - 2nd album out last year. Released two other EP's in there - Kings of Leon fans can definitely find something here. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine The Avett Brothers - Incomplete and Insecure - I and Love and You (2009) - forthcoming album - follow-up to their break out ‘Emotionalism’ - this is the exact type of track that makes me love this band. - Easy Americana Official Site : Myspace : Amazon : HypeMachine Family of the Year - Let's Go Down - Where's the Sun (2009) - Debut EP - full length debut, Songbook, is just out last week, November 17th - Download for free Here! Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Sambassadeur - Days - Days (2009) - Forthcoming 4th album - Really like the use of strings in this track - Fairly standard indie pop sound. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Mumford & Sons – Winter Winds - Sigh No More (2009) - my favorite new band I’ve found this go around at SXSW - such a big, building sound for an acoustic song - nice use of banjo. Really compliments and adds to the song. MySpace : HypeMachine Jason Boesel - Hand of God - Hustler's Son (2009) - Jim James with a slightly deeper voice. Todd Snider a little even. - Drummer for Rilo Kiley and even Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst for a bit - His time with Oberst really shows on this track’s lush folk arrangement. Official Site : MySpace : HypeMachine Bobby Bare, Jr. - I Need You - The American Bread EP (2009) - EP of Bread covers produced and backed vocally by David Vandervelde - Son of traditional country legend Bobby Bare - I’ve enjoyed his more raucous music, but this is still really well done. - For sure the highest level of production I’ve heard on any of his recordings. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Man/Miracle - Pushing and Shoving - Pushing and Shoving (2008) - Debut album - Big My Morning Jacket sound - Also remind me a bit of the Suckers Official Site : MySpace : HypeMachine James Husband - A Grave in the Gravel - A Parallax I (2009) - solo debut from member of Of Montreal - starts off sounding like it will be a Psychedelic rock track then mellows out significantly. MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Lucero –Darken My Door - 1372 Overton Park (2009) - New Lucero! - Ben Nichol's led band's first album on a major label - The level of polish has jumped significantly and it doesn't seem to fit with them - They have always seemed like the quintessential bar band, they hoarser and rougher their sound the better. - With that said, the polish can't disrupt the band's ability to write quality music. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Part Company - Out of Egypt - dirty garage rock! Hooray! - There is no arguing that this genre has exploded this year. - Whether you like it or not, this is another quality act true to the genre - Big Rolling Stones energy here. MySpace : HypeMachine Twin Tigers - Red Fox Run - Curious Faces/Violet Future EP (2008) - Debut EP - Certainly a significant amount of psych here. - Somewhat reminiscent of Oasis without the hype and polish (that’s a good trait!) MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Suckers – Save Your Love For Me – Save Your Love For Me (2009) - Latest single - 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 Windmill - Start a War - Cover of the National - London singer/songwriter Matthew Thomas Dylan - I can see his voice being off putting for some people, but it’s so fragile sounding and just the right amount of quirkiness and nerdiness that I think it works. - RIYL: Cloud Cult and Polyphonic Spree Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine Civil Twilight - Letters from the Sky - Civil Twilight (2008) - 2nd album - from Cape Town, South Africa originally - borders on over produced and too dependent on U2’s sound. - My Fence Sitter of the Week. - A big clue for me when it comes to a legit band and one trying too hard to make up for what they lack is over production, fancy packaging and a glossy site. Despite liking this track, this band suffers from all of those things. Official Site : MySpace : Amazon : HypeMachine