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05.01.2009

Comet Gain look for Love Without Lies

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i am just another dumb movie, can i borrow part of your life?

Comet Gain – Love Without Lies

Now this is a foot-stomper! Crank it up and wake the neighbors! Who are the wild youngsters behind Comet Gain, you ask? Well that’s where things get “a wee bit odd” as they say. Apparently Comet Gain has been around since …

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04.28.2009

Junior Boys like it when you wear just Bits and Pieces

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remember the words, the lighting cues, it’s all up to you

Junior Boys – Bits and Pieces

Junior Boys are back with their follow up to 2006′s So This Is Goodbye. Begone Dull Care is short (8 tracks) and sweet. The Boys have taken their sex music simple and infectious rhythms and let them linger a bit, letting most …

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04.28.2009

Generationals introduce Angry Charlie

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if you won’t sing it with me, then i’ll sing by myself

Generationals – Angry Charlie

Generationals are fantastic. I emphasize that right off the bat because it might not be immediately apparent by just one track. Luckily their whole debut album Con Law is streaming for free right here. That’s how I first listened to them and I encourage …

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04.23.2009

With Jenny Owen Youngs I could definitely be Led To The Sea

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whatever you say but walking away is still running

Jenny Owens Young – Led To The Sea

OK, so I totally just got chills. As if listening to Jenny Owen Youngs’ music wasn’t beautiful enough, she herself is stunning, she says “fuck,” lists Motion City Soundtrack as an influence, her tunes are on eMusic, and then to read that she …

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04.23.2009

Brakes ask that you Don’t Take Me To Space, Man

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singing goddamn i’m happy just to be alive

Brakes – Dont Take Me To Space (Man)

You may have noticed that new little eMusic Daily Download box in the right sidebar. eMusic subscribers can pick up a free song everyday! What does Amazon give you? One a week? Ha! That, along with a million other reasons, are why I …

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04.22.2009

Totally Michael’s heart goes out to Winona

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call me crazy, call me stupid, call me anything you want

Totally Michael – Winona

Having trouble getting motivated on hump day? I’m not! I’m listening to Totally Michael and jumping off the couch! Totally Michael is a one man band (hence “Totally”) who performs live with only a guitar and his ipod as his backing band, but still …

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04.15.2009

Metric want you to have Fantasies about Gold, Guns, Girls

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all the gold and the guns in the world couldn’t get you off

Metric – Gold Guns Girls

Yesterday saw the release of Metric’s latest album, Fantasies, and I have been spinning it all day. I never got into Metric’s last two albums, instead just listening to Live It Out‘s “Poster of a Girl” and pretending Canada’s …

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04.13.2009

Your love for James Yuill’s tunes should come as No Surprise

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and it’s no surprise that your eyes are crying my name

James Yuill – No Surprise

James Yuill may be a London bloke who looks like Britt Daniels-as-your-biology-teacher, but he makes some rather beautiful mellowed-out electr0-folk. “No Surprise” is from his sophomore album, Turning Down Water For Air, which came out in 2007 but is just now getting North …

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04.13.2009

Bombay Bicycle Club have me hoping it’s Always Like This

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you know what i am so you know how i live

Bombay Bicycle Club – Always Like This

Woah-ly shit! This song just barreled me over the first time I heard it! This is what I’m talkin’ about, baby! I guess Bombay Bicycle Club have a couple EPs and a single release under their belt and “Always Like This” …

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04.10.2009

The Guggenheim Grotto sings Fee Da Da Dee

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our hearts are tigers chasing tigerness

The Guggenheim Grotto – Fee Da Da Dee

Two bums from Dublin playing folk music? A cover that looks like some Dave Matthews tribute band? Is that tie-dye? Sounds boring! Well, while the rest of these guys’ tunes didn’t grab me, the power of “Fee Da Da Dee” is undeniable. The slowly chugging …

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