listen try buy Alaska is a most unlikely origin for the five young men who comprise the Builders and the Butchers. Between 2002-2005, each of the members that would eventually form the band moved to Portland from Alaska pursuing music as a means of escaping subzero temperatures and the endless winter darkness
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listen buy try the giving tree try indian harvest try takin’ your turn around the corner of day November, 2009: The Rainbow Records 3CD set is finally here! This lavish package collects all three of Collie Ryan’s 1973 albums The Giving Tree , Indian Harvest , and Takin’ Your Turn ‘Round the Corner of Day in a squarebound slipcase with new cover art by Ms. Ryan
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Artist: Josh Rouse Album: El Turista Year: 2010 Genre: indie, folk, songwritter Link: RS or MU Buy: The Hut The highly anticipated album will be released Mar. 9, 2010 on Yep Roc and is the first from the singer-songwriter since the 2007 album Country Mouse City House
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listen try buy Uniform Motion are not an ordinary band. At least not in the original meaning of the word- this bunch of young Anglo-French men are more than a musical formation, they emerged and grew as an entire art project, combining their three foundations of creative work: words, sounds and looks. Claiming to be influenced and driven by the things in life that, as the band states in their biography, “hit us”, their understanding of the all underlying principle of life descibes a continual straight line of projections which is only changed through major events
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listen: Heather W Broderick try: RS Label: preservation watch: youtube buy: experimedia This is the debut full-length release from Oregon’s Heather Woods Broderick.
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Album: The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol.1 Year: 2010 Genre: electronic Link: RS Buy: stones throw Minimal Wave: both a genre of underground DIY electronic music from North America and Europe in the late 1970s and 80s, and the name of the label devoted to unearthing these recordings. The Minimal Wave Tapes is the first official anthology (on CD, LP and digital) of Minimal Wave music from this label. Most of the songs were originally released on limited edition cassettes or vinyl by the artists themselves, and only a handful of people knew about them
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Artist: Bei Bei and Shawn Lee Album: Into the Wind Year: 2010 Genre: hip-hop, electric jazz, asian Link: RS Buy: amazon Into the Wind marries a unique blend of ancient tradition with studio trickery. Eschewing all notions of superficial “Asian-fusion,” this uplifting, genre-bending sound clash, recalls the afro centric harping of Dorothy Ashby and hypnotic spiritual jazz of Alice Coltrane. With Lee adding equal doses of hip hop, electric jazz, and soul sensibility to the backing tracks, the captivating sound of Bei Bei’s Guzheng (a 2000 year old Chinese string instrument) comes alive on peaceful mellow joints as much as it does on Kung-Fu flavored funk tunes.
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Artist: David Bowie Album: A Reality Tour Year: 2010 Genre: David Bowie Link: CD1 RS Link: CD2 RS Buy: amazon Recorded Nov. 22 and 23, 2003, at the Point Depot in Dublin, Ireland.
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Artist: Wildcatting Album: How to Survive a Sneak Attack Year: 2008 Genre: experimental, rock Download: mediafire Buy: loco gnosis Since Wildcatting began playing its ridiculously high positive-intensity shows around town a couple of years ago, punters have demanded this: “Where’s the Wildcatting record?” But this is one smart band. Rather than cave to pressure, Wildcatting waited for its fans to get really hungry for recorded songs. And when that hunger level hit the bursting point … the band waited some more, all the while playing shows and creating an even larger fan base.
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Artist: The Avon Barksdale Album: The Person EP Year: 2009 Genre: indie rock Download: zshare The latest release from this new Boston-based indie rock band.
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