Around the Blogosphere: Shins, Cranberries, Unlovables, Teenage Fanclub, Sloan, R.E.M., New Order, Roxy Music

The plebeian "we" are quite excited about these digital finds. Many thanks to the hosting entities.

The Shins – Strange Powers (Magnetic Fields cover) – Speed of Dark – You Aint No Picasso has a live version, but perhaps you'd like to sample the studio.
The Cranberries – Dreams – Speed of Dark
The Unlovables – Dance Party for Two (Your Room, 3AM) & Leave Me Alone – Can You See the Sunset from the Southside?

Teenage Fanclub – Everything Flows – The Yellow Stereo
Sloan – Sugartune – The Yellow Stereo
R.E.M. – Talk About the Passion – The Yellow Stereo
New Order – Regret – The Yellow Stereo
Roxy Music – More Than This – The Yellow Stereo

Around the Blogosphere: Stars, Tegan and Sara, Dinosaur Jr, OK Go, Saturday Looks Good To Me, White Hills, Toad The Wet Sprocket, New Order

Thanks to those making these available. Hope you're having a nice weekend.

Stars – Ageless Beauty – Music for Kids Who Cant Read Good - Transcendent, each and every time

Tegan and Sara – Walking With a Ghost & I Know I Know I Know – a Plague of Angels - + 3 others

Dinosaur Jr – Just Like Heaven (The Cure cover) – Instrumental Analysis

OK Go – Here I Go Again – Untitled Records

Saturday Looks Good To Me – The Americans – 5 Acts

White Hills – Oceans of Sound & Eternity – Raven Sings the Blues – Loud, fuzzy, wah-wah psych = Good

Toad The Wet Sprocket – Fall Down – a Plague of Angels + others

New Order – Temptation – Bag of Songs

Around the Blogosphere: Honorary Title, Rilo Kiley, Shrinking Islands, Weakerthans, Mew, Babyshambles, Ida Maria, Cure, New Order, Soup Dragons, etc.

Lots of good insinuations here, so I hope you like them, too. A happy little six-song retrofest concludes this evening's program. Most sincerely do I thank the responsible hosts and hostesses.

The Honorary Title - Untouched and Intact & Apologize & Bridge and Tunnel - A Plague of Angels
Rilo Kiley - Dreamworld - Are You Embarrassed Easily?
Shrinking Islands - Swallowed in Grace - Bag of Songs - Happy First Anniversary, BOS!
The Weakerthans - Civil Twilight - Battle of the Midwestern Housewives

Mew - Wherever (Re-recorded Version) - Dead Flowers
Babyshambles - Carry on up the Morning - Dead Flowers
Ida Maria - Oh My God - Dead Flowers
The Cure - In Between Days - Dead Flowers
New Order - Regret - Dead Flowers

The Soup Dragons - Hang Ten - Are You Scared to Get Happy?
Hüsker Dü - Could You Be the One? - Retro Music Snob
The Outfield - Your Love - Retro Music Snob
The Rolling Stones - Play with Fire - Retro Music Snob

Around the Blogosphere: Jesus and Mary Chain, New Order, Happy Mondays, Sambassadeur, Old 97's, Primal Scream, et. al.

I've got plenty I could post, but it's all I can do to keep up with the excellent music being hosted elsewhere. Does it really matter where it's coming from as long as you like it? It doesn't to me, so here goes. (Muchísimas thanks to the fair hostfolk.)

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Cherry Came Too - Retro Music Snob
New Order - Blue Monday - Eardrums - This and the next three are part of an excellent series Eardrums are posting during the coming week. You can probably discern the theme.
Happy Mondays - Step On - Eardrums
Harrisons - Monday’s Arms - Eardrums
Shiny Toy Guns - Rainy Monday - Eardrums

Sambassadeur - If Rain - The Glorious Hum - Wow, but then what else would you expect? These Swedes majorly plunk my twanger.
Woodpigeon - Anna, Girl in the Clock Tower - i (heart) music
The Melons - From Hell to Helsinki - Are You Scared to Get Happy?
My Sad Captains - Bad Decisions - Indie MP3
Middle Distance Runner - The Sun and Earth - Instrumental Analysis

Old 97’s - Niteclub - Can You See the Sunset from the Southside?
Primal Scream - Gentle Tuesday - Are You Are Scared to Get Happy?
Honeymoon Over! - Sophistication - Milk Milk Lemonade
Little Name - Tracy & I - mp3hugger
Mansun - Ski Jump Nose - The Runout Groove

Around the Blogosphere

Is that really my favorite New Order song heading the list? Oui. Lots of other groovy hosteds and posteds as well. Merci, hosts.

New Order - Love Vigilantes - The Modern Music
The Shins - Fighting in a Sack - Heartache with Hard Work
Camper Van Beethoven - Kingston Advice (Clash cover) - I Am Fuel, You Are Friends
Saves the Day - Clash City Rockers - Can You See The Sunset From The Southside? - Part of an excellent post of Clash covers. . .
Queens of the Stone Age - Avon - Indietastic

The Millenium - It's You & It Won't Always Be The Same - Raven Sings the Blues
The Sails - Best Day - Headphones On
Maps - You Don’t Know Her Name - The Yellow Stereo
My Sad Captains - Bad Decisions - Untitled Records - Featured in Mars Needs Guitars's "Untitled Records" post
Lucky Soul - Lips are Unhappy - 5 Acts