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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

SXSW 2009 - Post Seven: Capsula, Cut Off Your Hands, The Girls, DeBretts, Dressy Bessy, Grates, Manhattan Love Suicides, Happy Hollows, Palomar, PB&J

Yes, it officially begins. . .right about now: the South by Southwest Music Festival. Even from afar we feel the excitement. We've plunged into our archives to pull out some primo offerings for SXSW 2009 bands who either didn't post songs at the official SXSW website this year or perhaps previously made available tunes we like an ooch better. Probably shouldn't keep saying this, but, yes, we have even more, so check back in a day or two. Don't wanta overdo it now, do we? We begin with one of our very favorite bands from last year (back again this) and go from strength to strength. Click song titles to play, artist names to go to their SXSW bandpage. Click here for previous SXSW postings at Powerpopulist.

Capsula - Voices Underground mp3

Cut Off Your Hands - Happy As Can Be mp3

The Girls

Transfer Station mp3
This Is Goodbye mp3

The DeBretts - Hole In The Head mp3 - Don't take the lyrics literally. In fact, we really, really love you--and the song.

Dressy Bessy
Side 2 mp3
Simple Girlz! mp3

The Grates - Lies are Much More Fun wma & asx - Click as needed: Windows - Mac - Click here for free download of Aussies' new Burn Bridges EP.

The Manhattan Love Suicides

Suzy Jones mp3
Last Stand mp3
You’ll Never Get That Guy mp3

The Happy Hollows
Tambourine mp3

Monster Room mp3

Palomar

You’re Keeping Us Up mp3
Woah! mp3

Peter Bjorn and John

Let's Call It Off (single mix) mp3
Young Folks wma

Monday, September 29, 2008

Looney Lunes: Rollo Treadway, Unbunny, Happy Hollows, Tigers Can Bite You, Laureates, Legends, Celestial, et. al. . . .

¡Ay caramba! what a day.

Maybe good tuneage

will make it okay

or, failing that,

just go away.

We begin with
The Rollo Treadway - Kidnapped mp3 - from their self-titled debut album, one of the best I've heard so far this year; due to drop 16 Dec.. . . Here's one more off'n it.

Dear Dr. Doe mp3

Unbunny - Water and the Spanish Tongue mp3 - from Sensory Underload: Uncertain Trks 1996-2008

Happy Hollows - Tambourine mp3 - from Imaginary EP - We're still loving this next one, too.

Monster Room mp3

Tigers Can Bite You - Hawk mp3 - from Taking And Running Away EP due out mañana (30 Sept.)

The Laureates - Tomorrow Today mp3 - from There Are No More Gentlemen - You can download the Chicago band's free EP here.

No Use for a Name - I Want To Be Wrong mp3

The Dreadful Yawns - Kill Me Now mp3

Expecting Rain mp3

Hot Lava - Apple Option Fire mp3 - on Lavalogy, due for release 7 Oct

The Legends - Seconds Away mp3 - from the eponymous single, due out 5 Nov. Thanks to Christian Lilja at the fabulous Labrador. It would be remiss of me to omit reposting these next two.

He Knows the Sun mp3

Make It All Right mp3

Celestial - Crystal Heights mp3 - from Crystal Heights, due out 8 Oct. - Can't help it, gotta repost the following:
Lake Como (remix) mp3
Nothing Happens; Twice mp3

Saturday, February 16, 2008

SXSW 2008 - We Get It

All week long I've been anxiously on the lookout for the magic moment when the SXSW Music and Media Conference posts its list of artist bios and mp3s for this year's festival, which runs in Austin, Texas, from March 11-16. I've just spent seven hours poring over the list and compiled my own list of the 286 artists I liked best. Some of them don't really fit here, but I've got a hunch you're going to like quite a few. Last year I did a series of posts, beginning with the longish Big Bloc 4, most of which you can still hear by clicking here and here. This year I'm trying something different, posting 10 or so at a time. Hopefully this will be more manageable for you and will also let me attach labels to all the artists, in case visitors want to check them out in the future. Anyway, here's the first post, with others soon to follow. Clicking the artist names will take you to their SXSW page, which also has links to more information about them. I imagine everybody and his blog is linking to these SXSW pages right about now, and I've noticed that the songs are sometimes slow to load. Patience is advised.