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Our friends over at SixEyes have some great mp3 downloads of Leonard Cohen live in a new performance from February of this year. Check it out

Seabear practice a new song in the bushes called, “You can suck it Sea Wolf” Seabear - I Sing I Swim (I eat the dead carcasses of wolves) [mp3] Sea Wolf - You’re a Wolf (Not an a-hole Bear) [mp3]

The A-Sides bury a few dead corpses during Mitzvah Mania in Fairmount Park The A-Sides are more exciting than the A-Frames and the A-team combined. You’ll see… Cinematic [mp3] Diamonds [mp3] We’re the Trees [mp3]

Usounds has been really busy for the last week and a half recruiting new writers, finding rare albums and bangin’ hos. So they pulled my ass out of the Himalayas to join the usounds reserve (which is kind of like the Army reserve but with less soldiers and more hard drugs and hella bitches) [...]

Enon temporarily stash a few dead bodies near a high school football field until the weekend when they plan on renting a boat and disposing these carcasses once and for all in the Delaware River Enon’s new album, Grass Geysers…Carbon Clouds is due out October 9th on Touch and Go Records. Here’s the first single [...]

Our bff’s at Saddle Creek sent us another mp3 from The Good Life’s upcoming Help Wanted Nights. Purchase or stream the new album on the Saddle Creek online store. You Don’t Feel Like Home to Me [mp3]

Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray go way out of New York’s city limits to dump a few dead bodies. Heavy Trash’s Going Way Out With Heavy Trash is out today on Yep Roc. Outside Chance [mp3] Going Way Out With Heavy Trash [Album Stream]

6.7 I’ve been putting off this review for a couple of weeks now. I was thinking, all of this time, that Jenni would turn out to be bland – another pretty girl with a bad habit of playing guitar. 1.76 songs into The Fourth EP, her debut out on Clickpop Records, Jenni convinced me that [...]

This was my second time at D.C.’s Rock and Roll Hotel in the span of a month, this time to catch The Annuals. Technically the band goes without the “the,” but for the sake of reader-friendliness, I’ll be including the definite article. The show was on a Sunday night, which was curious given [...]

Rating: 8.0 Ambient electronica, as the name implies, is a genre that demands scale over scope. Brian EnoÂ’s gift to music has had a rather uneven history, mostly owing to the fact that itÂ’s extremely difficult to get right without tottering into either instrumental overload or the dubious lure of world music. Furthermore, as technology advances [...]

Rating: 6.0 In 1990, His Name is Alive released their first album on the prestigious 4AD label in England. The Livonia, Michigan group established itself as an experimental and sometimes ethereal pop band throughout their tenure with 4AD, which ended in 2002. Last year’s critically acclaimed Detrola was their first release for the Silver [...]