Rock Plaza Central - My Children, Be Joyful Video

usounds September 6th, 2007

This is about as joyful as it gets.

Another Good Life mp3

usounds September 5th, 2007

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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]

Music News Highlights

usounds September 4th, 2007

The Sun: Courtney Love on Amy Winehouse: “I’ve never seen anyone take as much coke as Amy. Even I wasn’t that bad.” And check out these sweet pics:

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PR Inside: RIP New Bohemian.

Luke Temple Snowbeast [Mill Pond Records]

Matthew Wendus September 4th, 2007

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Rating: 7.9

Luke Temple succeeds where most modern folk rockers go astray. He concentrates on formulating visual music rife with vivid imagery instead of wearing his heart on his sleeve through acoustic slush. This is the reason why so many folk rockers turn out dreck and ultimately join the ranks of achy douches who happen to wield a Dreadnaught instead of a Strat. The strongest asset of Temple’s music is the dizzying gusto that comes out of the keyboards. The twittering organ harmonies skip, skitter, and bop to make Snowbeast less singer-songwriter fare and more along the lines of late ‘60s acid experimentation.

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Heavy Trash Download and Album Stream

usounds September 4th, 2007

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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]

Music News Highlights

usounds August 31st, 2007

NME: Dude from Supergrass sleepwalks his way out of a window, breaks back.

Yahoo Music: If it has always been your dream that satellite radio will devote an entire station to playing non-stop Grateful Dead music, well, that dream just came true.

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The Dead in 1985

Also on Yahoo: Amazon.com to launch music service in September. Said to offer songs in MP3 format and give consumers an alternative to iTunes.

New Aesop Rock Video - None Shall Pass

usounds August 31st, 2007

Division Day - Tigers mp3

usounds August 31st, 2007

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Kevin, Ryan, Rohner and Seb chill out after stashing a few dead bodies in Echo Park beneath some lotus plants.

Los Angeles’ Division Day have announced national tour dates to coincide with the release of their debut album Beartrap Island on Oct 2nd. Check out dates and a few more songs on MySpace.

Tigers [mp3]

Apples in Stereo - Same Old Drag

usounds August 30th, 2007

Songsmith/mathlete Robert Schneider has been busy penning songs for Disney TV and speaking at the Mathematics Association of America’s annual Mathfest gathering. Here’s a brand new vid for “Same Old Drag” and an mp3 from New Magnetic Wonder.

Can You Feel It [mp3]

The Best of MySpace: Seaweed Jack

usounds August 29th, 2007

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MySpace: Seaweed Jack
Recommended if you like: Seaweed, The Carne, Kicking Ass

As you may already know, usounds listens to all 196,442 bands on MySpace. This is 97 more bands than last week! I was not enamored by any of these new 97 bands and crossed MySpace paths with Seaweed Jack instead.

Seaweed Jack is pretty much the shit out of Spokane, WA since the garbage-eating metal goat was erected in Riverfront Park during expo ‘74. For those unfamiliar, you hold trash up to the goat’s mouth which triggers a suction and pulls the trash out of your hand, and shoots it out the goat’s ass into a trash compactor.

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