Thirdimension crank up the swoon and the swagger on their second Hidden Agenda release, Permanent Holiday, the follow-up to their debut album Protect Us From What We Want, a critically acclaimed collection of glossy Brit-Pop epics, rowdy garage-rock odes, ethereal electro hymns, and larger-than-life guitar anthems, rendered with fervent devotion.

This is big, bold, authentic Rock n Roll in the spirit of The Who, The Kinks, etc. but with a level of epic complexity which has escaped many of their peers. This track, available only at USOUNDS, features a special transatlantic-vocal guest star spot by Caroline Schutz (vocalist for Hidden Agenda labelmates Folksongs For The Afterlife).

Download The Only Healer by Thirdimension

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The Frausdots create LA-centric dreamy, classy pop. Great songs as well as enough surreal pyschpop to keep things interesting. Have a listen, will you?

Wrong mp3 from Frausdots

Enon is back with a brand new album. For the unitiated, Enon is a destructo-guitar rock-n-roll new wave post rock electro funk punk outfit. The new album is called Hocus Pocus, and there are two mp3s out on the internet for your downloading consumption:

Shave mp3 courtesy of Epitonic

Starcastic mp3 from Enon’s website

Enon’s also on tour so if you need Enon tour dates,
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“Imagine the love child of The Smiths and The Jesus and Mary Chain born in 2004.”– Some Swedish Magazine

Listen for yourself, and draw your own conclusions…

The Legends “Call it Ours” mp3

You may not have checked out the newest Hives album, so a fine suggestion is to download a few tracks from it from Amazon for free.

Hives mp3s

SHIFFAI [SENEGAL]

The following is the latest dispatch from Fat Planet, home of New International Music

Senegal is shaping up to be home of african hip hop with some solid releases so far from positive black soul, daara j and pee froiss. there’s a site dedicated to senegalese hip hop called senerap. i’ve yet to have a full exploration, but it seems to be the perfect place to start our education. through the site, i discovered nomadic wax, a label who’ve just released a compilation entitled ‘african underground vol. 1: hip-hop senegal’ (available to buy online from november). They’ve also released an album from senegalese hip hop artist shiffai entitled ‘the chosen one’ which was produced by NY’s nomad. shiffai mixes english and his native wolof language, and there’s undoubtedly some patois thrown in for good measure. Any hip hop head will get their kicks from this great mix of traditional and contemporary – the sound of hip hop coming gloriously back to its roots.

Listen to Shiffai at the Nomadicwax website, which has audio streams.

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fat planet _ new international music
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Led Zeppelin fan club “Zoso Explorerz” of Minsk, Belarus, have decided after a drunken and highly contentious meeting (during which 2 members, Sasha and B-man, were blackballed from the group) to crown “Your Time is Gonna Come” from Led Zeppelin I, as the Led Zep Song of the Year. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Your Time is Gonna Come mp3