The Lovely Feathers
Hind Hind Legs
Label: Equator
In Stores: April 18
Note to self: The Lovely Feathers are from Canada, and their forthcoming LP is incredible.
There’s something oddly appealing about rock groups from Canada that us Americans can’t quite figure out. Maybe it’s all the killer schwag so readily available in areas like Montreal, which just happens […]

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Border Crossing
Ominous
Label: Recall/Sound Recordings
Border Crossing is a collective of West London musicians and producers who have an unusually varied musical style — Alex Angol, Seorais Graham and Paul Mulvey. By combining Hip Hop, R&B, Dancehall, Reggae and Chill Out, their albums are literally a party in themselves. While I’m not particularly a big fan of […]

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And the winner of the MySpace Calling All Bands unsigned band competition is… The Parlour Boys from Lexington, KY. The group beat out 4,000 entrants thanks to their single, “Lovers”.
The band will have their song turned into a full-song music download, music video, ring tone and ringback tone that will be released on Verizon […]

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From Digital Music News today:
Apple has turned down the volume on its iPods, or at least released firmware to do the trick. The update will allow customers to create a maximum volume limit on their players. The biggest beneficiary of the update will probably be parents, who can now skip a headache-producing battle with their […]

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The Vacation
Self-titled
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
In Stores: April 25, 2006
The Vacation’s self-titled debut hits stores in April — a Rick Rubin re-mastered and re-sequenced version of the group’s previously released album, Band From World War Zero (Echo/World’s Fair).
Like Mick Jagger with your mom back in 1971, Rubin turned this album on its head and […]

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David Krejci, inventor of the Cleophone, wrote a stirring review/essay about the Queen + Paul Rodgers show through the eyes of his daughter (whom he named Mercury), and it’s posted here on Jim Walsh’s Citypages blog.
My dad was a HUGE Queen fan, and definitely instilled a love of Queen in the classic rock archive […]

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Nine Black Alps
Everything Is
Label: Interscope Records
Nine Black Alps have met deserved success with Everything Is, their 12 track disc which was just introduced to the states on Feb. 28. Filled with heavy garage and grunge influence with some Nirvana, Interpol and even Franz Ferdinand mixed in.
In an exclusive interview thanks to our friends at Filter […]

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Why?
Elephant Eyelash
Label: anticon
Buy at iTunes Music Store
FREE MP3 Download “Sanddollars” (MP3, 192kbps)

Tullycraft
Disenchanted Hearts Unite
Label: Magic Marker Records
Buy at iTunes Music Store
FREE MP3 Download “Stowaway” (MP3, 192kbps)

Thee More Shallows
More Deep Cuts
Label: Turn Records
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FREE MP3 Download “2 AM” (MP3, 192kbps)

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The Living Blue
Fire, Blood, Water
Label: Minty Fresh
It’s garage rock meets college radio…it’s The Living Blue. And as Alternative Press’s “Band To Watch In 2005,” they are definitely living up to the hype in 2006.
After putting out two albums under the moniker “The Blackouts”, The Living Blue have a new name and label (Chicago’s Minty […]

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Klee
Jelängerjelieber
Label: Minty Fresh (USA)
Klee, named after Swiss painter Paul Klee, means “Clover” and is a German-language pop group from Cologne, Germany. I’ve never been to Cologne, don’t know anything about the new wave music scene in West Germany and don’t speak more than 7th grade German.
But I do understand synth pop, of which this […]

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