Prototypes
Prototypes
Label: Minty Fresh
In stores: June 6, 2006
All the way from our #2 favorite place in the world (Salt Lake City is now #1) comes Prototypes and their self-titled, U.S. debut.
It’s M.I.A. meets Fantastic Plastic Machine, and we’ll just pretend those witty French lyrics aren’t mocking us (like we care, anyway).

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Sam Roberts
Chemical City
Label: Secret Brain/Fontana
Despite the popularity of their first-pumping debut, We Were Born in a Flame, back in their homeland, Montreal’s Sam Roberts didn’t get the U.S. reception he was hoping for (selling a mere 800 records the first week).
So Roberts and the boys headed to Australia and a small Presbyterian church-turned recording […]

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Traveled to SLC for work Mon/Tues and had the opportunity for a concert Monday night. Unfortunately Wolfmother wasn’t playing until Tuesday - and that would’ve been too good to be true!
So when a Pollstar search turned up nothing, I e-mailed the music editors at the SL Tribune. Turns out Monday is a pretty slow […]

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Halou
Wholeness & Separation
Label: Vertebrae
Buy at iTunes Music Store
FREE MP3 Download “Honeythief” (MP3, 192kbps)

Permanent Me
Dear Virginia,
Label: I Surrender Records
Buy at iTunes Music Store
FREE MP3 Download “Allison” (MP3, 192kbps)

Tunnels
Natural Selection
Label: Buckyball Music, Inc.
Buy at iTunes Music Store
FREE MP3 Download “Light Gathering” (MP3, 192kbps)

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Pearl Jam’s new music video “Life Wasted” is now on Google Video for free as free streaming and download (up until next Wednesday). It’s under a Creative Commons “some rights reserved” copyright license, so you can download the video for free, share it with your friends, and even post it on your own site. […]

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The Walkmen
A Hundred Miles Off
Label: Record Collection
In stores: May 23, 2006
The Walkmen, the New York alternarock quintet who refuse to put out uncompromised crap, are back with their third album, A Hundred Miles Off.
Mariachi, island rhythms, wild west piano and haunting organ enhance the group’s antique guitar-driven sound, while singer Hamilton Leithauser’s raspy Waits-meets-Dylan […]

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Wolfmother
Fine Line Music Cafe
May 20, 2006, Minneapolis, MN
The sold out crowd at Minneapolis’ Fine Line Music Cafe got exactly the performance they were looking for Saturday evening, as Wolfmother played nearly all 16 songs on their full-length, self-titled debut with aggressive guitar licks, inspirational organ solos and an infectious energy lacking in many of the […]

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Pompey
Pompey vs. Vesuvius
Label: Pocket Clock
In the tradition of Animal Collective, Olivia Tremor Control and the Lone Pidgeon comes Melbourne, Australia’s Pompey.
As sort of an experimental pop experiment, Pompey vs. Vesuvius flows in and out of cohesive song bits, elemental and environmental sound, lyrics and nonsense. It’s perfectly refreshing and melds into the background nicely - […]

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The Slats
Boom Patrol
Label: Latest Flame Records
While it will be released nationally in July, Minneapolis/Iowa City indie post-punk group The Slats are releasing Boom Patrol locally Saturday, May 20th at the Turf Club with Signal to Trust, Superdanger, XOXO Judy and Detroit’s Amino Acids.
I’ve listened through the disc a few times, and it’s going to be […]

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Junkie XL
Today
Label: Ultra Records
Most well known for his (legal) remix of Elvis’ “A Little Less Conversation” (think Nike commercials), Dutch DJ/producer Tom Junkie XL Holkenborg has a knack for combining rock and electronica with enough European flair that it’s not pretentious.
His new studio album, Today, is filled with rockers (”Mushroom”), slow building dance numbers […]

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