I love a good PR pitch that opens with, “XX artists can’t buy beer, but he sure can rock!”
And this is definitely the case with new Annuals-offshoot band Sunfold’s frontman:
“Kenny Florence may not yet be of legal age to buy beer, but he has a clear musical vision that he portrays in his musical project […]

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Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles release their debut LP, “Orange Peels and Rattlesnakes,” tonight at Bedlam Theatre. [via]

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Cold War Kids‘ “Something is Not Right With Me” is the first single off their upcoming album, Loyalty to Loyalty, out September 23 on Downtown Records.
Cold War Kids : “Something Is Not Right With Me” (mp3)

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I hate my inbox as much as I love it. We’re getting nearly 100 pitches a day right now, and there’s a ton of good music hidden among the crap. Or at least, I’m sure there is if I had three hours a day to read e-mails and sample all the tunes. I’m really missing […]

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A note from the The Morning Benders on The Bedroom Covers:
hey gang,
here are a few tracks, that we are calling the bedroom covers. as you may have guessed, all these songs are covers… and yes, we did them at home in my room! the songs that you hear here are just songs we really really […]

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Fuse has posted a free Conor Oberst track for download from his new self titled record (Conor Oberst) which will be released on August 5th on Merge Records. You can stream the whole thing here (click on his album on the left side of the page).
Conor Oberst : “Danny Callahan” (mp3 via zip)
Oberst’s […]

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Atlanta-based acoustic songwriters Julia Carroll and Amy Lashley bring their Midwest tour to Acadia Cafe on July 30th with local folk singer Sam Grimes.
Check out these tracks for a taste of what the evening will hold…
Amy Lashley : “1+1″ (mp3)
Amy Lashley : “Come Home (mp3)
Julia Carroll : “Good Business” (mp3)
Julia Carroll : “Ode to […]

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Reunited pop/rock group Sixpence None The Richer is prepping for first Christmas album, The Dawn of Grace, to be released Oct. 14th, but they’re sharing “Angels We Have Heard on High” now.
Because you know, it’s 10 p.m. in Minneapolis right now, and it’s still 80 degrees.
Sixpence None the Richer : “Angels We Have Heard on […]

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In addition to the four .mp3s my new favorite UK band Unkle freely provided leading up to this Tuesday’s digital release of End Titles…Stories for Film, Unkle is sharing their new version of the X-Files theme tune for the new film:
Unkle : “I Want to Believe” (mp3)
For the four free tracks from End Titles […]

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I love the changing face of the music industry marketing machine.
Today I received a review copy of That Handsome Devil’s debut full length, A City Dressed in Dynamite. The envelope was sealed with a colorful band sticker and alongside the disc and one sheet was a THD-branded shot glass. A sticker on the album boasts, […]

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