Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Some Loud Thunder

Posted on January 16, 2007 Under Music

The new Clap Your Hands Say Yeah album, 'Some Loud Thunder,' hasn't been officially released yet (it's due out Jan. 30th), but the band has orchestrated a deal for all of you die hard fans. You can download the album…

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INDISTR: Indie Music Distribution Service

Posted on January 9, 2007 Under Music

For all of the Indie music musicians and connoisseurs out there, I wanted you to know about a new service called INDISTR, which allows independent artists to distribute their music directly to the public. After music is sold, the service…

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Rodrigo Y Gabriela

Posted on January 5, 2007 Under Music

What do you get when you get two Mexican metal fanatics, put them in Dublin, and hand them two acoustic guitars? Something that is a cross between Gypsy Kings, flamenco, jazz, and just plain rock. Rodrigo Y Gabriela's debut album…

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Sin Destroyers: Gifts to the World

Posted on December 19, 2006 Under Music

Although Christmas still isn't for a few days, Santa and his Elves are hard at work, readying all of the toys for the boys and girls throughout the world. And our Jewish friends have already joyously received a majority of…

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Bloc Party: A Weekend in the City

Posted on December 18, 2006 Under Music

Although we've been listening to it for some time now (as I'm sure a lot of you have-- so save the comments), I wanted to key the rest of you into Bloc Party's soon to be released album, A Weekend…

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From The Vaults: Music Gifts

Posted on December 1, 2006 Under Music

We have been enjoying assembling these 'from the vault' posts in the past week. We figure it's a great way to give you a 'wrap-up' of what we have been posting recently without having to dig through the archives-- just…

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Kid Koala: Your Mom’s Favorite DJ

Posted on November 30, 2006 Under Music

I'd consider Eric San (aka Kid Koala) a musician more so than the limiting definition of DJ. His turntableism breaks free of the traditional ideas of scratching the latest club hits. Born in Vancouver, Canada, Kid Koala was the first…

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Beck + Mimoco Extravaganza

Posted on November 28, 2006 Under Music

We have been listening to Beck's newest album, 'The Information' for about two months now, and we're not sick of it yet. We have been given the opportunity to give you, our readers, a crack at some free Beck and…

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Sufjan Stevens: Songs for Christmas

Posted on November 27, 2006 Under Music

As a young lad, I became accustomed to those tortured Christmas Carol albums-- you Christmas observers out there know which ones I am talking about. Your parents would dig them out and play them over and over, year after year.…

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Musicovery: Smart Radio

Posted on November 22, 2006 Under Music

When Pandora came out, I was instantaneously addicted and I'm not afraid to admit it. I loved that I could type in a certain artist or song name, and it would analyze my choice and spit closely-fitted music back at…

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