^ I found it a week or two ago, it's kind of disappointing

[Edited on October 14, 2008 at 7:46 PM. Reason : I'm From Barcelona]

10/14/2008 7:46:03 PM

Also,



Download it for free at http://catbirdrecords.com/forestfire

It's good

10/14/2008 8:39:42 PM

Foreign Exchange - Leave It All Behind

Disk 1
01 Daykeeper
02 Take Off The Blues [Feat. Darien Brockington]
03 All Or Nothing / Comming Home To You [Feat. Darien Brockington]
04 I Wanna Know
05 House Of Cards [Feat. Muhsinah]
06 Sweeter Than You
07 Valediction
08 If She Breaks Your Heart [Feat. Zo! & Yahzarah]
09 If This Is Love [Feat. Yahzarah]
10 Something To Behold [Feat. Munsinah & Darien Brockington]
11. Leave It All Behind

Disk 2: Instrumentals
01 Daykeeper
02 Take Off The Blues
03 All Or Nothing / Comming Home To You
04 I Wanna Know
05 House Of Cards
06 Sweeter Than You
07 Valediction
08 If She Breaks Your Heart
09 If This Is Love
10 Something To Behold
11 Leave It All Behind

hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=3MZ6V07F

10/14/2008 9:43:07 PM

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/146529-radioheads-in-rainbows-successes-revealed

Pretty remarkable stuff here

Quote :

"The writeup suggests that there have been three million purchases of In Rainbows thus far, from digital sales through the band's webstore in the run up to the album's release, the discboxes, the eventual physical release of the album on CD, and through other digital outlets. More specifically, the band moved around 100,000 of those (very nice!) discboxes, and the physical CD has sold 1.75 million units to date worldwide. Not bad for a thing you could get for free."

Quote :

"To that end, the report offers that "the fact that Radiohead had made more money before In Rainbows was physically released than they made in total on Hail to the Thief is surely evidence enough that the initiative was a tremendous success.""

10/15/2008 6:37:23 PM

I can't get into Skeletal Lamping, and it is really upsetting me, because I want to.

someone HALP!

10/16/2008 2:15:12 AM

So I have my ipod on shuffle and I randomly wanted to listen to a certain fleet foxes song. I was too lazy to go play it though I decided so I just left it on shuffle as the current song finished and then BOOM (goes the dynamite) that exact song came up in the shuffle next!

serious mind reading hax by my player. thats like 0.01% chance or something heh.

[Edited on October 16, 2008 at 10:59 AM. Reason : ]

10/16/2008 10:58:42 AM

^^

i dunno what to say i love it though. it didn't click for me until a few listens.

10/16/2008 11:03:56 AM

i love the horns on an eluardian instance

the album is so shizophrenic

10/16/2008 11:29:11 AM

just got the BTBAM dvd. GREAT audio and video quality. Very well done and long show. They play 2 entirely different sets with the first being their latest concept album "colors" played from start to finish and they come back out and play a second set with songs from their previous 3 studio albums.

Seeing shevanel cut a flip live all the way through (they have usually cut off the long end of the song after will goodyear left in 03 or so) was great. gave me goosebumps. I miss that specific song live from my HS days.

$20 for the dvd, an audio cd containing the audio from the entire set live, and a shirt was not a bad deal either

10/17/2008 1:22:47 PM

Quote :

"i dunno what to say i love it though. it didn't click for me until a few listens."

maybe i should give it another listen, then =[

10/17/2008 1:52:19 PM

http://www.amazon.com/Alone-Home-Recordings-Rivers-Cuomo/dp/B001IBC1GQ/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1224272514&sr=1-11

10/17/2008 9:03:41 PM

fucked up - the chemistry of common life

http://www.driveway.com/x2f9a9r8d1

10/18/2008 12:21:26 AM

anyone have links for Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends or Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna? i found the Tobacco record, but it's a shitty rip

10/22/2008 12:35:45 AM

CalledToArms is right, the BTBAM DVD is fucking rad. I got it yesterday in the mail and it is impressive quality.

10/22/2008 7:47:17 AM

. shevanel and aspirations ftw is all I have to say man.

10/22/2008 7:57:39 AM

anyone got a review of the new Ryan Adams album?

10/22/2008 8:02:55 AM

cover art for animal collective's latest

wow

10/22/2008 4:42:17 PM

i hate to say it, but that cover smells gimmicky.

it looks like a recolored version of the same optical illusion making its way around the internet.

10/22/2008 4:49:25 PM

terrible cover

will be an awesome album though

10/22/2008 5:00:42 PM

animal collective album cover, meet wolf parade album cover!

10/22/2008 5:13:31 PM

ive just been assuming my copy will probably be smeared in semen after the first few listens

10/22/2008 5:21:36 PM

heres the first review

Quote :

"Judging my the arrival on yesterday’s blog of a bunch of fans asking me to leak “Merriweather Post Pavilion”, there’s a fair bit of anticipation for this new Animal Collective album that I got hold of on Monday. Unfortunately, folks, I’m not going to leak this, or any other album, because: a) I like to play nice; b) I’d get sacked if I did leak it (the CD is watermarked with my name, so it’d be traceable if I uploaded it); and c) I’m much too technically incompetent to do that, in any case. Hope that’s clear. What I can do is be a tease and tell you how great this, maybe the ninth, Animal Collective album is. It’s interesting to see all the excitement surrounding “Merriweather Post Pavilion”, since there seemed to be something of a small backlash against the band following last year’s “Strawberry Jam”; too pop and accessible, seemed to be a consensus, though to me it seemed to be a logical step on from “Feels” (if not quite as good). Already, the buzz around this one is that it’s more in the vein of Panda Bear’s solo “Person Pitch” album from 2006 – closer in spirit to dance music, I suppose. That turns out to be partially true: there’s definitely a hint of minimalist techno – the Kompakt label especially, maybe – pulsing through the background of some of these songs. The fantastic “Summertime Clothes” even starts with something similar to one of those electronic Glitter Band beats that became hip as Schaffel a few years ago.There are some ferocious, quaking jeep bass frequencies throughout, too, that nail down the flighty top end of the AC sound with the muscle of hip hop. And there’s an extraordinary passage in the closing “Brothersport” that’s as close to pure techno as the band have ever come, faintly resembling a maximalist take on Underground Resistance (or so it seemed on the bus this morning. Bear with me, these are early thoughts). But unlike “Person Pitch”, these 11 songs are generally too complex and tricksy to rest merely on reverberant loops. It’s traditional to compare Animal Collective to The Beach Boys, thanks to those gaseous harmonies constructed by Avey Tare and Panda Bear. On “Merriweather”, they’ve become more and more elaborate, with intricate melodies layered on top of another to create an ecstatic whole. If there’s a Beach Boys analogue to the gorgeous love song, “Bluish”, for instance, it’d be one of those compacted symphonies from “Pet Sounds” like “Waiting For The Day”. It’s easy to throw those Beach Boys comparisons at anything with multiplied falsettos, but here, more than ever, it seems justified. There’s a sense of adventure and wonder at the heart of Animal Collective’s music. I’ve written before about how I see them as sort of successors to Mercury Rev and Flaming Lips; as makers of a folksy American pop music with a transformative spirit and an experimental imperative. Listening to “Merriweather” for maybe the fourth or fifth time right now, I can’t help thinking of Mercury Rev’s latest disappointment, “Snowflake Midnight”, and how they tried to overhaul their sound with electronica; referencing the avant-garde and ending up sounding like a twee Chemical Brothers, of all things. No such problem for Animal Collective. They’ve managed to expand their trademark sound to include triumphal organ flurries, psychedelic arpeggios on “My Girls” and “Daily Routine” that, underneath the beguiling tunes, recall Terry Riley circa “A Rainbow In Curved Air”. And going back to that idea of an AC “trademark sound”, it strikes me that while “Merriweather” is instantly recognisable as their work, it also has an elevated gracefulness. Amniotic sloshing still underpins many of these tracks, but the kindergarten shrillness of old seems to have been phased out, so that the general mood is one of blissed euphoria, if that makes sense. An ecstatic sound, in more than one way. Something about the opening “In The Flowers”, the way it keeps peaking and has the clattering feel of a drum parade at times, reminded me of “Turn Into Something” this morning, so I played the two songs back to back. The contrast was pretty surprising, actually: the older song, in comparison, felt raw, rowdy, relatively simplistic. That’s not to say “In The Flowers” is over-polished and sober – far from it. One of the many pleasures of “Merriweather Post Pavilion” is the sustained excitement, even in the more reflective passages like "No More Runnin", before the fireworks-packed climax of “Brothersport”. But I can’t help feel there’s a lot more to learn about this one. Leave it with me, and I’ll try and write more in a week or so once I’ve lived with it properly. "

10/22/2008 5:25:47 PM

that shit needs to leak.. the new Gang Gang Dance is really good though. should hold me over for a little while

10/22/2008 5:33:36 PM

first one to leak AC into my inbox gets a night of free drinks

10/22/2008 5:35:13 PM

looking at it some more, i wonder if that cover is a fake? or maybe that's just wishful thinking.

10/22/2008 5:39:40 PM

10/23/2008 9:08:03 AM

lol is that a fan mockup?

10/23/2008 11:46:12 AM

That is the real cover

10/23/2008 12:34:20 PM

was thenewno2 album ever posted in here?

10/24/2008 3:27:07 AM

This Marnie Stern album is kicking my ass (in a good way).

10/26/2008 12:23:15 PM

jesus christ.

I just saw Ponytail last night and my mind exploded.

10/26/2008 12:34:32 PM

Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna

http://www.zshare.net/download/50306505f530368d/
i am loving this album right now

10/26/2008 10:11:20 PM

It'd be great if you guys could put a little description/genre info w/ these postings so i don't wast my time d/ling crap like that^.

10/26/2008 10:35:44 PM

honestly, i don't even really know how to describe that album.

10/26/2008 10:51:05 PM

anyone listen to the new parts & labor album?

not sure how i feel, it's a totally different sound than their last (mapmaker) which i really liked

10/27/2008 7:17:49 AM

mapmaker was really good. haven't gotten around to the new one.

10/27/2008 10:50:05 AM

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/146861-rivers-cuomo-talks-alone-ii-weezer-that-hair

Quote :

"RC: Yeah. That would be what we have here. I would have to say though, I was really surprised when I put Alone II together and listened down to it. I was really surprised how great it was. It makes me wonder if I have more good stuff on my hard drive than I thought I did. This one is not a step down in any sense. Pitchfork: No, it's not. I actually prefer it, I think, to the first one. RC: Yeah. I almost said that, but I love Alone I. It's just surprising, both times we tried to pick the best songs I had. For some reason, you would think number two wouldn't be as good, but it seems to be better, if anything."

01 Victory on the Hill
02 I Want to Take You Home Tonight
03 The Purification of Water
04 I Was Scared
05 Harvard Blues
06 My Brain Is Working Overtime
07 I Don't Want to Let You Go
08 Oh Jonas
09 Please Remember
10 Come to My Pod
11 Don't Worry Baby
12 The Prettiest Girl in the Whole Wide World
13 I Can't Stop Partying
14 Paper Face
15 Walt Disney
16 I Admire You So Much
17 My Day Is Coming
18 Cold and Damp
19 I'll Think About You

10/27/2008 7:10:30 PM

the prettiest girl in the whole wide world has a great melody

10/27/2008 7:13:33 PM

Quote :

"11 Don't Worry Baby"

!

10/27/2008 7:13:54 PM

purification of water ftw

10/27/2008 7:14:54 PM

This only leaves like 4 known Songs from the Black Hole tracks remaining.

10/27/2008 7:16:56 PM

the first track of parts & labor's "receivers" is totally badass.

10/28/2008 9:09:35 PM

I have to say that I am very surprised with the Thursday/Envy split EP. I havent checked out Envy's side yet but I am honestly very impressed with Thursday's 4 songs. For too many reasons to list, I dont think they will ever even come close to topping "Full Collapse" in my eyes but Ive still picked up all their albums. Havent really gotten into the last 2 that much at all, they just lacked some sense of true emotion like their first 2 have.

Nothing groundbreaking, but I certainly see myself giving this several more listens, and it is a step in the right direction for a band that had a lot of potential and fell flat imo.

10/29/2008 12:43:21 AM

people are talking about the new AC record like its going to be one of the best this decade. fuck.

bass heavy and so danceable

10/29/2008 1:59:28 PM

From Pitchfork:

Quote :

"Last night, Motormouth Media and Domino Records held a listening party for Animal Collective's hotly anticipated new album, Merriweather Post Pavilion. The listening party took place at the River Room at 145th street in Harlem, an unusual location (some sort of wedding hall / private reception room) with great views of the city, but rather harsh sound. The bass boomed and cracked throughout the LP, and there was a lot of bass to listen through, and to listen around. I couldn't catch many of their lyrics, but I was able to tell right off that Animal Collective have really embraced their low end on this record. Merriweather Post Pavilion is out January 20, 2009 in the U.S. and January 12 in the UK. 01 "In The Flowers": This track, like many others, begins with ambient sounds; here, they are reminiscent of the dinosaur ride at Epcot Center. A carousel melody waves in and out, and a recurring theme is established early on: "If I could just leave my body for a minute." Sonically, there's another recurring motif: cranking, machine-like low end with organic, animal-like instruments dancing on top. 02 "My Girls": This is a dense, packed track. It has an ethereal opening of pulsing violins that stays above the song throughout. "My Girls" has a cool triplet beat and a pretty, plaintive vocal melody with all the guys singing it as a round. And hand claps somewhere in there too. A standout. 03 "Also Frightened": Another big low-end track, with a slower melody. It might be the first Animal Collective waltz. Many lines start off with "Will it be just like..." Eerie vocal sighs finish it off. 04 "Summertime Clothes": One of the best things about Merriweather Post Pavilion is that it sounds like an Animal Collective remix album. And "Summertime Clothes" is its best remix candidate. Street and mechanical noises segue into a dance-worthy (or at least, bounce-worthy) beat. 05 "Daily Routine": Keyboard notes keep speeding up until they connect. There are beatless (not Beatles) passages, and a sort of bomb drop part-way through. 06 "Bluish": Wooshing water starts off this track, continuing the slippery, fluid feel of the record. This one's nearly all bass and a Simon and Garfunkel vocal harmony, slow and breathy. 07 "Guys Eyes": The noise that starts this one is how I think giants would talk, though I'm guessing it's one or more Animal Collective members' voices' slowed down and scratched up. Another super packed track, with a low, halting beat and sticks and twigs percussion. The main thump directs the lighter ticks and flicks. It ends with "What I want to!" repeated over and over again, trading off with double-timed thumps. 08 "Taste": A slower, lumbering track with whiny synth. The line they repeat, "Am I really all the things that are outside of me?" seems to be the second half of "In the Flowers"'s desire to leave the body behind. A bent, cascading bass note adds a nice touch. Just another way they keep the record fluid and limber. 9. "Lion in a Coma": Didgeridoo opens and closes this one. The best pop song on the album. 10. "No More Runnin": A bit of a ballad, full of light, watery instruments. But it's still got a solid, thumping, five-note bass melody that zips across your ears. They repeat the title line over and over again to finish the track. 11. "Brothersport": As Pitchfork.tv's Eavvon O'Neal observed, "It's from the Lion King." It does have a child-like, cutesy melody with a command to "Open up your / open up your / open up your / door!" One long vocal-less part sounded like it needed "ooh ooh"s. Then, two bars later, Animal Collective obliged. Another favorite."

10/29/2008 2:13:57 PM

read bits and pieces from a review on atease

i'm getting pretty fuckin' pumped for this, i hope it doesn't disappoint

i keep hearing the phrase "hip-hop Beach Boys"

10/29/2008 3:10:35 PM

^please post a link as soon as one is found!

10/29/2008 5:45:45 PM

deerhunter - microcastle

it's pretty damn good

haven't got much into weird era continued yet

10/30/2008 10:02:13 AM

yeah, it leaked like 4 months ago.. good album though. they're coming here next week or something

10/30/2008 11:06:48 AM

i know this is old, and a dead horse, but i put My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges back in my rotation and I'm enjoying it more now than i ever did the first few times through.

10/30/2008 1:57:56 PM