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DJ CONCEPT has thrown together a mixtape for the 2009 Soundset and it’s a pretty sweet primer of indie hip-hop. You probably already most of these tracks, but if you don’t or you’re just curious about what the kids are into, you can download it free at Ipso Facto. Track Listing Soundset 09′ Intro The [...]

Attending Highland Park Senior High School right around the turn of the millennium, Eyedea’s battle talent was hallway legend, a little silver screen shine in dull linoleum and lockers. Eyedea & Abilities’ 2001 record First Born kept me company out in Los Angeles and was a better philosophical humanity primer than 101 Mythology classes I [...]

Here’s what can happen when you finally go through some promotional emails. Free Downloads! Coldplay’s latest album “Left Right Left Right Left” Suckers “It Gets Your Body Movin’” Shout Out Out Out Out “Bad Choices” Sea Wolf “What You’re Really Thinking” Muja Messiah “Yes Sir”

The Electric Fetus announced their partnership with ThinkIndie!  “We will strive to turn our customers on to the best new music & expose them to lost classics.  We’ll contribute reviews, inform you about new digital releases in our weekly e-mail newsletter, & feature things we think will interest our customers.” ThinkIndie has free-track specials, cool [...]

Until 5pm Tuesday you can score a free download of “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’” on www.BobDylan.com.  The track is from the forthcoming Together Through Life release, out April 28th, and it’s a kicking tune.  With his old-man growl, the finality of the proclamation stands in contrast to the love story the main body of the [...]

On Friday, April 3, Headlights will be playing at the Nomad with Love Language.  The first time I saw this band was a the Clapperclaw festival in 2007.  To be quite honest, I didn’t think much of them.  Maybe it was because they didn’t play the song I was waiting to hear (“Put Us Back [...]

About a month ago, a co-worker of mine picked up this album to put into the CD player.  Looking at the cover, I was expecting some sort of weird pop sound or cheesy indie rock to emerge from the speakers.  Instead, I was blasted away with the voice of a woman who should’ve been born [...]

Very few things actually cause me to blog immediately.  Sometimes I have things in my head that just take a while to get out… or I sit on it out of pure laziness/procrastination.   This, however, requires an immediate post. At the end of 2008, Cloud Cult‘s Teapartying Through Tornadoes was on two of Cake In [...]

One of my favorite bands have finally begun releasing details for their new album. White Rabbits It’s Frightening is due out May 19 on TBD Records. Yes, the boys were famously the first band to sign to Radiohead’s label last year and I have been waiting forever for some sign of life to come of [...]

By now many Minneapolitans have experienced that strange phenomenon that is Koo Koo Kanga Roo.  The self-described “dance duo” sing-raps quirky songs that seem geared more toward the 5-10 age range than the 20-somethings that frequent their shows.  It’s not all that hard to see why.  Their music is easy to sing along to, there’s [...]