total slacker - demo

Yo yo yo yo yo. It's been over a year so time to post.

Brooklyn-based Total Slacker is one of my main bro's bands so this is posted with permission. They got that dope "old Fender amp" sound. Slow pop that sings about stuff all us total slackers can relate to in our hearts.


Check dem out:
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/totalslackerband
Interview: http://thefmly.com/2009/11/15/going-full-slacker/

Yeah yeah yeah.

these arms are snakes - tail swallower and dove

I don't need to say anything about this because it's These Arms Are Snakes, the central nervous system of this blog. Check 'em on their west coast/Europe tour this fall. Produced by Chris Common. To be released October 7th.

Tracklisting:
1 Woolen Heirs
2 Prince Squid
3 Red Line Season
4 Lucifer
5 Ethric Double
6 Seven Curtains
7 Long and Lonely Step
8 Lead Beater
9 Cavity Carousel
10 Briggs

Ceremony - Still Nothing Moves You

The new Ceremony leaked and it's the only album I'll remember from this year. Seriously. It's an anarcho-tinged Jane Doe circa 2008. FUCKING AWESOME. I mean Jesus fucking Christ. This shit is POWERFUL.

Dragline just posted this MySpace bulletin:
"aaron is going head to head with the drummer of ceremony to see who can play a thrash beat faster.

it's gonna be sick ;-)

Sunday August 10th

CEREMONY
WAIT IN VAIN
WOLVES AND THIEVES
DRAGLINE
ON

@ West Seattle Legion Hall
3618 SW Alaska St
Seattle WA


7pm

GET INTO IT."

I'll be in New York, but go so I can vicariously witness this shit. Dragline put on a good show last Sunday for their 7" release, which unfortunately I didn't pick up to put here.

Brigitte Bardot - Best of BB

Change of pace. I've been listening to a lot of older music lately. Snag this best-of from the girl from Contempt. It's in French. Music by Serge Gainsbourg.

Animal Magik - The Wedding

The Um...Killa hiatus is over. Now, it's Animal Magik follow up time! I haven't had the chance to listen to this yet but I'm sure it's grand. I'll probably update this when I do.

Enjoy and enjoy your summer.

Past Lives - Live January 29, 2008 at the Showbox

Past Lives is H - A - W- T hot. They still ain't got no studio recordings but as soon as they do that shit'll be right here meng.

<3 TBB side projs. Cum see dem w/ TAAS w/me!!!11 feb 22 bby

Myspace

Black Eyes and Neckties - Live on 107.7 The End

Hey, it's everyone's favorite Murder City Devils tribute band. Mitch recorded it. Lowish quality. One long track with interviews and live stuff.

KNDD Website
Black Eyes and Neckties Website
Their "Space"

Animal Magik - Unreleased

I actually got permission to put this one up. Second time ever! Speaking of seconds, this is the second in a row with no album art! Holler!

This is music that isn't hardcore and is from LA so I hate it. LOLJK. Is good.

Myspace

UPDATE: These posted in the wrong order so this is actually first in a row with no real album art.

Undertow - Demo '91

Pre-Pettibone vox, first demo blah blah blah. You don't have it already. Hard x Core x shit, meng.

Thank you Mitch bby.

First post in hella, so I'm keeping it familiar by still writing terrible descriptions.

pedooobear - pokemon ep

Pedooobear is a guy named William who makes 8-bit/drone/glitch/noise stuff. This is five minutes of his dronish stuff.

This is his Myspace, give him an add and a listen.

state route 522/lying on loot - split

You may not have heard of these artist but I guarantee you've heard of their descendants. State Route 522 is a post-emo band that broke up and 3/4 went on to form Sharks Keep Moving, which broke up to form Minus the Bear. Lying on Loot is very early Rocky Votolato and this is his first actual "solo" recording (except that he is accompanied by violin. It's his first sans Waxwing.). Legend has it that this release (which is the only one under the Lying on Loot name) is the one that made him want to start a solo project.

I have one of the 800 black ones.

Excursion Records

Sorry about the album art, I don't have a scanner.

top ten albums of the year that weren't on the pitchfork list

and that I didn't upload already. No M.I.A. or Jens Lekman or Justice is on this list. Neither of these might be true, I didn't check too thoroughly. I don't have my hard drive so I Sordo'd/Shareminer'd these links.

10:

Celeste released this for free, because they're siq. Members of Mihai Edrisch so you know it's hot. Technically this is an '08 release because you can't get a non-digital copy yet, but I don't give a fuck. Check out their Website and Myspace.

9:

Wooden Shjips. Myspace, website. Not my usual genre of music, but I liked this a lot. Psychedelic stuff. You can't not like a band that mailed away copies of their LP for free until they ran out. I really would like any of their other stuff so if you have it, hook me up. Link to come when I get my hard drive back

8:

The Raveonettes put out a new album that everyone ignored this year despite how good it is. This one is much more Jesus and Mary Chain than Ronettes, but not in a bad way. Site, space.

7:

The Cromatics put out a record with absolutely no resemblance to their early work and managed to pull it off. Chillout discoish tunes and the hottest singer in the world. Site, Myspace.

6:

Chinese Stars. Official Website.

5:

Sword Heaven. Myspace. Noisy fucking shit right here.


4:

Modern philosophers spend most of their time contemplating whether or not it is possible for Akimbo to rock so hard that they rock harder than themselves. This album has a drum solo as it's own track. Imagine if Botch and Led Zeppelin teamed up then merged into three people. livetocrush.com, Myspace.

3:

I liked everything they put out this year. They keep on getting better. Site, Myspace. pass: nodatta.blogspot.com (which is an amazing blog)

2:

The Pack. Duh, this one HAS to be on the list. Site, Myspace.

1:

Wolves in the Throne Room, because there was this one time where we were in the car my friend's girlfriend was complaining that she wanted to listen to some stupid song and we agreed that she could listen to it after we listened to one more song. So we played a WITTR song, and 20 minutes later arrived at our destination with the song still playing. PWN'D! Myspace.

The list is in reverse chronological best to worst alphabetical order.

kill sadie - a new make

This is the first time this has been on the internet; I can almost guarantee that. This is also my first vinyl rip in a rather large series of mostly Seattle based artists I'll be upping from my collection. There will be much shit you haven't heard of from people you have heard of.

Anyways, the music: Kill Sadie is a Minneapolis post hardcore band that moved to Seattle before breaking up and forming Minus the Bear, These Arms are Snakes, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Jaguar Love, and some others. This is only two tracks, and yes, the second track is supposed to sound like that. Much more to come by them. Sorry about the hiss and pops, I'll get better at this.

In Blood Brothers news, the smart money's on Past Lives.

UPDATE: Fuck you Lobortis. I'm calling this off. We're through.

a gun called tension - a gun called tension

A Murder City Devils hip hop/electronica/dub side project? (Slash Modest Mouse and a bunch of others). What? Shit's good, son. Spencer Moody even makes an appearance. HAWTT!

I gotta get me the new shit they got out, you should too.

Myspace
Their very, very noisy website

p.s. This is aac 128, sowwwie. I should up some MCD at some point.

nineironspitfire - seventh soul sacrificed REUP

RE-UP.

And someone let me know a better source for album art. I don't have a scanner.

The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower - INRI EP

Discordant jazz punk (I ganked this exact phrase from somewhere, I know it.). This release (which is really more a single than an EP) has my favorite Bowie cover of all time. Just three tracks but a good three tracks. Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs fame remixes the title track.

This band is also broken up as of '06 but may have another release coming out. It's called Saviors and Suckers and the only news on it is that it isn't coming out on Three1G like originally planned.

Also, Lobortis is the best file host out there right now. Get into it.

arab on radar - Yahweh Or The Highway

Same band. Same singer as The Chinese Stars, who have a new release coming soon.

arab on radar - Rough Day At The Orifice

Noise rock. Broken up. 1998. Or 1999. I don't know.

sinaloa - footprints on floorboards

Modern emotive hardcore at its finest. Best of the year list is coming soon.


Myspace
Website

xbxrx - sounds

To be honest, I haven't listened to this yet but xBxRx is the shit. All I have to say. except: aac 128. And that I love Sendspace.

Edit: this is real good. It's more noisy, experimental etc. than their earlier, more straightforward stuff. There should be some links to that in an earlier post.

envy - abyssal

I wanted to share this while it's still fresh. Easier to find than most of what I share; link are all over the internet. Four songs over twenty-five minutes of the only band from japan with not-annoying vocals. Post rock/skramz but you should already know that. Not my ups.

Sonzai Records Envy Page
Myspace
Mirror, thanks to Sordo, my bffl. ILY BBY <333
Mirrror #2

trainwreck - s/t

Is it skramz-influenced hardcore or hardcore-influenced skramz? If you're into either, Germany's Trainwreck delivers. 2006 release on yskalnari records. They also have a split out with Comadre and are going to be touring with MOTHERFUCKING AKIMBO.

Myspace
Website (sort of incomplete)

I didn't rip this. If you know where I can get larger album art, let me know.

Die! Die! Die! - Promises, Promises

Die! Die! Die! is a New Zealand 3-piece that sort of sounds like a lot of Seattle noise/no wave punkish bands if they put more emphasis on rhythm. Blogspot wouldn't let me use exclamation points in the tags so the band name is slightly incorrect there.


Myspace
Website

(I shamelessly stole everything from this blog because I really wanted to share this right now.)

conflict - the ungovernable force [remastered reissue]

More anarcho punk. Came out in 1986, reissued 2006. This album is a lot more listenable that the last posted album. Just a good straight up punk rock album and is probably Conflict's best. It has 22 tracks as opposed to the 15 on the non-remastered version.

Conflict Website

Note to readers: The vast majority of the albums I post (namely the ones with album covers) are CD rips by me. These last two aren't. Everything is uploaded by me except where noted otherwise and some of the very early stuff. If you want a reup of anything because it's been taken down or you want it on a different host, just ask. If you're in a band or represent them and want something taken down, just ask. Also, if you know a better host for 100+ mb files than Megaupload, let me know.

flux of pink indians - the fucking cunts treat us like pricks

Sample/noise heavy early anarcho punk. Sort of different that what I usually post. Snag if you're into noise or punk.

Wiki article on the album

shoplifting - shoplifting ep

Noisy Seattle no-wavish band with members of The Gossip, Chromatics, and Soiled Doves. Very early Sonic Youth.

Myspace
killrockstars

UPDATE: Turns out I uploaded this a long time ago so if for some reason you need it, here's another download mirror.

jr ewing/this machine kills split

Bought this today. Skramz fo' days. Or 9.4 minutes. Hear Steve Akoi scream. Is good.

Dim Mak
JR Ewing
This Machine Kills

radio berlin - the selection drone

More Vancouver post-punk for ya. Get the other one first I'd say, but they're both good.

The back of the CD told me to go to www.yourbestguess.com, but it looks like they called it quits about five years ago.

Also, I've put this one on Sharebee because about 90% of the Mediafire links I've come across recently have been removed. If you know what's up, let me know.

octant - shock-no-par

This album doesn't really sound like anything else. I played this for a friend and she said, "I don't want your post-rock bullshit." It don't think it has a post-rock feel to it at all, but any album where the guy built a robot to play drums (as well as some other home made instruments) is worth checking out. It's layers and layers of electronic noise but not at all dissonant. Think of a more pop Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, but only if that wouldn't scare you off.

Currently on school related hiatus.

Up Records

radio berlin - glass

I'm not sure how this band got missed. This is another gem that never got put on OiNK (r.i.p.). Songs like these don't come along often. This is the home of one of my favorite songs, D.E.S. I don't know what it stands for.

Post-punk really doesn't get better than this. It's post-punk in the least She Wants Revenge way possible. More albums by this band to come. Also, I highly recommend buying this one for the fun time you can have finding errors in spelling and the tracklisting.

If I actually gave a shit about actually reviewing things, I'd use some words and phrases like "moody, but not Spencer Moody," "minimalist," or "hauntingly good"

Details: Vancouver based, broken up, again. In AAC if that's a problem.

the red light sting - we're the red light sting and our love is soaking in it

The Red Light String is essential. They're just so sunglasses and I-don't-give-a-fuck cool with their simple but distinctive riffs and Juno-60 synth lines that sort of twist around and make you want to dance even though that wasn't their intent. Their closest contemporaries are probably early Blood Brothers or the Spotlight Syndicate.

Details: Vancouver based, broken up.

"I'm saying hello to the boy that I love, and it's the boy that I see in the mirror."

Ache Records

secret mommy - plays REUP'd

Secret Mommy is the glitch project of Andy Dixon. Andy Dixon runs Ache Records and is in like a million projects but mostly THE RED LIGHT STING. Jesus, I don't have them up here. Next. This album is made up of samples of acoustic instruments and is much more listenable than the earlier ones. Sort of Dntelish at times.

Official Site
Ache Records

easter egg - wiggers and hipsters vol. 1

Easter Egg is a Portland based laptop DJ. I'm going to write this with no Girl Talk comparisions, but if I were to have any, I'd explain that there is an obvious influence but it isn't entirely derived; the style and presentation is done in an entirely different way. The true parallel between the two is a pace of the samples, other than that , this SAT style analogy will explain it best:

Girl Talk : Easter Egg :: Novel : Badass

"Is good."

chromatics - plaster hounds

natalie portman's shaved head - secret crush ep

Seattle dance band. Saw them only once and they were tons of fun. Opened for CSS but I didn't go. Sold out, you know?

I head a DJ mix with Atom & His Package in it the other day. Unrelated, but I had to mention it.

NPSH Myspace

the cost - chimera

I hate the term post-hardcore, so I'm not going to describe this.

Antonio Carlos Jobim & Elis Regina - Elis & Tom

Brazilian bossa nova. Came out in '74. Upped for contrast.

mikaela's fiend - we can driving machine

hometown: Seattle, once again
genre: noise
sounds like: Lightning Bolt, but scarier
dumming: amazing
drummer: real nice guy
drummer's name: donnie
broken up recently: yes, unfortunately
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/mikaelasfiend
insrumental: mostly
overly pretentious, completely ridiculous review: right here
loud: very


( By the way, the songs are untitled so there isn't a mistake in the tracklisting. And seriously, read that review. It puts pitchfork to shame.)

undertow - everything

Because I'm very very into diversity, here's more John Pettibone fronted Seattle hardcore. 28 songs of Seattle straight edge's finest. I'm not going to write more.

The next thing I put up won't be hardcore. I promise.

nineironspitfire - seventh soul sacrificed

I really don't want to put albums on here you can get get everywhere else or there'd be like 7 posts a day in stead of 7 posts, well, ever. Have I got a treat for you though! This shit isn't even on oink. It has under 1000 plays on last.fm and no one has written an artist description, and because music is an obscurity contest, this HAS to be good.

It's intense noise rock influenced Seattle hardcore on the slower side that's about as un-Boston/broxcore as you can get. No basketball shorts, varsity fonts, or brass knuckles here! They're somewhat of a supergroup with the singer of Himsa/Undertow, the bassist from The Blood Brothers (r.i.p? rumor has it.) the guitarist from These Arms Are Snakes, and the guitarist from Kiss it Goodbye/Undertow/Playing Enemy.

Also, it has what, to the best of my knowledge, is the longest hardcore song ever recorded, clocking in at 31:09. (If you know of a longer one, let me know.)

The only place I found to buy it was Indecision Records.

Writing until this thing uploads is such a bitch. Next one's gonna be 5 words.

from the skramz 2 forum

knock yourself out. mostly post rock and screamo stuff

65daysofstatic - 5 EPs + 1 Live Set
65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas
7654 Stories - Self-titled
8mm sky - Finders Keepers


A

A Company of Heroes - Self-titled
Ache;Emelie - Self-titled
Air Conditioning - Dead Rails
Akimbo - Navigating the Bronze
Ambulence! Ambulence! - EP
American Football - Self-titled
Ampere/Ringers - Spilt
Analena - Carbon Based
Angora Static - Self-titled
Anomie - Discography
Archeopteryx - 10 Years of Friendship
...As the Poets Affirm - The Jaws that Bite, The Claws the Catch
Asshole Parade - Embers
Asshole Parade - Student Ghetto Violence


B

Because of Ghosts - The Tomorrow We Were Promised Yesterday
Bear Garden - Disco Biscuits EP
Because of Ghosts - Your House is Built on a Frozen Lake
Biosphere - Cirque
Biosphere - Substrata
Black Castle - Male Pattern Bondage
Blue Letter, The - Limited Tour Release
By the End of Tonight - Complete Discography

C

Cap'n Jazz - Discography
Cats and Cats and Cats - Sweet Drunk Everyone
Charles Bronson - Complete Discocrappy
Clann Zu - Rua
CO2 - Tokai
Cobra Kai - Complete Recordings
Cocorosie - La Maison De Mon Reve
Cocorosie - Noah's Ark
Comadre - More Songs About the Man
Comadre/Trainwreck - Split
combatwoundedveteran- Duck Down for the Torso
combatwoundedveteran - I Know a Girl Who Develops Crime Scene Photos (pass="vodka")
combatwoundedveteran - This Is Not an Erect, All-Red Neon Body
combatwoundedveteran - What Flavor Is Your Death Squad Leader
Cowboys Become Folk Heroes - Demo
Cowboys Became Folk Heroes - Self-titled
Cowboys Became Folk Heroes - The Formative Years
Cursive - The Ugly Organ


D

Daitro and Raein and Lhasa - The Harsh Words As The Sun
Death of Anna Karina, The - Self-titled
Dohrn - Self-titled
Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
Do Make Say Think - You, You're A History in Rust
Dregtones - Five Song Alibi
Dystopia - The Aftermath


E

Ef - Give Me Beauty... or Give Me Death
Electric Youth Crew with Reversal of Man


F

Fall on Deaf Ears, The - Self-titled
Fingerprint - Discography
Food For Animals - Scavengers
Food For Animals - Belly
Four Hundred Years - Suture & Other Songs
Foxhole - Push/Pull
Funeral Diner/Welcome The Plague Year - Split
Funeral Diner/Ampere - Split
Funeral Diner/Raein - Split


G

Gauge Means Nothing - Self-titled
Genghis Tron - Laser Bitch
Get Up Kids, The - Guilt Show
Get Up Kids, The - Something to Write Home About
Ghidorah - Demo
Ghostlimb - Self-titled
Ghosts and Vodka - Precious Blood and Momento Mori 7"
GY!BE - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World
Graf Orlock - Destination Time: Tomorrow
Graf Orlock - Destination Time: Yesterday
Graf Orlock/Greyskull - Split
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand


H

Hair Police - Constantly Terrified
Hella - Hold Your Horse Is
Holy Fuck! - EP
Holy Shroud, The - Ghost Repeaters
Hot Cross/The Holy Shroud - Split


J

Jesu - Heartache EP
Jesu - Self-titled
Jesu - Silver
Jihad - Gods Forsaken People
Junius - Blood Is Bright
Justice - †



K

Kaospilot - Self-titled
Kaospilot/Van Johnson - Split
The Khayembii Communique - Discography
Kid America Club - Self-titled
Kraftwerk - Tour De France Soundtracks
Kodan Armada - Collections Volume 1

L

L'Homme Pumma - Self-titled
Lifetime - Background
Lifetime - Hello Bastards
Los Crudos - Discography
Louise Cypher - Discography
Louise Cypher/La Quiete - Split


M

Mass Movement of the Moth - Finally EP
Mass Movement of the Moth - Outerspace
maybeshewill - Japanese Spy Transcript
Me and Him Call It Us/The Blue Letter - Split
Mel Gibson and the Pants - Sea Vs. Shining Sea
Miasma and the Headless Horse Carousel - Perils
Mohoram Atta - '06 Tour CD-R
Moss Icon - Discography
Mountain Goats, The - Tallahassee
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Requiem
My America Is Watching Tigers Die - Narratives
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless


N

Naked City
Napalm Death - The Code is Red...Long Live the Code
Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration
Napalm Death - Inside the Torn Apart
Napalm Death - Peel Sessions
Natsumen - Endless Summer Record
Natsumen - NEVER WEAR OUT YOUR SUMMER XXX!!!
Niumiun - The Beginning of Everything and Be Covered With the Moon
Noisy Sins of the Insect - Automatic Suicide Machine
Noisy Sins of the Insect - Discography CD-R
North of America - Brothers, Sisters
North of America - Elements of an Incomplete Map
North of America - This Is Dance Floor Numerology


O

Off Minor - Innominate
Off Minor/I Am the Resurrection - Split
One Up Downstairs, The - Self-titled
Orchid - Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!
Orchid - Gatefold
Owls, The - Self-titled


P

Painkiller - Live
Perfect Piano Lesson
Please Inform the Captain This Is a Highjack - Self-titled
Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower - Dissertation, Honey
Plunger - Discography
Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
PsyOpus - Ideas of Reference


R

Rapider Than Horsepower - This Is My Big Night
Raccoo-oo-oon - The Cave of Spirits Forever
Raein/Daitro - Split
Raein - Self-titled
Rhino Charge - Demo


S

Sanso Juubai
Sea and Cake, The - The Fawn
September - Self-titled
Shark Attack - Discography
Shook Ones - Sixteen
Shook Ones - Slaughter of the Insole
Sigur Ros - Von
Sky Corvair - Unsafe At Any Speed
Song of Zarathustra - A View From High Tides
Spirit of Versailles - Discography (Disc 1)
Spirit of Versailles - Discography (Disc 2)
Sun Ra - Strange Celestial Road
Sun Ra - Visits Planet Earth
Sunn O))) - Black One
Sunn O))) and Boris - Altar
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Sunny Day Real Estate - Rising Tide


T


Tim Kinsella - Crucifix Swastika
Tristan Tzara - Omorina Nad Evropom
Tunes for Bears to Dance To - Asking In Askance
Twain Harte - Self-titled


V

Very Secretary - Standing in the Shade and Best Possible Souvenir


W

When Ghosts Use Knives - Demo
WHY? - Oaklandazulasylum
WHY?/Odd Nosdam - Split
With Love - A Great Circle


X

XBXRX - Gop Ist Minee
XBXRX - Six in Sixes
XBXRX - Wars
XBXRX - Europe Tour 7"
XBXRX - Love Songs For the Blind


Y

Yage - 3-17 October 1984
Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss
You and I - Discography
You and I Discography
You and I - (2 albums) Saturday's Cab Ride Home and The Curtain Falls
You.May.Die.in.the.Desert - Bears in the Yukon EP

Black Velvet Flag - Come Recline

I can count the number of things I like unironically on one hand, and this combines two of my favorites: punk rock, for the 'fuck you' factor, and lounge music, because it reminds me of a time where men wore suits and everyone smoked inside and women stayed home and cars weren't ugly pieces of shit. Basically these are the two 'coolest' genres of music for white people because they encourage you to sit around the be smug.

Basically it's a bunch of older punks (I believe. I couldn't dig up anything on this band or album. This is coming from last.fm) covering west cost hardcore classics. Think Nouvelle Vague but with punk rock instead of new wave and about ten years earlier. I was surprised how pretty the album is. I first heard this band (two songs or so) about 5 years on KaZaA (remember that shit? goooood times.) during a search for Black Flag songs. For no reason I can think of, I remembered them tonight and felt compelled to share them with you.

It is a cover album, so being familiar with the songs helps, but it isn't that essential. "I Shot JFK" and TSOL's "Code Blue" are my favorite songs from the album. If you've never heard the original "Code Blue" listen to it first.

Overall it's good. The album is too short and feels slightly incomplete, but other than that, 8/10.

chromeo

So I was walking down the street in Miami 20 years ago in my white pants and peach colored Lacoste polo with a popped collar after doing a lot of blow and there was a yacht in the background and someone wrote the soundtrack.

10/10

omg omg omg omg

Against Me! - New Wave leaked and it is my pleasure to share it with you.

Against Me is a band I got into about five years ago and is one of the only bands, except maybe Jawbreaker, that has remained one of my favorite bands for this whole period so naturally I almost pissed myself in joy when I saw that this leaked today before it set in that it is probably going to suck.

"New Wave" is their first major label release and was produced by Butch Vig.

The cover is pretty sweet. I'm a big fan of wild cats as incentives to buy things. It's like a monkey but with novelty replaced with badassery. Ratatat's "Classics" was good. I also like how the "!" looks like a ":" leading you to know that Against Me! made this and it is called "New Wave" insead of looking like a mess of againstmenewwave.

The music is a continutation of where they were going with "Searching for a Former Clarity," which means there is absolutely no folk to be found and a lack of sing-a-longs. The folk is what I miss most and I understand that they might want to RAWK or something but doing that all the time is selfish. The lack of sing-a-longs may be explained by the fact that I don't know any of the words, but I also wasn't feeling any of the songs as potential future sing-a-longs.

Also there are no piano, acoustic, or horn parts. The whole album is straight power punk or whatver the proper nomenclature is. It could be one long song if you weren't paying attention.

The tracks that stand out most are "Stop," "Borne on the FM Waves," and "Ocean." Stop sorta reminds me of Aretha Franklin or Franz Ferdinand. "Borne on the FM Waves" has a girl sing on it and it's pretty good. I'm not sure who it is or I'd go oh, it's the girl from ______. "Ocean" reminds me of waves crashing on the shore and is probably the best song on the album. The first couple seconds sound like Tiger Army. Also there's this sweet part where he says "soul" and it echos for a long time. I like this one a lot.

Overall I'd give it a 10/10 for being Against Me! then subtract one each for having no folkish parts, no sing-a-longs, no horn/acoustic/piano parts, and another one for sorta sucking, giving it a 6/10 overall.

ALSO, special guest review of the video for the "White People For Peace" video by Joey:

Burn LikeA Cross (3:27:26 PM): u watch the against me video/
trashcrusader (3:27:34 PM): no
Burn LikeA Cross (3:27:44 PM): its kinda gay
Burn LikeA Cross (3:27:46 PM): lol
Burn LikeA Cross (3:28:34 PM): their turning into anti-flag
Burn LikeA Cross (3:28:35 PM): lol

more music

more music
ny request, here is:
les mccann - bucket of grease

The new minus the bear has leak'd!
sendspace link: minus the bear - planet of ice
megaupload link: minus the bear - planet of ice

albums 4 u

here are some hip hop albums and a secret mommy album to start this off. remember, legally, you have to delete these after 24 hours. i do not host these files.

jay dee and madlib are jaylib
king geedorah - take me to your leader
lupe fiasco - a rhyming ape (bootleg)
RZA - my deadly venoms EP
secret mommy - hawaii 5.0

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