Jon Byrd - Byrds Auto Parts

1. (00:04:03) Jon Byrd - Jackknife
2. (00:03:28) Jon Byrd - Reputation
3. (00:03:51) Jon Byrd - In A Perfect World
4. (00:02:48) Jon Byrd - Freightliner Fever
5. (00:03:26) Jon Byrd - Don't Let Me Down
6. (00:02:34) Jon Byrd - Be Real
7. (00:03:35) Jon Byrd - Stay
8. (00:04:50) Jon Byrd - The Losing End(When You're On)
9. (00:02:52) Jon Byrd - Mark My World
10. (00:03:14) Jon Byrd - One Final Round
11. (00:03:20) Jon Byrd - Blistered

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Rose Kemp - Unholy Majesty (2008)

"Rose Kemp is a mock debutante: she started recording and writing for her mother's band, Maddy Prior And The Girls, and released a first solo album in 2003, 'Glance', which was typically folk and totally acoustic. But with 'Unholy Majesty', she obviously wants to take a new - electric - departure to make something novel, and it is undeniably a felicitous attempt.

The folk influence remains of utmost importance, especially through the use of strings, and of seemingly traditional melodies. But Rose Kemp has clearly been raised in the rock age, she listened to Black Sabbath as well as to Tom Waits and knows how to play the electric guitar. This time, she produces a new genre, some kind of folkish prog-metal, witty and bittersweet. And it sounds good.

Her voice is perfectly mastered and used with both boldness and sharpness. In the opening track 'Dirt Glow', vocals are high-pitched, witch-like and contribute to building a strange, tribal atmosphere, where the violin, paradoxically, is the sign of an outburst of violence. On the contrary, on 'Wholeness Sounds', Kemp goes down to a lower, rounder note, more powerful than ever.

Though the general mood of the album is definitely dark, eerie and nervous, there is also in most songs a touch of wit that has to be taken very seriously. 'Nanny's World', for instance, is full of black humor, the kind that makes you feel slighty uncomforable. But good as well.

The simplicity of some compositions, almost a capella, recall the latest sacred music of El Perro Del Mar - 'Flawless', with disharmonic chords stroke on a piano, or the very calm and beautiful 'Nature's Hymn'. But it is when Rose Kemp becomes gothic that she is the most powerful. 'Milky Way', one of the best tracks, is terribly impressive; vocals are incantatory, painful and counter-nature. It leaves you breathless."

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Robyn Ludwick - Too Much Desire

"Three years previously, Texas songwriter Robyn Ludwick's debut album, For So Long, appeared like a stunning blast of central Texas summer heat from the hill country outside Austin. It stands as one of those shocks to the system that makes a listener sit up, take notice, and get slain by. It is sophisticated but uncompromising; it's as sensual as the moisture from a lover's lips on a hot humid night, and as raw as a fresh tattoo. It can't hurt that her brothers are Bruce and Charlie Robison, her sister-in-law is Kelly Willis, and her husband is bassist John Ludwick. But the songs are all hers. Too Much Desire mirrors its title perfectly: its songs are full of the extremes in human emotion and behavior, reflecting the thoughts that occur to us while keeping the night watch restlessly awaiting the dawn. Ludwick's songs are rooted in Texas country music, folk, and even country gospel and rock. Her voice is full and rich, a deep contralto that is as Southern and rugged as the terrain she comes from; it goes deep like Lucinda Williams or Rosanne Cash, yet is as lonesome, rich, and expressive as Stevie Nicks at her best. Husband John and brother-in-law Mike Hardwick (who play bass and guitar, respectively) produced the set, with Eddie Cantu on drums and guitarist Andrew Nafziger completing the band. There are one-offs by friends and more family. Michael Ramos, Warren Hood, Willis, Eliza Gilkyson, Thomas Robison Ludwick, her brothers, and Eleanor Whitmore also appear.

Ludwick is among the most searing, confessional songwriters out there, and the bravery in her approach to delivering these revelatory lyrics-as-exposed-secrets is made possible by the group that backs her. Very few songwriters, male or female, can pull off a lyric as naked as ."..I know it ain't cool/How you play with my heart/But it hurts so good when you tear it apart/You're gonna make it alright tonight..." on "Alright," the album opener. It gets more intimate from here, but vulnerability -- expressed with acoustic and electric guitars, mandolins, a fiddle here and there, and some backing vocal support -- shouldn't be translated as weakness. Despite the whining steel and unplugged six-string in true Texas waltz style, one can hear the truth of Bessie Smith's "Empty Bed Blues" in "'72 Texas," when Ludwick sings: "Now I'm lookin' for love/But it ain't lookin good/You see the boys that I like/They don't treat me no damn good...." Ludwick's characters are women who've been deeply disappointed by love, life, and empty promises, but refuse to surrender. No matter how beaten, her protagonists always roll the dice again. They have no way out -- as expressed in the amazing song of the same title -- but don't care, because the horizon is empty and what's available is right now. "Boulevard," a rocker, is a "bad girl"'s anthem of desire laid bare -- it knows the cost and is more than willing to pay it. Yet this is only the beginning of this magical record. Ludwick is a poet and storyteller ("Sweet Marie") whose art pours truth from a broken-necked bottle; it's there in spades. Her aesthetic strength comes from, to paraphrase W.B. Yeats, "the rag and bone shop of the heart." Too Much Desire is strong yet beautiful stuff. It aches and staggers, struts, crumbles in tears, then rises to do it all again throughout. It's as elegant and graceful as a straight razor; it takes no prisoners, makes no apologies. In other words, it's just drop-dead gorgeous. Thom Jurek, All Music Guide"

1 Alright 3:34
2 '72 Texas 5:06
3 No Way Out 3:18
4 Big Fall 3:58
5 Boulevard 4:11
6 Monte Carlo 4:15
7 Lolita 3:51
8 Sweet Marie 5:34
9 Pleasure and Pain 4:56
10 Desire 5:27
11 Lullaby 0:55
12 Julia Odessa 5:09

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Rivulets - Debridement

Myspace u. dl!

Marianne Faithfull - easy come easy go

Marianne Faithfull covert sich hier auf 10 bzw. 18 Tracks durch die Indiewelt, mal besser, mal schlechter.

Tracklist:

1. Down From Dover

2. Hold On Hold On

3. Solitude

4. The Crane Wife 3

5. Easy Come, Easy Go

6. Children of Stone

7. How Many Worlds

8. In Germany before the War

9. O O Baby

10. Sing Me Back Home

Geprägt von Mariannes tiefer Raucherstimme haben die Songs kaum etwas gemein mit den Originalen.
Auf laut.de findet ihr ein ausführliches Review zur Scheibe und hier könnt ihr euch die Scheibe saugen. Voll gut so für den Herbst!

Karine Polwart - Scribbled in Chalk (2006)

"Winner of Best Album, Best Original Song and the Horizon Award for Best Emerging Artist at the BBC Radio Two Folk Awards 2005. 12 Beautifully-crafted, Lyrical Songs from a Truly Gifted Artist.
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Folk isn't a genre that's usually associated with pressure, but given that Karine Polwart's Faultlines scooped her three awards from Radio 2, there's a certain expectation to the follow-up.

Scribbled In Chalk is a worthy successor. Weaving melody around her defiantly delicate timbre, the beautifully crafted tunes are as likely to bite as they are to soothe.

"Daisy" is a warning about the dark things in the world, while "Baleerie Baloo" tells the true story of a Scottish missionary who died in Auschwitz. When Polwart writes, it's not about the lighter side of life.

Best of all, she's pushing folk forward, with as much King Creosote as Kate Rusby to her sound. You wouldn't bet against a raft of awards for this one too."
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/n3hj/)

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Jenny Lewis - Godspeed (2008)

Hurra, ne neue Jenny Lewis Scheibe!
Super Indie/Folk...mit einer der schönsten Stimmen, die wo gibt.
Nachzuhören für Unentschlossene auf ihrer Myspace-Seite.
Hier gibt es die Single "Godspeed" (radio edit) zum Download. Viel Spass damit!

Brett Anderson - Wilderness (2008)

2. Soloscheibe vom ehemaligen Suede-Sänger. Anders als zu Suede-Zeiten dominieren hier tieftraurige Balladen im typischen Singer/Songwriter-Stil (Akkustikklampfen, Moll-Berge etc.). Zum Reinhören lohnt sich ein Besuch seiner Myspace-Seite und hier lässt sich die schöne Chose auch mal eben dingsen. Das wird ein schöner Herbst!

Ryan Baxley

Dieser wunderbare Musiker weiss nicht einfach nur, dass er klasse ist, er stellt zudem über seine Myspaceseite (unter Free Album Downloads) all seine Musik zum kostenlosen download frei. Toll!

Mon Insomnie

Mal wieder was wunderbar neues entdeckt. Mon Insomnie ist das one-man ding eines jungen Tschechen, der vorgibt selber nicht singen zu können, weshalb er es aber dennoch tut. Mit Recht, wie man auf seiner Myspaceseite nachhören kann. Erinnert mich recht häufig an die guten Sachen von Connor Oberst.

Ich finds saugeil!

Austin Lucas - The common cold

Warum ist mir dieser Mensch in der Vergangenheit nicht genau so aufgefallen, wie es sich normalerweise gehört für jemanden, der von sich selber behauptet, er besäße einen traumhaften Musikgeschmack?
Jedenfalls läuft seine Soloplatte nun schon den ganzen Tag lang in Heavy Rotation und wird mit jedem Gitarrenzupfer besser, grösser, stärker (lol).
Besser kann man country, folk oder bluegrass einfach nicht spielen. Und ich bereue es im Nachhinein umso mehr, dass ich nicht dabei war, als er zusammen mit dem nicht weniger hervorragenden Chuck Ragan durch die Republik tourte.

Hier gibts seine Soloplatte "the common cold" zum dingsen. Freuen würde er sich dennoch sicherlich, wenn ihr auf der nächsten Tour, wie ich es mir vorgenommen habe, seinen Merchstand leerkauft und ihn aus Dankbarkeit über so gute Musik einfach mal zum Bier einladet. Ich behaupte einfach mal, er trinkt welches.

Nur geil!

Chuch Ragan/Austin Lucas - Bristle Ridge

Genre: Folk/Country

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Viel Spass!

Crayonsmith

Meine Entdeckung des Tages. Hier gibts Songs zum anhören und hier kann man sich 2 Songs saugen. Das ist jawohl mehr als genug fürs erste.

Ivory I

Sehr schönes ruhiges, akkustisches Indieduo aus dem Süden. 2 Songs zum reinschnuppern auf deren Myspace-Seite .

Hier kann man sich einen Song auch visuell reinfahren. Viel Spass damit!

Nancy and I - neuer Song zum downloaden

Schöne Neuigkeiten aus dem heimeligen Göttingen. Nancy and I hauen nochmal einen neuen, schicken Song raus. Hier gibts den Song, der euch bitte mal eben Freude bereitet. Schaut und hört auch mal auf deren Myspace-Seite, wo es definitiv noch mehr gute Songs zum Hören etc. gibt.
Viel Freude damit!

Konzert!

Kultur und Jugendzentrum Charlottenburg, An der Charlottenburg 7 / 32139 Spenge

Hello Saferide - More Modern Short Stories From Hello Saferide

Genre: Indie/pop/folk

"During the spring, Hello Saferide has spent time with producer Andreas Mattsson and completed the second album "More modern short stories from..." due for release September 24th. Pelle Gunnerfeldt has mixed the album."

1. I wonder who is like this one
2. 2008
3. Overall
4. Lund
5. X telling me about the loss of something dear, at age 16
6. Middleclass
7. Parenting never ends
8. Anna
9. 25 days
10. Sancho Panza
11. Travelling with HS
12. Arjeplog

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Mixtape

So, ein Mixtape, welches ich mal fürs Auto gemacht habe ;)

Viel Freude damit!!!

1. Camarón De La Isla - La Leyenda Del Tiempo (3:41)
2. Rocky Votolato - White Daisy Passing (3:10)
3. Mazzy Star - Fade Into You (4:55)
4. Nervous Nellie - June (3:22)
5. Old Canes - Blue Eleanor (3:16)
6. Lucinda Williams - King Of Hearts (4:05)
7. Doug Martsch - Heart (Things Never Shared) (3:19)
8. Winter Took His Life - Lucky star (3:50)
9. Janove Ottesen - Down To The Vertigans (4:30)
10. Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On (2:40)
11. folkal point - sweet sir galahad (3:49)
12. Drive-By Truckers - Goddamn Lonely Love (4:59)
13. Blackmail - Airdrop (3:04)
14. Brandi Carlile - Closer To You (2:52)
15. Lorien - Lorien - Shivering Sun (4:37)
16. mary gauthier - i drink (4:31)
17. Meredith Bragg - Plinian (3:44)
18. pelle carlberg - clever girls like clever boys (4:08)
19. SAVOY GRAND - Reason to Leave (5:43)
20. ten second walk - life can be (8:54)
21. the violent years - another alarm... (4:15)
22. Grinderman - Vortex (4:02)

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Kristin Absjornsen - Factotum

Kristin Absjornsen - Factotum [OST] (2006)

1.On The Bus (1:20)
2.Reunion (2:50)
3.I Wish To Weep (2:32)
4.Farewell I (1:46)
5.Slow Day (3:41)
6.Ice Plant Overture (1:24)
7.Pickles (2:40)
8.Still Awake (2:11)
9.Quirky Waltz (1:29)
10.Dreamland II (4:18)
11.Slow Day Fragments (2:13)
12.My Garden (2:02)
13.In The Kitchen (2:31)
14.Beside You (1:43)
15.Drunk Driving (1:54)
16.Remembering (1:44)
17.Shoes (1:41)
18.If You're Going To Try (3:41)
19.Horse Race Groove (1:32)
20.Farewell II (1:49)
21.Slow Day II (5:36)

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Jolie Holland - Living & The Dead

01. Mexico City
02. Corrido Por Buddy
03. Palmyra
04. You Painted Yourself In
05. Fox In Its Hole
06. Your Big Hands
07. Sweet Loving Man
08. Love Henry
09. The Future
10. Enjoy Yourself

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Fleet Foxes – Sun giant EP

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Genre: Indie / pop / americana / folk

Track listing:
01. Sun Giant 2:14
02. Drops in the River 4:13
03. English House 4:41
04. Mykonos 4:35
05. Innocent Son 3:07

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Viel Spass!

The Violent Years

Meine Entdeckung des Jahres.

Another alarm from his head... ist zweifellos einer der besten Songs, die ich je gehört habe. ;)

Song des Tages

Mein Song des Tages ist heute "Coldplay - green eyes".

Snørd

Herbstpunk aus Hannover.

Nähere Informationen finden sich sowohl auf deren homepage (http://www.snoerd.de/) oder auf http://www.myspace.com/snoerd

Auf der Myspaceseite lässt sich die aktuelle EP runterladen. Wer also auf leicht melancholischen Punkrock steht, der riskiere doch bitte schleunigst ein Öhrchen.

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Gute Musik!

Auf lastpopsong gibt es ein übergrosses Angebot an massig guten Songs zum kostenlosen Download. Leider wird die Seite nicht mehr aktualisiert, was angesichts der dort geposteten Songs ein Jammer ist.