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"We're British!" - These guys

The story of Manic Street Preachers is an interesting one. If you find yourself with a couple extra minutes today (it’s Friday before a holiday so that is pretty much a guarantee) you should check out the Wikipedia page. At any rate, Manic Street Preachers are getting ready to drop a new album on all our asses soon (Postcards from a Young Man on Sept. 20) and RCRDLBL has a new track from the Brits that doesn’t appear on the new album. So… it’s kinda like a free b-side I guess.

Anywho, the song is called “I’m Leaving You For Solitude” and you can download that shit right here.

Awesome. I like these guys. I have for a long time. In fact, I may just got “follow” them on that new Ping thing.

and that is the subtle way in which I have just let you all know that I and Music Boxer are on Ping.

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"Banjo!" - This guy

Earlier this week we posted a little news blurb about Sufjan Stevens releasing a new EP. Well Mr. Stevens has followed up that release with news that he will be releasing his next full length album, The Age of Adz, on Oct. 12.

Nice.

But what’s even nicer is that with the announcement, Mr. Stevens released one of the new songs as a free download. The song “I Walked” backs Stevens’ wonderful voice with some electronic beats and synth – a little different from what we tend to think about when we think about Sufjan Stevens. But the song is good. Real good in fact.

You can download it right here and listen to it right here:

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We are in Chicago right now so this is gonna be brief.

Tim Kasher is the lead singer of Cursive. Time Kasher has a solo album coming out at some point. Probably soon. I’m not really sure and since I’m sitting at the Cubs game I don’t feel like looking it up.

So go here to download “Cold Love.”

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PVt - That's Australian for "rock!"

It’s (still) Friday! So I suppose that means we owe you some free music? Well, maybe “owe” is the wrong word to use there. It’s not like there is an obligation or contract to provide all you guys with free music every Friday. It’s just something that we’ve promised you and we try very hard to keep our promises around here – unlike other people. You know who you are!

So this week we have a new single from the Australian band PVT. PVT used to be called Pivot but then some asshole band from the U.S. also named Pivot threatened to sue the Aussies so the Aussies changed their name to PVT. Fuckin’ asshole Americans. Always forcing people to change their name.

Anywho, You can download the song “Window,” from the band’s new album Church With No Magic album, right here.

And if you’d rather hear the song before downloading than… you are in luck because here is the band’s video for the very same song! Yay!

Hooray for free music!

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Today is Elliott Smith’s birthday. Had he not stabbed himself a couple of times, he would have turned 41. That sucks. Not the turning 41 bit, but the fact that he isn’t here anymore because he stabbed himself a couple of times. I really liked him better when he was alive. He was, in my opinion, one of the best song writers we’ve ever seen and heard.

I saw him live several years ago in Denver. It was one of the more… different shows I’ve seen. He obviously wasn’t in a good place and that probably had to do with the amount of heroin I’m sure that he had booted over the course of the day.

Fucking heroin.

At any rate, in honor of his birthday here is a link to a bunch of info about Elliott Smith and a couple of songs. The songs are buried in the page but they are there. I’mnot linking directly to them because I think everyone should take a moment today and remember Elliott Smith and read a bit of the stuff that’s on the website. So click here to head to Elliott’s website and to download some free Elliott Smith songs.

And just because it’s his birthday today, here is another little reminder of how great he was.

Damn I miss this guy.

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