Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Nerina Pallot 2009-2011
All Are in 320kbs MP3 Unless otherwise noted.
Buckminster Fuller EP [2009]
1. It Starts
2. The Long Tall Grass Of Summer
3. Girl On A Wire
4. Buckminster Fuller
5. Better Than Today
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Junebug EP [2009]
1. Junebug
2. Bloom
3. God Of Small Things
4. How Do We Cope
5. This Will Be Our Year
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Skeleton Key EP [2010]
1. Wolf And I
2. And So It Should
3. Break Up At The Disco
4. Is This A Low?
5. Skeletons
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Year Of The Wolf (iTunes Deluxe Edition Plus Fan Bonus) [2011]
256 CBR M4A except Fan Bonus which is 320 CBR MP3
1. Put Your Hands Up
2. Turn Me On Again
3. All Bets Are Off
4. If I Lost You Now
5. Butterfly
6. This Will Be Our Year
7. I Think
8. Will You Still Love Me
9. I Do Not Want What I Do Not Have
10. Grace
11. History Boys
12. Seventeen iTunes (Bonus)
13. Love's Going To Lose My Head (iTunes Bonus)
14. Not The Same (iTunes Bonus)
15. Happy (Fan Bonus)
16. Only Music (Fan Bonus)
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Crooked Still - Friends Of Fall (2011)
After ten years of working together as one of the finest, most creative bands on the contemporary string band scene, Crooked Still recently announced their impending hiatus.
But, before they go their separate ways to work on some exciting new projects, they've got a fall tour full of dates and a seven-song EP titled Friends of Fall, which hits stores Oct. 11. The EP is full of great new original tunes as well as a couple of cover songs - including a stirring rendition of Paul Simon's "American Tune," among others
Friends of Fall, the new 7-song EP from Crooked Still, offers a fresh and vibrant look at Boston’s most innovative folk group on the eve of their tenth anniversary. While Crooked Still is well known for its one-of-a-kind interpretations of traditional American folk songs, Friends of Fall showcases the band’s compelling approach to contemporary and original music. This unique song collection coincides with the band’s 10-year anniversary tour in October, and features covers of the Beatles, Paul Simon, and John Hartford as well as original pieces and a musical adaptation of a Wendell Berry poem.
Crooked Still recorded Friends of Fall in the midst of a busy summer tour, convening for three days in a beautiful former church house, now the site of Rotary Records studios in West Springfield, MA. For this special project, each band member personally arranged and directed the entire ensemble for a single song. Recorded and mixed by two of the finest engineers from Nashville, TN (David Sinko, Erick Jaskowiak) these gorgeous recordings capture Crooked Still’s signature live energy and dynamic musicianship, as well as standout performances by lead singer Aoife O’Donovan.
320kbs MP3
Track listing
1 It'll End too Soon
2 The Peace of Wild Things - Dayblind
3 We Can Work it Out
4 Morning Bugle
5 When Sorrows Encompass Me 'Round
6 Pretty Bird
7 American Tune
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Monday, September 26, 2011
BETH HART & JOE BONAMASSA - Don't Explain (2011)
Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Beth Hart, known for her raw and powerful blues-rock sound, wraps her expressive vocals around classic soul covers on Don’t Explain, an album that grew out of her friendship with the acclaimed Blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa. Produced by Kevin Shirley (Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Black Country Communion), Don’t Explain is an intimate collection of hand-picked soul cover versions, as performed by celebrated artists, such as Gil Scott-Heron, Tom Waits, Etta James and Aretha Franklin. Don’t Explain perfectly combines Beth Hart’s raspy soulful vocal with Bonamassa’s unique guitar sound, Kevin Shirley, who has produced Bonamassa’s last five albums, reflects on what it was like working with Beth for the first time – “Beth’s got a pretty heady voice, very reminiscent of Janis Joplin, she’s also got a lot of Etta James in her, but hadn’t really accessed it. With this material, there is a gentleness to the way she delivers the most heartfelt tunes that she hasn’t shown before. It’s very cool, she’s done a fantastic job.”
320KBS MP3
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
VV Brown - Children 2011 single
VV Brown Returning With New Single “Children” Next Week, New Album In 2012
V V Brown“Shark In The Water” songstress VV Brown will offer up her new Chuck Harmony-produced single “Children” on September 20. It’s the first release off the 27-year-old UK artist’s sophomore LP (title not yet revealed), which she began work on while touring with Maroon 5 last year.
“Children” features Chiddy of Philadelphia duo Chiddy Bang. “The song was written about a generation that has uninspiring aspirations and believes material wealth is what happiness is,” VV says in a press release.
She also notes that the song feels particularly topical following the August riots in London. “You have to give people a voice. “Everyone has to be heard, because otherwise they will make themselves heard.”
Other collaborators Brown worked with on her follow up to her debut, which is due out in early 2012, include Evan Bogart (co-writer of Beyonce’s “Halo”), Jean Baptiste (producer of Black Eyed Peas’ “Meet Me Halfway” and “Rock That Body”), Mr. Griffiths (Jem’s Down To Earth album) and Bjorn Yttling of Peter Bjorn And John.
Given the writers and producers involved, it seems guaranteed that Brown’s upcoming LP will have a much different vibe than that retro pop Traveling Like The Light gave off.
“I set up a studio in my flat, with just me and my engineer, and started going a bit mad with music,” she says of her new material. “It was all part of the process of getting to where I am now. I had to re-program and learn who I was again.”
SINGLE: 256 CBR Mp3
1. Children (ft. Chiddy)
2. Children (Keep On Singing) [Solo Version- No Rap]
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
Pistol Annies Take Aim, and amazing review
Pistol Annies Take Aim
Posted on September 7, 2011 by Cindy Watts
Two years ago, Angaleena Presley sat on the couch in her Nashville home looking at the walls and wondering which baby pictures to save before she set her house on fire.
Presley was a struggling singer/songwriter who had just separated from her husband, also a musician. The bank was about to foreclose. And Presley, scrambling for a way to give her 2-year-old son Jed a better life, wanted insurance money to start over.
“I thought about it for a while and then it was like, ‘OK, you’re not crazy. You’re not going to burn your house down,’” says Presley, now 34. “Then I went to pick up my guitar.”
That story unfolds in “Housewife’s Prayer,” a cut on Pistol Annies’ traditional, gutsy debut album Hell on Heels, which was released digitally Aug. 23. Pistol Annies, a trio consisting of country superstar Miranda Lambert, singer/songwriter Ashley Monroe, and Presley, sold more than 44,000 of those digital albums and debuted in the top spot on Billboard’s Country Albums chart. Because of the strong sales numbers, the album will soon be available in retail stores — something that was never part of the plan.
The trio will happily take the success, but money was never the driving force behind the Annies. Lambert, 27, and Monroe, 24, are longtime friends and co-writers who had amassed a bundle of songs that were too old-school for either of their country careers. The women weren’t sure what to do with the material, but Monroe says they broached the idea of doing a project that was a mix of their styles to accommodate the new work. Then one night, she says she and Lambert were up late writing songs on Lambert’s couch at her Oklahoma home and “Ang just popped in my head.”
“I was like, ‘Miranda, do you know Angaleena Presley?’” Monroe says. “And she was like, ‘No.’ I was like, ‘Mute the TV.’”
Monroe found Lambert’s laptop and pulled up Presley’s MySpace page to play Lambert some of Presley’s songs.
“I got her to focus for a second, and Ran was like, ‘Oh my God, what is this?’ ” Monroe recalls. “Ran was like, ‘This is the missing piece. This is our band.’ And I was like, ‘I know.’”
Since the friends could only hear snippets of Presley’s songs on the web, Monroe called Presley in the middle of the night to ask her to email them more music.
“I was like, ‘Who is this?’” Presley laughs. “Ashley? And Miranda who?”
Monroe explained it was Miranda as in Lambert, and Presley says, “I was like, ‘Oh, God. OK. OK. I’m up.’”
She started emailing her songs to Monroe and Lambert, and Monroe says they were glued to her inbox like 5-year-olds to the tree on Christmas morning.
“It was like here’s another one!” Monroe recalls.
“(I) just loved it … fell in love with it,” Lambert says of Presley’s music. “And so we asked Ang, ‘You want to be in a girl band?’ I mean, literally, it just went from the couch to this.”
Music to empower women
The trio got together for the first time at the CMA Awards that year. They met on Lambert’s bus and Monroe says they started “hanging out and writing instantly.”
“There was really no option,” she says.
The women started spending more and more time together after that. Monroe and Presley, who both live in Nashville, would join Lambert for brief songwriting stints while she was on tour. It was on one of these trips that Presley shared the first line of “Housewife’s Prayer”: “I’ve been thinking about setting my house on fire.”
Many of the 10 songs on Hell on Heels are in a similar vein, no-holds-barred female hardship touching on issues ranging from debt and unplanned pregnancy to unhappy marriage. But there’s also plenty of confidence, humor and optimism as exhibited in the title track “Hell on Heels,” a harmony-rich up-tempo about a trio of women making a deal with the devil so they could take advantage of “a million” men.
“We wanted to make music about the things people talk about but no one wants to admit,” Lambert says. “We make music to empower women.”
Presley says she thinks anyone can relate to the songs on the album, or at least that’s her hope.
“I try to paint a picture and hopefully transport people somewhere,” she says. “When I was going through my divorce, Lori McKenna had a song on her record and I would just play it over and over and over and over. It’s like it was medicine to me. Music has always been like my teddy bear in life, so I hope that I can make music people can cuddle with and lean on.” Some of the songs are from personal experience. Some of them are funny. Some of them will make you cry. Some of them will make you think. I hope people like it.”
Relationships blossom
Lambert, Presley or Monroe (or some combination of the three) wrote every song on the album with the exception of the last track, “Family Feud,” which includes Lambert’s husband and fellow country star Blake Shelton.
“He said he felt like we had a gang and he wasn’t in it,” Lambert says. “We were all out at the house in Oklahoma and we were writing ‘Family Feud’ and couldn’t figure out the last line. Blake was in the kitchen doing dishes playing the good host, you know, and we were talking through it and he said from the kitchen ‘Cause the good Lord giveth and the family taketh away.’ And that was it, and he got in there. But, we wanted him in there.”
The women officially debuted their group this spring during the Academy of Country Music’s Girls Night Out concert event in Las Vegas the day after the ACM Awards. That’s when Monroe said she realized their trio was more than friends just hanging out singing together.
“My brain knew it, but my heart knew it when we stepped out on stage and we’re looking down at Reba and Martina and Carrie and The Judds for gosh sakes, and they were smiling clapping along to ‘Hell on Heels,’” Monroe says. “It was like, ‘Wait a minute.’ We hadn’t even played with a band before. We were just sitting around with guitars writing until that day of the rehearsal when we practiced with a band for the first time.”
And that was just the beginning.As the music continued to take shape and their friendships blossomed, Monroe and Presley started joining Lambert on stage some nights for a Pistol Annies portion of her tour. Sometimes Presley’s son, Jed, now 4, is even along for the trip. The girls call him their mascot and stand him on a table before every show and let him sing Roger Miller songs.
“He can do ‘Chug-A-Lug’ and ‘Dang Me’ and ‘Do Wacka Do,’ so every night before we go on … he does his little performances and he nails it every time,” Presley says. “Finally, I was like, ‘Miranda, I’m going to start charging for these performances, it will be $10 from here on out.’ And she said, ‘It will be well worth it.’”
These days Presley’s life looks a lot different than it did the day she was contemplating arson and trying to figure out how to outsmart the insurance company out of some money. She left that house for an apartment, and she doesn’t even know what happened to the house now. After she met Lambert and started going on tour with her, she fell in love with Lambert’s tour manager, Jordan Powell. The two are now engaged and recently bought what Presley calls “her dream home.”
“My life has changed so much so fast,” she says. “Everything that I was praying for and hoping for when I was sitting on the couch that day is coming to fruition. It’s like I don’t want to blink, because I’m afraid it will all go away. It’s so crazy when dreams come true. You don’t want to believe it.”
And the band is full steam ahead.Lambert is adamant that even though her career is at its peak, Pistol Annies is anything but a side project. She says it’s another equally important creative outlet that she hopes will introduce country fans to her friends. She also says having Jed on the road has taught her a thing or two, as well.
“He climbs in his little bunk and we put the bed rails up and he just watches his movies and goes to sleep,” she says. “It’s just showed me that you can have a family and be on the road.”
Monroe jokes that having Pistol Annies as a creative outlet is so huge it’s kept her out of a padded room.
“I want to do more than just write songs, and this has given me the opportunity to do it,” she says. “We draw from each other, and it’s like therapy being out there on the road together. We all truly care for each other, so it’s more than just sharing music, it’s sharing our life, and all three of us sharing a dream. It’s a double whammy.”
Copyright © 2011 www.tennessean.com. All rights reserved.
http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2011/09/07/pistol-annies-take-aim/
Posted on September 7, 2011 by Cindy Watts
Two years ago, Angaleena Presley sat on the couch in her Nashville home looking at the walls and wondering which baby pictures to save before she set her house on fire.
Presley was a struggling singer/songwriter who had just separated from her husband, also a musician. The bank was about to foreclose. And Presley, scrambling for a way to give her 2-year-old son Jed a better life, wanted insurance money to start over.
“I thought about it for a while and then it was like, ‘OK, you’re not crazy. You’re not going to burn your house down,’” says Presley, now 34. “Then I went to pick up my guitar.”
That story unfolds in “Housewife’s Prayer,” a cut on Pistol Annies’ traditional, gutsy debut album Hell on Heels, which was released digitally Aug. 23. Pistol Annies, a trio consisting of country superstar Miranda Lambert, singer/songwriter Ashley Monroe, and Presley, sold more than 44,000 of those digital albums and debuted in the top spot on Billboard’s Country Albums chart. Because of the strong sales numbers, the album will soon be available in retail stores — something that was never part of the plan.
The trio will happily take the success, but money was never the driving force behind the Annies. Lambert, 27, and Monroe, 24, are longtime friends and co-writers who had amassed a bundle of songs that were too old-school for either of their country careers. The women weren’t sure what to do with the material, but Monroe says they broached the idea of doing a project that was a mix of their styles to accommodate the new work. Then one night, she says she and Lambert were up late writing songs on Lambert’s couch at her Oklahoma home and “Ang just popped in my head.”
“I was like, ‘Miranda, do you know Angaleena Presley?’” Monroe says. “And she was like, ‘No.’ I was like, ‘Mute the TV.’”
Monroe found Lambert’s laptop and pulled up Presley’s MySpace page to play Lambert some of Presley’s songs.
“I got her to focus for a second, and Ran was like, ‘Oh my God, what is this?’ ” Monroe recalls. “Ran was like, ‘This is the missing piece. This is our band.’ And I was like, ‘I know.’”
Since the friends could only hear snippets of Presley’s songs on the web, Monroe called Presley in the middle of the night to ask her to email them more music.
“I was like, ‘Who is this?’” Presley laughs. “Ashley? And Miranda who?”
Monroe explained it was Miranda as in Lambert, and Presley says, “I was like, ‘Oh, God. OK. OK. I’m up.’”
She started emailing her songs to Monroe and Lambert, and Monroe says they were glued to her inbox like 5-year-olds to the tree on Christmas morning.
“It was like here’s another one!” Monroe recalls.
“(I) just loved it … fell in love with it,” Lambert says of Presley’s music. “And so we asked Ang, ‘You want to be in a girl band?’ I mean, literally, it just went from the couch to this.”
Music to empower women
The trio got together for the first time at the CMA Awards that year. They met on Lambert’s bus and Monroe says they started “hanging out and writing instantly.”
“There was really no option,” she says.
The women started spending more and more time together after that. Monroe and Presley, who both live in Nashville, would join Lambert for brief songwriting stints while she was on tour. It was on one of these trips that Presley shared the first line of “Housewife’s Prayer”: “I’ve been thinking about setting my house on fire.”
Many of the 10 songs on Hell on Heels are in a similar vein, no-holds-barred female hardship touching on issues ranging from debt and unplanned pregnancy to unhappy marriage. But there’s also plenty of confidence, humor and optimism as exhibited in the title track “Hell on Heels,” a harmony-rich up-tempo about a trio of women making a deal with the devil so they could take advantage of “a million” men.
“We wanted to make music about the things people talk about but no one wants to admit,” Lambert says. “We make music to empower women.”
Presley says she thinks anyone can relate to the songs on the album, or at least that’s her hope.
“I try to paint a picture and hopefully transport people somewhere,” she says. “When I was going through my divorce, Lori McKenna had a song on her record and I would just play it over and over and over and over. It’s like it was medicine to me. Music has always been like my teddy bear in life, so I hope that I can make music people can cuddle with and lean on.” Some of the songs are from personal experience. Some of them are funny. Some of them will make you cry. Some of them will make you think. I hope people like it.”
Relationships blossom
Lambert, Presley or Monroe (or some combination of the three) wrote every song on the album with the exception of the last track, “Family Feud,” which includes Lambert’s husband and fellow country star Blake Shelton.
“He said he felt like we had a gang and he wasn’t in it,” Lambert says. “We were all out at the house in Oklahoma and we were writing ‘Family Feud’ and couldn’t figure out the last line. Blake was in the kitchen doing dishes playing the good host, you know, and we were talking through it and he said from the kitchen ‘Cause the good Lord giveth and the family taketh away.’ And that was it, and he got in there. But, we wanted him in there.”
The women officially debuted their group this spring during the Academy of Country Music’s Girls Night Out concert event in Las Vegas the day after the ACM Awards. That’s when Monroe said she realized their trio was more than friends just hanging out singing together.
“My brain knew it, but my heart knew it when we stepped out on stage and we’re looking down at Reba and Martina and Carrie and The Judds for gosh sakes, and they were smiling clapping along to ‘Hell on Heels,’” Monroe says. “It was like, ‘Wait a minute.’ We hadn’t even played with a band before. We were just sitting around with guitars writing until that day of the rehearsal when we practiced with a band for the first time.”
And that was just the beginning.As the music continued to take shape and their friendships blossomed, Monroe and Presley started joining Lambert on stage some nights for a Pistol Annies portion of her tour. Sometimes Presley’s son, Jed, now 4, is even along for the trip. The girls call him their mascot and stand him on a table before every show and let him sing Roger Miller songs.
“He can do ‘Chug-A-Lug’ and ‘Dang Me’ and ‘Do Wacka Do,’ so every night before we go on … he does his little performances and he nails it every time,” Presley says. “Finally, I was like, ‘Miranda, I’m going to start charging for these performances, it will be $10 from here on out.’ And she said, ‘It will be well worth it.’”
These days Presley’s life looks a lot different than it did the day she was contemplating arson and trying to figure out how to outsmart the insurance company out of some money. She left that house for an apartment, and she doesn’t even know what happened to the house now. After she met Lambert and started going on tour with her, she fell in love with Lambert’s tour manager, Jordan Powell. The two are now engaged and recently bought what Presley calls “her dream home.”
“My life has changed so much so fast,” she says. “Everything that I was praying for and hoping for when I was sitting on the couch that day is coming to fruition. It’s like I don’t want to blink, because I’m afraid it will all go away. It’s so crazy when dreams come true. You don’t want to believe it.”
And the band is full steam ahead.Lambert is adamant that even though her career is at its peak, Pistol Annies is anything but a side project. She says it’s another equally important creative outlet that she hopes will introduce country fans to her friends. She also says having Jed on the road has taught her a thing or two, as well.
“He climbs in his little bunk and we put the bed rails up and he just watches his movies and goes to sleep,” she says. “It’s just showed me that you can have a family and be on the road.”
Monroe jokes that having Pistol Annies as a creative outlet is so huge it’s kept her out of a padded room.
“I want to do more than just write songs, and this has given me the opportunity to do it,” she says. “We draw from each other, and it’s like therapy being out there on the road together. We all truly care for each other, so it’s more than just sharing music, it’s sharing our life, and all three of us sharing a dream. It’s a double whammy.”
Copyright © 2011 www.tennessean.com. All rights reserved.
http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2011/09/07/pistol-annies-take-aim/
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Abbe May- Design Desire (2011)
This Perth, Australian musician has a cool slash and burn, take no prisoners, verging on Metal, musical language. I usually have a short attention span in said territory, but there are enough quieter spots to not leave the listener prematurely spent. There are not many female led bands or solo acts blazing these trails; but here is hoping Ms. May continues finding her rock in a hard place and shares these choice agates with us!
Artist: Abbe May
Album: Design Desire
Genre: Rock
Year: 2011
Quality: 221Kbps
File Size: 55.94MB
Release Name: Abbe_May-Design_Desire-2011-AMX
Track List:
01: Abbe May – Design Desire (02:49)
02: Abbe May – Universes (02:34)
03: Abbe May – Mammalian Locomotion (02:40)
04: Abbe May – Taurus Chorus (02:32)
05: Abbe May – You Could Be Mine (03:01)
06: Abbe May – No Sleep Tonight (03:53)
07: Abbe May – Cast That Devil Out (03:34)
08: Abbe May – Feeling Like A Man (Looking Like A Woman) (04:33)
09: Abbe May – Carolina (06:26)
10: Abbe May – Blood River (03:24)
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
Pistol Annies: Hell On Heels
Pistol Annies make all the right moves on their debut album, available as of August 23. The 10 songs on ‘Hell on Heels’ were sown somewhere in Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe or Angaleena Presley’s previous lives. While collaborating, they pull out and often expand upon the merciless details. It’s brutally honest, raw and intimidating from start to finish. The title track is quickly proven to be not just a gimmick, and while ‘Lemon Drop’ is more optimistic and good-hearted than the opener, songs like ‘Beige,’ ‘Bad Example,’ and ‘Housewife’s Prayer’ are increasingly dark. Each one cuts like a surgeon’s scalpel, with the latter opening with the album’s most memorable verse. “I’ve been thinking about setting my house on fire / Can’t see a way out of the mess I’m in and the bills keep getting higher / All I need is a match and a gallon of gas / God I’m getting tired / Gonna set this house on fire.” ‘Lemon Drop’ shouldn’t be overlooked amongst the attitude of these other four songs on the first half of the album. The chorus of this song is a perfect example of what these women do so well. Their songs tell complete stories in very few words. Mood, music and pronunciation fill many of the gaps, while the listener can’t resist coloring in the rest. “My life is like a lemon drop / I’m sucking on the bitter to get to the sweet part / I know there are better days ahead.”...
Track List:
01. Hell On Heels
02. Lemon Drop [Better Days]
03. Beige
04. Bad Example
05. Housewife's Prayer
06. Takin' Pills
07. Boys From The South
08. The Hunter's Wife
09. Trailer For Rent
10. Family Feud
Digital Booklet - Hell On Heels
Itunes Verision so 256KBS m4a I'll try to upgrade to 320 once the CD arrives.
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EDIT: 320kbs MP3
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Melody Gardot - Worrisome Heart (2006 Indie Release)
This is for the Melody Gardot lovers and collector's out there. Back in 2005 Melody began recording "Worrisome Heart" and in 2006 was releasing it independently on awarestore.com and at her live shows. Below is the version that was released independently. The front artwork and track listing are different. You'll also note that there are 2 additional songs, left off of the Verve label release (Wicked Ride and My World a hidden bonus track). Rather than post the hidden track as is on the CD (connected to Twilight after several minutes of silence) I have split the two tracks. The hidden track has yet to surface online anywhere and it took me a while to track down the CD as I had loaned it out before she hit the "big time" and finding the 2006 indie release again was a bit tricky. Enjoy!!
Worrisome Heart (2006 Indie Release Version)
320kbs mp3
1. Sweet Memory
2. All That I Need Is Love
3. Wicked Ride**
4. Some Lessons
5. Gone
6. Quiet Fire
7. Worrisome Heart
8. One Day
9. Love Me Like A River Does
10. Goodnite
11. Twilight
12. My World (Hidden Track)
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Worrisome Heart (2006 Indie Release Version)
320kbs mp3
1. Sweet Memory
2. All That I Need Is Love
3. Wicked Ride**
4. Some Lessons
5. Gone
6. Quiet Fire
7. Worrisome Heart
8. One Day
9. Love Me Like A River Does
10. Goodnite
11. Twilight
12. My World (Hidden Track)
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Thursday, July 7, 2011
Nikka Costa Listening Party
Below is a wonderful widget to hear all of Nikka Costa's rarities, bonus tracks, and collaborations (be they full on vocals or prominent backing vocals). Enjoy!
Find more music like this on Nikka Costa
Find more music like this on Nikka Costa
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Ashley Monroe
Satisfied (Advanced 2006 copy)
320kbs rip from my promo CD
Tracklisting:
1. I Don't Wanna Be
2. Pony
3. Satisfied
4. Used
5. Can't Let Go
6. That's Why We Call Each Other Baby (ft. Dwight Yoakum)
7. Make Room At The Bottom
8. Let Me Down Again
9. Pain, Pain
10. Hank's Cadillac
11. He Ain't Comin Back
12. I Don't Want To (ft. Ronnie Dunn)
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Ashley Monroe (Selftitled EP 2009)
320 CBR
1. Has Anybody Ever Told You
2. Angeline
3. Drink For Two
4. And You
5. Everything I Wanted (ft. Trent Dabbs)
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Ashley Monroe & Trent Dabbs EP (2008)
I added three demos to this one, "Shine" in both it's demo forms one with Trent on lead the other with Ashley on lead while the other does backup vox. As well as the demo for another duo track by them called "When The Day Is Done [Someone Close To Me]". These demos (tracks 6-8) may be 128 or 160kbs I can't remember, the rest of the album (1-5) is 256 VBR.
1. I'm Coming Over
2. Staying Low
3. See Right Through [Don't Say The Words]
4. Now That I Know
5. Gone
6. Shine (Ashley on Lead Vocals)
7. Shine (Trent on lead vocals)
8. When The Day Is Done [Someone Close To Me]
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The Demo Collection:
320kbs
1. You're The Only One
2. Alone Together Tonight (ft. Billy Yates)
3. Home Sick
4. Heaven
5. Satisfied (Acoustic)
6. Hank's Cadillac (Acoustic)
7. I Can't Unlove You
8. If I Said What I Meant
9. Blowin' My Mind
10. World Of Sin
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
VV Brown Vanessa Brown Back To The Music Promo
At 18, Brown was invited to an open audition for VH1 divas by friends and was stopped outside the venue by an executive from London Records. Brown was offered a development deal by London records. The development soon came to an end and, at 19, Brown was offered a deal by Polydor records in the UK and A&M records in the US. Her debut single was "Whipped".
She relocated to Los Angeles to work on her debut album Back To The Music. In preparation she performed at LA's Mint Club. A five track promo CD was released to executives but the album was then shelved.
'Back To The Music' which was set to be released in the UK in 2006 was executive produced by Ron Fair - the man who discovered Christina Aguilera and turned Black Eyed Peas into multi-million sellers by A&Ring their Elephunk album. Vanessa wrote almost every track on the album. Some were written in Northampton when she was still a pre-teen.
In preparation Vanessa performed to a packed crowd in LA's Mint Club where she showcased songs from 'Back To The Music' to the US music industry in mid 2005. A five track promo CD was released to executives but the album was then shelved and has not been released to date. The tracks on the unreleased Promotional album were "Whipped", "Nobody Loves Me", "Dangerous Love", "Back To The Music", and "Calling Out Your Name". Six other known tracks from these recording sessions are "Eternal Life", which is a b-side for the 2 track Whipped Single released in 2005, "Angel", "Imagination", "Loverboy", "Never The Less" and "Whatever It Takes" (which along with Whipped and Back To The Music were arranged with David Campbell). Clips of those 5 tracks have been found but not the full length versions to date. The hook for standout track 'Nobody Loves Me' was written when Vanessa was just 11 - it was recorded in West Hollywood a decade later.
Here .. for all you VV Brown/Vanessa Brown fans is that 5 Track Promo, including the B-side from the two track single. I hope you enjoy and please comment below if you download.
Tracklisting:
1. Whipped (Single Version)
2. Nobody Loves Me
3. Dangerous Love
4. Back To The Music
5. Calling Out Your Name
6. Eternal Life (B-side)
256 VBR MP3
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She relocated to Los Angeles to work on her debut album Back To The Music. In preparation she performed at LA's Mint Club. A five track promo CD was released to executives but the album was then shelved.
'Back To The Music' which was set to be released in the UK in 2006 was executive produced by Ron Fair - the man who discovered Christina Aguilera and turned Black Eyed Peas into multi-million sellers by A&Ring their Elephunk album. Vanessa wrote almost every track on the album. Some were written in Northampton when she was still a pre-teen.
In preparation Vanessa performed to a packed crowd in LA's Mint Club where she showcased songs from 'Back To The Music' to the US music industry in mid 2005. A five track promo CD was released to executives but the album was then shelved and has not been released to date. The tracks on the unreleased Promotional album were "Whipped", "Nobody Loves Me", "Dangerous Love", "Back To The Music", and "Calling Out Your Name". Six other known tracks from these recording sessions are "Eternal Life", which is a b-side for the 2 track Whipped Single released in 2005, "Angel", "Imagination", "Loverboy", "Never The Less" and "Whatever It Takes" (which along with Whipped and Back To The Music were arranged with David Campbell). Clips of those 5 tracks have been found but not the full length versions to date. The hook for standout track 'Nobody Loves Me' was written when Vanessa was just 11 - it was recorded in West Hollywood a decade later.
Here .. for all you VV Brown/Vanessa Brown fans is that 5 Track Promo, including the B-side from the two track single. I hope you enjoy and please comment below if you download.
Tracklisting:
1. Whipped (Single Version)
2. Nobody Loves Me
3. Dangerous Love
4. Back To The Music
5. Calling Out Your Name
6. Eternal Life (B-side)
256 VBR MP3
DOWNLOAD
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Pistol Annies: Hell On Heels -Single
So Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley have been two of my favorite country singer songwriters for a few years now. At the ACM Girls Night Out event they made their debut with Miranda Lambert in a trio called Pistol Annies. Below is there first single Hell On Heels.
Kicking off with a spare, almost sinister acoustic guitar before slowly layering in a light percussion line and a light bluesy electric guitar riff in the background, the Pistol Annies' first single, "Hell on Heels," is highly impressive. It rocks my socks and has me dying for a full albums worth of material.
320kbs MP3
Tracklisting:
1. Hell On Heels
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Available for purchase at WWW.PistolAnnies.COM
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Katrina Elam
This is due to all of the email requests for this album I get. It was shelved. Katrina is no longer with the company and no longer has control over these songs. If it ever does get released I'll take down my listing, until then there is no harm in sharing it for those fans of hers who are dying for "new" music. I'm also including her early demo album that got her signed. Enjoy and say thank you in the comments since this was a HIGHLY requested post. If I get enough comments on this I have about 3 albums worth of other demos by Katrina as well.
Turn Me Up:
1. Flat on the Floor
2. Pretty
3. Love Is
4. Might As Well Be Me
5. Guess
6. Baby Come Over
7. That’s My Man
8. Backwoods Man
9. Take Me, I’m Yours
10. If Your Love Was A Rock
11. My Little Lady Who
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What’ll It Take
1. What’ll It Take
2. Hero
3. Your Love Reaches Me
4. Midnight In Montgomery
5. I Won't Say Goodbye
6. Without You
7. Figure Me Gone
8. I Will Always Love You
9. Help Me Fall
10. The Wayward Wind
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Turn Me Up:
1. Flat on the Floor
2. Pretty
3. Love Is
4. Might As Well Be Me
5. Guess
6. Baby Come Over
7. That’s My Man
8. Backwoods Man
9. Take Me, I’m Yours
10. If Your Love Was A Rock
11. My Little Lady Who
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What’ll It Take
1. What’ll It Take
2. Hero
3. Your Love Reaches Me
4. Midnight In Montgomery
5. I Won't Say Goodbye
6. Without You
7. Figure Me Gone
8. I Will Always Love You
9. Help Me Fall
10. The Wayward Wind
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
1999 Sarah Slean
Back in 1999 Sarah Slean made a guest appearance on Spine (a.k.a. Cy Scobie)'s album "Falling Leaves Off Burning Trees". She supplied lyrics and vocals for two tracks (Spine crafted the arrangements).
Track 7. An Endless Inventory and a hidden track 10. On My Own Enjoy!
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Saturday, June 4, 2011
Janelle Monåe
(Love this fan art I found online, source unknown at this time)
New Online free Download from http://en.shapewhatstocome.com/goodies/ The track is the same name as the website
Shape Of What's To Come
"The Extra Track Collection" is what I've dubbed this compilation of all of Janelle's "featuring" and rare tracks:
1. The Chase
2. Violet Stars Happy Hunting
3. 2012 (ft. Jaspects)
4. The Kids (ft. B.o.B.) [Unreleased Version]
5. Our Riotous Defects (ft. Of Montreal)
6. Enemy Gene (Ft. Of Montreal)
7. Peachtree Blues (ft. Jaspects)
8. Back In Black (ft. Nas and Santana)
9. Open Happiness (Polow Da Don Coke Remix) (With Brendon Urie, Patrick Stump, Cee Lo Green, Travis McCoy)
10. Be Still (ft. Big Boi)
11. Can't Imagine (2003 Demo)
12. Nerd Girl (Ft. Chester French and Clinton Sparks)
13. In Your Dreams ft. Killer Mike & OutKast)
14. Call The Law (ft. OutKast)
15. Movin' Cool (The After Party) (ft. OutKast)
16. Tightrope (ft. Big Boi) (Single Mix)
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The Audition:
Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Party Girl
3. Lettin’ Go
4. Metropolis
5. Cindi
6. It’s Not Fair
7. Time Will Reveal
8. My Favorite Nothing
9. Warm Up (Cloud 9 Interlude)
10. Cloud 9
11. Star
12. I Won’t Let Go
13. You
14. You Are My Everything
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Janelle Monae recently performed at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas – the show titled ‘Killers, Lasers & Papers’ was meant to also feature Cee-Lo Green and Lupe Fiasco, but they unfortunately had to cancel. But never mind, you know it’s always about Janelle Monáe anyways.
Download: Janelle Monáe – ‘Killers, Lasers & Papers’ Live Show (Full)
1. Intro
2. Suite II Overture
3. Dance Or Die
4. Faster
5. Locked Inside
6. Star Spangled Banner Jam
7. Smile
8. Interlude
9. Sincerely, Jane
10. Interlude
11. Wondaland
12. Interlude
13. Mushrooms & Roses
14. Interlude
15. Cold War
16. Tightrope
17. Interlude
18. Come Alive
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Crooked Still - 2010 New Album Some Strange Country
Crooked Still continue to redefine the parameters of bluegrass and progressive folk with their unique take on the old-time music they love. The tunes on Some Strange Country are mostly traditional, but the band infuses them with a subtle bluegrass virtuosity, chamber music attitude, and solos that often sound like they were borrowed from classical music.
All songs are 256VBR MP3
Tracklist:
01. Sometimes in this Country
02. The Golden Vanity
03. Distress
04. Henry Lee
05. Half of What We Know
06. I'm Troubled
07. Locust in the Willow
08. Turning Away
09. Calvery
10. Cold Mountains
11. You Were Gone
12. You Got the Silver
13. Lovesick Redstick Blues (iTunes Bonus Track)
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All songs are 256VBR MP3
Tracklist:
01. Sometimes in this Country
02. The Golden Vanity
03. Distress
04. Henry Lee
05. Half of What We Know
06. I'm Troubled
07. Locust in the Willow
08. Turning Away
09. Calvery
10. Cold Mountains
11. You Were Gone
12. You Got the Silver
13. Lovesick Redstick Blues (iTunes Bonus Track)
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Monday, May 2, 2011
VV Brown Travelling Like the Light (Fan Deluxe)
Ok.. so I'm a VV Brown fan and after seeing she hasn't been posted on here decided to go ahead and put up a thread. This is a Fan Deluxe version combining the US, UK, and French Releases of the albums. Plus various B-sides, bonus tracks, studio cover songs and duets done throughout the era. Included is J'ai Fait Tout Ca Pour Vous from the french album Nouveaux Horizons known here in the english translation of I Did All That For You. Enjoy!
Most of the Tracks are 320CBR or 256VBR
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Tracklisting:
1. Quick Fix
2. Game Over
3. Shark In The Water
4. LEAVE!
5. Bottles
6. Crying Blood
7. Back In Time
8. I Love You
9. L.O.V.E
10. Everybody
11. Crazy Amazing
12. Travelling Like The Light
13. Refresh Me (Bonus Track)
14. No Bonsoir (Bonus Track)
15. Video Killed The Radio Star (Bonus Track)
16. Padlock (Bonus Track)
17. This Charming Man (B-Side) (192kbs , looking for higher if anyone as it)
18. I Did All That For You (duet with Melissa NKonda)
19. Whipped (2005 Single as Vanessa Brown)
20. Voices (ft. Bottletop Band) [Unreleased Track] (128kbs)
21. Sleeping With The Enemy (Unreleased)
Most of the Tracks are 320CBR or 256VBR
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Tracklisting:
1. Quick Fix
2. Game Over
3. Shark In The Water
4. LEAVE!
5. Bottles
6. Crying Blood
7. Back In Time
8. I Love You
9. L.O.V.E
10. Everybody
11. Crazy Amazing
12. Travelling Like The Light
13. Refresh Me (Bonus Track)
14. No Bonsoir (Bonus Track)
15. Video Killed The Radio Star (Bonus Track)
16. Padlock (Bonus Track)
17. This Charming Man (B-Side) (192kbs , looking for higher if anyone as it)
18. I Did All That For You (duet with Melissa NKonda)
19. Whipped (2005 Single as Vanessa Brown)
20. Voices (ft. Bottletop Band) [Unreleased Track] (128kbs)
21. Sleeping With The Enemy (Unreleased)
Monday, April 18, 2011
Melody Gardot pays Tribute to Tim Burton
Multi-platinum, award winning singer/songwriter Melody Gardot performed at the Opening Ceremony of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival on May 12th at the Palais des Festivals. Her spectacular performance included a medley of songs from the blockbuster films Alice In Wonderland, A Nightmare Before Christmas and Beetlejuice in honour of their director Tim Burton. The Academy Award nominee is this year's President of the Jury at the Festival.
Melody said of the experience, "Being invited to perform at the festival, especially for Tim Burton, is a huge thrill for me as I have been a major fan of Burton's films for years! I grew up watching his films and find his mind to be incredibly creative. His use of light, color and the ability to dream while awake mirrors the way I feel about music."
Video to come.
Melody said of the experience, "Being invited to perform at the festival, especially for Tim Burton, is a huge thrill for me as I have been a major fan of Burton's films for years! I grew up watching his films and find his mind to be incredibly creative. His use of light, color and the ability to dream while awake mirrors the way I feel about music."
Video to come.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Sugarland on Idol
Ahhhh.... Jennifer Nettles you rock my world! While I'm a little worn out on hearing Stuck Like Glue sung on every award show and TV Appearance I'm very happy with the attention they're getting in regards to their live shows/performances. Go Sugarland Go!!!
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Perhaps a turning point, perhaps not
I've had the urge to blog again recently. I'm not sure how I want it to go. Sure I want people to read it and thus spark a conversation in regards to music... but I'm just not sure how I want to go about it. Do I want to use my usual sarcastic and dark sense of humor? Or do I want to keep it light and just list the basics like I have been. Such choices... such choices...
I sit here in my kitchen, watching my dachshund chase birds his short little legs carrying him much faster than one can believe. The cloud of black and grey winged interlopers explode into the sky in a flurry of movement. Only to settle down quickly once he passes by. They know he's all bark and no bite. The new Adele plays in the background. A great backing soundtrack for a relaxing afternoon. Full of heartache, a touch of anger and a lot pulling yourself up by the bootstraps and getting things done. I hated her first. Anyone who's asked me knew that right off the back. It was a bad album. Every song sounded exactly the same to me. This one though... genius and amazing production too. Slick but still "raw" that's hard to do.
So while I ponder things about this blog... I leave you to check her out.
I sit here in my kitchen, watching my dachshund chase birds his short little legs carrying him much faster than one can believe. The cloud of black and grey winged interlopers explode into the sky in a flurry of movement. Only to settle down quickly once he passes by. They know he's all bark and no bite. The new Adele plays in the background. A great backing soundtrack for a relaxing afternoon. Full of heartache, a touch of anger and a lot pulling yourself up by the bootstraps and getting things done. I hated her first. Anyone who's asked me knew that right off the back. It was a bad album. Every song sounded exactly the same to me. This one though... genius and amazing production too. Slick but still "raw" that's hard to do.
So while I ponder things about this blog... I leave you to check her out.
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