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Daytrotter continues with their sweet recordings this week bringing you one from Sub Pop band Death Vessel. The 3 song set features one unreleased tune that you can check out below. Head over to Daytrotter to stream/download all songs.
Download: Death Vessel – Obadiah in Oblivion(live) [MP3]
It’s never to early to start getting your plans made for SXSW. Do512 has a pretty sweet list of artists that have been confirmed so far. Who are you looking forward to?
We just heard about this new band hailing from Chicago, The Dogs, and wanted to spread the word about their new album. This is the band’s debut album, it’s self-titled, and you can download the thing for free from their website. The songs are mostly acoustic driven, folk ballads with some pretty nice harmonies mixed in. Here’s opening song of the album “I Don’t Know Your Name”.
Download: The Dogs – I Don’t Know Your Name [MP3]
The Alamo Downtown has some crazy good shows for your enjoyment this week. Here’s a quick rundown:
Tuesday – Terror Tuesdays featuring Howling 2 w/ Sybil Danning in person. Reserve a seat now or read the new Terror Tuesday blog.
Wednesday – Weird Wednesdays featuring Chained Heat w/ Sybil Danning in person yet again! Reserve your seat now or read the new Weird Wednesday blog.
Thursday – The main event! Tonight features the debut of the new Mickey Rourke flick The Wrestler along with real live wrestling before the show from The Texas Wrestling Federation!! Get tickets now for $18.
Dear Alamo, we love you. That is all.
Don’t start going crazy over the headline of the post just yet. It’s sort of new music from Yo La Tengo and sort of not. The story goes that way back in March a band by the name of Condo Fucks played a surprise type show in NYC with some other bands. Sort of unexpectedly, that band turned turned out to be just another name for now famous New Jersey indie outfit Yo La Tengo. This new band, side project or whatever you want to call it has a new album out via Matador on March 24th entitled Fuckbook. Not sure exactly what the idea is for the project or why the need for all the cursing, but all YLT band members are involved. Here’s a recently posted song by the band called “Whatcha Gonna Do About It”.
Download: Condo Fucks – Whatcha Gonna Do About It [MP3]
If you’re growing impatient for the new Andrew Bird album, the nice folks over at NPR are streaming the entire thing right now. The new album is entitled Noble Beast and won’t be out in physical form until January 20th. Here’s whistle heavy first single from the new album “Oh No”. Don’t forget that Mr. Bird is also coming through Austin on the 12th of February at the Paramount. Obstructed view tickets are all that’s left so scalping or alternative action may be in order.
Download: Andrew Bird – Oh No [MP3]
The Acorn have 2 new short EPs for you to download and enjoy. One is titled Ear Worms and features 12 songs all 30 minutes in length which were written and recorded on Christmas Eve. The other is a short four song EP entitled Little Eels. The songs are short, sweet and to the point. Download both albums now.
It’s never too late for another end of the year compilation! This compilation is brought to you by Bootie USA and features the best mashups of the year. Our friends The Hood Internet were fortunate enough to make the list with two of their best jams from the year. Download the free tracks now! Here’s a taste of what’s instore with a tasty little mashup from French DJ ComaR.
Download: ComaR – I Want You To D.A.N.C.E. [MP3]
Amazon is selling their 50 best albums of the year for only $5 a piece. You should have most of these by now, but check it out now if you don’t.
So the now famous free week is finally upon us and you want to know what’s going on. For you inquiring minds, we decided to give you a night by night guide on what venues you should head out to. Obviously more than one show is going on each night, but we’re picking the best show on each night. Follow the jump for our free week guide.
