So this is the n°2 post I promised you a hundred years ago

I feel guilty for not having posted during the last week. It's been only six days, but still, I feel so guilty, that this is going to be a ridiculously long post.
Alright, let's start with mail I've been getting, because I actually did promise to do a part 2 post...sometime. Well, this time is now, so let's get going.

Starting off with 4 or 5 Magicians, whose single Forever On The Edge is out now, released via Alcopop Records sister label to Big Scary Monsters (whose blog btw you can find under my links). Because I'm a little late on them, there a huge possibility you might already have heard the track below, but then you can go ahead and actually buy the single. Anyway, check out their myspace for more information, more songs and the way to purchase the band's single!

MP3: 4 Or 5 Magicians - Forever On The Edge (Tom Waits Version)


Ok, next on my list are Friends Of The Stars, a folk band from Birmingham. They've recently released their debut record called Lighting And Electrical. I'd put them between Stars, an If She Wants Me-kinda Belle & Sebastian and The Go-Betweens, as the band told they've often been compared to. Not a bad selection, innit? The songs are soft, a bit melancholic, actually perfect for the winter time. To buy the record, click here and for more information, click here.

MP3: Friends Of The Stars - The (Out Of) Jail Fire
MP3: Friends Of The Stars - Dragonfly



Next, we got a really cool 'mash up re-edit thingy' to quote the guy who sent me this- I think it fits perfectly. You can check out the myspace of these two Australian guys right here and listen to more mixes, re-edits and so on, which you definetely should.
And, right, this:

MP3: Justice vs Pharoahe Monch - Genesis Says (KABLAM! edit)


So, next up are Warrington's Rock/Alternative Exile Parade, whose manager sent me a track of the forthcoming debut album, which will be due in early 2008. The band will also be touring in 2008, so have a look @ their myspace profile for further information, album release dates and touring dates.

MP3: Exile Parade - Fire Walk With Me


Then we got The Violets, who released their debut album The Lost Pages last Monday via Angular Records. The Violets consist of four musicians from London, doing some kind of crazy indie punk garage rock. The management of the band has sent some very nice b-sides, the former produced by Jack Barnett from These New Puritans, so it's worth a listen.
For more album information, check out the label or their myspace and to order The Lost Pages, click right here.

MP3: The Violets - Emerald
MP3: The Violets - In This Way

and if you don't remember These New Puritans(which you should, otherwise it'd be a shame):

MP3: These New Puritans - Chamber


On and on we go, now with Plugs and newest release of That Number EP. The most amazing thing about this EP is probably the remix from French DJ, producer Yuksek, you know, the one who does The Teenagers, Shitdisco, Teenage Bad Girl and a whole lot of other fanatstic bands turning their songs into fantastic remixes. And now british indie pop Plugs. Great, innit?
The EP is released via the People In The Sky label, so please have a look either at their myspace or Plugs' for further purchasing information.
Otherwise:

MP3: Plugs - That Number
MP3: Plugs - That Number (Yuksek Remix)
MP3: Plugs - Transatlantic Air Miles


DJ Doc Rok aswell sent me his own 'Dirty South Hip Hop House Megamix', as he himself calls it. It is, well, some house, some hip hop, all in all, very good. Check out his myspace for further songs, remixes etc or just have a look at some of the shows he's done music for.
Or have a look @ this video:

or simply this:

MP3: DJ Doc Rok - Down South House Mega Mix


Alright, travelling from the US to Gothenburg, Sweden, where Pet Politics is residing. Actually called Magnus Larsson, Pet Politics's got a new 7" out via the label The Great Supplement. Stylictically, I'd put Pet Politics to the range of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, which sounds just fine to me. So, if you like one man bands from Sweden, from Moneybrother to Jens Lekman and so on, you should consider buying the EP, clicking right here.

MP3: Pet Politics - Taken Away By Aliens



Alright, Simian Mobile Disco released Hustler last week and if there wouldn't have been an oddity that prevented me from accessing the university's internet over the past week, I would've jumped on it right away. Anyway, why should you buy Hustler, if you probably already got the original version(on Attack Decay Sustain Release, which you've hopefully bought legally) and maybe one remix?
Beeeeeecause, first of all, there are several versions of the single, we got the CD single, whioch features a fantastic unreleased SMD b-side called Party Goes On. I could post that one, but then one of the main reasons to buy the single would be gone. So I don't.
Then we got some 12" versions, all of them featuring some good remixes of Hustler, most of all the popular Armand Van Helden remix.
So, if you haven't already, get the single, because you should atleast own one of SMD's 7'' or 12'', right?
Get it @ Wichita, Juno or Amazon.

so, this one is from the Hustler single:
MP3: Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler (Armand Van Helden Remix)

and the other two are just pretty awesome:
MP3: Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler (Jesse Rose Remix)
MP3: Simian Mobile Disco - I Got This Down (Night Facilities remix)



So, are you tired yet?
I hope not, because I'm not finished yet. As some of you may have noticed - I'm quite sure I mentioned it like a hundred times - two days the ago The Hives played an incredible show in Wiesbaden and yeah, I was there, I was sweating, I was dancing my ass off and I would love to show some pictures, but unfortunately I forgot to take some of The Hives and only took some of the support band, Quit Your Dayjob, who were quite fun. Too bad, my photographic skills concerning concerts are practically non-existing, so the pictures are crap. I'm still gonna post some at the end of the post, but now:
T.H.E. H.I.V.E.S!

In honour of the amazing concert, I'll post some Hives songs, chronologically of course.
Let's start with their 1997 debut Barely Legal. As some of The Hives records, Barely Legal was released via Burning Hearts. Even though the album got its well-deserved recognition a few years after its release, in my opinion it represents the true heart of The Hives, being raw, rough and some songs are in bad quality, which makes it even better.

MP3: The Hives - Whats That Spell?... Go To Hell!
MP3: The Hives - King Of Asskissing


and then there was a very, very niiice A.K.A. Idiot EP in 1998 featuring some fantastic b-sides, such as:

MP3: The Hives - Fever


Alright, next up is Veni Vidi Vicious, released in 2000. This record now features more 'audience friendly' tracks like Hate To Say I Told You So, Supply And Demand or The AC/DC cover Back In Black, making it 'easier' for the average music listener to get into the record without losing the typical Hives touch. Not that I'd say, hat The Hives have gone mainstream. Not yet anyway.
As already mentioned, classics are HTSITYS, Supply And Demand and State Control.

MP3: The Hives - Declare Guerre Nucleaire
MP3: The Hives - A Get Together To Tear It Apart
MP3: The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So



and from the Hate To Say I Told You So EP, released in 2002:
MP3: The Hives - Uptempo Venomous Poison


Well, I could now talk about 2002's Your New Favourite Band, but as far as I'm concerned, this is only a compilation of the two former records and some EPs to get access to the American music market, now that there are The Strokes, The Vines and The White Stripes, seems like a perfect timing to get the US to notice Swedens best export.
Nevertheless, it's a good record with a lot of good stuff.
Like:
MP3: The Hives - Mad Man


Alright, next is probably the best record in the whole Hives history. I assume therefore it's also the most popular and best sold one, but that's not the point now. Released in 2004, Tyrannosauros Hives is loud, agressive, but also melodic and diversified. We got 'typical' songs like Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones or Abra Cadaver, but then we got some which are different: Diabolic Scheme and Little More For Little You. All in all, it's a truly good, through and through Hives record!

MP3: The Hives - B Is For Brutus
MP3: The Hives - See Through Head

and what is left? I wanna go through the live CD/DVD, but if you're a huge Hives Fan, you'd already have that. In addition, I don't care much for Live DVDs. So let's go on with:

Now, we got the newest, most discussed and the one with the most presumptuous title ever: The Black And White Album. Now it get difficult, the opinions on this record are divided: those who like the progress in the work and those who prefer the 'old version'of The Hives. I'm one of the first ones, I like The Black And White Album, I like that it's different, I like that some of the songs don't sound right at the first listens and that Pelle can't sing properly yet. That's all part of The Hives, in my opinion at least. I don't care, if anyone who reads thios and despises the new one, that's your opinion, but I think progress is substantial in a band's life, even though it sometimes doesn't quite turn out like expected.
Nevermind.
From The Black And White Album:

MP3: The Hives - It Won't Be Long
MP3: The Hives - Bigger Hole To Fill

the last one is my personall favourite of TBAWA, just so you know.
get The Hives records @ amazon.


uuuhhhhhh, now we're at the end of this post. As promised, it's ridiculously long to make amends for my guilty concience and this post took me like forever.
Maybe I'll try to do a mix this Tuesday, keeping up my Tuesday is a mix night anthem,
or maybe not.
Anyways, have a nice rest of Sunday evening!
I'm tired.
I'm off to bed.
g'nite.

- oh wait, crappy photos from my crappy camera of the not crappy Quit Your Dayjob:

it's happened again

Seriously, I've renewed my sidebar, taking the easier side and reupped some new(or less new, whatever) albums that I think are wortht least three downloads if not the purchase of the whole record. There are some rather known albums, at least of those I have talked quite a while ago, like The Winter Sounds' Porcelain Empire(I've told you about them in this post), which is due in a month aswell as Help She Can't Swim, last time's post band. The Ponys, which I neglected at their release date some month ago but now really got into the album. Anyway, the point is, that I my guilty conscience bothered me so badly, that I wanted to lose at least two words about the albums.
But first, Dntel has a new remix on the website. It's cool and I HAD TO POST IT. Easy, seems it, but anyway. You may already know Dntel from his popular tune Umbrella or Dumb luck, which is also the latest Dntel album name.

zip: Dntel - Pump New Mix

see also Dntel's myspace.

Going on, Britain's lovely Black Wire have a new single coming up, called See The Blood/Brother We Had A Choice and will be released on May, 21th, means this Monday. To celebrate this, I first thought of posting the single, or at least one song of it, but then I changed my mind. I'd decided for two b-sides, who are qualitativly equal to the single songs.
Anyway, there you go.... and get all the tracks at HMV and have a look at their myspace.

MP3: Black Wire - Ungodly Hour
featured on the Hung Up Single

MP3: Black Wire - I Don't Feel Well
featured on the Smoke & Mirrors single

So, I'll mini-review the outstanding albums from my new music section:


Everybody's darling Interpol has a new album coming up, called Our Love To Admire, and I conclude right, that everyone knows about it, everyone has heard the single Heinrich Maneuver and probably thinks: Oh, another post about them.
Yes, it's another post about Interpol, but the band's awesome, the album's awesome and and and..... you get the point.
So, here's a track of their new album called Pioneer To The Falls ... Preorder the album through amazon, if you haven't already.

MP3: Interpol - Pioneer To The Falls
*myspace


Coming up next: The Ponys. Another most-blogged about album, but yet deserved so. I guess everything has been said about the indie pop band and their record Turn The Lights Out, so have a listen, go download some mp3s at emusic or order the cd here.

MP3: The Ponys - Maybe I'll Try


Next, even more blogged-and-hyped-about debut of Simian Mobile Disco. Well, I'm not hyping, but the album Attack Decay Sustain Release ist still pretty good.
I'll better stop this.
Go preorder it here.
*myspace

MP3: Simian Mobile Disco - It's Just The Beat
taken of the single It's The Beat


Last, but not least, Portugal The Man have a new record coming up(flooding everyone's myspace bulletins with this news), but my mind is still kept in their debut Waiter:You Vultures and I'm still mad at myself for not going to their concert last autumn. I mean, they're having a German tour this week, but due to a lack of money, a Portugal.the man concert will remain a dream. Damnit.
Here's a song from their debut, get any cds from the band on amazon.
For those who don't know yet, they're offering a free download at their myspace called Ruby Magic from their album It's Complicated Being A Wizard.

MP3: Portugal The Man - Guns...Guns...Guns

So, this has been a b-side dominated post(well, kinda) so I could just end this post with another b-side. If someone hasn't already noticed, I'm a huge Strokes fan, so the next step is pretty clear. Here's the b-side Hawaii live recorded at last year's Southside Festival.
Live and a b-side, I think this is really cool.

MP3: The Strokes - Hawaii/Live @ Southside Festival 2006

now, off to party.

butterflies with pistols.

Anyway Swedish rock group Mando Diao was also remixed by wesc, of which I have talked quite a while ago concerning Olivia Newton John's Let's get physical being remixed bythe charming Black Ghosts.
This time it's Mando Diao's Good Morning Herr Horst's turn. I've been trying my ass off to get that track for you to download, but, unfortunately, I'm not clever enough. If one is cleverer than me, please help.
Go have a listen there.
The songs is originally featured on their latest record Ode To Ochrasy, it's good and you can purchase it here on amazon, if you haven't already done so.
So, according to this 'threatful' disaster, I decided on upping a b-side, which I really like, to make ammends, you know?

MP3: Mando Diao - Deadlock
featured on Bring 'em In limited edition

But the 'trouble' processes. I actually wanted to make a report about Simian Mobile Disco's amazing new album Attack Decay Sustain Release, which will be out very soon, but many, many others had this idea right before me, as you can see here and here.
Then I wanted to post about my latest music drug The Cribs' new record, Men's needs, women's need, whatever, which is due in a couple of days, I guess, but then I remembered having already put up two new songs on my blog(check this an' this) and won't go well along with my guilty conscience. I can say, it's great, it's somehow different from their older records, escpecially from The New Fellas, but nevertheless typically The Cribs. Resuming: it's f*ing awesome and you should go and preorder it, eg. via amazon. Now.
Also, Interpol's new tune The Heinrich Maneuver (featured on their upcoming record Our Love To Admire)can be considered as 'old'. I can fairly say, that right now, I don't feel the slightest ambition to post about songs, which you could already get from at least dozens of other good music blogs, so I'll just direct you with links to the mindblowing new cds or songs.

.....Which is to say, I'm putting up a mix containing my recent favourite Swedes, ressembling to my Mando Diao note above.

[Click on the artist for further information and on the song for the song]

MP3: Refused - The Apollo Programme Was A Hoax
from The Shape of Punk To Come in 1998
MP3: The Electric Pop Group - Why Can't You?
from s/t album in 2006
MP3: Acid House Kings - This heart is a stone
from Sing along with Acid House Kings in 2005
MP3: The Lost Patrol Band - My Heart Is Still A Mess
from s/t album in 2005
MP3: Jenny Wilson - Let my shoes lead me forward
from Love And Youth in 2006
MP3: Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Loop Duplicate My Heart
from #3 in 2006
MP3: The Embassy - It Pays To Belong
thanks to this man here.
MP3: Sambassadeur - Kate
from Coastal Affaires in 2007
MP3: The Mary Onettes - Pleasure Songs
from s/t album in 2007

and, for all the poor people working their asses off at underpaid, mediocre jobs:

MP3: The (Int.) Noise Conspiracy - Abolish Work
from their debut The First Conspiracy in 1999

Ps: After really bad stomach aches, I decided to at least put the new records on my sidebar under new music. Short resume on Simian Mobile Disco: I LOVE IT. This album is probably one of the most important trigger, that'll lead me more into electronic music. Just as awesome as one could've expected. Get it.