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Brighter Days
Heaven Owes Me One
Closer To You
1001 Gods
A Million Years
Half Life
Windows and Glass
Gullfoss
The Downfall of the Upright
Sorrow's Crown

listen

i love this band/album. this is the last full length they've released.

Maria Christopher is amazing.

Deftones - Diamond Eyes

1. Diamond Eyes
2. Royal
3. CMND/CTRL
4. You’ve Seen The Butcher
5. Beauty School
6. Prince
7. Rocket Skates
8. Sextape
9. Risk
10. 976-EVIL
11. This Place Is Death

deftones.com

this is really good. like white pony good.

*** link taken down. do yourself a favor and pick this up on 5/18.

Daughters

The Virgin
The First Supper
The Hit
The Theatre Goer
Our Queens (One Is Many, Many Is One)
The Dead Singer
Sweet Georgia Brown
The Unattractive, Portable Head

listen

listening to this now and it's pretty nuts/awesome. get into it.

Them Crooked Vultures

Josh Homme
John Paul Jones
Dave Grohl

dig it.

Led Zeppelin

Good Times Bad Times
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
You Shook Me
Dazed And Confused
Your Time Is Gonna Come
Black Mountain Side
Communication Breakdown
I Can't Quit You Baby
How Many More Times

listen

Their debut album and one that everybody should own. I'm also gonna go ahead and make the claim that John Bonham was/is the best drummer ever.

Hot Snakes - Thunder Down Under

Braintrust
Hi-Lites
Retrofit
XOX
Think About Carbs
LAX
Plenty for All
Who Died
Suicide Invoice
Kreative Kontrol
Rock n' Roll Will Never Die
U.S. Mint
Let It Come

listen

recorded live in may of 2005 for an australian radio station.

released after they broke up in 2006.

sun up
sun up
the sun is sinking
sun up
sun up
the sun is down
sun up
sun up
the sun is sinking
sun up
sun up
the sun is out

Junius

This is their new album that's coming out via The Mylene Sheath at the end of October. I can't really offer a good description of this band without comparing them to The Cure/Joy Division and that's not entirely accurate so here is some info about them:

While Junius' sound is sometimes tough to categorize, they have cited such artists as Bedhead (Junius singer/guitarist Joseph E. Martinez's uncle Trini was their drummer), Philip Glass, Hum, and M83 among a long list of inspirations. The band has been electrifying rapt audiences with their spellbinding walls of reverb-drenched guitars, haunting vocals and self-made lights since 2004.

Preparation for the long-awaited album began in 2006, with month-long writing/recording sessions in such unconventional locales as a bank vault in California, a warehouse in Texas, a farmhouse in Vermont, and a shack in the swamps of Louisiana. The result is a full-fledged concept album, inspired by the life and theories of controversial scholar Immanuel Velikovsky.

From birth to death, The Martyrdom of A Catastrophist chronicles a man whose progressive theories on ancient history and the cosmos were widely challenged by mainstream academia during his lifetime. The album's ten songs are both cinematic and accessible, building to crescendos which echo some of Post Rock's most epic moments, but with vocals, hooks, and lyrics creating focus throughout. Actual quotes from Velikovsky's interviews and lectures are interspersed between songs, providing a sense of narrative to the proceedings.

I grabbed this last night and have only had the chance to listen to it once but so far I'm really into it. Check it out, and if you dig it shoot me an email and I will send you their self titled release from 2007 which is an amazing record as well.

1. Birth Rites By Torchlight
2. The Antediluvian Fire
3. (turning to the spirits of the hours...)
4. A Dramatist Plays Catastrophist
5. Ten Year Librarian
6. Stargazers And Gravediggers
7. (...he fell before her)
8. Elisheva, I Love You
9. Letters From Saint Angelica
10. The Mourning Eulogy

Download for free at http://www.gimmesound.com/JUNIUS/

Small Brown Bike - Dead Reckoning

Summer Album #15

1 Like A Future With No Friend
2 Sleeping Weather
3 See You In Hell
4 The Vacuum
5 More Or Less
6 My Own Disaster
7 This Ship Will Burn
8 Hideaway
9 Unsung Zero
10 Kingfisher
11 I Will Bury You In Me

listen

i've been listening to this a lot lately. so fucking good.

Foo Fighters - S/T

Summer Album #13

This Is a Call – 3:53
I'll Stick Around – 3:52
Big Me – 2:12
Alone + Easy Target – 4:05
Good Grief – 4:01
Floaty – 4:30
Weenie Beenie – 2:45
Oh, George – 3:00
For All the Cows – 3:30
X-Static – 4:13
Wattershed – 2:15
Exhausted – 5:45

listen

The debut album, written and recorded entirely by Dave Grohl. The follow up to this, "The Colour and the Shape", has some great songs (Everlong, Monkey Wrench, My Hero) but this is by far my favorite Foo Fighters album and also has my favorite song on it, "Good Grief". Dig it.

The Cars - The Cars

Summer Album #9

1. Good Times Roll – 3:44
2. My Best Friend's Girl – 3:44
3. Just What I Needed – 3:44
4. I'm in Touch with Your World – 3:31
5. Don't Cha Stop – 3:01
6. You're All I've Got Tonight – 4:13
7. Bye Bye Love – 4:14
8. Moving in Stereo – 4:41
9. All Mixed Up – 4:14

listen

let the good times roll.

Deftones - White Pony

Summer Album #7

1. Feiticeira – 3:09
2. Digital Bath – 4:15
3. Elite – 4:01
4. RX Queen – 4:27
5. Street Carp – 2:41
6. Teenager – 3:20
7. Knife Party – 4:49
8. Korea – 3:23
9. Passenger – 6:07
10. Change (In the House of Flies) – 5:00
11. Pink Maggit – 7:32

listen

Credit for this one goes to Tim (T Bag). Had it not been for him I would have left this one out and that would have been a damn shame. Incredible album and in my opinion, their best effort.

In some sad news, The Deftones were set to release a new album this year, "Eros", and it was basically finished. Then they decided to put those songs on the shelf and return to the studio and record another album. The second recording was done without their longtime bassist, Chi Cheng, who went into a coma following a car accident in November last year. As of June he is out of the hospital but remains in a "minimally conscious state". I hope the dude can recover. More info here.

Now that I've depressed the shit out of you, throw this album on and rock out.

Summer Albums

I'm going to be posting a bunch of albums over the next couple months that I think are essential for this time of year. Some of them I only listen to when it's warm out, others I listen to all the time but they may remind of summer or have that 'summer feel'. Kind of stupid? Yes, yes it is. But some of these records are great no matter what time of year it is and I hope that you check them out.

Summer Album #1:

Listen

This was their third album and certainly the one that got the most publicity and radio play. It had a couple "hits" and also has Dave Grohl on the drums.

Get in the car, roll down the windows and crank the volume.

rainy sunday...

here is the new cky... Carver City

Volume 1 was/is awesome but that was 10 years ago. I haven't listened to anything else this band recorded and I'm not sure what to expect from this... but I liked the song I heard.

I can't listen to it now because the crack the skye 2xlp showed up today and it sounds ridiculous.

Cave In

"Dear friends,

After 3 1/2 long years, Cave In has decided to end its hiatus. Please join us for an EP release show at Great Scott's (1222 Commonwealth Ave., Allston MA) on Sunday, July 19th @ 9PM. Also playing will be our friends Disappearer and Phantom Glue. Copies of the "Planets Of Old" limited 12" (recorded by Adam Taylor, Alex Hartman & Johnny Northrup @ Camp St. Studio) from Hydra Head Records will be available that night.

We hope to see your lovely selves.

Steve, Adam, J.R., Caleb
CAVE IN"



I hope the new songs sound like that first Zozobra record.

In the meantime...


Unreleased Hand Out CD (2003)

1. Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin cover)
2. Down the Drain (demo)
3. Acid Rain in the Black Forest (demo)
4. Droned (demo)
5. Cave In (Codeine cover)
6. Inspire (live)


Cassingle (2005)

1. Dead Already
2. Shapeshifter


Until Your Heart Stops (1999)

1. Moral Eclipse
2. Terminal Deity
3. Juggernaut
4. The End of Our Rope Is a Noose
5. Segue 1
6. Until Your Heart Stops / Segue 2
7. Halo of Flies
8. Bottom Feeder / Segue 3
9. Ebola
10.Controlled Mayhem Then Erupts