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by Elke Mermis
on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:14 AM
Jordan Geiger is crafting some of Lawrence's finest pop songs these days. (Singing and songwriting in Minus Story and playing trumpet and keyboard for Shearwater helped prime his ear, too.) Now, he's releasing his latest album under the Hospital Ships moniker on June 7. It's called Lonely Twin. Here's what the press release for the album says:
Geiger has taken the fractured Midwestern influences of the Flaming Lips and Bright Eyes to fresh new heights. "Honey Please" is a rollicking slice of queasy, off-kilter rock, but tender tracks like "Bird In Furs" and "Phantom Limb" revisit Geiger's bedroom strengths: intimate, majestic moments of indie-pop beauty that rise and fall with the crescendos and valleys of his high-pitched tenor.
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by Elke Mermis
on Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:12 AM
All you lucky souls who were down in Austin, Texas, last week had the chance to witness the Republic Tigers tear it up at the MidCoast Takeover, along with a slew of other local talents. If you weren't so lucky, you can download from iTunes several of the Tigers' live versions of songs recorded at the festival. Click here to check 'em out.
We've also got a free download of "Merrymake It With Me," off the Tigers' forthcoming EP, No Land's Man, which comes out on April 16.
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by Jenny Kratz
on Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:37 PM
The Raveonettes
Free song downloads are sweet, but 140 of them is a hell of a lot sweeter. Thanks to Spinner, you can grab yourself a free three-part MP3 download of more than 140 tracks from bands that will be at this year's South by Southwest music festival. And because the deadline has passed to register for the event, it will have to do in place of getting there yourself.
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by Chance Dibben
on Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:24 AM
Stik Figa
Top City-born rapper Stik Figa oozes nothing but charm, confidence and charisma; and on his new track "It's Complicated," Figa has never sounded better, even as he raps about the trials of a rough relationship.
This week's feature story asks the question, "Can DMX ever stay out of trouble long enough to top the charts again?" Giving such an answer may take more than mere words can provide. So for you, our readers, we have three songs to help you decide for yourselves if DMX (or, at the very least, his music) has a shot.
Check out these exclusive tracks and, if you're so inclined, leave a comment below as to what you think of them.
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by Elke Mermis
on Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:20 AM
The Get Up Kids
Lawrence pop-punk godfathers the Get Up Kids is releasing its brand-spankin'-new album on January 25 -- its first, after a four-year hiatus from 2005 to 2009. It's called There Are Rules. (They're also playing a hometown show at the Bottleneck on Sunday, March 13.) You can download a new single over at RCRD LBL. Click here to download it, for free!
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by David Hudnall
on Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:35 AM
Reach.
We're definitelylovin' on Reach's upcoming mixtape Pen Pusha, over here at the Pitch. So we figure we should mention the tape's release party, which is coming up two weeks from Saturday.
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by David Hudnall
on Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:24 AM
Capybara, petting a terrifying creature that may or may not be a capybara.
In our crusty old print edition this week, our music feature is on Saharan Gazelle Boy, the solo project of Capybara member Darin Seal. I wrote it! Read it here.
As we've reported on the blog, Capybara is doing some reuniting in 2011, with plans to spend the year holed up in a house making music. But apparently they've gotten an early start on things, because yesterday they gave unto the internet a new song.
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by David Hudnall
on Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:32 PM
For the record, all of the capitalized words in that headline up there are grammatically correct. Anyway -- BUTT, the magazine for hipster gays, does these mixtapes that it gives out at weekly parties in San Francisco. Along with Honey Soundsystem, they've put together a new one, called Happy Holigays!, that you can download for free right now on the internet.
Typically this would not be blog fodder here at Wayward except for the fact that SSION has a brand-new song on it. It's called "Earthquake." Check it out here.
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by David Hudnall
on Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 6:49 AM
Tech N9ne.
He's an underground dude, so it's kind of surprising that Tech N9ne hasn't released, like, a hundred mixtapes already. Just before Christmas, he finally dropped his first one, Bad Season. You can snag that shit over at XXL.
And in a recent interview with Hip Hop DX, Tech talked about hanging out with Lil Wayne in prison. It's good stuff.
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