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Said the Gramophone has a new Beirut song up HERE.  Thank you friend.

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From this ongoing series, my friend in rock, Yancy,(yes his name is Yancy), submits 3 great old “Emo” songs including a great old hit from the Promise Ring. Check it out below.

Thank You Yancy..

Braid - Niagara

The Secret Stars - Some Sinatra

The Promise Ring - Forget me Not

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CLICK HERE TO SEE THE NEW GNARLS BARKLEY VIDEO FIRST.

See an interview with the Director Chris Milk here.

Here are two out of the four Iron and Wine’s songs from the Our Endless Numbered Days CD 2.

Iron and Wine - Swans and Swimming

Iron and Wine - Free Til They Cut me Down (Demo)

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So after a flurry of emails from friends saying they want to be a part of my “Three the Hard Way..” series, my friend Betty from Germany was the first to get her three to me. GO BETTY! Great choices.

Sensefield - A fire inside you

Falling Forward - Drought

Farside - Hero

Email me if you are interested in submitting.

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Maybe Mac’s are better but the people who play them on TV, well that’s a different story.  Check out Gizmodo’s article about it HERE.

Today, 20 Years ago, Cliff Burton of Metallica died.

Watch why he is one of the best metal bass players of all time HERE and HERE!

I have been talking to Wes about doing a few posts about some 90’s indie rock (read: Emo) bands… Wes had sent me 3 songs that he loves and I figured, why not just post them up.. Maybe I will have some of my friends send me 3 songs that fit into this commonly miscategorized genre..

.So here are three older indie rock songs that Wes is into..

Sean Na Na - ChaChaCha

Piebald - Fat and Skinny Asses

Chisel - Looking Down at the Great Wall of China from Way up High in the Sky

Anyone else interested in contributing??

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I recently watched, don’t ask me why, “Meat Loaf to Hell and Back” on VH1 classic. Maybe it was because I was mindnumbingly hungover or because I just didn’t have anything better to watch. However, I ended up watching Meat grow up from little boy to a larger than life singer, watching him struggle with failure and seeing him make a heartbreaking dedication to his dead mom during his Michael Jordan-like comeback to the industry.

You know how when you watch these biographies and they have to cover a lot of ground quickly? Like they have to show that he abused alcohol so they show him not drink for the first half and then one time after a show, he gets Bukowski drunk and tells his wife “No one can tell me what to do!” while swigging a whole bottle of Jack Daniels.

… That happened a lot. And it was fantastical…
This post was going to be about a show I am going to see on friday with two bands I love and one I just started listening to, hence the title, however, I really needed to address this retarted Meat Loaf movie.

Anyway, here are three songs from the three bands I am seeing at Bowery Ballroom this friday.

the Long Winters - Hindsight

Menomena - Strongest Man in the World (one I love, see here.)

What Made Milwaukee Famous - I decide (a great new band with a weird name)

PS also a friend of mine told me that they didnt know how to DLoad the songs on my site.

CHECK OUT INSTRUCTIONS HERE.