April 2007 Mix

It's time to look back and reflect again... Let's look back one year to April 2007.

The Downloadable: "April 2007 Mix" (box.net zip) (mirror: sendspace)

Artists Featured:
Aa (a/k/a BIG A little a)
The Big Sleep
Black Lips
Cadence Weapon
Dead Kennedys
DeVotchKa
Hot Gossip
Love Of Diagrams
Low Scores
The Muggabears
Peel
The Ponys
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Pterodactyl
Sleater-Kinney
Slint

The Playlist:


Consider Clicking
- Straight outta Lawrence, Kansas, it's Boo And Boo Too @ I Rock Cleveland... here.

- 20 Jazz Funk Greats was very disturbed by Gary Numan's Newport Folk Festival moment... here.

- Algebra Of Need gets Built On A Weak Spot... here.

- Pyschpop it up with The Young Sinclairs and their new mp3... "Canceled Flight" (mp3)

- Teh Songs Of Teh Day @ My Music it has a flavor are by Cut Copy... here.

VIDEO: Diamonds By Low Scores

Just noticed that Low Scores posted this vid of "Diamonds". It is part of his new collab with Stenographer. Oh, and the video was put together by Ein.

Check it:


last.fm video link is here.
youtube links are here and here.

Download a little recent Low Scores: "Black Tape" (mp3)

Download a lot of older Low Scores:
"Bumble And The Bees (Instrumental Album)" (zip)
"10,000 Cities (Remix Album)" (zip)

Last.fm page is here (with many a free mp3).

Consider Clicking
- Muzak For Cybernetics has posted a few new mp3s from The Mae Shi. "Run" to get them.. here.

- New "'gumdropped" Devotchka is over at GvsB... here.

- The Early Day Miners dig up somrthing good for Daytrotter.... here. Non-Daytrotter Session: "All Harm" (mp3)

- New trends in band names at EAR FARM... here.

- Tullycraft post a mellow version of "Pillar Of Salt" (mp3) by The Thermals... here.

- Captain's Dead has a decent Arcade Fire in NY boot... here.

- All I can say is Holy Fuck! This smacks of hoax, but I have not heard anything to the contrary yet. Does Rachel Ray really like "Lovely Allen" (mp3) by postrockers Holy Fuck? Maybe, if she drinks a few "Root Beer Bombs" (foodtv recipe).

- File under Free Not Free. Clinic is giving away a zip with two new tracks ("Free Not Free" and "Thor") in exchange for an email address... here. Props to GvsB for pointing this out. Also, watch the video for "Free Not Free" (mov)

Venus In Furs By DeVotchka

Q: Want to hear cover that is not just, how you say, "shallow rehashing"?

Download: "Venus In Furs" (mp3) by DeVotchka

Myspace page is here.
AceFu page is here.
Emusic page is here.

Unrelated BONUS links:
- The Shameless Complacency has got the new Wolf Parade side project: Handsome Furs (featuring Wolf Parader Dan Boeckner)... here.
- Speaking of Wolf Parade, the video for "I'll Believe in Anything" is here.
- Milk Milk Lemonade has a music blogging how to with some mp3s by Motorhead, Bruspi, The Cramps, and James Brown... here.