Originally posted by dotdot:http://www.indietorrents.com/
When people say "I got this months before because it leaked on the Internet," where the hell do they get the mentioned LP? I know of Kazaa and stuff like that, but they're not Mac-friendly. How does one obtain "leaked tracks" via a Mac? Help me. Don't worry, I've never downloaded illegal music. And I, uh, never will.
Albums in 2004
Thanks much, Pollard, but I can't sign up because they already have their maximum amount of users. Any other suggestions?
I think limewire works on a Mac.
Here is the track list for "The O.C.: Mix 2":
"Saturday Morning," the Eels
"Hello Sunshine," Super Furry Animals
"Smile Like You Mean It," the Killers
"A Lack of Color," Death Cab For Cutie
"The Specialist," Interpol
"Something Pretty," Patrick Park
"You Got Me All Wrong," Dios Malos
"If You Leave," Nada Surf
"Big Sur," the Thrills
"Little House of Savages" (live), the Walkmen
"Trouble Sleeping," the Perishers
"So Sweet," Johnathan Rice
"Popular Mechanics for Lovers," Beulah
"Walnut Tree," Keane
"Maybe I'm Amazed," Jem
"Eastern Glow," the Album Leaf
"Mix 3: Have a Very Merry Chrismukkah" takes its name from the holiday the half-Jewish, half-Christian Cohen family celebrates on the show. Although a full track list is not yet finalized, the album will feature such songs as Ron Sexsmith's "Maybe This Christmas" and Low's "Just Like Christmas."
Released in April, the first "O.C." soundtrack debuted at No. 52 on The Billboard 200 and has sold more than 163,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
"Saturday Morning," the Eels
"Hello Sunshine," Super Furry Animals
"Smile Like You Mean It," the Killers
"A Lack of Color," Death Cab For Cutie
"The Specialist," Interpol
"Something Pretty," Patrick Park
"You Got Me All Wrong," Dios Malos
"If You Leave," Nada Surf
"Big Sur," the Thrills
"Little House of Savages" (live), the Walkmen
"Trouble Sleeping," the Perishers
"So Sweet," Johnathan Rice
"Popular Mechanics for Lovers," Beulah
"Walnut Tree," Keane
"Maybe I'm Amazed," Jem
"Eastern Glow," the Album Leaf
"Mix 3: Have a Very Merry Chrismukkah" takes its name from the holiday the half-Jewish, half-Christian Cohen family celebrates on the show. Although a full track list is not yet finalized, the album will feature such songs as Ron Sexsmith's "Maybe This Christmas" and Low's "Just Like Christmas."
Released in April, the first "O.C." soundtrack debuted at No. 52 on The Billboard 200 and has sold more than 163,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Originally posted by Lazer Guided Melodies:Well Lazer, looks like we aren't missing everything. Ulrich broke his hand and had to cancel his US tour. Small consolation though as we are still missing M83.
Hey Jaguar, are you planning on going to one of the M83/Schnauss shows? Unfortunately, I can't make any of these shows which I am sure will be magical nights of synthgaze. I am also waiting for the second album to be released in the US. Have your heard this unreleased gem from his website: http://www.ulrich-schnauss.net/downloads/2001_us_breakfast.mp3
Hope he heals as fast as some of these other musicians have been healing. Has it become the latest trend for muscians to break their wrists or fingers? Seems to be a lot of that going around in the past year.
MATCHBOX TWENTY FINALLY FINISHES WATERING DOWN LONG-AWAITED NEW ALBUM
LOS ANGELESâ??Executives at Atlantic Records announced Monday that multi-platinum recording artist Matchbox Twenty, which set sales records in 2000 for its mega-hit release Mad Season, has finally finished watering down tracks on its long-awaited new album Beige.
"Everyone here at Atlantic is thrilled about what's sure to be the biggest-selling, least-rocking record of the year," Atlantic public-relations spokeswoman Janet Cosgrove said. "It's been a long wait, but the incredibly boring results speak for themselves. Beige is bigger and blander than anything Matchbox Twenty has ever done."
"Grab a chair, America!" she added. "The most uninteresting band in formulaic, corporate radio is back!"
Read the rest of the story here!
LOS ANGELESâ??Executives at Atlantic Records announced Monday that multi-platinum recording artist Matchbox Twenty, which set sales records in 2000 for its mega-hit release Mad Season, has finally finished watering down tracks on its long-awaited new album Beige.
"Everyone here at Atlantic is thrilled about what's sure to be the biggest-selling, least-rocking record of the year," Atlantic public-relations spokeswoman Janet Cosgrove said. "It's been a long wait, but the incredibly boring results speak for themselves. Beige is bigger and blander than anything Matchbox Twenty has ever done."
"Grab a chair, America!" she added. "The most uninteresting band in formulaic, corporate radio is back!"
Read the rest of the story here!
Just found out about this one:
Peter Murphy is back with a new album titled UNSHATTERED, set for a release date of October 5, 2004 on Viastar Records. The album reunites Peter with Paul Statham (Dido) his co-writer on the multi-platinum selling album Deep. Unshattered was produced by Gardner Cole (Madonna), features Stephen Perkins and Eric Avery of Jane's Addiction, and ex-bandmate Kevin Haskins of Bauhaus. The first single taken out of UNSHATTERED will be Idle Flow, co-written with Peter DiStephano (from Porno for Pyros). UNSHATTERED embodies the music evolution of one of the most enigmatic and influential artists of our time.
Track Listing:
Idle Flow
Kiss Myself
Piece of You
Face the Moon
Emergency Unit
Thelma Sings to Little Nell
The Weight of Love
Give What he's Got
Blinded Like Saul
The First Stone
Breaking No One's Heaven
Peter Murphy is back with a new album titled UNSHATTERED, set for a release date of October 5, 2004 on Viastar Records. The album reunites Peter with Paul Statham (Dido) his co-writer on the multi-platinum selling album Deep. Unshattered was produced by Gardner Cole (Madonna), features Stephen Perkins and Eric Avery of Jane's Addiction, and ex-bandmate Kevin Haskins of Bauhaus. The first single taken out of UNSHATTERED will be Idle Flow, co-written with Peter DiStephano (from Porno for Pyros). UNSHATTERED embodies the music evolution of one of the most enigmatic and influential artists of our time.
Track Listing:
Idle Flow
Kiss Myself
Piece of You
Face the Moon
Emergency Unit
Thelma Sings to Little Nell
The Weight of Love
Give What he's Got
Blinded Like Saul
The First Stone
Breaking No One's Heaven
Unheard Cuts Bolster Pavement Reissue
Thu Sep 23, 8:48 PM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters to My Yahoo!
By Jonathan Cohen
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Eleven never-before-heard tracks will be unveiled on Matador's 10th anniversary edition of seminal indie rock act Pavement's sophomore album, "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain."
Due Oct. 26, the double-disc set sports 14 additional unreleased versions of songs from the album, including a 1994 Peel Session on BBC Radio. The package will include a 40-page booklet with essays, rare Pavement photos and memorabilia.
"There's some things I would veto now and then, but Matador more than anything has been the driving force in digging up stuff and making these records into '90s classics," Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus (news) told Billboard with a chuckle. "I mean, they're doing a 40-page booklet! I didn't even know there was that much stuff that you could use for this!"
Thanks to such infectious cuts as "Range Life," "Gold Soundz" and "Cut Your Hair," "Crooked Rain" exposed Pavement to listeners well beyond the confines of indie rock. The set is the band's top-selling album to date, having shifted more than 234,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
"There are some extras that I guess just failed," Malkmus said of unreleased tracks like "All My Friends," "Hands off the Bayou" and "Flood Victim." "There are some full songs that are pretty cool; they sound just like 'Crooked Rain.' They maybe have not as good mixes or bad singing, or are just slightly inferior. But they're still pretty good."
Malkmus said he never listens to old Pavement albums, but was pleased to hear "Crooked Rain" recently in a bar in his Portland, Ore., home base. "I made an effort to record it and mix it in a way that was not completely '90s," he said of the album. "In the end, if you listened to it a lot when it came out, it will take you back to that time. It's just a little more fleshed out than (the 1992 debut album) 'Slanted and Enchanted.' It's not necessarily more ambitious, but just by making a second album, it's more ambitious. On a first album, you don't know what you're doing."
Pavement split after 1999's "Terror Twilight," with Malkmus going on to a solo career leading the band the Jicks. He said there's no fundamental obstacle to a Pavement reunion some day, but it's not something he's anticipating in the near future.
"It doesn't feel exactly right yet for me to do it," he said. "I mean, it could. I guess you just know when it's right, just like so many other things in your life. Or, you force it due to financial reasons or someone telling you how much you could make. No one has told us that, so that's not an issue at all. But we all get along; no one is like a lawyer with a huge caseload or has lost an arm."
Reuters/Billboard
Thu Sep 23, 8:48 PM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters to My Yahoo!
By Jonathan Cohen
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Eleven never-before-heard tracks will be unveiled on Matador's 10th anniversary edition of seminal indie rock act Pavement's sophomore album, "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain."
Due Oct. 26, the double-disc set sports 14 additional unreleased versions of songs from the album, including a 1994 Peel Session on BBC Radio. The package will include a 40-page booklet with essays, rare Pavement photos and memorabilia.
"There's some things I would veto now and then, but Matador more than anything has been the driving force in digging up stuff and making these records into '90s classics," Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus (news) told Billboard with a chuckle. "I mean, they're doing a 40-page booklet! I didn't even know there was that much stuff that you could use for this!"
Thanks to such infectious cuts as "Range Life," "Gold Soundz" and "Cut Your Hair," "Crooked Rain" exposed Pavement to listeners well beyond the confines of indie rock. The set is the band's top-selling album to date, having shifted more than 234,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
"There are some extras that I guess just failed," Malkmus said of unreleased tracks like "All My Friends," "Hands off the Bayou" and "Flood Victim." "There are some full songs that are pretty cool; they sound just like 'Crooked Rain.' They maybe have not as good mixes or bad singing, or are just slightly inferior. But they're still pretty good."
Malkmus said he never listens to old Pavement albums, but was pleased to hear "Crooked Rain" recently in a bar in his Portland, Ore., home base. "I made an effort to record it and mix it in a way that was not completely '90s," he said of the album. "In the end, if you listened to it a lot when it came out, it will take you back to that time. It's just a little more fleshed out than (the 1992 debut album) 'Slanted and Enchanted.' It's not necessarily more ambitious, but just by making a second album, it's more ambitious. On a first album, you don't know what you're doing."
Pavement split after 1999's "Terror Twilight," with Malkmus going on to a solo career leading the band the Jicks. He said there's no fundamental obstacle to a Pavement reunion some day, but it's not something he's anticipating in the near future.
"It doesn't feel exactly right yet for me to do it," he said. "I mean, it could. I guess you just know when it's right, just like so many other things in your life. Or, you force it due to financial reasons or someone telling you how much you could make. No one has told us that, so that's not an issue at all. But we all get along; no one is like a lawyer with a huge caseload or has lost an arm."
Reuters/Billboard
See, everyone loves Snow Patrol!
Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle has assembled a mix CD to be issued under the moniker "Below the Radio" this fall via Ultra Records. Beyond tracks by Pavement, Beck, Snow Patrol and Elbow, the set features a new Grandaddy track, "Nature Anthem."
"I can¹t help but notice how they are not big 'heavy hitters' off of the albums that they came from, or the songs that the record labels would have suggested as being 'singles,'" Lytle says. "They did although end up being my favorite songs from those albums and this fact has intrigued me since childhood. Why am I usually more smitten with the unobvious hits than the obvious hits? Somewhere in this list lies the answer."
Other artists represented on the album include Beulah, Earlimart, Giant Sand, Goldenboy, the Handsome Family and Blonde Redhead. Grandaddy's most recent album was 2003's "Sumday" (V2), which debuted at No. 84 on The Billboard 200.
– Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Billboard
Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle has assembled a mix CD to be issued under the moniker "Below the Radio" this fall via Ultra Records. Beyond tracks by Pavement, Beck, Snow Patrol and Elbow, the set features a new Grandaddy track, "Nature Anthem."
"I can¹t help but notice how they are not big 'heavy hitters' off of the albums that they came from, or the songs that the record labels would have suggested as being 'singles,'" Lytle says. "They did although end up being my favorite songs from those albums and this fact has intrigued me since childhood. Why am I usually more smitten with the unobvious hits than the obvious hits? Somewhere in this list lies the answer."
Other artists represented on the album include Beulah, Earlimart, Giant Sand, Goldenboy, the Handsome Family and Blonde Redhead. Grandaddy's most recent album was 2003's "Sumday" (V2), which debuted at No. 84 on The Billboard 200.
– Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Billboard
Pissing contest….
Originally posted by Bags:
"I can¹t help but notice how they are not big 'heavy hitters' off of the albums that they came from, or the songs that the record labels would have suggested as being 'singles,'" Lytle says. "They did although end up being my favorite songs from those albums and this fact has intrigued me since childhood. Why am I usually more smitten with the unobvious hits than the obvious hits? Somewhere in this list lies the answer."
Originally posted by econo:Or, "I'm so cool, hip and unique that I notice the gems that others don't appreciate – yet."
Pissing contest….
SURPRISE….the "London Calling" reissue so far has a score of 99 on Metacritic...
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Ultra Rare Recordings Bolster Clash Classic
Five never-before-heard Clash songs highlight the upcoming Legacy Edition of "London Calling," due Sept. 21 via Epic.
How you can add 100, 100, 100, and 80 and get an average of 99, I'm not sure…
must be some of that fuzzy math
must be some of that fuzzy math
Originally posted by Bags:
SURPRISE….the "London Calling" reissue so far has a score of 99 on Metacritic...
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Ultra Rare Recordings Bolster Clash Classic
Five never-before-heard Clash songs highlight the upcoming Legacy Edition of "London Calling," due Sept. 21 via Epic.
The METASCORE is considered a weighted average because we assign more significance, or weight, to some critics and publications than we do to others, based on the overall stature and quality of those critics and publications.
So pitchfork's 100 carries more weight than blender's 80. Brilliant.
Next they're going to start counting blacks as only 1/2 a vote in presidential elections.
Next they're going to start counting blacks as only 1/2 a vote in presidential elections.
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
The METASCORE is considered a weighted average because we assign more significance, or weight, to some critics and publications than we do to others, based on the overall stature and quality of those critics and publications.
the onion's shitbox twenty piece was rather tepid, but this 'no story' headline is brilliant:
"Ramones Reunion Nearly Complete"
"Ramones Reunion Nearly Complete"
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:An online review clearinghouse
So pitchfork's 100 carries more weight than blender's 80. Brilliant.
Next they're going to start counting blacks as only 1/2 a vote in presidential elections.
versus
national elections.
Yeah, they're in the same league.
Originally posted by toohotnthehottub:OH MAN, that's so awful, but so funny.
the onion's shitbox twenty piece was rather tepid, but this 'no story' headline is brilliant:
"Ramones Reunion Nearly Complete"
Decemberists Get Religion
Portland quintet records third album in a church
On the heels of the July release of The Tain EP, the Decemberists spent August in a Baptist church in their native Portland, Oregon, tracking new songs for their third record. Produced by Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Chris Walla, the tentatively titled The Infanta is due out in the spring on Kill Rock Stars.
The album will be the hyper-literate indie folkers' third full-length (plus two EPs) in the span of four years. The title track is about "the coronation procession for a child Spanish princess," explains songwriter Colin Meloy. Another track, "The Buxmoll," deals with male prostitution in downtown Portland.
The Infanta continues the band's evolution from the acoustic guitar-based 5 Songs EP (2001) through the symphony of accordion, glockenspiel, pedal steel and "tin toys" showcased on The Tain, a five-part song suite based on an Irish folk cycle.
"On 5 Songs and the first record, we were sort of going on default settings: these are the instruments we have, and this is how we're going to play," says Meloy. "As we've gotten closer as bandmates, we've really started to flesh out a better sound. On this record, a lot of the emphasis is going to be on the instrumentations themselves.
Meloy's lyric-writing also received a jolt from his experience penning The Replacements' Let It Be, his non-fiction chronicle of the seminal 1984 indie rock album. "I had a renewed vigor for writing songs," he says of immersing himself in the ramshackle mind of the young Paul Westerberg, "and writing really out-of-control, over-the-top, imaginative ramblings."
Portland quintet records third album in a church
On the heels of the July release of The Tain EP, the Decemberists spent August in a Baptist church in their native Portland, Oregon, tracking new songs for their third record. Produced by Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Chris Walla, the tentatively titled The Infanta is due out in the spring on Kill Rock Stars.
The album will be the hyper-literate indie folkers' third full-length (plus two EPs) in the span of four years. The title track is about "the coronation procession for a child Spanish princess," explains songwriter Colin Meloy. Another track, "The Buxmoll," deals with male prostitution in downtown Portland.
The Infanta continues the band's evolution from the acoustic guitar-based 5 Songs EP (2001) through the symphony of accordion, glockenspiel, pedal steel and "tin toys" showcased on The Tain, a five-part song suite based on an Irish folk cycle.
"On 5 Songs and the first record, we were sort of going on default settings: these are the instruments we have, and this is how we're going to play," says Meloy. "As we've gotten closer as bandmates, we've really started to flesh out a better sound. On this record, a lot of the emphasis is going to be on the instrumentations themselves.
Meloy's lyric-writing also received a jolt from his experience penning The Replacements' Let It Be, his non-fiction chronicle of the seminal 1984 indie rock album. "I had a renewed vigor for writing songs," he says of immersing himself in the ramshackle mind of the young Paul Westerberg, "and writing really out-of-control, over-the-top, imaginative ramblings."
apparently, sanctuary records is releasing a double-disc slowdive compilation, that's been remastered (i hear that there's one for the boo radleys and swervedriver coming soon as well). . .it will be released on October 25, here's the tracklist:
2-CD SET
DISC 1:
Slowdive
Avalyn 1
Morningrise
She Calls
Catch The Breeze
Shine
Golden Hair
Spanish Air
Waves
Alison
So Tired
Sing
Souvlaki Space Station
DISC 2:
Machine Gun
Here She Comes
When The Sun Hits
In Mind
Good Day Sunshine
Missing You
Rutti
Crazy For You
Trellisaze
Blue Skied And Clear
2-CD SET
DISC 1:
Slowdive
Avalyn 1
Morningrise
She Calls
Catch The Breeze
Shine
Golden Hair
Spanish Air
Waves
Alison
So Tired
Sing
Souvlaki Space Station
DISC 2:
Machine Gun
Here She Comes
When The Sun Hits
In Mind
Good Day Sunshine
Missing You
Rutti
Crazy For You
Trellisaze
Blue Skied And Clear