emusic suggestions

have 80 downloads left…need some suggestions :)

Little Man Tate, The Chalets, The Hard Tomorrows, The Features, The Indestructible Beat of Soweto - Volume One, The Victorian English Gentlemens Club, Underground Resistance, The Broken West, Paul Weller "As Is Now". I Am Kloot, Department S, etc

The Nice Boys CD is good, it's the band formed by the surviving members of the Exploding Hearts

There's a good New York Dolls album "A Hard Night's Day" released by Norton Records which is the demos of what would become the first record…

Add The Hentchmen to the list..

The Chalets

Oi!! They're 'my' suggestion ;)

others worth your downloads are
A House if you want to hear one of my favorite (and by extension Irelands) bands of all time
BC Camplight if you like Belle and Sebastian
new Bloc Party
Angels of Light/Akron Family if you like slightly weird but very very good freak folk
Crooked Fingers if you like Wilco pre-YHF and a singer who sounds like Neil Diamond
Danko Jones if you like uncomplicated balls to the wall rock n roll
Eels if you feel like killing yourself
Gogol Bordello if you want to pogo around the room with unrestrained joy for 40 minutes
Heartless Bastards if you want to hear one of the greatest female voices in contemporary music
I Am Kloot if you want to score coolness points with Jaguar
Kristin Hersh/Throwing Muses/50 Foot Wave if you want to hear one of the original riot grrrls still going strong
Portastatic if you want to hear idiosyncratic power pop
+/- if you want to hear one of the most underrated albums of 2006
Richard Hawley if you still don't feel like killing yourself after listening to the Eels
Sultans of Ping if you want to know how to make a 2 1/2 minute garage rock classic
The Birthday Party if you want to know who Nick Cave was before he was Nick Cave
The Dears if you want to hear another one of 2006's best albums
The Frames if you want to hear the band that routinely outpolls U2 for best Irish band
The Frank and Walters if you want to hear power pop from Cork City, the real capital of Ireland
The Spinto Band if you want to hear one of the best young bands in the US
The Standard if you like Joy Division
The Weepies if you like beautiful, low key music

I like the new Danko Jones CD as well…

Lately, I haven't been able to get Fennesz's Venice out of my mind, especially "Chateau Rouge." Electronica and subtle noise at its most engrossing.

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Birdland w/ Lester Bangs

is this the same birdland that were in england in the early 90s?

No idea. I kind of doubt it though. I find it hard to believe this band would last that long.

Good thread. I need recommendations too! Lately, I have been really enjoying +/-. :)
(I can't go to the site right now - defeats the purpose of my post, I know. Sorry! Check to see if Dandelions, Girls in Hawaii or Headphones are available…)

Brennser, that is a GREAT list. Thanks for the short descriptions.

Kosmo, you know I nearly always take your recommendations blind!!

I downloaded the Pipettes in December and just listened to it. I got back and forth on them – sometimes there a too retro, then the next song has a good mix of 60s girl group and modern day kick ass chicks.

Soft Complex - Barcelona

Figured I might as well :)

take most of my recommendations blind, but be sure to checkout Underground Resistance first as they are a very early Detroit Techno group who is pretty far away in sound to most of my fav rock bands.

Very cool new label addition with Luaka Bop on eMusic…

I downloaded:

the new Field Music
Townes Van Zandt (self-titled)
Black Angels' Passover

49 more downloads

If you like Mclusky checkout The Victorian English Gentlemen's Cub. Who are of course Welsh and two thirds female.

you might also want to stock up on any V2 release under consideration, they could easily dump eMusic as a digital distributor.

as

V2 fires staff, splits with White Stripes, Moby
Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:28 AM ET

By Ed Christman

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Indie record label V2 North America, home to such acts as the White Stripes, Moby and the Raconteurs, laid off its staff Friday and will primarily become a catalog label.

The label's parent company, Sheridan Square, also plans to focus on digital distribution. About 35 people, including president Andy Gershon, are believed to have lost their jobs as part of the restructuring.

The company will retain the White Stripes catalog, but will no longer issue new music by the duo or other frontline artists such as Moby or the Raconteurs, sources say. The only genre the company plans to participate in going forward is gospel.

In addition to the catalog, the company is looking for ways to grow business digitally. Part of that is said to be in talks that could include a merger or investment with a company that is pursuing a similar strategy in the video business.

V2 was founded by British entrepreneur Richard Branson in 1996. New York-based Sheridan Square bought the North American assets in February 2006.

Sheridan Square's principals include Joe Bianco, Anil Narang, Joe Pretlow, and the Stephens Group, which bought into the company last July during a financial restructuring.

Since 2003, Sheridan Square has spent an estimated $43 million acquiring indie labels V2 North America, Compendia and Artemis; distributor Musicrama; and certain catalog assets of Tone-Cool Records, Triloka, Ropeadope Records and Vanguard Classical.

Reuters/Billboard

I downloaded:

the new Field Music
Townes Van Zandt (self-titled)
Black Angels' Passover

49 more downloads

ok, now how about downloading some of the recommendations we gave you

emusic has At the Drive-In… very awesome

Since 2003, Sheridan Square has spent an estimated $43 million acquiring indie labels V2 North America, Compendia and Artemis; distributor Musicrama; and certain catalog assets of Tone-Cool Records, Triloka, Ropeadope Records and Vanguard Classical.

With business practices like this how the fuck can anyone consider any of these labels "indie"? It just goes to show how meaningless the term has become.