Castanets / First Lights Freeze / Asthamtic Kitty Death From Above 1979 / Romance Bloody Romance / Vice Records Interpol / Interpol Remix / Matador Records The Mendoza Line / Full of Light and Full of Fire / Misra Records Okkervil River / Black Sheep Boy Appendix / Jagjaguwar Queens Of The Stone Age / Over the Years & Through the Woods Radiohead / Live at the Astoria / Capitol John Zorn / Mysterium / Tzadik

gloveboX - "In the End" GloveboX / Baria Records GloveboX are from Australia and this is their debut self titled album. Featuring 12 eclectic pop songs (plus a remixed track) the album oozes the kind of energy that makes you want to sing at yourself in the mirror with a hairdryer microphone. GloveboX utilize their crossover sound of Electrorganic super Pop to form a collage of different sonic textures, beats and grooves layered under the distinct unusual voice of Mishka. ...

Here at Tinymeat we listen to a ton, and I mean a ton of new music on a daily basis. Being that we're in Vermont and I personally don't enjoy the singer/songwriter crap (think Dar Williams or local fav Grace Potter) or the teenie bopper shopping mall punk (Hawthorne Heights, My Chemical Douchebag), finding good tunes has become a fulltime quest. It's no secret that I scour the internet and listen to web radio (KEXP, WOXY, Indie 103) to find ...

Why? - "Sand Dollars" Elephant Eyelash / Anticon Whether inhabiting the persona of a lovelorn crooner or warp-mouthed Dylanesque poet, self-deprecating, soft-singing shy guy or loud-mouthed macho type, Yoni wraps unforgettable lyrical imagery around grooves powered by an arsenal of instruments: guitars, turntable, piano, glockenspiel, pedal, pots, pans, and more. Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel, krautrock and dub are all channeled here, but the mix never gets too heady. Rather, it’s Yoni’s trademark delivery, half-smirk, half-grin, that reminds us that it’s life’s ...

I was so excited upon discovery of the healthy stash of artist mp3's at Lookout Records that I decided to devote this weeks' IPT to a sole label. Then the bad news. It seems they have some chickenshit policy about direct linking that goes like this: All URLs published on our site for our MP3s are dynamically generated and only valid for a limited time. So, if you copy a URL of one of our MP3s to your site, it ...

Tom Vek - Nothing But Green Lights (video) "We Have Sound" / Startime Records Most of Tom Vek’s influences are at least fifteen years old and easily triangulated. But he’s unencumbered by nostalgia. We Have Sound is so difficult to isolate from Vek’s ass-backwards charisma, I wonder if the man might be a visionary. - Dusted Magazine 10/27: San Francisco, CA @ Popscene at 330 Rich Street Co-Headlining w/ GoGoGo Airheart 10/30: Austin, TX @ Emo's 10/31: Dallas, TX @ Gypsy Tea Room Test Icicles ...

We have another band promo brewin' with Shawn over at Cornerstone Promotion. This time it's Oxfordshire trio Supergrass in support of their new release "Road to Rouen", and the single "St. Petersburg" Check out the video here

Artist Site Greg Dulli - Domani Amber Headlights / Initial Recordings Greg of Afghan Whigs and Twilight Singers always has his hands in new projects. Grab it now before it ends up on the O.C. The Capes - Tightly Wound Taste EP / Hard Soul Records Artist Site The Sun - Valentine (Quicktime video) Blame it on the Youth / Warner Bros. The new Weezer? The much anticipated first release from Ohio based Chris Burney and friends. The first of it's kind DVD release is set for 9/27. 14 ...

The Shortwave Set - Slingshot The Debt Collection / Independiente Ltd. / The debut album from south-east London's Shortwave Set sounds like a sonic tour round the best cafes on the planet: solo John Lennon performed at formica-tabled booths in an inner-city greasy spoon, or a half-remembered song in a seaside chippie where the windows are smeared with vinegar and regret. In reality, Andrew Petitt, Swedish singer and guitarist Ulrike Bjorsne and David Farrell all live in the now (relatively) arty Deptford, and ...

Mice Parade - Focus on the Rollercoaster Obrigado Saudade / Fatcat Records The title of Mice Parade’s third album on FatCat is a Portuguese phrase, which roughly translates as ‘thank you nostalgia’. That said, ‘saudade’ is an untranslatable term rooted in the Lusophone world, where the history of slavery, continental migrations and maritime exploration lend a whole new depth to longing and loss. It’s a concept that demonstrates Mice Parade’s interest in that which lies between language and feeling, those half forms ...

Cloud Cult - "Car Crash" The Happy Hippopotamus / Earthology Records You know how there is that intrinsic timelessness to Radiohead and Nirvana albums, even the very first time you hear them? This album is like that: immediately at home in its own skin and immunized against any "Oh my gawd, that shit is so lame" embarrassment a year from now, but it does so in a dramatically non-rock way - which isn't to say that this album doesn't rock, because ...

A meme from Matty Mcmatmatt "List ten songs that you are currently digging ... it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're no good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the ten songs in your blog. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to." 1) Shout Out Louds - "The Comeback" / Big Slippa remix by Rattatat 2) Deerhoof - "Spiral Golden ...

A special double whammy edition of the IPT this week. Youth Group - Skeleton Jar Skeleton Jar / Epitaph Records Indie fans will naturally flock to Youth Group for their sensible chord progressions and thoughtful lyrics, but this is a band with the potential to attract fans of all types. Christopher Walla of Death Cab for Cutie breaks things down a little more simply: "Youth Group gets it. If you don’t love them your heart is dead." The band plays with a carefully calculated, ...

The High Dials - Holy Ground War Of The Wakening Phantom (Rainbow Quartz) If you're not already in love, this album approximates its euphoric stupor, like when Natalie Portman played New Slang for Zach Braff in Garden State. Hell, Montreal's High Dials may change your life. Listening to Holy Ground is like swimming through warm, deliberately fuzzy psychedelia. Groovy 60s-themed tunes are the staple, and an infectious sweetness winds through the blend of garage rock riffs, sublime bass licks and militaristic drumming, ...

The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (mp3) Twin Cinema/Matador/ole-621 LP/CD Frontman Carl Newman on the upcoming album: "Various unintentional influences have crept into our work, some of which are quickly removed: The Moody Blues, Tubeway Army, Wings, always Wings, never The Beatles, Eno of course, you can't play ebow without sounding like Eno, Modern English, middle period post-Gabriel Genesis, The Stranglers, the vocal inflections on "Dreadlock Holiday" remain a steady influence, we're still trying to find a way to insert some dub/white ...