Unreleased: Iron & Wine - Cold Town

Iron & Wine - Cold Town [mp3]

unreleased demo

c. 2000

New Sufjan Stevens EP!

Available today digitally at Bandcamp for stream or digital purchase for $5. 

Or, wait for it to hit Amazon and other digital outlets.

All Delighted People is built around two different versions of Sufjan’s long-form epic ballad "All Delighted People," a dramatic homage to the Apocalypse, existential ennui, and Paul Simon’s "Sounds of Silence." Sounds delightful, yes! The song was originally workshopped on Sufjan’s previous tour in the fall of 2009. Other songs on the EP include the 17-minute guitar jam-for-single-mothers "Djohariah," and the gothic piano ballad "The Owl and the Tanager," a live-show mainstay (and Debbie Downer if you ask us; what’s it doing on a "Delighted" EP?).

Raise Your Hands!

New Fleet Foxes songs, kind of

Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold has been on tour with Joanna Newsom, and recently posted a short tour documentary.  There is some great footage of him playing some new tunes - some of which have been floating around for a pit.  They are definitely worth checking out, regardless.  Also, skip to the bottom for a few live MP3s of new tunes, via We All Want Someone to Shout For and Pitchfork Media.

The video embed has been disabled, so go over to Fleetfoxes.com to watch it.

 Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes) - Lorelai [mp3]


Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes) - Helplessness Blues [mp3]

Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes) - Look Up, Look Down that Lonesome Road [mp3]

New Ra Ra Riot Video - Boy

Ra Ra Riot - New Music - More Music Videos

The Orchard is out August 24 on Barsuk.

Follow on twitter for more regular posts

Dear all,

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Band of Horses - Infinite Arms - $3.99 today only

Go, buy it already!!!

Albums you Must own (for $5 a piece!) Nr. 04

Amazon.com is constantly running $5 album deals for mp3 albums..  Each month or so, they post a new list of 100 albums.

Here are a few albums from their list that should 100% be in your music collection.

Did I mention these are all only $5

1.

 Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

 2.

Radiohead - OK Computer 

 3.

Damien Jurado - Saint Bartlett

4.

Andrew Bird - Noble Beast

 5.

 Coconut Records - Nighttiming

Others you should probably pick up while they are cheap:

Spoon - A Series of Sneaks

Battles - Mirrored

 

Conor Oberst - Outer South  

A.A. Bondy - When the Devil's Loose

The Dodos - Visiter

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Mates of State - Crushes (The Covers Mixtape)

Coldplay - X & Y  

Ben Harper - Burn to Shine

Ani DiFranco - Ani DiFranco

Jim Gaffigan - Doing my Time

The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs - only $3.99

Get it for cheap while you can!  Only $3.99 on Amazon!

Upcoming Reviews

I have a handful of new releases I am digesting and getting ready to review.  As a heads up, here they are:

J. Tillman - Singing Ax

The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yelstin - Let it Sway

Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard

New Jonsi Video - Animal Arithmetic

Ratatat releases the CREEPIEST video ever - Drugs

A bunch of B-roll footage never looks SO CREEPY!
Drugs

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