Download: Jill Andrews - A Little Less

Former Everybodyfields singer Jill Andrews is set to release her debut solo album this year. She came out with a self-titled EP last year, which was extremely impressive (better than anything by her previous band, in my opinion). She recorded a live session for HearYa which was posted yesterday, and played a new, unheard song which could be from said upcoming debut record.

Setlist:
A Little Less
Sweetest in the Morning
These Words
Worth Keeping

Download:
Jill Andrews - 'A Little Less'

Full Show/More info:
http://www.hearya.com/2010/06/17/jill-andrews-live-session-73/

Watch 'A Little Less':

Download: Imelda May - Daytrotter Session

Imelda May is the latest artist to record a Daytrotter Session. The Irish chanteuse performed five fantastic songs, which can be downloaded as free mp3s over on the Daytrotter website.

Setlist:
Big Bad Handsome Man
Knock 123
My Baby Left Me
Sneaky Freak
Watcha Gonna Do?

Download:
http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/imelda-may-concert/20031257-37382210.html

Album News: Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

Not only will Irish fans get the chance to see Iron Maiden live this summer at the O2 on July 30th, but two weeks later can get the chance to hear brand new studio tracks on the band's fifteenth album, The Final Frontier. Better still, the band are giving away one of the album's ten songs, 'El Dorado', as a free mp3 download on their official site from today.

Tracklist:
1. Satellite 15.....The Final Frontier 8:40
2. El Dorado 6:49
3. Mother Of Mercy 5:20
4. Coming Home 5:52
5. The Alchemist 4:29
6. Isle Of Avalon 9:06
7. Starblind 7:48
8. The Talisman 9:03
9. The Man Who Would Be King 8:28
10. When The Wild Wind Blows 10:59

Download 'El Dorado':
http://www.ironmaiden.com/download/index.html

Download: Dave Matthews Band - Summer Tour 2010

Dave Matthews Band are currently on their last Summer Tour before they take a year off in 2011. The 2010 US Summer Tour has seen a lot of old songs coming back like 'Busted Stuff', 'Digging a Ditch', 'So Right', and 'Cry Freedom'. They also played 'Break For It', a new song which had been eagerly anticipated by hardcore fans. Have a listen to some of these tracks and many, many more below. (You can also download them if you so wish). Thanks to all the tapers for recording them. To download full shows of any of the gigs so far, check out the following thread on fan forum These Days Continue:
http://www.thesedayscontinue.org/showthread.php?t=203150

Dave Matthews Band Summer Tour 2010 by SwearImNotPaul

Download: How to Destroy Angels EP

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails fame has unleashed a new sideproject on the world. His bandmates in How to Destroy Angels are his wife Mariqueen Maandig and Nine Inch Nails producer Atticus Ross. The best part about it all is that the EP is available for free, and you don't even have to click through to anywhere. Download it below as 320kbos mp3s. Excellent. You can also upgrade to a Hi-Def version of the album for two dollars, which includes the video for 'The Space In Between'.

Tracklist:
1. "The Space in Between" 3:35
2. "Parasite" 5:05
3. "Fur-Lined" 4:00
4. "BBB" 3:31
5. "The Believers" 5:36
6. "A Drowning" 7:04

Download: Joe Pug - Bury Me Far From My Uniform

'Bury Me Far From My Uniform' was the standout track on Joe Pug's debut album Messenger, and in time for Memorial Day, he has made it available as a free mp3 download. It's one of the best war songs of recent years, alongside labelmate Jason Isbell's 'Dress Blues'.

Download:
Joe Pug - 'Bury Me Far From My Uniform'

Watch the song performed live:

Download: Dave Matthews Band - Break For It

Dave Matthews Band opened their summer tour in Hartford, CT last night with a very varied set, including a 'JTR' opener and a rare appearance of 'Kit Kat Jam'. The biggest surprise of the night, however, was kept for the encore: the never before played 'Break For It' (previously known as 'Run While We Can'). Have a listen to the song below, or else download the FLAC from Kozmo Kramer's recording. Lyrics transcribed by pkrfan.

Lyrics:
(With a start?)
Woke up, the bang
It's too many ghosts in here
Makes me wonder
Will we find peace anywhere?
When you hold me, girl
It falls all far away
If only if I could
Always feel this way

Can't help but think (that I/about)
Come on lets take a ride
Come on just you and me
Come on

Let's make a
Break for it baby
Let's make a
Place of our own desire
Let's make a
Break for it baby
Let's run while we can
While we, let's run while we can

TV's on, turn it off
Too many lies in there
Makes me wonder
Will we find the truth some day?
But then you talk to me
You are the truth I need
I could walk through any door
If I could always be this sure

Can't help but think (that I/about)
Come on lets take a ride
Come on just you and me...
Come on

Let's make a
Break for it baby
Let's make a
Life of our own desire
Let's make a
Break for it baby
Let's run while we can
Let's run while we can

You got me
You got me

Let's make a
Break for it baby
Let's make a
Life of our own desire
Let's make a
Break for it baby
Let's make a...

Let's make a
Break for it baby
Let's make a
Life of our own desire
Let's make a
Break for it baby
Let's run while we can
My Queen
Let's run while we can
Let's run while we can


Download:
Dave Matthews Band - 'Break For It' (FLAC)
Dave Matthews Band - 'Break for it' (June 7th, 2010) mp3

Stream:

Download: Hoarsebox - Work Party

Dublin four-piece Hoarsebox are currently recording their debut album in the States with producer Dennis Herring (Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello, The Hives, Counting Crows). The album doesn't have a name quite yet, but is due for release sometime around September. However, having Herring on board is getting me amped up for the release, he produced Counting Crows' underrated This Desert Life as well as Modest Mouse's Good News for People Who Love Bad News.

To fill the void between now and then, the band are offering up their double A-side single 'Work Party'/'Inside Out' as a free download - all you need is to enter your email address.

Download:

More info:
http://www.hoarsebox.com/home/

Album News: The Walpurgis Family - Midsummer Party

Midsummer Party is the debut album from the bastard child of Groom, The Walpurgis Family. It's due for release this weekend with a special launch party at Bewley's Cafe Theatre on Friday, the 21st of May. Support for the release party comes from Jonny Fun and The... Hesitations and Mumblin' Deaf Ro.

The Walpurgis Family are made up of 3/5ths of Groom, and make equally melodic songs. Their press release compares them to Wilco and Yo La Tengo, and it's not half wrong. Midsummer Party is a lightning burst of an album, at only 27 minutes, it's full of quick fist-pounding tunes.

They'll also be playing Whelan's on June 19th as part of the Popical Island Collective.

Download:
The Walpurgis Family - 'Output One Two'
The Walpurgis Family - 'Lost in Public Transportation'

More info:
http://www.myspace.com/walpurgisfamily

Album News: Made in Iceland 3

Compilation albums are tricky things. Most of the time they're not successful, as one act always shines far above the others. On the flip side, compilation albums are great because you get to hear songs and bands you would have never heard otherwise (unless it's a Now That's What I Call Music record). Made in Iceland 3 features some new(ish) tracks from most of Iceland's best loved musicians. As well as a tune from Sigur Rós's Jonsi ('Boy Lilikoi'), there's excellent songs from Olafur Arnalds and Valgeir Sigurdsson.

Made in Iceland III is out now on Iceland Music Export.

TRACKLISTING:
1. For a Minor Reflection // Dansi Dans
2. Jonsi // Boy Lilikoi
3. Hjaltalin // Suitcase Man
4. Reykjavik! // Repticon
5. Seabear // I'll Build You a Fire
6. Ben Frost // Hibakusja
7. Stafraenn Hakon // Temporality
8. Berndsen // Supertime
9. Kimono // Tomorrow
10. Valgeir Sigurdsson // Past Tundra
11. Benni Hemm Hemm // Retaliate
12. Pondus // Not Again
13. Lay Low // Aukalagid
14. Feldberg // Dreamin'
15. Snorri Helgason // Freeze Out
16. Sam Amidon // How Come That Blood
17. SkakkaManage // Now or Never
18. Sudden Weather Change // St. Peter's Day
19. Emiliana Torrini // Beggar's Prayer
20. Olafur Arnalds // Tunglid

Sample:
Olafur Arnalds - 'Tunglid'
Hjaltalin - 'Suitcase Man'

More info:
www.icelandmusic.is

Watch: Conor Furlong - Are You Going to Sleep Tonight

'Are You Going to Sleep Tonight' is the new single from Conor Furlong, which will be made available as a free download on his website from tomorrow. There will be another song to download too, so you'll get two for the price of one.

More info/Download tomorrow:
www.conorfurlong.com

Watch Conor Furlong - 'Are You Going to Sleep?':

Album News: Wolf Parade - Expo 86

The third album from Spencer Krug's excellent Wolf Parade, Expo 86 is due for release in June, and from the previews of it (i.e. it leaked at the weekend), it's going to be mega. If you want to steer on the legal side of things, have a listen to mp3s of two of the songs below (thanks to Pitchfork).

Tracklist:
1. "Cloud Shadow on the Mountain" - 4:22
2. "Palm Road" - 4:41
3. "What Did My Lover Say? (It Always Had to Go This Way)" - 5:42
4. "Little Golden Age" - 5:00
5. "In the Direction of the Moon" - 5:46
6. "Ghost Pressure" - 5:16
7. "Pobody's Nerfect" - 5:50
8. "Two Men in New Tuxedos" - 3:09
9. "Oh You, Old Thing" - 5:46
10. "Yulia" - 3:47
11. "Cave-o-Sapien" - 6:19

Download:
Wolf Parade - 'Ghost Pressure'
Wolf Parade - 'What Did My Lover Say'

Download: Drive-By Truckers - Ray's Automatic Weapon

Drive-By Truckers pulled out a new song last week during a live show at the Boulder Theater in Boulder, Colorado. It's called 'Ray's Automatic Weapon', and according to frontman Patterson Hood, it has already been recorded in studio for the band's second album of the year, Go Go Boots. Download the song as an mp3 below, and then go have a listen to the full show.

1. Intro (Your Woman Is A Living Thing)
2. The Fourth Night of My Drinking
3. Three Dimes Down
4. Life in the Factory
5. Gravity's Gone
6. Ray's Automatic Weapon
7. Birthday Boy
8. Girls Who Smoke
9. Daddy Needs A Drink
10. A Ghost To Most
11. Home Field Advantage
12. Sink Hole
13. Uncle Frank
14. This Fucking Job
15. Get Downtown
16. (It's Gonna Be) I Told You So
17. Drag The Lake Charlie
18. Zip City
19. Ronnie and Neil
20. Road Cases
21. 72 (this highway's mean)
22. After The Scene Dies
23. Self Destructive Zones
24. Buttholeville > State Trooper
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25. Encore Intro
26. Marry Me
27. Jay's Circus Intro > The Flying Wallendas
28. Hell No, I Ain't Happy
29. Shut Up and Get On The Plane
30. Let There Be Rock
31. Rockin' In The Free World

Download:
Drive-By Truckers - 'Ray's Automatic Weapon'

Full Show

Album News: Fast Forward - An Indie Music Compilation to World Cup 2010

This is perhaps one of the best ideas I've seen in a very long time. It's a collection of 32 songs - one for each team - about the World Cup, featuring some of Ireland's finest artists. Well it's about as close as we're going to get to the World Cup, especially when you look at the French tune, 'Irlande' from the Very Most. Some of the highlights for me have to be Grand Pocket Orchestra, Pearse McLoughlin, Hunter-Gatherer, and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin.

There's some wonderful tunes on here, and it's an album you'll keep coming back to. You can stream it in full over at Indiecater Records' website, or else buy the whole damn thing for €5. A measly €5 for 32 songs!

1) Cop On The Edge - Bafana Bafana (RSA)
2) Standard Fare - Vaya Vaya México! (MEX)
3) Showstar - Uruguay! (URU)
4) The Very Most - Irlande (FRA)
5) The Dirty 9s - Ballad of El Diego (ARG)
6) Grand Pocket Orchestra - Nigeria (NGA)
7) Pearse McLoughlin - Jongmyo Shrine (KOR)
8) At Last An Atlas - The Pirate Ship (GRE)
9) Detox Cute - St George's Day (ENG)
10) Echo Orbiter - Game Without A Name (USA)
11) Boca Chica - Wildlife of Algeria (ALG)
12) Lightholler - Slovenia's Dream (SVN)
13) Betty and the Cavalero - Meet Me At The Red Light (GER)
14) Sleep Good - Australia (AUS)
15) Hunter-Gatherer - Serbia (SRB)
16) The Invisible Clock Factory - We Are The Black Stars (GHA)
17) Burning Codes - Wooded Land (NED)
18) Cleemann - Princes of Denmark (DEN)
19) Goatboy - Japanese City Nights (JPN)
20) Spirit Spine - Field Way (Song For Cameroon) (CMR)
21) Le Man Avec Les Lunettes - Don't Get Fooled By The Football
Players' Summery Outfit (ITA)
22) Harry Bird - Pesadilla No.7 (PAR)
23) Adam & Darcie - Aotearoa (NZL)
24) Escape Act - Slovakia (SVK)
25) Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Back To You (BRA)
26) Francis Bacon's Ghost - Kim Jung II (PRK)
27) Storkboy Choons - Côte d'Ivoire (CIV)
28) Tap Tap - Dry Dry Land (POR)
29) The Yellow Melodies - Vamos A Ganar El Mundial (ESP)
30) Candy Claws - Alp Sway Snow Team (SUI)
31) My Brother Woody - Carlos Dreams of World Cup Glory (HON)
32) Manwomanchild - Chile La Roja (CHI)

Sample:
Le Man Avec Les Lunettes - Don't Get Fooled By The Football
Players' Summery Outfit (ITA)

More info/Buy:
http://www.indiecater.com/fast-forward-an-indie-music-companion-to-south-africa-2010/

Download: Dave Rawlings Machine - Cedar Cultural Centrer, 9th December 2009

Here's a fantastic bootleg from late last year, just after Dave Rawlings Machine released their excellent debut Friend of a Friend. Before that, Dave Rawlings was best known as being a guitarist with Gillian Welch as well as Ryan Adams. His debut marked him out as a wonderful artist on his own merits. Check out some of the songs on this bootleg, taken from the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, MN on the 9th of December 2009. The download is courtesy of dluva, who says "I've been listening to a ton of Dave Rawlings Machine lately. Here's a link to a great show. The sound is excellent, too. Enjoy!"

Setlist:
1. Monkey And The Engineer
2. Elvis Presley Blues
3. Hot Corn, Cold Corn
4. I Hear Them All > This Land Is Your Land > I Hear Them All
5. Ruby
6. I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home
7. Copper Kettle
8. Throw Me A Rope
9. Sweet Tooth
10. C.C. Rider
11. It's Too Easy
12. Spodeeodee
13. No One Knows My Name
14. Look at Miss Ohio
15. Method Acting > Cortez the Killer
16. Field Of Opportunity
17. Bells of Harlem
18. Queen Jane Approximately
Encore
19. How's About You
20. Red Clay Halo
21. To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
22. The Weight

Dave Rawlings: Vocal/Guitar/Banjo
Gillian Welch: Guitar/Vocal/Banjo/Harmonica
Ketch Secor: Fiddle/Harmonica/Bass Vocal
Willie Watson: Guitar/Vocal/2nd Fiddle on "It's Too Easy"
Morgan Jahnig: Bass

Download:
Full Show

Album News: Seth Lakeman - Hearts and Minds

Seth Lakeman's second and third albums Kitty Jay and Freedom Fields were two of the finest folk records of the past decade, thus I'm excited to hear that he has a new album (his fifth) on the way.

Hearts and Minds is due on June 14th, and one of the tracks can be downloaded now from his official website (via twitter or facebook).

Possible tracks:
- Circle Grows
- Preachers Ghost
- Fire & Dirt
- Stepping Over You
- The Watchman
- Signed and Sealed

Download:
Seth Lakeman - 'Hard Working Man'

Making of Video:

Download: Mumford and Sons - Oxford Arts Centre, Sydney Bootleg

Mumford and Sons played a few shows in Australia to support their debut album Sigh No More, including this one at the Oxford Arts Centre in Sydney.

Thanks to JJJ for the show.

Setlist:
1. Sigh No More
2. Awake My Soul
3. Timshel
4. White Blank Page
5. Little Lion Man
6. The Cave
7. I Gave You All
8. Roll Away Your Stone
9. Dust Bowl Dance

Download:
Full Show

Watch 'Roll Away Your Stone':

Album News: Bill Coleman - Black and Green EP (False North)

Bill Coleman has unleashed the latest part of his EP series, following on from Black and Red, he's released Black and Green, also called False North due to the EP's opening track. It can be downloaded for any price you choose (click the link below), but before you do have a sample of the track 'False North' as an mp3 below. You can download the EP in a variety of flavours, mp3, FLAC, whatever you want. Black and Blue is due later this month.

Tracklist:
1. False North
2. Church of Second Chances
3. She Moved Through the Fair
4. I Want You to Know (C:\ Driver Bray Pride Mix)

Download:
Bill Coleman - 'False North'

Download:
Full EP

Download: 202s - Virtual 7 Inch #1

I might be looking for trouble by titling a post "virtual seven inch", but how and ever. Irish rock band 202s (who released their self-titled debut last year) have announced the first in their series of remix singles. Thus the title 'Virtual 7 Inch #1'.

The first release features remixes from Strands as well as St. Catherine's Home for Lazy Infants. Strands is the new project of Stephen Shannon from Halfset, while SCHFLI were another act to release a debut album in 2009. Theirs was called Old Ghosts.

Tracklist:
1. 'A Little At A Time' (Strands remix)
2. 'Repeat' (SCHFLI remix)

Download:
http://202s.bandcamp.com/album/202s-virtual-7-inch-1

More info:
http://202s.blogspot.com/

Download: Mumford and Sons - Dance, Dance, Dance

Everybody's favourite new folk band Mumford and Sons played a special intimate session for the wonderful Song by Toad at the weekend. They played four songs before rushing off for a headline gig, including 'White Blank Page' and 'Awake My Soul' from their fantastic debut album Sigh No More. In addition to this, they played 'Untitled', and a cover of Neil Young's 'Dance Dance Dance'. This was the highlight for me. You can download it below, and have a listen to the video. When you're done, head over to Song By Toad to download and listen to the rest.

Download:
Mumford and Sons - 'Dance, Dance, Dance'

More:
http://songbytoad.com/2010/04/toadcast-117-mumford-sons-toad-session/

Watch Mumford and Sons - 'Dance, Dance, Dance':