JENS LEKMAN "At the Department of Forgotten Songs"

Thanks to The Catbirdseat for the tip about the indie label Secretly Canadian's page of Jens Lekman demos, JENS LEKMAN "At the Department of Forgotten Songs". There will be new tracks every other week.

from the page... (click to download the demo)

PRETTY SHOES(from an old demo) i wrote this for a guy i didn't like. he used to come up to me at parties and tell me how boring i was. he was a genuine Doors-fanatic (we were 17) and he was mostly walking barefoot except this one time at a new years party where it was so cold that even he had put on some shoes. some brand new shiny jogging shoes. i got mad at him for bugging me and my hippie friends kept repeating "you can't judge him , you don't know him, you can't judge a man until you walk a mile in his shoes..." . so i stole his shoes and walked home.this is a song many want to hear when i play shows but i've never played this song cause i prefer singing songs about people i like instead.

"Ruby Don't Take Your CAKE To Town"

Here is Cake, who know how to cover a song, (see or listen to "I Will Survive"). Here they tackle the Kenny Rogers AM radio staple from the 70's, "Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town".

thanks to http://goldenfiddle.com

FAVOURITE SONGS OF 2004 "Queens of Beirut"

I had the idea (an original one at that) to do a post on my favourite songs of the past year, but Kee-rist I have heard a bleep load of music this year, so I will start very small with this one song that was released in 2003. I won't limit myself to music solely released this year, but will include music I have discovered this year also.

Pony Express is led by Jeff Cloud (Starflyer 59, Joy Electric) owner of record label Velvet Blue Music. With the recent release of 'FRAUD' the band have four CDs to their credit.

The wide open spaces in this song surely evoke the western themed name of this band.
The organ shimmers - a desert heat mirage - the guitar twangs - all big and dusty - but the star here is the lyric... 'honey, I love you, but I've got to leave, so just throw your heart on my sleeve...'

+ queens of beirut

PARASOL.com Downloads

MP3s from Parasol.com's digital download page...

Kevin Tihista's Red Terror "Oh" from the album Wake Up Captain
Unbunny "Pink Lemonade" from the album Snow Tires
Bikeride "That's Math" from the album Thirty-Seven Secrets I Only Told America
Angie Heaton "Drive" from the album Let It Ride
Thirdimension "Only Healer" from the album Permanent Holiday
Castor "Stay Lo" from the album Tracking Sounds Alone
Fonda "Electric Guitars" from the album Catching Up To The Future
Crippled Pilgrims "Undone" from the album Down Here: Collected Recordings (1983-1985) Mike Levy "New Day" from the album Fireflies
Bikeride "Small Faces" from the album Morning Macumba
Absinthe Blind "The Break (It's Been There All This Time) from the album Rings
Thirdimension "Last Real People" from the album Permanent Holiday
Angie Heaton "Let It Ride" from the album Let It Ride
Unbunny "Nothing Comes To Rest" from the album Snow Tires
Sukilove "Girl On The Moon" from the album You Kill Me
Kevin Tihista's Red Terror "Good Wings" from the album Wake Up Captain
timewellspent "i want to tell you" from the album timewellspent
The Like Young "Sabine & Me" from the album So Serious
Nanook Of The North "Israel and Palestine - A Solution" from the album The Täby Tapes

AT DUSK - "Heights"

*I am reposting this because Greg from the band seems like a real nice guy and I want to give the band as much exposure as I can. Give them a good listen, this is great music.

The band, At Dusk, have been friends for years and likely find some comfort when they get together to play or write music, you too will find comfort in the mp3s offered below. Comfort in the angular edges of indie and experimental pop/rock the trio forges with guitarist Cary Clarke, drummer Will Hattman, and bassist Greg Borenstein.

Listen to tracks from their disc, "Heights"...


"HEIGHTS"

Come Too Far
We Could Do Anything
You Make Me Worry
PS

go here for full album download or to buy the cd

Ending East mp3s

You can find these downloads @ Ending East, as well as lots of music info.

'Mean Time' by The Futureheads
'Shut Your Eyes' by Shout Out Louds
'Helicopter' by Bloc Party
'Scars' by Moving Units
'Crawling' by Prosaics
'Apart' by Elkland
'Fearless' by The Bravery
'Past Times & ...' by Dogs Die In Hot Cars
'You Are The Generation...' by Johnny Boy
'Tighten My Tie' by The Like Young "

ROOTS ROCK

Here's a brief selection found on download.com's Music section, under the genre tag, "Roots Rock"...

Escovedo's track, "Castanets" is as rock as 'roots rock' gets.

HOWE GELB + Blood Orange (3:30)
CALIFONE + Wingbone (3:46)
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO + Castanets (3:27)
STEPHEN HUNTER + Hard Place (4:03)
LOW SKIES + Fives Gone Quiet (4:55)

TONIGHT'S GREAT SONG

nina simone + "baltimore"

Just listen to the chunky bass, the 70's Superfly guitar and Nina's incomparable voice.