Modest Mouse - Miscellaneous, Early, Rare, and Bootleg

Okay, if you're a die hard Modest Mouse fan, you cannot live without this. I happened upon this album not too long ago and it has brought me great joy ever since. It's really nice, because it has many song that have the Sad Sappy Sucker feel to them, yet this is an unofficial album. Hey, even if you haven't got into Modest Mouse yet and all you've heard is Float On or Ocean Breathes Salty, this would be the perfect time to hear Modest Mouse at its best. There are also some interesting alternate versions, hard to find Ugly Casanova songs, and just a little bit of everything you could hope for. Props to schonert for uploading this shit on Demonoid.
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Del the Funky Homosapien - Funk Man (The Stimulus Package)

dude, it's Del. i shouldn't have to say anything about him.

also, i'll be upping his Deltron 3030 album later this week. it is, by far, my favorite rap album EVER.

this album is available for free (in every format you can imagine) on bandcamp.com

U.S. Girls - U.S. Girls

what is this? two uploads in one day?! what the motherfuck.

i was exposed to U.S. Girls randomly when i went to a show at a small, artsy little house on the far side of town. i immediately fell in love, and this CD has become on of my favorite unknown gems. and now i'm sharing it with you... the 3 or 4 of you who read this blog and never comment... or post any albums. hah.

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Xiu Xiu - CD of the Month: April

from what i understand about this series, jamie is going to release one CD of solo ambient music a month, for twelve months straight. as far as i know this is the first CD of the series. enjoy.

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Current 93 - Dogs Blood Rising

i think this review sums up this album better than i could... "Having established his art on initial releases, Tibet makes a stunning declaration of purpose on Dogs Blood Rising, one of the most frightening, nerve-wracking records ever released. Interspersing quicker tracks and two lengthy evocations of destruction, Dogs Blood shows Tibet and his collaborators -- including, as always, Stapleton -- combining everything from invocations of Yukio Mishima to Christianity in a harrowing blend. Opening track "Christus Christus" sets the tone with its heavily flanged and looped vocals, chanting the title over and over again against a wash of sound, but it's the following track, "Falling Back in Fields of Rape," which truly begins to set this album apart. With guest vocals courtesy of Crass singer Steve Ignorant, who recites lyrics clearly meant to play on both senses of the word "rape," everything -- from recurrent chants of "War!", other choral moans, varying percussion, heavily treated musical snippets, and fragment loops -- builds and fades throughout the mix. When a young girl's voice takes over the main lyrics after a snippet of a nursery rhyme is sung, the sheer sense of creep out grows even higher. It's even further intensified as Ignorant's rasping shouts of the main lyric start floating up through the mix like a mantra from hell. "From Broken Cross, Locusts" provides a semi-respite in ways, but only just, chanting from Tibet and others floating low in the mix as a recurrent, strange drum loop sets the overall pace before a sudden, frazzled ending. "Raio No Terrasu (Jesus Wept)" ratchets up everything to the level of apocalypse -- the music doesn't pound and explode, but the ever-more pained, wailed voices chanting the title phrase or other similarly disturbed lines, or simply calling and keening unintelligibly, become a disturbing, fractured and tape-treated collage of sound. "St. Peters Keys All Bloody" concludes the album on a perversely calm note, with Tibet speaking in a snarl, then softly singing "The Sounds of Silence" and "Scarborough Fair" by Simon & Garfunkel. It's a chilling coda to a striking album."

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Henry Thomas - Texas Worried Blues: Complete Recorded Works 1927-1929

one of the oldest, and also one of the best blues compilations i've ever heard. now i know i'm not much of a blues fan, but out of all of the people i've played this album for, i've yet to have a single person say they didn't enjoy it. if you're not into blues already, please let this be your introduction. especially if you're a bob dylan or canned heat fan, because mr. thomas was a big inspiration on them.

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Merzbow - 1930

sorry for being so lazy.

another noise classic by a noise master. if you have never heard merzbow, this is probably your best hope for an introduction.

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p.s. i'll be posting a lot more often from now on.