2nd St. Rag Stompers - Camping On Low Or No Dollars

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The 2nd St. Rag Stompers were a old-timey hobo-ragtime-blues-jug band type of band. They broke up a few years back. This album is neat, it's kind of like an old-timeyer Split Lip Rayfield kind of sound.





http://www.myspace.com/ssragstompers

Elizabeth Anka Vajagic - Stand With The Stillness Of This Day (2004)

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Elizabeth Anka Vajagic is a Montreal-based musician signed to Constellation Records, also known for Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mt. Zion. She had this full-length and one EP, both of which came out around 2005. As far as I can tell she hasn't released anything since. This is a really cool record though, She has a really atypical voice, but it works really well with the gothic-folk thing she has going on.



http://cstrecords.com/cst028/

My Man - Foul Brood

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My Man is a folky-pop-rock band from Toronto, consisting of Rachael, Jacob, Matt, and Lautaro. Rachael sent me this album, and informed me that this 3-song demo is available for free, and that they will be coming out with a 7" some time in the new year. Nice folk-rock like Said the Whale or New Socks. If anything, My Man definitely has more musically interesting songs than a lot of comparable bands. Definitely a winner! Keep an eye on this band.

William Elliott Whitmore - The Jarret Mitchell demos

http://www.mediafire.com/?98j8ty7cdfijfzx

So i had only ever heard of this demo album. It is mentioned on Wikipedia but because nobody i've found in the last 7 years knows anything about it, I was doubting its existence.
Recently I found this on some Russian filesharing site. It was difficult as I cannot read Russian.

It is William Elliott Whitmore's (supposedly) original demo album, from 1999. Some 4 years prior to the release of his first album, Hymns for the Hopeless. My information could be wrong as I am just going off the wikipedia article.

So perhaps someone has been looking for this. Enjoy!
For anyone who doesn't know who William Elliott Whitmore is, he plays awesome gritty folk-country-americana type music.

Moon Bandits - Straight Thinking Means Plain Speaking

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I received this recommendation via email from bandmember Tommy. Moon Bandits is an awesome folk-punky band with really catchy melodies and some nice banjo-ing. I am really enjoying this. They sound like they might enjoy Ramshackle Glory. Perfect usage of banjo.




http://moonbandits.bandcamp.com/

The Gunshy - No Man's Blues (2005)

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The Gunshy is a really awesome guy/band that I like. He hasn't made much music lately but the guys voice is just so great I always come back to it.

It is some sad dude music for sure. But very unique sad dude music. I've yet to hear anything quite like it. Even aside from the vocals, the arrangements are quite interesting.

http://www.thegunshy.com/

Strand of Oaks - Leave Ruin (2009)

http://www.mediafire.com/?l8j89v8f935ows9

Strand Of Oaks is Tim Showalter. He is from Philadelphia. This is delightful folky alt-country stuff.

http://strandofoaks.bandcamp.com/

Sgt Dunbar and the Hobo Banned - Charles Mingus' Garbage Pile

http://www.mediafire.com/?4kkbv2s0e6p12je

I remember finding this when i attempted the incredibly daunting task of exploring an entire SXSW torrent. (2010 maybe?). Anyway that was ultimately way too much to digest. But i did find a song from this EP in there and it is a super catchy song.

This band has a sort of folk-jazz (New Orleans-y jazz mixed with Neutral Milk Hotel?) thing going on. It is pretty neat!

http://sgtdunbar.bandcamp.com/

Giles Corey - Giles Corey (2011)

http://www.mediafire.com/?6wesxn08cub80jm

Holy moly i have listened to the first song off this album like more than a dozen times in a row it is so good. All day now, this album. Where did i even find this?

Giles Corey is a project by Dan Barrett (of Have A Nice Life), that i have seen described as "acoustic music from the industrial revolution". This "portrait of depression" is a haunting mix of acoustic americana (not far from Timber Timbre), Dead Man's Bones-y deconstructed pop, some shoegazey influences, and maybe some similarity to A Silver Mt Zion? It is pretty incredibly good. It must be experienced, so you must listen. Haunting, and it will catch you by surprise.

i am glad to be excited by some music
it has been a dry couple months for really exciting music for me

i can't imagine a less professional way of reviewing albums than the way i review albums
i don't even punctuate consistently and my sentence structure is that of an uninteresting autistic
i hope people at least enjoy the music that i find and broadcast
i mean i'd be finding it anyway
i was compulsively hunting for music for years before i decided to blogoscope about it
i hope you like my stupid blog
it's been almost three years and if anything i am actually worse at it than i was when i started
firing off words into space i know nobody actually reads my reviews i look at my google analytics stats
i know yalls just come here for the free music but hey at least ive refocused this to fairly unknown bands so i hope some of yalls actually use this as a source rather than just a googling of "(band) (album) mediafire"
oh man what am i even talking about

listen to lots of music

TURN IT UP REAL LOUD GOD DAMN YOU

BUY IT HERE it took four years to make! and it comes with a book!

http://www.enemieslist.net/

have a nice night

Rowboat - Beneath The Sycamore

http://www.mediafire.com/?91006ss8au84g89

So i know almost nothing about this band except that the individual(s) that compose it are from Denver. I stumbled across this on Bandcamp (as i do) and i was quite taken by the first song so i thought it would make a good post. It's sort of a gothic-americana-folk type deal.

That album cover creeps me out a bit

http://rowboatrow.bandcamp.com/

http://www.myspace.com/rowboatrow

Reuben Bullock - Pulling Up Arrows

http://www.mediafire.com/?yyzi6d4smafr4fa

So during an extremely fun night out last night this fella + band was playing in the bar. I thought they were very good! Cool folky thing, reminds me of Bruce Peninsula a little bit, or The Wooden Sky. It was very enjoyable and they sounded fantastic live. Then i listened to this album today and was even more impressed by the songs once i could focus on them.

D D D DIG IT

http://reubenbullock.com/

Possessed By Paul James - Feed The Family

http://www.mediafire.com/?vzctcan788kx7is

Konrad Wert is one-man band Possessed By Paul James. It is fairly old-style bluesy folk with banjos and fiddles and such. Reminds me of Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir.



http://ppjrecords.com/home.html

Shakey Graves - Roll The Bones

 http://www.mediafire.com/?jq4h33o20hexhiz

Shakey Graves is a gentleman from Texas. I don't know anything about this gentleman save for the fact that he writes some nice songs. A sort of lo-fi Americana type of deal.





http://shakeygraves.bandcamp.com/

Ghost Factory - Tales of a Nothing Kid (preview)

http://www.mediafire.com/?x768ceb1g4vysbz

My great friend Rob has an amazing band called Ghost Factory. I reviewed his last album here a while ago. My other great friend Charlie Ferg is also usually in this band as well! Ghost Factory has the distinction of being the band I have seen live the most times (by a wide margin). Never disappoints.

Anyway, Ghost Factory has been working on a new album lately. As much as i loved the last album, this one is even better than that! Here are 3 preview songs for the upcoming album. LISTEN TO THEM NOW







Pretty fuckin' awesome, eh? Go to http://ghostfactorymusic.com/ for the latest updates.


whoops i am a bad friend i got the upcoming full-length and the recently released EP confused

Siskiyou - Siskiyou

http://www.mediafire.com/?ivpu8k6z4cgz99u

Siskiyou is a band from Canada somewhere? Both members were once or are still members of Great Lake Swimmers. Picture a slightly more upbeat Great Lake Swimmers, add a little bit of Okay and some other quirks that don't usually get associated with this type of quiet indie-folk. Very good!





http://siskiyouband.com/news/

Bruce Peninsula - Self Titled

http://www.mediafire.com/?9ttb3y19y02xdv4

Bruce Peninsula is a band from Toronto. They do a peculiar mix of folk, gospel,  and some nearly prog-like influences. However, the most stunning and unique aspect of this band is the gospel.

'Rosie', the streaming song below, is one of the most awesome things i've heard all year, easily. It's a cover of one of the Alan Lomax-curated prison songs i posted about here.

This self-titled has just two songs, but they are both tremendous and a great introduction to the band. They have two LP's, A Mountain Is A Mouth, and Open Flames, which was just released very recently. If you dig the this EP (or the song that i make previewable now zomg) you should buy one of the LP's. They also did the soundtrack for Small Town Murder Songs.





http://www.bruce-peninsula.com/
http://brucepeninsula.bandcamp.com/

Slow Teeth - Demos

 http://www.mediafire.com/?0ppc5pz9b44az6a

What a mystery this band is to me! I don't even remember how i found this band but all they have is a myspace, and two demos on archive.org. (This is the two demos).
The last.fm page is similarly bare, saying only "Slow Teeth sounds like vaudevillian anarchofolk, a haunted cabaret." Archive.org says they're from Portland. That's all I got.

They're kind of like Blackbird Raum or Dandelion Junk Queens. The songs are really catchy and great which is always a nice surprise when you basically find something on the back shelf of the internet with two years worth of dust on it.
'Dead Sailors' and 'Oh, Penny' are in particular very good songs.




http://www.myspace.com/slowteeth

Paige Leigh Tyson - Walk the River (2011)

This is an album from my good friend Paige Leigh Tyson!
She makes lovely calming folk music, and the songs all manage to be interesting and different from each other. I think "Broken House" is my favourite.
Of particular note is how great her voice is. The vocal melodies and harmonies on this album are really, really tremendous.
So you should all check it out!
Songs are available streaming here, or available in mp3 format here.

Flatsound - Songs From A Few Years Back

http://www.mediafire.com/?6vbokhxgvnxfhvh

flatsound is Mitchell Welling, from California.

This is very nice lo-fi-y folk music. Great sound, great lyrics. "I exist I exist I exist" in particular.

http://flatsound.bandcamp.com/
http://www.myspace.com/flatsoundmusic

Noah Britton - Suicide: The Greatest Hits

 http://www.mediafire.com/?d87w2x047hv5oy7

Noah Britton is a singer/songwriter that has performed in several bands, including The Best Thing Ever. He's got a pleasant voice, and it sounds kind of like an acoustic Magnetic Fields.

This is a collection of some live and some non-live songs. '3 1/2 years down the drain' is in particular excellent.

http://higrecords.x10hosting.com/