Sloppy Folk - Experience SA-Folk-Punk

 http://www.mediafire.com/?6h1c424ployudr4

A mystery reader/band member whose email name is "Dust Man" sent me this album of his folk-punk band from South Africa. It's 22 songs, including a great Crass cover and a great Wingnut Dishwashers Union cover. It's a really awesome album, with some shouty songs and some slower songs, and both punk and classic folk influence. Everything you could want in a folk-punk album. You will NOT be disappointed.




http://we-did-this-records.bandcamp.com/album/experience-sa-folk-punk

Midi & The Modern Dance - Make It Easy on Yourself

 http://www.mediafire.com/?4ck3oho9lzclb1e

Midi & The Modern Dance is a band from Connecticut. This album quite reminds me of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. And i love YHF, so i also super dig this album. One of my readers actually sent me a link to this band ages ago, i just never got around to posting it. So do yourself a favour and check this out.



http://midiandthemoderndance.bandcamp.com/album/make-it-easy-on-yourself

...who calls so loud - self titled

http://www.mediafire.com/?3f5z6or1dqodxre

"Thus they continued to ask each other who called so loud, over and over again; and when Smike had that by heart, Nicholas went to another sentence, and then to two at a time, and then to three, and so on, until at midnight poor Smike found to his unspeakable joy that he really began to remember something about the text."

This album and band are super fucking rad. Ex-members of Funeral Diner and Portraits of Past. So you already know itll be awesome. 

http://www.myspace.com/whocallssoloud

Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - When the Sea Became a Giant (2007)

 http://www.mediafire.com/?xxuqg5gc2iqu5yl

Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) is an extremely awesome band from Michigan with a name thats a little too long and a great midwest-emo sound. Fronted by Keith Latinen, this EP was their first release.



On Count Your Lucky Stars

Royaume Des Morts - L'Oeil Du Tigre

http://www.mediafire.com/?7qxgs42pbfmersg

Royaume Des Morts is a band from Montreal. I don't really know anything about them, but it is a very cool shoegazey type of music. I also detect some 90s emo influence.

It is pretty rad, check it out! Worth a download for anybody.



http://vimeo.com/royaumedesmorts

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.

Songs for Moms - I Used to Believe in the West

 http://www.mediafire.com/?qtklqjyaa30h8bl

edit: yes, i did forget the link for a week. i suck

So i was like 'what? songs for moms? what is this?"

Songs for Moms is an all-female punk trio from the Bay Area. I didnt know what the Bay Area was, i had to look it up. Turns out its San Francisco. Ive never been there so i didnt know that name.
Songs for Moms helped to found the Bay Area Girls Rock Camp, which is pretty much what it sounds like.

Anyway they have an almost This Bike-ish sound, or like Abe Froman.
Kill Coyotes is a really awesome song, gotta hear that one.

I was kinda all over the place here, but its a really good album. Trust Me.

http://www.myspace.com/songsformoms

BARR - Summary

http://www.mediafire.com/?pgt7g0dflmg3mnt

Brendan Fowler plays under the name of BARR. It is a very interesting spoken-word type music, with piano. Some of it is almost Astronautalis-y but also totally different. "The Song is the Single" is super catchy and fan, "Summary" and "Context Ender" are a totally different type of song but still definitely worth listening to.
I would especially recommend you to check out "Context Ender". It's one of those songs you can listen to back-to-back 5 or 6 times in a row.

"but come on what about the other things the criticism of context
like maybe be aware to the fear that that stuff matters like
but you only liked it cause you heard it with him
and the speakers sounded perfect
and you were over the other stuff
and liked the idea of that kind of thing is your new thing
and you heard it and it sounded perfect
and rules that you got it all ever
but maybe the week before would have been even better
maybe not maybe its truly so epic that it is not the context
context would be powerless to something and that is fair
but you know the songs sound better at night in the fall and october
you were fucking listening to massive attack or the peechees in a dorm
in college in 1998 and it wasnt even your room
and it sounded like the best thing youve ever heard
you dont need to change or do anything different "

http://www.barrbarr.com/

The Fucking Cops - You Have the Right to Shut The Fuck Up (2010)

 http://www.mediafire.com/?bc568uz48itcca8

The Fucking Cops is a pretty great pop-punk band. It has a couple members shared with Vietnam Werewolf, and so has some sound in common with them.
Honestly, i downloaded it on the strength of the band and album name. I was not at all disappointed, it is awesome. Check it out.

http://thefuckingcops.bandcamp.com/album/you-have-the-right-to-shut-the-fuck-up

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