SONIC 2

 

http://www.mediafire.com/?1oqom41vg0uc742

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

Listener - Wooden Heart

 http://www.mediafire.com/?4mte6bk0mjotsvl

Listener is a band from Nevada AND Georgia, composed of two fellows named Dan (music) and Chris (vocals). This is kind of like a less-angsty mewithoutyou. Or Buddy Wakefield. Just found this! Pretty cool.



http://listener.bandcamp.com/album/wooden-heart
http://iamlistener.com/

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/

Annabel - Here We Are Tomorrow

http://www.mediafire.com/?qayodznqvxia04x

Annabel is a band from Kent, Ohio. This is an EP of theirs. It's like a really cool kinda-shoegazey/emo-but-not-really type of.... thing.

They've got a really great sound, I recommend it.
I mean really if i put it on my blog you can assume i like it. I would never waste my precious gigglebytes on lame music.



EDIT: on Tiny Engines, also distributed by CYLS
http://store.tinyengines.net/product/annabel-here-we-are-tomorrow-7-pre-order
http://countyourluckystars.bigcartel.com/artist/annabel
http://annabel.bandcamp.com/

Dikembe - Chicago Bowls

http://www.mediafire.com/?osc7ovt2iu93o6p

Dikembe is a rad band from Gainesville, Florida. Kind of a punkish emo sound. This is apparently a night for really awesome 4-song EP's. I don't have a clue what's going on in the album cover picture, but there it is.
Also, they open and close the EP with soundclips from Freaks and Geeks. Which was an awesome show.




http://dikembe.bandcamp.com/

Air Raid Barcelona - Air Raid Barcelona

 http://www.mediafire.com/?61y3yvansak8fbv

Air Raid Barcelona was a band, for a while. They recorded precisely 4 songs. This is a really fucking cool demo, it's too bad this is all there is. This EP is posted for free on IfYouMakeIt.
Kind of Latterman-ish or Jawbreaker-y.





http://www.myspace.com/airraidbarcelona

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

Quick Attack - Quick Attack!

http://www.mediafire.com/?02qbppcyn4dq51n

So i got an email from a member of a band called Quick Attack (from Santa Barbara), offering me a copy of their CD(s). Her name is Indiana. She is super nice and awesome so that is even more reason to listen to this!

This is Quick Attack's self-titled, 5 songs of pure raditude. Pop-punk, sounds kinda like Punkin Pie. You know like high-energy, super fun messy pop-punk. The best kind. I think 'Sevies' and 'Thunderheads' are my favourite songs. They also have a recent split that i am linking to below. Check it out!



http://quickattack.bandcamp.com/album/quick-attack
http://quickattack.bandcamp.com/album/quick-silver-attack-away-split