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

Unfun - Sick Outside View

 http://www.mediafire.com/?1m0t6q4y66ju50t

Unfun is a punk band from Vancouver. I had actually heard about this band... some time ago (?) from my friend Nat who knows them somehow.
So i was excited to see this album on another blog today. Now i can hear more songs as i cannot travel to Hamilton to see bands play, as cool as that would be. I have things to do (like work) that preclude me from doing that too often. Plus.... Hamilton..........

Anyway, Unfun sound kinda like they might be Jawbreaker enthusiasts! Very good album.

http://www.myspace.com/unfundudes

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/

The Assistant - The Assistant

 http://www.mediafire.com/?1k4skvmgvcwf04d

The Assistant was a band from the late 90s, from NJ. Formed from the ashes of You And I. This is a very interesting album - it has clear influence from a variety of different things. It goes from grindcore stuff, to screamo stuff, mathy stuff, to 1905-ish clean female vocals. There is even a pop-punk-ish song!

I have been diggin on this album the past week. Perhaps you will dig on it as well

http://www.535online.com/theassistant

Her Only Presence - A Brand New Start (2009)

http://www.mediafire.com/?vy0l9aeiofvbjnp

Her Only Presence is a band from Barcelona. Definitely recommended for anyone who likes '90s emo music. It's not exactly that but it is in the ballpark while being not a Kinsella ripoff. It will also appeal to people who don't know what i'm talking about right now. It is quite lovely.

They only have 225 listeners on last.fm now so get in on the ground floor you can get mad hipster points later saying you heard about them back in the day from some idiots stupid rocketblog

(thats me i am the idiot with the rocketblog. its a rocketblog now it sounds so space-agey)

http://www.myspace.com/heronlypresence

764-HERO - Get Here And Stay (1998)

 http://www.mediafire.com/?fhsbb01z8z4jm54

764-HERO was a band from Seattle, from 1995 to 2002. Sounds kinda like Built to Spill. It makes me nostalgic for the 90s. Hey everyone, remember the 90s and how cool they were? Everyone who grew up in the 90s, high fives!

But actually this is an extremely good album, I recommend it (obviously). Even if you didnt grow up in the 90s.

http://www.uprecords.com/artists/764hero/