Screaming Females - Power Move

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Distorted Pony - Instant Winner

This album is indeed an instant winner haha yes how can you possibly NOT make that joke haha haha we all had a good laugh so now go and get this awesome noise rock album.

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Wreck and Reference - Black Cassette

This is some pretty awesome thing posted by the band in the shoutbox here, Wreck and Reference, "doomy experimental rock" would be the best label.

Listen and download 'ere: http://wreckandreference.bandcamp.com/

People - Misbegotten Man

Another Mary Halvorson project, this time it's dissonant noise pop. She's even singing here.

be gotten, miss

Harvey Milk - Special Wishes

Equal(?) parts metal, noise, grunge and pure emotions, of that fuck you all kind.

he's got a LOOOOOO(aaargh)OOOOOOVE

Extra Life - Made Flesh

Second album by the awesome Extra Life. Some say it's more accessible than "Secular Works" but whatever, both are great. This one is heavier on arrangements and synths. The best feature of the band, the chants/vocals are unchanged and thank G*d for that.

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Varghkoghargasmal - EP, split w/ October Falls, Drowned in Lakes

Three records (outa four, the demo is missing) in a single archive. Varghkoghargasmal play "wooden black metal". It's louse, lo-fi, half-improvised outsider music, sounds like jazz or surf rock sometimes. It's awesome.

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Patti Smith - Horses

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All Kanye West albums were removed...

Lunar Sex - Lunar Sex

Look, something you usually don't see 'round here: an 80's band. An obscure little female-fronted band, they played pretty awesome fast-paced hard rock/heavy metal with some punkish overtones... And, well, they are called Lunar Sex, how cool is that??.

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Skullflower - Taste the Blood of the Deciever

More Skullflower, a really great album.

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Creature with the Atom Brain - Transylvania

Here's a feel-good record for you all. This is easy-going stoner rock with various "alternative" overtones plus a touch of retro by Millionaire's guitarist, who also was in Mark Lanegan Band. Oh, and the first album of the project featured Lanegan on one of the tracks. Musically it's somewhere between Millionaira (what a surprise), Brian Jonestown Massacre ("The Color of Sundown" even uses the same chords as BJM's "Servo"...), The Dandy Warhols (chorused vocals), some Eagles of Death Metal, but with a more polished aesthetic. Some songs drift into other territories as well, callwords include "gothic Americana", "new country" etc. Might not be a challenging, original and ground-breaking record, but it's a) professional, b) good, c) that's all.

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The Devil's Blood - Come, Reap EP

Long time, no posts. Sorry guys... I had/have all kinds of computer & internet access problems, work, study, you know the drill. Right now I'm exploiting my girlfriend's fast broadband connection, so here's a quick one, the total 70's worship "occult rock" EP by The Devil's Blood. It's all epic riffs, driving beats, choruses, with a dark atmosphere and sometimes a nifty touch of kitsch. Not the kind of thing I usually go for, but this 5-song record is a masterpiece. Great compositions, catchy melodies, a nice female voice; music reaching straight-ahead rock songs to more psychedelic jams (e.g. closer "Voodoo Dust", a 10-minute monster). Hard rock has never been so soft. It's a pity their 2009 full-length kinda sucks, it's just mehh, lame and bland.

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ВИРЬ / Vir' - Demo I, II, III

Vir' (ВИРЬ) is a Russian one-man band, a bass-player who's sometimes accompanied by a drummer or some other musicians. This is a single archive of the first three demos (2002-2005), containing raw punky sludgecore songs, with lyrics shouted in Russian. A full-length album (Нижний лес) was released in this key as well. Since then the band's profile has shifted more towards abstract droney soundscapes and ambient noise. I'll upload the 2008 album, Хорна, it's awesome.
(dunno why, but this description kinda sucks. Eh. Just download it, trust me)

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Made Out of Babies - Trophy

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earthlings? - Human Beans

Second album of the earthlings? at your service. Maybe not as great as their debute, but still an amazing piece of psychedelic space rock. Space musically and space thematically.
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Yellow #5 - Demon Crossing

Once again, a band with an impressive list of members: Dave Catching, Brant Bjork and Molly McGuire. Now, Molly McGuire is one interesting person. Unlike Smolken, she displays a wide variety of genres. She played bass in Nick Olliveri's insane punk extravaganza Mondo Generator. She formed The Spores, a band so pop, that I'm ashamed to listen to it. And here's Yellow #5's only album, Demon Crossing. And wow.
I mean, WOW. Her voice is great! And as a songwriter, she is equally good. This, with the amazing musicianship of Catching, Bjork and McGuire herself results in one of the best pop-rock records I've heard recently. Interesting and varied and CATCHY AS HELL. One of the album's highlight, "ICFCFBM", sports a chorus which hooked me on instantly. There's the punkish "Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee", the mellow "Screaming Mimi"... Etc etc etc.
I love this album.
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earthlings? - earthlings?

When I found this album, I felt like the luckiest man on Earth. And not only on Earth. In the whole Universe! And more!! Yeah!! Space is no limit!
Actually, I fell in love with this space/desert rock supergroup without hearing a single track. The list of contributors was enough for me, especially back in that time (a year ago I was gay for the Palm Desert Scene. I still am, actually). This s/t album by the earthlings? is great!! Very psychedelic, lots of interesting beeps and spacey sound layers over the tiight, hypnotic drumming... Yeah. Okay, I admit, sometimes they go too far: I mean, every single track has those wooowooooo spaceship!! sound effects BUT WHATEVER!! I love wooowooo spaceship!! sound effects.
I hope there's intelligent life out there. And I hope it's portayed well by the earthlings?.
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Soulsavers - It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land

Mark Lanegan is a god? Yes? YES.
This album is really one of the best from 2007. Nice atmosphere, good music and Lanegan's voice. Gospel-electronica-rock. Yeah. It's such a pity I missed their live set on Summercase festival...
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Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum

Ahhh... I'd go gay for Mark Lanegan, seriously (according to the majority of my friends, I already did). His voice is so powerful... And that's not all! On Bubblegum he moved away a bit from the almost entirely country/noir-folk sonic world of his previous solo albums and brought in more dirty blues, more rock, more aged drum-machines (heard in "Metamphetamine Blues" and "Head" - mmmm). Oh, did I mention the collaborators?
PJ Harvey. Josh Homme. Nick Olliveri. Enough said.
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Melvins - (a) Senile Animal

Mmmm, a sweet-sweet personal favourite, the Melvins' latest effort, (a) Senile Animal. The Melvins core (Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover), spiced up with the two members of Big Business - sweet-sweet heaviness! To be honest, Big Business always sounded like a Melvins tribute band, so basically we get a doubled Melvins. Something I can live with.
This album rocks from the first track to the last. I get shivers every time I hear the opening double-drumming of "Civilized Worm" or the ass-kicking riff of "The Talking Horse". The Melvins may be ancient, but you know, weirdness is like wine... It only gets better with age.
(I don't like wine. Whatever. I like the Melvins. And (a) Senile Animal might just be their best work)
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