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I like this live version of 'The Devil Never Sleeps' even more than the cut that appeared on Shepherd's Dog...love the energy.

The Broken West is an LA indie band featuring Ross Flournoy (guitar, vocals), Dan Iead (guitar, backing vocals), Brian Whelan (bass, backing vocals), Rob McCorkindale (drums, percussion), and Scott Claassen (keys, backing vocals). The track "Down in the Valley" was featured in an episode of Grey's Anatomy. Bonus: Check out one of the new cuts, 'Perfect Games, which was recently posted at the Aquarium Drunkard. Enjoy.

A number of audio experts are publishing psa's on why our music doesnt sound as good as it should - here is an example:

AskMetafilter has a thread devoted to where people go after Oink Also--Oink has a memorial forum

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Indie acoustic electronic band Grizzly Bear's new ep, 'Friend', is streaming at MySpace, courtesy of the band. Jon Pareles of the New York Times gave it a rave this weekend and I can't agree more: "With their larger-than-life harmony chorales and meticulous transformations, Grizzly Bear’s songs are already cinematic." You can listen to it right HERE. The track list is below. Enjoy.

The Silicon Valley Insider says that RadioHead's take was much smaller: "A few weeks after the hoopla over the Radiohead "pay what you like" event has died down, comScore measures who actually paid what for "In Rainbows". The good news: The average buyer paid about $6, net of processing fees, to download the album. The bad news: There weren't that many buyers -- only 2 out of 5 visitors to the site paid a penny for the tunes. The net result: Radiohead netted about $2.26 for each album downloaded -- confirming our suspicions that earlier reports/polls about download prices were overly optimistic. And for everyone who thought that "In Rainbows" represented a new paradigm for music, remember: Radiohead has a rabid fan base that was expected to go out of its way to stick it to the man/R.I.A.A. If they can't sell music, what does that mean for the rest of the business? That said, this still doesn't mean that Radiohead's ditch-your-label strategy was a bad call: comScore's survey suggests that the band could still have netted as much as $2.7 million from downloads, and will keep almost every penny -- and it still gets to sell CDs, and it will keep a larger portion of each dollar generated by those sales." Read More

I don't know why she and Pete haven't hooked up yet - they are made for each other.

That's sad to hear - I was rooting for him.

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The band have been playing 3 songs acoustically live ( "Njosnavelin" - "Heima" - "Agaetis Byrjun") to accompany the film screenings and Bradley's Almanac is luckily featuring them at his blog :) Bonus: Pitchfork has posted a video of the band performing Heima in the DVD.

Hey Warflower - Can you hook this guy up? :)

Todosantos is an indie band from Caracas, Venezuela. This video is off their latest EP, Acid Girlzzz, in which the band has incorporated and developed a brand new sound they describe as "Tooky Bass". According to Wikipedia, "Acid Girlzzz embraces Miami Bass in its quest to blow your speakers from the low frequencies." - Wikipedia. Pretty cool video, don't you think?

Sigur Rós' new documentary film, 'Heim', follows the band's last year's tour around their homeland of Iceland. "Playing in deserted fish factories, outsider art follies, far-flung community halls, sylvan fields, darkened caves and the hoofprint of Odin’s horse, Sleipnir, the band reached an entirely new spectrum of the Icelandic population; young and old, ardent and merely quizzical, entirely by word-of-mouth." Material from all the band's previous albums is featured in the DVD, which is entitled 'hvarf-heim'. You can listen to the entire album while it lasts at AOL'S Spinner. For more information about the DVD, Read HERE. The full track list is below. Enjoy. And if you like what you are hearing, you can Get it here

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Well it's on, the Screenwriters Strike! The NY Times reports that "Screenwriters moved to the picket lines this morning, as last-minute negotiations between the writers’ unions and producers failed to avert a strike over payments from producers for so-called new media, among other issues. Read More

According to CNet, "Those who predicted that Radiohead would see mass financial support after allowing fans to pay whatever they wanted for the band's latest album appear to have been a tad optimistic, according to a study released Monday. ...About 17 percent plunked down between a penny and $4, far below the $12 and $15 retail price of a CD. The next largest group (12 percent) was willing to pay between $8 and $12--the cost of most albums at Apple's iTunes is $9.99. They were followed by the 6 percent who paid between $4.01 and $8 and 4 percent coughed up between $12 and $20." Read More radiohead_270x143.bmp

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The Times Online profiles and interviews British indie experimental rocker Patrick Wolf: "It’s been a journey for the boy who, at 13, was shown how to disguise his acne with pan stick by drag queens, and who spent years in the gigging wilderness. “I went from being a boy with a Bontempi organ, travelling the seaside towns of northern Italy,” he has said – he does a nice line in self-mythology – “to a piano player with a fierce celtic drummer in Amsterdam, to playing to thousands as a pop star across the world.” When he was 14, he lied to his parents that he was doing “creative projects” with schoolmates, when he was playing a homemade theremin in the performance artist Leigh Bowery’s band, Minty. “My parents sent me to boarding school when I brought [the drag queen] Lady Bunny home to do a demo.” Read More

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Astonishing Cakes!

V For Vendetta

Here is the video for Tranquilize, which includes an appearance by Lou Reed:

Greg Sandoval at CNET, explores new digital means of distribution for rockers in his article, "When Rockers Cut Ties From Labels": "While striking out on their own offers more freedom, the performers also lose the label's prodigious distribution and marketing muscle. In the future, these musicians may find themselves being forced to make decisions about technology, customer service, and marketing. That's where companies like Musicane, Indie911, Fuzz, Snocap, TuneCore, and dozens of others come in. They offer to free artists from the music-label yoke by helping them manage the chores that come with selling music online." Read More