Wednesday, May 25, 2005

News


Rob Thomas has signed a deal with ABC to use his song, "This Is How a Heart Breaks," as the anthem for the NBA playoffs. The song will heard during the opening video of each game, starting in June ...


The Darkness have replaced their bassist Frankie Poullain. The guitarist quit the band earlier this week over "musical differences" reports Contactmusic.com quoting The Sun ...


Razorlight are set to release a DVD featuring live footage from their Brixton Academy gig last year ...


Stone Roses guitarist John Squire says the band are to reform and could play at this year's Glastonbury Festival. In an interview with Time Out, Squire said The Stone Roses could fill the headlining slot left by Kylie Minogue ...


The Vines have entered a Sydney studio to begin recording their third album ...


OASIS have been crowned the most successful act of the last decade in the UK.
Following the success of Lyla, which topped the charts yesterday, the Book of British Hit Singles & Albums have announced the band have beaten the likes of Robbie Williams, Madonna, Britney Spears, Eminem and U2 to the accolade. The band have 766 weeks on the Official UK singles and albums charts. The group release their sixth album, Don't Believe The Truth on May 30.

Wednesday Download

An update for today includes some good quality experimental electronica (Vitalic, LCD Soundsystem) and a couple of dirs with a number of excellent albums. For those who like Tool, Dredg will do just fine. Enjoy.


Vitalic - OK Cowboy


Sinead O'Connor - Collaborations

Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business
Dave Matthews Band - Stand Up
Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Limp Bizkit - The Unquestionable Truth (part 1)
Gorilazz - Demon Days
LCD Soundsystem - S/T (disc 1)
Shining - In the Kingdom of Kitsch You will be a Monster
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Circle Takes the Square - S/T
Dredg - Catch Without Arms
Dredg - Orph EP
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - An Inch of Gold for an Inch of Time [EP]
Damien Rice - O
Way Out West - Dont Look Now (disc 1)
Vonray - Collection

Live:
Modest Mouse - Bowery Ballroom, NYC, May 2000
Evan Dando - Village Underground, NYC, Feb 2001
Built to Spill - Irving Plaza, NYC
Orbit - Brownies, NYC, Nov 2000
Orbit - Brownies, NYC, Feb 2001
Ben Lee - Village Underground, NYC, Feb 2001
Ben Lee - Maxwells , Hoboken, Mar 2001
Superdrag - Maxwells, Hoboken, Mar 2001
Jets to Brazil - Irving Plaza, NYC

A dir with
The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark
The Residents - The Commercial Album
Brian Eno - Albums
Radiohead - No Surprises
Cake - Pressure Chief
Eyes Wide Shut - OST
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Velvet Underground - Albums
Fugazi - The Argument
and much more.

A dir(slow) with Metallica and Bathory.
A dir with Sepultura, Dead Kennedys, The Exploited etc.
A dir with 2 Pac, 50 Cent and other hip-hop.

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Tuesday Download

Today update brings you the new releases from Audioslave, White Stripes and System of a Down. The Iron & Wine album is here and a lot of others. The one who likes Damien Rice's music would certainly like to check James Blunt as well.


Audioslave - Out of Exile


The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (rename to rar)

Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Clogs - Lullaby for Sue
Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
System of a Down - Mezmerize
James Blunt - Back to Bedlam
Zwan - Hideout Compilation
Bjork - Medulla (rar)
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
The Planet Smashers - Unstoppable
The Know How - Now In Technicolor
Five Iron Franzy - Cheeses
Big D and the Kids Table - How It Goes
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone
Loreta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
John Rifle - Fracas Nurture
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
The Luxury of Land - S/T
The Wasted - We are Already in Hell
Cat Empire

Rapidshare Links:
The Residents - God in 3 Persons | 2 | 3 (pass: greasy_vince)
Engineers - Folly EP | 2
Matmos - A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure | 2 (pass: greasy_vince)
Propellerheads - The Best | 2 (pass: kpnemo)

Live:
Tori Amos - Live Concerts
Cranberries - MTV Unplugged
Rage Against The Machine - Live Concerts
Woodstock 69 - Collection
The Cure - Live
Ben Folds - Live @ Enmore

More Albums:
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin (zip)
Chemical Brothers - Push The Button (zip)
Jay-Z & Linkin Park - Collision Course (zip)
Usher - Confessions + Remixes (zip)
Snoop Dogg - Rhytm & Gangsta (Check PD for more)
Kylie Minogue - Body Language
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Ludacris - The Red Light District
The Game - Documentary
Doomsday Production - Survival of the Siccest
Hi-Tek - Hi Teknology
Layzie Bone - It's not a Game
Mc Eiht presents Tony Smallz - Smoke in tha City
The Alchemist - 1st Infantry
Krondon - New Crack City (vol. 2)
The Foreign - The Foreign

Dir1, Dir2, Dir3, Dir4.

Friday Download

Today is a beautiful day here in Germany - or maybe I just feel so good since The Arcade Fire plays a show in Berlin's Postbahnhof (and I'm going to be be there :)). Today upload includes self-titled album from Ratatat (Pitchfork rated it 8.4) - that is my recommendation for you. Ben Folds Five is here as well as some fresh links for more or less known music. Enjoy.


Ratatat - S/T


Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen

Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay - Parachutes
Howie Day - Stop all the World Now
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Weezer - Make Believe
Popol Vuh - Aguirre
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine

A dir with:
Citizen Cope - The Clarence Greenwood Recordings
Jay Z & Linkin Park - Collision Course CD1
The Twilight Singers - Blackberry Belle
Tonight Not Again - Live at the Eagles Ballroom
Punjabi MC - Collection
and more.

A huge dir with tons of music.

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

News

PETE YORN is in a Los Angeles studio mixing the follow-up to 2003's Day I Forgot, due in the fall. The album will feature the FOO FIGHTERS' DAVE GROHL, the DIXIE CHICKS' NATALIE MAINES and LEON RUSSELL ...

COLDPLAY will play songs from their new album, X&Y, due June 7th, on Saturday Night Live on May 21st. LINDSAY LOHAN will host ...

The SHINS cover the POSTAL SERVICE, the DECEMBERISTS cover JOANNA NEWSOM, and SPOON cover YO LA TENGO on an indie-rock compilation CD to be packaged with the June issue of literary magazine, The Believer ...

INTERPOL and LOUIS XIV will perform at the Electronic Entertainment Expo at Los Angeles' Hollywood Center Studios next Tuesday ...

Former SMASHING PUMPKINS frontman BILLY CORGAN is keeping a blog of his memoirs at his MySpace site, myspace.com/billycorgan, which also streams songs from his solo debut, TheFutureEmbrace, due June 21st. R.E.M. also used the online community site to promote their last release, Around the Sun ...

Friday Download


Dave Mathews Band - Crash (zip)


Stereophonics - Just Enough Education To Perform

Beck - Guero
Beck - Guero: Bonus Tracks

12 Full Albums incl.
Blink 182 - Dude Ranch
Fina Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Alexisonfire - Watch Out!
The Used - In Love & Death
50 Cent, Alicia Keys, etc.

Kill Bill Vol.1 OST
Kill Bill Vol.2 OST

Albums incl.
Nine Inch Nails - Zero 8
Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
Metallica - S&M
Good Charlotte - Young & the Hopeless
Papa Roach - Lovehatetragedy
Scarface - The Untouchable
Busted - S/T
Ciara - Goodies
Static X - Shadow Zone
and more.

News

The FOO FIGHTERS, KASABIAN and SOCIAL DISTORTION will headline the LIVE 105 BFD concert, which takes place June 10th in Mountain View, California. SLEATER-KINNEY, the KAISER CHIEFS, HOT HOT HEAT, the BRAVERY and ALKALINE TRIO will also perform at the Bay Area radio station festival ...

The OFFSPRING and CROSSFADE will headline the inaugural Dew Action Sports tour on June 10th and 11th in Louisville, Kentucky. The EXIES will open for Crossfade, while ACCEPTANCE will open for the Offspring ...

EMINEM and NINE INCH NAILS are set to perform at the MTV Movie Awards, airing June 9th on MTV. Eminem will perform his new single "Ass Like That" for the first time on TV, while NIN perform "The Hand That Feeds" ...

Piano men BEN FOLDS and RUFUS WAINWRIGHT will join forces for the Odd Men Out Tour, to kick off August 3rd in Vienna, Virginia ...

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE will be the subject of the upcoming documentary Drive Well, Sleep Carefully: On the Road with Death Cab for Cutie. The film will premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival on June 10th and a DVD will be released on July 26th ...

IGGY POP will release the thirty-seven track double-disc retrospective compilation album A Million in Prizes on July 19th ...

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Tuesday Download


Snow Patrol - Final Straw [+ Bonus Tracks]


Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

Simple Plan - Still Not Getting Any ...
Check PD for
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Green Day - American Idiot
Blink 182, Sum 41, Bowling for a Soup, Good Charlotte, etc.

Once - Nightwish
Various Artists - 80s Collection (rar)

A dir with rap incl. Classified, Busta Rhymes, etc.

A huge dir with
Ramones - Hey Ho Let's Go
Slipknot, Silverchair, RATM, and much more.
A nice dir here. Richard Cheese here.