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10 MP3s You Need to Download for Free This Week: Why?, Cat Power

By Tom Hawking on

It’s Friday, which means another installment of our regular roundup of downloadable MP3 goodness from around the web. This week there’s another new track from the new Why? album, some reissued goodness from Chris and Cosey and Crime & the City Solution, AC Newman’s entry in the Song Title of the Year competition, killer mixes from Nicolas Jaar and Blackest Ever Black, and a whole heap more. Since all this action costs precisely nothing, what are you waiting for? All the download links await after the jump. … Read More

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10 MP3s You Need to Download for Free This Week: Factory Floor, Why?

By Tom Hawking on

It’s Friday, which means another installment of our regular roundup of downloadable MP3 goodness from around the web. This week brings a new remix of “Two Different Ways,” the lead single from Factory Floor’s much-anticipated album on DFA, along with new tracks from Why? and Maria Minerva, an EP from Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio, a remix of Zebra Katz’ “Ima Read” (featuring Tricky!), the inevitable new Lil B mixtape, and more. Since all this action costs precisely nothing, what are you waiting for? All the download links await after the jump. … Read More

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10 MP3s You Need to Download for Free This Week: Joanna Newsom, Joe Jackson and Iggy Pop

By Tom Hawking on

It’s Friday, and we’re back with another installment of our regular roundup of downloadable MP3 goodness from around the web. This week, there’s a live version of a new track that Joanna Newsom played recently, which will no doubt have fans salivating. There’s also Joe Jackson duetting with Iggy Pop, Corin Tucker being raucous, an undiscovered Exile on Main Street cut*, and new tracks from Thee Oh Sees, Mungolian Jetset, and The Raveonettes. (*Possibly.) In other words, there’s plenty of interesting sounds awaiting you after the jump, and since they won’t cost a penny or land you an RIAA lawsuit, as your attorneys we advise you to start downloading immediately. … Read More

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10 Rappers to Convert the Indie Purist in Your Life

By Tom Hawking on

One of the more pleasing developments of the 21st century has been the decline of musical tribalism — people are far less likely to be evangelistic about their choice of genre these days, and most people’s record collections encompass a healthy range of sounds. Having said that, some divides remain — in particular, any conversation that touches on hip hop usually gives rise to at least one proclamation along the lines of, “Oh, I don’t listen to that garbage — it’s all bitches and blunts and guns, etc etc.” The release of SpaceGhostPurrp’s debut album this week (as you might have read, he’s signed to 4AD) got us thinking about other rappers who might bridge the hip hop/guitar divide. We’ve made some suggestions after the jump, so next time you run into an anti-hip hop type, don’t just huff and puff — direct them to us! We’re here to help. … Read More

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A Selection of Hip-Hop Albums You Can Bring Home to Mom

By Tom Hawking on

No matter your parents’ political persuasion, hip-hop can be a hard sell when it comes to co-opting the stereo at home — liberally inclined parents will complain about the genre’s perceived misogyny, glorification of crime, and naughty language, while conservatives will rant and rave about… well, basically the exact same things, albeit for different reasons. Still, with the release of The Roots’ undun this week, we got to thinking about hip-hop that can help change — or at least — challenge these broad conceptions. Here’s a few of our picks. If your parents aren’t quite ready to embraced the Based God quite yet, you can get them started with the records you’ll find after the jump. … Read More

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The Flavorpill Mixtape X: The Magnetic Fields, Beach House, Broken Bells

By Andrew Hwang on

This week brings a handful of new releases, scaling from already-established bands (The Magnetic Fields, Beach House), to fledgling bands ( jj, First Rate People, Let’s Wrestle), to already-established musicians’ fledgling bands (James Mercer + Danger Mouse = Broken Bells, Josiah Wolf of WHY?). The connecting thread? They’re all tasty cuts, and free for the taking! So grab your fork, knife, and bib (precautionary measure), and prepare to go to… Read More

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Download 10 of 2009′s Most Under-Appreciated Gems

By Zara Golden on

Best of the Year lists shouldn’t bring the end. After all, these lists make for a great way to catch up on all that you might have missed while you were spinning that new Phoenix album endlessly. Making this time of discovery easier yet, Insound.com has rounded up their 50 most downloaded of 2009, and is offering everyone 10 free MP3s for download.

Looking at their list, we’ve eliminated albums that weren’t from 2009, and skipped over the obvious-es–the Grizzly Bear’s, the Pheonix’s and the Passion Pit’s. Those are for everyone else’s lists. Here are 10 deep cuts, just for… Read More

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WHY? Enlists New Manager/Spiritual Guru Blake Maxwell

By Stelios Phili on

Meet Blake Maxwell. He is WHY?’s flamboyant, newly-appointed holistic manager. His skills comprise of tree-assisted hand stands and wearing rainbow-colored booty shorts. He aspires to bring WHY? out of indie rock obscurity and to the forefront of the music industry: endorsements, major label signing (specifically Capital), and, of course, a live performance on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. O yeah, and you can stop crying, because Blake is a fictional character. This video is the first in a series of ten Blond Chili directed promotional videos for WHY?’s upcoming album, Eskimo… Read More

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Viva la Mix #19: Downloads From No Age, Karen O, YACHT, and Vega

By Stelios Phili on

Today’s mix will give you a taste of what music will sound like in the near future a.k.a. September. So give your fingers a little warm-up stretch and get ready to “Right Click, Save Link As,” because after the jump we present 10 essential downloads from our latest Viva Radio show that we consider required listening at Flavorpill HQ.… Read More

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Viva la Mix! #15: Downloads from Thom Yorke, Mission Of Burma, The Dodos and Why?

By Wolcott Katzenbach on

Even though we’re moving into the dog days of summer, when things get slow music release-wise, there are still plenty of exciting tunes to laze beside the pool with thanks to what’s turning out to be an absolutely stellar year for music. So give your fingers a little warm-up stretch and get ready to “Right Click, Save Link As…,” because after the jump we present 10 essential late-summer jams that you should consider required listening at your next… Read More