The Slow Break
Label: IonikGenre: Country
Some wonderfully ragged and raw honky tonk from L'ville, Kentucky, for your Monday morning... It's hard to put a finger on their secret blend of 11 herbs and spices, but Katie O'Brien's slurred, gravelly vocals and Alison Lee-Whitney's emotive sax work are at least two key ingredients. Finger lickin' good, y'all!
from Inside the Dark Mountain:
Interstate Woman [MP3, 4.6MB, VBR]
from S/T:
All of a Sudden [MP3, 5.2MB, VBR]
Fortunes of a Few [MP3, 3.4MB, 128kbps]
www.ionikrecords.com
www.theslowbreak.com
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Woody Whatever
Label: IonikGenre: Pop, Rock
Athens, Ohio's Erik Schmall has been recording frayed, cuddly lo-fi at a blistering pace. He's already released over 100 songs since he first started in 2001, at age 17. Like many prolific bedroom songwriters, or any prolific songwriter for that matter, not every track will blow you away. But these ones here do, and I'm sure I've overlooked a few. If you're looking for a good place to get started, hop (Happy Easter!) over to the lovely blog/netlabel Beat the Indie Drum to download Woody Whatever's Big One Shout Out EP that just came out in March 2006.
From Big One Shout Out
Rave Time [MP3, 3.2MB, 192kbps]
Keep Your Breath [MP3, 2.1MB, 192kbps]
Lost Energy [MP3, 2.4MB, 192kbps]
From Dayton Satellite Firm
Counting Cracker Barrels [MP3, 2.5MB, 160kbps]
From Sunday Definitely
Glass Mountains [MP3, 1.8MB, 160kbps]
From I Trip the Reverend
Hold Me Forever [MP3, 2.6MB, 160kbps]
From Liquor Stores on Blank Stares
Missing Misses Halloway [MP3, 3.0MB, 160kbps]
From Roar
Navy Brats [MP3, 1.6MB, 160kbps]
From Hiding From the Bomb Shelter
Crash These Digs Tomorrow [MP3, 5.1MB, 160kbps]
www.beattheindiedrum.com
www.ionikrecords.com
www.agriculturerecords.com
www.woodywhatever.com
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The Spectacular Fantastic
Label: IonikGenre: Folk, Rock
Sean accused me of being a squatter the other day in his Tessitura post, and he's not wrong. Silly me, I just forgot about these folksy, rocking, old-fashioned easy-to-sing-along-with tracks from The Spectacular Fantastic. With a name as superlative as that one, you'd think it'd be hard to do — anyway, it won't happen again. Start with "60 Cycles" and "I Love You," (both from a fully-downloadable EP on the band's website), then check out "Winter Song" and "You" (from a split single with the previously-mentione Tessitura). Then, in gratitude for all the free music, shell out a few bucks for The Spectacular Fantastic Goes Underground and start singing along yourself.
Winter Song [MP3, 4.6MB, 256kbps]
You [MP3, 5.2MB, 256kbps]
60 Cycles [MP3, 4.3MB, 224kbps]
Smell the Air [MP3, 4.4MB, 224kbps]
Don't Know Why [MP3, 4.1MB, 224kbps]
I Love You [MP3, 3.7MB, 224kbps]
www.ionikrecords.com
www.spectacularfantastic.net
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