Hooray for Insound's Back to School Sale

Looking for an excuse to drop your leaf-raking money on some fine indie tunes? Insound has a fun little Back to School promo going on: Simply answer their daily quiz question and get 25% OFF your purchase. BTW, I don't think Insound can legally expel me for cheating so...today's answer is "The Unicorns."

Eavesdropping via RSS

If you really want to freak me out, subscribe to an RSS feed of my iTunes activity. Then call me right after I listen L'Trimm's "Cars That Go Boom" and yell, "Boom!" Or, right after I listen to Tones on Tail's "Go" and yell, "Go!" Or...well, you get the idea.

New Releases

Check out the new releases from some 3hive artists coming out today:

Collisions by Calla

The Past Presents The Future by Her Space Holiday (New MP3s posted)

Grey's Anatomy Soundtrack featuring the most talked about song on 3hive that's not actually on 3hive: "Cosy in the Rocket" by Psapp.

And oh boy, don't miss this one.

New Donna Regina Album

Now available via pre-order from Boomkat, the new album from Donna Regina, Slow Killer. No new MP3s (Boo!) but you can stream a few new tracks...

Podcasts Are Go!

After much deep thought and needling from our readers, 3hive's joining this decade's open mic night and producing a weekly podcast. Each podcast will recap that week's posts — featuring a song from each artist we profiled, along with some banter and possibly a few surprises along the way. We're waiting in line along with everyone else to get into iTunes' podcast directory.

In the meantime, we put a link to the podcast RSS under "Listen" in the upper right corner of our home page. Or you can just click here. Stop by blurbomat for a quick tutorial on subscribing via iTunes. Please, let us know what you think.

New Devendra Banhart MP3

New Spanish hotness from Devendra's brand spanking album, Cripple Crow, has been added to Shan's original post. It's called "Quedate Luna"...whatever that's supposed to mean. Then there's the new video for "I Feel Just Like a Child.

Antony and the Johnsons Win the Mercury Prize

Congratulations to Antony and the Johnsons for winning the Mercury Prize (kinda like a UK Grammy). They also have the honorable distinction of being 3hive's most popular (or most loaded, at least) post of the past two months.

"Use It" MP3 and Video

The New Pornographers recently posted the MP3 and their hilarious video for "Use It." Peep it using Real Player or Windows Media Player.

TV on the Radio MP3

Here's the message from TV on the Radio:

we ( tvotr ) were back in the studio thinking and feeling again and made this song for all our everybody... in the absence of a true leader we must not forget that we are still together.... hearts are sick ... minds must change ... it is our hope that this song inspires, comforts, fosters courage, and reminds us... this darkness cannot last if we work together. let us help each other... heal each other.... look after one another ... the human heart is our
new capitol.... this song is for you....us.....we....them...it is free. pass it on.

TO THOSE AFFECTED BY HURRICANE KATRINA : NEW YORK CITY'S HEART IS WITH YOU... STAY STRONG !
WE LOVE YOU

And here's the song:

Dry Drunk Emperor [MP3, 7.7MB, 160kbps]

Help the Hurricane Homeless 3 (in a Mush Records Stylee)

The good people at Mush Records have really upped the ante in the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. If you provide proof that you donated to a legit fund (e.g., American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, Second Harvest) they will send you free CDs or vinyl of your choice — no shipping costs, no strings attached. Even if you're a cold, heartless haterater, you gotta like that kind of charity. Details are on the Mush home page. (Thanks to m-f-r for the tip.)

Help the Hurricane Homeless 2

Over 5000 amazing musicians have chosen to donate ALL money from the
sale of their CD *directly* to the Red Cross disaster relief fund.

Click here to listen to and buy their CDs.

If you've been seeing the images of New Orleans after Hurricane
Katrina and have thought about donating to help those in need, please
consider buying some albums from that page.

You're free to listen to up to half of every album in
instant-streaming MP3, so I hope you use this as an excuse to
discover some great new music while knowing your money is going to a
good cause.

Help the Hurricane Homeless

Victims of Hurricane Katrina will be piecing their lives together for a long time to come. This is gonna take ongoing care from those of us who were more fortunate. Donate early and often.
Give to Red Cross via iTunes or Yahoo.
Give to the United Way via PayPal.

Exclusive Her Space Holiday Mix

Marc Bianchi, aka Her Space Holiday follows up the fine Young Machines with a new album via Wichita on September 27. For a limited time you can download a 50 minute mix of Mr. Bianchi's fave tunes including Prefuse 73, Broken Social Scene, and some of his own remixes.