MP3s From New Twin Atlas Album

The Twin Atlas have a brand new joint called Sun Township with more of their "big folk" sound (my term, not theirs) and rich, melancholy lyrics. The guys not only posted a couple of new MP3s from the album, they beefed up bandwidth just for you. So get to downloading:

Roll On [MP3, 2.5MB, 128kbps]
and my personal fave,
Current Below [MP3, 2.8MB, 128kbps]

Head over to www.thetwinatlas.com to buy directly from the band.

Oh Yeah, the New Podcast

#8.
Looks like this:
The Deadly Snakes "Gore Veil" (In The Red)
Ham1 "Pop Song for a Funeral (None)
The Hard Lessons "Milk and Sugar" (No Fun)
Pine Hill Haints "Tennessee River Rambler" (Lelp)
Ladytron "Destroy Everything You Touch (Ryko)
Ninja High School "Shake It Off" (Tomlab)
Xrbxrx "Beat Rolls On" (Polyvinyl)

Sounds like THIS.

New Titles Added to 3hive's Library

Belle and Sebastian: Just a Modern Rock Story by Paul Whitelaw. Written in cooperation with the band, and includes personal photographs of the band.

New Against Me! MP3 + Amoeba In-stores

Yes, yes, I know the new Against Me! MP3, "Don't Lose Touch" has been available for a while now. Look, we're less interested in being first than we are at finding the best free/legal MP3s out there. And that takes some time. In an interesting musical coupling, Mouse On Mars remixed this track for Against Me! Unfortunately no MP3 on that one.

One last order of Against Me! business: they're playing at Amoeba, San Francisco this Thursday, and Amoeba, Los Angeles on Friday, and throughout the country for the rest of the year.

World's Shortest Mike Doughty Live Show Review

Mike Doughty, last night at the Magic Stick: "Unsingable Name," people... Friggin' "Unsingable Name"...

Pez MP3 Dispenser

Pez: it's not just about candy anymore. Stay-at-home-dad, Pat Misterovich, hit up PEZ about licensing him their product as an MP3 player. They said yes.

Pre-orders are available now for $99 which gets you one of the 5000 first edition players, helping the Pez MP3 player become a reality for a kid-at-heart guy who's got the imagination and guts to take on Cupertino, Tokyo, and Seoul. And he's cool enough to pre-load the 512 MB player with fine indie bands like Bearsuit and Smoosh.

3hive Podcast #7 Is in Effect

Odeo, iTunes, iPodder, Yahoo! Podcasts, good ol' fashioned RSS...we don't care how you subscribe to our weekly podcast, so long as you do it. We won't be happy until we're maxing out your disk space!

New Kelley Stoltz MP3 From New Kelley Stoltz EP

Mr. Stoltz has some fresh psychedelic blues for your ears. The title track from his new EP on Sub Pop, The Sun Comes Through has been added to Sean's original post from a year ago.

Old School Television Theme Songs

There's a whole mess of them here. Still a lot of fun regardless of their low bitrate.

Also, if you're in the mood for film themes, sound effects and clips, check out Sound America. Beware of massive pop-ups though.

Both links via Kottke.

Suburban Kids With Biblical Names Debut Album

Swedish indie-dance-pop sensation Suburban Kids With Biblical Names release their debut album, #3, today. Looks like Labrador put up a new MP3, but it gets cut off at the very end, which is, um, slightly annoying. Nevertheless we're happy for the lads!

Why eMusic Friggin' Rules

When I was a young player trying to build a record collection out of my hard-earned lawnmowing money there was nothing better than Columbia House Record Club's trial offer. You'd actually tape a penny to a postcard and mail it in with your eight or so selections and the records would show up at your door. Of course, over the next few years you were obliged to pay for a certain number of full-price selections but then you'd cancel and start all over again. Besides, paying full-price later became easier the older and more employed I got. So Columbia House was kinda like an Adjustable Rate Mortgage for desperate music consumers.

Today, eMusic is my new Columbia House, only better. Better than Columbia House, because even beyond their initial freebie offer (50 free MP3s, no obligation) you end up paying between 20-40 cents a song depending on your subscription level. Better than MP3 subscription services like Napster and Yahoo, because you can keep the MP3s forever whether or not you continue to subscribe. Better than iTunes, because you can move, copy, and burn the MP3s however often you want.

eMusic has been aggressively expanding their catalog of independent music — spanning from the classic to the brand spankin' new. Just peep the albums I downloaded in the past month:

Blackalicious - The Craft
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Remixed
Copperpot - Chapter Seven
Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask
Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
Howard Hello - Howard Hello EP
Iron & Wine/Calexico - In the Reins
Mekons - Fear and Whiskey
Soul Asylum - Made To Be Broken
Stereo Total - Do the Bambi

If you haven't done so yet, sign up for eMusic's 50 free MP3s and see if you have the willpower to stop there. If you're already on the eMusic tip, let me know what other goodies you've found.

3hive Podcast #6 Is Live

Wow, six weeks fly by. If you haven't heard, we're putting together weekly podcasts of all this fine music. If you're at all Luddish, and you've yet to subscribe to the feed scene, simply click here for an old fashion website. Or listen directly right here, right now.

Attn New Yorkers: Free Beat Radio Show Thursday 10/13

Those of you who've been spending all of your time fretting over the future of CBGB, stop living in the past and head over to Sin-e for a free Beat Radio show Thursday, October 13th at 7 p.m. That's right, it's an early show, so grab a sandwich when you leave work, head right over and get home in plenty of time to watch The Office. Sam describes them best, and when you see them live all that's good about them comes through their amplifiers.

Sean's Last Amoeba Trip

I went record shopping at Amoeba, L.A., and all I got were these fine titles:

American Analog Set--Set Free [arts & crafts]
Broken Social Scene--Windsurfing Nation [arts & crafts]
Clue To Kalo--One Way, It's Every Way [mush]
Creature Comforts--Season 1 DVD
Hanne Hukkelberg--Little Things [leaf]
Lidsville--Complete Series DVD
Matthew Herbert--Plat Du Jour [accidental]
Minotaur Shock--Maritime [4ad]
Mr. Scruff--mrscruff [ninja tune]
Ms. John Soda--No P. or D. [morr music]
New Pornographers--Twin Cinema [Matador]
Rex Aquarium--The Back of the Room
Sound Directions--The Funky Side of Life [stones throw]
Treva Whateva--Music's Made of Memories [ninja tune]
Wolf Parade--Apologies to the Queen Mary [sub pop]

Just practicing what we preach here at 3hive: sharing the sharing. Artists/Labels share a couple tracks that I can live with and I'm happy to purchase the record. You drop cash for anything good lately?

Free MP3 EP by Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start

This will be old news for fans, but Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start put out a free MP3 EP sometime last year. Thanks to the Beau for the tip.

Looper Releases New MP3 EP

Looper, everyone's favorite Scottish-outfit-who-appeared-on-the-soundtrack-of-a-Tom-Cruise-film, has released the third installment in their series of MP3-only EPs. Just head over to www.looperama.com to download.

Harvey Danger Giving Away Album Download

Harvey Danger are back and they're offering complete album downloads via BitTorrent or direct downloads on their website: "We’re not streaming, or offering 30-second song samples, or annoying you with digital rights management software; we’re putting up the whole record, for free, forever. Full stop. Please help yourself; if you like it, please share with friends."

Sharing the sharing. It's spreading...

New Releases

A couple new albums this week from 3hive faves:
Elephant Eyelash by Why?
Misty Medley by Kiss Me Deadly

Say Hi To Your Mom on the Road with Nada Surf

Via Say Hi To Your Mom's email blast:

We are giddy with excitement to announce that beginning next week we'll be supporting Nada Surf on their first North American tour for The Weight Is A Gift, just released on Seattle's Barsuk Records. Despite us being in close negotiations with Cirque du Soleil, as consultants for some technical aspect of our live show, we've decided it would be best if we just bring the rock. So the rock, indeed, is just what we'll be bringing:

10-04-05 @ The Black Cat -- Washington, DC; with Nada Surf
10-05-05 @ Theatre Of Living Arts -- Philadelphia, PA; with Nada Surf
10-06-05 @ The Bowery Ballroom -- NYC; with Nada Surf
10-08-05 @ Paradise Rock Club -- Boston, MA; with Nada Surf
10-09-05 @ Brass City Records -- Waterbury, CT; Free Instore (4pm)
10-10-05 @ Pearl Street -- Northampton, MA; with Nada Surf
10-11-05 @ La Sala Rossa -- Montreal, CAN; with Nada Surf
10-12-05 @ Lee's Palace -- Toronto, CAN ; with Nada Surf
10-13-05 @ The Beachland Ballroom -- Cleveland, OH; with Nada Surf
10-14-05 @ The Metro -- Chicago, IL; with Nada Surf
10-15-05 @ 400 Bar -- Minneapolis, MN; with Nada Surf
10-19-05 @ Neumos -- Seattle, WA; with Nada Surf
10-20-05 @ The Aladdin Theatre -- Portland, OR; with Nada Surf
10-21-05 @ Bimbo's 365 Club -- San Francisco, CA; with Nada Surf
10-22-05 @ The El Rey Theatre -- Los Angeles, CA; with Nada Surf
10-23-05 @ The Casbah -- San Diego, CA; with Nada Surf
10-24-05 @ Kilby Court -- Salt Lake City, UT
10-25-05 @ Benders Tavern -- Denver. CO
10-27-05 @ The Conservatory -- Oklahoma City, OK
10-28-05 @ The Cavern -- Dallas, TX
10-29-05 @ Emo's -- Austin, TX
10-31-05 @ Red Star Bar -- Baton Rouge, LA
11-01-05 @ Duke CoffeeHouse -- Durham, NC
11-02-05 @ Relative Theory Records -- Norfolk, VA
11-03-05 @ Live on WMUC -- College Park, MD; (4pm)
11-03-05 @ DC9 -- Washington, DC
11-04-05 @ The Mercury Lounge -- NYC; with Dios Malos
11-06-05 @ AS220 -- Providence, RI
11-07-05 @ Great Scott -- Allston, MA