New King of France MP3 Available Now

I'll admit that my head is spinning with bad puns about how The King of France is giving away something for free, and that if it had only been The Queen of France giving away a "White Confection," oh man, that would have been awesome! But even without the subpar shots at humor from yours truly, the light and jangly new single now available from the 3hive entry should double your listening pleasure...sorry, couldn't resist.

Great Concert Streams From NPR

There are a ton of great concert streams over on NPR's website. Check out Sigur Ros, Death Cab for Cutie, Son Volt and a bunch of other great artists here.

3hive vs. Music For Robots Podcast Is Live

Mark Willet from Music For Robots sat in on my KUCI show on Tuesday night to discuss and spin our latest favorites. It sounded/looked a little like this:

download hour 1 [43MB, 96kbps]
Birdmonster --the resurrection song [self release]
Speaker Speaker--statues/shadows [self release]
Mazarin--the new american apathy [i and ear]
Stratageme--scripts [judah records]
Death From Above 1979--Black History Month *alan braxe & fred falke remix [vice]
The Morning After Girls--run for our lives [rainbow quartz]
The A-Sides--expressway to your heart [plain parade]
Action--something to say
Matt Costa--sweet thursday [venerable]
Bodies of Water--here comes my hand
Hanne Hukkelberg--ease [leaf]

download hour 2 [41MB, 96kbps]
Tom Vek--nothing but green lights *digitalism remix [kitsune]
Twink--pussy cat [seeland]
Whomadewho--roses [gomma]
Dizzy Gillespie--swing low, sweet cadillac *gerardo frisina remix [impulse]
Gnarls Barkley--crazy
Ohmega Watts--a request [ubiquity]
Jamie Lidell--multiply [warp]
Ray Barbee--there's a proper time and procedure for every matter [galaxia]
El Ten Eleven--central nervous piston [bar none]
B. Fleischman--aldebaran waltz [morr]

Podcast #12: Better Late Than Never

Pod or cast it. I don't care which.

Speaker Speaker - I Was Wrong
Beat Happening - Angel Gone
The Clientele - St. Paul's Beneath a Sinking Sky
The Rosebuds - Blue Bird
Twink - Animal Talk
Not Gonna Tell You - It's A Surprise

Vote for 3hive!

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Tender Forever Live!

Perhaps this ain't the best place for me to rave about Tender Forever's live show, but here I go anyway! Holy moly, Melanie was incredible, part musician/poet/child/dancer/manipulator/artist/provacateur/comic/songwriter. And her voice live is so loud, so strong, so filling. I'd like to say more, but I want everyone to experience her show like we did, not knowing anything beforehand. Maybe I've said too much already, cause we didn't know it was going to be so good. So go here to find your way to her tour dates and set a goal right now to attend.

New Beat Radio MP3s

Clay IMed me the other day and asked why all of Beat Radio's music couldn't be as beautiful as "Treetops" (the demo version, natch). As if in response, Brian from Beat Radio emails me today with links to a few new MP3s: two fresh demos ("Another Loveless Anthem" and "Everything Is Temporary") and an album cut ("Mexico"). All three are good, but "Everything Is Temporary" may just give Clay what he's aching for...maybe. Check our Beat Radio post and listen for yourself.

3hive vs Music.For-Robots

Mark Willet from Music.For-Robots will be guest DJing on my KUCI show this Tuesday, November 22, at 10pm PST. I expect Mark to be armed to the teeth with hot tracks to spin and I imagine we'll converse plenty on life as music geeks in 2005.

Tune in live via the radio selector on iTunes>Radio>Public>KUCI or stream the show directly:

24k MP3 stream
128k MP3 stream

To communicate with us during the show use:

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or old school it: 949.824.5824

New MP3 and EP from The Long Winters

It's snowing here in Michigan, so enjoy the new MP3, "Ultimatum," off the new EP of the same name by The Long Winters, available from Barsuk Records.

New Album and MP3 from Album

It's like I've been waiting to type that for months...

Album's new album Microbricolages will be out in 2006, and a preview track, "Es Facil," is available on their website. Disfruten!

New Donna Regina MP3

We reported on the new Donna Regina album a couple months back (in fact Donna Regina was one of very first posts here at 3hive) but at the time there weren't any new MP3s available. Their label Karaoke Kalk pulled through and pulled out (they axed the link to "Late"). Get their new song "How Beautiful," an ode to darker, distracted days, here.

Podcast #11 Is Up

Download directly or subscribe to the feed.

Playlist:
DJ Format featuring Abdominal and D-Sisive "Separated at Birth" (Genuine)
The Arrogants "Wishing Well" (Shelflife)
Cold War Kids "The Soloist in the Living Room" (Monarchy Music Corp.)
The King of France "Mexico" (Echo)
Cat Power "The Greatest" (Matador)
The Mathletes "Cat Power Is a Good Cop" (Asaurus)
The Notes and Scratches "The Hours" (Tense Forms)
John P. Strohm "Drive-Thru" (Flat Earth)
Kaskade "Two Sides" (Om)

Podcast #10 & iTunes are Live

Alright, the new podcast is up. Download it direct. I also just noticed that iTunes has tracked us down and you can subscribe to our little podcast there. If you wanna.

Here's this week's playlist. Enjoy!

The Coral Sea - Look at Her Face [Red Clover]
Arma Secreta - Sweater Weather [RTHMTC]
Voicst - Whatever You Want From Life [Duurt Lang]
Dropkick Murphys - The Warriors Code [Epitaph]
The Ta-dahs - The Cute Band [Undeniable]
Jupiter One - Countdown [None]
The Mohawk Lodge - Making Music [White Whale]

iLounge Holiday Buyer's Guide for 2005-2006

iLounge dropped an 11 Meg gadgetgasm in their 2005 Holiday Buyer's Guide. If you are looking for an iPod accessory or want to give an iPod accessory, this 106-page PDF likely has what you are looking for. Download page is here.

New Soft Music Added

The boys from Soft have been taking a break from playing out to write new songs, and one of the results is “Higher,” a guitar-driven anthem that swirls and chimes into the atmoshphere. It feels like it was written expressly for the arenas, and while Soft isn't there yet in reality, in spirit they've been there all along.

You can purchase "Higher" as part of the band’s new EP, available through their website. In the meantime, enjoy the MP3.

Higher [MP3, 5.4MB, 192kbps]

Would You Sign This Band?

Bono recently pulled this band out of the audience and let them play "Out Of Control" onstage, on U2's instruments. Of course, major label A&R executives scrambled to find out who the band was, as reported in the L.A. Times, and I wouldn't be surprised if some label signed them. While the band, Exit, was on stage Bono said, "It pays to advertise." They were wise to advertise their live performance first and not their original songs.

Fixed Podcast #9's Levels

The version of Podcast #9 that went up on Sunday had super quiet vocals and super loud music. The levels have been readjusted and a new version posted for your listening pleasure.

This sorta thing is like having something in your teeth and no one has the nerve to tell you. So thanks, Paul, for telling me I have something in my teeth...metaphorically.