New Musical Order

Radio 1Xtra is the BBCs flagship radio station for the black/urban music scene. It’s “the best in new black music”, apparently. Which makes me wonder why we don’t have a Radio WXtra - playing the best in new white music, but that’s beside the point…
Part of 1Xtra’s remit is to unearth new homegrown talent in [...]

 

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You may have noticed a little band write up appear in the sidebar on the right in the last couple of days?
This content comes from New Band Daily, who offer an email listserv sending out 1 email per day relating to a new band, complete with a link and a completely FREE MP3.
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Dan Deacon is described as an “absurdist composer” on the Comfort Stand Recordings website, and within 30 seconds of “Arms Saloon”, the first track, your in no doubt that this is gonna be crazy!
Based in Westchester New York. Splitting his output into two major sections, live performance and composition.
His performance and compositional techniques shows strong [...]

 

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Something a bit different today, not least because you have to pay for it! On the plus side, proceeds are all going to Amnesty International. A worthy cause, so I’ll hope you’ll forgive us…
“Me, My Mouse & I” is the debut EP from Marvelous Mechanical Mouse, the new band of Chesney Hawkes (remember him?). The [...]

 

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This full length LP is the self-titled debut release from Boston-based Indie-Pop outfit The Hush Now.
After a life changing experience in L.A., Noel Kelly (former guitarist of L.A.’s Cerulean) has solidified his life, line up, and track list for his debut with The Hush Now.
For fans of Apples in Stereo, Guided By Voices, Shout Out Louds, [...]

 

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Jonathan and BPro are an Electro Pop outfit from Denver, Colorado.
Although they have their own website, a MySpace profile and a Twitter account, I can’t actually find out that much about them!
This EP (free in exchange for an email address) contains just 3 fairly mellow eletro grooves. They’re reasonable quality recordings too, which is nice.
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Kinch are a piano-heavy indie rock band hailing from Phoenix, Arizona.
Consisting of cousins Andrew Junker and Brian Coughlin along with lifelong friend Jake Malone, they’ve been making noise all over the US, with appearances at SXSW and Noisepop.
“Collars and Sleeves” follows Kinch’s debut album “Advances” — declared “Best Arizona Album of 2008″ by The Phoenix [...]

 

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Jack Johnson is giving away a free MP3 download in exchange for Tweeting about his new album, ‘En Concert’, which will be released October 27th.
Simply visit this page on Jack’s website, and click the Tweet This button. You’ll be asked to login, and then everything happens automagically. Your tweet is posted, and the download starts.
Easy [...]

 

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