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“With Love from the Men’s Room” from 50 Foot Wave | Kristin Hersh

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50 Foot Wave published their latest EP “With Love from the Men’s Room” along with the entire back catalog and other assorted goodies via torrent sites and Archive.org. Read more

Aller guten Dinge sind Drei

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Guten Freunden gibt man ein Küßchen, (s)einer Frau schenkt man Blumen und bei afmusic gab es am heutigen Valentinstag ebenfalls ein Geschenk an die Fans. Gleich 3 Debüts erblickten das Licht der Welt und haben gemeinsam, daß sie allesamt als kostenfreier Download zu haben sind. Read more

Voyvoda’s new album “Iztok” as “name-your-price” CD

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Voyvoda’s sound is a combination of post punk, minimal and cold wave of the 80s, stirring balkan folklore and majestic eastern-orthodox chants. Voyvoda will release their second album “Iztok” on February 7th as a download, the vinyl issue will follow on 20th of April, 2012. Read more

Human Tetris Debütalbum “Happy Way in the Maze of Rebirth”

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Human Tetris ist ein Quartett aus Moskau, welches sich in klassischer Besetzung anschickt, die Welt mit Post-Punk der feineren Art zu erobern.
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Frontregen EP “That Dance”

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Da ich einige Zeit hier nichts geschrieben habe, ist leider auch die zweite Veröffentlichung der Wiener mit dem seltsamen Namen etwas untergegangen. Dabei finden sich auf der EP “That Dance” von Frontregen 6 schicke Songs im Spannungsfeld zwischen Björk, Muse und Radiohead.
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Drunken C and the indie rock: a true love story

After the successful release of Dreamville EP, Drunken C is back on Zorch Factory Records with an absolutely killer release, 5 tracks of pure dark indie rock that will certainly make you think the best of 90′s rock is back! And you’d be right! I would simply compare it to Sonic Youth, no more no less… And why not! A really must have record!

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AlterRed’s Doppelsingle “And We Disappear/A Different Face Double A Side”

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Versprechen sollten gehalten werden und so lies sich auch die UK Band AlterRed nicht lumpen und hat, wie versprochen, die Doppelsingle “And We Disappear/A Different Face Double A Side” bei Soundcloud als kostenfreien Download bereitgestellt, nachdem 1000 Fan-Likes auf Facebook zu verzeichnen waren.
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The NIGHTCHILD release new single as a free download

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It hasn’t been that long, when the high flyers of the Nightchild, consisting of Alexey Nightchild A. (vocals, guitar, songwriting, programming) and Olga Holy Cat (bass), released their third album “Some Stories And Thoughts”. Now the ukrainian couple already comes up with their new single “Dreammaster” for the upcoming album “The World Unseen, The World Unknown”.
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Emerald Park – Things

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Sometimes music business isn’t only confusing for outsiders. Often enough it offers surprises for industry experts, too, which show oneself again, that success is neither foreseeable, nor predictable. Afterwards the album title “For Tomorrow” (2008) from Emerald Park seems like a prophetic hint on that, which should happen in the following years.
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