Kid Cudi

Ah, the Pursuit of Happiness. It is a foundational principle upon which the United States was built, a movie in which Will Smith cried a lot, and an action that probably gets boys, girls, husbands, wives, boyfriends, and girlfriends into more trouble than it’s ultimately worth.
Never you mind, death professor, Kid Cudi has taken all of those associations and thrown them out the window. What is left is an elegant slice of modern hip hop that’s supplemented by MGMT and Ratatat. What’s not to love?

mp3 : Kid Cudi - Pursuit of Happiness (feat MGMT and Ratatat)

Even the opening thirty seconds of gritty instrumentals is hypnotic. And when the lyrics drop it’s obvious Kid Cudi is never, repeat never, going to slow his roll. Never. For those of you that care you can find this track on the album Man On The Moon: The End of Day (amazon) (itunes). Enjoy.

The Weakerthans

I have found myself to be a bit on the obsessive side over the past month of my life. I worked a lot... too much...

And all this rambling brings me to this track. This track written about losing someone. This track which I believe is the perfect commentary on the war the USA is currently fighting (in two countries no less). This song is quietly desperate and melancholic. It’s filled with honest emotions and genuine heartache. And I know every word as if I wrote it myself.

It’s been said that John Samson (lead singer of The Weakerthans) wrote this song for a friend of his whom died in the war in Afghanistan. It’s also known that the title is lifted from a painting by the artist Edward Hopper. It’s a beautiful song and I feel that if I don’t share it with everyone it will be stuck in my head for ages and I won’t ever listen to another album.

mp3 : The Weakerthans - Night Windows

BODEGA GIRLS

This song is a party. Like a whole party. A really good party. All in one song. You know how I feel about this: I feel awesome! Boston’s Bodega Girls previously gave us a remix of Port O’Brien that didn’t leave me expecting this level of fun from their original material. “Ain’t That Cold” is a back-and-forth breakup throwdown between jilted lovers that finishes the fighting by 2:55. The next 2 instrumental minutes of party I are surely for the sweet dance-off. (Winner gets the cat.) I love how they tae their time with the track and clocking at over 6 minutes it still ends too soon. Bodega Girls’ straight up guitar and drums party are definitely being slept on right now. They have barely 1300 listens on Last.fm despite a second stellar track “She’s Into Black Guys.” Grab that one over at RCRD•LBL and if you are really feeling them then bust over to their fundraising site where they are offering some wild package deals to raise funds for recording.
Bury your face in MySpace /// eMusic too

MP3 :

Bodega Girls – Ain’t That Cold

NINELIVES THE CAT

Acclaimed Aussie MC NineLives The Cat released his debut album on 6th October with UK label Diverted Traffic, and we’re delighted to be working with over 1000 bloggers to tell the world about it.

MP3 :

NineLives The Cat – What’s My Name?

NineLives The Cat – Crash Test Kitten (feat. Kitten)

DO? MAKE? SAY? THINK?

From Toronto, they're playing next week at the Sala Rossa (Nov 25 - 26)

Do Make Say Think – Do

Less than Jake

Show de Less than Jake demain soir! Rock on!

MP3:

Less Than Jake - Krazy Glue

Bad Religion

There's a couple ways to measure how great a band actually is. When their output is prodigious enough, a surefire sign is not being able to anthologize them with anything less than two CDs. Once you have all the "hits," rarities, b-sides, soundtrack contributions, and album cuts you like and you can't get it all on one disc (and it takes up at least a lot of disc two), you know you have a potentially great band on your hands.This is tricky in the case of a band like Bad Religion. As much as it pains me to say this, they're basically the punk rock version of U2 or AC/DC

MP3 here :

Bad Religion

TeddyBears - Mama

You know them from their ubiquitous “Cobrastyle,” if nothing else. Earlier this summer they dropped this new track to tie us over until a supposed fall release of their next LP, Devils Music. “Get Mama A House” is all kinds of goofiness, with tongue in cheek lyrics about organized crime cartels and selling-out. It’s definitely a fun listen, but doesn’t really touch “Cobrastyle” (especially not Robyn’s cover), or my Teddybears favorite, “Yours To Keep” with Neneh Cherry (brother of Eagle Eye!). Devils Music supposedly a party album and contains contributions from Slick Rick, Wayne Coyne, and Sting’s daughter Coco Summer. Sweeeeet.

MP3

Teddybears – Get Mama a House

My awesome mixtape

New this year, this band is from Italia. A indie/pop band doing well on the music scene....

MP3

My awesome mixtape - Me & The washing machine

My Awesome Mixtape – The Saint Valentines Day Massacre

Écrapou

Weekend

Strung Out - NEW EP

Strung Out have set a new album. The record is titled Agents of the Underground. The album also coincides with the bands 20th anniversary, having originally formed in 1989. Vocalist Jason Cruz commented on the album:

''With Agents Of The Underground, I wanted to acknowledge the fact that we are still alive and kicking just below the consciousness of the mainstream media and are celebrating our place here in “The Underground", Like a resistance movement, we move freely and without boundaries. We say what we feel and do it all our own way, and we've done it all this time without radio, without TV, and without the help of a corporate record label. We are the essence of what the punk rock movement started out as and has strayed so far from. We are living proof that you can succeed by doing things your own way.”

MP3 :

Black Crosses Download

Vanity Download

Banner Pilot - New album out now!

Minnesota punks Banner Pilot continue to turn heads with their vintage pop-punk sound. Here their new album - Collapser, on Fatwreckchords

Mp3 :

- Greenwood Download

- Skeleton Key Download

Weezer – Can’t Stop Partying (ft. Lil Wayne)

That’s right, lil Wayne and Weezer. Together on the band’s track “Can’t Stop Partying.” On the band’s new album, “Raditude” out October 27th, frontman Rivers Cuomo wanted to try his hand at some different genres, including R&B. For the transformation, Cuomo hooked up with producer Jermaine Dupri for “Partying.”

Download: Weezer – Can’t Stop Partying (Feat. Lil Wayne)

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Matt & Kim

Formé en 2004, ce groupe indie rock à l’influence pop-synthétique, revient en force avec un album haut en couleur intitulé Grand. Sorti en magasin au mois de janvier 2009, ce deuxième effort de la formation new-yorkaise n’est nul autre qu’une boîte à surprises prête à nous exploser en plein visage. Ressemblant drôlement à leur disque éponyme paru en 2006, ils nous reviennent en force avec des compositions toujours aussi rythmées, avec une voix dont la joie de vivre est réellement contagieuse et avec des mélodies bien mesurées du début jusqu’à la fin.

MP3: Matt & Kim - Yea Yeah

A whale... ( and Noah)

Some call it folk, some call it punk...

Noah and the Whale are a London pop outfit that specializes in good-natured indie pop love songs. Most of their tunes are fun and jangly with a hint of melancholy humor.

They’ve just released their first full-length album, Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down, on Interscope Records. It features their first two hit singles, “5 Years Time” and “2 Atoms In a Molecule,” the more subdued title track, and eight other pop gems. If you like what you’ve heard on WGRE, buy the album and support the artist!

Noah and The Whale, “Five Years Time”