Stuff I like recently: (everyone please join in).
if you want to "try" these out, you can usually google search "artist album site:mediafire.com" and turn something up. Or search their myspace pages.
Acid Fascists- banging garage rock from the uk. purports to be alternate reality Charles Manson band. You can download their album free of charge for the next two days from the band itself:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ycznxmjhmbk[youtube=560,345]k0ugwRoWmIk[/youtube]
Fake Blood - Electro/House/Figit DJ. Just did one of the best Essential Mixes for this year.
http://deepgoa.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/fake-blood-essential-mix-bbc-radio-1-14032009/[youtube=560,345]Yc3QNcec5RE[/youtube] in dance music terms, this is so old your grandfather would be dancing to it.
Glomag - 8 Bit artist just did a bunch of Joy Division covers and it's awesome.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/eqgg6s [youtube=560,345]Yc3QNcec5RE[/youtube]
8-bit pocket calculator cover
O Pioneers - Neon Creeps!!! This appeals to me and i can't really say why. It's just good solid rock with some horrible song titles. you can get this from a completely donation based record label online
http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/albums.htm[youtube=560,345]PwawdxdbD3s[/youtube]
sounds like Against Me! a bit with this song
Baroness- The Red Album, out since 2007 i just found them thanks to a resurgence in my interest in metal. This is a fucking incredible album and reminds me a lot of the creativity the "alternative" scene in the early 90s was putting out with a heavy guitar sound.
[youtube=560,345]qKl4U5CgUrc[/youtube]
The Coathangers - girl noise punk band. New album coming out in April which may place them at the forefront of hipster consciousness. check them out now while they're still cool.
[youtube=560,345]T6M2RgvevZA[/youtube]
teengirl fantasy - two Oberlin students make electronic music which is dance aware but not slavishly beholden to the constraints of dance music. check out the CDR self release they did, OR go to their myspace and check out azzclaps.
[youtube=560,345]fcJiIUcF5xY[/youtube]
tombs - brooklyn metal/doomgaze band. wall of sound and despair. This isn't what you'd expect when you hear the term "metal"
[youtube=560,345]w-WuxMNOvsA[/youtube]
wolves in the throne room - ambient black metal. [youtube=560,345]MO_EuNDCSZs [/youtube]
N.A.S.A. - dance music. good fun stuff with interesting "collaborations" (like odb)
[youtube=560,345]44jr_Igu2L8[/youtube]
[youtube=560,345]Jly6bXYGyFk[/youtube]
[youtube=560,345]AaKA2HKKqZw[/youtube]
digital leather - one guy with some dark, dark, dark synthpop. for fans of stuff like nin, but don't expect it to be as "pretty" quite raw
[youtube=560,345]u0TYNGbkHmo[/youtube]
dj donna summer- nothing i say will really do this guy justice. probably nsfw or white booties
http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2008/05/exclusive-mix-dj-donna-summerDuffy - like female white soul vocalists? get her
[youtube=560,345]KE2orthS3TQ[/youtube]
[youtube=560,345]uHvOm-o3AA8[/youtube]
Hot Lava - Fun pop from Richmond Va. check their myspace
[youtube=560,345]cUE8mD-9pIk[/youtube]
k'naan - hip hop from somalia via canada.
[youtube=560,345]iu3biFTak2I[/youtube]
[youtube=560,345]J0IuUXHBkaw[/youtube]
math the band - 3 fun spazzes from philly with instruments. albums are NOTHING like the insane live shows.
nothing on youtube really captures what they're like live.
matt and kim - you probably already know them and may even hate them by now
[youtube=560,345]4Yg-CgIwaHs[/youtube]
[youtube=560,345]WgBeu3FVi60[/youtube]
and now i'm going home. so i will leave off here
anyone else?