June eMusic Downloads (My Teenage Stride, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Art Brut & Palomar)

Here is the first round of eMusic downloads that cover the month of June '07. I have been a member of eMusic now for at least a year and really love it. I get 90 downloads a month and use them up rather quickly. It is by far the best digital music download service out there and is totally DRM free. If you sign up for the service via the link below you will also be helping keep Mars Needs Guitars alive since I get a small kickback from those who subscribe via my link. It would be greatly appreciated.

So, here is the first half of new albums I downloaded for the month of June and some tracks to enjoy. You can sign up by clicking on the link below and get the first 25 mp3's free, plus you can cancel immediately if you don't like the service (which I am confident you will not do because it is excellent).

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My Teenage Stride

mp3 Depression Kicks

mp3 Ruin

Ears Like Golden Bats


Black Moth Super Rainbow

mp3 Drippy Eye

mp3 Jump Into My Mouth And Breathe The Stardust

Dandelion Gum


Art Brut

mp3 Sound Of Summer

mp3 Late Sunday Evening

It's A Bit Complicated


Palomar

mp3 Bridge Of Sighs

mp3 Beats Beat Nothing

All Things, Forest


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Crazy

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"I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral." - Moon Unit Zappa

"They'll probably make it unpatriotic to be Democrat. It's pretty crazy." - Neil Young

"I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn." - Muddy Waters

"We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet." - Max Walker

"When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again." - Mike Tyson

"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up." - Hunter S. Thompson

"Like, the kind of arrogance that some of the policy makers and world leaders are carrying with them right now is, I think, reflective of the very worst of the United States. It's that teenage arrogance, as a young country, the know-it-all kind of thing. That makes me crazy." - Michael Stipe

"What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?" - Freddie Mercury

"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy." - Charles Manson

"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy." - Sigmund Freud

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?" - Albert Einstein

"My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names." - James Brown


mp3 Let's Go Crazy

Prince And The Revolution - Music from the Motion Picture "Purple Rain"


mp3 Crazy Beat

Blur - Think Tank


mp3 Went Crazy

The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro/Wilder


mp3 Wild And Crazy

Division Of Laura Lee - Black City


mp3 Crazy About You

Whiskeytown - Pneumonia


mp3 Crazy (Studio Version)

Her Space Holiday - Audio Astronomy


mp3 Crazy

The Afghan Whigs - 1965


mp3 Still Crazy

The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic

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It's All About Getting In Tune

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"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." - Woody Allen

"If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune." - Count Basie

"For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life." - Bjork

"It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents." - Samuel Butler

"I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem." - Julian Cope

"You can't teach the old maestro a new tune." - Jack Kerouac

"The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune." - Bruce Springsteen

"Once in a while and really the exception, will be when I have an idea, then I'll write a poem first and then write a tune to the poem." - Roger McGuinn


mp3 Getting In Tune

The Who - Who's Next


mp3 Dream Wanderer's Tune

Deerhoof - Milk Man


mp3 Her Melancholy Tune

Superdrag - Last Call For Vitriol


mp3 I Could Never Tune

The Subjects - With the Ease Grace Precision and Cleverness of Human Beings


mp3 Intro And Theme Tune

Six. By Seven - Club Sandwich At The Peveril Hotel


mp3 Pavement Tune

The Frames - Set List


mp3 Sugartune

Sloan - Smeared


mp3 Stay Tuned

Ambulance Ltd - Ambulance LTD

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Angel And The Love Mongers - The Humanist Queen

Angel And The Love Mongers are from Knoxville, Tennessee but their music has a distinctive Brit pop feel to it. The band is singer/guitarist Angel Zuniga and drummer Eric Nowinski and their latest, The Humanist Queen, will be officially released September 4th on Rock Snob Records (though it appears the album can be picked up on CD Baby right now). Add to the mix some studio help and production by famed artist/producer Mitch Easter and you have a very nice piece of lush music.

mp3 The Humanist Queen

Angel And The Love Mongers Website

Angel And The Love Mongers MySpace

Buy The Humanist Queen here


Video - Home from The Humanist Queen

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Summertime Mix - Part II

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mp3 Summer

The Church - Forget Yourself


mp3 Summer Chill

Chapterhouse - Mesmerise


mp3 Summer Here Kids

Grandaddy - Under the Western Freeway


mp3 Summer

Mogwai - Ten Rapid (Collected Recordings 1996-1997)


mp3 Summer In The City

Vietnam - Vietnam


mp3 Summer Loop

Folksongs For The Afterlife - Put Danger Back in Your Life


mp3 Summer Skin

Death Cab For Cutie - Plans


mp3 Summer

Wheat - Medeiros

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Summertime Mix - Part I

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Sorry about the lack of posting lately, the Black Dog has been seriously on my ass and I have been under. I woke up the other day and realized it was summer, wtf... My whole life is passing me by and I sometimes wonder why I am even still alive.
There is no need though for you to miss out on some summer tunes. Just a word of advice, don't ever ever take the good things you have (a job, a significant other, money, a nice place to live) for granted. It is when you reach the lowest of lows as I have, that you realize how lucky you are to have had those things and you pray everyday that you can once again have them. Words of wisdom from a down and out, depressed loser..


mp3 Endless Summer

Follow The Train - Breath of Sigh


mp3 Feel Good Hit Of The Summer

Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R


mp3 Gold In The Air Of Summer

Kings Of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street


mp3 It's Summertime

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots


mp3 Lone Summer Dream

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Origin, Vol. 1


mp3 Skills Of Summer

Wire Train - Last Perfect Thing: A Retrospective


mp3 Summer Gold

The Eaves - The Eaves


mp3 Summertime Blues

T. Rex - Electric Warrior Sessions

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Peel

It's rare to get this ecstatic over a new band but Austin's Peel have done that for me. Yes, I am a little late at the game since it appears Peel have already garnished a ton of blog love. But they are good enough for another mention here. Their music is a fuzzy, warbling blend of power pop that shines on every track. Take note, take a listen to the goodness of Peel.

"A warped power-pop sound combining lots of guitar fuzz and other noise with bright, catchy melodies." - KEXP

"We're pretty into the self-titled debut from the brainy Austin outfit Peel; then again, we're suckers for any song that sounds like a 21st-century take on the Meat Puppets' "Backwater."" - Idolator

"Borrowing the trademark looseness of Pavement with the vocal deliveries in the vein of Apples in Stereo, Austin's Peel seems to have something both new and energetic with enough nostalgic reference points to be charmingly familiar." - Gorilla Vs Bear

mp3 Sliding Doors

mp3 Love Soaked In Blood

Peel - Peel

Peel On MySpace

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