Giant Drag New (And Final) Album “Waking Up Is Hard To Do” Out Today

Posted on | March 5, 2013 | No Comments

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Tracklists:

01. 90210
02. We Like The Weather
03. Won’t Come Around
04. Do It
05. Firestorm
06. Garbage Heart
07. Meowch
08. Messif My Face
09. Dennis the Pennis
10. Sobriety is a Sobering Experience
11. Heart Carl
12. Seen The Light
13. Sobriety is a Sobering Experience (Demo)
14. Heart Carl (Demo)

What I Know About Nothing EP

01. Firestorm (Demo) (Hidden!)
02. Sobriety Is A Sobering Experience (Demo)
03. Dennis The Pennis (Demo) (Hidden!)
04. Messif My Face (Demo) (Hidden!)
05. Meowch (demo) (Hidden!)
06. Heart Carl (Demo)

It’s finally out!

8 long years after the release of their debut album “Hearts & Unicorns”, Annie Hardy‘s long journey to write, finance, and record the follow up titled “Waking Up Is Hard To Do” ends today.

And what a journey it was.

Being dropped by Interscope, Annie’s numerous and unfortunate health problems, legal battles, rehab, the other half of Giant Drag, Drummer Michah Calabrese quitting, coming back and then quitting/fired again has made this a long and painful wait for new music.

Although the 2010 release of the “Swan Song EP” satiated our hunger, we were craving more.

This new and (sad to say) last Giant Drag album is the Annie show through and through. Lot’s of blood, sweat and assuming tears went into the making of this
record and I must say, it is a fitting send off for the Giant Drag moniker.

What is she up to now?

2 projects: The first one being Annie Hardy and The Psychos, which she says is the next step from Giant Drag and a natural evolution of her sound.

She released their first song last week on bandcamp titled “Unbelievable Psycho Boy”.

Her second project being PNP (Party N’ Play) which will be her musical outlet for her more experimental music.

Also released last week, a song from that new endeavour titled “Cum See About Me (Take You To Abortion)”.

The new album, can can be downloaded @ anniehardy.bandcamp.com.

It’s from Annie’s own record label Full Psycho Records. All posssible digital formats are available to your heart’s desire. If enough fans coughs up the cash to download the album, good chance we will see a CD/vinyl release as well.

If you download the deluxe edition, you will get a 6 song EP titled “What I Know About Nothing”. Those were the acoustic demos recorded back in 2007 by Annie and the album’s producer Joe Cardamone.

2 new interviews with Annie went online @ Critical Wave and @ Music In Press discussing the demise of the band, where her mind is now, and what’s in her future.

You can follow Annie’s trials and tribulations on her website’s label
and forums aka The Glory Hole.

Twitter and Tumblr are still places where she’ll talk about her new projects and
bring the funny.

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MVs Collection #96

Posted on | March 3, 2013 | No Comments

Atoms For Peace – “Ingenue”
Directed by Garth Jennings.

Sad Day For Puppets – “Cold Hand”
Directed by David Kaijser.

Soundgarden – “By Crooked Steps”
Directed by Dave Grohl.

Bob Mould – “Star Machine”
Directed by Jon Glaser.

Justin Timberlake Feat. Jay-z – “Suit & Tie”
Directed by David Fincher.

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AGDFA 144

Posted on | February 24, 2013 | No Comments

75 mins : 38 secs | 43.2 mb

Atoms For Peace “Default” ( xl recordings )
Amok [ amazon ]
website | twitter | facebook

Biffy Clyro “Biblical” ( 14th floor records )
Opposites [ amazon ]
website | twitter | facebook

… Trail Of Dead “Bright Young Things” ( superball music )
Lost Songs [ amazon ]
website | twitter | facebook

Local H “Here Come Ol’ Laptop” ( the slimstyle recording corp. )
Hallelujah! I’m A Bum [ amazon ]
website | twitter | facebook

Yo La Tengo “Paddle Forward” ( subpop )
Fade [ amazon ]
website | twitter | facebook

Joey Bada$$ “FromdaTomb$” ( independent release )
1999 (mixtape) [ free download ]
website | twitter | facebook

A$AP Rocky “LVL” ( rca records )
Long. Live. A$AP [ amazon ]
website | twitter | facebook

Large Professor “Focused Up” ( fat beats records )
Professor @ Large [ amazon ]
website | twitter | facebook

DJ Format Feat. Sureshot La Rock “Mr. DJ” ( project blue book )
Statement Of Intent [ amazon ]
website | twitter | facebook

Frightened Rabbit “The Woodpile” ( atlantic records )
Pedestrian Verse [ amazon ]
website | twitter | facebook

Medic “Grace & Gravity” ( independent release )
Grace & Gravity [ amazon ]
website | twitter | facebook

Magneta Lane “Lucky” ( independent release )
Witchrock EP [ amazon ]
website | twitter | facebook

Jagwar Ma “Come Save Me” ( marathon artists )
Come Save Me (Single) [ amazon ]
website | twitter | facebook

Father John Misty “Hollywood Forever Cemetery” ( sub pop )
Fear Fun [ amazon ]
website | twitter | facebook

The Irrepressibles “Two Men In Love” ( of naked design recordings )
Nude [ amazon ]
website | twitter | facebook

My Bloody Valentine “She Found Now” ( independent release )
m b v [ official store ]
website | twitter | facebook

Rachel Zeffira “To Here Knows When” ( raf )
The Deserters [ amazon ]
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SXSW 2013: ( Unofficial ) Music Torrent

Posted on | February 23, 2013 | No Comments

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Earlier this week, the full schedule went live:

schedule.sxsw.com

Days, times and venues for all the night showcases on and around 6th Street
are all there to be perused at your discretion.

Which brings me to the awesomeness that is the (unofficial) SXSW torrent which
some ingenious fella puts together and has been sharing with us for the past
8 years.

Part I ( 999 mp3s ~ 6.13GB ) | Part II ( 211 mp3s ~ 1.25GB )

A great way to sample The latest and greatest (not all winners mind you) of
what’s being showcased at this year’s edition.

Only a few seeders picking up the slack right now for all of us wanting to download
this beast of a torrent so once you’re done PLEASE KEEP ON SEEDING!

Part 2 should be out the week before it all goes down 17 days from now.

Update ( March 9th 2013 ) :

Part 2 is up!

211 more tracks to sample before the craziness starts on Wednesay.

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Listen: Hooked On Dirty Airplay: 2012 Year-End Spectacular

Posted on | February 19, 2013 | No Comments

Last month, the fellas and I @ CJLO (@omarsonics of Hooked On Sonics
and @denisdirtywork of Dirty Work) did our annual year-end spectacular
where in 4 continuous hours of airtime, we shared our top 10 albums
of the year.

A mixture of the usual shoegaze, power pop, punk, hip hop and straight up
“indie” music made the cut.

I think we’ve got some darn fine choices on this list and hopefully, you’ll
discover a future musical love through us.

You’re welcome.

Download away and let me know what you think in the comment section.

( http://www.mediafire.com/?ky3d6i1d4l6eh59 ) < — Download Link

Dirty Work

PS I Love You – “Princess Towers”
Japandroids – “The Nights Of Wine And Roses”
Porcelain Raft – “Is It Too Deep For You?” (Paul’s Honorable Mention)
Title Fight – “Numb But I Still Feel It” (Omar’s Honorable Mention)
Rachel Zeffira – “Here On In” (Paul Pick #10)
Ty Segall – “Inside Your Heart” (Denis Pick #10)
El-P – “The Full Retard” (Omar Pick #10)
Patrick Watson – “Lighthouse” (Paul Pick #9)
Young Prisms – “Floating In Blue” (Denis Pick #9)
Bob Mould – “Star Machine” (Omar Pick #9)
JJ Doom – “Guv’nor” (Paul Pick #8)
Ringo Deathstarr – “Waste” (Denis Pick #8)
Mirroring – “Drowning The Call” (Omar Pick #8)
We Are Serenades – “Oceans” (Paul Pick #7)
Perfeck Strangers Feat. Zeyon – “Stay Me” (Denis Pick #7)
Killer Mike – “Big Beast” (Omar Pick #7)
Daniel Rossen – “Saint Nothing” (Paul Pick #6)
The Megaphonic Thrift – “Swan Song” (Denis Pick #6)
The Men – “Please Don’t Go Away” (Omar Pick #6)

Hooked On Sonics

Niki And The Dove – “Tomorrow” (Paul Pick #5)
Kestrels – “Drowning Girl” (Denis Pick #5)
Converge – “Aimless Arrow” (Omar Pick #5)
Danny Brown – “Grown Up” (Paul’s Favorite Hip Hop Track)
Shad – “Out Here” (Denis’s Favorite Hip Hop Track)
Aesop Rock – “Zero Dark Thirty” (Omar’s Favorite Hip Hop Track)
Mystery Machine – “Snow”
No Joy – “Junior”
Cribs – “Stalagmites”
Metz – “Wet Blanket” (Paul Pick #4)
Lotus Plaza – “Strangers” (Denis Pick #4)
Chromatics – “Back From The Grave” (Omar Pick #4)
Bob Mould – “The Descent” (Paul Pick #3)
Tamaryn – “While You’re Sleeping, I’m Dreaming” (Denis Pick #3)
Metz – “Headache” (Omar Pick #3)
Megaphonic Thrift – “Moonstruck” (Paul Pick #2)
Metz – Wet Blanket” (Denis Pick #2)
Kestrels – “The Past Rests” (Omar Pick #2)
Ringo Deathstarr – “Rip” (Paul Pick #1)
Liars – “His And Mine Sensations” (Denis Pick #1)
Cloud Nothings – “No Future No Past” (Omar Pick #1)

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