Grails- Doomsdayer's Holiday

Genre: Instrumental/Psychadelic post-rock
Favorite track: "Reincarnation Blues" and "Acid Rain"

   This band rules and this album helps me remain calm on some of my worst days. It's a pretty artsy album and not for the faint of heart (i.e. the first and title track starts off immediately with some disturbing screams), but all in all give it a chance. Also i don't feel like posting to their myspace so go google 'em and support 'em.

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Aqua Timez- Alones

J-POP song of the day.

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Jakob Battick & Friends- Heavy the Mountains, Heavy are the Seas

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Genre: Experimental/Folk
Favorite Track: Always Returning/Never Returning
If you are feeling like a really great guy you can buy this album on his bandcamp. Otherwise download link is below. Very cool local Maine artist, give it a listen.

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Girlfriends- Girlfriends

Genre: Good stuff
Favorite Track: The Apocalypse Made Me Brave
You can either download his record for free off his bandcamp or you can throw some change his way. Either way it is a solid and catchy record for free/cheap.

Salome- Terminal

Genre: Doom/Sludge
Favorite Track: Master Failure
Featuring Katherine Katz from Agoraphobic Nosebleed. Really fucking solid and heavy. One of the best doom records that has kept me listening over and over again for a while.

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As a side note you can read an interview with Katherine Katz here. She is one fucking cool cat.

Jamie T- Panic Prevention

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Genre: Rap/Reggae/Punk
Favorite Track: Shelia, Back In The Game

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Catharsis- Passion

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Genre: Metal/Hardcore
Favorite Track: The Witch's Heart

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Pissed Jeans- Hope For Men

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Genre: Noise Rock
Favorite Track: I've Still Got You(Ice Cream)
Really fucking original and heavy.

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Jesse Gertz- Album

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You can download the album on the bandcamp page.
Genre: Electronic/Indie
Favorite Track: Ast, Paper Boat, Can You Tell?, Love Lust Remix
This is a masterpiece and a friend of mine did it all. If you want you can even pay for the album.

Back When- We Sang As Ghosts

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Genre: Experimental/Black Metal
Favorite Track: Ghosts

I stumbled upon this. I like it. A lot. End of story.

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Nine- It's Your Funeral

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Genre: Hardcore/Metal
Favorite Track: No Air Supply

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Donna Regina- The Decline Of Female Happiness

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Genre: Alt Pop/Indie
Favorite Track: Tied To Your Ship

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Notes To Myself- Waking With The Wolves

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Genre: Emo/Indie
Favorite Track: Radio Never Plays Our Favorite Songs

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65daysofstatic- The Fall Of Math

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Genre: Post-Rock
Favorite Track: Aren't We All Running?

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Buried Inside- Chronoclast

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Genre: Metal/Hardcore
Favorite Track: Time As Imperialism
This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Find the time to sit down and listen to this from beginning to end to really appreciate this masterpiece.

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Kvelertak- Kvelertak

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Genre: Hardcore/Metal
Favorite Track: Fossegrim

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Breach- It's Me God

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Genre: Metal/Hardcore
Favorite Track: God Forbid Me
Every Single track on this record fucking blows my mind. If there is a god it really is this album incarnate. This is as heavy as heavy can get.

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Kausal- In Dead Cities

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Genre: Post-Rock/Atmospheric
Favorite Track: Evac


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Brother/Ghost- Black Ice

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Genre: Post-Rock/Indie
Favorite Track: Waal
This album is an ferocious journey.

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Harvey Milk- Special Wishes

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Genre: Stoner Rock/Metal/Rock
Favorite Track: I've Got A Love
This is a really great band, Enough said so listen and find more of their stuff because they have a lot of really great music.

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Junius- The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist

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Genre: Rock/Post-Rock
Favorite Track: Elisheva, I Love You
When you start this album you will hear a man's voice, that voice belongs to Albert Einstein and his voice will guide you through a truly beautiful album.

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Prince Paul- A Prince Among Thieves

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Genre: Hip Hop/Conceptual
Favorite Track: War Party, You Got Shot, and The Men In Blue
From the brilliant mind of Prince Paul comes A Prince Among Thieves. Prince Paul is a legend in hip hop (being a founding member of Gravediggaz, a producer of De La Soul's first three albums and a member of Stetsasonic) and created, in my opinion, one of the best conceptual albums of all time. The album is about an aspiring emcee named Tariq played by Breezly Brewin (of Juggaknots) and features appearances from Everlast of House of Pain, De La Soul, Kool Keith, Big Daddy Kane, Chubb Rock, Biz Markie, Chris Rock (who plays a gay prostitute), Sadat X of Brand Nubian, Xzibit, Kid Creole, Special Ed, The RZA, and Buckshot of Black Moon. If you have not heard this album, I highly recommend it.

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Drone- Smell Wet Earth

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Genre: Experimental/Ambient/Rock
Favorite Track: Not Quite Beautiful Enough(For Two)

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Drone- Quit

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Genre: Experimental/Ambient/Rock
Favorite Track: The Sacren

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The Horrors- Vent

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Genre: "Scuzz" Blues/Garage Rock
Favorite Track: Shake Your Shit and Hope's Blues
I found this album on accident during freshman year, and I simply cannot get enough. It's an old favorite of mine, and probably always will be. Give it a chance.

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Black Moon- Enta Da Stage

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Genre: Alternative Hip Hop
Favorite Track: Slave (But all of them are amazing)
This album, fucking blew my mind when it comes to hip hop. Holy shit, every single one of these tracks are perfection. The beats are mellow and well done, the MC's voice (Buckshot Shorty) is mellow, raspy, and full of energy all at the same time. I absolutely love this album.

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Red Medicine - Demo

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Genre: Post-Punk/Post-Rock

This is my band.

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Dangers- Messy, Isn't It?

Myspace-Well its not their myspace but close enough

Genre: ....hardcore/punk(not hardcore punk, more like a meshing of the two seperate genres.)

Favorite track: I haven't even gone through the entire album yet but so far if you like one, you'll like them all

I just found this band literally like 15-20 minutes ago. It is so intense and passionate. I don't really know how to describe the music. It's like one of the best blends of passionate hardcore and punk I've ever heard. The guitars are heavy and catchy, featuring some of the coolest, original breakdowns I've heard in awhile. The drummer is really fucking good, but you kind of have to be to play hardcore/punk. The vocalist just screams at the top of his lungs about such topics as his mother's suicide and how everyone in the world is more fucked than jesus carrying a cross through a desert. Really, check this band out. It's beautiful, catchy hardcore/punk that is pretty underground. The best kind of punk.

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Towers- Full Circle

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Genre: Hardcore

Favorite Track: We Fake Smiles

I found this album by mistake, literally an hour ago. I was looking for a Hieroglyphics album and this just popped up. I found it to be fucking intoxicating. Hopefully you will too.

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Helms Alee- Night Terror

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Genre: Rock/Metal/Grunge
Favorite Track: New Roll
One of my favorite records ever. From the ashes of the great Harkonen, Ben Verellen comes at you with even better music. Ever song on this album is amazing, everything comes together so perfectly it's hard to stop listening once you have begun.

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Funkdoobiest- Brothas Doobie

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Genre: Golden Age Hip Hop

Favorite Track: XXX Funk and Lost In Thought

This album is ridiculous plain and simple. The beats are dope, Son Doobie's voice is awesome. I love these guys, because they don't have take themselves too seriously and they have an MC named Tomahawk Funk! They a friggin' native american MC, that is awesome. Check it out. Give it a try.

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Kaki King- Junior

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Genre: Rock/Folk/Indie
Favorite Track: Sunnyside
This is Kaki King's new album and it is off the walls. Every single song on this album is amazing and there isn't one that I would even think about missing so I can't help myself but listen to this over and over again. It fucking rocks, End of story.

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Benea Reach

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Genre: Melodic Mathcore

Favorite track: Right now....Sentiment

This album has been on repeat on my ipod for awhile. Apart from sigur ros and elliott smith this is the only other band I've been listening to almost exclusively. There are just a lot of breakdowns with some really melodic parts thrown in, plus the singer has one of the best scream ranges, if not the best, that I've heard in quite a while. Listen, you may be disappointed but I don't give a shit, cause I love the album, but you may like it, and its always worth a listen to find new music you might enjoy.

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The Maths link for Descent is working again.

Jesse Gertz- Heartstrings

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Genre: Folk/Acoustic
Favorite Track: What Love Might Be
This is a good friend of mine. He has been writing music for as long as I have known him and this is his acoustic album he just made. It is off the walls awesome. This is one of the most beautiful and relaxing things I have ever had the supreme pleasure to enjoy. I will be posting more of his stuff on here in the future, His new album you can buy on his website.

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Souls Of Mischief- '93 Till Infinity

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Genre: Alternative Hip Hop

Favorite Track: Every single damn one.

Okay, I cannot stress enough how much this album means to me. I discovered this album about two years ago and it is literally my favorite hip hop album of all time. Out of any genre this album is at least in the top three. That's how much this album has influenced me and shit.

I know, I know, saying your favorite track is all of the tracks on one album is kind of lame, but in this case it's true. However, My two personal favorites are '93 Till Infinity (title track) and Tell Me Who Profits. This group is from Oakland, California and they are part of Hieroglyphics along with Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Pep Love, and Casual. This album is just pure perfection.

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Kowloon Walled City- Gambling On The Richter Scale

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Genre: Sludge/Metal
Favorite Track: Gambling On The Richter Scale, Diabetic Feet
This band is awesome. Kind of reminds me of a heavier Unsane. This stuff is what bands should be sounding like. Heavy and sludgy. All the guitar is so chunky and awesome. It makes me go "Oh me, oh my."

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Teen Cthulhu- Ride The Blade

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Genre: Metal/Black Metal
Favorite Track: I'm Going To Fucking Kill Myself
This is what real fucking heavy metal is. FAST, HEAVY AND FUCKING BRUTAL!

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Paul Baribeau- S/T

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Genre: Folk/Indie
Favorite Track: Brown Brown Brown
I've been lazy about posting things lately so here I come getting back into the swing of things with some Paul Baribeau. He is sloppy and sings with his heart and soul. It is just one man and his guitar, but there is no need for anyone else. Someone showed me this a little while ago and I just cannot stop listening to his songs. They are short and out of control, playing by no rules, but his own.

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Tragedy- Vengeance

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Genre: Power Violence/Hardcore/Punk
Favorite Track: Conflicting Ideas
This this is aggression. It is fast, heavy and every member of this band fucks shit up like it's nobody's business. Former members of His Hero Is Gone.

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Skeletonbreath - Louise

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Genre: Disco-prog-metal-meets-noise-surf-Klezmer-bass-drum-violin-trio

Favorite Track: Fever Dream Waltz

Holy shit.

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Red Medicine

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Genre: Post-Hardcore/Post-Punk/World

Favorite Track: In the Palantir

This is something I've been working on. Right now it's just the guitar tracks. A taste of what's to come.

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M. Ward- Transfiguration of Vincent

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Genre: Indie/Folk
Favorite Track: Dead Man
"Dead man, dead man, don't cry
Dead man, dead man, don't cry
Don't cry
When you die it ain't the end
it ain't the end when you die."

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Artifacts- Between A Rock And A Hard Place

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Genre: Hip Hop

Favorite Track: Flexi With Da Tech(nique)

Artifacts is an amazing hip hop group from New Jersey. It consists of Tame One (of Leak Bros and The Weathermen) and El Da Sensei. I keep meaning to post something other than hip hop, but this album blew me away the first time I listened to it.

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Irepress- Sol Eye Sea I

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Genre: Metal/Post-Rock/Jazz
Favorite Track: Entanglement
This is the coolest band around in the Post-Rock scene.

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Maths- Descent

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Genre: Hardcore/Screamo
Favorite Track: Belief In Sorrow, Belief In Hope
I have become bored with most Screamo bands recently. I feel like they are all playing the same song. This band brings it to a whole new level. With this Screamo revival going on most bands are just boring, but this band is amazing. Their passion bleeds from every chord and lyric and I cannot get enough. Please listen to this band.

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Pamola

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Genre: Post-Hardcore/Post-Punk

Favorite Track: Part II

From Pittsfield Maine, this band is noisy, passionate, exciting and really fucking good. If you ever get a chance to see them live, you better fucking do it.

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Mouse On The Keys

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Genre: Post-prog rock/Jazz

Favorite song(s): Spectres De Mouse, Soil

Alright I have been so into this band and a bunch of other bands like them. So this is the first installment of lostprophet1's japanese prog/jazz shit. It's amazing. There is really no way to explain this except that its pretty technical post rock. The instrumentation is very jazzy. the percussion is a little more post-rocky but thats a good thing. Jazz drumming usually bores the hell out of me, no matter how good they might be. This is Mouse On The Key's EP Sezession and their full length An Anxious Object. Plus its always awesome to be like "I listen to japanese prog/jazz. Oh youve never heard of it? Obviously..."

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Pageninetynine- Document #8

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Genre: Hardcore/Screamo

Favorite Track: Your Face Is A Rape Scene

Jesus Christ, i grew up with these guys...and well, just listen. The bass and my drums and my favorite. Also, Chris Taylor and Blake Midgette's energy just gets you pumped and pissed off. Listen. Do it.

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Dynospectrum- The Dynospectrum

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Genre: Alternative Hip Hop

Favorite Track: The Winter Moon

Okay, this is definitely Slug's best work (in my opinion) Every track that Ant produces just blends so perfectly with all of their voices. They only made one album in 1998. Dynospectrum is Slug, I Self Divine, Beyond, and Swift. This album is a must have in my opinion, no matter what your taste in music I'm sure at least one of these tracks will please you.

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Ultramagnetic MC's- The Four Horsemen

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Genre: Golden Age Hip Hop

Favorite Track: Yo Black, Raise It Up, Checkin' My Style

This is one of my all-time favorite hip hop albums. The beats on it are so smooth and light and Kool Keith is just: well one cool motherfucker. Check it out, their voices are awesome.

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