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yes! had Hermit Thrushes from Philadelphia play live. they came through during the summer but i was away too, so i was stoked to see them! PLUS they're super nice dudes duh!

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I Want To Rock - Logan Whitehurst & the Junior Science Club
Scabies In A Boxcar - The Mountain Yellers
Watertowers - Delay
Every Place is Home - Justin Vollmar
Ghost Science - Teeth Mountain
Liberty - James Rabbit
Snakes A Lot - Spelling Bee
Touchdown - Transformer Lootbag
Reginal Loves Allison - jerry riddle
Here To There - Lauren Elle
Footscrazy - Jehovas Fitness
Mission Mall - Tut Tut
Running Dry - Flowers From the Man Who Shot Your Cousin
Take a Look - Cause Co-Motion
Hraka - Finn Riggins
Setting Myself on Fire - Ed Banky's Car
Grids of California - The Awesomelies

LIVE: Hermit Thrushes

Well I Don't - Sunny Afternoon
Exotic Criminals - Elephant Micah
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So 2 years after my successful list, I've decided I had collected enough for a new one.
I also made up 3 categories, I don't know what you guys think. Anyway, here you go:

- Thanks For The Frisbee
- Begging for Incest
- Intravenous Ejaculation
- Fat Guy Stuck In Internet
- Ugly Nipples
- Alan Shearer is a pedo
- Tan Dun & Yo Yo Ma (real name!)
- It Can't Rain All The Time
- Nope We can't Cope
- Death Can Dance
- Cars Can Be Blue
- Help She Can't Swim
- I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business
- TheGirlsCanHearUs!
- I Don't Like Mondays
- Sailor Why Don't Care
- Bobs don't bite
- Cute Kids Don't Sell Records
- I Don't Live Today
- Accidental Decapitation through Masturbation
- Dead Weather
- Roger Roger
- Pedo Aznar
- Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition
- Purulent Excretor
- Blagnac City Tuning Ferraille Club
- The Foetus All-Nude Revue
- High School Football Heroes
- Acorn Jump
- Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
- French Horn Rebellion
- Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
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This entry was originally posted on 4th of Jan 2010, but got deleted by Last.fm for unknown reason so here we go again...

Please note that the availability of free tracks for artists listed was accurate at the time the blog entry was posted, but that this may since have changed. Artists marked with an asterisk are new additions since my last update.

My other blog posts about free music available on Last.fm can be found HERE.

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Abscondo [acoustic/folk]

Anders Tengdahl [acoustic/singer-songwriter]

Anders Westerlund [acoustic/singer-songwriter]

Andrew Baer [acoustic/singer-songwriter]*

bartek wołyniec [acoustic/singer-songwriter]*

Beeshop [acoustic/singer-songwriter]

Bert Jerred [acoustic/singer-songwriter]

Brian Dunn [acoustic/singer-songwriter]

Casee Wilson [singer-songwriter]

Christina Antipa [acoustic/singer-songwriter]*

Clementine

Chris Flew [singer-songwriter] *

Daniel Bautista

Dan Masquelier [acoustic/singer-songwriter]

The Dog Days [acoustic/singer-songwriter]
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Description
I love listening to new music and usually listen to several albums I haven't heard before each day. These are the albums I've fallen in love with over the years, the ones I keep coming back to, the cream of the pie, call it what you will.

Criteria
* Must be moderately unknown, everyone knows (if) they love The Beatles, Dire Straits etc.
* Must be albums I keep coming back to, not just the ones I really like the first time around and then get tired of.
* Some of these might not fit everyone's definition of an album.
* Limited to one album per artist.


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Noe Venable - The Summer Storm Journals

Tags: http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/2352/55174163ms6.gif, 2007, indie folk, singer-songwriter, female vocalists

Description: Noe Venable have grown to be one of my favorite songwriters. Her voice is softer and more mature than ever in this album. (Meaning you might want to listen to all her albums chronologically to build up for this)
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fun! had some local bands on tonight: franklin for short from ventura and le petit protest from lompoc. franklin had played on the show before and le petit had played in a different incarnation on a different show. and other members of the bands have been in before too. and ted coe stopped by! as did radiohead. weird.

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dead body in the river - The Watery Graves of Portland
death on the sickbed - The Old Haunts
the birthday wars - Oxford Collapse
saddled up - Flowers From the Man Who Shot Your Cousin
love you - Tinyfolk
headloser - the fisherprice landmine
the class familiars - The Boyish Charms
oh grateful - James Dean Driving Experience

LIVE: Franklin For Short

bad haircut - Failed Attempts at Facial Hair
like or like like - Miniature Tigers
i was lost and you where found - Salty Pirates
art school - Bottlerocket

LIVE: Le Petit Protest

bad company - Your Heart Breaks
we (simultaneously) - Matt Marquee
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I listened to a lot of music in high school in the 80's -- R.E.M., They Might Be Giants, The Icicle Works, Prefab Sprout, XTC, The Pogues, The Housemartins, The Colourfield, The Smiths, Men Without Hats, Ultravox... There was a guy in my crowd who would spend all his time at record stores picking out albums based on the track names and then he'd make cassettes for the rest of us (the early days of music sharing!). He found a lot of great stuff that way. And he probably listened to a lot of crap that the rest of us never heard.

Once I graduated and lost my source I wasn't really into music for about, oh, 20 years (rock music, that is -- I did develop an undying love of Broadway musicals during my 20's :D). And then, of course, I stumbled across Last.fm and could discover music for myself with no financial risk. Nice, that.

Over the last year at Last.fm I've noticed a few distinct phases I've gone through.

There was my starting-out phase, where I listened to all the big-name bands I'd heard of out in the world…

fun! well... long! but fun! well... lonely. but it was still fun =]

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Bird-Dreams - Pizza!
Secret - Darger
Nicolas - Les Nains de Jardin
Sweet Talking Spring - Their Family
No Ending - Silent Man
James King the Science Nerd - FatalExceptionID
Dumpster Cats - Pony Tales
no more crush alerts ever again - Cat Tent
Spanish Jam - The Mountain Yellers
Every Girl's My Girlfriend - the Kids of Widney High
her brains - Sirens
facebook - Arkansas?
Cigarettes And Bayonets - Homesick Elephant
Poker Star - I Know I'm Cute But Please Don't Touch Me
Save Your Wine - Pow Wow
Laugh and Cry - Ben and Christian
Gosdspeed - matryoshka
This World is Not My Home - Winona Typewriter
Buggin - The Pom Poms
She Can't Hear You - Guava Air!
stcks and spit - King of cats
The Magic of AIDS - Lesions on the Labia
Fred Astaire - Charlie Big Time
The Waves - Princeton
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fun! Batter Recharger and Doctor Bird were both so good! And they were both so loud! But it sounds better than i thought it would! haha.

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girls - Flowers From the Man Who Shot Your Cousin
Daffodils - Coma Cinema
Ode To The Brown Cow - Einstein's Creation
You Make Me Feel Sunny - Electric Needle Room
3 Kind Cures - The Family Circuits
Neap Tides - Heaven's Movie
dear winter sister - jettison sister
I Can't Help She's Still Living - Child Pornography

LIVE: Batter Recharger

Kabooze - Captain #1
1992 - thehelpmeplease
i live a lot of places - Woodpigeon
The Bored Pilot - Tafra
love's song for somebody - Clide Vs Crocodiles
Glaciers of Sand - Binary Forest Faux Pas
Oobey Dooh I Wanna Be Audrey Tatou - The Bobby McGee's

LIVE: Doctor Bird

1000% Not Creepy - Bunnygrunt