Singer / Songwriters

Shannon Wright - "Let The Light In" - 2007



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Dark, brooding pop music is what I suppose you could call this album. Easily my #1 active musician. Aside from her great song writing, she pretty much epitomizes all that a live performance should be. Too many bands forget that a live show is a performance and not just an opportunity to sell t-shirts.



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Emmy The Great - "We Almost Had A Baby" + Demos - 2008



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Indie-pop. Her full length comes out Feb '09 and she'll probably blow up. Very catchy.

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Gemma Hayes - "Night On My Side" - 2003



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Part pop, part My Bloody Valentine. Right behind Shannon Wright for my favorite active singer/song writer. She definitely deserves more recognition than she's gotten over the course of her 3 full lengths.

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Lisa Hannigan - "Sea Sew" - 2008



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Irish folk-pop. I can't stop listening to the first track.

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Frank Turner - "Love, Ire, and Song" - 2008



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Some compare him to Billy Bragg, and I see that. Photosynthesis, To Take You Home, A Love Worth Keeping are all really, really good tracks.

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Billy Bragg - "Workers Playtime" - 1988



http://rapidshare.com/files/15874268/BG_W.rar

Classic album. Little Time Bomb is one of my top 10 songs of all time.

Music!

The newest Coffins album, released this year, "Buried Death".



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So heavy. The tracks Under The Stench and Altars In Gore are pretty much

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Cheap Girls - "Find Me A Drink Home" - 2008



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Alt rock that is comparable to the Lemonheads, I guess, and pretty much college radio from the early 90s.

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Espers - "ii" - 2006



http://rapidshare.com/files/146792719/Espers_II.rar

Psych-folk. You need this album.

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Thou - "Peasants"



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Crucial doom from NOLA. If not more members, I know the singer was in Dear Diary I Seem To Be Dead (McCarthyism) and Eat A Bag of Dicks. The main riff in the song Burning Black Coals... is one of the coolest I've heard in a long time.

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Crowsdell - "Dreamette" - 1995



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An early band from Shannon Wright, whom I worship. Sort of Pavement-ish and was produced by Stephen Malkmus, so there ya go. Solid album all the way through but Down and Waltz are my favorite tracks.

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The Dickies - "Dawn of The Dickies" - 1979



http://rapidshare.com/files/104855157/The_Dickies_-_Dawn_Of_The_Dickies.rar

One of my favorite punk albums of all time that features one of my favorite songs of all time, Infidel Zombie.

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Max Richter - "The Blue Notebooks" - 2004



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His best release, in my opinion. Neo-classical, self described "post-classical". He was classically trained on violin and piano, both of which play large roles in his music. He often times blends those instruments with minimalist electronic.

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Slowdive - "Slowdive" EP - 1990



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Doesn't really need a description. Shoegaze. Pretty sure this was their debut.

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Yaphet Kotto - "Syncopated Synthetic Laments For Love" - 2001



http://www.megadownload.net/download/mu/wrbryrfh/yaphet-kotto-syncopated-synthet..rar

One of my favorite emo releases from the early '00s / late '90s era.

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Much more additions tomorrow when I've actually got a bit of free time.