The White Panda - Versus : Mixtape [2009] & Singles [2010]

A very intelligent Mashup group; not quite my style- a little too Hip Hop for me, though I totally appreciate this.

It’s here. The White Panda's debut mixtape, Versus, has hit the net. Please indulge yourself, and you’ll find a bumpin’ hour full of old favorites and fresh new mixes. The White Panda hope Versus will help you ring in the new year in the best way possible. They expect it to be an exciting one.

This mash-up duo seems to be in existence to serve the dance party needs eclectic music bloggers everywhere. The White Panda are brilliant. If you've been into any sort of popular or indie music in the past decade, you will find something on here that you love, and then you will say, "How the shit did they think to put ____ over ____?"

Versus : Mixtape [2009]

Direct Download:
The White Panda - Versus Mixtape [2009]

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The White Panda - Versus Mixtape [2009]

Singles [2010]

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The White Panda - Singles [2010]

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The White Panda - Singles [2010]

Versus : Mixtape - Tracklist

1. Intro
2. What You Know About Little Secrets (T.I. // Passion Pit)
3. Sweetest Fascination (Wyclef Jean // Alphabeat)
4. Eminem Front (Eminem // Clipse // The Who)
5. Lean Back Wit It (Fat Joe // Will Smith)
6. Button Showers (M.I.A. // Sia)
7. Hypnotic Echo (Plies // Akon // Cyndi Lauper)
8. Throw Some Tik On That Tok (Rich Boy // Ke$ha)
9. Golden Encore (Jay-Z // One Republic // The Whitest Boy Alive)
10. Forgot About September (Dr. Dre // Earth, Wind & Fire)
11. Bizarre Flirt (R. Kelly // Rick James // OMC)
12. Dancefloor Sex (Jeremih // Cascada)
13. Drugs In My Rocketship (AZ // Thieves Like Us)
14. Stand Up (Like A Pimp) (Ludacris // Phonat)
15. Like This Ghetto (MIMS // Phonat)
16. Ice Chrome Paint Job (Dorrough // Chromeo)
17. Badd Fire (Mike Jones // Young Punx)
18. I’m A Gangsta (Yes You Are) (Bun B // Bob Sinclair // Mylo)
19. Picture The Donque (Will.I.Am // Sneaky Sound System)
20. Shake Drop On Video (Pitbull // Timbaland // Trans X)
21. We Made Ghosts N Stuff (Eminem // Deadmau5)
22. When The Lights Calle Ocho (Pitbull // David Guetta)
23. Party Where Your Head’s At (Basement Jaxx // Tonite Only)
24. Hustlin’ Pirates (Lil Mama // Rick Ross // Klaus Badelt)
25. Stay Fly Every Day (Three Six Mafia // Benassi Bros)
26. Army of Yeah (Wiz Khalifa // Usher // Umek & Beltek)
27. Touch 3 Skies (Kanye West // Britney Spears)
28. What Lonely Girls Do (Lil’ Jon // Ocean Lab)
29. Smack You Forever (Akon // September)
30. My Life Would Suck Without A Milli (Lil’ Wayne // Kelly Clarkson)
31. Hot N Cold Rain (Katy Perry // Fat Joe)
32. Stuntin’ Like My Energy (Lil’ Wayne // Keri Hilson)
33. Pop, Lock & Grizzly (Huey // Grizzly Bear // Fred Falke)

The individual mash-ups featured on this mixtape, cleverly entitled Versus, are available as longer stand-alone tracks on their website, but they work just fine as one smoothly blended, hour-long mixtape. For those of you looking to play host to a dance party, play this! It's got everything you hear at a typical frat party (no Tay Swift or Miley though, sorry to be misleading), but it's presented in a fresh enough way you won't have to be halfway into a case of Natty to get into it.

Check it out, and if my impassioned post didn't convince you to listen to the whole thing, check out these standout tracks "What You Know about Little Secrets" (TI vs. Passion Pit), "Throw Some Tik On That Tok" (Rich Boy vs. Ke$ha), "Party Where Your Head's At" (Basement Jaxx vs. Tonite Only), and "Army of Yeah" (Wiz Khalifa vs. Umek & Beltek vs. Usher).

Five Times August - Life As A Song [2009] [Album]

Album : Life As A Song
Artist : Five Times August
Label : seven places music
Release : 2009-10-13

[ Acoustic / Blues / Soul / Rock ]

Brad Skistimas, the 26-year-old musician behind Five Times August, boasts over 65 song placements in TV and film, and was the first unsigned artist to have an album sold in Wal-Mart. Since the release of his debut album, 2005's 'Fry Street,' the singer-songwriter has made his music career happen on his own. Skistimas does everything from writing and performing his music to handling his own licensing, merchandise, tour bookings and promotions. "There are two sides to my career," Skistimas tells PopEater. "One is being the artist, and the other is taking care of the business."

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Five Times August - Life As A Song [2009] [Album]

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Five Times August - Life As A Song [2009] [Album]

Tracklist:

1. Do It Again
2. Better With You
3. Wherever
4. Love The Way
5. Up To Me
6. Surface
7. Beautiful Girls ♪
8. The Lighting
9. January Song
10. One Way Road
11. Break
12. Most Uncommon Thing

His new album, Life as a Song (in stores now) is an eclectic mix of acoustic and pop rock, with lyrics that deliver heart-wrenching stories of hope, break-ups and love all around.

The album opener, “Do It Again,” is an acoustic and light-hearted song with a great rock-pop beat. It’s catchy, cute, and a total must for your iTunes library.“Better With You” is another tune with a classic rock-pop vibe and some C-U-T-E lyrics. Coupled with its clever ear-catching chords, this song grabs your attention and keeps it!“Love The Way,” our personal fave, is the slow love song of the album. Stistimas’ soothing voice is like a lullaby. His chords matched with the ah-dorable lyrics are the perfect recipe for a hit!

Streetlight Manifesto - 99 Songs of Revolution: Volume 1 [2010] [Album]

So if ya'll didn't hear, Streetlight Manifesto's cover album leaked! I am sad that I didn't link it in time, but anyway, where it is!!!

Direct Download:
Streetlight Manifesto - 99 Songs of Revolution: Volume 1 [2010] [Album]

Release Notes:
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99 Songs of Revolution was originally thought to be only a Bandits of the
Acoustic Revolution release, as stated in the liner notes for their debut 2001
EP, A Call to Arms. Not much was known about the project until September 2008,
when the project was officially and publicly announced. It was revealed that 99
Songs of Revolution would feature 99 cover songs spread out over eight
full-length albums from four different artists. Each of the four bands, Bandits
of the Acoustic Revolution, Streetlight Manifesto and two currently unknown
"Streetlight Manifesto related" artists, will release two albums in the series.

The project saw many tentative release dates in 2008 and 2009. Toward the end of
2009, Streetlight Manifesto announced that the first CD had been completed as
was awaiting release from the record label. The band also hinted at the
possibility of self-releasing the album on vinyl through the Pentimento Music
Company "long before" their label could release it on CD.[4] Also in late 2009,
Streetlight Manifesto began previewing their songs from 99 Songs of Revolution
on their website and during live performances.

01. Birds Flying Away (originally by Mason Jennings) - 3:27
02. Hell (originally by Squirrel Nut Zippers) - 2:56
03. Just (originally by Radiohead) - 3:00
04. Skyscraper (originally by Bad Religion) - 2:40
05. Punk Rock Girl (originally by The Dead Milkmen) - 2:17
06. Linoleum (originally by NOFX) - 2:44
07. Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (originally by Paul Simon) - 2:27
08. They Provide the Paint (originally by Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution) - 3:33
09. Red Rubber Ball (originally by The Cyrkle) - 2:49
10. The Troubador (originally by Louis Jordan) - 3:33
11. Such Great Heights (originally by The Postal Service) - 3:30

Fang Island - Fang Island [2010] [Album]

[Electronic / Soul / Instrumental ]

Fang Island is a self-proclaimed “Healing & Easy Listening / Visual” band from “Philayorkadence” in the United States of America. Made up of a guitarist from the band Daughters (Nicholas Andrew Sadler) and four others from the aforementioned town (Jason Bartell, Phil Cucuru, Peter Watts, and Chris Georges), Fang Island makes music that they describe as “everyone high-fiving everyone.”

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Fang Island - Fang Island [2010] [Album]

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Fang Island - Fang Island [2010] [Album]

With the wave of positive indie-pop edging its way into the mainstream, Fang Island presents a uniquely progressive and guitar-based take on the genre. Their layers of riffs can seem daunting at first, but their sound begs repeated listening and the intricacies behind the wall of awesome reveal themselves over time. Stereogum called their jam “The Absolute Place” a “triumphant, heavily riffed, primarily instrumental epic, whiplashing through six minutes of smiling prog jams, and as many tempos as passages, before settling into one last minute of uplifting chants.”

Tracklist :

1. Dream of Dreams
2. Careful Crossers
3. Daisy
4. Life Coach
5. Sideswiper
6. The Illinois
7. Treeton
8. Davey Crockett
9. Welcome Wagon
10. Dorian

Zola Jesus - Stridulum [2010] [EP]

Nika's new EP Stridulum comes out March 9th on Sacred Bones Records. This EP is completely massive. It is so dense and heavy. Pounding drums, strings, choral sounds, and her voice front and center. It is my favorite Zola Jesus thing she has done so far. It is unbelievable. As soon as this comes out get this. Get this, get this, get this.

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Zola Jesus - Stridulum [2010] [EP]

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Zola Jesus - Stridulum [2010] [EP]

Zola Jesus has been keeping herself busy for the last couple of years. After the release of two LPs, an EP and a couple of singles, touring with the help of her cousin Dead Luke and forming part of Former Ghosts (where Xiu Xiu's Jamie Steward also collaborates) she's coming back with a new 6 tracks EP to be out the 6th of March on Sacred Bones. The EP is not available for pre-order yet and there's no information on the name of the tracks but she's sent one of the tracks to be included called Night to a couple of blogs and I have to say it's my favourite ZJ track yet. Although is her most accessible track so far as the fuzz, noises and lo-fi sound have mainly disappeared, the main characteristics and influences are still there. The track is a dense and mysterious song where she strengthens her voice and stops hiding it behind all the electronic noises she normally uses and has never sound as good. The people who have heard the whole EP says it's the closest she's been to sound Hi-Fi but the EP is still a dense exercise full of pounding drums, strings and choral sounds. And it has one of the best covers I've seen lately. Can't wait to hear it.

Tracklist:
01 Night
02 Trust Me
03 I Can't Stand
04 Stridulum
05 Run Me Out
06 Manifest Destiny

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis [2010] [Album]

The Dillinger Escape Plan is an American mathcore band from Morris Plains, New Jersey. The band originated in 1997 after the disbanding of Arcane, a hardcore punk trio consisting of Ben Weinman, Dimitri Minakakis, and Chris Pennie. The band's current line-up consists of guitarist Ben Weinman, bassist Liam Wilson, vocalist Greg Puciato, guitarist Jeff Tuttle and drummer Billy Rymer. Their band name is derived from the famous convicted bank robber John Dillinger.

[ Hardcore / Party Smasher / Mathcore / 2010 / 192kbs ]

FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!! I am so stoked for this OMG! Please enjoy the shit out of this with me!!

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
Release: 2010-03-23
Country: US
Type: Album
Length: 41:28

Direct Download:
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis [2010]

(backup link, but has shitty tags)

Tracklist:
1. Farewell, Mona Lisa (5:23)
2. Good Neighbor (2:30)
3. Gold Teeth on a Bum (5:22)
4. Crystal Morning (2:02)
5. Endless Endings (2:32)
6. Widower (6:23)
7. Room Full of Eyes (4:15)
8. Chinese Whispers (4:06)
9. I Wouldn't If You Didn't (4:14)
10. Parasitic Twins (4:41)

Latest DEP release on their new label, and the first with Billy Rymer on drums.