New Tess Wiley download

There's a new Tess Wiley mp3 up on Tapete's download page. You know the deal - it's free, legal, and Tess Wiley!

Belated Jenny Lewis Downloads

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Because we are terrible, terrible people here, we didn't post about Rabbit Fur Coat by Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins last year. Most of the album can be legally and freely downloaded from her record label at http://www.team-love.com/headphones/releases/tl08/ . Be warned though, they use an annoying Flash thing to serve up the mp3s. It's a fairly good album - nothing truly amazing or innovative, but a catchy set of songs sung with Jenny's intoxicating voice and some subtle harmonies from the Watson Twins. The music is a soft mix of folk and country, with acoustic guitars in various tunings, slide guitars, some keys, bass, and drums. The most unusual thing about it is that the album's lyrics are almost entirely about Jenny's musings on religion. Not that we're complaining. Jenny, of course, is the lead singer of critically-acclaimed indie rock darlings Rilo Kiley.

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Switchfoot fansite, Arcade Fire interpretation

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Lately, I've been enjoying a fairly new Switchfoot blog called Switchfeed. Thanks to their exceptional coverage and the prevalence of RSS readers today, there's no excuse for missing Switchfoot news again. For those of us who had a hard time keeping up with all those message boards, this is great news. Additionally, this blog has become semi-official and has been given permission to show exclusive rarities, downloads, videos, etc.

That blog has a regular feature called "MP3 Of The Week" (or MOTW). So far it's been a good assortment of music. This week's track is "Intervention" by The Arcade Fire. They've posted a decent interpretation of the lyrics as well.

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Incidentally, the blasphemous bible thumpers over at Plugged In decided that they agree, at least in theory, with the Neon Bible. I suppose you can only discuss religion so much on your trendy indie rock album before you start to attract the worst of the "Christian music" crowd.

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Steven Delopoulos - Work to Be Done EP

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For those of you who haven't gotten the Steven Delopoulos bug yet, and for those of you who are patiently awaiting his second solo album, there is good news. An EP entitled Work to Be Done and available free online has 6 tracks: two all new tracks, two highlights from the critically-acclaimed solo debut Me Died Blue, and two live performances from his old band, Burlap to Cashmere. It's a decent overview for those just getting into him, and it might help to tide us fans over while we wait for his next release.

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