The Pretty Reckless

So The Pretty Reckless... who are they? Good question. They're this brand new female fronted band from New York who sound very similar to early Yeah Yeah Yeahs. They kick ass. Oh. And they're led by Taylor Momsen, of Gossip Girl Fame. Hahh. No seriously though. They rock. Check out the video below.

Check out some of the tracks below. Demos and live rips, oh yess.

The Pretty Reckless [MP3]

• Blender (Demo)
• Bleeding (Live)
• A.D.D. (Live)
• Heart (Live)
• Zombie (Live)
  

Blur - Parklife

Yay Parklife! This is Blur's third studio album, best known for the song Girls & Boys. It's also the first Blur album I ever owned. It's solid, and considered one of the best brit pop albums evar. So yes. Epic. This version I have actually has one of the American release Girls & Boys b-sides on it. I don't know whats up with that. Moar Blur to enjoy! Dig.

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Blur - Parklife [MP3]

1. Girls & Boys
2. Tracy Jacks
3. End Of A Century
4. Parklife
5. Bank Holiday
6. Badhead
7. The Debt Collector
8. Far Out
9. To The End
10. London Loves
11. Trouble in the Message Centre
12. Clover Over Dover
13. Magic America
14. Jubilee
15. This Is A Low
16. Lot 105
17. Girls & Boys (Pet Shop Boys 12" mix)

Sick City - Nightlife

Debut full length by my favorite band that isn't My Chemical Romance, or Cancer Bats, or Joy Divison? HELLS YES. It's a solid album of joyful emo-ness, and I listen to it ALL THE FUCKING TIME. It does feature 4 of the 5 (technically 6) songs on the EP, but they've been recorded again for the album, to fit in with the overall sound. It's fantastical. Also the last track features guest vocals of the wonderful Andrew Neufeld, of Comeback Kid fame, who incidentally is the brother of Sick City's drummer, Joel Neufeld. Trufacts.

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Sick City - Nightlife [MP3]

1. Antoinette
2. XX & XY
3. Turning Heads
4. Killing Ourselves To Feel
5. Islands
6. Nightlife
7. In The Millions
8. The Heist
9. Moving, Not Moving Forward
10. Smiles & Cries
11. City Lights
12. Tora, Tora, My Dear Tora (featuring Andrew Neufeld)
    

Blur - Blur

This is Blur's album, Blur. It is a good album. It features their best known song this side of the pond, Song 2. If you don't recognize the name of that song, lemme refresh your memory. *Ahem*.... WOOHOO! AND I FEEL HEAVY METAL! WOOHOO! AND I'M PINS AND I'M NEEDLES! ALL OF THE TIME BUT I'M NEVER SURE WHY I NEED YOU- PLEASED TO MEET YOU!... so yeah. Blur.

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Blur - Blur [MP3]

1. Beetlebum
2. Song 2
3. Country Sad Ballad Man
4. M.O.R.
5. On Your Own
6. Theme from Retro
7. You're So Great
8. Death of a Party
9. Chinese Bombs
10. I'm Just a Killer for Your Love
11. Look Inside America
12. Strange News from Another Star
13. Movin' On
14. Essex Dogs

Blaqk Audio - CexCells

So in case you don't know already, Blaqk Audio are the side project of Davey Havok and Jade Puget, of AFI fame. They are Electro Boy. They are Electro Girl. Tbh, I actually dug this album moar than AFI's last album, and I dig AFI. So yanno. The only single off of this album was Stiff Kittens, and it didn't have a video which makes me very sad but oh well. Enjoy the awesome electronica album, all!

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Blaqk Audio - CexCells [MP3]

1. Stiff Kittens
2. Between Breaths (an XX perspective)
3. Snuff on Digital
4. Bitter for Sweet
5. Where Would You Like Them Left? (featuring Nick 13 and Dan Under)
   
6. The Fear of Being Found
7. On a Friday (featuring Nick 13)
   
8. The Love Letter
9. Semiotic Love
10. Cities of Night
11. Again, Again and Again (featuring Jennifer Goodridge)
    
12. Wake Up, Open the Door and Escape to the Sea

Protest The Hero - Sequoia Throne Remix EP

Holy shit on a stick! I finally got this up here! This is the Sequoia Throne Remix Ep (as the title would suggest HAHAHA =_=) and it is only available on iTunes. But hey. Fuck iTunes. I haven't found this anywhere else on the internetz so lets just say that A:M rocks balls. All the remixes are hella good, but the first one is particularily hella good. So enjoy that. Also metal nerdoids, take heed: Devin Townsend of Strapping Young Lad did the third remix on this nifty little EP. So dig that, yo. Also the album art is a tad weird. It's more yellowish, but this was the best quality picshurr I could find.

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Protest The Hero - Sequoia Throne Remix EP [MP3]

1. Sequoia Throne (C0ndu1t Chupacabra Remix)
2. Sequoia Throne (L-Ion Remix)
3. Sequoia Throne (Devin Townsend Remix)

Michael Jackson - Number Ones (Canadian Version)

So here is one of many Michael Jackson compilation albums. This is the Canadian version. It has a lot of his greatests most awesomest songs. So ya. Dig.

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Michael Jackson - Number Ones (Canadian Version) [MP3]

1. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough
2. Rock with You
3. Billie Jean
4. Beat It
5. Thriller
6. Human Nature
7. I Just Can't Stop Loving You (with Siedah Garrett)
8. Bad
9. The Way You Make Me Feel
10. Dirty Diana
11. Smooth Criminal
12. Black or White
13. You Are Not Alone
14. Earth Song
15. Blood on the Dance Floor
16. You Rock My World
17. Break of Dawn
18. One More Chance

Sick City - Where Do We Go From Here EP

I'm just stoked to have actually found a version of the album art on the interweb. So don't mutter to yourself about the size of it, mmkay? Anyways. A couple of years back my friend and I snuck into a local bar to see Cancer Bats play. Naturally, they were super epic and swiftly became my favorite band. However that night, another band was on the bill. They were called Sick City, and even though their lead singer was drunk as shit and no one was there, they blew my mind and I had to own their cd. It joined regular rotation with all my MCR cds, and thus I found TWO of my favorite bands in one night. This EP was entirely self released, and the production is lovely and slick as baby oil. Four of five songs off this was rerecorded for their debut full length, Nightlife. But this EP kinda blows those versions totally out of the water. That is all.

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Sick City - Where Do We Go From Here EP [MP3]

1. Intro
2. In The Millions
3. XX & XY
4. Ace High And The Crowns
5. Smiles And Cries
6. Tora, Tora My Dear Tora
   

Cancer Bats - Tour EP

So this is a new tour only EP by the Cancer Bats sold only in the UK and Canada. It features 4 new songs which are to be released on the UK reissue of Hail Destroyer at the end of April. It's pretty sick, and features covers of The Faint, Tegan and Sara, and The Murder City Devils. It's being referred to as the Tour Ep, so I've changed all the tagging to that, but when you open it in iTunes, it'll show up as Engine Skull EP. So deal. :D

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Cancer Bats - Tour EP [MP3]

1. Engine Skull
2. Agenda Suicide (The Faint cover)
   
3. So Jealous (Tegan And Sara cover)
4. I Want A Lot NOw (So Come On) (The Murder City Devils cover)
   

File Dump #9

So here's a couple of great tracks I've gotten hold of due to the glory of the internetz. The PATD one I should have uploaded months ago, yanno, around Halloween, but whatever it's great anytime of the year. So enjoy this one people. It's a pretty good file dump.

1. Panic At The Disco - It's Almost Halloween [MP3]

All that can truly be said about this song is that it is EPIC LULZ. You need to hear it to believe it. Not to mention Ryan Ross' voice is on clear display, which is pretty awesome if you're a Panic fan.

2. Tequila Mockingbird - Snowglobe (Demo) [MP3]

Who is Tequila Mockingbird you ask? Tequila Mockingbird is the combined awesome power of Nicholas Scimeca, who is apparently a parter of Angels & Kings (Peter Wentz's restaurant whut), and Travis McCoy, of Gym Class Heroes fame. So what about the song then? It's fucking catchy and I can't stop listening to it. Someone around here is gonna kill me.

3. Sights & Sounds - Storm And The Sun [MP3]

Toni was the first person to tell me about this band, but it wasn't until I saw them in '07 that I actually started to pay attention. They're kind of a ~supergroup of the Canadian scene~ so to speak, and are notably fronted by Andrew Neufeld of Comeback Kid. But they don't sound like Comeback Kid. Hmm whatever its good music. Download if it interests you.

4. Finale - Strange Things (Acoustic) [MP3]

HOLLA ANOTHER SIDE PROJECT! 3 in one file dump. This one is a-featurin Keith Buckley from Every Time I Die. It's almost like this weird country rock music thing he's doing (holy shit maybe even actual southern rock-esque?) with some old friends that started one night while they were drunk. This is an acoustic version of one of their songs, and it might just be my favorite I've heard. Supremely pretty. No screaming here.

5. Jonas Brothers - Free Fallin' (Tom Petty Cover Live) [MP3]

You're either gonna like this or you're not.