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1. Jay Alien - loving all night/i see you (2009) (Divshare)

"loving all night"
"i see you"

Jay Alien is back with two new singles "LOVING ALL NIGHT" and " I SEE YOU (I.C.U) off his upcoming album on tmg records called "MONEY POWER RESPECT". The album is going throught it's final stages, no release date as of yet.

The records were produced by Jay-A.

2. Ebony Bones - Bone of My Bones (2009) (Electronic,Post Punk) (Rapidshare)

1. WARRIOR
2. We Know All About You
3. Story Of St.Ockwell
4. Muzik, The
5. In GOD We Trust (Gold Oil And Drugs)
6. Bone Of My Bones
7. Guess We'll Always Have NY
8. I'm Ur Future X Wife
9. Smiles And Cyanide
10. When It Rains
11. Ready When U Are
12. Don't Fart On My Heart

Using a biblical reference from the Book of Genesis as the title of her self produced upcoming debut album, Bones and her seven piece live band who's line up has included close friends of the singer including The Damned drummer Rat Scabbies, were recently named one of South by Southwest's best new acts of 2009. Showcasing for Rolling Stone magazine at SXSW in Austin, Texas she performed W.A.R.R.I.O.R and other new songs from the upcoming release receiving a response described as "phenomenal". Displaying politically themed subjects exemplified by songs such as In G.O.D We Trust (Gold, Oil & Drugs) and Story Of St.Ockwell referencing the police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, her SXSW performance was quoted by US music critic Greg Kot as "dynamic". She was quickly snapped up to perform for other music festivals shortly after, and in a recent interview for Rolling Stone Japan, rumours of her upcoming performance at Fuji Rock Festival were confirmed.

In April 2009, MTV News in New York announced the release of her anticipated debut Bone Of My Bones and previewed the US exclusive of her music video for The Muzik. Starring fans across the world, she is said to have been inspired by the idea of "an abstract collaboration with a collective of like-minded individuals all galvanized by music". The video is represented by 30 different directors from all across the globe, armed with nothing more than a camera phone or digicam and a lot of imagination. The Muzik quickly received daytime play on BBC Radio 1.

The debut album due for release summer 2009 was released in Japan mid June, impressively entering the iTunes album charts at no.10.

Making her third appearance at this year's Glastonbury Festival, Ebony will perform on the Queen's Head Stage for Q Magazine as well as The Guardian Lounge Stage. She will also be the closing headline act of Exhibition Road Music Day, when she appears on the open stage with her live band in Hyde Park, London, as part of a day-long celebration of music on midsummer's day.

3. Blindfold - Faking Dreams (2009) (Indie) (Rapidshare,Megaupload)

1. Falleg Depuro 3:40
2. Sad Face 4:35
3. Faking Dreams 3:55
4. Fit You 4:07
5. Wait 3:49
6. Don't Think It's A Sin 2:59
7. Hungry Heat 4:21
8. Caffeine & Sleeping Pills 5:14
09. Confused 5:50
10. Reverse 9:57

BLINDFOLD are four guys from Iceland. They live in London and forge a heady mixture of stunning ambience, spiky intricate punch, electronics and guitar. One minute they bathe the listener in waves of melancholic, drifting ambient soundscape with haunting lyrics from the sparkling tonsils of front man Biggi. The next minute the powerhouse drums, punchy bass, and crashing clever guitars spiral to create a rather large leftfield progressive noise indeed.

Influences abound, but none quite nail BLINDFOLD to the mast. You may hear elements of Radiohead / Sigur Rós and Ulrich Schnauss topped with a pinch of Emo / Electronica and Film Score Sonics. BLINDFOLD's new album 'Faking Dreams' feels like a solid release, which has taken time and craft to create. Live they are punchy, vast, rocky and from the first note played you know these guys would blow any festival on the globe away with one giant flick of a lighter held high.

4. Pint Shot Riot - The Album (2009) (Alternative) (Rapidshare)

01. Somebody Save Me
02. Not Thinking Straight
03. Twisted Soul
04. Come Back To Me
05. Ain't No Fun
06. Hazy Days
07. Money
08. Hold On
09. Spell It Out
10. Riot Act
11. Six Years, Three Weeks
12. Sing A Song For me

Once upon a time in the West Midlands, four lads who liked to play a bit of music decided to play a bit together.

At first things went well and all four were happy. After playing together again and again, things improved. Shared feelings of contentment shifted up a gear to excitement, and this encouraged them to want to play more music together. This led, in no time at all or so it seemed, to still further improvement.

Gigs bombed (less and less), gigs raged (more and more), gigs were cancelled, gigs were missed (not often), tendons strained and tempers flared. All the time, the music kept on getting bigger and better and so the feelings of excitement increased still further. Sweat poured, strings broke, drum sticks snapped, PA’s exploded, smiles widened and feelings continued to grow.

It was too late to look back, because things had taken on a life of there own. People had heard the band and enjoyed the music. They’d sang along, danced at the front, got covered in other people’s drinks and they’d become a part of the music too. There wasn’t just four anymore. It’s still happening now and it’s still growing.

5. The Peekers - Life In The Air (2009) (Indie) (Rapidshare)

01. Your Morning Toast
02. Sweet Singin' Birds
03. Gather It All
04. Sinking In
05. Close My Eyes
06. Meet You In Produce
07. My First Surprise
08. Concrete Feet
09. Favorite Love
10. Instructions
11. Canoe Trip
12. Sweet Potatoes
13. Natural Boy

The Peekers are a six-piece from Shreveport, Louisiana. Members include Brittney Maddox, Jordan West, John Martin, Michael Stephens, Aubre Bauer, and Aaron Butler. Their instruments are always shifting hands, their voices share all microphones. After a text message from Shai of the Capitol Years and a chance performance at SXSW, they have become the newest addition to the Park the Van family. Here’s an introduction to The Peekers…

Once upon a time there were four lovebirds (Michael, Aubre, Brittney, and John) who spent every day so high in a tree that no one could see them. They named themselves after a fictitious Japanese band, The Peekers, and happily wasted days together writing sweet, simple love songs on acoustic guitars, harmonizing their word-worlds into dreamscapes. This “Supercouplezoid” was the dear, psych/country/folk love child of four friends and nothing more. Things changed when mutual friend, Jordan, moved home from college with an electric bass in his hand, expecting to play with John and Michael’s loud/abrasive and previously abandoned act, The Big Positive. Instead, he brought the electric low end flow to the Peekers with tones that laid the foundation for electric guitar and organ. Songs developed depth, but still lacked locomotion. Percussion major and majorly bearded buddy, Aaron, was the perfect fit for the family. They soon found themselves with greater and grander songs, thus, leading to the public birthing of the Peekers.

Since day number one the Peekers have been soulfully bonded. Unapologetically crossing the lines between love and logic and proving that boundaries are imaginary. Their style swings from the heartfelt and melodic to the cartoonishly cheerful and sinister. Blissful stage presence is simply reside of being friends who happen to play music together as well as the thrill of never knowing what may happen. The Peekers are lovers and dreamers, singers and players.

6. Foreign Capitols - Elegance in Negligence (2009) (Indie) (Rapidshare)

1 Elegiac
2 Bitter Half
3 Sunday Music
4 As We Slept Through the War
5 The Sober Choir
6 Amy Grant's Tomb
7 Shotgun Funeral
8 Ghosts of Two
9 Tannis Root Down
10 Where the $$ Spends

If there truly is a bottom to the wellspring of chordal arrangements, unique rhythms and uncharted melodies then there has to be a way to measure the limits of that depth. The last drops of a bottle of wine seem as good a place as any to mark where inspiration lets up and creativity kicks in. There’s an easy temptation to compare this project to a soused version of Simon and Garfunkel. The truth, however, only goes so far as to originate on a porch in Highland Park, artistic gears often well lubricated for two guys playing songs to the crossdresser on the left, the little girl on the right or the random Hasids passing by in the street. It was never really for the neighbors, nor one another, but only for themselves staving off depression and chasing down some reflective hope from the aforementioned well the two had so recklessly dropped their lives into. Honesty would posit the duo as a modern day Bergen and McCarthy with a handful of notes worked into their vaudeville rhetoric, one musician putting his songs into the world via some modified wood and a tart-tongued counterpart.

On better days, these so-called stoner folk songs pull off the inverse trick of clearing the heads of the songwriters. With luck, the listening recipients will recognize such clarity too, as the structures and hooks become more explicit with each listen. The ramshackle beauty in this record lives up to the title, reconciling that fine line between screwing up and buckling down. These are the songs playing ad infinitum in cramped, dingy rooms and dank basement apartments, the soundtrack to low rent, bad credit and stunted faith. The sounds of where most of us have lived and any of us might live again, our displaced homestead, those transitory quarters, those foreign capitols.

7. La Coka Nostra - A Brand You Can Trust (2009) (Hip Hop) (Rapidshare,Megaupload)

01) Bloody Sunday feat. Big Left & Sen Dog of Cypress Hill
02) Get You By
03) Bang Bang feat. Snoop Dogg
04) The Stain
05) I’m An American feat. B-Real of Cypress Hill
06) Brujeria feat. Sick Jacken of Psycho Realm
07) Once Upon A Time
08) Cousin Of Death
09) Choose Your Side feat. Bun B of UGK prod. by Alchemist.
10) Hardcore Chemical
11) Soldier’s Story feat. Sick Jacken of Psycho Realm
12) Gun In Your Mouth
13) Nuclear Medicinemen feat. Q-Unique & Immortal Technique
14) That’s Coke
15) Fuck Tony Montana feat. Sick Jacken of Psycho Realm & B-Real of Cypress Hill

Founded in late 2005 with no intention to record an album, La Coka Nostra was more a loose collective of artists connected through Danny Boy than a group. It was not until early 2006 that the current line up formed and plans to release an album were first voiced later the same year.

The group's name is a play on the criminal organization La Cosa Nostra, more commonly known as the Mafia, translated "This Thing Of Ours". Slaine has noted the idea was to incorporate slang language with a "gangster" theme, making it "This Dope Thing Of Ours", with "Coka" meaning "dope" as slang for something trendy and not actual Cocaine.

Without having an official release, the mere posting of songs on their MySpace page since 2006 helped generating a huge fan base, thus becoming a minor internet phenomenon. As of June 2009, they have more than 70,000 fans added as "friends" on MySpace.

After a few mixtape appearances in 2006 and 2007, La Coka Nostra released music videos for the songs "That's Coke" and "I'm An American" (featuring B-Real) in March and December 2008, respectively. Both are exclusively available on the Internet, namely YouTube and MySpace.

La Coka Nostras's first release is the digital-only compilation EP of previously released tracks, "100% Pure Coka", available in February 2009 with no promotion. Later that month the official website lacokanostra.com was launched, also with little attention.

In late 2008 the group signed to the punk/hardcore label Suburban Noize Records and is releasing the long delayed debut album "A Brand You Can Trust" July 14th, 2009.

La Coka Nostra are currently on a February-April US tour and will be playing summer festivals in Europe as well as being a part of 2009 tour of Rock The Bells through out North America and Ontario.

8. VA - I Love You Beth Cooper (2009) (Soundtrack) (Rapidshare,Hotfile)

01. Violet Columbus - Forget Me
02. The Hives - Try It Again
03. The Perishers - Come Out Of The Shade
04. The Kooks - Sway
05. Christophe Beck - Last Kiss
06. Gym Class Heroes - Catch Me If You Can
07. Airbourne - Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast
08. Ok Go - A Good Idea At The Time
09. Christophe Beck - Beth Cooper Suite
10. Kiss - Beth
11. Smokey Robinson - Cruisin’
12. Christophe Beck - Who Knew?
13. Foreigner - Feels Like The First Time
14. Alice Cooper - School’s Out
15. Eleni Mandell - Forget Me

The high-school romantic comedy I Love You, Beth Cooper, directed by Chris Columbus, has a screenplay by Larry Doyle, who adapted his novel, and it sounds like the person or people who assembled the soundtrack album of pop songs (Patrick Houlihan is credited as music supervisor) wanted to split the difference between tracks that a high-school student of 2009 actually might be listening to and songs that Doyle, who graduated from high school in 1976, was listening to around then. Actually, this doesn't work out as badly as it might seem, perhaps because of the choices, perhaps because basic rock & roll music hasn't really changed that much in 30-plus years. For example, Australian band Airbourne's "Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast" is a sound-alike for any number of songs by an Australian predecessor, AC/DC. Then, too, the old songs are sequenced toward the end, separated from the newer, earlier tracks by some of Christophe Beck's scoring. Beck's main suite uses music that sounds like it belongs in one of Columbus' more adventurous pictures, one of his Harry Potter epics, say. Also adding diversity is the acoustic performance of Eleni Mandell's "Forget Me" up front, performed here and in the film by 15-year-old Violet Columbus, who just happens to have the same last name as the director. It introduces a Juno-like tone that thankfully is not carried through on the rest of the album. Mandell's own rock version closes things out.

The hottest soundtrack release of the summer hits stores on June 23rd, paving the way for this summer's blockbuster film "I LOVE YOU, BETH COOPER" opening on July 10th. The film is based on the book by Larry Doyle ("The Simpsons"). The eclectic soundtrack features tracks by Gym Class Heroes, Kiss, Foreigner, The Kooks, Alice Cooper, OK GO, The Hives, Smokey Robinson, Airbourne, The Perishers, Eleni Mandell and more. The soundtrack will also feature several songs from the score, composed by Christophe Beck, the Emmy Award-winning composer ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") whose scores have been heard in such films as License to Wed and The Pink Panther.

"I Love You Beth Cooper", starring Hayden Panettiere ("Heroes") and Paul Rust, follows a nerdy valedictorian (Rust) who proclaims his love for the most popular girl in school, Beth Cooper (Panettiere), during his speech at graduation. Much to his surprise, Beth shows up at his door that very night and decides to show him the best night of his life!

9. Sick Puppies - Tri-Polar (2009) (Rock) (Rapidshare,Megaupload)

01.War 03:13
02.I Hate You 03:28
03.Riptide 03:11
04.You're Going Down 03:07
05.Odd One 03:47
06.So What I Lied 03:43
07.Survive 03:13
08.Should've Known Better 03:52
09.Maybe 03:30
10.Don't Walk Away 03:48
11.Master of the Universe 03:33
12.In it for Life 04:06
13.White Ballons 03:40

"Australian trio Sick Puppies are gearing up to release
Tri-Polar, their second major label album, and follow-up to
Dressed Up As Life. Like their freshman release, new album
Tri-Polar will feature producer credits in Rock Mafia's
Antonina Armato and Tim James. Together they've created a
sound that reflects the past four whirlwind years spent in
the rock and roll fast lane, on the grueling tour grind
honing their chops until they were a finely tuned
powerhouse ready to let loose with the anger, frustration
and triumphs built up from all that road work

Songs like the storming first single, "You're Going Down,"
which is being used as the theme song for the WWE's Extreme
Rules pay-per-view broadcast, and "Street Fighter War,"
which was used as part of the national marketing campaign
for the popular video game Street Fighter IV, distill all
that energy into high-powered festival anthems. "There was
plenty of fuel, a lot of hard times, strain, personal
problems and all that jazz," says Moore of the creative
process, "and we just put it all into the record. There's
no way you can prevent it from flooding into the music."
Sick Puppies' Tri-Polar hits stores on July 14th."

10. Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall (2009) (Indie) (Rapidshare)

01. It Ain't Gonna Save Me 2:21
02. Before I Was Caught 2:06
03. Man Of Steel 2:31
04. Can't Do It Anymore 1:45
05. Faking It 1:56
06. I'm Watching You 3:46
07. Wounded 2:35
08. Rotten Mind 2:18
09. Nothing Now 2:42
10. My Reality 2:42
11. Hang Them All 3:39
12. There Is No Sun 3:48

For his second studio album and proper Matador debut, Memphis prolific punk wunderkind Jay Reatard has moved beyond his roots and recorded an album chockful of irresistible melodies, the songs cascading with joyous hooks. He would not be Jay Reatard, however, if there wasn’t a certain aggro negativity, and the song titles and lyrics do much to undercut the pop sensibility: I’m Watching You, Hang Them All, Can’t Do It Anymore, Wounded, It Ain’t Gonna Save Me.

The perfect summer album for disaffected youth across the country, Jay will be trekking from coast to coast all summer with his ex-In The Red labelmates The Oh Sees and TV Smith (of the Adverts).

11. Gordon Gano And The Ryans - Under The Sun (2009) (Rock) (Rapidshare)

Gordon Gano, frontman of perennial misfit post-punksters the Violent Femmes, will be linking arms and guitars with brothers Billy and Brendan Ryan for Under the Sun, their forthcoming LP just announced for a September release.
Inspired by their jam sessions in the cafés of New York's West Village, Gano and the brothers Ryan promise an album of "music of a mature band, a band made of men not boys, men who have supplanted wonder for angst, controlled passion for reckless abandon." Of course, lest they throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater there'll be plenty of Gano's trademark exuberance, with lyrics like "I was a-crappin' and a-nappin'."

Frank Ferrer of Guns 'N Roses fame joined the group on drums during recording sessions, and Lonnie Hiller of Maggie's Dream added her bass guitar to a few songs as well. Under the Sun is out Sept. 15 on Yep Roc.

12. The Dead Weather - Horehound (2009) (Rock) (Rapidshare,Megaupload)

01.60 Feet Tall [05:33]
02.Hang You from the Heavens [03:38]
03.I Cut Like a Buffalo [03:28]
04.So Far from Your Weapon [03:40]
05.Treat Me Like Your Mother [04:10]
06.Rocking Horse [02:59]
07.New Pony [03:58]
08.Bone House [03:27]
09.3 Birds [03:45]
10.No Hassle Night [02:56]
11.Will There Be Enough Water [06:20]

13. The Donnas - Greatest Hits Vol 16 (2009) (Rock) (Rapidshare)

1. Get Off 2:46
2. Perfect Stranger 3:05
3. We Own The Night 2:49
4. She's Out Of Control 2:33
5. Take It Off 3:31
6. Fall Behind Me 3:34
7. Get You Alone 2:43
8. Play My Game 3:06
9. You Make Me Hot 2:29
10. Get Rid Of That Girl 1:49
11. Hey I'm Gonna Be Your Girl 2:03
12. I Wanna Be With A Girl Like You 1:33
13. I Don't Want To Go To School 2:15
14. Teenage Rules 0:54
15. I Don't Wanna Break Your Head 1:15
16. High School Yum Yum 1:45

No one parties like The Donnas and they throw a Sweet Sixteen like no other
Their new album The Donnas Greatest Hits, Vol. 16 (the band's 8th release) is
sixteen tracks of rock bliss, a collection of the classic Donnas songs you
love and the new ones you'll die for, all written or co-written by The
Donnas. The Donnas Greatest Hits, Vol. 16, is a comprehensive album featuring
a mix of new songs, never-before-heard b-sides, live recordings as well as
re-recorded classics and previously unreleased tracks. After sixteen years
together, and over 1,000,000 records sold, The Donnas have never sounded
sweeter.

14. Lasgo - Gone CDM (2009) (Electronic,Dance) (Rapidshare)

01. Gone (radio edit) 03:01
02. Gone (extended mix) 04:53
03. Gone (sebastian dali remix) 06:45
04. Gone (felix project remix) 04:54

15. ATB Pres. Flanders - Behind CDM (2009) (Electronic,Dance) (Rapidshare)

01 - Behind (ATB Vs. Callea Re-edit) 02:50
02 - Behind (Markus Gardeweg Remix) 06:29
03 - Behind (Taylor & Gallahan Remix) 07:55
04 - Behind (Club Mix) 07:00
05 - Behind (EDX Radio Mix) 03:38
06 - Behind (EDX Remix) 07:15
07 - Behind (EDX Re-Dub) 06:28

16. La Roux - Bulletproof Remixes (2009) (Electronic,Dance) (Rapidshare)

01. Bulletproof (radio edit) 03:27
02. Bulletproof (tepr remix) 05:36
03. Bulletproof (zink remix) 05:51
04. Bulletproof (zink dub remix) 05:31
05. Bulletproof (just a band remix) 04:52

17. Cascada - Evacuate The Dancefloor Remixes (2009) (Electronic,Dance) (Rapidshare)

01. Evacuate The Dancefloor (radio mix) 03:26
02. Evacuate The Dancefloor (extended) 05:28
03. Evacuate The Dancefloor (cahill remix) 06:50
04. Evacuate The Dancefloor (wideboys club remix) 06:13
05. Evacuate The Dancefloor (ultrabeat remix) 04:55
06. Evacuate The Dancefloor (frisco remix) 05:01
07. Evacuate The Dancefloor (rob mayth remix) 05:30
08. Evacuate The Dancefloor (lockouts mirrorball remix) 05:26

18. Generationals - Con Law (2009) (Rock) (Rapidshare,Megaupload)

1.Nobody Could Change Your Mind 3:45
2.Angry Charlie 3:40
3.Faces In The Dark 3:46
4.When They Fight, They Fight 03:20
5.Our Time (2 Shine) 3:38
6.Wildlife Sculpture 2:49
7.Bobby Beale 3:19
8.Exterior Street Date 4:00
9.It Keeps You Up 2:56
10.These Habits 2:44

Generationals is the collaboration of Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer (formerly of Eames Era). Oranges Band founder Daniel Black engineered and produced the record in the style of his heroes - George Martin, Phil Spector, Jeff Lynn, and Quincy Jones - with meticulous attention to detail and a willingness to make the recordings sound old. The result is one of those "first record" moments that blissfully wills its listeners into repeat listens. Recommended if you like Squeeze, The Shins, Weezer, Richie Valens.

19. Jill Hennessy - Ghost In My Head (2009) (Pop) (Rapidshare)

| 01 - 10,000 Miles 05:09 |
| 02 - 4 Small Hands 04:25 |
| 03 - Ghost In My Head 05:10 |
| 04 - Oh Mother 03:50 |
| 05 - Erin 04:14 |
| 06 - Save Me 05:11 |
| 07 - Falling Down 04:53 |
| 08 - Holding On 04:32 |
| 09 - Slow Down 03:18 |
| 10 - Thank You 04:20 |

| "When I began writing these songs, the floodgates opened to my whole |
| life," says singer-songwriter Jill Hennessy on the eve of the release of |
| Ghost In My Head, a revelatory debut album offering a series of intimate |
| emotional vignettes spun with indelibly fluid melodies and her poignant |
| musical reflections on love, loss, struggle and redemption. "It's the |
| embodiment of a lifetime of work." |
| |
| Though perhaps best-known as an actress for her starring roles in the |
| hit television series "Law & Order" and "Crossing Jordan," Jill Hennessy |
| began her show business career as a musician, busking in the streets of |
| Toronto. "I left home when I was 17," remembers the Edmonton-born |
| musician. "I went to Toronto and tried to find work. One day, I was |
| walking down Yonge Street and I heard two guys playing 'Take It Easy' by |
| the Eagles. I knew all the harmonies of all those songs -- my dad |
| played the Eagles all the time -- so I started to harmonize with them. |
| I stayed three hours and they gave me a cut of their money. Soon we |
| started having a regular gig on the subways and did the underground club |
| circuit, playing coffeehouses like Fat Albert's on Bloor Street." |
| |
| Concurrent with her Toronto coffeehouse and subway gigs, Jill began |
| working with an improv comedy troupe playing local dinner theaters. "A |
| short-lived boyfriend bought me a guitar," she recalls, "and showed me |
| an A and a D chord. I went out and bought the U2 'Joshua Tree' songbook |
| and a Tracy Chapman songbook and began learning all the songs I could. |
| I used my guitar case as a table. My guitar was my friend, my family, |
| the one constant in my life." |
| |
| Circa 1989, a friend of hers borrowed her guitar to audition during the |
| Toronto tryouts for "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story," a musical |
| adaptation of the life and music of the profoundly influential rock & |
| roll pioneer. "I went to his audition to: a) give him some support and |
| b) to pick up my guitar," Jill remembers. During her friend's audition, |
| Jill was cajoled on-stage where she played Van Morrison's 'Brown-Eyed |
| Girl' and one of her own songs in an impromptu try-out for the musical. |
| Her natural talent and ease on-stage -- "plus I spoke Spanish" -- led to |
| a series of roles -- including Buddy's wife Maria Elena -- in the |
| Broadway production of "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story." |
| |
| "My life is 6 degrees of Buddy Holly," says Jill (who, coincidentally, |
| lives with her husband and two children in the New York apartment |
| building where Buddy lived with Maria and cut his final homemade demos |
| in December 1958). "The reason I came to New York is because of Buddy |
| Holly." |
| |
| In 1992-93, following the close of the Buddy Holly musical on Broadway, |
| Jill sang backup and played guitar in a variety of bands including the |
| New Originals, performing on subway platforms ("the 1 and 9 line"), |
| parks ("Washington Square," "Central Park"), and the West Village. |
| "When I got 'Law & Order' in 1993," she recalls, "I reluctantly had to |
| leave the New Originals." |
| |
| She made her official recording debut in 2003, performing songs by Tom |
| Waits ("You're Innocent When You Dream") and Bob Dylan ("It's All Over |
| Now, Baby Blue") on the T Bone Burnett-produced "Crossing Jordan" |
| soundtrack album. The All Music guide praised her for revealing an |
| "....expressive voice with just a tinge of world-weariness." |
| |
| Perhaps the deepest connection between the music of Jill Hennessy and |
| the spirit of Buddy Holly lies in the heart of Texas, home to Holly's |
| Lubbock birthplace and Austin's legendary Bismeaux Studio, a state-of- |
| the-art facility that's played host to recordings by a variety of |
| artists including Asleep At The Wheel, the Chieftains, Trace Adkins, Pam |
| Tillis and Sir George Martin, among many others. |
| |
| Helping Jill create the haunting ambience radiating throughout Ghost In |
| My Head is Grammy-winning Irish producer Patrick McCarthy; an engineer |
| on The Joshua Tree around the time that Jill was buying the songbook, |
| McCarthy has worked on records by R.E.M., the Waterboys, Counting Crows, |
| U2, Madonna and others. |
| |
| Jill -- who sings lead and background vocals and plays rhythm (acoustic |
| and electric) guitar on Ghost In My Head -- assembled a core ensemble of |
| incredibly simpatico musicians for the album (as well as for her live |
| performances): Robbie Gjersoe, lead guitar (the Flatlanders, Jimmie Dale |
| Gilmore); Brian Standefer, cello (Alejandro Escovedo, James McMurtry); |
| Bukka Allen, accordion, keyboards (Terry Allen, the Flatlanders, the |
| BoDeans); Glenn Fukunaga, bass (Jo Carol Pierce, Los Super Seven); and |
| Rob Affuso, drums (Skid Row). |
| |
| Guest artists joining Jill and her band on the album are R.E.M.'s Mike |
| Mills, the Dixie Chicks' Martie Maguire (fiddle on "Holding On") and |
| husband Gareth Maguire (tin whistle on "Holding On"), and the mythic |
| Texas country pedal-steel player/multi-instrumentalist/producer Lloyd |
| Maines. Also joining Jill on Ghost In My Head are her husband Paolo |
| Mastropietro and their oldest son Marco. |
| |
| Jill wrote the songs comprising Ghost In My Head in a particularly |
| prolific period from 2005-2007. "The songs just started coming out," |
| she confesses. "It was cathartic. When something hits me now, I write |
| it all down." |
| |
| Drawn from, or inspired by, personal experiences -- some direct, some |
| tangential, some metaphorical -- the songs on Ghost In My Head are |
| bone-marrow direct, honest and spectral. Some, like "Save Me" and "4 |
| Small Hands," are keening laments for unnameable loss -- irretrievable |
| innocence or opportunity or something deeper. Others, like "10,000 |
| Miles" or "Oh Mother" or "Holding On," are, according to Jill, |
| "deliberately big, written to be huge and forceful. Every song is so |
| story-driven. If you can even get one or two words on a page, the words |
| will lead you to the next word, the words sort of guide you. The |
| painting sort of paints itself, the painting tells you where to go." |
| |
| Trusting her instincts and following her muses, Jill Hennessy has |
| distilled some of the essential passions, experiences and insights of |
| her life into the music and poetry of Ghost In My Head." |
| |
| Neither of my parents sing or play any instruments but they loved music |
| -- Ian & Sylvia, Peter Paul & Mary, James Taylor, Ray Charles, the |
| Rolling Stones," says Jill. "One of my good memories was when my dad |
| would come home from work. We'd sit on the kitchen floor and listen to |
| records -- Elton John, Carpenters, Joni Mitchell, and especially Cat |
| Stevens. That was my image of family, being together, being safe. I |
| feel like music is the closest thing to who I am. It's where I feel |
| most at home." |

20. Gay Beast - Second Wave (2009) (Rock) (Rapidshare)

1. Beach 3:43
2. Revolt Revolt 3:06
3. Aspirin 2:21
4. Xerox Paper 3:02
5. White Diamonds 3:59
6. Exploding Knee 2:50
7. Make A Map Pressing Hard 2:43
8. Tides 3:39
9. Eeexxxpppaaannndddiiinnnggg 3:29
10. Reprise 1:12

Join us May 26th for the coming out dance party of the year as Gay Beast ride
the Second Wave straight onto the streets! Formed in 2005 and renowned as
Minnesota's premier agit-prog queer band, Gay Beast cuts a careening groove
between the prickly corners of tunefulness and musical density, danceability
and controlled chaos. On Second Wave, their sophomore effort and first
release on Skin Graft Records, the trio lets fly with utopic visions of
second-wave feminism, exposing a mood-swinging musical reach heretofore
unheard.