While I’m still doin my best to digest The People’s Key, Bright Eyes filled my plate with two b-sides released with the records proper physical set. While many reviews I’ve read have said that these two tracks could have easily fit onto TPK, I have a hard time agreeing. “Singularity” is 1 of the 2 [...]

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here’s one of the three b-sides from julian’s solo debut. “30 minute boyfriend” follows the attention deficit disordered electronic formula that composed phrazes for the young‘s makeup. still unsure on how i feel about phrazes for the young. i’m not sold, i don’t think i’ve listened to it more than a handful of times. here’s [...]

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I posted a while back about the epitaph reissues of four Blood Brother’s albums that were actually released last week. Here’s a b-side circa the Burn Piano Island, Burn era entitled Pink Tarantulas. Never heard this one before, but apparently it was released as a b-side on the “Ambulance vs. Ambulance” single. The track is [...]

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Here’s a b-side off of the Arctic Monkey’s Cornerstone 10″. Playing at just over 2 minutes, it’s immediately apparent why Sketchead was granted b-side status as it’s brawling and fast paced garage rock demeanor would have fit nowhere on Humbug’s brooding atmosphere. mp3// sketchead

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K, clear something up for me.  Studio version, SECOND VERSE goes… “Dreamin Japanese, Dreamin Japanese, Some Language I don’t even know how to speak” [download] A friend brought to my attention that the acoustic version goes “Dreamin Japanese, Dreamin Japanese, I’m like bitch, I don’t even know how to speak” [download] At first, I laughed [...]

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Manchester Orchestra’s newest offering Mean Everything to Nothing was accompanied by the b-sides EP Fourteen Years of Excellence as well as two iTunes exclusive bonus tracks “Jimmy, He Whispers” and “Go” (the former track is actually featured on Mean Everything in the last 5 minutes of the closer “The River”).  The former EP plays more [...]

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So I recently stumbled onto two new tracks from Conor Oberst’s camp that I haven’t heard before. I usually pride myself on getting my hands on anything/everything the guy has put out, so I was happy to cop these. “One of My Kind” the title track of the band’s documentary, is only available in this [...]

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