Toronto pop-rock outfit Cold Dead Hands are back with a 5-song EP titled Space Out! With the radio success of their debut EP Novelization branching out from Toronto all the way to the UK and Sweden, this release is definitely another ear pleaser for both melody and magnitude lovers alike.

You can stream the mini-release below, and download it for $4 at Cold Dead Hands' Bandcamp page.
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Late last year you may have been moved by Fall, the charming indie-pop EP of former Moldy Peach Adam Green and Little Joy singer Binki Shapiro. Their collaboration seemed to be an inspired one, so it's no surprise that the pair are following it up with a full album.
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Today's selection of free and legal - because: official - downloads....
The Royal Concept – World On Fire
HK119 - Snowblind (The-Drum Remix)
Skydiggers - Wreck of the Old '97
Holy Other - Held
André Uhl - Leviathan / Native
Crime & The City Solution - My Love Takes Me There
Flying Lotus - Such a Square
Dan Friel - Thumper
The If Not Now - The If Not Now EP
FILTER Presents: Songs of The Descendents (Tribute Album)
Rockie Fresh - Electric Highway (mixtape)
Gunplay - Cops & Robbers (Mixtape)

Click Read More below, be patient while the page loads, listen... and if you like them... grab them. Enjoy!
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Imagine stealing away to a deserted field late one night, only to find a pop punk quartet who's set up stage for a starlit jam session. It's an image that Fairfax, Va.'s Fourth Quarter Comeback have run with for their new video, "Back To Sleep."

Check out the video and listen to their tracks in the player below.
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Dan The Automator (producer of Gorillaz S/T album, Deltron 3030 and Handsome Boy Modelling School) is back with his latest project Pillowfight featuing singer songwriter Emily Wells and frequent collaborator DJ Kid Koala.

Hear Pillowfight (Dan The Automator x Emily Wells x Kid Koala) Self Titled Debut LP below.
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Dead Again are made up of members of Rotting Hills, Inhaler, Anion and Swallowed Whole, but the Vancouver metal troupe carve out their own nefarious niche on their destructive new LP, Occultus Lake.
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Composed with luminous synths and melodic vocal lines, the U.K. trio's latest album is an unabashed venture into warped pop music. Its pace is uncharacteristically rapid, its chords buoyant, yet there remains an eerie quality to Darkstar's music.

Darkstar's new album, News From Nowhere, comes out Feb. 5.
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Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez maneuver their homemade instruments through songs that rumble and clamor and grind with unmistakable electricity. For the duo, strange instrumentation is merely a means to a raucous, hypnotic, alluring end.

Buke and Gase's new album, General Dome, comes out Jan. 29.
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Today's selection of free and legal - because: official - downloads....
Phantom - Scars / Kisses
André Uhl - Convergence / Marvin
Destination Mars - Driving Home to You
Junkie XL - Morning Song (as featured in Green Street Hooligans)
DEVolution - My Friends
Jake Bugg - Seen It All
T&A Records - Moombahton Forever (Mixtape)
Diplo & Friends - BBCR1xtra: January 12, 2013 (Mixtape)

Click Read More below, be patient while the page loads, listen... and if you like them... grab them. Enjoy!
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It was around this time last year that Leonard Friend dropped onto our radar with his Lynyrd Frynd EP, bringing an eclectic fusion of R&B, pop, and synth along with him. He's now back with a new single, "Middle Of The Night," which expands upon these genres, adding even more zest to the mix with pulsing beats and smooth melodies.
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Integration of Indian music, "three seconds and you know who's playing" saxophone, double-necked guitar and all that it implies, homegrown approaches to composition: It's all here. But the alto saxophonist's new album surfs on this information overload without drowning in it.

Rudresh Mahanthappa's new album, Gamak, comes out Jan. 29.
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Pretty and eccentric, ornate but never cluttered, Blaudzun's songs alternately boom and swoon, even when they bypass strings in favor of a warm, simple sound. Dutch singer-songwriter Johannes Sigmond, who records as Blaudzun, has a voice ideally suited for grandiosity.

Blaudzun's U.S. debut, Heavy Flowers, comes out Jan. 29.
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The band's sound shape-shifts frequently through the worlds of brittle indie-pop, Nuggets-era retro psych-rock, vintage soul and something more alien. II traffics in, and thrives on, its air of strangeness and unknowability, but that makes its moments of shimmery warmth that much sweeter.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra's new album, II, comes out Feb. 5.
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Bad Religion, the great long-running California thesaurus-toting punk bashers, have released umpteen billion albums, and they’ve all been, at the very least, pretty good. The next one, True North, comes out next week, and we’ve already posted the self-explanatory “Fuck You.” But for a bunch more variations on that ever-durable melodic-hardcore pummel, click below to stream the entire album.
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Final post for this week again. We wish you a nice week-end and if all goes well we should be back Monday morning for another week of full album streams. Cheers
Today's selection of free and legal - because: official - downloads....
Matt Patterson - Let Em Talk (prod. by KQuick)
VYIE - Darrrk Knight
Orae - Sightlines / Protect The Prophecy
Swiss Lips - Lost (Frank Ocean Cover)
Bobby Long - Devil Moon
Featurecast - Soul Children (feat. Greg Blackman) (All Good Funk Alliance Remix)
The XX - Chained (NICKEL Remix)
Kris Menace (ft. Unai) - Lone Runner (Axel Le Baron Remix)
MF/MB/ - Casualties / Drums Along the Mohawk

Click Read More below, be patient while the page loads, listen... and if you like them... grab them. Enjoy!
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Life hasn't been a cakewalk for Austin Carlile. The 25-year-old vocalist was one of the founding members of Attack! Attack!, however, he suddenly exited the band in 2008 just as they were starting to break. Not one to take defeat lying down, Carlile immediately announced he was starting a new band called Of Mice & Men. The band has gone on to become one of the biggest bands in the metalcore scene and, most recently, landed Carlile on the cover of the Alternative Press "Most Anticipated” issue.

We caught up with Carlile at his home in Huntington Beach, Calif., as the band are in the midst of writing and demo-ing for their third album, which he described as an amalgamation of his previous releases that would feature "plenty of melodic, singing choruses as well as heavy bridges."
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Ra Ra Riot is scheduled to release forthcoming album Beta Love on Jan. 22 via Barsuk. The album features vocalist Wes Miles, guitarist Milo Bonacci, bassist Mathieu Santos and violinist Rebecca Zeller and was recorded in Oxford, Miss. with the help of producer Dennis Herring (Modest Mouse, Wavves, Elvis Costello).

Although the album won’t be out until next week, Beta Love is now streaming in its entirety on YouTube. Listen to the album in the player below.
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Purveyors of funky-socio-politico-folk-dance-party music.

Any fan of Canadian music is bound to recognize some familiar names in the credits of Minotaurs' latest album, New Believers, which drops on January 22 via Static Clang. Before the disc arrives on shelves, you can stream the album in full below.
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It's been well over a year since gruffly voiced Floridian melodic punk combo Hot Water Music first revealed plans to issue their CD/DVD concert package Live in Chicago, but the effort finally arrived yesterday (January 15) via No Idea Records. In case you haven't made your way to an official retailer just yet, you can stream the live album in full thanks to Exclaim!
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Way back in the olden times of November 2012, Australian band Milk Teddy released Zingers a ramshackle guitar pop album that owes as much to the, um, ramshackle guitar pop scene in New Zealand as it does to The Feelies and the sort of mindboggling, hey-check-out-what-I-made-before-you-even-got-up-this-morning vibe that so many bands hope to reach but rarely do.

Basically, Zingers is an album for moping around your house. It feels designed to be re-discovered (or, if you’re like me and “late” to the party, just discover it for the first time). Do you ever have a day where you’re flipping through your own records and you come across something that you haven’t listened to in awhile and it sounds like a revelation? At once both familiar and completely new. Zingers can be that album. The guitars jangle, the vocals sound half-asleep, and when the harmonica on album closer “Come Around” kicks in, everything feels exactly as it should be.
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