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Ryan Adams and the Cardinals “Fix It” Available on iTunes

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As promised, “Fix It” the first single from Cardinology is available from iTunes today. The iTunes version of Cardinology has a bonus track “The Color of Pain.” If you pre-order Cardinology, you will be billed for and able to download “Fix It” today ($.99) and the remainder of the album’s cost will be charged separately when it becomes available it on 10/28.

Download it here:
Ryan Adams - Fix It - Single

Click Here to view the nifty illustrated lyrics to “Fix It” done by Leah Hayes who provided the artwork for the vinyl version of Cardinology, which is available for pre-order today.

Free Download: DJ Z-Trip “Party For Change”

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Turntablist and producer DJ Z-Trip has made a 1-hour samplefest in tribute to Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama. It is currently a free download from his site– until all of the record labels come knocking. Lots of speech samples interspersed with many song samples from rock classics, reggae, and hip-hop. Download it while you can! He provides an original mix and a “clean” radio mix and encourages public performances of this mix. The artwork is provided by Shepard “Obey” Fairey, who also worked with Z-Trip buddy DJ Shadow and provided the special artwork included with the Fender Joe Strummer Telecaster.

Click Here to visit the site and download

Free Download: Lyrics Born – “Make It Good” and other news

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Our favorite ‘Yay Area MC has partnered with LG to help promote their new Chocolate 3 phone by recording a “three” themed tune to be used in commercials and available for free from LG’s Chocolate 3 Site.

The site is heavy-Flash content, but once the page loads click to play Lyrics Born, wait for some more bloaty Flash content to load (srsly– sitting using the free wireless at the airport, this is taking minutes to load!), change the category to “Music”, and then you can choose “Download the Tracks” where you can pick free downloads from LB, Goapele, and Bitter:Sweet.

LB mentioned the track in a recent edition of LBTV and he said that he was very happy with it. It is trademark LB, but it does sound a bit like the topic came before the inspiration a bit as he exclaims “Three is my favorite number!” He saves it a bit by giving it a romantic spin– and frankly his enthusiasm is infectious and it’s pretty catchy.

I love the irony of loading this song on my iPhone…

Click Here to get to the LG Chocolate 3 Site

In other LB news, he has been tapped to be the voiceover announcer of a new Cartoon Network franchise on Friday nights called You Are Here. Pretty much a cartoon character himself, I hope that they take advantage of his sense of humor. The first airing is this Friday night, October 3rd.

Update: 10/12/08: Lyrics Born has canceled his Fall tour to help with the campaign for Barack Obama. Click Here to read my article on this.

As if that wasn’t enough, Lyrics Born is kicking off a Fall tour of the U.S. If you’ve been following this blog that long you’ve read the 2006 and 2007 reviews of his stops in Minneapolis at the Foundation. I’m not sure what the deal is with the Foundation in oh-eight, but he is coming to the fantastic Fine Line on November 8th, which is a great venue although my wife isn’t sure it is condusive to the obligatory ass-shaking that occurs with his show. I guess we’ll find out, as we will be returning for a threepeat. With Joyo’s album hitting in January I’m sure we can count on a couple of solo songs!

Elbee, if you’re reading this– what’s up with hitting the Snowy Apple in frigging November the last three years? I’m happy you stop, but it’s pretty cold…

Fall Tour Dates (lifted from MySpace)

Oct 16 2008 8:00P
SF Weekly Show – Ruby Skye San Francisco, California
Oct 27 2008 9:00P
Middle East Downstairs Cambridge, Massachusetts
Oct 28 2008 8:00P
The Trocadero Theatre Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oct 29 2008 9:00P
Highline Ballroom New York, New York
Oct 31 2008 8:00P
Rex Theatre Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nov 1 2008 9:00P
Sonar Baltimore, Maryland
Nov 4 2008 8:00P
Agora Theater Cleveland, Ohio
Nov 5 2008 8:00P
The Eagle Theater Pontiac, Michigan
Nov 7 2008 8:00P
Majestic Theater Madison, Wisconsin
Nov 8 2008 8:00P
Double Door Chicago, Illinois
Nov 9 2008 8:00P
Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, Minnesota

Click Here for Lyrics Born’s MySpace Page

Click Here for Lyrics Born’s Official Page

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More Tortoise Vinyl Back in Print!

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While I was in Madison, WI yesterday for the Snake on the Lake Festival at UW Madison I stopped at a couple of record stores– Mad City Music and B-Side Records. I’ll be providing a B-Sides in the Bins article soon, but while I was in these stores I was shocked to find NEW, SEALED copies of Tortoise’s TNT and It’s All Around You! Notably they had the new red sticker that says that there is a coupon for free mp3 downloads inside– which wouldn’t have been on them originally. They also had copies of the new red-vinyl version of Standards previously reported on here as well.

TNT was $16.99 for a 2-LP at Mad City, and It’s All Around You was $12.99 at B-Side. If you go to Thrill Jockey’s page for It’s All Around You, sure enough there are copies of it on vinyl available for purchase for $11.00. On the TNT page, they mention that there are a limited supply of these back in print, however at this moment, there isn’t a working link to order one.

I’m happy to see that these are available, I’m hoping that it will help lend some sanity to the current used pricing for OOP Tortoise vinyl. It will be interesting to see if Millions Now Living and the first album get re-pressed.

New Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: Cardinology Live Previews

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On the 17th it was announced by Lost Highway that Ryan Adams and the Cardinals will be releasing a new album on October 28th titled Cardinology. As expected, Ryan and Co. are already pulling the songs out on their Fall tour. Yours truly will be seeing Ryan again this year and shooting pix for a review at the Ames show on October 7th. The songs I’ve heard so far are pretty good and certainly on par with Easy Tiger. Since Archive.org has a pretty good collection of Ryan shows, I thought I’d provide links to individual mp3’s so you can listen to a live version of the album before its release. All of the tracks from the album aren’t represented by shows on archive.org, yet, but as shows are recorded and shared there, I’ll update the links here until the release of the album.

BTW: We are going to be able to download “Fix It” on Tuesday. I’m not sure which sites, yet, but I’ll update this when I find out. According to some folks on the ryanadamsarchive.com forum, “Fix It” was released to radio today. The single will be available for download on October 7th.

Update: Ryan is providing a streamed sample of “Fix It” from his blog site:

Check out the beautiful cover art for the vinyl version of Cardinology by Adam’s chum Leah Hayes— author of the graphic novel Funeral of the Heart. According to a poster-in-the-know on the ryanadamsarchive forum this limited vinyl release will have colored vinyl, artwork by Leah Hayes including illustrated lyric book and the exclusive 7″ of “Orange” b/w “Asteroid” and will also include an mp3 download! I’ll have to try to score some record flats of this!!

Click here to read the post and to play the sample (requires Flash)

Here is the track list for Cardinology:

“Born Into a Light” (10-16-2008)
“Go Easy” (9-26-2008)
“Fix It” (9-4-2008)(9-7-2008)(9-25-2008)(9-26-2008)
“Magick” (9-4-2008)(9-7-2008)(9-25-2008)(9-26-2008)
“Cobwebs” (9-7-2008)(9-25-2008)
“Let Us Down Easy”
“Crossed Out Name” (9-4-2008)(9-25-2008)(9-26-2008)
“Natural Ghost” (9-25-2008)
“Sink Ships” (9-7-2008)(9-25-2008)
“Evergreen” (9-30-2008)
“Like Yesterday” (9-25-2008)
“Stop” (10-16-2008)

Hey Love Mixtape Download from Joyo Velarde Has Tracks from Upcoming Solo Album

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The much-anticipated solo release from Lyrics Born-sidekick and frequent collaborator Joyo Velarde has been in the works for literally years and this week we get a teaser in the form of a mixtape. It includes tracks from her upcoming Quannum Projects release Love & Understanding as well as tracks where she lent her amazing pipes for other acts including Lyrics Born as well as some tracks exclusive to this mix.

This mix is pretty similar to the recurring Lyrics Born Show mixes that LB puts out, and this is also credited to his label Mobile Home Recordings.

The mix is available now through Lyrics Born’s download store for $5.99. If you are a fan, like I am, go download this!

Tracklisting:

1. Hey Love Intro
2. Build This World
3. Time To Wake Up – DJ Zeph & Azeem ft. Joyo Velarde
4. I Need You Boy
5. Oh Joy* – Lyrics Born & Proof Positive
6. Rise and Shine – Lyrics Born ft. Joyo Velarde
7. Bay Luv* – Lyrics Born and Joyo Velarde
8. I Can’t Wait For Your Love – Lyrics Born ft. Joyo Velarde
9. Beautiful You – Maroons ft. Joyo Velarde
10. People Like Me
11. Jenny and Georgie*
12. Certain Special Way – Joyo Velarde ft. Trackademicks
13. Those Days*
14. Doobie-Doo*
15. The World Is Calling – Lyrics Born ft. Joyo Velarde
16. Take You Home
17. Spirit of Love*
18. Love Me So Bad – Lyrics Born ft. Joyo Velarde
19. King’s Daughter*
20. We Made It* – produced by Proof Positive

*mixtape exclusives/previously unreleased

Free Downloads: Calexico Secret Show in Berlin 9/6/08 (FLAC)

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I never cease to be amazed at how quickly great free downloads are available on the Internet. This morning at 9:46AM GMT a BitTorrent for a live broadcast from BBC 1 of a show Calexico did YESTERDAY showed up on Dimeadozen! This was a “secret show” that was performed by Calexico as a quartet in Berlin in a small venue. The broadcast part of the show was all new songs and mostly tracks from Carried to Dust which comes out on Tuesday.

To download the FLAC files using your favorite torrent client, click here (requires account on dimeadozen)

Ballhaus Ost, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany

Setlist:
01 [00:28] [starting a new chapter…]
02 [04:38] Frank’s Tavern
03 [05:14] Victor Jara’s Hands
04 [04:55] Man Made Lake
05 [03:28] [slowness prelude] >
06 [05:29] Slowness
07 [04:32] Two Silver Trees
08 [04:14] Above The Branch >
09 [03:42] The News About William
10 [04:39] Writer’s Minor Holiday
11 [05:35] [unidentified title]
12 [06:25] Fractured Air (Tornado Watch)
13 [03:36] Red Blooms

The lineup was:
Joey Burns: guitars, vocals
John Convertino: drums
Martin Wenck: trumpet, harmonica, vibraphone, whistling
Paul Niehaus: pedal steel guitar, electric guitar

Lucinda Williams New Album Little Honey News and Single

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This week Lucinda Williams released a new digital single to Amazon and iTunes of “Real Love” from her upcoming new album due October 14th titled Little Honey (Lost Highway).

Little Honey follows her 2007 release West, which was a favorite here at playbsides last year. On this record Eric Liljestrand moves from the Engineer role he had on West to a Producer role for Little Honey. Lucinda also brings in some guests including Elvis Costello on “Jailhouse Tears” which is being called a “mini drama” (?), as well as Matthew Sweet and Suzanna Hoffs providing vocal duties on “Little Rock Star” — a six-minute song which was apparently influenced by a photo of Pete Doherty in Rolling Stone Magazine. The album also includes a cover of the AC/DC song “It’s A Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll).” Williams describes the album as “eclectic.”

Lucinda and producer Hal Willner were so pleased with the basic demo tracks she recorded for West, that he used them in the final album. The result of this was that there was a lot of “bonus” material available in the form of the basic demo tracks. The Best Buy version of West had a second disc with two tracks, there was a separate second CD available via Indie record stores with two tracks, the Japanese version had two additional tracks as well. I hope Lost Highway again brings the bonus material for Little Honey.

Which brings us to the new song “Real Love” available at Amazon and iTunes. The song is pretty much a classic rockin’ Lucinda track which– intentionally or not– has lifted the main guitar riff from Jackson Browne’s song “Boulevard.” It’s a good song, and worth the $.99, I think.

TRACKLISTING for Little Honey:

Real Love
Circles And X’s
Tears Of Joy
Little Rock Star
Honey Bee
Well Well Well
If Wishes Were Horses
Jailhouse Tears
Knowing
Heaven Blues
Rarity
Plan To Marry
It’s A Long Way To The Top

Produced by Eric Liljestrand and Tom Overby

Free Download: The Cool Kids – “Delivery Man”

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Mountain Dew has a free mp3 download from their “Green Label Sound” website of Chicago’s buzzworthy hip hop duo The Cool Kids. The track “Delivery Man” has sparse drums and an organ hook flowing under lyrics that remind me of De La Soul or Black Eyed Peas at times. Fun and funky.

According to the PR, Chuck Inglish and Mikey Rocks met on MySpace.

Click Here to Download “Delivery Man”

Free Downloads: Pieta Brown with Bo Ramsey at Daytrotter!

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A cool and unexpected offering from Daytrotter– Pieta Brown with hubby Bo Ramsey performing tracks from her fantastic 2007 release on One Little Indian Remember The Sun plus a couple of unreleased tracks.

I think it is really admirable that Daytrotter, which calls its home The Quad Cities (specifically Rock Island) and chooses to occasionally feature regional acts to the watching planet.

I hope that they had the opportunity to record Bo as well. If not, they should try to get him on the schedule.

Click Here to read the article on Pieta Brown at Daytrotter and download yourself some mp3’s.

While I was putting this article together I noticed that Pieta will be playing in Marion, IA at the very cool Campbell-Steele Gallery on October 10th. Campbell-Steele is the home of the funny and musical Liar’s Holographic Theatre. Tickets are 25 smackers, but the art gallery is a very intimate place to see performances and Pieta would be a wonderful artist to see there.

Damp and Cool, Crisp and Warm — The Country Canvas: Pieta Brown