out this week

Emily Haines: What Is Free to a Good Home? [EP]
Emily’s new EP features five b-sides off of Knives Don’t Have Your Back as well as a remix of "Mostly Waving".

Telethon
Sprig [wicked-cool song]

buy What Is Free to a Good Home? [EP] here


Tegan and Sara: The Con
I predict that Tegan and Sara will gain many new fans with The Con.

Are You Ten Years Ago
Like O, Like H

buy The Con here


Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Is Is [EP]
Is Is is the perfect balance between YYYs’ two albums; it features the same commanding and raging qualities of Fever To Tell as well as the more mature and more controlled style of Show Your Bones.

Kiss Kiss [wicked-cool song]

buy Is Is [EP] here


John Vanderslice: Emerald City

Numbered Lithograph

buy Emerald City here

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making of life, a forged painting

Emily Haines will be performing at The Harbourfront Centre outdoor theater in Toronto on July 25. She is also releasing a new EP entitled What Is Free to a Good Home? on July 22 in North America. The EP features five b-sides off of Knives Don’t Have Your Back as well as a remix of "Mostly Waving".

Rowboat
Telethon
Mostly Waving (TodorK Remix)

What Is Free to a Good Home? EP comes out on July 22, pre-order details coming soon

requests

There have been quite a few requests in the past week regarding reposts, etc. I think I fulfilled most of requests below… if I missed any, just let me know.

Here’s track seven and ten from the new Emily Haines album:

7. Mostly Waving
10. The Last Page

Buy Knives Don't Have Your Back here


I Am a Bird Now... the remarkable by Antony & The Johnsons:

1. Hope There's Someone [wicked-cool song]
2. My Lady Story
3. For Today I Am a Boy [super-wicked-cool song]
4. Man Is the Baby [wicked-cool song]
5. You Are My Sister [wicked-cool song]
6. What Can I Do?
7. Fistful of Love [wicked-cool song]
8. Spiralling
9. Free at Last
10. Bird Guhl

Buy I Am a Bird Now here.


Phoenix’s It's Never Been Like That:

1. Napolean Says
2. Consolation Prizes
3. Rally
4. Long Distance Call
5. One Too Many
6. Lost and Found
7. Courtesy Laughs
8. North
9. Sometimes in a Fall
10. Second to None

Buy It's Never Been Like That here.

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There was also a request for young Connor Oberst stuffs... that will probably take me a while to upload as there are a lot of tracks, I'll try to have that up in a few days.

another great release day

Albums dropping today:

The Album Leaf: Into the Blue Again [wicked-cool album]
The Rapture: Pieces of the People We Love
The Matches: Decomposer
Xiu Xiu: The Air Force [wicked-cool album]
Heavens: Patent Pending
The Mars Volta: Amputechture
Emily Haines: Knives Don't Have Your Back

New records by The Album Leaf and Xiu Xiu are must haves... listen to The Rapture’s Pieces of the People We Love if you like dancepunk. I am also listening to a lot of Emily Haines and The Matches, so check those out too! Have fun record shopping!!!

exclusive: knives don't have your back

I should totally be in bed right now... actually, probably like two hours ago... I have class at eight in the morning... oh well. I know a lot of you out there are going to be thrill about this post. As the title suggested, it is Knives Don't Have Your Back, the long-awaited, highly-anticipated solo debut by Emily Haines!!!! Enjoy!

1. Our Hell
2. Doctor Blind
3. Crowd Surf Off A Cliff
4. Detective's Daughter
5. The Lottery
6. The Maid Needs A Maid
7. Mostly Waving
8. Reading In Bed
9. Nothing And Nowhere
10. The Last Page
11. Winning
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Knives Don't Have Your Back comes out on September 12 in Canada and September 26 in the US, go but it.

japan: first music update

I don’t know why I have never posted these up… even though there are so many of you out there who love the Metric. I got these songs from Emily Haines’ solo show at the church a few years ago… or last year, I don’t really remember. Anyways, they are completely different than Metric, so enjoy!

Sprig*
Detective Daughter
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we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities

Did you know that Metric released an EP called Static Anonymity back in 2001? And did you know that it is great? Well, if you answered 'no' to both of those questions, you need to download the five songs EP below. Enjoy.

01 Grow Up and Blow Away
02 Siamese Cities
03 Down
04 Soft Rock Star
05 London Halflife
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Metric, along with The Fiery Furnaces, Secret Machines, Electric Six, and many more acts are playing at Fort York in Toronto on July 15.

buy Metric stuffs here