This is in light of next week's South by South West festival. Bit of a strange mix, but the majority of the tracks are well worth a listen, its nearly an hour long so its not like your whole day will be gone, especially if you shove it on your iPod or something and go out with it. Anyway, hope you enjoy it…

Tracklisting:

Annuals - X
The Spits - 19 Million A.C.
Jon Randall - Austin
Real Ones - Ballad of an old man
Lying in states - Turn
Moka Only - More Soup
Times New Viking - We…

I say, I'm cutting down the purchases this month, trying to limit myself a bit better from now on, but I finally got let onto dimeadozen.org the other day so I may babble on about a few live shows.

Euros Childs - Chops

Hmmmm….. If you've ended up on this entry through him you'll most likely already know that he's the force behind Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.
This is the second time I'm listening to this album today and it's already grown on me. It's full of fillers less than a minute long, so don't be fooled when you see…

Yeah, that got your hopes up that this was going to be another positive post about The Arctic Monkeys, but no, no, no it's not. It's another positive post about The Hold Steady, that's what it is.

Over the past few days a new track has appeared called 'stuck between stations' (download) and it shows that they can't stop getting better. Two years ago I wasn't really expecting to see these guys rise in the way that they have (despite just releasing one of the most amazing albums of the past decade), but I'm so glad to've had…

Last night I put on The Doors self-titled album, and as I was listening through, Soul Kitchen obviously passed by and reminded me so much of Walkin' on the sun. I never really got that into Smash Mouth so don't have an album by them or anything, so I was just wondering if people on here could tell me if I'm going crazy or not thinking that they took the idea from The Doors. Neither are exactly un-famous tracks.

I think I posted one of these on here in the past, can't remember, but yeah, this is a radio thing I do every now and then for Ultimate-guitar.com's Alt & Indie forum (although it really has no affiliation with the site). There's no voice over on it, just an hour (roughly) of great music. Download link down the bottom.

Owen - One (U2 cover)
The Bluetones - Slight Return
Battle - Isabelle
Mount Eerie - Stop Singing
Adam Green - Jessica
+/- - I've been lost
Nick Drake - Blues run the game (Jackson C Frank cover)…

Ok, after my moaning with the thirteen releases for one album concept of the Red Hot Chili Peppers I feel I must again let off more steam about them….

This is the cost to order pre-sale tickets to their up & coming London dates…

$40 to join the fan club

That's roughly £25 to get a piece of paper from the fanclub six months down the line and the option for pre-sale tickets. You could go for the $30 option but then you don't even get piece of paper through the post and then what are you paying £18 for?…

Ok, I'm going to try and keep up with doing this throughout the year, whether it's about new releases or albums that I've just been slow in getting it doesn't matter, but I'm sure there's always going to be a few little gems hidden in the midst of garbage.

Cat Power - The Greatest

Well, what really can be said about Chan Marshall that everyone doesn't already know? She continually writes amazingly good music and this album is no exception. There's a couple of tracks that really lag behind the rest of the album, but literally a couple. It's no…

Taken from Lou Barlow's website….

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Dinosaur Jr. (just so it links)

Ok, seeing as I've bought quite a few albums recently, I'll try and do short reviews of the ones that people are least likely to own. Ten star rating system at the end of each (10 being the best).

What made Milwaukee Famous - Trying to never catch up

This is great. Thanks to the recommendation of yourpopquizkid for this one, it's going to get a lot of listens. It started off different to how I expected (not in a bad way though) and just continued to get better and better for the next three tracks and then stayed at…

Well despite the fact that not all of my others have come through yet I've still be tempted to buy, buy, buy. Although, last night I ordered The Mountain Goats' 'Come, come to the sunset tree' finally which is costing me over £70 but due to the rarity of it and amount of times I've lost out on winning a copy on ebay I'm happy with the price.
A couple of days ago I put in a few orders with amazon as well and ordered….

Bob Dylan - Freewheelin'
Bob Dylan - Times they are a-changin'
Bob Dylan -…