I’ve recently been listening to local singer/songwriter Haroula Rose’s debut solo EP, Someday. Her beautiful vocals on “Lay Me Down” reminds me a little bit of Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch – but her sound is more indie than country. After several successful gigs at SXSW, Rose will begin work on a full-length LP that will be released later this year. You can catch Haroula in New York and Los Angeles in late May and June.

Upcoming Shows:
May 24th @ Zebulon in Brooklyn
June 30th @ Crane’s in Los Angeles

MP3: Haroula Rose – Lay Me Down

Download:
Haroula Rose – Someday (iTunes)

Colin Greenwood

Radiohead entered the studio last week with longtime producer Nigel Godrich to star work on their eighth album. Bassist Colin Greenwood spoke to NME.com about the project, saying, “It’s really cool and everything is sounding great. It’s early days and it is a bit like having a scrapbook at the moment because everything is up in the air, but it’s good to be back in the studio.”

MP3: Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling Into Place [London – 1/16/2008]

Download:
Radiohead – In Rainbows (iTunes)

Digital Music News Reports:
“The industry gave up its fight against MP3s, thanks to its universality and ease-of-use. But are consumers ready for a more sophisticated format?

Apple has its unprotected AAC, a superior format. But what about something that offers interactivity, greater multimedia, and content updates? In Paris, MXP4 is pushing itself as an evolutionary next step, and drawing backers into the effort. Over the weekend, the company pointed Digital Music News to a $2.5 million round led by Sofinnova Partners and Ventech. Additionally, former Vivendi Mobile Entertainment executive Albin Serviant is jumping in as CEO, and Albin Serviant and JJ Cecillon are joining the board.” Continue Reading at DMN

MP3: Cage The Elephant – Psycho Killer [Talking Heads Cover]
MP3: MGMT – Closer (Live – Nine Inch Nails Cover)

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Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing reports:
EMI has told Danger Mouse that his latest CD won’t see the light of day due to “legal issues,” so he’s responding by releasing the disc as a blank CD-R in a jewel case with art and liner notes. Fans can just download the music off a P2P site and burn it to the CD-R.

“Danger Mouse remains hugely proud of Dark Night of the Soul and hopes that people lucky enough to hear the music, by whatever means, are as excited by it as he is.” Continue Reading at Boing Boing

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Nice Earthquake tonight.

MP3: The Black Angels – Science Killer
MP3: Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer
MP3: Cage The Elephant – Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked (Wicked Devil Remix)

Download:
Cage the Elephant – Cage the Elephant (iTunes)
Blitzen Trapper – Furr (iTunes)
The Black Angels – Passover (iTunes)

MP3: Sid Vicious – I Wanna Be Your Dog
MP3: Dimitri from Paris – Sacre Francais Bob Sinclair – Paradise Remix)

Eliot Van Buskirk of Wired

“The iPhone can’t compare to the iPod when it comes to storing all your music, but imeem’s new streaming music app could change that by turning the smartphone into a quasi-iPod. How? By letting paid users store 80 GB of music on its servers.

Cloud-based storage is now cheaper than flash memory — not that the iPhone has an expansion slot for adding more memory anyway. For the serious music fan, who tends to carry an MP3 player in addition to a phone, the idea of paying for online music storage could start to look pretty attractive even at nearly $10 per month.” Continue Reading

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