Wax Pick: Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
You know what’s up. Amazon has Arcade Fire’s brand new album on sale today for $3.99. Seriously, less than 4 bucks. Forgo your coffee today and snag some great music.
Wax Pick: The Temper Trap – Conditions
If you’re a fan of Kings of Leon, M83 and the like, be sure to give this a go.
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Wax Pick: Phantogram – Eyelid Movies
Street beats, synths, and sampling meet lush vox and swirling guitar.
Wax Pick: Broken Bells
A project of Danger Mouse and Shins’ frontman, James Mercer, the duo released their first album this past March.
Wax Pick: The Bird And The Bee – Interpreting The Masters Volume 1: A Tribute To Daryl Hall And John Oates
One little audio nugget, and you’ll be singing, “I CAN go for that!”
Wax Pick: Beach House – Teen Dream
A long string of events indirectly led me to one of my favorite albums of the past few seasons.
Wax Pick: John Mayer – Battle Studies
John Mayer is single-handedly reviving the stratocaster. Respect it.
Wax Pick: Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night
The Followill Family Band saw greater success overseas than stateside in their own homeland, but Only By The Night gave the Nashville quartet the breakthrough success that they’d been hunting for. Grab it for $4 today only.
Wax Pick: Volcano Choir – UNMAP
Volcano Choir is a great little side project with Justin Vernon (Bon Iver). You’ll hear his influence clear as day atop the pseudo math-rock, and always eclectic base of his counterparts.
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Normally the freebies aren’t worth the hard drive space they take up, but these ones are legit.
Wax Pick: Passion Pit – Manners
Passion pit is a great, and somewhat quirky, electronic group from the east coast. The project actually started when singer Michael Angelakos decided to write a few songs to give his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day.
Wax Pick: The Big Pink – A Brief History Of Love
The Big Pink is an electro-rock duo from London that just put out their first full length album on 4AD records a few weeks back. I’ve been really digging it, sort of a hybrid of shoegaze rock with electronic undertones.
Wax Pick: Amusement Parks On Fire – Young Fight
Amusement Parks on Fire is a UK band bringing back the shoegaze.
Wax Pick: Mute Math – Armistice
Check out the latest from New Orleans’ finest, a band only 5 or 6 years into their current project that has already garnered Grammy noms and completely defined a genre all their own.
LSTN #6 – 25 Free Songs From Urban Outfitters
Once again, Urban Outfitters has compiled a great mix of tracks for download on their site. This time, they’re funneling everything through iTunes, but the music selection is just as eclectic and fresh as ever.
Wax Pick: The Bird And The Bee – Please Clap Your Hands
Greg Kurstin’s production is brilliant, Inara’s vocals are spot on, and the future-retro music they’ve been cranking out for years is still unmatched by any other. And today, it’s only 99 cents!
Wax Pick: Discovery – LP
Discovery is a side project from members of Vampire Weekend & Ra Ra Riot. I’m not the biggest fan of either of those two bands, but have really dug the programming in the new group.
Wax Pick: Fanfarlo – Reservoir
If you’re a fan of acts like Sigur Ros, Devotchka, and Sufjan Stevens, be sure to check out Fanfarlo.
Wax Pick: Cary Brothers – Who You Are
I first got into Cary after hearing him on the Garden State soundtrack back in 2004. A few tracks like Honestly and Blue Eyes still find their way onto playlists I create even now. You’ll also hear Matt Hale (Aqualung) and Priscilla Ahn gracing this album.
Wax Pick: Apparat – Walls
Walls is Apparat’s 2007 release, breaking away from his dance floor roots and growing to be “more interested in sounds than beats” by incorporating strings, various live percussion, and dropping the 4-on-the-floor for a more laid-back trip-hop vibe.
Wax Pick: The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
I grew up on this one, and if you don’t already have it in your collection, it is a MUST own as one of the most prolific albums of all time.