Monday V

Here's some music to get you through the week:

Toasted Plastic - From The Balloon To The Moon (2011)

Punky with some screamo/emo tendencies and math. Like a Sirs/Chalk Talk/Merchant Ships blend. 

Last.fm

Traveling - End of the Summer Demo (2011)

Ginger Alford (One Reason, Good Luck, and her team up with Paul Baribeau playing Springsteen covers) has a new band and this is it. 

Moonrocks - Gas Station Dinner (2011)

Moonrocks is a hip-hop/electronic artist out of the Portland, Maine area. He Produced this bad boy of a collective-type album featuring Fresh Heir, Travis Ranta of Power Lines, Dynamo P, Pensivv, ALT, Shupe, Ill By Instinct and other local rappers in the area (I'm guessing). I had only really heard of Fresh Heir (and Power Lines since I saw them live together once) before finding Gas Station Dinner and I was really pretty surprised at how tight these seemingly unknown rappers are! To be honest, Fresh Heir is probably the weakest of all the rappers (with his track, Time To Win). But none the less, these guys are actually very talented and very different than that other Maine rapper.... 

I wish I knew more about these guys, but I don't. 

Special Thanks to Dead Man's Clothes and their website for upping this!

Spider Wood/Niko & The Juggler Meadow Family Band (Split) - Tending Fires (2011)

This is the first split I've featured on this blog! It's about two bands that play their own take on acoustic folk music. Where the Wood Spider is a little punk and gypsy, Niko & The Juggler Meadow Family Band are a little more laid back. Take an ear look for yourself... and get the rest of Wood Spider's discography while you're at it! 

Track 1-4 is Wood Spider and the rest is Niko. Bandcamp can tell you that though, you don't need me.

Wood Spider's Last.fm 

Niko & The Juggler Meadow Family Band's Last.fm (not too much help but does show some good similar artists) 

A Great Big Pile of Leaves - Have You Seen My Prefrontal Cortex? (2010)

Indie rock with a bit of jazz and pop. Super catchy stuff that goes down real smooth right here... maybe too much, but I don't care. 

Love 'em or hat 'em

You can get this record on there website for free. The only catch is, you don't get the last two tracks that are included on their Bandcamp... 

Last.fm

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