Band In Boston

We fell in love with Drug Rug when we first heard them almost 3 years ago. This marks their third session (#2 is here), and the occasion of their big big dual cd release show with Mean Creek (here, here, and a new one coming this week!) this Saturday. Make sure you put this on your calendar. Now.

Drug Rug online

Download individual tracks here, or listen to the whole thing, with studio chatter and all:

Hit Factory – some good home-cooked shoegazey rock that reminds us a bit of Aberdeen City or The Walkmen. Be sure to stop by their website and get their EP for free!

Download individual tracks (for FREE) or buy high quality versions (for CHEAP) here!

Hit Factory’s website

This is Clif’s first solo session for us, but his third visit. We first met him when he joined Dickie Haydon, and then a second time with (0ne of) his (many) band(s), In Endeavors. This time, he was traveling with Wes Meek, and he treated us to some of his songs at their most intimate.

Download the tracks here.

Or listen to the whole thing, with commentary and all:

Well here we are, at just about 3 years into this crazy thing, and we’ve hit 200 Flophouse Sessions. To celebrate, we’re putting out a new session from The Teenage Prayers, who may very well be the most fun band that NYC has to offer. They’re playing at PA’s this Friday.

Session #200 also kicks off something that everyone has asked us for forever: individual tracks! Via our new store (powered by bandcamp.com, which every band should check out right now, and no we don’t get paid to tell you that), you can get each song, separately, as an mp3, aac, flac, ogg, or Apple lossless! Oooooooh. Now get back to your Teenage Prayers!

Download the songs individually.

Teenage Prayers on the web.

Atlanta’s Winston Audio usually present their tunes with a bombast reminiscent of Mudhoney mixed Crazy Horse, but today, Daniel Dewitt came in to strip it all down to a single guitar and a voice.

Song List:

* Smoke Signal

* Troubles

* On My Trail

* Keeping it Down

Winston Audio on the web

Yankee Power is a relatively new band, but they quickly gaining fans, and for good reason. Their take on the 60’s/70’s rock quasi-genre is full of surprises, but the one consistent factor is fun. Go out and share the love at PA’s this Friday!

Song List:

* She’s Got a Fu Manchu

* State of Mind

* 56th Between 8th and 9th

* Topsfield Affair

* They Called Hymn a Drifter

* I’ve Got Rain

* Circles

Yankee Power on the web

The Lumineers (formerly Wesley Jeremiah) consists of Brooklynites Wesley, Jeremiah, and in this instance, Jay, and they completely floored us with their ability to engage the infamously stationary Boston crowd when we saw them live. They went on to impress us further in the living room with an amazing range of songs.

Song List:

* Morning Song

* Don’t Wanna Go

* Darlene

* Flowers in Your Hair

* Life in the City

* Gun Song

* Scotland

* When the Ship Comes In (by Bob Dylan)

* Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place) (by Talking Heads)

* Classy Girls Don’t Kiss in Bars

* Red Hands

The Lumineers on MySpace

Those of you who were lucky enough to catch Mean Creek last night at the sold out Paradise already know how great this is. The rest of you will learn immediately.

The walk-away winners of our “sweatiest band in Boston” award, Pariah Beat came into our living room like a combination traveling carnival and revival meeting caught in in a tornado. Don’t let the traditional Americana roots of their music lead you astray – they performed in our living room with more energy than almost any band we’ve seen live in quite some time. Ranging from old Shaker hymns to Squirrel Nut Zippers-style mishmash jazz to a version of The Beverly Hillbillies theme that I didn’t even recognize at the time, Pariah Beat definitely has the cure for what ails you.

Song List:

* I’ve Seen the Light

* Hymn #2

* Front Porch

* City Far Away

* Tipperary

* The Beverly Hillbillies

* Elvis in Jerusalem

* Sinners and Saints

* Babylon is Fallen

* Waltz

I suppose you’d call Brooklyn’s (The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) a progressive rock/experimental/classical…. uhh… Well forget that, I’d call them the perfect soundtrack to an epic film. Consisting of guitar, bass, drums, piano, violin, cello, tape loops, vocals that are barely recognizable as human, and samples, they craft sweeping textures that will give you goosebumps. I found myself expecting to hear the wave of applause that normally follows a performance at the symphony. And the sounds of creaking floorboards should give you an idea of how delicately they approached their session!

Song List:

* Intro >

* Sea Swells

* 5 Violinsk

* Classical Slave >

* Interlude >

* Hares Hares

* This is Water

http://www.myspace.com/slowestrunnerinalltheworld