Free at Last: Shy Mirrors, The Orange Peels, The Pizazz, Jetman Jet Team, The Koolaid Electric Company, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Burning Hearts, The Wagner Logic, Love Culture, The Band In Heaven

We came across this interesting analysis of the IHAD speech and took it as a sign we're supposed to post. Many thanks to the wonderful folks at Last.fm who made the tuneage available and to our Last friends who alerted us to some of these. Click on the triangle thingies to listen and the word thingies to download.

Shy Mirrors - Astronauts mp3

The Orange Peels - We're Gonna Make It mp3

The Pizazz - Dolphin Patrol mp3

Jetman Jet Team - Candy Loop mp3

The Koolaid Electric Company - Untitled #1 mp3 (pic)

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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Kurt Cobain's Sweater mp3

Burning Hearts - I Lost My Colour Vision mp3

The Wagner Logic - Waiting For Snow mp3

Love Culture - Vicious mp3

The Band In Heaven - High Low mp3

Humpday Derby: An Horse, Brakes, Bishops, Decks, Coast, (((S))), Koolaid Electric Co., Shoreline Dream, Lower Heaven

Saddle up, friends and neighbors, and let's take a few spins around some groovy tracks. (Awkwardly put, but it's only an intro.) Click colors to hear and see and feel and shell out.

An Horse - Camp Out mp3 - from Brisbane duo's Rearrange Beds, out since 17 March. Many thanks to Marni Wandner at Sneak Attack Media. We're still loving the following previously posted song as well.

Postcards mp3

Brakes - Two Shocks mp3- from Brighton band's Touchdown - You will sometimes find this group's name in triplicate (brakesbrakesbrakes), which can be confusing. Doesn't seem to affect the excellent music at all. We're still very much enjoying the following, which was in our first post of the magical year of 2009.

Crystal Tunings mp3

The Decks - What You Said mp3 - from Detroit darlings' Breath And Bone, due out 26 May

The Coast - No Secret Why mp3 - off Torontans' Expatriate, released in stores stateside yesterday. Thanks to Ian Anderson at Afternoon Records.

We found the following at the superb German site, Coast is Clear, and sincerely thank blogmeister Peter for the headsups. Please note he has more of some of them, so go visit if't please you.

The Bishops - Wandering By mp3 - from Londoners' For Now, available at Not Lame

(((S))) - Mesmerized mp3 - from Ghost - The guitar kind of reminds us of longtime faves The Cult. You? - Peter still has two more gooduns by this here Danish band here.

The Koolaid Electric Company - Untitled #1 mp3 - psuberb psych from Leighton Buzzard band - Peter has another here.

A Shoreline Dream - Hypermode (feat. Ulrich Schnauss) mp3 - Size 18 shoegaze from NYCers' Recollections of Memory

Lower Heaven - Knife mp3 - from Silverlake, CA band's 2008 release Ashes, available at CD Baby - My notes read, "picky atmospheric marcher w/ nice shifts" (That's right, sometimes I just go very, very deeep.) - Peter has two more here.