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Video: Portishead - "The Rip"

Remember when folks use to draw cartoons by hand? Those were the days. Portishead make deft use of the dying art in their latest video from Third. Watch Nick Uff's animated short for the trippy standout track "The Rip" on the Portishead website, or settled for the highly compressed version below.

Posted on 05/12/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink

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New Release Roundup for April 29

Featured new releases for the week of April 29, 2008:

	Portishead - Third The Bristol, UK trip hop pioneers took their sweet time making their aptly titled third full-length-- their first in a decade. Stream: Machine Gun Buy from Amazon.com
	Awesome Color - Electric Aborigines Following in the footsteps of fellow Michigan rockers the Stooges and MC5, Awesome Color turn in an awesome sophomore effort. MP3: Eyes of Light Buy from Amazon.com
	Jamie Lidell - Jim He may be white and British but that doesn't stop Jamie Lidell from channeling Southern '60s soul a la Otis Redding on his latest. Full Album Stream Buy from Amazon.com

Posted on 04/29/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink

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Video: Portishead - "Machine Gun"

With only their third album in fourteen years, Portishead have sparked intense curiosity with the forthcoming release of the aptly titled Third—out April 15th. The enigmatic band builds the anticipation while lurking the shadows of this lo-fi video for "Machine Gun."

Posted on 03/19/2008 | Comments(0) | Permalink

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Dream for Me

Tunng's Sam Genders and the Memory Band's Stephen Cracknell remove the "tronica" from the "folk" and go the more traditional route here on their debut album, There Were Wolves. Other tracks display plenty of experimentation, mind you. It's out June 3rd via Thrill Jockey. [DOWNLOAD]

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Awesome Color

Electric Aborigines

In the first few seconds of Awesome Color's second album it's apparent that the Michigan-bred Brooklyn trio's take-no-prisoners approach to pure Motor City rock and roll is more than plain homage. They're proud of their roots... - Ruben_James [READ REVIEW]

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