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Happy Purim from The Macaroons (FREE MP3)
The Macaroons would like to wish the world a Happy Purim!! While you’re preparing your costume or shaking your grogger, be sure to grab this free track from the Macaroons called “Haman!Boo!” It’s Purim appropriate and catchy as all heck. “Haman! Boo!” is just a little taste of what to expect from their debut album, Let’s Go Coconuts!, available in stores April 6th.
Looking for something to do with your Purim? We’ve got the stuff!
If you’re in LA, the Macaroons are playing a Purim bash at The Echo!
If you’re in NYC, we’re hosting the big HAMANBASHIN‘ gig at CSV on the LES! Plus, we have a new TICKET SPECIAL: if you come in costume, your ticket at the door is only $10!
JDub cofounder's new free EP
Ben Hesse & I founded JDub in our senior year at NYU, inspired by a series of experimental (and sometimes otherworldly) bedroom recordings Ben made in 2001. Simply put, the man has a GIFT. Since then, he’s released two albums (Grab Noble Station, which features yours truly on drum programming & samples, in the Webstore), and now he’s back with a FREE EP. You should download it immediately.
After surviving a dangerous winter climb in Rocky Mountain this past year, Ben returned home to craft an album of music inspired by his near death experience. The result is the Ice Mountain EP – a collection of originals and old-time songs. It’s a blend of Ben’s interests in old time music and Americana (ironic that its a digital release?) with a little bit of indie rock experimentation thrown in for good measure. Recorded at home with the help of friends, Ice Mountain falls somewhere in between Neil Young’s On the Beach and the Folk Anthology.
Five of the songs are original and three are old-time standards shined up for public consumption. Download it and pass it around!
Download from iTunes or directly here: part I and part II.
Track Listing:
1. Over My Shoulder – Andrew Marks
’ & Ari Wachsman’s 7th Street NYU dorm room classic reworked
2. Black Fire – winter poem set to banjo and synths
3. Thumb of John Fox – guitar and mandolin duet
4. Hidden From View – recorded during an early summer thunderstorm with muted banjo and synths
5. Mill Pond – old time fiddle tune reworked with a crooked ‘A’ section
6. Hang Me – classic old time with banjo and fiddle
7. Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine – New England tune with banjo and fiddle
8. Four Corners – lo-fi blues
Fanfarlo Joins the Digital Download Game
If you download one free album this week, I would recommend “Hospital Blossoms” by the Wailing Wall
. If you download one album for $1, I recommend “Reservoir,” the debut album by British group Fanfarlo. They are offering the full album plus bonus tracks for $1 at their website
. Plus the mp3s are high quality and DRM-free, and the website interface makes the checkout as simple as possible.
“Reservoir” was produced by Peter Katis, who also worked on records by The National and Interpol, and Fanfarlo reminds me of those groups, with a touch of Glen Hansard.
The Wailing Wall - Hospital Blossoms LP FREE Download
The Wailing Wall
Hospital Blossoms LP
Hospital Blossoms (128 kbps, 38.1 mb)
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Hospital Blossoms (192 kbps, 57.5 mb)
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The Wailing Wall, as it appears on this record, is:
Luke Bace – bass, sound effects
Holly Fulton – viola, grand piano
Alixandra Macmillan-Feidel – vocals
Natalie Mirsky – accordion, vocals
Taylor Pavlik – trumpet
Jesse Rifkin – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, banjo, harmonica, harmonium, accordion, electric piano, glockenspiel, violin scratches, drums, shakers, tambourine, wood block, field recording of gamelan musicians
Chris Roush – drums, cajon, darbouka, bass synth, shakers, vocals, sound effects, field recording of a thunderstorm outside the boathouse
Recorded by Chris Roush at the Boathouse in Stone Lake, WI and at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, except for “Floral Park,” “No Wind,” and “Morning #2,” which were recorded by Jesse Rifkin at his parents’ house in Annapolis, MD (Chris added all sorts of awesome sounds to “Morning #2” later on though).
Mixed by Chris Roush. Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper.
All songs copyright Jesse Rifkin, 2006-2007.