6-Pack Download from of Montreal, White Rabbits, Jemima Pearl, and Halloween Music From Shiny Toy Guns

Here are six free tracks to add to your Halloween party mix. The of Montreal track kind of makes me want to dress up as Kevin Barnes this year.

Brontosaurus Chorus - "Louisiana" mp3

Shiny Toy Guns - “It’s Halloween At The House Of Spooks” mp3

of Montreal - “Brush Brush Brush” (from Yo Gabba Gabba Soundtrack) mp3

White Rabbits - "Percussion" mp3

Get Busy Committee - "My Little Razorblade" mp3

Jemima Pearl - "Looking For Trouble" mp3

extrawack!'s Top Ten Albums for 2007

Lest we get one more email or phonecall from a publicist or music mag asking us for a sneak peek at our year-end album list, I thought I'd post it up about three weeks earlier than we have in the past.



Ladies & Gentlemen, without further ado, and in alphabetical order...the extrawack! Top Ten Albums of 2007:


Nicole Atkins Neptune City
The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse
The Cake Sale The Cake Sale
Calvin Harris I Created Disco
The Fratellis Costello Music
Gabby Glaser Gimme Splash
LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver
Ra Ra Riot Ra Ra Riot
M.I.A. Kala
White Rabbits Fort Nightly

As you can see, we were moved mostly by music that made us move. A bunch of the artists above gave us some of the best live sets of the year as well...James & LCD had us grooving with friends at Webster Hall and in the middle of thousands of strangers at the Virgin Festival in Baltimore. The Fratellis had us pogoing like it was 1979 at the Filter Courtyard Party @ SXSW. Nicole Atkins and The Besnard Lakes both hypnotized us in different but amazing ways at shows in Austin and Hoboken respectively. And M.I.A. made us feel like we were citizens of some sort of Groove Nation and she was that country's Queen Of Dope Beats when we saw her in Maryland and on Coney Island.

Here's our year-end gift to you, enough downloads to make your Zune/iPhone/whatever sound like ours:

Calvin Harris - "Acceptable In The 80s" mp3
Nicole Atkins - "Party's Over" mp3
The Besnard Lakes - "And You Lied To Me" mp3
The Cake Sale (featuring Nina Persson) - "Black Winged Bird" mp3
Gabby Glaser - "Spirit Of Long Island" mp3
The Fratellis - "Chelsea Dagger" mp3
White Rabbits - "The Plot" mp3

Siren Festival Wrap-Up

The day couldn't have been more beautiful for Siren yesterday...

I got there early with plans on splitting before it became a mobscene, and I'm glad I did based upon the amount of sunburn I discovered on the F back to Manhattan.

Of all the bands I saw, my favorite was The Twilight Sad, whom I saw for the first time. Loud, noisy, and Scottish...what's not to like?

Dr. Dog also put in a pretty great set, and I really enjoyed White Rabbits, who seemed to be having some trouble with how they sounded on stage, but sounded perfectly fine to me in the front.

White Rabbits:



Dr. Dog



Elvis Perkins:



The Twilight Sad:



Line of the day: "I liked Elvis Perkins a lot better when he was known as Clem Snide."

Best marketing swag of the day: The "Hot Rod Super Cool Mustache."

Worst marketing swag of the day: The Linkin Park stickers that could be found discarded throughout both stage areas.

If it's true that this was the last year for Siren, I'd say it was a pretty nice way for the festival to go out.


White Rabbits - "The Plot" mp3

The Twilight Sad - "And She Would Darken the Memory" mp3

April Bakers Dozen Downloads...Kate Havnevik, Low, The Clientele, White Rabbits & more.

Some really great new stuff here this month...I tried to pace the track-listing this time around, starting moody and slow with The Clientele, Low, and Kate Havnevik from Royksopp (pictured left at the Filter Courtyard @ SXSW last month), and ending with some punk-disco courtesy of In Flagranti, who've nearly set my Zune on fire this week from so many plays.

The Clientele - Bookshop Cassanova mp3

Low - "Breaker" mp3

St. Vincent - "Now Now" mp3

Kate Havnevik - "Unlike Me" mp3

Elk City - "Cherries in the Snow" mp3

Coffinberry - "Write This" mp3

Busy P - "Rainbow Man" mp3

White Rabbits - "The Plot" mp3

The Willowz - "Evil Son" mp3

Bang! Bang! - "Prefab Nation" mp3

Bang Gang - "It's Alright" mp3

Jimes - "El Camino" mp3

In Flagranti - "NonPlus (Sex Schon Remix)" mp3

Thanks as always to the labels & music pimps for hosting these.