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Dar Williams is set to release her eighth studio album, Many Great Companions, via Razor & Tie on October 12th.  Many Great Companions is a new album of Dar Williams classics recorded acoustically with special guests, with an additional disc of Williams’ most significant songs.  Songs span Dar’s impressive career from 1993′s The Honesty Room through 2008′s Promised Land.

On Songs Revisited With Guitar and a Few Friends, Dar re-records 12 classic songs from her extensive catalogue, all performed acoustically.  She’s joined by several fellow musicians and friends on the new versions, including Sean and Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Patty Larkin, Motherlode, and Gary Louris of the Jayhawks who also produced the album.  The second disc, Best of Dar Williams, is not just a compilation, but rather a journey through Dar’s career.  Listeners are able to follow Dar as she transforms from a folk singer just starting out to the seasoned musician she is today.
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mp3: “Black Girls in Dresses

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Paul Sicilian and Gabriel Wurzel first crossed paths as freshmen at a central Connecticut high school. The two soon began playing together in bands, squeezing some excitement out of the endless Tuesday that is CT. The pair went to Skidmore College, where they continued to write music. There they were introduced to fellow student and musician Willie Miesmer. Within two years of graduating all three moved to Brooklyn, NY where they reconnected and began playing together, often swapping instruments and experimenting with loop pedals and samplers. The chemistry was instant. They continue to deconstruct and reinvent their sound while maintaining a mutual love for melody and space. Their debut five song EP No Service, recorded and produced by Jake Aron (Jamie Lidell, Yeasayer, Chairlift) and mixed at the Rare Book Room by Nicolas Vernhes (Dirty Projectors, Deerhunter, Silver Jews) is forthcoming September 21, 2010 on Famous Class Records.

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2010 is going to rock. I can feel it (I’m pretty sure I’m psychic). Lot of positive change to be had, plus tons of awesome new music releases!!! So, don your noise-cancelling headphones and listen up to this week’s end of the year Top 10 (+5 more because I love you) Music Countdown: Most Anticipated Albums of 2010!!! (IMHO, NATCH.)

10. Cat Power
Title: TBD

9. Yeasayer
“Odd Blood”

8. Vampire Weekend
“Contra”

7. LCD Soundsystem
Title: TBD

6. Arcade Fire
Title: TBD

5. Rjd2
“The Colossus”
**Release date: January 19, 2010

4. Massive Attack
“Heligoland”
**Release date: February 9, 2010

3. Hot Chip
“One Life Stand”
**Release date: February 9, 2010

2. MGMT
“Congratulations”
**Release date: Early January

1. Interpol
“LP4″
**Release date: Early 2010

Happy 2010!!!

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Top 5 Music Countdown: Favorite Songs About a Little Town Called New York City!!

5.  “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down”
-LCD Soundsystem

4.  “Lovecraft in Brooklyn”
-The Mountain Goats (Aesop Rock Remix)

3.  “Downtown Train”
-Tom Waits

2.  “NYC”
-Interpol

1. “First We Take Manhattan”
-Leonard Cohen

Bonus round! 20 more New York-inspired songs for a longer, vitamin-fortified playlist!

“Walk on the Wild Side”
-Lou Reed

“Brooklyn Bound”
-The Black Keys

“Brooklyn”
-Mos Def

“The Long Island Sound”
-Beirut

“Where I’m From”
-Digable Planets

“What New York Used to Be”
-The Kills

“Stock Exchange”
-Miss Kittin & the Hacker

“Positively 4th Street”
-Bob Dylan

“Yeah! New York”
-Yeah Yeah Yeahs

“This Mess We’re In”
-PJ Harvey (Feat. Thom Yorke)

“South 2nd”
-CocoRosie

“NYC Everything”
-RZA

“Chelsea Hotel”
-Leonard Cohen

“Hello Brooklyn”
-Beastie Boys

“Fairy Tale of New York”
-Stars (Pogues cover)

“Piazza, New York Catcher”
-Belle & Sebastian

“The Last Tango in Brooklyn”
-Frightened Rabbit

“53rd & 3rd”
-The Ramones

“New York, New York”
-Cat Power

“Hello Brooklyn”
-Jay-Z & Lil’ Wayne

Also, while you’re there, leave me a comment with your top 5 favorite New York songs!!

So it is with a sad heart that I pay tribute to seminal 80′s director John Hughes who passed away this week from a heart attack at the age of 59.

To a kid growing up in the 1980′s, a John Hughes movie was gift. He had a way of talking to teens that didn’t talk down to them. One of the best things about his movies were the great music that he had on the soundtracks. So I thought that I would pay tribute to his great movies by picking some of my favorite songs from his 80′s movies. Check after the break to see my picks.

Sixteen Candles (1984 Universal Picture):
The Thompson Twins – If You Were Here:

The Breakfast Club (1985 Universal Pictures):
Simple Minds – Don’t You Forget About Me:

Weird Science (1985 Universal Pictures):
Oingo Boingo – Weird Science:

Pretty In Pink (1986 Paramount Pictures) – Produced by Hughes:
The Psychodelic Furs – Pretty In Pink

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986 Paramount Pictures):
Yello – Oh Yeah

Uncle Buck (1989 Universal Picture):
Young M.C. – Bust A Move:

I hope you enjoyed this trip down memory lane. This weekend, why don’t you go have a John Hughes movie marathon in honor of one of the greatest directors of the 80′s.

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Long Island Indie/Emo pioneers BRAND NEW will release their 4th studio album, DAISY in stores on Sept. 22nd. Below is a sneak peak at the album art

Recorded with longtime friend and producer Mike Sapone, who produced their previous releases, Deja Entendu as well as Your Favorite Weapon, Daisy is the follow-up to 2006′s The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me.

We are hoping to score an interview with Jesse Lacey, as one of our hosts, Martina is an authority on all things BRAND NEW.

Daisy tracklisting:
1. Vices
2. Bed
3. At the Bottom
4. Gasoline
5. You Stole
6. Be Gone
7. Sink
8. Bought a Bride
9. Daisy
10. In a Jar
11. Noro

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Original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley will release his fifth solo album, “Anomaly”, on September 15 via his own Bronx Born Records.
The CD was produced and recorded in Westchester County, New York between 2007 and 2009 and was mixed in Los Angeles.
Ace claims that the new record will be a lot like his first solo album.
In an early 2008 interview with Billboard, Frehley stated about the CD, “Basically, I’m trying to get back into the mindset I was in when I did my first solo record [1978's 'Ace Frehley']. That record seemed to have all the elements everybody liked — a real cool instrumental, a hit single, some real heavy rockers, a nice variety of different genres of music.”

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