Self - Porno, Mint And Grime

Porno, Mint And Grime is one of several albums of B-sides and unreleased tracks given away by Matt Mahaffey, his project Self, and the Self fan community at Selfies.com. Although the site is no longer breathing, there is an archived version with all those albums still available to new ears.

Several Self CDs are on the shelves in the Oddio Overplay library and still get play. These are meticulously well-produced, quality pop and rock albums. Recommended for fans of Beck, Devo, XTC, and good alternative pop music in general.

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NATIONALITY: USA: California: Los Angeles; USA: Tennessee: Murfreesboro
CLASSIFICATIONS: Pop; Rock; Experimental Pop; Hip Hop Beats; Electronic
COMPOSERS: Matt Mahaffey
LANGUAGE: American English
FILED UNDER: Digital: Popular Music: Rock, Blues Rock, Classic Rock

Snoop's Ashtrays and Heartaches: the Mixtape

To promote his new Reincarnated album and accompanying DVD celebrating his new reggae sound and his new name, Snoop Doggy Dogg Lion and friends released the mixtape, Ashtrays and Heartbreaks.

This is a true single-track 1-hour mixtape. Mixed by Max Glazer of Federation Sound, Ashtrays and Heartbreaks includes original tracks from the Reincarnated album featuring Drake, Miley Cyrus, Akon, Rita Ora, as well as new tracks from Jovi Rockwell, Angela Hunte, Jahdan Blakkamoore, and more.

You can get the mixtape Ashtrays and Heartbreaks at DubCNN, the West Coast News Network.

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Artist Location: Long Beach, California,USA

Kowloon Walled City to Rock Your Teeth Out

The Kowloon Walled City sound is a conglomerate of bottom-heavy sludge, hardcore, and metal set to rock the teeth out of your skull.

Their name alone calls to mind one of the most anarchic, innovative, and disturbing human experiments of all time which can set your brain on edge before you even hear the band. Then you hear the band, and they pound through your chest.

Bad ass.

On the Free Music Archive you will find the Kowloon Walled City albums Turk Street and Gambling on the Richter Scale, plus a live studio performance on the show of the rockinest WFMU DJ Diane Kamikaze (also a bad ass!).

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Music License: All three recordings are Creative Commons licensed with Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) Artist Location: San Fransisco, California, USA

Blues Rock from Vintage Trouble

Yeah, chocolate and peanut butter are a classic combination, but that can't hold a candle to the soul, rhythm and blues, and rock classic combination brought by Vintage Trouble.

Their writeup reads, "a new kind of soul band had been born with unlimited creativity and force."

The band is strong enough to open for the Rolling Stones and The Who this summer. Acts like that are quite an endorsement. Maybe you have seen them on The Tonight Show, Conan, Jools Holland, and making the rounds.

The Vintage Trouble 4-song NoiseTrade Sampler features the lead single off their debut album, "Blues Hand Me Down"; a live track of their song "Love With Me"; an acoustic version of their song "Nancy Lee"; and a recording of their song "World's Gonna Have To Take A Turn Around".

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Artist Location: Los Angeles, California, USA

The Lush Sounds of the '70s from Ill Mondo

The label Circle Into Square descibes Ill Mondo's De Novo album as "a psychedelic exploration of epic proportions" and goes on to say:

Recorded on classic, vintage equipment in authentic 70's style, Ill Mondo employed dozens of studio musicians and a variety of vocalists to complete the album. The recordings started with a Kraut-rock influenced studio jam session, and the sessions were edited down before extensive overdubbing; Mellotron flutes and strings blend with live horn and string sections, Latin percussion accents against the funky drums and a full choir section complements the space echo guitars.

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Artist Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA

Classic Rhythm and Blues from Quinn DeVeaux

Quinn DeVeaux and The Blue Beat Revue offer you their album Under Covers. It is a great collection of classic soul, early rock, and R&B favorites.

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Artist Location: Oakland, California, USA

Glimpse Trio

San Francisco Bay area group Glimpse Trio released their brand new self-titled ten-song EP on Boxing Day, 26 December 2012. These tracks will be part of their third album set to be released soon. Glimpse Trio bills themselves as blues, jazz, rock, and experimental rock. Downbeat magazine took it a step further calling them the next generation of fusion explorers. Official Website | Facebook | BandCamp | Twitter