First Listen: YOB - Atma (album stream)

Yob is a doom metal band from Eugene, Oregon composed of Aaron Reiseberg, Travis Foster, and Mike Scheidt.

The members of YOB often build on slow, powerful riffs that go fathoms deep, repeating them like metallic mantras.
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First Listen: Janacek - The Cunning Little Vixen (album stream)

Still rarely performed, a very adult opera is swaddled in a charming fairy tale setting.

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First Listen: Ollabelle - Neon Blue Bird (album stream)

Ollabelle is a New York based folk music group named after the influential Appalachian songwriter Ola Belle Reed. The group is composed of five singing multi-instrumentalists hailing from disparate parts of the United States, Canada and Australia. Three albums in, the quintet is flirting with contemporary sounds, but its gospel roots stay strong. Hear Ollabelle's latest, Neon Blue Bird, in its entirety.

Ollabelle's new album, Neon Blue Bird, comes out August 16.
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First Listen: Beirut - The Rip Tide (album stream)

Zach Condon's ongoing love affair with baroque instrumentation and global influences reaches a new level of focus and restraint on Beirut's latest.

Beirut's new album, The Rip Tide, comes out August 30.
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FlashBack! - Daniel Lanois - Acadie (1989) (album stream)

Acadie is the debut album by record producer and singer-songwriter Daniel Lanois. It was largely written and recorded in the city of New Orleans. Lanois sings on it in both French and English, sometimes even on the same track.

The album was originally released in 1989 on Opal Records. It was reissued in 2005 on ANTI-, with new cover art (but otherwise identical to the original.)

Acadie was named the 20th greatest Canadian album of all time in Bob Mersereau's 2007 book The Top 100 Canadian Albums.
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Fuzzy Freebies #58: Free Downloads Of The Day

Today's selection of free and legal - because: official - downloads...
Yelawolf (ft. Lil Jon) - Hard White
Estelle (ft. Freeway) – Break My Heart (Remix)
Glorior Belli - Secret Ride to Rebellion
Ben Harper - Mock Tudor III (variant)
Big Charlie - Here Comes The Mobster
Lovely Hearts Club Presents: The Coasts - Handshakers
Lyrics Born (ft. Sam Sparro) – Coulda Woulda Shoulda (Party Ben Remix)
Stroik - House of Manners EP
Reptar - Stuck in My Id / Context Clues / Houseboat Babies
Holy Ghost! - Some Children
Scattered Trees - Four Days Straight
Casey Veggies – Said She Like Me (Produced by C.P. Dubb)
Authority Zero - Big Bad World
M83 - Midnight City (Christian Strobe Remix)
Pains of Being Pure at Heart "Heart in Your Heartbreak" (Twin Shadow Remix)

Click Read More below, listen... and if you like them... grab them. Enjoy!
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Ladytron - Sampler (album stream)

Ladytron are an electronic music band originally formed in Liverpool, England. Ladytron formed in the summer of 1999 when Liverpool producer and DJ Daniel Hunt met Reuben Wu and dual singers Glaswegian Helen Marnie and Bulgarian-born Mira Aroyo.

"Gravity The Seducer" their next album will be released on September 12 (UK) / September 13 (US) on Nettwerk Records.
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