February 2011
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Independent Music Discoveries: Issue #34
A couple quick updates on previously featured artists - future feature with never-before-presented-on-AFIN artists coming later this month! —- UPDATES: Jakob Battick and Friends - Other / Experimental / Shoegaze - Maine, USALast featured here at AFIN with Heavy the Mountains, Heavy Are the Seas, Jakob Battick and Friends have prepared to release something new, Bloodworm Songs, on 3/11/2011,...
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The Strokes - New FREE Single! Under Cover of...
The Strokes are back with a brand-new single, “Under Cover of Darkness” from forthcoming album Angles (3/22/2011), their latest since First Impressions of Earth in 2006. “Under Cover of Darkness”, immediately evoking a similar sound to Is This It (2001), which many fans and critics have continued to hoist up as The Strokes’ unbeatable first album. Now I’m even...
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Site Feature: MuMu Player - Stream Music With...
MuMu Player is a site which allows you to create your own private space to invite a limited group of friends into, for the purpose of listening to music together. Everyone in the group can upload songs to stream and all involved can listen in real-time! Hopefully this won’t go the same way as Muxtape for legal reasons, probably not because only a group of five can listen at a time. From...
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Interviewing the Readers - If You Could Resurrect...
Since today’s browsing around has reminded me that it’s the 16th anniversary of Richey Edwards’ disappearance, it got me thinking of a somewhat irreverent question for this week’s Interviewing the Readers segment: if you could resurrect just one musician who has died (or, er, bring back one who’s disappeared disappeared), for the sole purpose of creating new music...