http://themusicshack.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:42:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://themusicshack.com/2008/06/29/amy-winehouse-at-nelson-madelas-birthday/ Music distributor, The Orchard, has struck a deal with digital music service Amie Street to add over one million new tracks to the online service. Similar in scope to eMusic, Amie Street specialises in indie music, offering tracks at around 98 cents, depending on how many times a track has been ... http://themusicshack.com/2008/06/29/amie-street-teams-with-the-orchard/ http://themusicshack.com/2008/06/06/gym-class-heroes-taxi-driver/ Gym Class Heroes are an American band from Geneva, New York. The group formed when Travis "Schleprok" McCoy met drummer Matt McGinley and decided to make a band. Onloq.com, an online entertainment network, was interested and later did a video tour blog with Gym Class Heroes on Riding Shotgun, their video ... http://themusicshack.com/2008/06/06/gym-class-heroes/ This week's top downloaded albums from eMusic.com Get any of these albums completely free with our eMusic free trial. Just click any album, artist or genre and start your free trial now! Taylor Swift Taylor Swift Contemporary Country Tijuana Sound Machine Nortec Collective Latin Hideaway The Weepies Contemporary Folk Z My Morning Jacket Rock Motorcade of Generosity Cake Alternative Rook Shearwater Maybe It's Reno Maybe It's Reno Alternative, ... http://themusicshack.com/2008/05/09/this-weeks-top-album-downloads-from-emusic/ [pmn=12713&vertical]British Sea Power are a four-man indie rock band based in Brighton, England, although three of the band hail originally from Kendal in Cumbria British Sea Power's Yan, Hamilton and Wood are school friends from Kendal in Cumbria. A few years later Hamilton and Woody joined them and formed a band. ... http://themusicshack.com/2008/04/15/british-sea-power/ Kimya Dawson became well known as the female counterpart to Adam Green in the band The Moldy Peaches. Since the Moldy Peaches went on hiatus in 2004 Dawson has released a string of lo-fi homemade albums and toured widely in North America and Europe. Dawson recently finished work on Alphabutt, a ... http://themusicshack.com/2008/04/10/kimya-dawson/ http://themusicshack.com/2008/04/09/del-the-funky-homosapien-workin-it/ Del the Funky Homosapien (Del tha Funkee Homosapien) and his crew, the Hieroglyphics came out as a markedly non-gansta response to a burgeoning West Coast scene. After being put on at the tender age of 17 by his cousin Ice Cube, Del released two records on Elektra, I Wish My ... http://themusicshack.com/2008/04/09/del-the-funky-homosapien/ One of the cornerstone punk bands of the '90s, Rancid's unabashedly classicist sound drew heavily from the Clash's early records, echoing their left-leaning politics and fascination with ska, while adding a dash of essential hardcore crunch. Location: Los Angeles, California United States Genres: Punk Rancid is a punk band with an obvious ... http://themusicshack.com/2008/04/08/rancid-biography/