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Updated every other month, Ghettoblaster is proud to present a series of free mixtapes offering the best in new music complete with jewel case artwork. All you need is a CD-R and a case. The April/May Mixtape features songs…

1. Robert Pollard - Gratification To Concrete
2. The Cops - Modern Black Flats
3. The Plastic Constellations - Stay That Way
4. Fire On Fire - Hangman
5. Living Legends - She Wants Me
6. Dizzee Rascal - Featuring UGK - Where Da G’s
7. Islands - The Arm
8. Midnight Movies - Should Have Known
9. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Golden – Frost
10. Tremor - Viajante
11. Firewater - Borneo
12. Unwed Sailor - The Garden
13. Mobius Band - A Hint of Blood
14. Chris Walla - Sing Again
15. Del The Funky Homosapien - Bubble Pro
16. Rakim - It’s Nothing

You can download the whole thing here.

- Cecilia

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Okay guys bear with me here - I’m overflowing on material worth sharing so you may be seeing a little more of me over the next week or so.

Bloodlights is a 4 piece out of Oslo, Norway, doing straight ahead rock n’ roll. They released their debut album in Europe late 2007, featuring the following title track:

MP3: Bloodlights - Bloodlights

Sometimes there’s nothing better than hearing a band just rocking out and doing it well. Check out their MySpace page for more.

Looks like they’ve got some shows coming up too:

April

12.04.2008 Orebro (S) Conventum - Supporting Millencolin

May

17.05.2008 Hagen (D) TRBLNZ Festival

18.05.2008 Bielefeld (D) Falkendom

19.05.2008 Weinheim (D) Cafe Central

20.05.2008 Stuttgart (D) Universum

22.05.2008 Bremen (D) Lagerhaus

24.05.2008 Winterberg (D) Dirtmasters

Side note: Interestingly, the band name “comes from the phenomenon of seeing red flashes right before passing out after consuming too much of everything. It is especially common in colder regions, such as Scandinavia and the Yukon, where excessive consumption of everything is often mandatory just to make it through the night.” Cool! And you parents said you’d never learn anything spending all your time reading music blogs!

- Keath (MySpace)

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By now you’ve probably figured out I’m a punk fan. Therefore I was excited to receive the following from Asian Man Records:

More news. The ASIAN MAN TOUR featuring the QUEERS, LEMURIA, BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY, ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD, KEPI GHOULIE is completely booked and is coming here:

05.22.08 - IL, Carmi @ The Punkhouse
05.23.08 - MI, Lansing @ Macs
05.24.08 - IL, Chicago @ Reggie’s Rock Club
05.25.08 - WI, Milwaukee @ Mad Planet
05.26.08 - MN, Minneapolis @ Triple Rock Social Club
05.27.08 - MO, Kansas City @ Record Bar
05.28.08 - CO, Denver @ Marquis Theater
05.29.08 - CO, Colorado Springs @ The Black Sheep
05.30.08 - UT, Salt Lake City @ In The Venue’s Club Sound
05.31.08 - OR, Portland @ Satyricon
06.01.08 - WA, Seattle @ El Corazon
06.03.08 - NV, Sparks @ The Vixen
06.04.08 - CA, Orangevale @ Boardwalk
06.05.08 - CA, San Francisco @ Bottom Of The Hill
06.06.08 - CA, San Jose @ Nickel City
06.07.08 - CA, Los Angeles @ Safari Sam’s
06.08.08 - CA, Long Beach @ Alex’s Bar
06.09.08 - CA, San Diego @ Casbah
06.10.08 - AZ, Phoenix @ Brick House Theater
06.11.08 - NM, Albuquerque @ Launchpad
06.12.08 - OK, Oklahoma City @ The Conservatory
06.13.08 - MO, St Louis @ Bluebird
06.14.08 - KY, Covington @ Mad Hatter
06.15.08 - WV, Huntington @ Club Echo
06.17.08 - TN, Nashville @ The Muse
06.18.08 - SC, Spartanburg @ Ground Zero
06.19.08 - NC, Wilmington @ Soapbox Laundro-Lounge
06.20.08 - VA, Richmond @ Rocks
06.21.08 - PA, Wilkes-Barre @ Cafe Metropolis
06.22.08 - CT, Hamden @ The Space

If you live in any of these cities and would be willing to put up posters in record stores, head shops, coffee shops, vegan diners, etc.. then please shoot me an email at mikeasianman@aol.com. And of course if you have friends/family in any of these cities please spread the word. Remember, we are the most ghetto label and rely strictly on word of mouth for everything.

Check the bands out:

MP3: The Queers - Houston We Have A Problem

MP3: Lemuria - Pants

MP3: Bomb The Music Industry - Unlimited Breadsticks, Soup and Salad Days

MP3: Andrew Jackson Jihad - Cigarettes

- Keath (MySpace)

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Personally, I’ve never taken interest in tribute albums. I guess I’d prefer to listen to the original songs. When I stumble upon a tribute an opportunity to plug a tribute album for one of my favorite bands, I’ll put those personal feelings aside. Beautiful Escape is a tribute to the band that Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow built, The Posies. I haven’t heard the album in its entirety, so I can’t tell whether I like it or not…I can share the feelings Ken Stringfellow had about it though and share a track I found enjoyable.

Founding Posies member Ken Stringfellow has this to say about Beautiful Escape …is Coming Right Along: “Though I don’t think we’re as important as the Velvets or Big Star, they say that everyone who heard those bands formed a band soon after — and thus, despite not achieving the high water mark in terms of sales, they profoundly influenced the course of popular music. Are the Posies the next band to join that list? Well, drop the word ‘profoundly’ and we’re getting somewhere. So, in a sense, this collection is a nice cross section of the breadth and depth and global diversity of the people in whom we’ve struck a chord of inspiration. And it’s true for all of us who make music, once you put something out there, you will be surprised how far it travels, and whose day it might make better. An inspiring thought, and I’m honored to contribute anytime to the inspiration to create.”

MP3: The Posies - “Dream All Day”
MP3: The Meadows (With Special Guests Jon Auer, Joe Skyward, and Brian Young) - “Dream All Day”

Click here to purchase.

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One-Eyed Doll

A little adrenaline rush to get you out of bed.

MP3: One-Eyed Doll - I Love My Little Bus

The Ghost Frequency

Try to keep step with this - it’ll get your feet moving

MP3: The Ghost Frequency - Money On The Fire Demo

Alex Winston

And finish off with a proper rock out for good measure.

MP3: Alex Winston - Would You Still Be Mine

- Keath (MySpace)

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Back from Ultra Music Festival, the concert part of the Winter Music Conference held in Miami, FL. Two days and 7 stages of the greatest DJs in the world. It’s massive in every sense of the world.

BEST PART: The thing about Paul Van Dyk, Tiesto, Underworld, and the rest is you know they’re going to bring it (which they did of course). Therefore my vote for the best part of Ultra was Deadmou5 who surprised most everyone with a killer set (above). I think a large portion of the audience had never heard of him - this guy came from out of nowhere about a year ago. I just hope someone knows the way to get there so they can bring more DJs like this back.

WORST PART: The genius schedule maker who thought it was a keen idea to overlap Pete Tong (above) and Armin Van Buuren’s sets. I sympathize with their challenge, really I do (I mean, you’ve got Sander Van Doorn, a headliner most everywhere else, playing at 3:20 in the afternoon), but I’m gettin’ my Tong on whilst hearing Van Buuren tear it up behind me on the Main Stage. Gah!

Pics are all by me, which is why they kinda suck.

So now I’m back in Tampa trying to recover. I snagged a couple download codes for the 50 track WMC08/Ultra Music Festival collection on iTunes. First three comments below get ‘em! Remember to leave your email address so I can send you the goods.

- Keath (MySpace)

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The new opus from Portland’s Pacific UV will be released via Warm Electronic Recordings on April 1st. The effort is the follow-up to their 2003 debut, Longplay 1.

Co-founder Clay Jordan was kind enough to serve a few tracks from Longplay 2 to share with you. Enjoyable stuff! This album is highly recommended for fans of Spiritualized, Mogwai, and Slowdive.

Longplay 2 Tracklisting:
1. Alarmist
2. Need
3. Tremolo
4. Something Told Us
5. Waiting
6. Arson
7. If So
8. Ljiv

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Regular Rock Sellout readers will know that I’m rather partial to the band Ben’s Brother. There is something about these guys that has planted them firmly among my favourites. They are certainly not my usual kind of thing…maybe it’s the fact that they are are just so good live?! Last year, I placed the album Beta Male Fairytales as my #1 of 2007. Now, one lucky reader has the chance to win a copy!

The whole album is full of soulful emotional vocals. Singer Jamie Hartman has a great voice. Things have gone crazy for them in the States since the song “Kiss Me Again” was used on a Dentyne Ice advertisement. The band in association with Dentyne are also offering two free downloads from the following link: www.bensbrotherdentyne.com.

So, what do you have to do to win the USA version of the album released on Capitol December 2007? Pretty easy, leave a comment on the Ben’s Brother Myspace page (indicating Rock Sellout sent you). I’m going to leave it open till Sunday then pick a winner. So get commenting!

In October 2007 the band invited fans to submit video clips of themselves singing to the new UK single “Stuttering (Kiss Me Again)” due to be released on 21st April 2008 on Relentless Records.These have been put together to form the first fully interactive fan music promotional video: click here to view.The single has already featured on BBC Radio 2 the most popular national UK station.It looks set to propel the band onto bigger things.

- Mark

MP3: Ben’s Brother - “Bad Dream”

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Wired Magazine have for some reason decided to dub Robyn as the latest “The Anti-Britney”. Although they both make pop music, I really don’t think they have that much in common musically or artistically. But since the media seem to love to kick on those who are down (Spears), Wired just had to go and make a stupid comparison between the two of them since they’re both female and roughly the same age, and have careers that at the moment seem to be going in opposite directions.

Now, I don’t mind that they’re praising Robyn, but I don’t understand why it has to be at Britney’s expense. I’m so sick of seeing female artists, whatever their credibility, be pitched against each other in the media just to make “news”. Especially at such stupid comparisons as to the different reasons each woman shaved her head (Robyn to “sharpen her image”, Britney “in an apparent cry for help”). Not to mention the fact that they deliberately leave out any negative press Robyn has ever gotten, making her look like the perfect angel next to the now “tragic” Spears:

MP3: Robyn - “Who’s That Girl”

“Article” after the jump.

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How excited was I when I got an email about a free MP3 of the first track on Ladytron’s new album, Velocifero!

This sounds like a natural evolution from the MBVish turn on Witching Hour, while still retaining the distinct sound from their first albums. Oh, and Mira fans rejoice, because this track features her on lead vocals!

The new album is being produced by Vicarious Bliss (Ed Banger) and Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails).

MP3: Ladytron - Black Cat

Tourdates after the jump…
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