Moss Icon & The Wipers

i'm going to try doing some duo-uploads... the bands themselves will likely be totally unconnected, but i'm going to focus on my absolute favorite bands of all time that most have overlooked.

tracklisting:

01 moss icon - guatemala
02 moss icon - i'm back sleeping, or fucking, or something
03 moss icon - what they lack
04 moss icon - divinity cove
05 moss icon - happy (unbounded glory)

01 the wipers - is this real
02 the wipers - mystery
03 the wipers - alien boy
04 the wipers - don't know what i am
05 the wipers - telepathic love

Moss Icon was an Annapolis, Maryland emo band from 1986 to 1991. The original members were Jonathan Vance, Tonie Joy, Monica DiGialleonardo, and Mark Laurence. Moss Icon are most known for their influence on the splinter genre of punk known as Emo, and affiliation to the original DC bands born in the so-called "Revolution Summer" of 1985, including Rites of Spring, Gray Matter, Embrace, and Maryland's The Hated.

The Wipers were a punk rock group formed in Portland, Oregon in 1977 by guitarist Greg Sage, drummer Sam Henry and bassist Dave Koupal. The Wipers were one of the earliest American purveyors of the genre, and the group's tight song structure and use of heavy distortion has been hailed as extremely influential by numerous critics and musicians including Nirvana who covered many of their songs.

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Bring the War Home

A relatively recent discovery of Mystlyfe's, the next installment of the genre bender series is Peter Dolving's side project, Bring the war home. Formerly known as the Peter Dolving Band, this is one of the side projects for the vocalist of metal band The Haunted, Peter Dolving. Merging aspects from mainstream altnerative rock with more experimental aspects and occasional flairs of grunge and metal-like aspects, they play a very unique style. Here's a quick collection of what can be downloaded from their MySpace. Their album releases in October.

1. Hack
2. Ghost on Parade
3. Anyone
4. Sing Cain
5. Perfakt Kiss

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R&B Mix

Decided to put together a package of R&B songs. These are just a few that have caught my attention over the years and I usually find myself pulling these off the shelf and giving them a listen every now and then.

Note: The Junior Wells song listed should probably go in the "blues" category but I like that one quite a bit and wanted to include it.

1. Junior Wells- Snatch It Back And Hold It

2. Edwin Starr- Twenty Five Miles

3. Billy Preston- Will It Go Round In Circles

4. Arthur Conley- Sweet Soul Music

5. Wilson Pickett- Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

6. Ray Charles- Hit The Road Jack

7. James Brown- Get Up Offa That Thing

8. The Temptations- Papa Was A Rolling Stone

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Billy Bragg - The Revolution's Just A T-Shirt Away

Billy Bragg is a wonderful British Singer-Songwriter with a long history behind him of providing some amazing music and being an outspoken voice of a progressive theory. Heavily influenced by both British folk and some of the American luminaries, he also combines a punk aesthetic - one which has combined with some impressive performances over the years. Choosing six songs from various points was a bit of a challenge.

The first two tracks comprise a historical and worker ethics song and a general lack of real promises fufilled, one a very stripped down guy with his guitar and the other a little more 'traditional' rock song. The third was performed life in the USSR on one of his many trips during the eighties. We move onto a song from the early nineties that made it onto the UK singles chart. The fifth though is from Mermaid Avenue - the one place most Americans who have heard him would know him from. Woodie Guthrie's daughter approached Bragg about bringing some of her father's unpublished songs to the public with a more modern relevant tone. He then approached Wilco to provide the band behind him, as well as doing a few numbers with Natalie Merchant who he had collaborated before. The final is with a new 'allstar' backing band The Blokes off his 2002 release. I've avoided his newest couple CDs, if you are interested you can see where he has gone from there.

1. Billy Bragg - The World Turned Upside Down
2. Billy Bragg - Waiting for the Great Leap Forward
3. Billy Bragg - Help Save The Youth of America
4. Billy Bragg - Sexuality
5. Billy Bragg & Natalie Merchant with Wilco - Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
6. Billy Bragg and the Blokes - Take Down the Union Jack

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Afterstasis' Black Metal Mix #5

tracklisting:

01 sombre chemin - retour aux sources
02 brown jenkins - angel eyes
03 malign - ashes and bloodstench
04 epheles - ultima venia
05 wolves in the throne room - cleansing
06 averse sefira - argument obscura
07 brenoritvrezorkre - eepr vroersgoebtre
08 shroud of despondency - upon the planet of waste

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Jonathan Coulton

Encouraged by the fact that Jonathan Coulton has two songs in RB, I decided to explore some of his other works. So far, I like what I hear. Don't expect anything to serious or complex-- these are just somewhat folksy songs meant to be taken lightly.

Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance

First of May

I Feel Fantastic

Mandelbrot Set

That Spells DNA

The Town Crotch

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Or

Pick from a larger selection of free Coulton songs on his website.

Death Metal

When it comes to metal, death metal is generally what separates the boys and men from the metalheads. People easily get turned away from the deep growling vocals that commonly accompany it. Underneath, though, lies much more. Down-tuned, heavily distorted instruments, technical instrumentation and solos galore are just a few of the traits found in death metal.

1. Possessed - Death Metal
2. Morbid Angel - Rapture
3. Death - Pull the Plug
4. Carcass - Inpropogation
5. Atheist - Enthralled in Essence
6. Autopsy - Charred Remains
7. Obituary - Body Bag

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