Suggestion Saturday 1 (Explosions In The Sky, Wye Oak, and Drivepilot)

     Saturday, saturday, saturday, what to do for a saturday? All this music what to share? How about music that you guys showed me? We've been getting comments and links in for the last week or so and today I plan on showcasing the best of them. they won't all have download links as of course this isn't music that I found myself, but feel free to listen to the videos and go buy the tracks or dig around for links. So without further ado Suggestion Saturday!

     We'll start of quiet today I think, its the long holiday weekend and even though we should be relaxing there is still lots to do. Queue Explosions In the Sky, a four man band from Austin Texas. Personally I'm not sure how to classify their music so for the moment we will just say indie. One of our new publishers linked me to a song of theirs earlier this week and it knocked me down off everything I had built up that day. The pure beauty of melody and all of the images that grew in my imagination was enough to make me search my itunes library. Sure enough I had a couple of their songs that I had looked over, I am regretting this now and I'm sure you will wish you had heard them earlier too. The only band that I can compare them with would be Godspeed You! Black Emperor, but enough rambling, close your eyes and hit play.

Head on over to their website to stream or buy their album!

     Our second artist today is Wye Oak, a duet from Baltimore, Maryland, consiting of Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack. Again we have the same sort of situation one of their songs was recomended by a friend and upon hearing it I had a look around, sure enough I had some of their songs. We've upgraded a bit from Explosions in the Sky, but only by adding vocals. They have a great easy listening sound that blends indie with folk and anything else they feel like. Check out their website for more info and a digital copy of their new album Civilian, or head on over to youtube for your fill of great indie rock.

          Now to finish with a bang! The last artist today is Drivepilot a DJ from Vancouver, British Columbia. A friend of mine heard one of his tracks in a montage on youtube, which is also where I get alot of my crazy electro. I was rootin around for dowloads but for the best part I suggest heading on over to his MySpace and using soundcloud to download the free tracks he has posted. Alot of his stuff requires payment so search around for the three tracks that are available for free dowload, his fresh sound is definately worth the trouble.

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