Dropped & Found: Faith Healer, Powder Blue, Shy Boys, Claire & The Cops, Wand-

We like to use our Songdrop lists to remind us of purchases to make at eMusic near the end of each month. During this past Thursday night's Purchasefest we couldn't find the songs below at eMusic but, lo!, found them for free download elsewhere and wanted to give you the opportunity to check them out.

Big fun but also just plain BIG  (64.2 MB, in case you need to know). Use iTunes or something to convert it to an mp3, if you like.

Mikal Cronin Keeps Our Mind Made Up

We made our mind up the first time we heard San Francisco rocker Mikal Cronin, and it was, like, yessssssssss. We just noticed the new tune from his forthcoming LP MCIII at Austin Town Hall and then found it downloadable at Side One Track One, so thanks, Austinites. MCIII is due to drop May 5 on Merge.

Music of the Sphere: DTCV, Stag, FF, Toro Y Moi, The Go! Team, Hundred Visions

We search daily but lately haven't found scads of hosted, nonwidgeted downloadables that plunk our particular twanger. What we have found, though, plunk it quite pleasingly, and we therefore thank the hosting entities from the bottom of our . . . ears.

DTCV - Noel Interdit - Magnet Magazine

Stag - She + Me - KEXP Blog
FF - Caught in a Dream - KEXP Blog (pic)

Toro Y Moi - Empty Nesters - Side One Track One
The Go! Team - The Scene Between - Side One Track One
Hundred Visions - You're Gonna Cut Me Loose & Thanks For Nothing - Side One Track One

pppurcha$e$ - Fourth Quarter 2014

Oh, yeah, no doot, here 'tis, and only 26 days late. What you find in our regular posts is not all the music we're loving and acquiring, oh, no, no no. So if you're looking for recommendations of music you might like, click here to see our list of recent purcha$e$.

Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love: Burrow

That's a fun bandname to write. Hearing "Burrow"'s even better. Thanks to Last.fm friend and every-Monday-go-to-guy, Serba, for the headsup. Courtesy of South London label Audio Antihero, "Specialists in commercial suicide . .  and a new kind of awesome." Click here to visit the London band at Facebook.

New Year Fireworks

Having heard and loved nine of the thirteen songs on London band The Fireworks' forthcoming LP, we strongly suggest you mark 10th February as the day Switch Me On pops. We previously plunked its "On and On" into our Songdrop widget and are posting another sample from the LP below. First, though, we thought you might like to hear and possibly download a name-your-pricer we found in a freakScene compilation at Bandcamp.

From The Active Listener: Beaulieu Porch & Violet Woods

The following are our two favorite poppsych numbers from the latest sampler by The Active Listener, a blog we check pretty much every single day. An additional 16 n-y-pers await your activation at Bandcamp.

Deco Auto - One of a Million

Many thanks to the Ice Cream Man for tuning us in to these excellent Kansas City powerpoppers. You'll find four more name-your-pricers at Bandcamp and further fun at Facebook.

Recent Finds: Protists, Frankie Teardrop, Car Seat Headrest, Barbarian, Ex-Gentlemen, Jaguwar

The postitle pretty much sets this one up, omitting the obvious: we very much like or love the first tune featured in each widget (and sometimes others as well, so isn't that nice).

Jesuslesfilles Bring le Poppunk

We freely admit this might not be the precise cuppa for some poppers, but it might be for others, so here we go. We found these poppunkin' Montrealers while browsing the Collection of another Montrealer who'd liked something else we'd liked (The Vandelles, in case you were wondering). So merci, David. We particularly like #1, 3, 5, 8, 10, & 11.

The Return of Le Man Avec Les Lunettes

Big heart, big sound, big file (31.5 MB). Thanks to Polaroid for the headsup on these Brescianisti.

Saturday Sixsnack: Tyrannosaurus Dead, Welzeins, b u r n i n g h o u s e, [ cameraphone ], Young Leaves, Slight

In honor of Steve!

Here's a little snackypoo of great poo we've recently found and, yes, loved. There's a lot of clickable links within the widgets, if you want more songs and info and therelike.







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Free download here.

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Happy Humpin' with Beat Angels

Phoenix New Times Blogs is starting a weekly feature called "It's Heritage Hump Day." Each Wednesday they'll be featuring a pre-2000 Phoenix band, posting a free downloadable song for ONE WEEK ONLY. We really like their first pick by early Nineties glampoppers Beat Angels. Tip o' the topper to the excellent Faster and Louder for the headsup.

Covers: Secret Colours (Beatles), Sick Sad World (Weezer), New Speedway (Manfred Mann/Dylan), Golden Bloom (Wussy), The Chemistry Set (The Rolling Stones), First Base (Devo)

(Not actually at pp's place)

Do you like covers? Yeh, so do we, especially on what's being called the coldest day of the year, at least in these parts. Course, it's still a fairly new one. Which reminds us: Happy NY.

Free download here.

Free download here.