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The 2009 Year In Music: The Web Exclusives

Posted on29. Dec, 2009 by thederosh.

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You’ve gotta love The Internets. In a year full of full-album releases and newly pressed singles and their corresponding parties and concerts, The Springfield Music Scene still found time to throw web-surfing fans the occasional bone. Whether you wanted a single song, a crazy cover or a whole album, bands provided examples of each on their MySpace pages and websites for your perusal and download. Some couldn’t be found anywhere else, either, making them web exclusives, an idea near and dear to our hearts since we’re a sort of web exclusive ourselves. Game recognizes game. You’ll find some of 2009’s most memorable songs released only on the Internet after the break.

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The 2009 Year in Music: The Songs

Posted on22. Dec, 2009 by thederosh.

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The end of 2009 is rapidly approaching, and that means it’s time to look back on everything that defined the year in local music. Since it has been a boom year for the scene, with new venues, killer shows and a wealth of new music to digest, we’re not in a hurry to get though it all. With that in mind, we will be bringing you a series of the high points in the year that was 2009, starting today with some of the songs that wouldn’t get out of our, or many other people’s, heads. Click the link to read about them and to hear them for yourself.

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Moodring Records makes it rain music

Posted on16. Dec, 2009 by thederosh.

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In a world where The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame decides it’s a good idea to take a chance, take a chance, take-a, take-a chance, chance on inducting ABBA, at least we have low-fi morsels such as those from Moodring Records as a counterpoint. The little local label that could has been super-busy lately, releasing a Christmas single, four Matthew Darkly EPs totaling 19 new songs, a not-heard-before Rugs demo and more. It is all available FREE via the Moodring blog, and we’ve got links after the break.

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The Great Recording Update of However Long It Has Been Since the Last Recording Update

Posted on09. Dec, 2009 by thederosh.

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We have noticed an exciting trend in recent weeks: A lot of local bands are either headed into the studio to start working on a new album or are finishing up a CD for release. Most of them won’t be done in time to make them into your next holiday stocking-stuffer, but some will be in hand to celebrate Groundhog Day (2/2) and more will be available by Valentine’s Day. See? We’ve got this gift-giving thing on lock, especially for that pesky Groundhog Day gift. Perform clicking motions below and you will, too.

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LEAKED: Three (so far) tracks from upcoming Sociables album

Posted on08. Dec, 2009 by thederosh.

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The long-awaited album from local funk/hip hop group The Sociables is still a work in progress, inching its way toward reality, but the band’s Facebook fans got a peek inside the treasure chest a little earlier today. Sociables keyboardist/Wired Woods recording guru Danny Maple posted three tracks from the upcoming CD to the Internet for your listening pleasure, and they sound pretty damn tight. We flex the linkitude after the break.

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New Music Tuesday: Meet Bomb the Bay

Posted on06. Oct, 2009 by thederosh.

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We mentioned in a previous post that one of the big concerts on Springfield’s horizon was the debut show of newly formed rock group Bomb the Bay, which features a combination of members of A Day Away, Glass Bottom Boat Ride and Playing With Matches. Longtime Springfield showgoers could imagine the fruits of that combo already, [...]

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New music from The Reacharounds

Posted on12. May, 2009 by thederosh.

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Life is good in the world of local punk-rock group The Reacharounds. It turns out the months of May and June will be very busy ones for the band, with four shows scheduled in that time in Lebanon and Springfield. Meanwhile, the group just released a slew of new tracks onto its MySpace page. Hop [...]

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Free music from The Seed

Posted on23. Apr, 2009 by thederosh.

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In honor of Earth Day–or the day after Earth Day, anyway–The Seed has decided to hook up the masses with a free preview of its next album, Homemade Dub 2: A Recipe For Disaster. (Remember, they’re releasing two albums this year, the already-released Big Outside and Homemade Dub 2 on July 31.) So you get [...]

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Live @ FourFourFest: Greene Coast finally releases the tracks

Posted on31. Mar, 2009 by thederosh.

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We’ve been hearing about Greene Coast’s live set at FourFourFest ever since it happened; that was four and a half months ago. Now, after some wrangling, the progressive-jam ensemble has finally released the tracks for public consumption. We’re pretty stoked, and not just because we helped make it happen. More after the break.

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ATTENTION BANDS: Create the next Rock Talk theme song!

Posted on30. Mar, 2009 by thederosh.

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We’ve talked about it on-air for some time now, and we’ve decided it’s time to take the idea more seriously. Already acts including Jam Room and Danny Maple of The Never Saints have improvised an on-the-spot Rock Talk theme song in the studio, but even if you haven’t been on the show lately we want [...]

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New music by SincerelyYours

Posted on23. Mar, 2009 by thederosh.

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It’s been a while since we got the chance to mention new tracks posted by an artist, and this seems as good a time as any. Local hip hop ace SincerelyYours just put up several new tracks on his MySpace page, including two with collaborator Addie. All four tracks are hot, and not the sort [...]