Razor & Tie new indie music for download

If one of your friends said to you,

“Hey, wanna go to a show? I got tickets to this band I haven’t heard of, but they’re supposed to be great.” And assuming you had nothing better to do, would you go?

That’s a bit of what this new group of downloadable music is like–there’s folk, power pop, punk, emo, broadway, alternative rock, classic rock, and children’s–and even a Neil Sedaka collection with some Irish Tenors thrown in as well.

Not all of it’s for everyone-but there is some very good indie label stuff here from the folks at Razor & Tie.

A few snippets that caught my eye this morning.–biographies and reviews from All Music Guide-definitely the site to have open as you browse these artists and titles.

Tora! Tora! Torrance! (punk revival)

Tora! Tora! Torrance! hails from the same neighborhood that brought listeners the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, and Suicide Commandos; however, the energetic indie rock quintet arrived nearly 20 years after those pioneers. Just as ironic and passionate as their mentors, Tora! Tora! Torrance! is comprised of Travis Even (bass), Sam Johnson (guitar/keyboards), Nick Koenigs (vocals), Jesse Panzer (drums), and Jon Tester (guitar).

Dar Williams (folk)

Williams takes pains to avoid the coy, and the quirky; her songwriting and performing style has been compared to that of Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez but with a few acidic and, at times, hilarious twists.

Rufio (pop punk, emo)

The Rancho Cucamonga, CA, pop-punk quartet Rufio is comprised of members Scott Sellers (guitar, vocals), Jon Berry (bass, vocals), Clark Domae (lead guitar), and Mike Jimenez (drums). Musically comparable to such early 21st century chart-toppers as blink-182 and Sum 41, Rufio issued their debut recording, Perhaps, I Suppose…, in 2001 on the Revelation Records label.

Yerba Buena (Latin)

The Latin American collective Yerba Buena was organized by producer and multi-instrumentalist Andres Levin, a native Venezuelan who’d appeared on records by Marisa Monte, Arto Lindsay, Aterciopelados, and Tina Turner, as well as helming the critically acclaimed Fela Kuti tribute Red Hot + Riot. Yerba Buena arose from Levin’s wish to bring together a band capable of melding forms old and new, learning from each other in the form of a school.

“So, c’mon do you wanna go to a show? I’ve got tickets and these guys are s’posed to be really good”

Artist	Title
38 Special	Resolution
Acceptance	Black Lines to Battlefields
Adam Pascal	Model Prisoner
Adam Pascal	Civilian
Alexi Murdoch	Time Without Consequence
Ali Dee and The Deekompressors	Go Speed Racer Go
Alice Ripley	Everything’s Fine
All That Remains	The Fall of Ideals
All That Remains	Behind Silence and Solitude
Alvin And The Chipmunks	Alvin and the Chipmunks,Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Angelique Kidjo	Djin Djin
Brand New	Deja Entendu
Brandtson	Send Us A Signal
Brandtson	Hello, Control
Cartel	The Ransom Ep
Century	Black Ocean
Chase Pagan	Oh, Musica!
Cledus T. Judd	I Stoled This Record
Cledus T. Judd	Juddmental
Cledus T. Judd	Essenshul Cledus T. Judd
Controlling the Famous	Automatic City
Copeland	Beneath Medicine Tree
Copeland	In Motion
Copeland	Eat, Sleep, Repeat
Copeland	Dressed Up & In Line
Danko Jones	We Sweat Blood
Danko Jones	Sleep Is The Enemy
Dar Williams	The Honesty Room
Dar Williams	End of the Summer
Dar Williams	Green World
Dar Williams	My Better Self
Dave Barnes	Me and You and the World
Dead Confederate	Dead Confederate
Denison Witmer	Safe Away / Are You A Sleeper?
Driving East	The Future of the Free World is Riding On This One
Everybody Else	Everybody Else
Everybody Else	1.5
Fielding	Fielding
Francis Dunnery	Let’s Go Do What Happens
Fred Eaglesmith	50 Odd Dollars
Graham Parker	Loose Monkeys
Graham Parker	Deepcut to Nowhere
Irish Tenors	We Three Kings
Irish Tenors	Heritage
Irish Tenors	Sacred
Jack Lukeman	Metropolis Blue
Jason Robert Brown	Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes
Jill Cunniff	City Beach
Judy Kuhn, Laura Nyro	Serious Playgrounds
Kelli O’Hara	Wonder in the World
Kevin Cahoon	Doll
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop 1
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop 2
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop Christmas
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop 3
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop 4
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop 5
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop 6
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop Gold
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop Halloween
Kidz Bop	A Very Merry Kidz Bop
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop 8
Kidz Bop	Los Kidz Bop
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop 10
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop 9
Kidz Bop	More Kidz Bop Gold
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop 11
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop 12
Kidz Bop	The Coolest Kidz Bop Christmas Ever!
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop Country
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop 13
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop 80s Gold
Kidz Bop	Kidz Bop 7
Lakes	Photographs EP
Let Go	Let Go
Lovedrug	Pretend You’re Alive
Lovedrug	Everything Starts Where it Ends
Man Alive	Open Surgery
Marshall Crenshaw	The 9 Volt Years
Marshall Crenshaw	#447
Martin Short	Martin Short
Michael Stanley	Eighteen Down
Mobile	Tomorrow Starts Today
Neil Sedaka	The Definitive Collection
Noise Ratchet	Till We Have Faces
Original Cast Recording	Jacques Brel is Alive and Welland Living in Paris
Original Cast Recording	Bernarda Alba
Original Cast Recording	The Drowsy Chaperone
Original Cast Recording	The Fantasticks
Original Cast Recording	High Fidelity
Original Cast Recording	Legally Blonde
Rufio	Perhaps, I Suppose(Deluxe Edition)
Ryan Shaw	This is Ryan Shaw
Skeletonwitch	Beyond the Permafrost
Testament	First Strike Still Deadly
The Appleseed Cast	Peregrine
The Beautiful Mistake	Light a Match,For I Deserve to Burn
The Beautiful Mistake	This is Who You Are
The Clarks	Let It Go
The Clarks	Fast Moving Cars
The Class of 98	Touch This and Die
The Holy Fire	In The Name of The World
The Lyndsay Diaries	The Tops of Trees Are On Fire
The New Frontiers	Mending
The Panic Division	Songs From The Glasshouse
The Rocket Summer	Calendar Days
The Rocket Summer	Hello, Good Friend
The Rocket Summer	The Early Years
Tom Chapin	Some Assembly Required
Tora! Tora! Torrance!	Get Into It
Tora! Tora! Torrance!	A Cynics Nightmare
Twisted Sister	A Twisted Christmas
Umbrellas	Umbrellas
Umbrellas	Illuminare
Waterboys	A Rock In The Weary Land
We Shot The Moon	Fear and Love
Yerba Buena	President Alien

HOT NEW TITLES FOR FALL

Just back from BEA in Los Angeles, I thought I should share some titles that editors and publishers identified as hot new titles to watch for in the fall publishing season:

 

Collins, Billy:   BALLISTICS AND OTHER POEMS

Sittenfeld, Curtis:   AMERICAN WIFE (a fictional meditation on the life of Laura Bush)

White, Ronald C.:  A. LINCOLN:  A LIFE (evolution of Lincoln’s moral thought based on his legal papers).  February, 2009, is the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth so we can expect to see more titles published in the near future.  Good book display idea?

Wineapple, Brenda:  WHITE HEAT:  THE FRIENDSHIP OF EMILY DICKINSON AND THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

Burk, Kathleen:  OLD WORLD, NEW WORK (history of the link between England and America)

Chute, Caroline:  SCHOOL ON HEART’S CONTENT ROAD (Remember the Beans of Egypt, Maine?)

Clark, Lloyd:  CROSSING THE RHINE (military history)

Enright, Anne:  YESTERDAY’S WEATHER (short stories)

Harrison, Jim:  ENGLISH MAJOR

Hayder, Mo:  RITUAL

Ghelfi, Brent:  VOLK’S SHADOW

Salak, Kira:  WHITE MARY (first novel)

Smith, Roger:  MIXED BLOOD

Tremblay, Paul:  LITTLE SLEEP (PB original scheduled for 3/09; narcoleptic detective)

Chen, Yuan-tsung:  RETURN TO THE MIDDLE KINGDOM:  ONE FAMILY, THREE REVOLUTIONARIES, AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN CHINA

Epstein, Dr. Paul:  CHANGING PLANET, CHANGING HEALTH:  HOW CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS PUBLIC HEALTH AND WHAT WE MUST DO ABOUT IT

Gerstein, Marc:  FLIRTING WITH DISASTER:  WHY ACCIDENTS ARE RARELY ACCIDENTAL

Lachman, Charles:  LAST LINCOLNS:  THE RISE AND FALL OF A GREAT AMERICAN FAMILY

Pietruzsa, David:  1960 – LBJ VS. JFK VS. NIXON:  THE EPIC CAMPAIGN THAT FORGED THREE PRESIDENCIES

Wallace, Stephen:  REALITY GAP – ALCOHOL, DRUGS, AND SEX:  WHAT PARENTS DON’T KNOW AND TEENS AREN’T TELLING

Lamb, Wally:  HOUR I FIRST BELIEVED

Lehane, Dennis:  GIVEN DAY

Peebles, Frances:  SEAMSTRESS (first novel)

Roiphe, Anne:  EPILOGUE (memoir of husband’s death

Haight, Jennifer:  CONDITION

New Adult Nonfiction – 500-699

Annotations from Baker & Taylor

 

 

Drunkard

Steinberg, Neil

An alcoholic columnist describes his struggles through the rehabilitation process, an effort that was marked by his realization about the shortfalls of short-term outpatient programs, his efforts to rebuild his family, and his realizations about the impact of alcoholism throughout the world.

 

Green Baby

Marriott, Susannah

A practical handbook for eco-friendly minded parents furnishes a host of useful tips and advice on how to make the best choices for one’s child while minimizing the impact on the planet’s environment, covering everything from baby food and diapers to toys.

 

Grow Organic

Kruger, Ann (EDT)

A definitive guide to gardening the natural way emphasizes an eco-friendly approach that addresses such important concerns as sustainable landscaping, attracting wildlife, and eliminating toxins while explaining how to design, cultivate, and maintain an organic garden, in a volume produced with environmentally gentle packaging and socially responsible practices.

 

I Brake for Meltdowns: How to Handle the Most Exasperating Behavior of Your 2 to 5 Year Old

Nicholasen, Michelle / O’neal, Barbara

A helpful handbook for parents of toddlers offers hard-won wisdom, handy informational sidebars, and practical, step-by-step advice on how to handle a variety of problem behaviors, covering everything from “Public Meltdowns” or “Dinner Disasters” to “In Search of Sleep.”

 

Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West

Stillman, Deanne

A panoramic study of the role of the wild horse in the history and popular culture of the American West traces the history of the mustang, from its evolutionary origins, to its return to the continent with the conquistadors, to its present-day battle for survival on the vanishing range, and profiles some notable characters–equine and human alike–in that history.

 

The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and Their Patients

Spelman, Lucy H. (EDT) / Mashima, Ted Y. (EDT)

An entertaining and warm-hearted collection of real-life stories journeys inside the world of zoo veterinarians from around the world, who recount their experiences with exotic zoo animals, from raising an orphaned baby beluga whale, to helping an anorexic eel regain its appetite, to recapturing a herd of escaped bison outside Paris.

 

Vet Confidential: An Insider’s Guide to Keeping Your Pet Healthy and Safe

Murray, Louise

A comprehensive guide to quality health care for pets covers everything pet owners need to know to ensure their animals’ health, with practical advice on how to select the right veterinary care, how to evaluate a veterinary practice, how to cope with health care costs, pet insurance, and standards of pet care in terms of vaccinations, exams, diagnostic procedures, medications, and more.

 

Why a Curveball Curves: The Incredible Science of Sports

Vizard, Frank (EDT) / Lipsyte, Robert (FRW)

A volume organized by sport delves into the science behind sports, addressing such issues as what makes Tiger Woods’ swing great, the difficulty of making a three-point shot in basketball, and how to hit a home run.

 

Yoga for Computer Users: Healthy Necks, Shoulders, Wrists, and Hands in the Postmodern Age

Blaine, Sandy

A targeted guide for yoga practitioners who have experienced physical discomforts related to computer use outlines twenty-three illustrated poses and exercises designed to improve flexibility and range of motion while preventing upper-body injuries, in a guide complemented by breathing and relaxation techniques.