Thursday, April 8, 2010

TVD Fresh Track | New from Amanda Palmer


After a long legal battle with her label Roadrunner Records to get dropped, Amanda Palmer announced yesterday that she has been released from her contract. In celebration, Amanda is very pleased to be able to – for the first time since the year 2003 – offer you a brand new and previously unreleased song for download from her house to yours….legally and free of charge. For background, to read the lyrics, get the scoop on the free track's name and more, click here.

"...as many of you know, i’ve been fighting very, very hard to get off the label for the better part of two years. for the past seven years, anything i have written and recorded (solo or with my band, The Dresden Dolls) has technically been owned and under the ultimate control of the label, but no longer. after endless legal bullshit, it’s over, i’ve been DROPPED, RELEASED, LET GO, whatever you wanna call it. in other words: i am FREE AT LAST!!!!!! RAAHH!!"
—AFP

Amanda Palmer - Do You Swear To Tell The Truth The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth So Help Your Black Ass (Mp3)

TVD Fresh Track | New from Earl Greyhound and Shooter Jennings


The in-box runneth over with new music today...


Earl Greyhound's sophomore release 'Suspicious Package' is out April 13 on Hawk Race Records.

Shooter Jennings' new album 'Black Ribbons' features a song he and Matt of EG wrote and recorded together in LA last Spring.

Earl Greyhound and Shooter Jennings - Everything Else Is Illusion (Mp3)

TVD Fresh Tracks | New from Olney Clark

If you hang out here enough, you've gotten a sense of my tatse(s) in some things. So when I suggest that Olney Clark might be well positioned among your Elbows, your Bathers, your Arnolds, and perhaps even your Blue Niles, do yourself a favor and give a listen.

That first swell of strings in 'Josefin the Writer' might have you thinking I'm right.

Olney Clark is a dreamy journey lead by duo Grant Olney and Barry DeBakey. Written during Olney's Ph.D. in algorithmic algebraic geometry in Edinburgh, Scotland and Clark's lost months of limbo and relocation from Los Angeles to Texas following the death of his father and grandfather, best friends Grant Olney and Barry DeBakey wrote the songs that would become the self-titled album as both a celebration of the gifts of solitude and a warning of their costs.


"Tea and Thunderstorms" is a stunning orchestral piece from Olney Clark's debut self-titled album, available next Tuesday, April 13th. The album, which is available for pre-order here comes with two bonus tracks when the digipack or vinyl format are purchased.

Olney Clark - Josefin The Writer (Mp3)
Olney Clark - Tea And Thunderstorms (Mp3)