• Pavement: "Heckler Spray/In The Mouth A Desert" live (MP3)

Matador Records added two Pavement MP3s on its website. This one, recorded in April of 1994 at The Palace in Hollywood, comes from a live album that will be available as a bonus download to people who pre-order the upcoming Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition (out this Tuesday, details here). Pavement played an early and a late show that night, and I was at both. Fantastic shows.

• Deftones: "Hole In The Earth" audio stream (WM, RA, Quicktime)
• Deftones: "Hole In The Earth" video stream (WM)

The Deftones' fifth studio album, Saturday Night Wrist (Maverick), was released on Tuesday. Here's a stream of the lead track.

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• The Who E-Card

Universal Motown created an e-card for The Who's upcoming album. (Be warned: It loads slowly.) Endless Wire will be in stores on October 31st. (It includes a limited live DVD, "Live at Lyon.") The e-card offers streams of four new songs: "It's Not Enough," "Tea & Theater," "Black Widow Eyes" and "Man In A Purple Dress."

• Aerosmith: "Devil's Got A New Disguise" audio stream (Quicktime, WM, RA)

Aerosmith, currently on tour with Motley Crue, has another "best of" compilation in stores. Devil’s Got A New Disguise: The Very Best Of Aerosmith (Columbia) has two new tracks and 16 classics that span the band's entire career.

• Niobe: "Give All To Love" (MP3)

Tomlab puts out some of the best low-key electronic pop. Niobe's track "Give All To Love" is striking in its mixture of classic jazz cabaret and subtle laptop programming. Wow.

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• How I Became The Bomb: "Killing Machine" (MP3)
• How I Became The Bomb: "Secret Identity" (MP3)

I saw How I Became The Bomb shortly after moving to Nashville. The group's quirky indie rock is danceable yet introspective, and the show was a lot of fun. "Killing Machine" ranks as one of the better songs on the band's EP, Let's Go. For some reason the line, "My right hand contains an M-16/The other hand contains a fresh canteen/I can go out there and do what I please," kills me. "Secret Identity" could have almost been on the "Valley Girl" soundtrack. Love those guitar riffs. Totally unconfirmed: A friend who knows someone related to the band said labels are taking a look.

• Alice Smith: "Dream" (MP3)
• Alice Smith: "Love Endeaver" Maurice Fulton Remix (MP3)

Alice Smith recently toured with Citizen Cope and got a good write-up by NPR. Coolfer has heard rumors, all unconfirmed, of majors interested in signing the New York-based singer. Her debut album, Lovers, Dreamers & Me, mixes soul, pop and rock in unexpected ways and is one of the year's must-hears.

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• Cold War Kids: "We Used To Vacation" audio stream (WM, RA)
• Cold War Kids: "Hospital Beds" (MP3)

There's a buzz on Cold War Kids, and its not just from bloggers. Expect to see this band in the frequent "next big thing" articles. This four-piece indie band from California's Inland Empire will release its debut album, Robbers & Cowards, on October 10th through Downtown Recordings (let's see how they spend that Gnarls Barkey money). "We Used To Vacation," which was on the Up In Rags EP, was redone for the new album. "Hospital Beds" is from the Up In Rags EP.

• The Whigs: "Technology" (MP3)

Athens, GA three-piece The Whigs just signed with ATO Records, which has reissued the group's year-old album, Give Em All A Big Fat Lip (at a $9.98 list price). Download and nod along. They'll be on tour with Mute Math in October and November.

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• Tom Waits: "Bottom Of The World" (MP3)

Bless the indies and their MP3-giving ways. Anti has a free MP3 of a new Tom Waits song, "Bottom Of The World," from the three-CD set Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards. The collection has 54 songs, 30 of them new, and will be out November 21st.

• Kelis: "Blindfold Me" audio stream (WM, RA)

Kelis sounds nothing like Tom Waits, and the kids love her for it. Her latest single, "Blindfold Me," features her husband, Nas.

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• The Mooney Suzuki: "My Dear Persephone" audio stream (WMA)
• The Mooney Suzuki: "Love Is A Gentle Whip" audio stream (WMA)

After a failed venture with Columbia Records and production team The Matrix, The Mooney Suzuki are bringing their garage rock by way of V2 Records. The band's The Maximum Black EP was released on September 5th. It has six new tracks and five old, never-released songs. So let's do the math...including this EP, the band has been on three labels and has released 31 songs in the last five years. That's not the output of band trying to break out. Let's hope the V2 full-length makes it to market before garage rock is even more dead that it already is.

• Teddybears: "Yours To Keep" Annie remix (MP3)
• Teddybears: "Punkrocker" featuring Iggy Pop (MP3)

Sweden's Teddybears have been making a bit of noise in the blogosphere lately -- that's what happens when Cornetstone is doing promotion. This remix "Yours to Keep" by Annie will scratch your indie dance-punk itch. The song "Punkrocker" has vocals by the one and only Iggy Pop. Nice. Check the band's MySpace page for audio streams. Their album, Soft Machine, will be out on September 26th (the digital album will be released a week prior).

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• Meatloaf: "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" video stream (Quicktime, WM)
• Bat Out Of Hell 3 EPK (Quicktime, WM)

Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell III will be released October 31st by Virgin Records in North America and Universal Records elsewhere. Desmond Child produced the album (a dramatic singer requires a dramatic producer), Todd Rundgren contributed vocal arrangements and Steve Vai and Brian May perform on a song each. The first single, "It’s All Coming Back to Me Now" (made famous by Celine Dion), is a duet with newcomer Marion Raven.

• Mute Math: "Typical" Live at the El Ray, video stream (Quicktime, WM)
• Mute Math: "Typical" audio stream (Quicktime, WM)
• Mute Math: "Chaos" audio stream (Quicktime, WM)

New Orleans' Mute Math will have a new, self-titled album titled out on September 26th. A limited edition bonus disc (on the first 25,000) has six songs recorded at Los Angeles' El Rey. A national tour starts the 19th in Seattle.

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• Dr. Dog: "Ain't It Strange" (MP3)

Nearly two years after the NY Times' Kelefa Sanneh got all revved up over Dr. Dog, Philly band's XL debut is approaching and the requisite free MP3 is upon us. The "Takers and Leavers" EP will be out September 12th.

• Snowden: "Anti Anti" (MP3)

Atlanta's Snowden is currently on tour and enjoying very solid press for its Jade Tree release Anti Anti. Gotta love that riff before the verse kicks in. Check them out in L.A. at the Silverlake Lounge on September 6th, in Seattle at the Crocodile Cafe on September 13th and in New York at the Mercury Lounge on September 22nd, and plenty of places inbetween.

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• Rapper Fat Joe has signed a deal with Virgin Records, a label that has not had the greatest success with urban music over the years. (Billboard.com)

• Today it was announced that John Breeder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Handleman Company, resigned his position effective immediately. The company line: "It became clear in the past several days that John believed that continuing to meet his obligations as President would conflict with his own personal interests," and the company "reluctantly concluded that an immediate separation was the only prudent course to serve the interests of Handleman's customers, employees and shareholders." (Press Release)

• National Public Radio plans an early 2007 launch of NPR Music Online, a download site that will offer music and video from programming that spans 35 years. (MarketWatch)

• The Country Music Association announced the the newest inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame: Harold Bradley, Sonny James and George Strait. The formal induction will take place during the November 8th CMA Awards. (Press Release)

• MiG, one of the three finalists on the "Rockstar: INXS" reality series, has signed a deal with Universal Music Classics. His album, due out in January, will be released on Decca and will have at least a few covers ("A Kiss From A Rose," "Life on Mars," "Wrapped Around Your Finger," "Wake Me Up When September Ends"). No joke. (People.com)

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• Aurgasm "Breeze and Sweat" mix (MP3) 80 MB

Funny, six months ago just about every large file was called a podcast. This is Aurgasm's "amateur DJ mix," and it's a really good mix of beat-driven tracks by the likes of Balkan Beat Box, Amadou & Mariam, Mr Scruff & Quantic and Captain Planet. Track listing is here.

• Out The Other's New Modern Mix (zip) 89 MB

An indie rock mix in a zip file, with songs by The Kooks, The Sunshine Underground, Biship Allen, Bound Stems and others. Track listing is at this post.

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• The Triffids: "Seabirds" (MP3)

Domino Recording Co. has already revisisted the words of seminal groups Orange Juice and the Fire Engines. Now comes The Triffids, a band from Perth, Australia that formed in 1981 and released music throughout the '80s. Today Domino reissued the band's 1986 album Born Sandy Devotional with bonus tracks.

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• Soulwax: "Miserable Girl" (MP3)

Soulwax is 2 Many DJs with a different name on the office door. Modular/Interscope will release the group's album Nite Versions on September 12th (which will be a very busy street date).

• The Chicago Chamber Musicians: "Quintet for Violen, Two Violas, Violoncello and Horn in E-flat Major, K. 407 (Allegro) MP3

Have some classical for a change. From Chamber Works For Winds And Strings By Mozart, an IODA-distributed album on Summit Records.

• Zero 7: "Futures" (Rub N Tug Remix) (MP3)
• Zero 7: "Futures" featuring Jose Gonzalez, audio stream (WM, RA)

Coolfer always makes a big deal when a major gives away an MP3. Atlantic is doing it here with a remix of "Futures" by Zero 7. An DRM-free download of an album version probably would have been too much. Giving away a track with buzz boy Jose Gonzalez would definitely be too much, thus the WM and RA streams.

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• Mew Acoustic Performance at AOL podcast (MP3) 44.8 MB

Mew played four songs at the AOL office for this great podcast: "The Zookeeper's Boy," "Eight Flew Over, One Was Destroyed," "Why Are You Loooking Grave" and "Comforting Sounds." The Danish band is getting a lot of attention over its new album Mew and the Glass Handed Kites. Might be because it's a great album...but having Alan McGee as your manager tends to get results, too.

• Tootekool: No Pablo Espanol mix(MP3) 86.5 MB
• Fingers on the Pulse: Going to Work mix (MP3) 50.8 MB

Two DJ mixes for you today. The first is a mix by Shanghai's Tootekool, who Coolfer found via a post at Shanghaiist on the city's minimalist techno scene. The other is by NYC's Fingers on the Pulse DJs, a mix with songs by Hot Chip, Cassius, MSTRKFT, The Knife and a few more.

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• Jet: "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" (WM, RA)
• Jet: "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" video (WM, RA, Quicktime)

Jet's new album, Shine On, will be released by Atlantic on October 3rd. "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" is the first track out of the gate. Audio and video stream links are above, or you can view the Shine On e-card here. Sounds like more of the same...not that there's anything wrong with that.

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This Digital Daily is dedicated to music blogs from Los Angeles. Though the City of Angels' blogs per capita lags well behind that of New York, there are a few doing good deeds. I usually check Radio Free Silver Lake and Rock Insider, and lately have been reading You Set The Scene, Inflight At Night and Rewriteable Content as well.

• The Bird and the Bee: "I'm A Broken Heart" (MP3)

Gorgeous orchestral pop for slowly sipping wine or sleeping late on a Sunday. The Bird and the Bee are from Los Angeles and are signed to Blue Note Records.

• Division Day: "Colorguard" (MP3)

Sweet songs where heartache takes the place of self pity. Nice to hear a band that can do midtempo without falling asleep at the wheel. Division Day will do a brief Western states run with Birdmonster in late August.

• For Those Who Know: "Competition" (MP3)
• For Those Who Know: "Night at the Dance" (MP3)

I found out about Austin's For Those Who Know from the blog Inflight At Night. Good, noisy indie rock with a reverbed falsetto that reminds of Mercury Rev's first singer, David Baker.

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• Aberdeen City: "God Is Going To Get Sick Of Me" (MP3)
• Aberdeen City: "Sixty Lives" (MP3)

Columbia's Steve Lillywhite signed Aberdeen City, whose 2005 album The Freezing Atlantic gets a re-release tomorrow on Red Ink.

• Black Keys: "Your Touch" (WM)

Black Keys are now on Nonesuch and will release The Magic Potion comes out September 12th. Word on the street is the album is a big leap forward for the Akron, OH-based band.

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• What Made Milwaukee Famous: "I Decide" (MP3)
• What Made Milwaukee Famous: "Sweet Lady" (MP3)

What Made Milwaukee Famous (from Austin, not Wisconson) signed with indie rock powerhouse Barsuk. Good call. They'll fit right in with a catalog that includes John Vanderslice and Nada Surf. They're a talented bunch and have songwriting chops that far exceed most of their indie rock peers. Songs...remember those? They're nice to hear every once in a while. Trying Never To Catch Up will be out August 22nd.

• Brick and Lace: "Get That Clear" featuring Akon (WM, RA)

Geffen's Brick and Lace are sisters Nyanda and Nailah Thorbourne from Kingston, Jamaica. Their debut, Love is Wicked, does not yet have a street date but Geffen's publicists are letting out some links to audio streams for the track "Get That Clear" that was produced by Akon. Coolfer's looking forward to hearing the song "Why'd You Lie" because it has a sample from Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer."

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Yesterday Coolfer listened to two CDs, one on a major and one on an indie, both with obvious debts to Elliot Smith. Wish I had some better audio links for y'all. Sorry. Some labels just aren't very good about that kind of thing.

• Mike Andrews @ MySpace"

Released on Elgin Park Recordings (recently re-released by Ryko), Mike Andrews' 12-track Hands on Strings was a nice surprise. Andrews has scored such films as Donnie Darko and Me and You and Everyone We Know, and he has put together a great album. If you want MP3s, look them up at The Hype Machine.

• Joshua Radin: "Closer" (WM, RA, Quicktime)
• Joshua Radin: "Winter" (WM, RA, Quicktime)

Columbia Records' new signing Joshua Radin marks Elliot Smith's return to a major label. We Were Here is a very pleasant album of hushed-voice acoustic numbers. Rolling Stone just gave We Were Here four stars, saying that while its breakup music is not revolutionary "his handling of this well-worn theme is understated, poignant and refreshingly frank." Agreed.

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• Frida Hyvönen: "You Never Get Me Right" (MP3)

Fans of indie rock parlour music -- Fiery Furnaces, Dresden Dolls -- should like Frida Hyvönen, a Swedish artist on Secretly Canadian who is on tour with countryman Jens Lekman.

• Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk: "DoeReMe" (MP3)
• Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk: "Strum Strum Bang Bang" (MP3)

Kansas City's The Pitch said this about Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk: "This is a group for indie-rock lovers, especially anyone who revels in the soaring, driving passages of Broken Social Scene or Appleseed Cast." Spot on.

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• The Pink Spiders: "Little Razorblade" video (YouTube)

Geffen's The Pink Spiders have been quietly getting some attention ahead of next week's album release. Teenage Graffiti was produced by Ric Ocasek and is obviously a priority for the label (just look at the overblown, expensive video for proof). Nashville blogger Nemesisboy has a humorous take on the band in this commercial at YouTube.

• Paris Hilton: "Turn It Up" (MP3)

Bum Squad DJz has an MP3 of the Paris Hilton track "Turn It Up." Unlike the summery "Stars Is Blind" first single, this song has a hip hop beat that could work in the clubs.

• Pop Montreal Popcast #22 (MP3)

The Pop Montreal festival is coming in October, and the frequent podcasts are a great way to hear indie music and artists from Montreal.

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Today's Digital Daily contains tracks from the three bands Coolfer saw play last night.

• The Feeling: "Fill My Little World" video stream
• The Feeling: "Sewn" audio stream

The Feeling have scored a few hits in the UK and will have their debut, Twelve Stops and Home, released in the States on September 25th. Last night's show at the Mercury Lounge was filled with curious parties (like myself), some Anglophiles and a few expats. We were treated to a solid set of power pop played with flair and enough energy to soak through the band's tight cotton dress shirts. How the U.S. will react to The Feeling is anybody's guess, but they do have one potential hit: "Love It When You Call" could be a ringtone chart-topper. (Check the MySpace page for streams.)

• The Big Sleep: "Murder" (MP3)

Brooklyn's The Big Sleep (pictured) will release its debut album, Son of the Tiger, through French Kiss this September. Last night's show at the Bowery Ballroom showed off the trio's mostly instrumental post-rock epics. Think Hovercraft without the visuals and more skronk.

• I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness: "According To Plan" (MP3)

Austin's I Love You But I've Chosen Darkenss finished off the night with a slick set that got the thin crowd at the Bowery moving (not dancing, though). Their album, Fear, was released in March by Secretly Canadian.

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• Lambchop: "Crackers" (MP3)

Nashville's Lambchop will release Damaged on August 22nd through Merge Records. It was called "a transcendent record" by The Guardian, and from what Coolfer has heard it's another beautiful collection of orchestral, rootsy American music. The band is touring the U.S. and Europe this summer and fall. Tour dates are at Merge's tour page.

• James Dean Bradfield: "That's No Way To Tell A Lie" one-minute clip (MP3)

James Dean Bradfield, frontman for the U.S.-challenged Manic Street Preachers, will release his first solo album, The Great Western, next week...in the UK, not in the States. This one-minute MP3 clip is from his MySpace page. MP3 clips aren't everybody's favorite, but it's a miracle Columbia would post even 60 seconds of MP3 on one of its artist's MySpace pages. Anyway, it's a really nice song. Manics bass player Nicky Wire has a solo project as well and an album due in September. The song "Shining Path," which isn't nearly as good as Bradfield's material, is streaming at his MySpace page.

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• Diddy: "Gettin' Off" clean-intro (MP3)

Diddy has an R&B album called Press Play (sorry, Aerosmith) coming this fall, and "Gettin' Off" (mentioned elsewhere as "Get Off") is supposedly a track from it. Sounds like a rough James Brown bootleg -- on a really off night. Fox News' Roger Friedman wrote about the abum just the other day. Diddy sings on this one, and he brought in a lot of help: Nicole (Pussycat Dolls), Brandy, Christina Aguilera, Mary J. Blige, Big Boi, Nas, Fergie (Black Eyed Peas), Kanye West, Will.i.am, Timbaland, Pharell, Mario Winans and Rich Harrison. (Downloading the track will take a bit of time and clicking. Just follow the directions.) (Link via SOHH)

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• Outkast: "Mighty O" (WM, RA)

The oft-delayed Outkast album Idlewild will be released August 22nd on LaFace/Zomba. "MIghty O" is the first single. Billboard.com has a feature on the duo, the album and the movie upon which it is based.

• Audioslave: "Original Fire" (RA)

Another song from an upcoming album, Audioslave's "Original Fire" is from the Brendan O'Brien-produced Revelations, due out September 5th. Somewhat surprisingly, the group mixes some Guess Who riffs into the usual mix of Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden.

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Today's Digital Daily is a special edition with tracks from bands performing at the Siren Festival this Saturday in Coney Island, Brooklyn. See you there.

• Priestess: "Talk To Her" (MP3)
• Priestess: "Run Home" video (Quicktime, Real, WM)
• Deadboy and the Elephantman: "Stop, I'm Already Dead" (MP3)
• Celebration: "New Skin" (MP3)
• The Cribs: "Hey Scenesters" video (YouTube)
• Man Man: "10 Lb. Moustache" (MP3)
• Scissor Sisters: "Filthy & Gorgeous" video (YouTube)
• Art Brut: "Moving to LA" live (MP3)
• Dirty on Purpose: "Light Pollution" (MP3)
• The Stills: "Destoyer" demo (MP3)
• She Wants Revenge: "These Things" video (YouTube)
• Sarena-Maneeh: "Drain Cosmetics" video (YouTube)
• Tapes 'N Tapes: "Omaha" (MP3)
• Tapes 'N Tapes: "Insistor" video (YouTube)
• Stars: "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" video (YouTube)
• Rogers Sisters: "Freight Elevators" (MP3)

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• The Killers: "When You Were Young" (MP3 snippet)

You know an album is highly anticipated when a short snippet of a song makes waves in the blogosphere. That's what Island is offering of the new Killers single, "When You Were Young." Singer Brandon Flowers claimed the upcoming album, Sam's Town, would be one of the best album of the last two decades. The comments on a Stereogum post about the audio clip are mostly negative and usually strenuously negative. (By the way, that album title is a bit Wal-Mart-ish, no?)

• The Hourly Radio: "Travelsigns" (MP3)

The Hourly Radio are one of those indie bands that don't sound very indie. Their sundazed melodies and bursts of melody and distortion are tight, manicured and well suited for broad audiences...if they can reach them. The band's album History Will Never Hold Me hits August 22nd via Kirtland Records (distributed by RED). (Found at Filter.com)

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• Inside Digital Media interview with DiMA's Jon Potter (MP3)

Jon Potter, executive direction of the Digital Music Association, talks to Inside Digital Media about the Section 115 Reform Act (SIRA), which spells upcoming changes to music licensing and copyrights. Also, read DiMA's press release about SIRA here.

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• Ani DiFranco: "Millennium Theater" (MP3)

Ani DiFranco has a new album, Reprieve, coming out on August 8th on her own Righteous Babe label. "Milennium Theater" is taken from the album. AlterNet has an interview with the singer-songwriter (and the MP3) in which DiFranco talks about Hurricane Katrina (she has an apartment in New Orlean's French Quarter), politics and her hometown of Buffalo.

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• Razorlight: "In The Morning" (MP3)

When Razorlight came to the States a few years ago, amidst deafening proclaimations of greatness, they were spared the backlash that usually goes along with such a routine...because not too many were paying attention in the first place. "In The Morning" is from their self-titled follow-up, out August 22nd via Universal Motown. Take first album, add some herky-jerky Clash rhythms --- OK, more Radio 4 that The Clash -- and a sing-a-long chorus and you have the new single. Not the most memorable hook in their catalog, but there's worse out there.

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When Coolfer read of super producer Scott Storch's income ($70 million) and lifestyle he's made from producing hit records, it confirmed that there will always be a market for popular music made by A List producers for A List musicians. Rolling Stone's article, "Scott Storch's Outrageous Fortune," shows the empire he has built by ignoring the long tail and concentrating on listeners' desire for celebrity and popularity.

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• Benn Loxo Du Taccu
• Akwaaba Sound System
• Can I Bring My Gat?

Rather than post a link to a download or stream, today Coolfer offers links to some of the non-indie rock MP3 blogs that I frequent from time to time.

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• Juana Molina: "Micael" (MP3)
• Psapp: Soulful and Bittersweet" (MP3)

Both of these downloads were found at Stereogum in a Blogad for the Jose Gonzalez/Juana Molina/Psapp tour. Good use of your Blogad, Domino!

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• Adult Chocolate Swim EP (zip file)

Chocolate Industries has a free EP at the Adult Swim website that has remixes from its great roster. Tracks are by Lady Sovereign (a Spank Rock remix of "Hoodie"), Mos Def & Diverse, Vast Aire F/MF Doom, Ghislain Poirier and Kovas. (Via The Tripwire)

• Narwhal: "The Cha" (MP3)
• Narwhal: "Only Smoke Old" (MP3)

I'll be honest. The main reason I'm posting these Narwhal tracks (which are available from the band's MySpace page) is because they're signed to the new record label of the owners of the Sacramento Kings, Maloof Entertainment, and are represented by The Agency Group. The label has a deal with Interscope. The pop-punk band scored some West Coast spots on this summer's Warped Tour. Maloof has also signed rapper Spitfiya, according to the roster at the Interscope website.

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• The Pipettes: "Pull Shapes" video (YouTube)

Memphis Industries, the label that launched perky indie band The Go! Team, is upping the perkiness with The Pipettes, a Phil Spector-loving female three-piece. The video for "Pull Shapes" may go a bit far with Austin Powers schtick, but there's no denying that the song is as fun as they get. We Are The Pipettes will be released in the UK on July 17th. The band's MySpace page streams four songs. Lots of info on the band in this Telegraph article.

• Gnarls Barkley: "Crazy" Joe Budden remix (MP3)

Rapper Joe Budden raps on this remix of the omnipresent hit by Gnarls Barkley, "Crazy." Actually, he doesn't rap much after the first 70 or 80 seconds. Coolfer ran across a link to the song at a post at SOHH.

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• Dashboard Confessional: "Don't Wait" (WM stream)
• Dashboard Confessional: AOL Sessions
• Dashboard Confessional: MySpace page

Chris Cabrera's face has been all over the place lately, which means Dashboard Confessional has a new album coming out. Sure enough, Dusk and Summer will be out Tuesday via Vagrant. The MySpace page has streams of two new songs, and the AOL Sessions has performances of "Dont' Wait," the first single, and "In A Big Country" (a cover of the Big Country tune) and "Vindicated."

• 7L and Esoteric: "Daisycuttas" featuring Kool Keith (MP3)
• 7L and Esoteric: "Play Dumb" (MP3)

Boston hip hop duo 7L and Esoteric have an album coming out on Babygrande on June 27th. Here are a couple songs, one of which features the always interesting Kool Keith. More music available at their MySpace page.

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• The Heathens: "Below The Streets" (MP3)
• The Heatherns: "Sex In Silent Films" (MP3)

"We've got the whole town on our trail, we make believe stories to tell," sing The Heathens in the plucky country-rock tune "Below The Streets." Cautionary tales are common in the South, and The Heathens are just too likeable to stay away from. That song and the rambunctous "Sex In Silent Films" are from the Orlando band's upcoming ablum Big White House (out July 4th on Post*Records). Check their MySpace page for tour dates. They'll be at NYC's Trash Bar on July 17th and will have another show on July 18th.

• GhostlyCast #3: Dabrye (MP3, 16 minutes, 15.1 MB)

Prolific electronic artist Dabrye reconstructs tracks from his new album, Two/Three, an album that crosses laptop beats with rappers such as Doom, Kadence and Guilty Simpson.

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