Bizzare Cubiques

There's nothing better in the world than free stuff, and the best kind of free stuff is free music (I may make an exception for free pancakes). If you haven't already gotten a copy of Brighter Sides, the EP by Boston band, The Appreciation Post, they're giving it away for free on their Purevolume right now!

You can also check out their daily Kyte videos while they record some new sweet tunes in Chicago.

A Love Like Pi was one of the first bands that got me into the local scene and they are finally ready to put out their first full-length. You can stream all of Pi's The Atlas and The Oyster on purevolume right now and pick up the album when it comes out in March.

Do you keep your Fall Out Boy records hidden under stacks of Tori Amos and Amanda Palmer? Well, hide your shame no longer.

Popnography has the exclusive duet between FOB singer Patrick Stump and singer-songwriter Kristeen Young. Pounding piano chords and the sickly sweet sound of indie glam is something new for the pop punk singer, but I'm really digging this Bowie-esque sound.

In these stressful crazy times, where the strongest nation in the world is a heartbeat away from having a hockey mom as a President, where the economy is plummeting, and when the Earth is heating up like Kanye on his Macbook Air, you never know when you might end up chained to a bed with a velociraptor.

It's important to be prepared.

Head over to Fall Out Boy's website to stream "I Don't Care," the first taste of the new album Folie a Deux, hitting stores November 4th. Then come back here and let me know what you think. Are you more excited? Less excited? Is this the kind of sound you were expecting?

It's got some of the old Fall Out Boy chug, but a lot of - weirdly enough - New Wave influences, and a good amount of the call and response left over from the last record.

And yeah, Patrick Stump totally tells you that they'll "put a heat wave in your pants."

So my friend Amanda is a common cohort of mine in the local scene and her photography (and camera) is much better than mine. Check out her pictures from the Robots and Racecars acoustic set at the Great American Diner & Pub from last Thursday and add her so you can keep up with all her awesome concert photography.

How I Became Invisible - the third Robots and Racecars sideproject - finally added two original songs on the myspace and I need to link them to the world right this minute. It's sweet indie rock with densely layered lyrics - like Dashboard with a lot less melancholy - and the production is deftly handled.

I'm not saying that these songs are better than the other R&R sideprojects... but maybe I just did.

I have a feeling this may turn into something akin to poking a really ornery bear with a really pointy stick, but this is a great essay by Anton Djamoos over at absolutepunk.net.

There may be a bit of whitewashing and poetical waxing for the scene of yore, but it's an argument that avoids the nasty sexism issues that so often crop up in discussion of scene queens. Definitely worth a read.

The new Coldplay album has leaked and you can totally hear it legally!

Head to iheartmusic.com to stream the album and then come back and tell me what you think.

ArtistData allows bands to sync their shows (and soon other types of info) across many websites at once, like Facebook, Myspace, Purevolume, imeem, and soon Buzznet and many more. Now you don't have to remember to log into fifteen different websites to update your band's info.