October 2009

The Walkmen and White Rabbits – Two Nights Together in Chicago

October 15, 2009

It’s weird when you test a band, give up and then they turn out to be awesome. That’s what happened with me and The Walkmen. I really didn’t enjoy their debut and more or less ignored them from that point on. But after witnessing a blistering set at the P4K festival, I downloaded You & [...]

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Red Cortez give away mp3′s, tour dates, upcoming HearYa sesh.

October 14, 2009

Southern California’s Red Cortez has never released a full length album, but they have still managed to create quite a stir. They played at our SxSW party and will soon be visiting us in studio for a session when they pass through Chicago.‚  You can catch them touring with Airborne Toxic Event now and their [...]

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The Low Anthem, Live Session #57

October 13, 2009

Watching The Low Anthem perform in studio was like entering a transcendent reality. They stopped in on Sunday morning, the final day of Lollapalooza and a morning that greeted most of HearYa with paralyzing hangovers. Somehow we each managed to put down a 32 oz Gatorade and a couple Jimmy Dean sausage biscuits prior to [...]

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Langhorne Slim – Be Set Free [Album Review]

October 13, 2009

Langhorne Slim is another in a great lineup of fall releases that includes American music from Port O’Brien, The Avett Brothers and Lucero. Be Set Free was released on September 29th and the single “I Love You, But Goodbye” was offered a month earlier and proved to be a good sample for what the album [...]

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Port O’Brien – Threadbare [Album Review]

October 12, 2009

Port O’Brien have been one of my top five favorite bands for the past three years. Each album they release far exceeds my expectations and slowly becomes an addiction. I’ve seen them in San Francisco, Austin and once in Boston where I had the opportunity to chat with lead singer Van Pierszalowski over a pint. [...]

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Sunday MP3 Roundup, 10.11.09

October 11, 2009

Here are the tracks we talked about this past week. We have a great week lined up this week, including a live session with The Low Anthem. Elvis Perkins In Dearland – Slow Doomsday Molina and Johnson – Twenty Cycles To The Ground Kurt Vile – Hunchback From our past live session with Langhorne Slim: [...]

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Travelers Insurance Commercial Song = Langhorne Slim [Bands + Brands]

October 10, 2009

Travelers Insurance released a new commercial yesterday that features the song “Worries” by Langhorne Slim. You can find the song on Langhorne’s self-titled album that was released in 2008. The same song was featured in our live session with Langhorne Slim. Here are those downloads: Exclusive: Langhorne Silm – Hummingbird Exclusive: Langhorne Slim – Cut [...]

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Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy [Album Review]

October 9, 2009

Everything from the first chord of the first song to the “creative name” of the album to the man’s bio, is all attitude.‚ ‚  Here’s a synopsis from his bio that succinctly depicts what I mean: There’s a bunch of clowns all over the USA, all around the world, cluttering up the rock ‘n’ roll stage [...]

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Get a FREE Radiohead collector’s prize pack, including expanded editions of Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail To The Thief

October 8, 2009

Have you ever heard of these guys? They are pretty good. It’s been quite some time since our last free giveaway, but we’ve got a great one for you. Email us at freeshit@hearya.com with a run-on-sentence describing your favorite Radiohead album or song and you could win a prize pack that includes collector’s editions of [...]

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Jason Molina and Will Johnson join forces for new album, release mp3

October 7, 2009

Molina and Johnson should open for Monsters of Folk. This collaboration of indie-folk masterminds will undoubtedly be a great album of melancholy music. Johnson approached Molina at the merch table after a show in Austin and they exchanged numbers. A few months later, they were recording together. Will Johnson states: For ten days we wrote, [...]

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