Song of the Day - I'm So Tired

Fugazi - I'm So Tired from Instrumental Soundtrack (1999)

Piano ballad about being tired.

Happy Birthday, Ian Mackaye.

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Song of the Day - Faith Resigned

Yautji - Faith Resigned from Songs of Descent (2014)

More Heavy stuff!

Yautji are a mix of all sorts of pissed off sludgy hardcore and metal noise all tangled up in a big sharp clump and ready for you to step on it late at night as you quietly-as-possible walk to the bathroom. Your foot will bleed and you will be shouting, waking your girlfriend up and her drunk roommate. In this short yet excruciatingly painful moment you will confess your hatred for your shitty job and your mundane life. The next day you will buy a motorcycle and drive it far, far away. Eventually, you will ride it into the sun and mesh your skin and bones with the motorcycle's shiny metal and leather, becoming apart of it as much as it will be apart of you and you will ride the solar system from there on out as a mecha-humanoid motorcycle bounty hunter.

Never to return.


Yautji are also three guys from Coliseum, Nameless Cults, and Gnarwhal respectively.

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Song of the Day - Philip Seymour Hoffman

Duck. Little Brother, Duck! - Philip Seymour Hoffman (It's The Wonder of Nature Baby!) from Survival Is Not A Workout (2010)

Math-y goodness from one of the coolest albums of any time, Survival Is Not A Workout.



RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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Song of the Day - Australia

Attic Abasement - Australia from Dancing is Depressing (2010)

Happy Australia Day!





... if you live in Australia.

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Song of the Day - The Pale Horse and His Rider

Totally Ruined - The Pale Horse and His Rider from Hank Williams Compilation (2013)

A nice and easy low fidelity Hank Williams rework.



Comes from a pretty neat Hank Williams cover album put out by Birdtapes and various DIY, lo-fi, simple acoustic, bedroom, etc. bands. Check it out!

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Song of the Day - BATH SALTS

Future Death - BATH SALTS from FUTURE DEATH (2013)

Reminiscent of a Zach Hill project that never was/never will be. Spastic drums, blazing guitar riffs, and distorted female vocals - oh my!


Also be on the lookout for Future Death's 2nd album due out early next year!

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Song of the Day - Watered Down

Swearin' - Watered Down from Surfing Strange (2013)

New stuff from Philly indie rock/pop punk band, Swearin'. Swearin' is co-fronted by Allison Crutchfield, the twin sister of Waxahatchee and formerly P.S. Eliot and Bad Banana along with her sister. Allison's doing her own thing now with Swearin' and it sounds great. Here's a track from Surfing Strange entitled, "Watered Down".

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Song of the Day - Baby Face

CUSS - Baby Face from Heavenly (2013)


From the Portland Jesus Lizard-like noise rock outfit, CUSS and their new album, Heavenly (out now). Very heavenly indeed.

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Song of the Day - Song for a Netflix account

Pat "the bunny" Schneeweis - Song for a Netflix account from The Mark Inside (2013)

Legendary anarcho folk punker and leader of Ramshackle Glory laying down some sick tracks about hope and other touchy subjects.



"...if we aren't dead yet, then let's not live as ghosts."

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Song of the Day - Halo

Trace Mountains - Halo (Beyonce) - Top 40 Compilation (2013)

Trace Mountains is a the side project of Spook Houses and LVL UP. Halo is a song by Beyonce.

Put those two things together and you have yourself a lo-fi, guilty-free track about feeling someone's "halo".


Check out more top 40 radio hits covered by lo-fi/indie rock/acoustic bands and compiled by Birdtapes here!

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Song of the Day - Phobophobic

Conjjjecture - Phobophobic from Living For Dead Labor (2013)

Conjjjecture are a relatively new music group from Portland, Maine that press out some mellow beats, blow on a trumpet, and mumble into a microphone. It's really pretty refreshing stuff!

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Song of the Day - Wyatt's Song

Vacation - Wyatt's Song from Do Shit (2010)

Lo-fi pop punk from Cinci. Not to be confused with Summer Vacation or Vacations.

Those guitars in the beginning man, oh my.

You can DL Vacation's The Do Shit Disc for free at the always awesome website, If You Make It Dot Com.

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Song of the Day - One Word Mary

Three Man Cannon - One Word Mary from Nelson (2010)

A new find for me from the Philly indie rock/punk band, Three Man Cannon. Heard about these guys through The BIG Comp which apparently is unavailable now... shame.



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Song of the Day - The Tide

Mallory - The Tide from Strange Homes (2010)

The opening lyrics of this wild folk punk number are by Mogli, a singer-songwriter from Halifax. The song the lyrics are taken from is called, "Back to You" off Mogli's I Miss You EP.



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Song of the Day - Witches

Blackbird Raum - Witches from Swidden (2008)

Blackbird Raum are an anarchopunk band with acoustic instruments ranging from accordions and banjos to washboards and singing saws.

Blackbird Raum will be playing a really sweet show this Friday with equally unique folk punk acts, Speaker for the Dead and Portland, Maine's finest, Butcher Boy at The Oak & The Ax in Biddeford!

It'll be something special for sure!

Blackbird Raum also have a new album called, False Weavers out now! You can stream it on Spotify if you're into that sort of thing.

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Song of the Day - I Cry (K.Y.)

Nasty Negligee - I Cry (K.Y.) from Level 3 (2012)

Despite closing for a very mixed bag of local acts and a touring band as eardrum shattering as Host, Sterling Black and the rest of the gang put on a fine performance yesterday for their Sunday matinee punk show in Portland.

Too bad everyone left to go to work or to church or wherever/whatever people do after 6 o'clock on Sundays...


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Song of the Day - Prayers

Pill Friends - Prayers from 420 Love Songs (second 40) (2013)

This little number comes from a compilation of love songs mostly by the people associated with Teen Suicide, Julia Brown, Infinity Crush, and Ricky Eat Acid. It's actually the second compilation of 40 songs compiled for this project so far and there's a lot more to come.

You can check out all the tracks and a little write up about them on the 420 Love Songs tumblr.


The tagline to this project is: "it's like Magnetic Fields but not as good".

I'd say it's just a lot more lo-fi.

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Song of the Day - Paper Thin

RVIVR - Paper Thin from The Beauty Between (2013)

The Beauty Between is RVIVR's new album released just yesterday after being pushed back for almost a year.

"Paper Thin" is currently my favorite track with "The Hunger Suite I. Go Away" creeping close behind.



You can grab the whole album for free (or by donation ;) ) at the Rumbletowne Records homepage or pay 10 punk dollars for it on their Bandcamp.

"Paper Thin" can also be heard on RVIVR's Belebend 7-inch along with the demo version of "Wrong Way/One Way".

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Song of the Day - Blurry

Captain Hollow - Blurry from Blurry $iNGLE (2013)



Maine's only emo band has a mega hot new single out and rumors of a new album a hundred years in the works. Supposedly the new album will be called "Greatest Hits" which I think is really dumb. Maybe because that's what I wanted to name my first album when I was kid and had dreams of becoming a big rock star some day...

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Song of the Day - Ocean, Quick!

Real Kind - Ocean, Quick! from Hard Red Winter (sketch) (2012)



Real Kind is the humble moniker of Marissa Owens from my favorite place, Portland, Maine.

A more fancy and full version of Hard Red Winter will be available in April.

I think this version sounds great as it is, though. Just sayin'...

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