Five albums into their career, Bloomington, Indiana’s Murder By Death have truly honed in on something special with their newest full length, Good Morning, Magpie. Plucking all the high points from albums past, and exploring new territory along the way, MBD’s newest effort touts their signature Americana gothic sound behind singer Adam Turla’s whiskey-soaked, haunting baritone howl. Just prior to their current U.S. tour, Turla took a break from cleaning squid to chat with Michael Dauphin about touring, writing, DIY ethics, labels and the lack of female producers in the music industry.

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Starting tonight, the Briggs will be performing at Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA during Los Angeles Kings home NHL playoff games. “This is L.A.” comes from the band’s 2008 full-length Come All You Madmen and has been played before and during each Kings home game in the regular season.

The Kings’ first two home playoff games against the Vancouver Canucks are tonight and Wednesday, April 21.
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Ten indie music blogs have joined forces to give away the upcoming full-length from Philadelphia, PA’s Everyone Everywhere. The ten sitess will each host one song from the LP for free download, starting today and going through the album’s official release date, May 4, 2010. The Ripple Effect is hosting the album’s opener, “Tiny Planet,” right here.

Tiny Engines will be releasing the LP.
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Gogol Bordello have launched a stream of their new album, Trans-Continental Hustle. The record will drop on April 27, 2010 and is their first for Columbia Records.

Check out the whole album here.
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The inaugural Rad Fest is a little less than a month away (May 14-15, to be exact), giving folks who enjoy budget beer, flannel and bad facial hair another city upon which to converge (in this case, Wilmington, NC) and party to the sounds of bands such as Leatherface, None More Black, The Sainte Catherines, New Mexican Disaster Squad, The Riot Before, Lemuria and a slew of others.

Today, we’re stoked to team up with the organizers of the festival to give away two pairs of weekend passes as well as two pairs of Rad Fest t-shirts, designed by Sharkguts.
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