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Featured Albums
for being sick of knowing every song you hear!

Allah-Las demos

by: Allah-Las

Track List

• Catamaran
• Long Journey
• The Other Place
• Don't Wanna Hear No More
• Don't You Forget It
• No Voodoo
• Don't Need Enemies

EP II

by: Blac Jesus & The Experimentalists

Track List

• F Blues
• Shake Shake Shake
• Late After Midnight
• Had Me Goin'
• Mr. Sadly

I Heart LA

by: Dead Dawn

Track List

• Soulless City
• circus song
• Live Near You
• Radio
• The Howling

Backwards From the Dead

by: Down and Outlaws

Track List

• Burning Off
• Flinch (make you cry)
• Truth Be Told
• Took a Ride
• Talk to Ghosts
• Bacwards From the Dead

Juleah EP

by: JuleahDownload This Album

Track List

• What Soulmates Do
• You Believe
• Prima Facie Loser
• Wavesliding

Unfortunate End EP

by: Kissing CousinsDownload This Album

Track List

• You Bring Me Down
• Throw Her Body In The River
• Granny Get Your Gun
• Pale White

Language of Shapes

by: Language of ShapesDownload This Album

Track List

• Now We've Seen the Dead
• Cage
• Copper Spiral Gate
• Hidden Hand
• Blood in the Rain
• Jaws of a Friend
• Hunab Khu
• Queen of Space

Mr.Elevator & the Brain Hotel

by: Mr.Elevator & the Brain HotelDownload This Album

Track List

• I Want You
• Nico
• Mermaid Song
• Quazar
• Sunshine
• Grape Jelly (Jam)
• Don't Hold Back
• My Purple I
• Cosmic Bloom
• Infinity

Pleasing Illusions

by: My Drunken Haze

Track List

• Endless Fairytale
• Sweet Sixteen
• Pleasing Illusions

One Body

by: Sons Of An Illustrious Father

Track List

• We Will Do Great Things
• Solution: Burn It!
• Mercy
• Mr. Nobody
• 240 Miles
• We Are Born And We Die
• We Are Dead And Reborn

Tall Tales and the Silver Lining

by: Tall Tales and The Silver Lining

Track List

• Piece of You
• Desert Rose
• Rhythm of the Sky
• Salty Dog
• Hometown
• Go Alone
• Collar to the Wind
• Wild One
• Old Bones
• Good Time
• Phantom Beard
• Till Summer Comes

songs of love and despair

by: The ABIGAILS

Track List

• Satan Taps My Head
• Black Hell
• Let's Elope
• I'll Be Waiting
• The Waiting Game
• Nobody But You
• Without Your Love
• The Shadow Of Our Darkness
• Space And Time

I'm Back/Back & Forth 7"

by: The Blank Tapes

Track List

• I'm Back
• Back & Forth

Respect The Van

by: The Brothers Comatose

Track List

• Modern Day Sinners
• Pie For Breakfast
• The Scout
• 120 East
• Strings
• Morning Time
• Feels Like The Devil
• Pennies Are Money Too
• Sleep
• The Van Song
• Blackbirds

The Do Its

by: The Do-Its

Track List

• Bring It On
• Check Your Cheek

Gay Thoughts & Feelin Good 7-inch

by: The Growlers

Track List

• Gay Thoughts
• Feelin Good

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