Some say that’s too little for a site that is among the top 100 visited internet sites globally, and others say it’s plenty for a site recently embroiled in as much controversy as it has been.

For the owners of TBP, they can only say it’s enough.

Everyone wave goodbye to what The Pirate Bay once was. Whatever it turns into – usable or not – it will never be the same.

Yael Naim. Yael Naim album

Yael Naim is the second studio album by Yael Naim. It contains the hit single “New Soul”.
In Naim’s birth country of France her self-titled album was released on October 22, 2007. On iTunes the album was available as a digital download world-wide but did not gain much popularity until February 2008 when Apple ads with her song New Soul started to broadcast.

In the United States and Canada the album was released in stores on March 18, 2008. Mostly because of the popularity of the song New Soul it debuted at #15 in Canada and #55 in the United States.

Yael Naim’s voice has an airy, innocent quality to it, whether she’s singing in English, French, or soft, rapid Hebrew. Some of the tracks, like “Paris,” consist of simply Naim, a strummed guitar, and a soothing cadence, though there is, of course, also “New Soul,” which is more upbeat and utilizes some fun instrumentation.

Despite her history, Naim has never toured the States. “I’m excited to play over in America,” she says. “When I was making the record, I never expected anything like this would happen.”

Tracks:

“Paris” – 3:08
“Too Long” – 4:43
“New Soul” – 3:45
“Levater” – 3:25
“Shelcha” – 4:39
“Lonely” – 4:06
“Far Far” – 4:21
“Yashanti” – 3:54
“7 Baboker” – 3:33
“Lachlom” – 4:23
“Toxic” – 4:27
“Pachad” – 4:28
“Endless Song of Happiness” – 3:00

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The Lodger was formed inside the mind of Ben Siddall inside the squalor of an LS6 bedsit.

After 3 sold-out limited 7s (“Many Thanks For Your Honest Opinion” Dance to the Radio, “Watching” Double Dragon, “Let Her Go” Angular Records) and touring around the UK and Europe with bands such as The Long Blondes and The Research, the group released their debut album “Grown-Ups”, produced by Alan Smyth and James Ford, in June 2007 on Angular Records in the UK, Slumberland Records in the US, Fabtone in Japan and Speak N Spell in Australia.

Critical acclaim for the album followed, particularly on the blogs; the band have featured heavily on the elbo.ws charts since the release along with heavy rotation on US college radio and other stations worldwide.

The 2nd album is titled “Life Is Sweet” and was released on May 2008.

There’s a good chance that The Lodger will end up being one of those groups you’ll either love or hate but who will divide the room completely, one way or the other.
There’s a little bit of The Smiths about them, a little bit of Suede and just a dash of The Libertines, a patchwork quilt you can snuggle down into as you lie in an urban bedsit contemplating lost girlfriends, meaningless futures and why the universe and your music collection revolves around diminished sevenths.

Their lyrics sit tantalisingly between fatalism, broken dreams and hopeless optimism. “You’re a cruel, cruel girl/but sublime”, sings Ben Siddall on Falling Down; “It’s a funny affair/Trying to address the people/you don’t care about anymore”, goes one of the most memorable lines on The Conversation, while on Nothing Left To Say he warns us that, “There’s an innocence you see/of not knowing much about tomorrow/and the places that we’ll be/sounds so hollow”.

Tracks:

1. My Finest Hour
2. The Good Old Days
3. Falling Down
4. Honey
5. The Conversation
6. A Hero’s Welcome
7. A Year Since Last Summer
8. An Unwelcome Guest
9. Running Low
10. Nothing Left (To Say)
11. Famous Last Words

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Mudhoney. The Lucky Ones

The Lucky Ones is the ninth album by the band Mudhoney. It was released on May 20, 2008.

Mudhoney have never really received the respect they deserve over the years. To the uninformed, Nirvana were the grunge band that started it all, but trace the lineage back, and right at the start of that poorly monikered genre were Mudhoney.

Drummer Dan Peters filled in for Nirvana inbetween Chad Channing and Dave Grohl and original ‘Honey bass player Matt Lukin was a founding member of super sludge outfit Melvins. All in all Mudhoney’s constituent parts have been at the foundations of one the biggest musical movements of the ’90s. As a whole, it would be easy to argue that Mudhoney have been cruelly overlooked in favour of the likes of Soundgarden, Alice In Chains and Pearl Jam.

Recorded in 3 and a half days, this is vibrant rock at its best. It shows that while Mudhoney can create one hell of a cathartic noise, there was always a perfectly formed tune at its heart.

The whole album is a bundle of fuzzed up joy always sounding like Mudhoney at their prime. The sound isn’t new, but then it never really was. Perhaps the most vital point is that this is an album that sounds like a band playing. It hasn’t been lovingly ironed out and stripped of its charms. You can practically hear the strings being hit, the feedback is right there, and Arm’s voice is about as good as it has ever been.

The Lucky Ones is unlikely to garner any new fans for Mudhoney, which is a shame because this is one of the best albums of their career. For those who like their rock raw and full of attitude; this is how garage rock should be done, and there isn’t a band around who do it like Mudhoney.

Tracks:

I’m Now (2:40)
Inside Out Over You (3:25)
The Lucky Ones (4:52)
Next Time (3:01)
And the Shimmering Lights (3:05)
The Open Minds (2:26)
What’s This Thing (2:54)
Running Out (3:28)
Tales of Terror (3:17)
We Are Rising (4:30)
New Meaning (2:39)

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Islands. Arm’s Way

Arm’s Way is the second studio album by Montreal-based Indie band, Islands. It is scheduled for release on May 20, 2008 on CD and download. The album’s title is a play on the words “harm’s way”. The album leaked online on April 11, 2008.

Arm’s Way finds Islands setting sail distinctly away from the indie-yelping that characterized their debut, Return to the Sea. The Montreal band spends most of their sophomore effort shifting gears between various styles, opening up with a string of songs featuring spaghetti western guitars and ominous lyrics.

In the middle of the album, though, Islands turn to blissful ‘80s pop for inspiration, and in channeling The Cure and The Cars, they really hit their stride. “Kids Don’t Know Shit” and “Life in Jail” are two of the album’s best, and the latter features a classic Nick T. lyrical non-sequitur: “If you want to be a shark / you better learn to stay awake.” Though Arm’s Way is a resounding success when it’s joyful, the album hits a high note with a darker song. “I Feel Evil Creeping In” is a slow, haunting expression of diary-only darkness, including the confession, “My blood is dirty / and I like it.”

Islands sound like a band who are willing to try everything to find their sound, and they fit a lot of experimentation into Arm’s Way. The album starts slowly, but there are some true gems packed towards the album’s conclusion that prove to be well worth the patience.

Tracks:
1. The Arm
2. Pieces Of You
3. J’aime Vous Voir Quitter
4. Abominable Snow
5. Creeper
6. Kids Don’t Know Shit
7. Life In Jail
8. In The Rushes
9. We Swim
10. To A Bond
11. I Feel Evil Creeping In
12. Vertigo (If It’s A Crime)

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Lupe Fiasco. The Cool

Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool, commonly referred to as simply The Cool, is the second studio album by Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco, released on December 18, 2007. The Cool is a loose concept album, based on a song and its titular character from his debut album Food & Liquor of the same name. The album features production from Soundtrakk, Unkle, and Patrick Stump, among others. Guest appearances include, but are not limited to, GemStones, Snoop Dogg, and Matthew Santos. The album debuted at #15, moved a spot up to #14 on the Billboard 200 in its second week.

Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool was received with mostly positive reviews from music critics, with an 77 rating from review aggregator MetaCritic.com. Entertainment Weekly said “Sonically, he’s got the same kind of gratifying ADHD going on. Some tracks, like ‘Paris, Tokyo,’ contrast his Twista-style rapid-fire delivery with a lazy rhythm that’s close to smooth jazz which can comparable to A Tribe Called Quest. ‘Hello/Goodbye,’ at the other extreme, has U.K. electro outfit Unkle providing a tense rock feel.” The NY Times, hailing the album as “one of the year’s best hip-hop albums,” added that “The songs only grow more urgent as Lupe Fiasco expands his sociopolitical perspective. ‘Intruder Alert’ starts as a wary love song and broadens its topic to immigration. All Music Guide said “He is one of the most clever artists around, and as far as telling stories with rhymes goes, he’s way up there, best exemplified by ‘Hip-Hop Saved My Life’ (a gripping story about a struggling rapper) and ‘Gotta Eat’ (where Lupe’s inspiration for metaphors is a cheeseburger, yet it is no more corny than Main Source’s classic ‘Just a Friendly Game of Baseball’).”

Tracks:

1. Baba Says Cool For Thought
2. Free Chilly (Feat. Sarah Green & Gemstones)
3. Go Go Gadget Flow
4. The Coolest
5. Superstar (Feat. Matthew Santos)
6. Paris, Tokyo
7. Hi-Definition (Feat. Snoop Dogg & Pooh Bear)
8. Gold Watch
9. Hip-Hop Saved My Life (Feat. Nikki Jean)
10. Intruder Alert (Feat. Sarah Green)
11. Streets On Fire
12. Little Weapon (Feat. Bishop G & Nikki Jean)
13. Gotta Eat
14. Dumb It Down (Feat. Gemstones & Graham Burris)
15. Hello/Goodbye (Uncool) (Feat. Unkle)
16. The Die (Feat. Gemstones)
17. Put You On Game
18. Fighters (Feat. Matthew Santos)
19. Go Baby (Feat. Gemstones)

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Duffy. Rockferry album.

Meet the cool Daffy’s album – Rockferry! Rockferry is the debut album due to be released by Welsh singer Duffy on the 3rd March 2008.

The Rockferry album has generally received positive reviews from critics. The Observer, for example, gave the album a 5 out of 5, describing it as ‘a fantastic album of burning blue soul’ and drawing comparisons to Amy Winehouse and The Supremes.

On its first day of release in the UK the album sold 60,000 copies, outselling the rest of the top 10 combined and setting it on course to become one of the fastest selling debuts ever. It sold 180,000 copies in the UK alone in its first week, and consequently spent four weeks at the top spot. Despite falling to number 2 in the charts after the release of REM’s Accelerate, it again rose to the top a week later. This makes a cumulative total of 5 weeks in the number 1 spot. It is estimated to have sold around 800,000 copies worldwide so far.

In France Rockferry album entered the charts at #4 selling 21,862 copies. The next week, it reached #2 selling 22,259 copies.Rockferry stayed #2 selling 18,187 copies the third . So far the album sold +62,300 copies in France.

Tracks:

1. Rockferry
2. Warwick Avenue
3. Serious
4. Stepping Stone
5. Syrup & Honey
6. Hanging On Too Long
7. Mercy
8. Delayed Devotion
9. Scared
10. Distant Dreamer

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German techno group Scooter have knocked Madonna off the number one spot in the UK album chart.
Jumping All Over the World, the group’s first UK album since 2002, went straight in as a new entry.

Madonna’s 4 Minutes, featuring Justin Timberlake, held onto the singles top spot for a fourth week.

Jumping All Over The World is a thirteenth studio album from the masters of avant-garde pop-trance, Scooter. Featuring all of the trademark stadium techno riffs and bizarre wordplay you’d come to expect from this German combo, the album is a must for fans of the group’s previous work. Includes the single ‘Jumping All Over The World’.

Tracks:

disc 1
1. Definition
2. Jumping All Over The World
3. Question Is What Is The Question
4. Enola Gay
5. Neverending Story
6. And No Matches
7. Cambodia
8. I’m Lonely
9. Whistling Dave
10. Marian [version]
11. Lighten Up The Sky
12. Hardcore Massive
13. Jump That Rock (1)
14. Greatest Difficulty

disc 2
1. Apache Rocks The Bottom
2. One (Always Hardcore)
3. Shake That
4. Jigga Jigga
5. Maria (I Like It Loud)
6. Night
7. Weekend
8. Nessaja
9. Logical Song
10. Posse (I Need You On The Floor)
11. Faster Harder Scooter
12. How Much Is The Fish
13. Fire
14. I’m Raving
15. Rebel Yell
16. Back In The UK
17. Endless Summer
18. Friends
19. Move Your Ass
20. Hyper Hyper

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If you’re looking for that rare album from the ’70s, Amazon’s “CreateSpace” service may have the answer for you.

The Amazon announced this week that it has teamed up with EMI Music and Sony BMG, two labels usually up for starting new trends in the digital age, to bring out-of-print albums back in full glory.

Amazon acquired CreateSpace, formerly known as CustomFlix, in July of 2005. The online service allows users to pick from select music and video content and have it burned to a custom CD or DVD.

Some of the vintage albums coming back for digital distribution include Joe Strummer’s “Earthquake Weather,” Grant Green’s “Carryin’ On,” and Henry Mancini’s “Hatari Soundtrack.”