Free Music Give-A-Way: The Melvins 'Pinkus Abortion Technician' LP

Proto-Grunge godfathers The Melvins will be heading to Louisville on May 20th at Headliners Music Hall in support of their 27th album 'Pinkus Abortion Technician' which was released two weeks ago on Ipecac Recordings.

In anticipation of their show we are giving away a CD copy of  Pinkus Abortion Technician and will mail it direct to your home! Just share our post on Facebook or send us an email to enter. We will pick a winner on May 8th.




We will also be giving away tickets to the show at our weekly Vinyl Nite on Tuesday May 15th at Galaxie Bar on Market street.

Melvins with All Souls Show info here.

Package Give-a-way: Melvins new CD + 2 Tix to 8/18 Show @ headliners

Beloved cult group The Melvins are on tour right now in support of their new album BASSES LOADED, and we have a CD copy + 2 Tickets to their show on August 18th at Headliners to give away! Just comment on this post with your name, or send an email here by Wednesday August 10th and you could win both the CD and Tickets!

The new album, Basses Loaded,  features six different bass players including Krist Novoselic (Nirvana), Jeff Pinkus (Butthole Surfers), Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle) and Steve McDonald (Redd Kross/OFF!).  The August 18th show will feature lead man King Buzzo, drummer Dale Crover, and Steve McDonald on bass.

Read our review of The Melvins last show in Louisville Here.

L to R: Dale, Buzz, & Steve

Headliners August 18th. Doors 8:00pm Show 9:00pm,  18 and over. $20. 

More info Here.

2/2 Louisville Is For Lovers Preview Listening Party/Photo Exhibit @ Haymarket

There will be a Preview Listening Party at Haymarket Whiskey Bar on Tuesday 2/2/2016  from 6-9pm for the new Louisville Is For Lovers 2016 'LIFE' compilation LP.
There will also be a photographic exhibition of bands from Louisville Is For Lovers albums over the last 15 years taken by photographer Nik Vechery. A silent auction of the prints will go to fund Louisville Is For Lovers Releases, and 5 lucky people will walk away with a FREE advanced copy of the LP! (21+ 6-9pm. FREE). Further event info here.

Pleasure Boys photo by Nik Vechery

Quiet Hollers/Shadwick Wilde photo by Nik Vechery

White Reaper photo by Nik Vechery

Ticket-Give-A-Way: Cash O'Riley 3/7 @ Third Street Dive

Michigan Rockabilly crooner and One-Man-Band Cash O'Riley will be making his Louisville debut on Saturday March 7th at 3rd Street Dive with The Bourbonville Buskers (10PM $5) and we have 2 tickets as well as a CD of his album, Booze Lust Lies and Heartache, to give away.

Please leave a message here or send me an email to louisvilleisforlovers@gmail.com and you could win a couple tickets or a FREE CD. We will post a winner Sunday Feb.22nd.

Free Music for your Summer Soundtrack

The weather is changing, you are cutting your pants into jean shorts, and  you are almost ready for that summer road trip. all you need now is a soundtrack for your summer fun, and we got you covered! here is a list of some absolutely free downloads to get your summer jam started  right.

Basement Up + Jay Elly - The Get Back (2014)
The Basement Up crew from Lexington Ky has doing doing some fine work lately, including a FREE EP from nov. 2013 (Who They Thought We Were, find it here), and a brand new track released just this week called The Get Back (grab it here) with Jay Elly. their website boasts "In an over saturated art form we are increasingly mindful of quality." Hopefully you will agree.

Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap (2013)
37FLOOD writer Logan Nichols told me about this album "it's the future of Hip Hop" I don't know about that but it is a damn uplifting album, and has recently hit certified platinum. If you are one of the few that hasn't grabbed this free album do it now.

DMX – The Weigh In (2012)

It’s easy to dismiss DMX due to his off stage antics, and let’s face it; his personal life has exceeded  R. Kelly proportions.  In 2013 alone he has been arrested 5 times for really stupid things and is currently in a mental institution. But we can’t forget his first 5 albums hit like a brick before his tour of correctional facilities. And even now, exiled in South Carolina, and in between incoherent video diary rants, he is still slaying tracks. In 2012 he released 2 hard hitting LPs, the first ‘The Weigh In’ for free (in current hip-hop mixed tape style) as a prelude to ‘Undisputed’. I think both albums  are well worth any DMX fan's collection, but I keep finding myself going back to the free download, as it is more gritty and with unabashed inflections that read like a prison diary that DMX was so good at in his early albums such as ‘It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot.’ Start with the free album, it costs you nothing, and if you need more grab ‘Undisputed’ as he could definitely use a win right about now. (for further viewing, isDMXinjail.com will let you know if DMX is in jail at any given time).

Death Grips - Exmilitary (2011)

Logan also said "It's the future of Hip Hop" about Deaths Grips, and on this one I will agree, even if their personal future is uncertain. Logan also said "there is a 100% chance that they will be dead in 4 years." I might also agree with this. Their completely insane punk rap explosion will force you to reconsider everything you know about music. and possibly reality. and their offstage antics might make you want to smack them, but if alienating the world around them is their conduit for making albums like Exmilitary then so be it.
It's my favorite of their impressive 4 albums in 3 years, and a great introduction to the force that is Death Grips. download it for free on their website. 


Team Totoro - Invites You to Enjoy LASER BEATS (2013) 
Ok we have told you about this one before, but if you are looking for summer jams with Morris Day style antics look no further than Louisville's own Team Totoro. the tracks 'Rompin' and Stompin' and 'Southern Rep' is summer-in-the-south style certified. Download it here for free, and it comes with extra bits and pieces as well for your summer pleasure.  

37FLOOD has here by declared summer 2014 THE SUMMER OF BALLIN' and now you got the jams to prove it..  But If you need more, read our 'Best Free Downloads' list from Summer 2011.

New Release: Foxy Shazam (FREE)

Foxy Shazam just announced and uploaded their new album "Gonzo" to their website this morning. In their press release, the band states:

"This is the band's first independent release since 2005, self-produced and recorded entirely live in one room in running order, vocals and all, with famed engineer Steve Albini. Gone are the theatrical backup harmonies, stripped are the multilayered guitar tracks, wiped away is the polished finish of a pop producer's mentality. In their place remains a smoldering, gutsy work of pure desire. Fervor. Agitation. Honesty. Insanity. Rock and roll, but so much more."

Along with the new release, the band announced a North American tour set to start next month. The album is available as a free download here, and there's also a vinyl pre-order option. Tour dates are posted below.

MAY 27 Harrisburg, PA, Fed Live
MAY 29 Boston, MA, The Sinclair
MAY 30 New York, NY, Bowery Ballroom
MAY 31 Philadelphia, PA, Theatre of Living Arts
JUN 02 Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Soundstage
JUN 03 Richmond, VA, Canal Club
JUN 05 Nashville, TN, Exit/In
JUN 06 Columbia, SC, New Brookland Tavern
JUN 07 Charlotte, NC, Amos Southend
JUN 09 Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Culture Room
JUN 10 Tampa, FL, Orhpeum
JUN 12 Orlando, FL, The Social
JUN 13 Jacksonville, FL, Freebird
JUN 14 Atlanta, GA, Terminal West
JUN 17 St. Louis, MO, Firebird
JUN 18 Omaha, NE, The Waiting Room
JUN 20 Minneapolis, MN, Mill City Nights
JUN 21 Chicago, IL, Lincoln Hall
JUN 22 Detroit, MI, Magic Stick
JUN 24 Toronto, ON, Lee's Palace
JUN 25 Buffalo, NY, Town Ballroom
JUN 27 Cleveland, OH, Grog Shop
JUN 28 Columbus, OH, Newport Music Hall
JUL 12 Cincinnati, OH, Bunbury Music Festival

3/16 Soweto Gospel Choir (FREE music give Away)!

Sunday March 16th at the Brown Theatre The  Soweto Gospel Choir will be stopping in all the way from Soweto South Africa for a 2 night engagement. This 52 member choir has been mixing traditional hymns, African gospel, and secular pop  for over a decade. To commemorate their 10 year mark and arrival in Louisville, we are giving away a copy of their new CD 'Divine Decade.' just leave a comment here or email louisvilleisforlovers@gmail.com and tell us one of the actors from the 1989's A Dry White Season, a film about the 1976 uprising in Soweto (or just leave your name, it's up to you) and we'll announce a winner around March 1st.


The Soweto Gospel Choir will be at The Brown 3/16 & 17. tickets start at just $15.

FREE: Team Totoro Invites You to enjoy Laser Beats

Two years ago Team Totoro gave away their "Broken Monocles" single away for free on Christmas Day; this time they are giving away their entire brand new album LASER BEATS. Recorded over 5 years and in over 4 states across the US, Laser beats is a 19-track sweep across the entire genre of Breakdance and early Hip Hop.

On Feb.14th, Team Totoro marks it's 15th anniversary, and Laser Beats was slated for that release date, but is being released early in support of the Rapocalypse New Year's Eve show at Haymarket Whiskey Bar (331 E. Market st) with Citizens United and Rmllw2llz W/ DJ Godfather. also FREE.

The Gallery Singers EP free download

In anticipation of the upcoming THERE IS NO ONE: Louisville Is For Lovers Tribute to Palace Brothers (on shelves Tuesday Nov. 26) Louisville Is For Lovers is giving away a free EP Download of The Gallery Singers (at the electric church of the tambourine) playing a few Palace songs, a few originals, and a Jason Molina song, in Palace brothers DIY fashion. download the album 'WE WON'T MAKE IT' here.

The Gallery Singers At The Electric Church Of The Tambourine
"WE WON'T MAKE IT"  EP

THERE IS NO ONE: Louisville Is For Lovers Tribute to Palace Brothers  is out Nov.26th and available locally at Matt Anthony Record Shop and Guest Room and distributed by Drag City Records.

9/16 The very last SUMMER 7" SERIES event! WHISTLE PEAK, THE GALLERY SINGERS & free music give away: THE MACK 7"!

The very last edition of the Summer 7'' Series will be on Sept 16th on the glassworks rooftop with WHISTLE PEAK, THE GALLERY SINGERS and special guest THE MACK with a Free split 7" of Whistle Peak+The gallery Singers at the door! limited edition of 300, this 7" vinyl record is the very last in the series and the very first ever to be printed on Magic Vinyl! the more you play magic vinyl, you'll notice different versions of the song playing at different times, it's MAGIC!

and to help get the word out about this show we are giving away 20 copies of The Mack/Party Girls split 7" to given away at random to 20 people who pre-order tickets to the show here!






18+, $8 now/$10 at the door, with indoor space reserved for rain.

Winner! Les Debutantes Give-A-Way: Jerry S.

Jerry S. is the Winner of our Les Debutantes 4 cd set "Centennial"! there are only one hundred of these in print so check it out, and their weekly podcasts  at www.debutantesmusic.com!
Jerry, look for your new CDs in the mail!

Les Debutantes is playing at Phoenix Hill Tavern on August 28th at 9:30 as part of the No Kill Louisville Benefit concert.

Free Music Give-A-way: The Deloreans & Scott Carney vinyl record 8/19

   

Louisville Is For Lovers is giving away a rare signed test press of the Scott Carney/The Deloreans 7" for their show at Glassworks Rooftop on Friday August 19th. 

(tickets just $8 pre-order, or $10 at door. 18+ 9pm)

All you need to do to grab this 1 out of 5 printing record is pre-order your ticket to the show at Louisvilleisforlovers.com by midnight Wednesday 8/17 to be entered, and we will post the winner  thursday morning. (season pass holders and people who have already ordered tix are automatically entered, and your name is entered for every ticket you get). Good Luck!

listening to the Scott Carney side of the test press at Palimino Record Plant

Free ticket give away: 8/22 Kyle Andrews @ Zanzabar

The electronic artist Kyle Andrews, who's new record, Robot Learn Love, will be released  on August 16th is playing on August 22 at Zanzabar, and we are giving away a ticket to the show and a copy of the new album!
just leave your name (first and AT LEAST last initial) and we will pick a winner at random on August 20th!

Free Music Give-A-way: Les Debutantes

A Little under a year ago, on 10-10-10, a little known louisville band called Les Debutantes completed and released their first album,  4 CD box set of 100 original songs with guest musicians including My Morning Jacket, Wax fang, Ultra Pulverize and others. It's an amazing feat for any band, especially for a band's first turn out.
and if that isn't a big enough project to tackle, the band is now on a new mission; posting a new podcast each week on their website, one for every track on their album..
Every week Les Debutantes will post a new podcast on their website www.debutantesmusic.com
and to help get the word out on their new weekly podcasts, we are giving away a hand numbered limited edition of 100 copy of their 100 song album Centennial to someone and a Debutantes t-shirt to someone else!
Just leave a comment with your name, and the name of one person who played on Centennial and we will pick a winner at random on August 21st!

Les Debutantes have also just released a new EP 'Vignettes' available for free here.

Kentucky band, Sleeper Agent, gets national attention

Bowling Green born Sleeper Agent is getting national attention on their new single Get It Daddy, which is the single of the week on Itunes and it's video was released exclusively on Spin.com on tuesday.

The single "Get It Daddy" is available for free download on itunes

Best releases of 1st half of 2011

for awhile I have been thinking about a 'best of the first part of 2011 releases' post, and now that we are sliding into the second half, I guess it's time to start looking back at 1ST HALF OF 2011 BEST RELEASES! 
Some of my favorite albums this year are remixes for some reason (Gayngs & Wugazi), and the good news is remix albums are usually free these days (and we give you the links)! and, no surprise, my favorite releases of 2011 are local releases, I think some of our local albums are blowing national releases out of the water... The Deloreans, Soft Cheque, and Fervor albums are must haves!

Best National Releases:

Gayngs 'Affiliyated"  3/12 FREE DOWNLOAD

Bonnie "Prince" Billy &  Phantom Family Halo "The Mindeater" 5/14

Wugazi '13 Chambers' LP 6/13 FREE DOWNLOAD

Bon Iver 'bon iver' LP 6/21

We can't have a BEST OF list without a  Best Of Local Releases:

The Deloreans "American Craze" LP 1/18

 The Fervor "Arise Great Warrior" LP 2/8

Softcheque LP 3/15

 Giving Up/Putting Out cassette 6/21

(and Lucky Pineapple gave out a CD of all new music at their last show, if you can find it, it's well worth having)

Best Local 7" Releases:

Lucky Pineapple/Prizzy Prizzy Please 'Yellow Belt' split 7" 4/1

The Deloreans Starfish 7" 5/6

 The Bad reeds & Workers split 7" on yellow marblevinyl 5/27

 Adventure & second story man split 7" on blue vinyl 6/24

share with us your Best Of lists in a comment below 

Our Dylan covers Bob Dylan

One of our contributing writers Dylan, has a new album out today on bandcamp.com. it is his first release and is a 7 song EP of Bob Dylan covers. i didn't know this, but Dylan's full name is Robert Dylan Greenwood, and he is named after Bob Dylan. So it makes since that he should pay homage to the man in which he is named after. I was named after a gravestone in a germantown cemetery, so I suppose I will one day pay homage to that man by making a similar gravestone, but hopefully not for awhile. 

Dylan's album is available for free right now, with an album of original material to follow shortly. 

FREE MUSIC GIVEAWAY! JK Mabry's Familiar Stranger

Jk Mabry's new album "Familiar Stranger" is out now (Ear X-Tacy, Itunes, Amazon) and we have a couple copies to give A way! leave your name and we will pick 2 winners at random on July 14th.
& we can mail them to you.

Jk Mabry is playing At Lisa's on 7/8 (Louisville) & at the standard hotel on 8/31 (LA) 

5/26 The Foot @ the hideaway (free music download)

The Denver jam band The Foot will be playing at The Hideaway Saloon on Thursday 5/26 (9pm 21+) for only $3. They have a new 4 song Live album for free download at Bandcamp.com

THE FOOT

Condra's 'BEST OF' List/Give-a-way WINNER!

Over the last month we have been posting our BEST OF lists from 2010 and the last Decade.. and we asked you to share your best of lists too..
and to sweeten the deal we offered up a give -a -way: a copy of the new Deloreans CD "American Craze" or a signed copy of the Louisville Is For Lovers CD 'Anniversary' and reader CONDRA has won!
Below is Condra's Favorite Albums of 2000-2010
(the ones that come immediately to mind):
Rain Machine, Rain Machine
My Morning Jacket, At Dawn
Tom Waits, Glitter & Doom Live
Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
Elvis Perkins in Dearland
Wax Fang, La La Land
Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Pt 1
Man Man, Rabbit Habits
Fruit Bats, Mouthfuls
Girl Talk, All Day
Dangermouse, the Grey Album

Danger Mouse "The Grey Video"

Condra, send us an email with your choice of either CD, and a place to send it.. and thanks for sharing!