The mixtape was due to drop today at some point… but due to a busy new work schedule, it’s been delayed. Fret not, however, as the tape will arrive tomorrow night for your listening pleasure.

In the meantime, make plans to head to the Jersey shore and see these two great shows!

Friday June 18 at Alternate Destination
3305 Bayshore Road suite 10 North Cape May, NJ.
Magnus Magnus, With Our Teeth, Debtor, and one more tba.
$5 at the door. Doors open at 8:30

Sunday June 20 at Alternate Destination
3305 Bayshore Road suite 10 North Cape May, NJ.
Holding Armor, Sleep For Sleepers, and I Am Terrified.
$7 at the door. Doors open at 8:30

I mentioned that the Illect Christmas album was gonna be available on iTunes… Wait no longer…

Download from iTunes today.

Some updates for my readers:

-Beginnning Sunday, TPM will be presenting the 13 Days of Christmas. There will be free stuff, cool Christmas related posts and articles, and tons of music of the holiday variety… including a killer mixtape of Christmas/Holiday music on Friday the 18th.

-Speaking of that mixtape, there’s still time to submit stuff for it if you are an artist, band, or a remixer… all submissions to me via email by Wednesday the 15th.

-Not really related to my site, but Hold Fast has a cool new message board, check it out: holdfast.freeforums.org.

-In the New Year look for some crazy cool contests, including out first REVERSE RemixThis! Contest, a contest that vocalists, rappers, remixers, and karaoke superstars will love sinking their teeth into. Other new contests, reviews, interviews, and surprises abounding will also make their way onto TPM after the holidays.

Thanks, as always, for stopping by.

Velvet Blue Music is at it again, doing what they do best… releasing stellar EPs that showcase bands that most of you have never heard, but should.

Super special edition vinyl editions of The Langley Sisters from London are now available. Each copy is pressed on white vinyl and numbered. Only 400 copies, so act fast by hitting up velvetbluemusic.com and ordering your copy today. Each comes with a download code, so that besides the vinyl copy, you will also have the tracks as MP3s to listen to on your iPod, cell phone, or whatever other digital music device you own.

Illect just dropped a new Christmas album, which will be available on iTunes very soon… but you don’t have to wait, get your copy for only $7.99 directly from illect.com.

Not sure? New to Illect? Well, look at this track listing and you’ll be sure. MG!, LA Symph, and the Idiots alone should be enough convincing.

1. Sintax the Terrific – Snow Day
2. Scribbling Idiots – Jingle Bell Knock
3. L.A. Symphony – It’s Christmas
4. Sintax the Terrific – Immanuel
5. Page One, Theory Hazit, MG! the Visionary and DJ Because – We Three Kings
6. L.A. Symphony – Christmas Song
7. Elias – Maria
8. Caramel Skillington – Salvation’s Army
9. Sivion – Celebrate the Son
10. Sintax the Terrific – Lament of the Diamond Star

Orenda Fink will release Ask the Night on October 6. Download free track here and then head out next week to pick up your copy at your local mom and pop shop.

Old Canes will release Feral Harmonic on October 20. If you aren’t familiar with Old Canes, it is a project from Appleseed Cast frontman, Chris Crisci. Here’s another free track from the folks at Saddle Creek, so snag it and make sure to send Crisci and crew some love.

Saddle Creek also recently signed Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson (ain’t that a mouthful?). Miles follows up 2008’s excellent self-titled record with Summer of Fear, out digitally now with the CD to follow on October 20 and the 2LP version on November 24. Holy crap, another free MP3.

There’s a tone else going on at Saddle Creek, but I am getting tired of typing, so here’s just a few more free downloads. Enjoy!

-Land of Talk – May You Never
-The Rural Alberta Advantage – Don’t Haunt This Place
-Cursive – From the Hips
-O+S double shot: Permanent Scar and We Do What We Want To

For more, go to saddle-creek.com.

Ok, so I’ve been a slacker… nearly a week after the scheduled date of last Tuesday, I still haven’t had my final sitdown with Shael of the Rileys, but I will soon. Promise! Here’s what else is in store for my loyal TPM readers.

-I am sending the remixes to Cook tonight or tomorrow. Both he and I will give each a score of 1 to 10 (1-5 points for uniqueness and 1-5 points for sheer awesomeness), then we’ll choose the win by adding up the two scores and seeing who fares best. Tiebreakers will go to Uno Mas for final decision, even though I haven’t asked him yet. Winner unveiled on Monday, for this month’s mixtape!

-In addition to the winner of this contest, there is still some room on next month’s Monthly Mixtape which drops on Mixtape Monday (first Monday of each month). Holla!

-I have a few upcoming reviews: Weatherbox, Sebastien Grainger, and the85bears (for Decapolis. Perhaps, movie reviews of District 9 and Nerdcore Rising, as well. Read ‘em, love ‘em, live ‘em.

-I found this at Walmart today: PURE AWESOMENESS. Here’s what Mary Ellen Quinn has to say on Amazon.

This may be the most wacky by-product of the busy Jane Austen fan-fiction industry—at least among the spin-offs and pastiches that have made it into print. In what’s described as an “expanded edition” of Pride and Prejudice, 85 percent of the original text has been preserved but fused with “ultraviolent zombie mayhem.” For more than 50 years, we learn, England has been overrun by zombies, prompting people like the Bennets to send their daughters away to China for training in the art of deadly combat, and prompting others, like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, to employ armies of ninjas. Added to the familiar plot turns that bring Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy together is the fact that both are highly skilled killers, gleefully slaying zombies on the way to their happy ending. Is nothing sacred? Well, no, and mash-ups using literary classics that are freely available on the Web may become a whole new genre. What’s next? Wuthering Heights and Werewolves?

-Here’s a last minute shot at free music… if you go sign up for Hellogoodbye’s mailing list right now, you will get a free EP in your email tomorrow. I did it, so why don’t you?

-And… last, but certainly not least, there seems to be TONS going on at indie label Saddle Creek.. look back here later this week for some updates, including free tracks from great Saddle Creek bands!

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