Today's single spotlight is Touch You Touch You from Hot Hot Heat's Knock Knock Knock EP.

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For today's single spotlight, one of the more under appreciated Billy Joel classics--Summer Highland Falls, from the album Turnstiles.

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We hit our first soundtrack with today's single spotlight, the title track from the upcoming Beatles inspired film/musical Across The Universe.

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Today's Single Spotlight comes from a band that left us way too soon.  Wouldn't Believe It comes from The Get Up Kids last full length Guilt Show. 

I was lucky enough to be in attendance at their last concert ever.  What an amazing show.

 

We're back with another Blue October single for today's single spotlight.

Check out Let it Go from the album Foiled.

Since today's my first Single Spotlight.  Here's a great song with an appropriate title.

- The First Single by The Format

Today's single spotlight is a blast from the past, and one of R.E.M.'s most underrated songs--Fall on Me from the album Life's Rich Pageant.

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Today's single spotlight is Blah Blah Blah from the album Impeccable Blahs by Say Hi To Your Mom.

The best non-goth vampire song in recent memory...

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Today's single spotlight is Blue October's Into the Ocean from their 2006 album Foiled.

Sounds a alot like Peter Gabriel to me.

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Today's single spotlight is Aqueduct's Living a Lie from their album Or Give Me Death.

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Today's single spotlight is Merz's Verily from the album Loveheart.

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Today's single spotlight is Don't Lose Yourself by Laura Veirs from her album Saltbreakers.

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Today's single spotlight is a blast from the past--Six Months in a Leaky Boat by Split Enz from their History Never Repeats Itself greatest hits compilation.

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Today's single spotlight is:

Tom McRae's Walking to Hawaii from the album Just Like Blood.

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New Metwork Feature...

We will be spotlighting handpicked tracks from some of our favorite albums--both new and old. 

Click on the below iTunes link to have a listen and let us know what you think.

Also, send in some of your own recommendations and we'll post them on the site.

First up, Ghetto Ways by Scissors for Lefty.  

Interpol

"Our Love To Admire"

Released: July 10th 2007

Review: The first record for Capital Records for the well dressed New York based four piece since leaving the nest of Matador continues along with the usual blueprint of driving bass driven tracks, jarring guitars, and Paul Bank's baritone delivery, but this time around give the songs more time to envelop.

The album opens with "Pioneer To The Falls" which sounds like it would be a perfect soundtrack to open a David Lynch film. Dark and brooding, it sets the tone for what is a disorienting and caustic album, and is its longest track, clocking in at nearly six minutes. It follows up with "No I In Threesome," that somehow manages to redeem its horribly conceived title. Starting with what seems to continue the morose of the prior track, it picks up with a piano and drum rhythm oddly reminiscent of a old 50s rhythm and blues track, but done in a completely dark and modern way, a strange but pleasing juxtaposition.

"The Scale" tells the age old tale of unrequited love, with the vengeful line "Well I made you, and now I take you back." The guitar riff that builds, sustains, falls, and drives the piece provides the proper context of anger and lack of direction. "The Heinrich Maneuver" is a pretty straight ahead rock piece. "Mammoth" wastes no time and drives hard right from the opening note and appropriately begins with the line "Spare me the suspense" that rings throughout the track. Its one of the highlights of the album, and takes time to slow and build back up with perfect tempo. "Pace Is The Trick" gets better towards the middle, where the track gets more traction but never really reaches a truly satisfying apex. "All Fired Up" challenges all comers "i'll take you on, i'll take you all on" but doesn't convince me that its sufficiently fired up to do so. "Rest My Chemistry" is my second favorite track on the album, a reflective song that builds so nicely from the beginning, with a great riff and bass line that carries it throughout. "Who Do You Think?" is a bit of a throwaway but a decent rocker. "Wrecking Ball" is atmospheric and intoxicating, and would have been a more inspiring closer than the let down that is "Lighthouse" that the album ends with.

Seemingly less concerned with trying to put together what would resemble a record to bring them further into the mainstream, and taking over the reins at Capital with the departure of Radiohead, they instead opt to meander and build to a more satisfying crescendo. The album is morose and exhilarating all at once.

Bank's predilection for writing the most ridiculously corny lyrics, delivered in the most earnest way are the basis for a long standing argument between those who believe that Bank's is in on the joke and has deeper meaning behind those very words and is simply hiding them beneath what appears to sound on the surface to be throw away lines, while others think they're just plain cringe worthy. Banks doesn't disappoint here, with such zingers as "Show me the dirt pile and I will pray that the soul can take three stowaways." We here at The Metwork don't really care, we're just suckers for a couple of notes strung together that sound kinda cool. While Interpol seem to prove that they're little more than a one trick pony, its a pretty good trick.

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In addition to making recommendations for you to add to your Netflix queues,  The Metwork will keep you informed of what we're listening to and why you should be listening to it too...

First up... Aqueduct and their newest album "Or Give Me Death"....

Aqueduct

"Or Give Give Death"

Released:  February 20, 2007

Review:  With the advent of inexpensive home-recording technology, it makes sense that so many musicians would gravitate towards the one-person-band template. Even still, Aqueduct's third album seems to arrive alongside a glut of such projects. The former singer and guitarist for the late '90s modern rock act band Epperley, David Terry's work not only stands out by employing a host of friends to pitch in, but his knowledge of band dynamics helps the songs he plays most every instrument on escape the samey-ness that bogs down so much bedroom-pop. Terry's work has frequently been compared to Modest Mouse and Flaming Lips, but in his savvy, Nilsson-esque songwriting style and the keyboard-driven, lyric-heavy nature of his songs, perhaps a far better comparison would be his label mates the Long Winters. Imagine the Long Winters if they were far more in love with the synth and guitar textures of the '80s than the precious pop sounds of the '70s and you'd have this, a hard to pigeonhole album which greatly rewards multiple listens. --Mike McGonigal from his Amazon.com Editorial Review

The Metwork Take:  We fell in love with Aqueduct after one listen to their previous album, "I Sold Gold", best known for it's two semi-mainstream hits:  Hardcore Days & Softcore Nights and The Suggestion Box.  The two words we hear most when describing their music are "layers" and "texture", and it's probably this very complexity that makes Aqueduct's music so amenable to multiple listens.  One man musical impresario David Terry lays down subversively catchy piano and synth riffs accompanied by lyrics that alternate between making you laugh and making you question the very fabric of your own complacent existence.   We're slightly nauseous that Aqueduct's music has already been co-opted by the soundtracks of both The OC and Grey's Anatomy--slightly divesting the band of the "I knew them before you" cool kids factor.  That being said, start with "Or Give Me Death" and work your ways backwards to "I Sold Gold."   You won't be disappointed...

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