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Feb 1, 2008

by Cesar Menendez at 8:02 PM

New in New Music Friday, two things. First, for each song posted, I'm going to list the genre, or at least my best guess. And B, for each artist I post, I'll link back to that artist page in Zune Social. From now on, when you click the band name in each of the NMF links, you'll get to their page in the Social. We're cool like that. Ok, let's get to it:

First up this week, Stereogum has a new track from What Made Milwaukie Famous (rock)
Tromboneforhire, a buddy of mine in Social is hosting a free MP3 on his site: soul singer Natalie Martin.
Head over to 'tracks for a great remix of NIN's classic "Hurt" (gothic/industrial rock?)
You Ain't no Picasso has a track from The Monkees, which he calls "delightfully psychedelic"
Sweet! Head over to MOKB for three Tapes N Tapes tracks (rock that is awesome).
Cool mashup - Vampire Weekend (rock, also awesome) vs Styles P (rap), get the MP3 over at Gorilla vs Bear.
Check out Drug Rug, over at Rockinsider, who urges "look past the name." And you should; they are awesome (rock).
And, Frightened Rabbit rock Cleveland (rock)
More in the long line of awesome covers that are awesome: check out The Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy covering Morrissey (rock), over at Aquarium Drunkard
And last but certainly not not-awesome, folk/country singer Barton Carroll has a pair of tracks at 3Hive

If you think I totally got the genre wrong, leave a comment; I'll fix. Ok, have a great weekend everybody!

Tags: new music, Friday

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Thank you SO MUCH for the genres in parenthesis ;]

by Paul at Friday, February 01, 10:16 PM

Quite cool. This is cool to be able to read about the artist in one click. Because I admit to being quite lazy and not searching on my own :D

And ZOMG, that NIN song (Hurt) is very nice.

(What does the Z in ZOMG mean, btw?)

by damien at Friday, February 01, 10:33 PM

!!! I just got my girlfriend an 8gig zune from zune originals and now the price dropped!!! Cesar, is there any way I can get the difference back? I just bought it on the 22nd.

by Mark at Saturday, February 02, 1:25 PM

@ damien: Nothing. It's just a parody of OMG and has gradually made its way into regular internet speech. Almost sarcasm it is.

by Paul at Saturday, February 02, 5:51 PM

Hi, I'm leaving this comment here in the hope that you might be able to blog an answer for me. I'm in Australia and would like to be able to connect to the Zune Community so that I can post on the forums, subscribe to Podcasts that I find from within the Zune and so forth.

Unfortunately, to do any of these things, you need an account, and when I try to create one I get the following message:

>> The Zune service is not yet available in your region.

Do you know how I can find out when the the 'Zune service' is being rolled out to other countries?

by Darren Neimke at Monday, February 04, 5:11 PM

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