Featured Track: New Roman Times – Smoke In Your Disguise

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Featured Track: Metric – Help I’m Alive

Metric “Help I’m Alive” (mp3) from “Fantasies” (Arts & Crafts Mexico) More On This Album Formed in Toronto but, at various times, based in Montreal, London, New York and L.A., Metric boasts the sort of history that requires one of those connect-the-dots redlined maps you...

Featured Track: J Walkers – When I Got You in My Life

J Walkers “When I Got You in My Life” (mp3) from “All We Can Do” (Caprimusic / GLP) Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Stream from Rhapsody Buy at Amazon MP3 More On This Album Since 2005, this Texas rock band has been turning heads around the country. The band has been...

Featured Track: Goonies Never Say Die – Everyone Comes To Life

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Featured Track: Bomba Estereo – Fuego

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Featured Track: The Hermit – Si Vous Me Quittez

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Featured Artist Free Download – Bombay Dub Orchestra

Featured Artist Free Download: Bombay Dub Orchestra “Mumtaz” (mp3) from “Traveler ‘06″ (Six Degrees Travel Series) Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic More On This Album Welcome to a world of cinematic lushness, orchestral delights, global voices, rhythms, vintage...

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