Mp3 music: Unwound

Artist: Unwound: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Indie     Unwound's discography:      Repetition    Year: 1996    Tracks: 12 Perhaps the about musically abrasive chemical group in the earth of indie-rock, Unwound specialise in a dense collection of suppression powerfulness chords rising to feedback, melding the disturbance of Sonic Youth's more than raucous passages with a rare energetic genius which rivals regular that of Fugazi. Formed in 1991 in a small town close to the indie-rock heart cracker of Olympia, Washington, Unwound was to begin with a collar of vocalist/guitarist Justin Trosper, bassist Vern Rumsey and drummer Brandt Sandeno. The band released iI singles for Kill Rock Stars and one for Gravity Records in front recording an album in early 1992. Sandeno left field the group in July -- stall release of the self-titled album until it appeared in 1995 on Unwound's possess label, Punk in My Vitamins -- and was replaced by Sara Lund, a native of Bloomington, Indiana and a other penis of Witchypoo and the Belgian Waffles. Unwound's first base gear released album was Juke Train, issued in mid-1993 on Kill Rock Stars. On the band's trey subsequent albums, recorded unrivalled per year from 1994 to 1996, Unwound rarely diverged from a biting blast on melodic phrase and address social organization, abandoning nearly elements of musicality take out for a bright use of harmony in Trosper's lines of feedback. 1998's Challenge for a Civilized Society continued their extremist traditions, and Leaves Turn Inside You followed in spring 2001.

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New band of the day - No 370: Rod Thomas

Hometown: London.

The lineup: Rod Thomas (vocals, guitar, loop pedal, synth, tambourine).

The background signal: Rod Thomas is apparently nonpareil of the most recognized buskers on the London Underground with features about him on BBC London news and in thelondonpaper. Wait, come back. A crusty dog-on-a-string type bawling painful versions of Lay Lady Lay and Streets of London as you try to squeeze on to the tube he is non. He's a seriously full songwriter with a super-light pop touch who enhances his acoustic guitar-based tunes with a synth, a loop pedal for beat generation and handclaps, and if he had the probability, the chance and the funding, he'd probably honk in an orchestra as well � you can just ideate the strings swelling epically as the chorus rises on Same Old Lines, his modern single.

But don't feel too drab for him and commence scrabbling approximately in your pocket for loose change. He's non doing badly. He mightiness be unsigned and having to put out his single on his own label, Self Raising, just Same Old Lines was produced by Julian Simmons (Guillemots, Midlake) and has been played for 17 consecutive weeks on Radio 1 Introducing, he's supported the likes of Sparks, Kathryn Williams and Noah & the Whale on tour and the single is attended by a video, all 70s kids TV show lunacy and dodgy sock puppets, commit together by the team behind recent Noah & the Whale, Laura Marling and Mystery Jets promos.

Mostly, you don't pauperism to pity the boy from Wales because he really is quite gifted and the songs he's churning kO'd really ar quite endearing. How to categorise them is another matter. They're folky and forlorn, yes, but the beats ar electronic and the handclaps crisp and urgent, the sort of rhythmic device you hear on disco records � this is probably wherefore his music's been described as acoustic disco; we're going to go one further and call it folk funk, but so, we're wild like that. There ar aspects of the techno troubadour's work we're not comfortable with. At Glastonbury and Latitude this year he encouraged his audiences to clap and sing along, and some of his music does tend towards the crowd-pleasingly well-worn and happy-clappy. But songs like Your Love is a Tease, As If and You Get Goodbyes veer more than towards the plaintive pop-with-a-pulse of Pet Shop Boys and Prefab Sprout, and - we're not imagining this - a number of other artists have discerned the music's potency for electrification, providing remixes and all manner of fussy cross-rhythms, although in truth the songs' beauty lies in their stark restraint.

The buzz: "Joyous lo-fi folk-pop; folk with a fanfare, a breeze and a pop, and a few glances in the general direction of disco."

The truth: Sad chords + simple-minded beats = the greatest Rod in pop since that blighter with the croaky voice and bird's nest hair.

Most likely to: Make you escape your tube-shaped structure.

Least probable to: See his career go down the tube.

What to buy: Same Old Lines is released by Self Raising on October 6.

File next to: James Yuill, Jack Penate, Guillemots, Paddy McAloon.

Links: www.myspace.com/rodthomasmusic

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Simple Lab Test For Bone Disease Linked To Risk Of Death In Dialysis Patients

�Among patients receiving dialysis for inveterate kidney disease (CKD), high levels of alkaline phosphatase a routinely measured testing ground marker of bone disease may signal an increased risk of death, reports a study in the November Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).




"This large epidemiologic study shows, for the number one time, a consistent and robust connexion between a high blood level of alkaline phosphatase and cardiovascular death in thousands of dialysis patients across the United States," comments Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, of the University of California Los Angeles, one of the study authors. "If the association between alkaline phosphatase and death rate has a causal connectedness, treatment strategies that reduce alkaline phosphatase levels may improve survival in patients with CKD, and in all likelihood in many other patients with chronic diseases and active bone disorders."




The researchers analyzed data on virtually 74,000 hemodialysis patients in DaVita dialysis clinics during a three-year period. Laboratory measurements of alkaline phosphatase level measured in a DaVita laboratory nub were analyzed as a possible predictor of deathrate risk. In dialysis patients, alkaline phosphatase levels are routinely mensurable to monitor metabolic osseous tissue disease, a common knottiness of CKD. However, stream guidelines do not include specific recommendations or targets for serum alkaline phosphatase in CKD patients.




The results showed that patients with higher alkalic phosphatase levels were at higher hazard of decease during the three-year followup period. After adjustment for a wide range of other hazard factors, patients with alkaline phosphatase levels above the upper limit of normal (>120 IU/L) had a 25 percent increase in mortality rate.




The link between alkaline phosphatase and deathrate was significant across versatile subgroups of dialysis patients. Surprisingly, this included patients without hepatitis or