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Monday, January 01, 2007
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Every week we have an IODA Promonet section that allows you to download songs and be guilt-free about it. If you're a band and would like us to share your mp3s with our readers, you can send them over to indiependentmusic@gmail.com. We don't put up links without permission! We believe in karma.

PROMONET weekly segments
#1 - Valencia, Lydia
#2 - Four Fifty One, Faunts, Element Eighty
#3 - Zolof The Rock and Roll Destroyer, Marathon, Dead Girls Ruin Everything
#4 - Built To Spill, +/-, Horse The Band
#5 - The Jonbenet, Your Black Star, For The Record
#6 - Permanent Me, This Is Indie Rock Vol 2, 32 Leaves
#7 - The Prozacs, Buckethead & Friends, Pinback
#8 - V/A: Emo Is Awesome / Emo Is Evil, Jawbox, Vice Versa
#9 - Stars Hide Fire, Sleeping At Last, Bottom Of The Hudson
#10 - The Wrens, The Dismemberment Plan, Burns Out Bright
#11 - Burns Out Bright, Desert City Soundtrack, Drive Til Morning
#12 - Beirut, Drive By Satellite, Jawbox
#13 - Clair De Lunes, Small Arms Dealer, Xiu Xiu
#14 - Our American Cousin, Minus The Bear, Fightstar
#15 - Fire Devine, Sounds Like Violence
#16 - Eleven Minutes Away, Sounds Like Violence
#17 - Retrograde, Sparks The Rescue, This Beautiful Mess
#18 - Deep Elm Sampler No. 2 : Records for the Working Class 2, Reel Big Fish / Zolof The Rock & Roll Destroyer
#19 - Apostle of Hustle, V/A: Deep Elm Unreleased Vol 3
#20 - Various Artists : The 3rd Annual IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash Sampler
#21 - Last Days Of April, Death By Stereo
#22 - The Twilight Sad, You Say Party! We Say Die!
#23 - The String Quartet Tribute to Arcade Fire's Funeral, Crush Luther
#24 - The String Quartet Tribute To Bad Religion, Strung Out on Thrice: The String Quartet Tribute, Vitamin String Quartet - Strung Out on Seether
#25 - 65daysofstatic, This Beautiful Mess
#26 - Down To Earth Approach, Hundred Hands, The Scaries
#27 - Dntel, Latterman
#28 - Devil Sold His Soul, Stars
#29 - Elliot Smith, Until Further Notice
#30 - Elliot Smith
#31 - Clair De Lune, Panima, Small Arms Dealer
#32 - The Screening, The Umbrella Sequence
#33 - Christopher Blue, Red Knife Lottery
#34 - Devil Sold His Soul, The Beautiful and The Damned
#35 - Francis Black, The Hangmen
#36 - Taxi Taxi, The Grey Race
#37 - Blue Flashing Light, Hopewell
#38 - Gore Gore Girls, Love Me Destroyer
#39 - Stars, (hed) p.e
#40 - The High Court, The Black American Lung
#41 - They Might Be Giants, Lock and Key

#42 - Catuerize, Further Seems Forever
#43 - Numbers, Small Arms Dealer
#44 - Eleven Minutes Away, Slowride
#45 - Suffocate Faster, The Revolution Smile
#46 - FDR, Underminded
#47 - Beirut, Four Year Strong
#48 - Dartz!, Ruth Ruth
#49 - Five O'Clock Heroes, The Most Serene Republic

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