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Click to download a free mp3 of SHEL's track entitled Nicolo


Connect Direct with SHEL at MySpace.Com/ColoradoShel and at iLoveSHEL.com
For SHEL Business Inquiries, contact Amos Newman at GSA Music

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Annmarie Cullen - Beautiful Balladeer
Click To download a free mp3 of Annmarie's track entitled My Special Love (a ballad)

Connect Direct With Annmarie at MySpace.Com/AnnMarieCullen

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A Sound Decision - Favorite MusicLoad.Com Blues Jam Band
Click Here For Free MP3 of their song entitled Runnin' Around



Connect Direct with A Sound Decision at MySpace.Com/ASoundDecision

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Gaby Moreno lands song as main theme track for new NBC TV show
Sara Bareilles - Gravity
Chris Tiritilli
MusicLoad LOVES his sound on his track, "So Wrong"
Click here for a free mp3 of his track entitled So Wrong

Connect Direct with Chris Tiritilli at myspace.com/christiritilli

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Guildean Gang
This very cool video is a our favorite MusicLoad Spring Pick.  Enjoy!

Connect Direct with Guildean Gang at http://MySpace.Com/GuildeanGang

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Cheese People
Click here for a free download of the Cheese People trip hop funky house pop track entitled Stroitel
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Connect Direct With Cheese People at MySpace.Com/CheesePeopleBand

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Ayo

Connect direct with Ayo at MySpace.Com/Ayo

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JaC Stone = Super Songstress

Click to download a FREE MP3 of JaC's ballad entitled Remember

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Prince is innovating and brewing up fresh grooves like never before.
Check out his new official site and "get in the system" at LOTUSFLOW3R.com

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Aaron McLain - A MusicLoad.Com Favorite Rising Recording Artist
Click here to download a FREE MP3 of Aaron's song entitled "Okay"

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JaC Stone is quite possibly going to be a very big thing :)
Click Here To Download a FREE mp3 of JaC Stone's song entitled "I Could Say"

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Who is Bettye LaVette?
She is someone you believe, when she sings the blues.

Connect Direct With Bettye LaVette at BettyeLaVette.Com
go listen to some tracks on Bettye's MySpace page at www.myspace.com/bettyelavette

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Who's Nneka?

The video below is a artist who is very new to MusicLoad.  Her name is Nneka.   Research uncovered she is well known to many around the world and her sound is gradually creeping everywhere like a great flood.  She has received critical acclaim from major artists such as Lauren Hill  in America, yet Nneka is still a relative unknown.  Her sound has that originality that surely has staying power, for it lacks that time perishibility factor.  Nneka has a blend of super funky soul hip-hop groove influence with her own raging African roots at the core.  She transitioned to Europe and Germany from her native Nigeria.  She has her very own branded sound from song to song that lit up our world the second we heard it.  The songs we can't stop playing are the ones that seem to reflect deep experience and heaviness about African experiences, yet with a uplifting and exceptionally grooving feel that evokes thought and activism and love.  In the video below, her song entitled "Africans" from her album "The Uncomfortable Truth" was shot on location in Lagos, Nigeria over two years ago.  She has a big body of work.  Visit her  myspace page.  Words really do not suffice in describing Nneka.   What a sound and a REAL voice!

Nneka and her track "Africans"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXMTtOS-oKg

Connect Direct With Nneka at MySpace.Com/NnekaWorld

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Atlantic Records artist Hope Shorter lands featured song on series premiere of MTV's 'The City'. 

Hope's song "Leave Me In New York" was featured on MTV's series premiere of 'The City'.  Hear Hope and her song "Leave Me In New York" at  MySpace.Com/HearHope

As many may remember (refer bottom of  page), MusicLoad found, photographed and  featured Hope on MusicLoad.Com before she signed to Atlantic Records.  It was clear that she had that intangible and often elusive quality known as "it".

About MTV's  "The City"

It's a whole new world for 'The Hills' star Whitney Port, as she packs up and moves from the comforts of her hometown in Los Angeles to the bright lights of Manhattan. Surrounded by all new friends, pursuing a fresh love life, and starting to work in the upper echelon of the fashion industry is a lot to navigate for a new girl in the big city... especially one who has everything to lose. Visit The City's MTV webpage here for more on 'The City'.

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JaC Stone = Hot Unknown
Click here for a free mp3 download of the JaC Stone track entitled You Missed The Point

If you have ever been into Mazzy Star, Chris Isaac, Jewel, Lisa Loeb, Kim Carnes, Joni Mitchell, or Suzanne Vega, today you might want to think about JaC Stone.   At present, (Jan 2009) JaC is 19 years old and in her 3rd and final year at an Australian university pursuing a Bachelor Degree in Popular Music. She has been making recordings as class assignments each semester.  At age 17, whilst in her first semester, she experienced  a heartbreak that led her to write the featured mp3 free download that  (story continued below)

was amongst the recordings she made as part of her first semester assignments in college.  JaC's track entitled You Missed The Point is the story and her attempt to wash her soul free from a boy who was her first true love and childhood sweetheart whom she'd been with all through high school.  It was a heavy song for her and we like it for such an early demo in any artists career.

MusicLoad thinks JaC Stone has a little something special.  She may not be the right artist for every audience, but when JaC finds her audience, she may well be the celebrated company amongst those above mentioned artists and much more..

Connect Direct With JaC Stone at http://MySpace.Com/JaCStone00

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MusicLoad Favorite Songwriter/Recording Artist
Paula Ferraro

A MusicLoad associate met Paula in line at a juice bar in Venice Beach. It was reported she looked like a rock star without looking like she was trying.  After a brief conversation it was determined she was indeed a singer/songwriter, photographer and talented sketcher and drawer of her own Picasoesque art which she is always working on, as she is her music.

She offered up a listen to some recordings that had been recorded directly to the Apple iPod, a very primative low quality way of recording music. Whilst the sonic quality of the recordings left much to be desired, is was apparent that Paula Ferraro had that magic thing MusicLoad likes to call "it".  MusicLoad mustered up a Joe Meek VC1Q microphone pre-amplifier along with a large diaphragm recording microphone for her to try.  She grasped the concept, got her own gear and has gone on to record what is now a rather large body of well crafted songs and recordings.  You can most certainly say you heard her here at MusicLoad.Com first.

Connect Direct With Paula Ferraro at MySpace.Com/PaulaFerraro

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Sam And Ruby
 Live performance of "This I Know"

Connect Direct With Sam And Ruby at MySpace.Com/SamAndRuby

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Favorite MusicLoad.Com YouTube Pick
Brian Auger's Oblivion Express

As a family affair with his daughter Savannah as vocalist, and his son Karma cookin' on the drums, Brian Auger's Oblivion Express is always at work.  For those who don't know of Brian Auger, he is a Hammond B3 Organ legend who has played with too many major artists to even mention going back to the early days of Jimi Hendrix, Creme and his own self made career that has lasted decades.  These days, Brian and his twentys or thirty something kids family travels around the world each year.  soon, they will perform at the California Monterey Jazz Festival  and then do many dates in Germany throughout the month of October.   Enjoy this video below that was shot at the legendary jazz venue known as The Baked Potato.

Connect Direct With Brian Auger at MySpace.Com/BrianAuger and/or BrianAuger.Com
Connect Direct With his Drummer and Son Karma Auger at MySpace.Com/KarmaAuger

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Glyn Parry - Super Soul Crooner
Multifariously Talented Songwriter/Performer exposes Soulful Side with his track entitled Runaway
Click here for a complimentary MP3 download of Glyn Parry and his track entitled Runaway.

Glyn Parry Writing His Next Song

It's like bliss to hear a new song and suddenly drift off, forgetting the days reality, if even for just a few bars.  Glyn Parry did just that and more when we first heard him croon on one of his myspace pages, which is why we call him multifarious.  He has different MySpace pages for different projects that fit the broadness of his musical background.  On his MySpace page that features more soul oriented music is our favorite song entitled Runaway.  It's a beautiful song that might make you heart wrenchingly flash back to homeless souls or runaways you may see in your travels or in your own neighborhood.   With lines such as "surrounded by, a tearful sky, no hope of love from passers by",  Glyn Parry lays it down in the vein of early Boy George Culture Club B sides, with hints of Kenny Loggins meets Michael Mc Donald.  He has this beautiful vibrato reminiscent of Aaron Neville.  However, Glyn Parry delivers up his own identifiable vocal sound and is in no way copying or emulating.  On his my space page is a quote that sums really seems to sum him up: "It doesn't have to be perfect. Just needs a soul!".   MusicLoad.Com would like to say Glyn Parry has that "it" thing in the soul department.  MusicLoad recommends major artists tap into Glyn for a hit song and more.  If you are a music fan, just enjoy his songs while he is still unknown.   We are pleased to have found this fine needle in the haystack.

Click here to begin enjoying this complimentary MP3 download of Glyn Parry and his track entitled Runaway.
Connect Direct With Glyn Parry at http://MySpace.Com/GlynParry

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Click here for the FREE DOWNLOAD of the new Gaby Moreno MP3 entitled "Song of You"

Gaby Moreno hit our radar a few years ago when it was apparent that she has that intangible, elusive that some people think to be "it".  Since then, she was the overall winner in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest where the "it" of her songwriting skills become etched in the $20,000 check Gaby and her crew walked away with as the prize.   She is  doing exactly what she loves and that is to play, because she gigs often, sometimes doing two gigs in one day.  To do what one loves with a positive glow, real smile and a overall grateful nature... That's Gaby, and that's success in our book!

Photo by MusicLoad.Com - Copyright 2008
Click Here for a free MP3 of Gaby's track entitled Song of You
Connect Direct With Gaby Moreno at MySpace.Com/GabyMoreno

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 Who is Hollywood Undead?

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Santogold  and her track L.E.S. Artistes

For anybody old enough to remember the 1980's band the Missing Persons, the track below is reminiscent of their track entitled Words, which we added just below the following Santogold video.  Enjoy!

Connect Direct with Santogold at myspace.com/santogold
Get A Free SANTOGOLD mp3 of her track entitled Your Voice at: http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Santogold/music

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Missing Persons track entitled Words
circa 1980

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Juliette and The Licks

Click Photo for an Additional Image
Connect Direct with The Licks at MySpace.Com/JulietteAndTheLicks

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Get Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood Tour Merchandise Now Before it's Gone

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CHEESE PEOPLE
MusicLoad.Com Favorite International Band is CHEESE PEOPLE from the Russian Federation
Click for a Free MP3 Download of CHEESE PEOPLE and their super groove funk track entitled "I just can shoot"

Connect Direct With CHEESE PEOPLE at MySpace.Com/CheesePeopleBand

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Solomon's World

Solomon, a wickedly talented percussionist who has played with many greats has his own project entitled Solomon's World.  Solomon is one of those musician's musicians, if you know what we mean.  He's like some sort of inspired guru on a level of Frank Zappa genius who won't stop the conversation either musically or verbally.

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Click for a Free MP3 Download from Solomon and his very eclectic track entitled Smile
Connect Direct With Solomon at MySpace.Com/SolomonsWorld

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Oh Darling
Hot Little New Ethereal Pop Band Around
Click for a Free MP3 Download of the Oh Darling track entitled Against The Skyline
And just below, enjoy the video of the Oh Darling track "Waking Up On A Train" directed by Kyle Oddson

Connect Direct with Oh Darling at MySpace.Com/OhDarlingMusic

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Check out the very original and unique, Tay Zonday, winner of a YouTube.Com Video Award
for his original composition and piano & vocal performance of his song entitled "Chocolate Rain"
Almost 39 Million Views on YouTube!
Warch the video of Tay's performance of "Chocolate Rain" at:  youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA

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MusicLoad.Com Favorite New Artist - 18 year old Sol Philcox from the U.K.

When we first heard Sol Philcox, he was 16 years old and making these blazing recordings right out of his bedroom.  A kid with limited resources, but tons of passion, one who really listens can tell this is one young man who may well become the cock of the walk as he woodsheds his way to stardom.  Visit his page to buy his record direct from Sol Philcox today!

Click To Download a free MP3 of his Bedroom Session Recording of "Breaking The Bank"

Connect Direct With Sol Philcox at MySpace.Com/SolPhilcox

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Sandra St. Victor - Super Soul Sister of all Soul Sisters
When we first heard Sandra, we looked at each other and thought, this woman has "it".
Click here for a free download of her funky soul track entitled "Mack Diva"

Connect Direct With Sandra St. Victor at MySpace.Com/SandraStVictor

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MusicLoad.Com Favorite New Artist, Moriah Harris

Moriah Harris' track entitled The Devil's Game is one of those mellow tracks that grabbed us the same was Sade, Lisa Loeb and Sara Bareilles grabbed our attention the first time we heard them.  Check her out today!

Click To Download A Free MP3 of Moriah Harris' track entitled The Devil's Game

Mariah Harris at MySpace.Com/MoriahHarris

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Check Out MusicLoad's Patriotic, Political and Activist Music Section at MusicLoad.Com/Patriotic

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MusicLoad.Com Top Pick, Josh Albright
Click To Download A Free MP3 of Josh Albright's track entitled Fantasy

Connect Direct to Josh Albright at MySpace.Com/JAlbrightMusic

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MusicLoad.Com Favorite Artist, Sofie Reed

Click Here for a Free MP3 Download of "Box of Prayers" sealed with a kiss from Sofie Reed
Connect Direct With Sofie at MySpace.Com/SofieReed

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A group known as "Pitch" from Italy,
is a MusicLoad.Com favorite unknown indie band.
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click here for a free MP3 of their track entitled  "Words"
and
Connect Direct With Pitch at MySpace.Com/PitchSound
and buy their brand new record now!

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Buy "Complete Clapton" now on iTunes

Visit EricClapton.Com and/or MySpace.Com/EricClapton for more.
and
Buy The Legendary Songwriter J.J. Cale's album entitled "Rewind"
Visit JJCale.Com and/or MySpace.Com/JJCale for more.

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Ryan Shaw is HOT and Moving UP!
Soul daddy Ryan Shaw is as real of a deal as real gets.  If you don't yet
know his infection grooves, Click the link above and visit his myspace page.

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 Gaby Moreno

Seeing hot bands around L.A. non-stop is fun and every once in a while you come across artists who have not only amazing charisma, vocal abilities and raw talent, they have something more.  They have "it".   Gaby's inspiration, sweet voice and charisma is pure and fresh.   Gaby has recently won two different John Lennon Songwriting Contests and recently had a staring role performing in the musical "Hair"

Click here for FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD of Gaby Moreno's track entitled "Bella"

Try to be in a place where you can crank this song up to 10 on a good stereo :)
Connect Directly With Gaby at MySpace.Com/GabyMoreno

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Favorite MusicLoad Song Pick
by Mike Mizwinski of Pennsylvania
Click for a free mp3 of his track entitled "The Dopesick Blues"

Join Mike Mizwinksi's Fan Club and
hear more of his music at MySpace.Com/MikeMizwinski

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Congratulations to 16 Year Old Tyler Dow Bryant, winner of the Play Crossroads contest!
MusicLoad.Com was proud to participate in the contest with Ernie Ball & Guitar Center.
Tyler Dow Bryant earned the privilege to play at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival

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MusicLoad loves the infection grooves of the SubPop Records Group
CSS and their track "Let's Make Love"

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Ask a hip kid in Venice what's new and it's "Young Love"
Young Love

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Cyfrowa Obora

This group from Poland defies description, except for the fact that they are masters of their musical domain.  You will want to buy their record, except that they are unsigned and have no music yet for sale.  They so graciously have allowed us to offer you a free download of their track entitled Mi a Ma

Click here for the free download of Cyfrowa Obora's track entitled "Mi a Ma"
Tell Your Friends!

Connect direct to Cyfrowa Obora direct at MySpace.com/CyfrowaObora

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Saucy Monky

A favorite pop group is Saucy Monky, a very original all girl band, with the exception of the lucky dude bassist..
Download the free mp3 of the Saucy Monky track entitled "Pink Flamingos", complements of Sancy!
tell your friends!
Direct Connect with Saucy to hear more and buy at SaucyMonky.Com or MySpace.Com/SaucyMonky

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Sara Bareilles - SaraBMusic.com

On March 29 2004, MusicLoad's photographer shot this photo based on a rumor that Sara Bareilles had "it".  She was a hard working food server at the time and was so low key about her music,  never hyping herself. Few knew of her talent, which is one of those things that sets her apart from the rest.  A year after that photo moment passed, Sara was presented with and signed a major label recording contract with Epic Records, a division of SonyBMG.   Recently Sara's album entitled Little Voice became the biggest selling album on itunes.com upon release.

A soulful balladeer and a funky girl, she has a definite straight jazz vibe mixed in.  Sara B is obviously diverse and a real true musician that is not out riding a trend or a fad. Part of what makes her special is her minimalist and stripped bare naked sound.  No overplaying or overly emphasized soul shows her purity.  She's soothing at the lowest volume settings and awesome cranked up high.

Connect direct with Sara at at http://SaraBmusic.com

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Way Mellow Jazz Soul MusicLoad Pick
Cruising on music.download.com, MusicLoad came across French Horn player Alex Brofsky's jazz genre project entitled AB + and a sweet vocalist named Jianda who adds what is necessary to make this a beautiful track to melt into the sofa or the sand, if you are so lucky.  Alex graciously has granted MusicLoad permission to give musicload.com visitors the free mp3 download below.  Enjoy!  If you dig the sound and wish to purchase more of AB+, Alex told Musicload that he likes to people to buy at his personal CD Baby pages at www.cdbaby.com/cd/abplus2 and/or  www.cdbaby.com/cd/abplus

Click here for a free download AB + featuring Jianda entitled "High".

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Hope Shorter

The first time we had the privilege of seeing Hope Shorter was a moment when we knew this girl was truly gifted and had that thing MusicLoad calls "it".  She was performing her song entitled  "The Rain Don't Last Forever" in a street performance on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California.  She was unsigned at the time.  On a street filled with wanna be stars and people who generally keep walking, a crowd had formed around Hope and her brother who played bass.  The crowd, mostly with their heads bowed and eyes closed all listened with intensity.  That one song had that spine tingling impact that leaves listeners with tears in their eyes and spines still tingling.  One just knows....... "Hit".

This photo was shot by MusicLoad a few days later at a packed house at Temple Bar in Santa Monica, California just weeks before Hope was signed to a major label recording contract with Atlantic Records, original home to many of the greatest musical stars of all time.  Hope has remained practically underground as she is formulating her next recordings.  We know that her day will come when she will be a household name around the world.  Until then........

Hear Hope Shorter's music,  sign up for her personal mail list, and buy her CD direct at myspace.com/hearhope