This is a list of all the bands and artists we’ve featured either on our site or on our podcast. If the song was featured on one of our podcasts than the number should corrospond to the podcast episode.

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24. ’Forever the Sickest Kids‘ with ’Believe Me, I’m Lying’ off their album ’Television Off, Party On’. Listen to more of their songs on PureVolume and MySpace

23. ’Kill Your Ex’ with ‘Hades and Demeter’ off their album ‘From Words to Motion’. Check them out online at MySpace.com/KillYourEx or PureVolume.com/KillYourEx

22. ’Hot Water Music’ with ‘Kill the Night’ off their album ‘Til the Wheels Fall Off’. Check them out online at MySpace.com/HotWaterMusic

21. ’Every Avenue’ with ‘Where Were You?’ off their album ‘Shh. Just go with it’. Check them out online at PureVolume.com/EveryAvenue

20. ‘The Aquabats’ with ‘Look at Me, I’m a Winner’ off their album ‘Charge!!’.

19. It’s our artist/album of the year baby! ‘Rise Against’ with ‘The Approaching Curve’ off their album ‘The Sufferer & the Witness’.

18. ’Salute the Dawn’ with ‘Hot Leash Cakes’ off an album they never named. You can download this track and others free at purevolume.com/salutethedawn

17. ’The Mae Shi’ with ‘Run To Your Grave’. You can download this track and others free from www.virb.com/maeshi and checkout the video for ‘Run to your Grave’ here.

16. ’The Pettit Project’ with ‘99 Lives’ off their album ‘Cheerockracy’, check them out online at www.thepettitproject.com and on Pure Volume at www.purevolume.com/thepettitproject

15. ’Dropping Daylight’ with ‘Tell Me’ off their album ‘Brace Yourself’, check them out online at www.droppingdaylight.com or on PureVolume.com/DroppingDaylight

14. ’The Burden Brothers’ with ‘Still’ off their newest album ‘Mercy’, you may recognize them from Guitar Hero 2 XB360: Toadies’ Possum Kingdom, check ‘em out at theburdenbrothers.com and on My Space at www.myspace.com/burdenbrothers

13. ’Rise Against’ with ‘Ready to Fall’ off their album ‘The Sufferer & The Witness’. Check them out online at www.riseagainst.com

12. ‘Mayday Parade’ with ‘When I Get Home You’re So Dead’ off their album ‘A Lesson in Romantics’. Check them out online at http://www.purevolume.com/maydayparade

11. ‘Scenes From a Movie’ with ‘Just Ask Us’ off their self-titled album ‘Scenes from a movie’. Check them out online at purevolume.com/scenesfromamovie

10. “This Time Next Year” with “Sweetest Air” off their new album “A Place for You”

9. Mae with “Sic Semper Tyrannis” off their new album “Singularity”

8. The Rivalry with “Paralyze” off their new EP, “The Rivalry EP”

7. Armor for Sleep with Williamsberg off their new album Smile for Them

6. We the Kings with Secret Valentine also available at BestBuy for $7.99

5. Radiohead, get the new album at InRainbows.com

4. Just Surrender has a new album, check’em out at www.justsurrender.net

3. VHS or Beta at PureVolume.com/vhsorbeta.

2. The Spill Canvas. Check them out at PureVolume.

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We really like PureVolume, so much that this isn’t even a paid banner.

The miShare is a cute little device that makes file swapping from iPod to iPod really easy. It opens an iPod as a mass storage device using a Linux based platform. You can set the miShare to transfer music, video and pictures, and when in music mode it’ll automatically transfer the most recently played song, or if you hold the button it’ll transfer everything marked in your On-the-Go playlist. This little magic maker will set you back $100. Will this kick start Apple into making sharing possible between iPods? Let’s hope so.Check it out here miShareP.S my colleague here at Counter Agent says it reminds him of 2 dogs making love???

Note from the Editor: We here at Counter Agent would like to introduce a new contributor to the site. We have an actual girl writing for us. Her name is Veda (pronounced like a ghetto Vader, “VAY-DUH” I guess). Hopefully she will bring in some new readers (and more chicks) to the site. Thanks everyone, and take it away Veda. 

Salutations, this is Veda (Counter Agent’s new chick) and I would like to introduce a new artist named Terra Naomi. She is one of the many singers made famous by YouTube. Her CD was released September 17 2007. The nice thing about YouTube is you get a taste of the “at home” artist before rushing to the stores to buy the CD. I felt like I was in her bedroom listening to her strum her guitar or play on her keyboard singing for my pleasure only. Oh! And her songs are really easy to learn on guitar. I can’t play… I really can’t, but I sat in front of my computer, guitar in hand and learned “Say it’s possible”. The pick continues to fall into the hole in the guitar so I can only strum with my hands. Big deal, who needs a pick N E ways? I also taught myself the “Close to your head” song.

So, if you’re a hot chick or a guy looking for hot chicks, you really should check Terra Naomi out…HA HA…don’t CHECK HER OUT…You know what I mean. She has some sweet vids on YouTube, creating her own music videos before making the big bucks. She’s cute, determined, her voice is strong and she lived in NY so you know she has something to say. What New Yorker doesn’t? She is going to get really big soon. I feel it. So check her out on YouTube or the official site at www.terranaomi.com and if you like what you hear then buy or download from itunes.

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We’ve been working on a new feature for our site and it’s finally here. It’s a new release countdown page. There we’ll be showcasing the coolest new games coming out sooner or later. The list will include anything we’re looking forward to, games, movies, music, tech, etc.

If you’ve got a game, product, or anything you’re looking forward to, let us know and we might just add it to the countdown list. Send it to us at: countdowns@counteragent.com

In addition to viewing the countdowns on our countdown page, you can also embed the countdown player in your own site, web page, or comment anywhere they allow embedding.

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This is the Countdown Channel. Here we’ll post various countdown timers for new and popular games, movies, music, and tech on the horizon. Anything we’re looking forward that we think you should be too. If there’s something not on this list you would like to see contact us at: countdowns@counteragent.com.

You can also click on the “embed” button on any one of the countdowns to add it to your very own site, blog, profile, whatever.

• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 - Xbox 360, PS3, PC

• Army of Two - Xbox 360, PS3

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Radiohead is doing something new. As we reported a couple of weeks ago they released thier new album, first off without a major labels backing, and second they let the fans choose the price they want to pay for the album.

This is one of the best things I’ve seen a band do in a while. This truly is a band showing that they care about their fans. We payed for the album as was posted earlier and it is a pretty good album. The debate has been rageing about if this is just a fad or if this will affect the record industry as a whole. Some people say there is no way this has record execs even care about this and that you shouldn’t pay anything for the album. Some say the industry has been forced to sit up and take notice. Other bands have said that they are going to follow suit and release albums without a label.

I say come on people go ahead and pay for this album and show the execs that we will support this. The rumor is that this is a marketing ploy and Radiohead has been shopping the album to labels. If thats true or not we will see, either way its a chance to get a very good album from a very good band for any price you want.

Radiohead’s newest album, In Rainbows, hit the web this week. The biggest difference between this release and all their others is the price. It’s set by you! That’s right, you set the price. Pay whatever you feel the songs are worth. Or if you don’t want to drop any cash you don’t have to, just grab the album for free.
I went ahead and downloaded the album, which is pretty good if you like Radiohead, and I paid $5.00 for it. I wanted to support someone actually trying to do something good for their fans. Not that you have to.
Also, you should take into consideration that the price is displayed in Pounds not Dollars.
Here’s the link to buy, or not, In Rainbows.
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What was once just a tech demo to show what the Wii could do is know being fleshed out into a real game. Looks like the game’s focus is on classic Nintendo music from old Nintendo games, such as Mario and Zelda. At least this game looks cooler than Guitar Hero. The Wii needs more games and this looks like it might be one to watch, or listen for.

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The Spill Canvas has a new album hitting stores tomorrow, October 2nd. If you want to preview it PureVolume.com has a full online album preview. Go here to listen before you make your purchase. The Spill Canvas classifies itself as Rock, Alternative, and Powerpop. The band says it’s influences “range from Van Morrison to Otis Redding.” All the while they keep it modern and fresh.

The Spill Canvas tours with bands like Motion City Soundtrack, Straylight Run, Mae and The Plain White T’s.

If you like what you hear you can get the CD and t-shirt (limited edition) from the band’s official online store for only $14.99.

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I recently bought Ubisoft’s new guitar “game” Jam Sessions. It’s really more of a simulator than a game, though I have to admit I was really looking forward to it. I play “real” guitar and have always wanted something small and compact to take with me when I go on trips. Sometimes you get an idea and you’ve got nothing to play it on. For all intents and purposes it really is a pocket guitar, limited as it might be. For one thing it sounds great. The recorded guitar samples are spot on, although they’re only sampled from an acoustic guitar. The effects pedals are kind of weak and not very useful overall. The game boasts over 100 chords so you can play along to most any song, though you’re only going to be playing the rhythm parts and not lead (Sorry, no wicked guitar solos here, the game only supports strumming full chords, not individual strings). It would’ve also been nice to be able to change octaves for individual chords. The click track is more annoying than helpful, it would’ve been nice to have maybe simple drum loops also. Hopefully we’ll see a sequel with some more fleshed out features.

One of the problems with the game is who it’s really for, they say you can learn to play guitar by playing this game. This is sadly not the case. You are going to be very hard pressed to learn guitar from playing this game. It never shows a breakdown of the chords you’re playing and the display of the guitar strings you strum is represented by a single line in the middle of the touch screen. Don’t get me wrong, this is a great game, or whatever it is, but it is not a learning tool and it’s really not even a game. The songs (by songs I mean strumming patterns, no mp3’s or real full version audio songs) that come loaded on the cartridge are mostly obscure/b-sides from some moderately familiar artist.

So, the bottom line is, if you’re a guitarist already and want to play guitar on the toilet, buy this. On the other hand, if you’ve never played guitar before and you think somehow this is your chance to start a rock band, it may be fun for a while, but you’re not going to be rockin’ any sweet riffs any time soon.

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