Songs
Pink Nasty - Burn
PInk Nasty is a female singer-songwriter with a gorgeous voice - here's her take on Usher's Burn. On tour in the US during March 2007.
Dan Deacon - The Crystal Cat
Trying to get the party started? You'll be needing this. Dan Deacon ought to go on tour with PS I Love You!
Jeremy Messersmith - Novocain
It's rare that an artist gets compared to Elliott Smith and doesn't suck. Not so Jeremy Messersmith - an extraordinarily gifted singer/songwriter from Minneapolis whose sound is pleasantly minimal yet very well produced, with subtle flourishes that bring it up out of the folksinger mire. Brilliant beautiful, uplifting stuff.Magickal Folk Of The Faraway Tree - Malady Saves Christmas
Really special psyche-folk Christmas song by a band that I have been hearing great things about lately and apparently for good reason. This is off of the free Rusted Rail Christmas compilation available from www.rustedrail.com/christmas
Peter Walker - Hot Fusion
Peter Walker is a master of the acoustic guitar - standing alongside colleagues such as Robbie Basho, John Fahey, William Ackerman and the newer practitioners of six-string arts who've taken up the mantle in recent years. With A Raga Peter For Peter Walker, Tompkins Square has released the first Walker recordings in many, many years along with tributes from a who's who of guitar including Jack Rose, Thurston Moore, Greg Davis and many more.
Swan Lake - The Freedom
Anybody not already totally digging the new Swan Lake record ought to check out this choice cut. Possibly the best track on the record, "The Freedom" is another Dan Bejar classic and a great example of what happens when three of Canada's weirdest and most brilliant songwriters join forces.
Steffen Basho-Junghans - Sky Dreamer's Gold
From the recently reviewed Late Summer Morning album.
Dýrðin - POPP & CO.
Dyrdin *Pronounced Deer-Thin* is an Icelandic indiepop group. Great stuff!
Dýrðin - Bubble Girl
Dyrdin *Pronounced Deer-Thin* is an Icelandic indiepop group. Great stuff!
Dirty Projectors - Fucked For Life
Caught this band the other night with Xiu Xiu and Cong For Bruns. They totally destroyed. Such an amazing record even better live than the record - and that's saying a lot because it's incredble too – this is a song from New Attitude out on Marriage Records.
