A Saturday Mix

mp3: “Bushwick Blues” – Delta Spirit
Buy: History from Below on iTunes
Delta Spirit-MySpace

mp3: “Tunnelvision” – Here We Go Magic
Buy: Here We Go Magic via iTunes
Here We Go Magic 2 Secretly Canadian
Here We Go Magic-MySpace

mp3: “All I Want is You” – Gladshot
Buy: Burn Up and Shine via Gladshot
Gladshot Website
Gladshot-MySpace

mp3: “Judas” — The Shimmies
Buy: To All Beloved Enemies via CDBaby
The Shimmies Website
The Shimmies-MySpace

mp3: “Simple Girl” – Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
Buy: Horse Power EP via iTunes
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. Website
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.-MySpace

Mp3: “World’s Smallest Violin” – Paleo

mp3: “World’s Smallest Violin” – Paleo

From Partisan Records:

For Paleo, art doesn’t imitate life, it is life. Self-contained, he has been traveling the country for the last 6 years. The time has been spent studying the endless facets of a world both in and outside of himself, all the while chronicling his journey through song.

Booking his own shows, he has been playing roughly 150 dates a year while living out of his car and staying with people kind enough to share a couch, a bed, and some breakfast. Homeless and at home, he seems to have found a refuge within his songs as a prolific lyricist and writer. He recorded a song every day for 365 days as a discipline in songwriting he called “The Song Diary”. If you want to know Paleo, you have only to listen to his body of work, which at this point is staggering. Paleo’s songs focus on what most people take for granted in their day to day and year to year, revealing not just a series of dots, but a portrait.

On his newest record, “A View Of The Sky”, the music mines a depth of greater purpose beyond the traditional. Song after song transports the listener through melodic landscapes unique, immediate, emotive, playful, and filled with longing. There is nothing contrived in the structures of his songs, and the phrasing is a deep rooted reference to the great writers who have come before him.

But deconstructing Paleo seems futile, because he has already moved on. His music is an echo that grows, builds to a crest, dies, and begins again, evolving always, whether someone is there to bare witness or not.

Buy: A View of the Sky via Amazon (to be released September 28)
Paleo @ Partisan Records
Paleo-MySpace

Mp3: “Zorbing” by Stornoway

mp3: “Zorbing” – Stornoway
Buy: Beachcomber’s Windowsill via Amazon
Stornoway – Website
Stornoway-MySpace

Mp3: Savoir Adore “Bodies”

mp3: “Bodies” – Savoir Adore
Buy: In the Wooded Forest via Cantora Records
Savoir Adore – Website
Savoir Adore-MySpace

Y La Bamba “Juniper” Mp3

June 2010 shoot @ Skidmore Bluff, Portland (c) Alicia Rose Photography

mp3: “Juniper” – Y La Bamba
Buy: Lupon via Amazon (release date September 28)
Y La Bamba-MySpace

A Saturday Mix

mp3: “Revival” – Deerhunter
Buy: Halcyon Digest – release date September 28
Deerhunter-MySpace
Deerhunter Blog

mp3: “Gone to Earth” – Versus
Buy: On the Ones and Threes via Merge Records, release date August 3
Versus-MySpace

mp3: “Alouette” – Tallest Trees
Buy: The Ostrich or the Lark via Other Electricities, release date August 17
Tallest Trees-MySpace
Tallest Trees – Official

mp3: “Hi-Yo” – Dina Maccabee
Dina Maccabee-MySpace
Dina Maccabee Blog

mp3: “Promises” – The Morning Benders
Buy: Big Echo via The Morning Benders Website
The Morning Benders-MySpace
The Morning Benders Official

Sometimes all it Takes is a Walk Around the Lake

mp3: “Walk Around the Lake” – Lost in the Trees
Buy: All Alone In An Empty House via Anti-Records (Release date August 10)
Lost in the Trees – MySpace
Lost in the Trees – Website

Sonny & the Sunsets “Too Young to Burn” Mp3

mp3: “Too Young to Burn” – Sonny & the Sunsets
Buy: Tomorrow is Alright via Soft Abuse
Sonny & the Sunsets-MySpace
Sonny & the Sunsets – Website

Edited to add this link:  Click here to download songs from Sonny & the Sunsets recent Daytrotter Session

Hey Rosetta!

“New Goodbye” – Hey Rosetta!

Hey Rosetta! is a band from St. John’s, Newfoundland…I’ve been there, it is beautiful! I heard this song on a recent NPR All Songs Considered podcast and fell in love.

Both songs featured here today are available on their 2008 album Into Your Lungs via iTunes.

Hey Rosetta!-MySpace

Hey Rosetta! Website

“Red Song” – Hey Rosetta!

A Friday Mix

mp3: “Western Hospitality” – Club 8
Buy: The People’s Record via iTunes
Club 8-MySpace
Club 8 – Website

mp3: “If You Fall” – Azure Ray
Buy: Hold on Love via Saddle Creek
Azure Ray-MySpace
Azure Ray – Website

mp3: “Go Outside” – Cults
I can’t find a way to buy their music at the moment. There was a 7″ limited release available, but it is sold out.
Cults – Website –There are a couple other songs to download there.

mp3: “Window” – PVT
Buy: Church With No Magic (Bonus Track Version) via iTunes (expected release August 10)
PVT-MySpace
PVT – Website

mp3: “Whirring” – The Joy Formidable
Buy: A Balloon Called Moaning via iTunes
The Joy Formidable-MySpace
The Joy Formidable – Website

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