Jaymay - Music to coffee, love and new year hangovers

Think a mug of steamy hot coffee, a few ray of the wintersun, the daily newspaper with only peace and harmony, add some sweet kisses, quiteness and no work. Think bad hangovers and then add some Jaymay aka 25-year old Jamie Kristine Seerman on the hi-fi. Even better. Stir very gently and calm down.

Jaymay makes me think of Emiliana Torrini. She started out playing local open-mic nights and made this Sea Green, See Blue EP earlier this year and made her voice recognized on a iTunes indie-list. Her songs are kind of lowkey and quirky with a good sense of humour. It's very easygoing and catchy.
Even though the production could have been more professional it has a certain feel to it, which makes me wanna relax and save it for days on my iPod. Add the belowlisted to your playlist or even better - buy her EP here.

Jaymay - MySpace

Jaymay - Sea Green, See Blue

Jaymay - Gray or Blue

Jaymay - What happend

Liga.dk Liga Myspace New danish artists

Liga.dk is a tv-program on danish national tv. In a week it'll change it's name to Liga and will now feature upcoming bands found on MySpace and YouTube and even a weekly podcast. Great that someone from the establishment finally will do all the small bands from the underground good. I hope the programme will be more groundbreaking than the namechange!

Links for host Kristian Leths MySpace-favorites

Merry christmas

Since christmas is here and I - as a Indie Laundry member - have been interviewed by danish national radio about music on the net, we have decided to do something we normally don´t do. We have decided to republish something from our archive. We like to see it as a christmas present and a reminder to our danish brothers and sisters* that this beautiful voice will be touring again this spring. So here are some live recordings from a concert Sara Grabow played this fall. Listen and go to a concert in spring 2007. It is still raw and alive!

Sara Grabow - Stars

Sara Grabow - Travel the World

Sara Grabow - Ballroom

Sara Grabow - Blueberries

*(not that we´re nationalist or anything alike - mind you, one of our members is from Iceland! Which means: we tolerate everybody) Merry christmas Arnár and everyone else

Favourite Christmas Music mp3s

Below you'll find a list of some of my favourite christmas tunes. I'm linking to tracks on various blogs (without giving credit) so I hope that in the spirit of the season they'll be forgiving. Enjoy these soothing tunes!

Low "Just like Christmas"

Erlend Øye "Last Christmas" (Wham! Cover)

Snowden "White Christmas"

The Go! Team "The Ice Storm"

The Eels "Everything is Going to be Cool this Christmas"

Vince Guaraldi "Christmas Time is Here" (From the Charlie Brown cartoon)

Sufjan Stevens "Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time"

The Kinks "Father Christmas"

The White Stripes "Candy Cane Children"

A personal add-on for the best 2006 albums

In addition to the list below featuring Indielaundry's best-of 2006 albums, I'll have to put Peter Bjorn & John. Since they released their album Writer's Block back in september, it has been in a-rotation on my iPod. NME puts the single Young Folks as the second best single of 2006, while Hot Chip single Over and Over runs in as #1.
Buy their album here.

Peter, Bjorn & John - Let's Call It Off (Girl Talk Remix)

Peter, Bjorn, and John - Let’s Call It Off (JD Twitch’s Optimo Remix)

"Young Folks" - Peter, Bjorn and John ft. Victoria Bergsman

Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks (Tomas Anderson remix)

Hot Chip - Over and Over

Best of Indielaundry 2006

The Indielaundry crew have tried to find an absolute top 10 ten of 2006. Here's the list. Click the album-covers to download a mp3 from the album!


1. The Whitest Boy Alive "Dreams"




2. Hot Chip "The Warning"




3. Midlake – “The trials of Van Occupanther”




4. Tom Waits: "Orphans"




5. Bob Dylan: "Modern Times"





6. Beck – “The Information”




7. Album Leaf "Into the Blue Again"




8. Band of Horses "Everything all the Time"




9. M. Ward - "Post War"





10. The Flaming Lips – “At war with the mystics”

Husky Rescue club mp3 finland

I know it's all xmas and winterish - which is fine - but are you as I growing tired of the pile of indiebands doing dreadful xmas-covers, then have some of this relaxing medicine. Or take whatever!
Husky Rescue is inspired by film, photography, art, and the climate in its home country of Finland. Marko Nyberg is the founder and made a calming piece of ambient pop last year called Country Falls. It's not groundbreaking but it is gorgeous, wellcrafted and lazy with elements of yearning country and western slide and pedal steele. Put on top of that the hypnotic and ethereal vocal of young Reeta-Leena. Each piece is a minimovie and they sure counter the chill and the hype of christmas. So board now!
Husky Rescue has a new album - Ghost is not real - out 29rd of january, 2007. It's first single Diamonds in the Sky is out in different remix-versions, ready for the clubbing!

Husky Rescue, "Diamonds In The Sky (Emperor Machine remix)"

Husky Rescues - City Lights

Husky Rescue - Summertime Cowboy (Mocky Remix)

The Eames Era mp3 and twee

Why exactly they chose to honor themselves after the iconic designcouple Ray & Charles Eames I don't know. Well, at least their music points towards the 50's, and they play this irrestistible girl-fronted indie-pop with an edge.
The music is indie-twee pop...yeah, well it's sugarcoated alright, but catchy and innoncent as a college school girl and maybe as naughty.
Their style reminds me of The Pipettes, Tilly & The Wall and that of Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley. It's girl-fronted pop and doesn't harm a bug, but leaves you happy for some minutes! Catchy can be good. And singer Ashlin Phillips delievers.

The Eames Era - Watson by your side

The Eames Era - I said

Rilo Kiley - After hours (nice Velvet Underground cover)

Tilly and the Wall - Bad education

Tilly and the Wall – Sing Songs Along

New singles from swedish Pinto dl

Not long ago I wrote a short entry on swedish Pinto.
Andreas Magnusson from the band wrote me and were of course happy about our review.
We aim to please at IndieLaundry, so we are more than happy to present two new tracks from this very nice and so far unsigned swedish band. Judge for yourselves.

Pinto - Here comes the love

Pinto - Hard inside the heart

Download Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour

Cool shit! Just found a place where you for free can download all the shows of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Show. Some say he can't sing. But believe me he can do the coolset radio-speeks i ever heard. And further more it's a ticket to a music time-travel in the never-ending world of American music. The download is a bit slow, but it's worth waiting for!

Andrew Bird nervous tic mp3 live

Nothing new in this posting but a growing interest in this Andrew Bird guy. Quite a few times my internet-trail has passed that of Andrew Bird - a complete multitalented musician - so I decided to look a bit into it and post some of his stuff.
I've just listent to a few of his tracks from his latest album 'Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs' from 2005. He kind of catches me. He is a classically trained violinist but dips into all kind of genres; Gypsy music, jazz, Brazilian sounds and the blues. And that does it for me today.
Andrew Bird is quite a good whistler and he does that. He also plays with tapeloops, glockespiel, violin and what else he has at hand. Listen below to his highly melodic and sadly beautiful track and maybe check out the concert from Paradiso, Amsterdam. I come to think of Jeff Buckley, Devandra Barnhart, Arcade Fire and Rufus Wainwright. And that's a nice thing to think about.

Andrew Bird live on NPR

Andrew Bird liveconcerts on Archive.org

Andrew Bird on Fabchannel

Andrew Bird - Sovay

Andrew Bird - Nervous tic motion of the head to the left

Cover Theme: The Shins covers neil young new mp3

Via Sandwichclub I found these covers done by The Shins. So for the people who havn't had the chance to listen to The Shins new album
Wincing The Night Away - set for release january 2007 - this could calm the pain.
BTW Wincing the Night Away is a terrific album. You can hear the band have developed, and in a great way. They still have the twistedness and the simplicity and of course plays with synths, distortions and lo-fi effects. Find the album leaked on the net, have a listen and buy the album when it's out there...

SubPop label

The Shins - Phantom Limb from Wincing The Night Away

The Shins - The Holiday Song (Pixies cover)

The Shins - Harvest (Neil Young cover)

The Shins - Strange Powers (Magnetic Fields cover)

The Shins - We Will Become Silhouettes (The Postal Service cover)

Cover theme: The Decemberists doing Björk

Our good collegues at Docopenhagen seem to have been inspired by yesterday's post concerning the Coldplay cover. They offer another cover that - to my opinion - far surpasses the original. Curious? Then click here.

Such high quality coversongs are very seldom but equally rewarding. I stumbled over this version of Björk's 'Human Behavior' by the fabolous The Decemberists the other day. I don't know whether it's actually better than the original because that is also pretty darn good but I really love this acoustic take. Turn it up, wait for the piano theme that kicks in at appr. 2:06 and tell me if that doesn't make your spine go bananarama.

The Decemberists - Human Behavorior

Stunning Coldplay cover.

A group of very old, apparently ill folks give the best version of Coldplay's "Fix you", I've heard! What an emphatic voice - it's like Kurt Wagner times two.

Pinto Sweden debut free mp3

After visiting all webpages in the world I finally got stuck on one. It's The Pinto - jolly musicians from Sweden. Pinto is a relatively new band, still trying to find it's place on the indie music scene. Check them out. I quite like the happiness in Iron and Rust. Besides being happy the band declares that they want their music to be free and accessible to everyone. Pop on!

Pinto - Iron and Rust

Pinto - I Belong to You

Visit Idaho

Californian band Idaho - masterminded by Jeff Martin - has been a long time hidden favourite of mine. Although the band has been around for a 15 year period filled with critical acclaim, Idaho has never really shaken anything besides the inner circles of the sadcore scene.

That is a real pity, so here it is: the full frontal attempt to break the sad, melodic chamber music of Idaho on this global reaching blog. Dig these gems from throughout the band's career!

Wondering the fields

Alta Dena

To be the one

Clouded

Just might run

Alive again

When sunday comes

On the shore

Sykurmolarnir / Sugarcubes celebrate reunite blog mp3

The Sugarcubes were the biggest group ever to emerge from Iceland and tonight they reunite in Laugardalshöll in Reykjavík.

So right now it would have been apropriate and maybe even cool to post the 20 minute long talk I had with former groupmember Einar Örn - an interview I did at the Iceland Airwaves in october. But for some strange reason I've the password for my ftp-server. I'll post the mp3-interview in the weekend. It's unique and kind of chaotic!

Sugarcubes or Sykurmolarnir, as they are called in Iceland, had their debut in 1988 with Life's Too Good, which attracted terrific reviews and became a college radio hit, but the band never were able to recapture that sense of excitement. I'm kind of curious what the concert tonight will be like. Maybe it'll be like shit, but well... I'll have to read about it in the papers.
Múm will be doing warm up. What a great night it will be!

Sugarcubes - Birthday

The Sugarcubes with The Jesus & Mary Chain - Christmas Eve

Sugarcubes - Kottur (live - not that good a recording!)

One to watch David Vandervelde mp3

A good colleague pointed me to recordlabel Secretly Canadian and couldn't wait to give me the music tip of the day.
David Vandervelde from Chicago is 22 years old and plays 60s/early 70s-influenced folk pop. It's equal parts song craft and production technique and it just kicks ass! Especially the song Jacket. The guy played his first liveconcert few month ago and got signed shortly after.
There is some immediate resemblance to Marc Bolan, David Bowie, T. Rex and even Brian Jonestown Masacre in his classic rock attitude. Check it out. He is one to watch.
BTW: He has worked on his album in two years, recorded it almost alone using the former Wilco multi-instrumentalist's studio as a big toy instrument

His album The Moonstation House Band is out 23rd of january 2007.

MySpace - Vandervelde

David Vandervelde - Jacket

David Vandervelde - Feet Of A Liar

Genius Sufjan Stevens live and rare mp3

This Sunday I saw Sufjan Stevens perform a brilliant show at Vega in Copenhagen. I was convinced, that he is one of the most original voices on the music scene today. Deeply inspirational concert. Read my review in danish here.

Listen to one of his Christmas-songs from the new 5 cd christmas-box-set to be released the 2nd of november (10,99£ at play.com).

That Was The Worst Christmas Ever mp3 A new brilliant song, which he also played at Vega

Majesty Snowbird Live mp3

Rare song recorded for NPR

The Lord God Bird mp3

And get into christmas-mood with this little video.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Stevens!!!

Sara Grabow - danish act - live mp3 from Copenhagen

Last thursday while MTV Music Award were everywhere around me in Copenhagen some friends invited me to a miniconcert with Sara Grabow at Christianshavns Beboerhus. That place is sneaky and not the place you would expect to present soothing livemusic.
Today we present a little unique session from that evening. Recorded with a Edirol R-09, mixed with shaky hands by me using Adobe Audition and possible only because the artist herself thought it was cool. So this is legal pirate material.

Sara Grabow are promoting her debutalbum 'Blueberries' from where she played two sets alltogether that evening. She was supported - or they supported each other - by another blondish singer-songwriter, Amalie Riis, who also did a nice job.

Sara Grabow is a talented and powerful singer. Her style has the simplicity and feel for much more. Listen to these songs live and bare with the 'production'. It's raw and alive!

Sara Grabow - Stars

Sara Grabow - Travel the World

Sara Grabow - Ballroom

Sara Grabow - Blueberries

Sara Grabow interview i Aarhus Stiftstidende (På dansk!)

Autumn Music

Last sunday we all turned back the clock one hour and suddenly you get a change of mood. It gets colder, darker and perhaps more lazy. No, come to think of it, I was lazy all the time...

Still, the change is here but it's not all bad because this is the time of year when I rediscover the beautiful music styles in the form of sadcore or melancolica... well, introvert stuff. So instead of whining over the summer that's gone, greet this dark season by listening to this eclectic sample of some of sadcore rock's finest:

Red House Painters - "Have You Forgotten"

Red House Painters - "Song For Blue Guitar"

Iron and Wine - "Such Great Heights" (The Postal Service cover)

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - "Beast For Thee"

Okkervil River - "For Real"

Spiritualized - "Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space"

Mark Kozelek - "Bad Boy Boogie" (AC/DC cover)

Spokane - "The Absentee"

Elbow - "Newborn"

And as a bonus: mad Welshmen playing gorgeous mellow country rock with an electronic twist:

Super Furry Animals - "Run! Christian, Run!"

Björk galore - lot of pics

If you are obsessed with Björk then have a look at this massive photocollection.

Of Montreal - Daytrotter sessions - mp3 from Hissing Fauna

Recorded live at Futureappletree Studio One in downtown Rock Island, Ill, Of Montreal presents here some dirty and alive material.
The Athens, GA, band were among the second wave of bands to emerge from the sprawling Elephant 6 collective. On this Daytrotter sessions, the songs are acoustic and sounds really nice, all naked and stuff.
We await the new album Hissing Fauna: Are you the destroyer? Untill then have a sneak preview at the Daytrotter sessions and some already leaked material. The album should be out in january.

Of Montreal - She's a Rejector - album version from the new album, out january.

Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal - album version from the new album, out january.

Of Montreal - Eagle - Shaped Mirror - from the forthcoming Hissing Fauna: Are You The Destroyer?

Of Montreal - Suffer for Fashion - from the forthcoming Hissing Fauna: Are You The Destroyer?

Of Montreal - Lysergic Bliss - original version appears on Satanic Panic in the Attic.

Of Montreal - Requiem For O.M.M.2. - original version appears on The Sunlandic Twins.

Midlake live at Loppen

The more you spin Midlake the more you love this band. Tomorrow they play live in Copenhagen at the cozy little venue, Loppen and Indie Laundry will be there.

Earlier this year they played a warm up-concert for Flaming Lips in Tivoli, and we weren't really convinced that this texan band brought anything new to the tradition of Neil Young, but we were mistaken.

Midlake plays strange mid-seventies american rock and deals with old-skool subjects like hunting, building houses etc and thereby put themselves in the same nostalgic tradition as many bands before them.
What we came to like about “The Trials of Van Occupanther” was the dreamy and lyricaly world of Tim Smith and the melancholy melodi-line of the band. It's nostalgic, altmodisch and very catching and has a lot of quality to it. So if you're in Copenhagen buy a ticket - it's not sold out

Midlake - Roscoe

Midlake - Head Home

Iceland Airwaves mp3 - hermigervill kira kira summer as salvation soldier

I've written a small piece for Danish National Broadcasting company on the Iceland Airwaves festival, recommending six different icelandic artist.

Read the piece in danish

Download mp3's

Kira Kira - Hjartafanturinn skrjáfar

Kira Kira - Drakúla Darling

Kira Kira - Dýri (by Kira Kira & Ljóni)

My Summer as a Salvation Soldier - Nupur Lala

My Summer as a Salvation Soldier - Two Lefts Don't Make a Right

Hermigervill - Augun (endurgerð)

Hermigervill - Hard to Stop

Wilco, part 2

I guess I'm in a Wilco kind-of-mood this sunday. Lead singer - and, as seen in my previous post, sometimes rough-handed - Jeff Tweedy is putting out the solo concert DVD "Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest" this tuesday. Check out this clip where he's in his normal fun-loving mood performing an unreleased song named "The Thanks I get".

To quote TV-shop: it doesn't stop here... The great NPR radio show All Songs Considered taped this Wilco show last thuesday. Enjoy the sonic adventure here.

When the going gets tough, count Jeff Tweedy in

A quite extraordinary event played out at a Wilco show on October 16th. A guy from the crowd jumped onstage and laid a hand on leadsinger and band-maestro Jeff Tweedy while he was in the middle of a song. What happened next? See for yourself here. And get Tweedy's explanation here.

Now, don't get misled by the ongoing internet discussions. This case is clear-cut. The guy from the crowd was an obvious jerk (this happened in Springfield... go figure) and it is totally understandable that Tweedy got quite a chok. All hail Wilco.

Don't miss it...

This tuesday the great M. Ward will give a rare show at Lille Vega in Copenhagen. I think it is his first show in Denmark, and I know it will be an intimate and unforgetable night.

Iceland Airwaves blogreport #1 - Tilly & the Wall

I just saw Tilly and the Wall playing a mini-gig in the 12 Tónar-shop in Reykjavík, where I'm blogging from.
Wild Like Children was the first record released on Conor Oberst's Team Love label. They have a new record out; Bottom of Barrels.
The style is highschool happy-go-lucky with nice girly vocals and energetic kick-ass floor-stepping. Quite good.
This is the first blog-report from Iceland Airwaves festival, where I'm visiting friends and in general just having days off enjoying the country side and the incredible hospitality of the icelanders and their crazy attitude. Wedensday we attented a birthdayparty at a bar where everybody were stoned out of their mind due to eating magic mushrooms. It's the season, it's said.

Tilly and the Wall – Sing Songs Along (mp3)

Tilly and the Wall - The Freest Man (mp3)

One bit of Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins... and 36 times Ryan Adams

The sweet country-rocking Jenny Lewis and her Watson Twins has made a new ture, called Fernando. It may not be up to the standard of the very best of her work but still enjoyable, I think.

If you are in a more aggressive - or just plain stupid - mood, turn to Ryan Adams and his 36 brand new ultra short, ultra weird, pure punk songs. First old skool rap, now he turns back to his old love for punkrock. You may not love it all (probably not), but he sure ain't boring... As far as I know, there are no official names for the songs but I found this attempt to name them. I guess it speaks for itself...

Chuck Norris/Marijuana, Cocaine, Heroin/Country Robot Criminals/Liver Of My Own/Damn Dog/Rats (Oh Crap)/Sex on Beaches/I Miss Patches/The Drug Deal/Land of Unicorns & Candy/Sometimes.../Snoop Doggy Dog/Unicorns For Sale/Grim Reaper's Sandwich Shop/Monster Mash Incorporated (Fuck Abe Lincoln)/Drank An Entire Bottle of Medicine/Hey Punk/Judy Just Called, She's Pissed/Hulk Hogan/What The Fuck/When The Shit Hits The Floor/Drinking Hard (Oh Shit)/Dear Burger King/We're A Wreck/Lord, I Drink Too Much/Call Me Back Mary Anne/I Passed Out (Again)/Drunk As Hell (Again)/Forest Ranger Of The Year/Breaking Into Houses (Just To Look)/Drunk & In Jail/Don't You Do It/You're Dead & I'm Alone/I Ain't Got Money/Just Got Outta Jail (Where's The Party?)/Drunk As A Pile of Fuck.

By the way, Indie Laundy was well represented at the master's gig in Copenhagen this tuesday. Let me just say this: Pure genius!

New Tom Waits Orphan

This is from the Tom Waits triple CD Orpans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards. Out on Anti 21. november.

Tom Waits - bottom of the world

Tom Waits - you can never hold back spring

Music made with everydaythings by swedes

This is quite an amusing break made by some crazy swedes. Watch it

Monday's News: Sufjan Stevens and Beck

Indie Laundry-bro, Kristoffer, and I managed to get our hands on two tickets for the upcoming, and otherwise sold-out, Sufjan Stevens concert at Vega , Copenhagen in November.

To celebrate that, here is a video clip of him performing a brand new song called 'Majesty Snowbird'. If this is anything to go by, I believe we are in for a very special treat. Melodically ultra strong tunes combined with ever surprising arrangements. Can't be bad...

Meanwhile, today saw the release of the new Beck album as well. It's called "The Information" and you can enjoy the whole package
here. I have only given it a single virtual spin so far but several tracks ('Cellphone's Dead', the Stones'ish 'Strange Apparition', the dark 'Dark Star', 'No Complaints' and 'Movie Theme') really stood out for me upon first listen.

Ben Kweller

Do you know of musicians that you THINK you like, just for the tiny detail that you actually never have heard any of their music? Well, that was how I felt about American singer-songwriter Ben Kweller. I have bumped into his name lots of times through the last couple of years but it was not until the other day that I finally could be arsed to listening to the guy.

Last week he released his fourth album, simply called "Ben Kweller". This was a suitable occation to give him a chance. And - as you really ought to have guessed by now - a really liked his simple, enjoyable and a bit naive songs. So here's a chance for other Kweller-analphabetics (old acquaintances can listen in too):

Ben Kweller - Nothing Happening

Ben Kweller - Penny On The Train Track

Some of his older songs:

Ben Kweller - Sha Sha

Ben Kweller - I Need You Back

Phantom of the Opera

Yesterday PJ Harvey played a brilliant solo concert in the Royal Danish Opera. Without doubt one of the most original female rock-artists of her generation. Definitly the coolest. Here is a couple of treats..

Pj Harvey - Sheela Na Gig acoustic
Pj Harvey - Oh my lover acoustic

A freind called Björk more interesting. I disagree. Here's the combination...

The Mendoza Line, Athens mp3

Athens, Georgia band The Mendoza Line just dropped into my ears today. They are worth mentioning for their unprententious singersongwriting, which on their soon-to-be-released-in-the-UK album "Full of Light and Full of Fire" is stired with the prettiest protest songs. It's their seventh album and it's in the folk/country tradition sharing a common love of Dylan and Costello.

The topics are quite heavy; the spiritually and economically disenfranchised, the isolated and ruined, those who are lost or are simply trying to disappear. But don't despair, singer Shannon Mary McArdle does a fine job.

It's a small release but it's done with a light hand, so please step forward. It's great!

The Mendoza Line - Mysterious in Black (mp3)(Full of light... 2006)
The Mendoza Line - Catch a Collapsing Star (mp3)(Full of light... 2006)

The Mendoza Line - It's a Long Line (mp3) (Fortune, 2004)
The Mendoza Line - Let's not Talk About It (mp3) (Fortune, 2004)

Whitest Boy Alive - Live in Vega

The Whitest Boy Alive played Vega yesterday. The dorky Erlend Oye, which reminds me of a young Bill Gates, was pretty awsome.
Indielaundry-mate Arnar visited from Reykjavík and was pleased as well, even though he thought better of the Hot Chip-concert at the same venue friday.

The band played a remake of Snap's "I've Got The Power" and their version of Stardust's "Music Sounds Better With You" was awesome as well. Brilliant synthezizer-electro pop.

The lousy picture on this entry is a mobile shot of Erlend Oye, one meter from me... He crowdsurfed from the stage to the back of the hall and back again. The audience liked it, and the band had the energy as well. Nice sunday.

The Whitest Boy Alive - Inflation (mov)
The Whitest Boy Alive - Burning (mp3)

Phelan Sheppard - Harps Old Master - mp3

I've never heard about Phelan Sheppard, but the minutes with he and his lush tunes was good spend this sunday. He is doing this ambient-electronic-folksy music and has a new album out on The Leaf Label.
It's kind of melancholy and emotional and has contribution from Boston folk band Willard Grant Conspiracy. All in all interessting work.
Read on and buy the album on PostEverything

Phelan Sheppard - Parachute Seeds
Phelan Sheppard - weaving song

Rutledge news

Alt. country wonderboy Justin Rutledge will in three weeks release 'The Devil On A Bench In Stanley Park' - the follow-up to his masterpiece-debut, 'No Never Alone'.
Stream a new song on his website here

Song of the year?

I did not know I was a Frank Black fan, but... I am! I just got his latest album. His double album Fast man/Raider Man is excellent. It is updated and rockin Van Morrison-inspired rock'n'roll. Great song upon great song - with a charming classic americana feel. Especially the song Elijah is my best bid on the song of the year so far. Try it!

Elijah mp3
Fast Man mp3

Yo La Tengo and Bonnie Prince Billy mp3

Yo La Tengo is about to release "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass" and the enigmatic Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "The Letting Go".

While the Yo La Tengo album seem to be bit of a bold, eclectic, 80-minute album, the Bonnie-album is just plain enchanting. It may well be his loveliest.
The album is series of meditations and tone poems on love and mortality. Folksy singer Dawn McCarthy is supporting Billy's tremulous expression, which is kind of stream-of-consciousness lyricism.

The Yo-La's has also put music on the soundtrack for the roadmovie "Old Joy".which features Will Oldham aka Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. So the connection is there.

Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo - "Beanbag Chair" (MP3)
Yo La Tengo - "Sometimes I Don't Get You" (MP3)
Yo La Tengo - "Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind" (MP3)
New Bonnie-songs
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "Cursed Sleep" (MP3)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "No bad news" (MP3)
Older Bonnie-songs (thx. Daytrotter)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "The Seedling" (MP3)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "Goodbye Dear Old Stepstone" (MP3)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "The Sun Highlights the Lack in Each" (MP3)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "The Sun Highlights the Lack in Each" (MP3)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "New Partner" (MP3)

Nørlund meets Van Zandt

Danish indie-godfather Nikolaj Nørlund has released a cover-album with Townes van Zandt songs, with his band Rhonda Harris. I can only be a good experience and a even better way to get to know the work of Van Zandt.
Marie - mp3

What a night...

Still celebrating that Ryan Adams will bless Copenhagen with a visit the 10th of October, I just found out that Neal Casal (who has also played the guitar for Ryan) will support him. I guy who Allmusic calls a reincarnation of Gram Parson. Oh my, that night's gonna be the climax of my life. Get a taste..
Freeway To The Canyon - mp3
Grand Island - mp3