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One Eskimo-Amazing

Typically I don’t tend to listen to music that would find it’s way onto the Adult Rock Top 40 list, but for the new mix of “Amazing” I can make an exception. Any song that focuses on…

Clare and the Reasons- He Needs Me

Here is a jaunty little number to carry you to the weekend provided by the ever talented Clare and the Reasons, with a little help from prolific songwriter, arranger, and general awesome musician Van Dyke Parks. After…

Fever Ray-Mercy Street

Unfortunately, I can’t offer you a download of this, but fortunately it’s currently streaming and available later this month for purchase. Fever Ray has been relatively quiet since releasing her debut last year, but she’s recently popped…

Marnie Stern- Transparency

. . . And the winner of “most concise title for an upcoming record” is. . . Well, it was not Marnie Stern’s last album, but things are a bit more abridged this time around. Coming out…

The Intelligence-Like Like Like Like Like Like Like

Ordinarily I would think that a band with a title like this has a slight inferiority complex and desperately needs everyone’s approval. However, coming from The Intelligence, it’s more like what you will be saying after hearing…

Nina Simone-I Put A Spell On You (MiM0SA remix)

Starting off deceptively unchanged, Nina’s voice breaks surface just long enough to be interrupted by glitchy electronic bass, a high pitch squiggle going on in the background. “I Put A Spell On You” has always been one…

The Good Ones- Sara

When always looking for the next innovators, those who develop a unique and  not yet experienced mode of musical expression, we collectively tend to look forward. New technology often plays a key roll whether it is new…

The Black Ryder-Let It Go

Adding their Australian sound to the spate of other Black (or White) duos, The Black Ryder have arrived in America with their album, Buy the Ticket, Take The Ride, released in Australia last year and dropping over…

No Age- Glitter

Just in case you didn’t already know. . . No Age are awesome. Constantly stretching the paradigm for their craft, this guitar/percussion duo have released a collection of EP’s that were so sprawling in scope they were…

Janaka Selekta-Reborn

As names go, this one tells you a lot about the music he creates, a combination of Indian (tabla not hoop) and dub swirled together in an electronic blender and mixed with a whole lot of groove.…