Naked & Famous Denim Duffle Bag

Essential Reading

Deerhunter "Halcyon Digest"

08 Helicopter by bakerjason

New A-1 beer back home in Arizona

New A-1 beer back home in Arizona

Twin Shadow-Castles In The Snow

Twin Shadow - Castles In The Snow Directed by Jamie Harley from Twin Shadow on Vimeo.

Calexico Free Show on Friday

Jim James & Calexico "Goin to Acapulco" by bakerjason

ABC's of Summer MIx

1. Aloe Blacc. I Need a Dollar.
2. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. Round and Round.
3. Band of Horses. Compliments.
4. Beach House. Silver Soul.
5. Best Coast. When I'm With You.
6. Bibio. Lovers' Carvings.
7. The Black Keys. Tighten Up.
8. Broken Bells. The Mall & Misery.
9. Cotton Jones. By Morning Light.
10. Cults. Go Outside.
11. Florence + The Machine. You Got the Love (xx remix).
12. Gayngs. The Gaudy Side of Town.
13. How To Dress Well. Ready For the World.
14. JJ. Birthday.
15. King Tuff. Sun Medallion.
16. Local Natives. Airplanes.
17. The Morning Benders. Sleeping In.
18. The Rosewood Thieves. Los Angeles.
19. Vampire Weekend. Giving Up the Gun.


ABC's of Summer by bakerjason

Gayngs

Members of Bon Iver and Megafaun have formed an R&B supergroup.
And it is damn good!

Converse CVO Mid

England Fans Still A Little Bitter

Best of the Year (so far)

Beach House


The Black Keys


Broken Bells


Local Natives


The Morning Benders

Isbells

If you like Bon Iver and CSN&Y, then this album is for you.

Isbells Isbells 08 My Apologies by bakerjason

Vans Vault Native American LX

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti

01 Can't Hear My Eyes by bakerjason

Mos Dub

Mos Dub - 01 - Johnny Too Beef by bakerjason

Let The Playoffs Begin...

Aloe Blacc

This is the lead off single from Aloe Blacc's forth coming album Good Things, produced by Truth & Soul, and featuring the backing band known as Expressions and El Michels Affair. The A-Side “I Need A Dollar” has just debuted as the theme song to the HBO series How To Make It In America.

The 12-inch vinyl for “Dollar” will be in stores April 2010. This is an advance digital release, which is also available on iTunes. Instrumentals for both tracks are included.

The album Good Things will be released in 2010 – track list & street date TBA.

The Morning Benders

I went and saw The Morning Benders last night.
Pick up their new album, Big Echo, early contender for album of the year.

Malachai

Signed to the label run by Geoff Barrow from Portishead, Bristolians Malakai(now Malachai) mix Love-style garage psychedelia and trippy samples with modern production savvy. The result is catchy, off-kilter backdrops for vocals that are a clear tribute to Horace Andy. Think Mellow Gold-era Beck crossed with the Kinks.

Unreleased Jimi Hendrix

During his four-year career before his untimely death, Jimi Hendrix released only three official albums with the Experience, followed by just one live release with his newly formed Band of Gypsys in 1970. Many posthumous albums, compilations and box sets have followed, and now Hendrix's camp has announced that 12 fully-realized, previously-unreleased studio recordings will see the light of day. The first of these tracks, 'Valley of Neptune,' will be initially released on Jan. 28 exclusively on Spinner, to be followed by a worldwide release on Feb. 2.

The complete 'Valley of Neptune' album will hit stores and digital retailers on Mar. 9. That same day, the Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project will reissue, through Legacy Recordings, new deluxe CD/DVD and vinyl editions of the Hendrix classics. The DVDs will include new documentaries by Grammy-winner Bob Smeaton.

Material for 'Valley of the Sun' is from studio sessions that largely took place during a volatile four-month period in 1969. Hendrix was famously being torn in many different directions at that time, embattled with legal issues over various contracts on the business side of things that wouldn't be settled until years -- or even decades -- after his death.

More relevant to these actual recording sessions, this was the period in which Hendrix was just about to start phasing out the Jimi Hendrix Experience (featuring Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums) in favor of Band of Gypsys, with bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles. Some have speculated that it was a harbinger of a stylistic change to funkier, jazzier territories from the classic, if experimental, blues-rock of the Experience. However, several of these new tracks feature Cox on bass but Mitchell on drums. The sessions took place, alternately, at both the Record Plant in New York and Olympic Studios in London and were intended to form the foundation for the follow-up to 'Electric Ladyland.' It's an exciting unearthing, no doubt.

Like many of Hendrix's best-known recordings, 'Valley of Neptune' was mixed by Hendrix's longtime engineer, Eddie Kramer. Hendrix's sister Janie, who is CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, says that the newly unlocked material reveals Jimi's talents as a studio innovator as well as a guitarist. "His brilliance shines through," she says, "on every one of these precious tracks."(Spinner)

Animals Mix

1.Despicable Dogs 3:55 Small Black
2.Wilderness 4:55 Active Child
3.The Infinite Pet 3:57 Spoon
4.Elephant Gun 5:49 Beirut
5.Zebra 4:49 Beach House
6.Bass Song 4:28 Hayden
7.Core of Nature 4:33 Midlake
8.The Fade 2:55 Megafaun
9.Boneless 2:52 Notwist(Grizzly Bear Remix)
10.Rats 5:09 Devendra Banhart
11.Glory Gongs 6:27 Forest Swords
12.Silver Dagger 3:16 White Antelope
13.Military Madnes 3:12 Woods
14.I Wish It Would Rain 4:35 The Cougars
15.Turn The Dirt Over 3:00 Sea Wolf
16.October Fires 4:20 Wolf People
17.Army Of Ancient 4:05 Dr. Dog
18.Honey Dove 3:43 Lee Fields & The Expressions


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Young @ Heart

I caught this on PBS the other night and it is really good. It is a doc about this choir of old folks doing songs from: Coldplay, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, Dylan, Hendrix and more. But, it is more than about the music. Check it out.