Favorite Albums of the Week:
The Districts – A Flourish And A Spoil | Johan Agebjörn – Notes | Trent Dabbs – Believer | Wardell – Love / Idleness –
The Districts – A Flourish And A Spoil – Folk
The Districts are a rock and roll/jazz/soul band from Lancaster Pennsylvania and are now a 5 piece band. Read a review on Indie is Not a Genre.
Recommended Tracks: 4th and Roebling, Sing the Song, Young Blood
The Dø – Shake, Shook, Shaken – Alternative
The Dø is a French/Finnish indie pop band founded in Paris in 2005. The band is Olivia Merilahti and Dan Levy. The duo has been backed on stage by three different drummers: Jérémie Pontier, José Joyette, and Pierre Belleville. Read a review on HyperMusicality.
Recommended Tracks: Trustful Hands, Anita No!, Nature Will Remain
The Dreaming – Rise Again – Alternative
The Dreaming is an alternative rock band in the Hollywood area, founded in 2002 by Christopher Hall and Johnny Haro. Read a review on Noise Cannon.
Recommended Tracks: Empty Promises, Still Believe, Rise Again
Fat Mike – Home Street Home – Alternative
Michael John Burkett, also known as Fat Mike is an American musician, producer, lead vocalist, and bassist for the punk rock band NOFX, as well as bassist for the punk rock supergroup cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and temporary bassist of Against Me!. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts. Read a review on The Daily Slice.
Recommended tracks: Urban Campers, High Achievers, Safe Words
Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear – Singer/Songwriter
Joshua Tillman, also known as J. Tillman, is an American folk singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer, currently performing under the moniker Father John Misty. Read a review on earthings!
Recommended Tracks: Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins), True Affection, Strange Encounter, Holy Shit
Gretchen Peters – Blackbirds – Singer/Songwriter
Gretchen Peters is an American singer and songwriter. She was born in New York and raised in Boulder, Colorado, but moved to Nashville in the late 1980s. Read a review on Jonathan Pappalardo’s.
Recommended Tracks: Blackbirds, When All You Got Is a Hammer, Jubilee, The Cure for the Pain
JD McPherson – Let The Good Times Roll – Singer/Songwriter
JD McPherson is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. He is known for a retro sound rooted in the rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and rockabilly music of the 1950s. Read a review on Medleyville.
Recommended Tracks: Let The Good Times Roll, Bridgebuilder, Precious
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – A Year With 13 Moons – Ambient
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma is a multi-instrumentalist, member of several bands and co-founder of the Root Strata record label based out of San Francisco, California. Cantu-Ledesma got his start in the band Tarentel.
Recommended Tracks: Pale Flower, The Twins/Shadows, Along the Isar
Johan Agebjörn – Notes – Ambient
Johan Agebjörn’s music spans from ambient and classical piano music to electro and italo disco. Johan Agebjörn, based in Lund, Sweden, is most known as the producer and songwriter of the neo-italo disco project Sally Shapiro. Read a review on The Answer Is in The Beat.
Recommended Tracks: The Boy Who Thought It Was A Good Idea To Cry, Careful, Alpha Beta Gamma with Brain Machine, It Was Never a Challenge to Love You
Knifight – V – Indie
Knifight is an indie-electronic/post-wave band in Austin, Texas. Read an interview on Bearded Gentlemen Music.
Recommended Tracks: Everything’s Perfect, Broken Feeling, Vii
Martin Sexton – Mixtape Of The Open Road – Singer/Songwriter
Martin Sexton is an American singer-songwriter and producer originally from Syracuse, New York.
Recommended Tracks: You (My Mind is Woo), Set in Stone, Doin’ Something Right
Michelle Chamuel – Face The Fire – Pop
Michelle Jacqueline Chamuel is an American musician, singer, songwriter and producer from Amherst, Massachusetts. She was the runner-up on the fourth season of NBC’s The Voice. From 2007 to 2011 she was the lead singer of the band Ella Riot.
Recommended Tracks: Face the Fire, Money, Give You
Rumer – Into Colour – Singer/Songwriter
Sarah Joyce, better known by her stage name, Rumer, is a Pakistani-born British singer–songwriter. Her stage name was inspired by the author Rumer Godden.
Recommended Tracks: Dangerous,
Trent Dabbs – Believer – Singer/Songwriter
Trent Dabbs is an American singer-songwriter who was raised in Jackson, Mississippi, but has been based in Nashville for his professional career. He co-founded the musical collective Ten Out of Tenn in 2005.
Recommended Tracks: Nature of the Beast, For the Grace of You, Make a Believer, To My Girl
Wardell – Love / Idleness – Alternative
Wardell is an indie folk rock band formed by siblings Sasha and Theo Spielberg. Read a review on Pop Matters!
Recommended Tracks: Funny Thing, Act My Age, Heaven’s Keeper
William Ryan Fritch – Revisionist – Instrumental
William Ryan Fritch is a composer, producer/recordist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist living in Oakland, Ca. He has released music through Asthmatic Kitty Records, instrumental music under the moniker Vieo Abiungo for Lost Tribe Records, is a member of the trio Skyrider, the experimental post-hop outfit Sole and the Skyrider Band (Fake Four Inc.), and has collaborated with numerous bands as an arranger and multi-instrumentalist, contributing to over 40 albums. Read a review on Pitchfork.
Recommended Tracks: Revisionist, Heavy, Unholy Frames feat. Origamibiro, Gloaming LIght feat. Dm Stith
Many of the band bio’s came straight from wiki & Last FM. FYI
