Spoon's Britt Daniel: Noise Pop 2006

photo by julie schuchard

You can download Britt Daniel's entire SOLO performance at last years Noise Pop fest right here. The sound is great and he aims to please by taking requests. Here's the setlist, including the encore, found on the archive.org page.

Swedish American Hall March 29th 2006
1. Advance Cassette
2. Anything You Want
3. The Beast And Dragon, Adored
4. Everything Hits At Once
5. Metal Detektor
6. Telephone My Heart (New Song, unsure on title)
7. Me and the Bean*
8. The Delicate Place
9. The Agony of Lafitte
10. I Could See The Dude
11. Don't Make Me A Target (New Song)
12. I Summon You
13. They Never Got You
14. The Way We Get By
15. Isolation $
16. Sister Jack

Encore:
17. Stay Don't Go
18. Fitted Shirt > Car Radio
19. 10:20AM
20. Monsieur Valentin

* John Clayton cover
$ John Lennon cover

Beirut:: 'The Flying Club Cup' Videos

Beirut will unveil their new record on BaDaBing! this coming October 9th. And the good and giving folks at la blogotheque have been shooting live performance videos of each and every song from that very album, The Flying Club Cup, on Beirut's home turf of Brooklyn. Check the album site for more videos in the days leading up to the album's release.

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"La Banlieue"

"Cliquot"

"Un Dernier Verre"

"Forks And Knives (La Fete)"

"The Penalty"

"Nantes"

BEIRUT - Nantes - from The Flying Club Cup
Uploaded by flyingclubcup

Released: September 25 + October 2

Here are the new releases found at insound.com for the next couple of weeks. Is there anything in this list getting you excited?

09/25/07 Athlete Beyond The Neighbourhood Astralwerks
09/25/07 Bear Claw Deep Owls Sickroom Records
09/25/07 Bettye LeVette Scent of the Crime Anti
09/25/07 Bird and the Bee Please Clap Your Hands Blue Note
09/25/07 Boys Noize Oi Oi Oi Last Gang
09/25/07 Cadance Weapon Afterparty Babies Anti
09/25/07 Capgun Coup Brought To You By Nebraskafish Team Love
09/25/07 Casualties Made In NYC Side One Dummy
09/25/07 Cave Singers Invitation Songs Matador
09/25/07 Devendra Banhart Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon XL
09/25/07 Doveman With My Left Hand I Raise the Dead Brassland
09/25/07 Farewell Isn't This Supposed To Be Fun Epitaph
09/25/07 Feu Therese Ca Va Cogner Constellation
09/25/07 Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience And Grace RCA
09/25/07 Georgie James Places Saddle Creek
09/25/07 Hrsta Ghosts Will Come and Kiss Our Eyes Constellation
09/25/07 Iron & Wine The Sheperd's Dog Sub Pop
09/25/07 Jose Gonzalez In Our Nature Mute
09/25/07 Loney, Dear Sologne Rebel Group
09/25/07 Magik Markers BOSS Ecstatic Peace
09/25/07 Matt Pond PA Last Light Altitude
09/25/07 Meneguar Strangers In Our House Troubleman Unlimited
09/25/07 múm Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy, Let Your Crooked Hands Be Holy FatCat
09/25/07 Office A Night At The Ritz New Line
09/25/07 PJ Harvey White Chalk Island
09/25/07 Sea Wolf Leaves In The River Dangerbird
09/25/07 Secret Handshake One Full Year Triple Crown
09/25/07 Sir Richard Bishop Polytheistic Fragments Drag City
09/25/07 Stars In Our Bedroom After The War Arts & Crafts
09/25/07 Tiny Masters of Today Bang Bang Boom Cake Great Society
09/25/07 Tunng Good Arrows Thrill Jockey
09/25/07 Two Gallants Two Gallants Saddle Creek
09/25/07 Weakerthans Reunion Tour Epitaph
09/25/07 Xasthur Defective Epitaph Hydra Head

October
10/02/07 1900's Cold & Kind Parasol
10/02/07 Apollo Heights White Music for Black People Manimal Vinyl
10/02/07 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Sacred Famous Human Ear Music
10/02/07 Depeche Mode Exciter (Reissue) Rhino
10/02/07 Depeche Mode Ultra (Reissue) Rhino
10/02/07 Division Day Beartrap Island Eenie Meenie
10/02/07 Matt Costa Unfamiliar Face Brushfire
10/02/07 Mobius Band Heaven Misra
10/02/07 Sadies New Seasons Yep Roc
10/02/07 We Are Wolves Total Magique Dare To Care

NEW Full Album Streams at Spinner.com

We've got sixteen albums to check out this week thanks to spinner.com, including Canadian Patrick Watson, Canadian band Stars, and Canadian icon, Joni Mitchell.

Patrick Watson MP3s
lucious life [mp3]
giver [mp3]

FULL ALBUM STREAMS
Patrick Watson, 'Close to Paradise'

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, '100 Days, 100 Nights'

Stars, 'In Our Bedroom After the War'

Jose Gonzalez, 'In Our Nature'

Office, 'A Night at the Ritz'

Motion City Soundtrack, 'Even If It Kills Me'

Sea Wolf, 'Leaves in the River'

Joni Mitchell, 'Shine'

Herbie Hancock, 'River: The Joni Letters'

Matt Pond PA, 'Last Light'

Shocking Pinks, 'Shocking Pinks'

Cave Singers, 'Invitation Songs'

Devendra Banhart, 'Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon'

A.A. Bondy, 'American Hearts'

Small Sins, 'Mood Swings'

Tiefschwarz, 'Strictly Tiefschwarz'

New Beirut and Kevin Drew at eMusic

I haven't been visiting eMusic much in the past couple of months, but that changed today and guess what they've got that looks good to me, or in a few cases is very, very good and I already have heard numerous times.... it's initials are TFCC.

And, you know, that Beirut album won't hit shelves until October 9th!

Beirut The Flying Club Cup
Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew Spirit If...
Les Savy Fav Let's Stay Friends
Via Audio Say Something Say Something Say Something
Shout Out Louds Our Ill Wills
Black Francis Bluefinger
Akron/Family Love Is Simple

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Iron & Wine 'The Shepherd's Dog' Lyrics + Tour Dates

Iron & Wine's 3rd full length album, The Shepherd's Dog, will be released on September 25th via Sub Pop. The lyrics offered here were found in several places online and could very well have errors. If you spot an outstanding error and would like to correct it, please do so in the comments.

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TRACK LIST
1. Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car
2. White Tooth Man
3. Lovesong of the Buzzard
4. Carousel
5. House by the Sea
6. Innocent Bones
7. Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog)
8. Resurrection Fern
9. Boy With a Coin
10.The Devil Never Sleeps
11.Peace Beneath the City
12.Flightless Bird, American Mouth

IRON & WINE TOUR DATES
09-24 Cleveland, Ohio - Beachland Ballroom
09-25 Toronto, Ontario - Danforth Music Hall
09-26 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis
09-27 Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre
09-28 Upper Darby, PA - Tower Theater
09-29 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
09-30 New York, NY - Town Hall Theatre
10-23 Leeds, England - City Varieties Music Hall
10-24 Gateshead, England - Sage
10-25 Manchester, England - Academy 2
10-26 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Belfast Festival
10-27 Dublin, Ireland - Temple Bar
10-28 Bristol, England - St. George's
10-29 Edinburgh, Scotland - Queen's Hall
10-31 London, England - Shepherd's Bush Empire
11-01 Cardiff, Wales - The Point
11-02 Brighton, England - St. George's Church
11-03 Nottingham, England - Rescue Rooms
11-04 Reading, England - Reading Arts Concert Hall
GO HERE FOR MORE DATES

THE SHEPHERD'S DOG Lyrics
1. "Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car"
Love was a promise made of smoke
In a frozen copse of trees
A bone cold and older than our bodies
Slowly floating in the sea
Every morning there were planes
The shiny blades of pagan angels in our father's skies
Every evening I would watch her hold the pillow
Tight against her hollows, her unholy child
I was still a beggar shaking out my stolen coat
Among the angry cemetery leaves
When they caught the king beneath the borrowed car
Righteous, drunk, and fumbling for the royal keys

Love was a father's flag and sung like a shank
In a cake on our leather boots
A beautiful feather floating down
To where the birds had shit on empty chapel pews
Every morning we found one more machine
To mock our ever waning patience at the well
Every evening she'd descend the mountain stealing socks
And singing something good where all the horses fell
Like a snake within the wilted garden wall
I’d hint to her every possibility
While with his gun the pagan angel rose to say
"My love is one made to break every bended knee"

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2. "White Tooth Man"
Said the plain clothes cop to the beauty queen
“I’ve seen nothing but a spoke in a wheel”
So she gave up her crown to a kid with a crutch
And they both felt cheated after closing the deal
And the white tooth man, I ran with him
Got all cut up from pissing out in the weeds
And a fight upstate with a broken blade
And a wife whose finger never wanted a ring

Said the plain clothes cop to the Indian chief
“I’ve made nothing but an honest mistake”
The postman cried while reading the mail
And we all got trampled in the Christmas parade
And the white tooth man who sold me a gun
A map of Canaan and a government bond
Said, “I love this town, but it ain’t the same”
The ski mask ripped as he was putting it on

Said the plain clothes cop to the holy ghost
“I’ve heard nothing if it wasn’t the wind”
And we all got sick on a strip club meal
While the statehouse was frying all the witches again
So the white tooth man with his kids in the car
And a wad of money that was already spent
Said, “I love my dog but she just ran away
She’ll keep running like the world never ends”

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3. "Lovesong of the Buzzard"
In the failing light of the afternoon
Lucy in the shade of the dogwood blooms
Yesterday the solace of a poison fish
Tomorrow I'll be kissing on her blood red lips

No one is the saviour they would like to be
The lovesong of the buzzard in the dogwood tree
With a train of horses laughing through the traffic line
And the cradle's unimaginative sense of time

Springtime and the promise of an open fist
A tattoo of a flower on a broken wrist
Lucy tells me jokingly to wipe her brow
With a pocket map to heaven and the sun goes down

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4. "Carousel"
Almost home
When I missed the bottom stair
You were braiding your gray hair
It had grown so long
Since I'd been gone

And the perfect girls
By the pool, they would protest
The cross around their necks
But our sons were overseas
And we all know about the hive and the honey bees

Almost home
With an olive branch and a dove
You were beating on a Persian rug
With your bible and your wedding band
Both hidden on a TV stand

And the cruel wind blew
Every city father fell
Off the county carousel
While the dogs were eating snow
All our sons had sunk in a trunk of Noah's clothes

Almost home
We got lost on our new street
While your grieving girls all died in their sleep
So the dogs all went unfed
A great dream of bones all piled on the bed

And the cops couldn't care
When that crackhead built a boat
And said, "Please, before I go
May our only honored bone
Be the kinship of the kids and the riot squad"

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5. "House by the Sea"
There is a house by the sea
Two jealous sisters, they're waiting for me
And one is laid on the floor
And one is changing the locks on the doors
And I've been buying the time on my knees
And I've been selling their blankets to bleed (on)

Around the house by the sea
The scent of roses and raspberry leaves
And there is smoke in my clothes
Too much time with just smoke in my nose
And I've been making the meaning they lack
And I've been burning that book they come back too

There is a house by the sea
And an ocean between it and me
And like the shape of a wave
The jealous sisters will sing on my grave
And I've been living to run where they led
And I've been dying to rise from their bed
And I've been sparing my neck from their chain
And they've been changing the sound of my name
And I've been swimming to them in my sleep
And I've been dreaming our love and our freedom

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6. "Innocent Bones"
Cain got a milk-eyed mule from the auction
Abel got a telephone
And even the last of the blue-eyed babies know
That the burning man is the color of the end of day
And how every tongue that gets bit always has another word to say

Cain bought a blade from some witch at the window
Abel bought a bag of weed
And even the last of the brown-eyed babies see
That the cartoon king has a tattoo of a bleeding heart
There ain’t a penthouse Christian wants the pain of the scab, but they all want the scar
How every mouth sings of what it’s without so we all sing of love
And how it ain’t one dog who’s good at fucking and denying who he’s thinking of

Cain heard a cat tumble limp off the rooftop
Abel heard his papa pray
And even the last of the black-eyed babies say
That every saint has a chair you can borrow and a church to sell
That the wind blows cold across the back of the master and the kitchen help
There’s a big pile of innocent bones still holding up the garden wall
And it was always the broken hand we learned to lean on after all
How God knows if Christ came back he would find us in a poker game
After finding out the drugs were all free but they won't let you out the door again

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7. "Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog)"
Wolves by the road
And a bike wheel spinning on a pawn shop wall
She leaned on her coloured hair
Like a butterfly wing in a summer rainfall
And the roll on the kitchen floor
Some fucker with a pocketful of foreign change
Song of the shepherd’s dog
A pitch in the dark in the ear of the lamb who was going to try to run away
Whoever got that brave?

Wolves in the middle of town
And the chapel bell ringing through the wind-blown trees
To wave to the butcher’s boy with the parking lot music everybody believes
And then out like a dying bird in the ?? in the corner of the penny arcade
Song of the shepherd’s dog
Waiting around the jack call of the rooster
On the rooftop waiting for day
And ain’t nobody’s gonna say

Wolves at the end of the bed
And a postcard hidden in her winter clothes
She beat in the back of a truck
To the trailers when we trying to find the bullet hole
And then run down the canopy rows
Some mother and a baby with a cross to nail
Song of the shepherd’s dog
Little brown flea in the bottle of oil for your woolly wild hair
You'll never get him out of there

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8. "Resurrection Fern"
In our days we will live
Like our ghosts will live:
Pitching glass at the cornfield crows
And folding clothes

Like stubborn boys across the road
We'll keep everything:
Grandma's gun and the black bear claw
That took her dog

When sister Laurie says, "Amen"
We won't hear anything:
The ten-car trains will take that word
That fledgling bird

And the fallen house across the way
It'll keep everything:
The baby's breath
Our bravery wasted and our shame

And we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire
Both our tender bellies wound in baling wire
All the more a pair of underwater pearls
Than the oak tree and its resurrection fern

In our days we will say
What our ghosts will say:
We gave the world what it saw fit
And what'd we get?

Like stubborn boys with big green eyes
We'll see everything:
In the tender shade of the autumn leaves
And the buzzard's wing

And we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire
Our tender bellies are wound around in baling wire
All the more a pair of underwater pearls
Than the oak tree and its resurrection fern

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9. "Boy With A Coin"
A boy with a coin he found in the weeds
With bullets and pages of trade magazines
Close to a car that flipped on the turn
When God left the ground to circle the world

A girl with a bird she found in the snow
Then flew up her gown and that's how she knows
That God made her eyes for crying at birth
Then left the ground to circle the Earth

A boy with a coin he crammed in his jeans
Then making a wish he tossed in the sea
Walked to a town that all of us burn
When God left the ground to circle the world

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10. "The Devil Never Sleeps"
Dreamin’ again of a train track ending at the edge of the sea
Big black cloud was low and rolling our way
Dog at the barbed wire barkin’ at my buzz-cut friends
Friend with a switch blade shinin’ in the summer rain
No one on the corner had a quarter for the telephone
Everybody bitchin’ there’s nothing on the radio

Dreamin’ again of a city full of fathers and their white clothes
Chatterin’ boys and a chicken at the choppin’ block
All of us lost at the crosswalk waitin’ for the other to go
Didn’t find the field but boy you’re really waterlogged
Someone bet a dollar that their daddy wasn’t comin’ home
Everybody bitchin’ there’s nothing on the radio

Dreamin’ again that it’s freezin’ and my mother’s in a flower bed
Long dead rows of daffodils and marigolds
Changin’ her face like a shadow on the ground
(can't tell what this line is - CAN YOU HELP OUT?)
No one lives forever and the devil never sleeps alone
Everybody bitchin’ there’s nothing on the radio

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11. "Peace Beneath the City"
Here’s a prayer for the body buried by the interstate
Murder of a soldier, a tree in a forest up in flames
Black valley, peace beneath the city
Where the women hear the washboard rhythm in their bosom when they say,
"Give me good legs and a Japanese car and show me a road”

Sing a song for the bodies buried by the riverbank
A well-dressed boy and a pig with a bullet in the brain
Black valley, peace beneath the city
Where the white girls wander the strip mall, singing all day,
“Give me a juggernaut heart and a Japanese car and someone to free"

Sing a song for the body buried like a keepsake
Mother of million mouths with the very same name
Black valley, peace beneath the city
Where the women tell the weather but never ever tell you what they pray
They pray, "Give me a yellow brick road and a Japanese car and benevolent change"

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12. "Flightless Bird, American Mouth"
I was a quick wet boy
Diving too deep for coins
All of your straight blind eyes
Wide on my plastic toys
And when the cops closed the fair
I cut my long baby hair
Stole me a dog-eared map
And called for you everywhere

Have I found you?
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping
Or lost you?
American mouth
Big bill looming

Now I’m a fat house cat
Cursing my sore blunt tongue
Watching the warm poison rats
Curl through the wide/white fence cracks
Kissing on magazine photos
Those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean
Blood of Christ mountain stream

Have I found you?
Flightless bird, brown hair bleeding
Or lost you?
American mouth
Big bill, stuck going down

'Kurt Cobain: About A Son' - Trailer

Kurt Cobain: About A Son Track List - BUY
1. Steve Fisk & Benjamin Gibbard — overture
2. "never intended" [interview excerpt]
3. Arlo Guthrie — motorcycle song
4. The Melvins — eye flys
5. "punk rock" [interview excerpt]
6. Bad Brains — banned in d.c.
7. Creedence Clearwater Revival — up around the bend
8. Half Japanese — put some sugar on it [mp3]
9. The Vaselines — son of a gun
10. Butthole Surfers — graveyard
11. "hardcore was dead" [interview excerpt]
12. Scratch Acid — owner's lament
13. Mudhoney — touch me i'm sick
14. "car radio" [interview excerpt]
15. Iggy Pop — the passenger
16. Lead Belly — the bourgeois blues
17. R.E.M. — new orleans instrumental no. 1
18. "the limelight" [interview excerpt]
19. David Bowie — the man who sold the world
20. Mark Lanegan — museum
21. Benjamin Gibbard — indian summer

Orba Squara

I heard of this New York based outfit as the unsigned band (actually a one man band) whose song, "Perfect Timing (this morning)", was on the iPhone commercial, a commercial that I had never seen (I don't watch a lot of TV), but after seeing the spot on Youtube, I don't think the song was prominent enough to have caught my ear in the first place (the ad ends before the vocal begins). That's not a putdown of the song itself, far from it, Orba Squara, or Mitch Davis, the man behind the name, has a lot of personality in his music and deserves any attention coming his way for the music he's written and recorded for his debut, sunshyness. You can hear him reveling in the chiming and ringing of the instruments, you can nearly see him smiling, if not hear him, when listening to songs like "Warm Fuzz" and "My Favorite Song". This joy in organic sounds may spring from Davis' abandonment of the electronic gear he was previously playing for the natural beauty of acoustic instruments, which move the air with wood and metal, plus the album's cozy, personal vibe surely emanates from the fact that he was recording these songs for himself. But we wouldn't be hearing of him if he'd kept them to himself, for he then handed out copies to friends and when a copy eventually made it's way to Universal Music Publishing, Davis found himself with four songs licensed by Universal well before the record's self-release date of October 9th. The four being the aforementioned iPhone jingle, plus a new song titled "Brand New Day" which appears in the film comedy "Wedding Daze", and another couple will appear in ads for Goodyear and telecom group Orange. This may all become a little dizzying for the 37 year-old songwriter who pens tracks with titles like "Sunshine", "Stay Around", "So Comfortable", and "Sky Cloud Winter Breeze", but I, for one, hope he keeps his feet on the ground and his music unplugged.

Here's an mp3 from the upcoming album, sunshyness, a song that will surely become someone's favourite song.

"Hey man, you’re singing my favorite song
Hey friend, you’re bringing back better times
Hey there, you know just what to say
Hey kid, that’s just what I needed today"

my favorite song [mp3]

BUY the album at his myspace or homepage.

sunshyness track list
1. Sky Cloud Winter Breeze
2. Perfect Timing (This Morning)
3. My Favorite song
4. Gravel
5. The Only Thing
6. Warm Fuzz
7. Stay Around
8. So Comfortable
9. All Around The World
10. Sunshine

Full Album Streams: Kevin Drew's 'Spirit If...' , Eddie Vedder's 'Into The Wild', and more

AOL's Spinner.com has outdone itself with nearly two dozen full album streams! Clean out your ears and start clickin'.

Kevin Drew, 'Spirit If...'

Eddie Vedder, 'Into the Wild'

Rouge Wave, "Asleep at Heaven'

Hard-Fi, 'Once Upon A Time In The West'

The Crystal Method, 'Vegas'

Bella, 'No One Will Know'

KT Tunstall, 'Drastic Fantastic'

Elvis Costello, 'My Aim Is True'

Federico Aubele, 'Panamericana'

Jeremy Fisher, 'Goodbye Blue Monday'

Ministry, 'The Last Sucker'

Nightmare of You, 'Bang'

State Radio, 'Year of the Crow'

The Wombats, 'The Wombats' EP

Jesca Hoop, 'Kismet'

Bee Gees, 'Greatest' [Deluxe Edition'

Drug Rug, 'Drug Rug'

Tiefschwarz, 'Strictly'

Motion City Soundtrack, 'Even If It Kills Me'

Ben Lee, 'Ripe'

Thurston, 'Trees Outside the Academy'

The A-Sides, 'Silver Storms'

Les Savy Fav, 'Let's Stay Friends'

Bob Wiseman

With Bob Wiseman opening for Feist on her European dates, I thought I'd throw up this opening from my post on him from back in November 2005, with link to the whole post... along with a couple of mp3s, of course.

Bob Wiseman almost seems 'too' funny for his own good or at least his music's good (but not too Canadian, how could that possibly happen?). I mean that he would likely receive more attention and admiration from that quadrant of the music media with hyperbolic tendencies if his eccentric, formidable talent were framed at all times in a downtrodden, serious urban light (a là the Godfather of eccentric urban hipsters, Tom Waits). But Wiseman, I believe, follows his muse (serious or lighthearted) from whatever or wherever it springs (He has even done some film and television scoring). But when he does put his talent to a serious inspiration what appears is often lovely and touching. That is not to dismiss the more humorous songs he has penned... Wiseman is a funny guy. A multi-instrumentalist, he obviously has an affinity for any instrument with keys, such as organ, piano, toy piano, accordion, melodica, they all sing under Wiseman's fingers.

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MP3s
man of misery
born to love you

Feist Adds Tour Dates + MP3s

Canada's latest addition to it's list of female superstars (Celine, Shania, Avril, uhh... Anne Murray. I think I might have missed a few between Avril and Anne), Leslie (Jesus Christ it's Leslie Feist!) Feist, has made plans to visit even more cities on her endless world tour. She'll bring her well-oiled The Reminder show to a city near you sometime soon. If you don't see your hometown listed yet, just wait an hour, Ms Feist is always on the move. Oh yeah, all her upcoming European dates will benefit from the always entertaining Bob Wiseman, who'll be opening.

1 2 3 4 Van She Technologic remix [mp3]
that's what i say, it's not what i mean (live) [mp3]


TOUR DATES
09-20 Baden Baden, Germany - New Pop Festival #
09-21 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg #
09-23 Nottingham, England - Social #
09-24 London, England - Shepherds Bush Empire #
09-25 Dublin, Ireland - Tripod #
09-26 Glasgow, Scotland - Oran Mor #
09-28 Bristol, England - Trinity Arts Centre #
09-30 Berlin, Germany - Admiralspalast #
10-01 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega #
10-02 Stockholm, Sweden - Cirkus #
10-04 Hamburg, Germany - CCH Saal 2 #
10-05 Cologne, Germany - E-Werk #
10-06 Munich, Germany - Georg-Elser Halle #
10-08 Paris, France - La Cigale
10-10 Paris, France - La Cigale
10-11 Countance, France - Cultural Centre
10-12 Yzeure, France - Cultural Centre
10-13 Bordeaux, France - Salle de Vigean
10-15 Nancy, France - Jazz Pulsation Festival
10-16 Geneva, Switzerland - Grand Casino
10-17 Mulhouse, France - Cultural Centre
10-19 Brussels, Belgium - Cirque Royale
11-06 Portland, OR - Schnitzer Auditorium
11-07 Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre
11-09 San Francisco, CA - Nob Hill Masonic Center
11-12 Los Angeles, CA - Gibson Amphitheatre
11-14 Denver, CO - The Ogden
11-17 Chicago, IL - The Riviera
11-18 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center
12-03 Hamilton, Ontario - Hamilton Place
12-04 Kitchener, Ontario - Centre in the Square
12-05 London, Ontario - Centennial Hall
12-18 Toronto, Ontario - Sony Centre for the Performing Arts

* with Rogue Wave
# with Bob Wiseman

Spoon: "Black Like Me" Tonight Show Video + MP3

Spoon showed up on The Tonight Show Tuesday night and I missed it. What? You did too! Don't fret... here it is along with the mp3.

black like me tonight show performance [mp3]

Blitzen Trapper Tour + New Ep

Blitzen Trapper are currently touring in support of their latest full-length, Wild Mountain Nation, but they've got a new disc to flog, an EP titled Cool Love #1, due October 9. Made up of four tracks.... and they are:

01 Cool Love #1
02 Boss King
03 Jericho (Daytrotter Session)
04 Jesus on the Mainline


Wild Mountain Nation Out-take
jericho [mp3]

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TOUR DATES
09-17 Portland, OR - Berbati's Pan #
09-18 Vancouver, British Columbia - Media Club #
09-19 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe #
09-20 Boise, ID - Neurolux #
09-21 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court #
09-22 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive #
09-23 Rapid City, SD - The Imperial Inn #
09-24 Fargo, ND - Aquarium #
09-26 Minneapolis, MN - Turf Club #
09-27 Iowa City, IA - The Picador #
09-28 Omaha, NE - The Slowdown #
09-29 Chicago, IL - Schubas #
09-30 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop #
10-01 Toronto, Ontario - El Mocambo #+
10-02 New York, NY - Gramercy Theatre #
10-04 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church #
10-05 Boston, MA - Middle East Downstairs #
10-06 Baltimore, MD - Sonar #
10-07 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel #
10-08 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 #
10-09 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn #
10-10 New Orleans, LA - The Parish #
10-11 Hattiesburg, MS - Thirsty Hippo #
10-12 Beaumont, TX - Vortex #
10-13 Austin, TX - Mohawk #
10-15 Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture #
10-17 San Diego, CA - The Casbah #
10-18 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre #

# with Two Gallants
+ with John Vanderslice

Outta The Inbox: MP3s!

Just a small taste of the avalanche of mp3s that are found in my inbox, but please don't send me any with the hope of getting posted here, of what I find in that inbox only 1% show up here.

arizona thimble

the mohawk lodge wear 'em out

siberian belgian beer and catholic girls

the carribean bees, their vision and language

ham1 white rat

kmfdm i am what i am

head of femur leader and the falcom

the real tueday weld last words

his name is alive go to hell mountain

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MODEST MOUSE: "We've Got Everything" on Kimmel Live

from We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank...
we've got everything [mp3]

Modest Mouse MP3s

We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank LYRICS

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Beirut Video: "Nantes"

BEIRUT - Nantes - from The Flying Club Cup
Uploaded by flyingclubcup

All right, maybe this is my favourite song off the new record... this is the problem with a good record, your favourite is always changing.

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Beirut Video: "The Penalty"

This new Beirut 'la blogotheque' video shot in Brooklyn may be my favourite song off the new album, The Flying Club Cup, out October 9th on Ba Da Bing (and out now digitally at Other Music and iTunes). Enjoy this candid performance by Zach and the band.

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The Seedy Seeds

The Seedy Seeds snagged me when I first heard "The Little Patton". It's childlike simplicity brings a smile to the face (where else would it bring a smile?) and it's sing-song melody will squeeze a song from the lips of most every listener. Mike Ingram and Margaret Weiner are The Seedy Seeds and they supposedly began a band to force themselves to learn to play the instruments they owned. Well, whatever works, they've got some fun stuff here on the record, Change States, and Margaret Weiner's got the kind of voice that I will continue to try and discover what's so appealing (okay, Mike sings too, and acquits himself quite well, so there).

from Change States...
the little patton [mp3]
earned average dance america [mp3]

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Change States - 2007 - BUY
1. Intro : the da-da song
2. Eponym
3. The Little Patton
4. Alberta
5. Rise to Receive
6. Calliope
7. Grace
8. The Weight of So Many Anchors
9. Changes Less the Moon
10. Ides
11. Earned Average Dance America
12. Outro : of the lion

DCFC's Gibbard Contributes to Cobain Documentary

Death Cab for Cutie's main man, Ben Gibbard, has contributed new music to the rock doc of Kurt Cobain's conversations with journalist and friend, Michael Azerrad, titled Kurt Cobain: About A Son. That film's soundtrack was released yesterday on Barsuk and on it Gibbard's covers "Indian Summer" by K Records band Beat Happening.

The About A Son soundtrack also features previously released tracks from Mudhoney, the Melvins, Mark Lanegan, and more, as well as Cobain faves like Iggy Pop, Half Japanese, David Bowie, R.E.M., and Leadbelly.

You can listen to a 30 sec clip of Gibbard's version below and here's some more Gibbard for you (from 2003's Home: Volume 5) along with the original song by Beat Happening.

beat happening
indian summer [mp3]

ben gibbard - from Home: Volume 5
carolina [mp3]
you remind me of home [mp3]

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Kurt Cobain: About A Son - Sept. 11 Barsuk - BUY
01 "Overture" - Steve Fisk and Ben Gibbard
02 Audio: Never Intended
03 "Motorcycle Song" - Arlo Guthrie
04 "Eye Flys" - The Melvins
05 Audio: Punk Rock
06 "Banned in DC" - Bad Brains
07 "Up Around the Bend" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
08 "Put Some Sugar on It" - Half Japanese
09 "Son of a Gun" - The Vaselines
10 "Graveyard" - Butthole Surfers
11 Audio: Hardcore Was Dead
12 "Owner's Lament" - Scratch Acid
13 "Touch Me I'm Sick" - Mudhoney
14 "Audio: Car Radio"
15 "The Passenger" - Iggy Pop
16 "The Borgeois Blues" - Leadbelly
17 "New Orleans Instrumental No. 1" - R.E.M.
18 "Audio: The Limelight"
19 "The Man Who Sold the World" - David Bowie
20 "Museum" - Mark Lanegan
21 "Indian Summer" - Ben Gibbard (30 second clip - Windows)

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Viarosa 'Where The Killers Run'

Viarosa, a British band, make good use of leader Richard Neuberg's voice, a rich instrument that never strays into excess. In fact its restraint displays Viarosa's obvious axiom (obvious to me) that the music comes first. The stretched out ache of Josh Hillman's violin (Hillman is also a member of Willard Grant Conspiracy) adds a bittersweet edge to the songs, like honey squeezed from a lemon. There's a vague Nick Cave vibe here, in that the music can deliver an odd mix of internal ache and external vastness, like sorrow haunting from the past, or from across the unforgiving ocean.

Viarosa, together for just over six years, saw their debut full length, Where The Killers Run, re-released last November 20th in the UK and across Europe and US indie, Tarnished Records, released the album this past May stateside. You can stream four tracks from an upcoming record, Righteous Path, at one of their two myspace pages -- try this one for the new stuff and here's the other myspace page.

I like a term I found on a PR firm's site describing the band's sound as 'country noir'. That doesn't come close to capturing the band, but I like that term, it reminds me of Jim White. See for yourself through the mp3s offered below. This is beautiful music which melds elements of indie rock, celtic, and alt-country music... or, I could just say, this is major talent working in a minor key.

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ballad of a self-made man
blood from a stone

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VIAROSA are...
Richard Neuberg: vocals, guitars
Emma Seal: vocals
Josh Hillman: violin, viola, saw
Rob McHardy: lap steel, mandolin, banjo, guitars
Mick Young: stand-up & electric bass
Nick Simms: drums

(This is pretty much the same post that I put up in November on Viarosa, but after realizing that the record was now available in North America I figured I'd remind those of you who care)

The National: "Apartment Story" Video Premiere

Here's the band doing "Apartment Story" from Boxer, thanks to spinner.com.
apartment story - from their White Session [mp3]
fake empire [mp3]

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BEIRUT: Takeaway Show #64

Zach Condon loves Paris. He would like to live there, so it's no surprise that he and the band would do a Takeaway Show. The Takeaway Shows are videos of, typically, indie bands playing live in odd places. They've got a great impromptu feel, check out the videos of The Shins wandering about Paris and singing songs. Go here to check out all the Takeaway Shows and go here to see Beirut play two new songs, "Nantes" and "Penalty". Oh, yeah, the Takeaway guys are now in New York shooting 13 videos with Beirut, one for each track on the upcoming release, The Flying Club Cup.

The Flying Club Cup - Visit the website set up for the new album and watch the latest video shot September 8th of Beirut performing "Nantes" in Brooklyn. You have to see this video, the one done in Paris pales in comparison.

From The Flying Club Cup...
a sunday smile [mp3]

ARTS & CRAFTS SIGN THE STILLS TO WORLDWIDE DEAL

Montreal's The Stills have inked a worldwide deal with Toronto's ever expanding indie label, Arts & Crafts. The band is now set to enter the studio once more with Gus Van Go behind the board. The Stills, (Tim Fletcher, Dave Hamelin, Oliver Corbeil, Liam O’Neil, and Julien Blais) will celebrate the signing with two nights at Toronto's Lee's Palace on November 23rd and 24th. Get your tickets now, more dates below.

The band's Tim Fletcher posted this on the band's homepage: "It is with unrivaled joy, and with tremendous feelings of love that we, The Stills, join forces with friends and family as the newest members of the Arts & Crafts label. To each member of this family we would first like to say how proud we are to find ourselves at your sides; an honour, and a privilege. With so many of you already close friends for years now, it could not feel more right and natural. It might very well be impossible to find a warmer, more welcoming, inspiring home. And all is very timely as well. We are rejuvenated by this union."

from Without Feathers
in the beginning [mp3]

from Logic Will Break Your Heart
let's roll [mp3]

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Additional Dates
09-20 New York, NY - The Mercury Lounge
09-21 Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall
09-22 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's
10-18 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Halifax Pop Explosion
11-09 Orlando, FL - The Club at Firestone (Anti*Pop 2007) w/Spoon
11-23 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace
11-24 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace

Released: September 11 + 18

The new releases at insound for September 11th and 18th. You're sure to find something you'll like, so buy some music.

09/11/07 A.R.E. Weapons Modern Mayhem Defend Music
09/11/07 Adrian Orange & Her Band Adrian Orange & Her Band K Records
09/11/07 Animal Collective Stawberry Jam Domino
09/11/07 Arctic Monkeys Fluorescent Adolescent Domino
09/11/07 Axe Riverboy Tutu To Tango Minty Fresh
09/11/07 Besnard Lakes Casino Nanaimo Jagjaguwar
09/11/07 Black Lips Good Bad Not Evil Vice
09/11/07 C.O.C.O. Play Drums + Bass K Records
09/11/07 Cloak/Dagger We Are Jade Tree
09/11/07 Cloud Cult Advice From The Happy Hippopotamus Rebel Group
09/11/07 Deadly Syndrome The Ortolan Dim Mak
09/11/07 Dirty Projectors Rise Above Dead Oceans
09/11/07 Emma Pollock Watch The Fireworks 4AD
09/11/07 Eulogies Eulogies Dangerbird
09/11/07 Figurines When The Deer Wore Blue The Control Group
09/11/07 Film School Hideout Beggars Banquet
09/11/07 Gang Gang Dance RawWar Social Registry
09/11/07 Go! Team Proof Of Youth Sub Pop
09/11/07 Good Life Help Wanted Nights Saddle Creek
09/11/07 Hot Hot Heat Happiness Ltd. Warner Brothers
09/11/07 Jana Hunter Carrion EP Gnomonsong
09/11/07 Joe Henry Civilians Anti
09/11/07 June Panic Songs From Purgatory Secretly Canadian
09/11/07 Knonono No. 1 Live At Coleur Café Crammed Disc
09/11/07 Le Loup The Throne of the Third Heaven Of The Nations' Millenium General ssembly Hardly Art
09/11/07 Mono Gone Temporary Residence Ltd.
09/11/07 Oakley Hall I'll Follow You Merge
09/11/07 Picastro Whore Luck Polyvinyl
09/11/07 Pinback Autumn of the Seraphs Touch and Go
09/11/07 Prints Prints Temporary Residence Ltd.
09/11/07 Qui Love's Miracle Ipecac
09/11/07 Rob Crow Up Temporary Residence Ltd.
09/11/07 Shout Out Louds Our Ill Wills Merge
09/11/07 Taken by Trees Open Field Beggars Banquet
09/11/07 Wooden Shjips Wooden Shjips Holy Mountain
09/11/07 Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth Domino
09/18/07 Acid Mother's Guru Guru Psychedelic Navigator Important
09/18/07 Akron/Family Love Is Simple Young God
09/18/07 Damon & Naomi Within These Walls 20/20/20
09/18/07 Fog Ditherer Lex
09/18/07 Health Health Lovepump United
09/18/07 Kevin Drew Spirit If… Arts & Crafts
09/18/07 Les Savy Fav Let's Stay Friends Frenchkiss
09/18/07 Malcolm Middleton A Brighter Beat Full Time Hobby
09/18/07 Motion City Soundtrack Even If It Kills Me Epitaph
09/18/07 Rogue Wave Asleep At Heaven's Gate Brushfire
09/18/07 Simian Mobile Disco Attack Decay Sustain Release Interscope
09/18/07 Sixtoo Jackals and Vipers Ninja Tune
09/18/07 Songs of Green Pheasant Gyllyng Street FatCat
09/18/07 Sunburned Circle The Blaze Game Conspiracy
09/18/07 Thurston Moore Trees Outside The Academy Ecstatic Peace
09/18/07 Wzt Hearts Threads Rope Spell Making Your Bones Carpark

Josh Mease

I wanted to title this post 'Josh Mease: "Start Over" (no, not really, just continue... please!), but that's a little long and convoluted for a post title, so 'Josh Mease' it is.

Josh Mease's sunny-go-lucky melodies can't be pinned down to one specific era, present or past, but when I listen I sometimes hear, or feel, an overwhelming golden glow from '70s AM radio. But it's of no consequence where the songs come from, or what they resemble, not when the music itself is so good. Mease has a soft relaxed way around a strong melody and that alone should be enough to spur you, the reader, to listen and then seek out more from him.

And as I stated earlier, please continue, Mr. Mease.

start over [mp3]
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Susheela Raman: "Voodoo Chile" Cover

Susheela Raman has an amazing voice, so warm and flexible you will find yourself lost in it, although that effect may be better experienced by listening to something other than a cover song. But that's what I've got for you, her live performance on French radio of Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile", a song which is found on her latest record 33 1/3, an album of studio recorded covers.

voodoo chile [mp3]

BONUS:
From the same radio session this is her cover of Thin White Rope's "You Doo Right"...

you doo right [mp3]

Between The Pine: "Shoot Me In The Spine"

I've written about Jim Diotte several times before, his music, under the name Between The Pine, has gone largely unrecognized by media and bloggers, so I've got to ask (okay, I'm asking all who've heard his music), "What the hell is wrong with you?". Out of the reams of crap that are shoved down the throats of bloggers like myself and those of the music media, by PR folk, record labels, and over ambitious bands, it's the stuff like this that makes the 'force feeding' worthwhile. I've been listening to Between The Pine's music for about two years and today it really struck me how well songs like "Shoot Me In The Spine" stand up (there's an unintentional pun there, although if it was a brilliant pun I'd surely say it was intentional). The sound isn't 'big studio 'polished, we're talkin' lo-fi, but the music outshines the limits of basement recording by a long shot.

shoot me in the spine [mp3]

Visit the BTP website where a handful of songs are streaming, or check out the myspace page.

You can even download a free EP at 80H Records right here. And you'll find links to buy the full length debut on his website in the 'music' section, including a link for iTunes.

*photo by Jacqueline Marque

Released: September 4 + 11

The month that sees the ending of summer and beginning of fall brings indie fans a lot of music. Here are the new releases for September 4th and 11th at insound.com.

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09/04/07 Aspera Back When Love Burnt Toast
09/04/07 Brian Jonestown Massacre Their Satanic Majestie's Second Request Cargo
cold to the touch [mp3]

09/04/07 Calvin Harris I Created Disco Almost Gold
disco heat [mp3]

09/04/07 Clare and the Reasons The Movie Frog Stand Records
09/04/07 Ferraby Lionheart Catch The Brass Ring Nettwerk
09/04/07 Heavy Trash Going Way Out With Heavy Trash Yep Roc
09/04/07 Marla Hansen Wedding Day Standard Recording Co.
09/11/07 A.R.E. Weapons Modern Mayhem Defend Music
let's go to times square [mp3]

09/11/07 Adrian Orange & Her Band Adrian Orange & Her Band K Records
09/11/07 Animal Collective Stawberry Jam Domino
winter wonder land [mp3]

09/11/07 Arctic Monkeys Fluorescent Adolescent Domino
fluorescent adolescent [mp3]

09/11/07 Axe Riverboy Tutu To Tango Minty Fresh
09/11/07 Besnard Lakes Casino Nanaimo Jagjaguwar
09/11/07 Black Lips Good Bad Not Evil Vice
09/11/07 C.O.C.O. Play Drums + Bass K Records
09/11/07 Cloak/Dagger We Are Jade Tree
09/11/07 Cloud Cult Advice From The Happy Hippopotamus Rebel Group
09/11/07 Deadly Syndrome The Ortolan Dim Mak
09/11/07 Dirty Projectors Rise Above Dead Oceans
09/11/07 Emma Pollock Watch The Fireworks 4AD
09/11/07 Eulogies Eulogies Dangerbird
09/11/07 Figurines When The Deer Wore Blue The Control Group
hey girl [mp3]

09/11/07 Film School Hideout Beggars Banquet
09/11/07 Gang Gang Dance RawWar Social Registry
09/11/07 Go! Team Proof Of Youth Sub Pop
09/11/07 Good Life Help Wanted Nights Saddle Creek
09/11/07 Hot Hot Heat Happiness Ltd. Warner Brothers
09/11/07 Jana Hunter Carrion EP Gnomonsong
09/11/07 Joe Henry Civilians Anti
09/11/07 June Panic Songs From Purgatory Secretly Canadian
09/11/07 Knonono No. 1 Live At Coleur Café Crammed Disc
09/11/07 Le Loup The Throne of the Third Heaven Of The Nations' Millenium General Assembly Hardly Art
09/11/07 Mono Gone Temporary Residence Ltd.
09/11/07 Oakley Hall I'll Follow You Merge
rue the blues [mp3]

09/11/07 Picastro Whore Luck Polyvinyl
09/11/07 Pinback Autumn of the Seraphs Touch and Go
how we breathe [mp3]

09/11/07 Prints Prints Temporary Residence Ltd.
09/11/07 Qui Love's Miracle Ipecac
09/11/07 Rob Crow Up Temporary Residence Ltd.
09/11/07 Shout Out Louds Our Ill Wills Merge
09/11/07 Taken by Trees Open Field Beggars Banquet
the legend [mp3]

09/11/07 Wooden Shjips Wooden Shjips Holy Mountain
09/11/07 Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth Domino

The Anti Mix

Anti Records is a quietly classy indie label that lets it's top notch list of artists do the talking (and the singing). A inspiring range of genres find a home here, as well as some big names like Tom Waits and Nick Cave.


jolie holland
springtime can kill you
crazy dreams
black hand blues

nick cave
bring it on

elliott smith
twilight
memory lane

tom waits
bottom of the world
hold on

devotchka
you love me

joe henry
time is a lion
sold

tim fite
forty-five remedies

the weakerthans
psalm for the elks lodge last call
night windows

marianne faithfull
my friends have

neko case
star witness
hold on, hold on

You can find more mp3s of many of these Anti artists at the label site, plus there's always the Hype Machine.

Terry Lee Hale

I had never come across Terry Lee Hale's music before and that's a shame because I like what I've heard, so far. Now this fella has been banging away at his guitar and the craft of songwriting for some time, with eleven albums under his Texas belt, and just plain living with something close to 54 years of sun and rain beating down on his graying head. His latest release Shotgun Pillowcase, grabbed my attention simply with it's title, but it's what's imprinted upon the disc that you should care about and spend some time with. Hale's sound brings to mind a joining of two solo musicians I'm familiar with, Alabaman Jim White and Californian Chuck Prophet. Hale's music isn't country (and neither is White's or Prophet's). Although what you hear may be a faint echo of that genre which has been condensed and filtered through a writer whose vision has found it's target and whose writing is tight, concise, and highly personal.

Hale's a very talented musician whose songs on Shotgun Pillowcase (he does a couple of covers, one being Blur's "No Distance Left To Run") seem to breathe easily with wonderful arrangements and perfect flourishes such as Hale's handling of guitars, Dobro, glockenspiel, harmonica and more... plus additional musicians filling out the sound with trumpet, musical saw, melodica, clarinet and others.

Shotgun Pillowcase was produced and recorded by Chris Eckman (The Walkabouts, Chris & Carla, Midnight Choir, Shilf) and mixed by Tucker Martine (Jesse Sykes, Laura Veirs, Jim White, The Long Winters).

MP3s from Shotgun Pillowcase
hearts
big sigh

work song (demo version)

Shotgun Pillowcase Track List:
1. Hearts
2. Big Sigh
3. Glitterati
4. Cable Ballad Blues
5. He's Still Drinking
6. Level 20
7. No Distance Left To Run
8. Evergreen
9. Work Song
10.Oliva
11.Streets Of Stone

To BUY Hale's music you'll have to do some searching online, or check out his links section on his homepage.