Thanks to Impose for this new video for Heavy Hawaii’s “Better.” It’s your typical house party but, you know, with your dad at it. Also everybody looks pretty sharp. Not what I would’ve pictured as a great visual for Heavy Hawaii’s slow-psych jam “Better,” but that’s why I’m not a videographer.

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by Tyler Stout Menomena – TAOS It’s been far too long since I was able to catch Menomena live. But thanks to a welcome post from Backseat Sandbar, I know that I’ll only have to wait two more months to see them again. Menomena Headliners Music Hall Friday March 11th, 2011 9 pm (doors @ [...]

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For a while I’ve only had a copy of this on LP, which was generally OK. But last night I couldn’t get to sleep so I wound up hooking my turntable up to my computer and ripping this from the vinyl. It sounds great and is one of my favorite Nilsson covers. MP3: Harry Nilsson [...]

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MP3: Grace Potter – Golden (MMJ cover; live) Thanks to This Is Somewhere for posting this video of Grace Potter tackling “Golden” by former tour partners My Morning Jacket. It’s not the first time she’s done it, but I can’t imagine the first being much better than this. In Kentucky, this track’s pretty much reached [...]

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MP3: Gross Magic – Yesterdays To any TV/movie music supervisors who need music for an walking-into-an-underage-party scene, you couldn’t do any better than Gross Magic’s “Yesterday.” It’s got an opening riff that slams right out of the speakers and verses that are comparably quiet (allowing you to half the volume so the characters in your [...]

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Bright Eyes’ The People’s Key is out Feb 15, but Conor has seen fit to grace us with a free download of “Shell Games.” Just toss your email below and wait for the download link to hit your inbox. Truthfully I thought Conor’s work with Monsters of Folk was the best we’ve heard from him [...]

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Thanks to Aquarium Drunkard for pointing me to this new song by Tape Deck Mountain. I’d never really given them a shot before, but I’m glad I did. TDM’s new EP Secret Serf is out later this year. MP3: Tape Deck Mountain – It Goes Down My favorite part of “It Goes Down” is all [...]

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Last year was the first that I was able to see Local Natives live. Now millions of people just had a similar experience yesterday through the magic of television. Jimmy Fallon had them on his show to knock the socks off the audience. And as if that wasn’t enough, they got the compliment of all [...]

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I got dropped this track a little bit ago and have spent the past few days jamming it on and off. It’s not my usual fare, but variation is the spice of life. MP3: Alice Gun – Metal Spider Alice Gun is working on a nice thing here. She’s got a touch of Regina Spektor’s [...]

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