The Welcome Wagon’s debut is a Sufjan Stevens produced album of Rev. Vito Aiuto and Monique Aiuto. Its a folksy gospel album that is pretty good. Though its hard to distinguish this from a flat out Sufjan Stevens album. So if you like Sufjan Stevens, you’ll probably enjoy the Welcome Wagon.
Download the song Sold! To The Nice Rich Man
Langhorne Slim is another folk rocker that I’ve got on my “recently played list” alot these days in itunes. I highly recommend them.
If you are a fan of Matt Pond Pa, he’s released a free ep for thanksgiving. Give it a whirl, free = good any time of the year, but especially when its time for Turkey.
Well the sirius xm merger finally got the music channels blended together and from my point of view nothing really has changed. I’ve always been a Sirius subscriber and mainly listened to 3 channels. Left of Center, Jam On, and the Grateful Dead Channel. XM got jam on and the GD channel and Left of Center changed its name to XMU and dropped some DJs. XMU though kept the great daily shows of Blog Radio, which is what i listen to the most. So from my point of view, i get nothing out of this merger, hopefully baseball will show up on Sirius, cause thats the only thing from XM that we don’t get.
The Mountain Goats have released a new EP Satanic Messiah online at http://satanicmessiah.com/. There you can download and donate what ever you feel the EP is worth.
Sept 23rd Blitzen Trapper’s newest ablum Furr is coming out.
Check it out now
Michael Franti & Spearhead’s latest release, All Rebel Rockers is a fantastic followup to Yell Fire! Many of the songs have a Buju Banton type sound to them, but he continues his meaningful lyrics and great rhythm all the way through the album.
This could be my top release for 2008 so far.
This week there was a great reissue released, Cold Fact by Rodriguez. He is a largely forgotten talent. Having originally released this in 1970 and was ignored and forgotten. Well except in South Africa where it became a platinum selling album without him even knowing. Rodriguez was so forgotten even his label couldn’t find him until the late 90’s when he was found alive and well in Detroit. The rerelease of Cold Fact is great for anyone who has never listened to his music. Its just quite incredible.
Muxtape is in trouble right now, so check him out live in Australia Last year.
Today’s band for your enjoyment, is Dr. Dog. Their latest album Fate continues in their streak of great albums. Pitchfork panned it pretty bad, not sure why, its outstanding. Their music is a blend of Flamming Lips, the Beatles and their own sound. Its availble for streaming below. I enjoy, and so should you!
If you’ve never listened to the hold steady, I’ll fill you in on what you’ve been missing. Basically a college life style minus the classes. Parties, concerts, girls, and gambling on horses. Pretty much they would be the background music to my life. Their latest album Stay Positive continues with these themes and makes for a stellar album.
http://www.myspace.com/theholdsteady
You DC folks should go see them at the 9:30 club on August 14th. I’ve heard they put on a fantastic show.
Here they are on Letterman.