Belle & Sebastian
Stay LooseDear Catastrophe Waitress 2003 via Sanctuary Records
For Ricardo
Daniel Victor Snaith is better known by the stage names Caribou and Manitoba. Snaith previously recorded under the stage name Manitoba, but changed his name in 2004 under threat of an American lawsuit by Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba, the stage name of The Dictators frontman Richard Blum. As Snaith himself commented, "It's like The Smiths suing John Smith or something"
http://www.plantsandanimals.ca/---they record to tape, and their records sound like they could have been made in 1972. But for all their analog warmth, it’s also impossible to deny how raw and recent the songs sound, and harder still to find anything else that sounds quite the same.
feat. Bon Iver
My most favorite Elliott Smith Song
5/6/10 Ladies Literary Club
Brand NEW Dr. Dog!!
For Mikey
Request For Beatles---Double Fantasy was John's final release during his lifetime, released only three weeks before his murder.
Request For Beatles
New Album 'Brothers' released on 5/18/10!
http://www.brokenbells.com/home.html
http://www.themorningbenders.com/ On Tour this summer w/ Broken Bells and Black Keys
Fareed regularly acts as a disc jockey, most notably at Santos Party House where he hosts a weekly residency called OPEN
Mo' Horizons are a latin jazz and funk band from Hannover, Germany... Their music has frequently been described as acid jazz, chillout, downtempo and lounge.
Horace Swaby (June 21, 1953 – May 18, 1999), better known as Augustus Pablo, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer and keyboardist, active from the 1970s onwards. He was known for his devotion to the spiritual Rastafari movement.
Hopkins died of esophageal cancer in Houston in 1982 at the age of 69. A statue of Hopkins stands in Crockett, Texas.
Jim James, Mike Mogis, Conor Oberst and M. Ward
This married couple recently recorded a covers record--- here is the complete Tracklisting to Crushes (The Covers Mixtape) ! 1. Laura (Girls) 2. Son et Lumiere (The Mars Volta) 3. Sleep the Clock Around (Belle & Sebastian) 4. Technicolor Girls (Death Cab for Cutie) 5. Long Way Home (Tom Waits 6. Love Letter (Nick Cave) 7. Second Hand News (Fleetwood Mac) 8. 17 Pink Sugar Elephants (Vashti Bunyan) 9. Roller Coaster Ride (Dear Nora) 10. True Love Will Find You in the End (Daniel Johnston)
http://www.freelancewhales.com/---To call them multi-instrumentalists might be a little overdone. The kids in Freelance Whales are really just collectors, at heart. They don’t really fancy buffalo nickels or Victorian furniture, but over the past two years, they’ve been collecting instruments, ghost stories, and dream-logs. Somehow, from this strange compost heap of little sounds and quiet thoughts, songs started to rise up like steam from the ground.
http://asthmatickitty.com/helado-negro ---Helado Negro came together when Roberto Carlos Lange moved to New York in 2006. The group concept grew through projects and experiments Roberto would conduct while recording himself and others in his home studio in Brooklyn, NY. Loops, computer synthesis, record samples and live instruments provide the foundation for all these recordings. Throughout this process many players contributed to the record, including singing by Guillermo S.Herren (Prefuse 73) and Bear in Heaven front man Jon Philpot, drums and percussion by Chicago veteran Nori Tanaka (Lay all Over its), Matt Crum (Feathers) and Jason Trammell. Additional instrumentation includes Jason Ajemian (Born Heller, Chicago Underground Trio) John Ellis, Shannon Fields (Stars Like Fleas) and many more. Collectively all these people are Helado Negro but the group changes form with each new day.
The Tallest Man on Earth is the moniker of the folk musician Kristian Matsson of Dalarna, Sweden. Matsson, age 27, also sings in a band called Montezumas.
http://www.brainwashed.com/catlas/ Charles Atlas is an instrumental duo (Charles Wyatt and Jared Matt Greenberg...often expanding into a trio or quartet) who utilize effected guitar, piano, synthesizer, melodica, trumpet, drum loops, samples, and other instrumentation to paint expansive musical pastures on the crowded walls of the urban centers they and their audiences call home. Charles Atlas has toured internationally and has shared bills with Bright Eyes, Low, M. Ward, Tunng, Pram, Juana Molina, Mick Turner and Brian Jonestown Massacare just to name a few.
http://www.unkle.com/