Molly Burch

Austin's Molly Burch has been broadening her sound over the last year or so, adding pure pop elements to her dreamy, Americana country sound.  Weirdly it works for her going either way.  New tune "Control" finds her wading through poppy alt-rock waters.  Check it out below and pre-order her upcoming new album "Romantic Images" here from Captured Tracks.

Lunation Fall

Feeling the MBV-vibes of Lunation Fall this morning.  The French shoegaze band's album "Near" is out now.  Get it here and listen to the album opening "Sweet Misery" below.

Daily Jam - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)

Okay everyone.  Show me your moves.  Here's "Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)" from Hashim, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta

I don't know if you know this, but one of the great pleasures of life is a chilled out drive around the neighborhood listening to Geto Boys.  What else are you going to do this Sunday afternoon?  Here's "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta," our Daily Jam.

Sven Wunder

I am just constantly blown away by the music of Swedish artist Sven Wunder, his mix of jazz and psych and world and library sounds feeling like a crate digger's absolute dream.  New album "Natura Morta" finds the artist channeling Morricone and other Italian film score composers to explore nature and humanity.  Check out "En Plein Air" below and pre-order the record here from Piano Piano, Mr. Bongo, and Light in the Attic.

THROTH

Bristol band THROTH are proving to quite prolific, having just release their latest effort "The Truth that I Despise," their third album of the year so far.  The band makes a heavy, doomy, sometimes spacey mix of shoegaze and grunge.  I would have been all about this stuff when i was a teenager, and i'm all about it now too.  Check out the album opening "Dead Eyes" below and download the album here.

BIG|BRAVE

A lot of the times when i'm sifting through albums on Bandcamp, i'll see a name or a piece of album cover art and will wonder to myself what it must sound like.  Sometimes i'm surprised and sometimes i catch the label the band is on and get a better idea about what i'm about to unleash upon myself.  The latter was the case with Montreal's BIG|BRAVE.  Being on Southern Lord clued me in to the fact that the trio's new album "Vital" was going to be noisy, was certainly going to be heavy, and was probably going to rule.  It does all of those things.  Check out "Of This Ilk" below and pre-order the record here.

Earth Girl Helen Brown Center for Planetary Intelligence Band

San Francisco trio The Sandwitches were a mainstay around these parts during their tenure.  And while they may have called it quits, we still get music from its members here and there, in particular from Heidi Alexander and her Earth Girl Helen Brown project.  That project has grown and is currently releasing music inspired by the solar system as Earth Girl Helen Brown Center for Planetary Intelligence Band.  That may be a mouthful, but the jams are tight.  Check out the weird psychedelia and motorik beat of "Earth" below and pre-order the upcoming "Earth" cassette here from Empty Cellar Records.

Amigo the Devil

Here's some music from the Texas Hill Country from an artist by the name of Amigo the Devil.  There's a real murderfolk vibe throughout new album "Born Against," with elements of old school country music, folk, and other Americana weirdness bubbling and churning away.  Check out the lament to getting to sober, "Small Stone," below and download the whole album here.

Daily Jam - Trip Along

It's been over a year and a half since i left my old job, and i'm still not 100% used to having Saturdays off yet.  I guess that's what almost two decades in retail will do to you.  Working or not, enjoy your day today.  Here's "Trip Along" from Tripping Daisy, our Daily Jam.