
Since October's loaded with great stuff to keep us busy, like CMJ, Halloween parties, and never ending lawn raking, we are throwing our Bakers Dozen at you early this month. Perfect for carving pumpkins by, or listening to while browsing the Party City catalog while deciding whether to go out this year as "Sexy Nurse", "Sexy Cop", Sexy Vampire", or "Beer Keg". Steve Earle - "Mercenary Song" mp3 West Indian Girl - "To Die In LA" mp3 [...]
West Indian Girl 's forthcoming album, 4th & Wall , will be released October 23 on Milan Records. The band's first single, "Blue Wave", is currently available on iTunes. Leading up to the release of the new album, the band will be appearing at the Monterey Music Summit on Sunday, October 21 4th & Wall Tracklisting : 1. To Die in LA 2. Blue Wave 3. Sofia 4. All My Friends 5. Indian Ocean 6. Up the Coast [...]

First off: Congrats to Melissa for winning a grab bag of Canadian music. Thanks to all who entered (don't worry you have a chance to win something else this week). Secondly: This Recording beats me to the punch in plugging a poetry reading. Thirdly: Minneapolis is f*cking rocking with a sweet, sweet apple themed mix! Lastly: The contest is dead; long live the contest. Ryan Adams will be releasing an EP on 10/23 called [...]
West Indian Girl Reveals Details Of New Album / mp3 Here's an mp3 for the song "To Die In LA" off 4th & Wall, which hits stores come October 23rd via Milan Records . The complete track listing for West Indian Girl's 4th & Wall is: 1. To Die in LA 2. Blue Wave 3. Sofia 4. All My Friends 5. Indian Ocean 6. Up the Coast 7. Solar Eyes 8. Lost Children 9. Back to [...]

Daniele Buetti - Why Should I Be Somebody Hope (2006) West Indian Girl - To Die in LA (mp3): This piece of pop is dedicated to everyone living bold, eating living things without sauce, and living in LA. It smells like a new vinyl bag purchased off the street and swung with excitement.

This year's Sundance Film Festival focuses their lens on a topic near and dear to my heart: the role of music in film. To that end, there's all kind of events tying the two art forms together - panels, roundtable discussions, a contest and all sorts of live performances. The first of these performances I'd like to profile is (appropriately enough) the Film.com launch party, January 21st at the Star Bar, featuring The Apples in Stereo and West Indian Girl . Playlist: Music at Sundance 2007 [...]

West Indian Girl- Dream Few stories in contemporary pop music are more intriguing and inspiring than the unexpected artistic renaissance of the Flaming Lips. Bands that follow the Lips down the psychedelic path they've cut are to be commended. West Indian Girl's 2004 release strays just the right distance from Lips territory. This song also reminds me of the underated first post-Gabriel album by Genesis. --- I'm a big fan of the way Houston So Real personalizes today's hip hop and rap scene in Houston. But in this post the [...]
A KEXP live set of psychedelic pop-rock from L.A.'s West Indian Girl. Download MP3 :: West Indian Girl Blog Courtesy KEXP Live Performances