Michael Leonhart & The Avramina 7 are an excellent psychedelic rock ensemble, whose new record, Seahorse and the Storyteller, is "a modern musical opera that tells the story of two mythical creatures who meet, fall in love and begin...
If you happen to be in or near the Seattle area in the next month or so, I've written a new sci-fi play that opens this Friday about a woman who figures out how to podcast her actual emotions. Here's...
* Sunshine Collective - I Just Wanna Play [buy the album] * I Am The Dot - Mark Twain [buy the EP] * Maps & Atlases - Solid Ground [album out 6/29] * Freelance Whales - Generator ^ First...
The Glitch Mob - Beyond Monday from the album Drink The Sea, release date 5/25 Recently on Comfort Radio: Shinehead - Who The Cap Fits Gotan Project - Last Tango In Paris The Rapture - The Sound...
Pearl And The Beard make dynamic, sweeping, irresistible folk music, cut with a theatrical flair and rich with absolutely lovely vocal interplay among the band's three outstanding vocalists. Actually, their web site describes their instrumentation as "three voices, one...
Butch Walker - Pretty Melody from the album I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart Recently on Comfort Radio: Cut Copy - Saturdays She and Him - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want Asian...
Owen Pallett provides a beautifully sculpted album experience on the 2010 release Heartland, described as "a fully orchestral record, designed to exist simultaneously as an album, a 45-minute piece of orchestral music and a set of songs for looped...
* The Jive Turkeys - The Funky Turkey [buy the album] * Subeena - Morphic Chaos [via XLR8R] * Prins Thomas - Uggebugg [pre-order the album] * Scuba - Before [buy the album] * Kenan Bell - T.G.I.F. (feat....
Guilty pleasure music today in the form of infectious Mexican electropop group Quiero Club. The band's 2009 release Nueva America is a slick good time. Quiero Club - The Flow Quiero Club - Darwin Mustard Recently on Comfort Radio:...
* Sara Lowes - Night Times [buy the EP] * Nice Nice - See Waves [buy the single] * New Villager - Rich Doors [buy the compilation] * These Are Powers - World Class Peoples [buy the EP] *...
Please to enjoy some excellent abstract hip-hop from Reverse Engineering, whose new record Highly Complex Machinery is a futuristic miasma of sound. M.Sayyid of Antipop Consortium pops up several times throughout the album to great effect. Reverse Engineering -...
The Bird And The Bee were already one of my favorite pop bands, but releasing an entire album of Hall & Oates covers has catapulted them to very near the absolute top of the heap. The Bird And The...
Fantastic netlabel IDM today from French artist Ocoeur, whose 14-song album Les hommes ne savent pas voler is available as a free download. Ocoeur - She's Sleeping Ocoeur - Overclocked Recently on Comfort Radio: Kohei Mihara - Echoed Mother...
Brothers of End - Beats For You from the album The End Recently on Comfort Radio: Seefeel - When Face Was Face (Isan Remix) Birdy Nam Nam - abbesses Free Faces - Music Is A Ladder...
Greatest It is a free MP3 compilation that collects tunes from several different netlabels and presents them under one banner for your convenience. The collection covers a fairly broad range of styles, as the highlights posted here demonstrate, and...
* Boxharp - Rainbirds [buy the EP] * Sambassadeur - Days [buy the album] * Owen Pallett - Keep The Dog Quiet (Simon Bookish remix) [buy the album] * Quitzow - The Cut [album out 6/1] * Crookers -...
I realize I posted a Yeasayer video not too long ago, but I can't help doing it again - this one's good too. Yeasayer - O.N.E. from the album Odd Blood Recently on Comfort Radio: Cassette - Ladybug Bangkok Impact...
Jaga Jazzist is back with a dense & kaleidoscopic new album called One-Armed Bandit, which performs the alchemical miracle of converting pure chaos into luscious musical adventures. Neat trick! Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (edit) Jaga Jazzist - Toccata...
Ethereal & psychedelic electropop today from Toro Y Moi, whose 2010 debut Causers Of This pushes the edges of the genre just a little further out into the weird than you might expect. Toro Y Moi - Blessa Toro...
* Charles Trees - Exodus [more from this artist] * TV On The Radio - Red Dress (The Glitch Mob remix) * Pretty Lights - I Can See It In Your Face [download the free EP] * Bon Iver...
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