
Photo by G. Nikka Costa Hey funkateers! The incomparable Nikka Costa has recorded a session for Daytrotter. She performed "Head First," "Nylons in a Rip," and "Pebble to a Pearl." Download the session (and many other great ones) for the bargain price of $2/month at Daytrotter . <!-- [...]

Anna Calvi showed up on Daytrotter with some cool live tracks. The rendition of her "Love Won't Be Leaving" is my favorite here, what with the almost schizo shifts from sweet vocals and guitarwork to power distorted versions. The TV on the Radio cover, "Wolf Like Me," is good but a little too tame for my tastes since the original's so rocking.

The enchanting Anna Calvi stopped by for a Daytrotter Session which you can hear in full , Anna continues to set the bar extremely high for these newer acts. Stream the entire set below. Set List Wolf Like Me Love Won't Be Leaving Suzanne & I Rider To The Sea

His set featured: Bad Girls Sutphin Boulevard Instantly Blank (The Goodness) Champagne Coast Download all tracks here. Coastal Grooves is out now. Purchase Blood Orange items via Insound. MP3: Blood Orange - Champagne Coast (Clock Opera Mix)

His set featured: 105 Dear Me Idiot Rain I Don't Want To Start All Over Again Go Ahead Download all tracks here. Banjo Or Freakout is out now. Purchase Banjo Or Freakout items via Insound. MP3: Banjo Or Freakout - 105

Her set featured: Love Won't Be Leaving Suzanne & I Rider To The Sea Wolf Like Me Download all tracks here. Anna Calvi recently dropped by NPR. Purchase Anna Calvi items via Insound. MP3: Anna Calvi - Wolf Like Me

Marketa Irglova - The Hanill "I'm tired," sighed Marika. Shifting her weight uncomfortably against his tilted ribs, draping her arm across his still chest, his arms by his side. A thumb's worth of light filtered in through the window. The curtain exhaled with the push of the outside gales, each sharp, focused breath offering a momentary blindness. Marika had been sleeping here the last three nights and still hadn't mentioned the light, hadn't brought herself to reposition herself, to close her eyes for longer than a few seconds. Her arms felt limp and lifeless [...]

His set featured: HEART Landline I Could Go Download all tracks here. Catch Oberhofer on his North American tour. Purchase Oberhofer items via Insound. MP3: Oberhofer - HEART

His set featured: I Stand Alone Lisa Let Me See You're Pretty Song 1 Download all tracks here. Theophilus recently covered Nat King Cole. Purchase Theophilus London items via Insound. MP3: Theophilus London - I Stand Alone (Ocelot Mix)

Our love of all things 'Chaz' is well documented by now ( gentle ). Drift to this, via the great people at Daytrotter : Toro Y Moi - Welcome to Daytrotter Toro Y Moi - Still Sound Toro Y Moi - Go With You Toro Y Moi - I Will Talk To You The whole "missing you baby" thing takes on so much more meaning when it's not just a lover that someone's missing, [...]

His set featured: Still Sound Go With You I Will Talk To You Download all tracks here. June 2009 will see daylight shortly. Purchase Toro Y Moi items via Insound. MP3: Toro Y Moi - New Beat (Star Slinger Mix)

Red House Records recording artists and former Iowa City band The Pines are returning to the big stage at CSPS in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, February 4th. The Pines were here just last September as the third act to play the newly re-opened CSPS which had gone under a very extensive remodeling and updating over the previous year. The picture above is from that show. This time the band is back as part of a tour supporting the release of the band's fourth album Dark So Gold which came out this [...]

Orchestral folk group The Ridges return to Cincinnati on Thursday for a free show at MOTR Pub as part of their brief Midwest tour. The band, whom I first caught at MPMF.11, opens for MPMF comrades Paper Thick Walls. The MOTR show is the Ridges' first Cincinnati show since the release of their Daytrotter session , where you can find some songs from the EP, as well as a few previously unreleased tracks. I've written about the Athens-based band before but now that I've seen them a handful of times, I can confidently say [...]

Her set featured: Building Her Confidence Nothing Left Risky Biz Transparency Is The New Mystery Download all tracks here. Follow Marnie Stern on Twitter. Purchase Marnie Stern items via Insound. MP3: Marnie Stern - Transparency Is The New Mystery

A stop off at the booming metropolis of Rock Island, Ill (pop. 39,000) has become a mandatory one for any band that's touring through the heartland of American. Daytrotter calls this small town "home" while the bands that pay a visit there call it "a great opportunity to spread their sound". The Ridges recently made their stop at the Daytrotter Studio just before New Year's to lay down some old and some new sounds. The band did a phenomenal job recreating their unique folk-Americana sound for the session and have proven that they are able to [...]

Her set featured: Officer Officer Yang Yang I Go To Sleep Sadness Hides The Sun Download all tracks here. Follow Anika on Twitter. Purchase Anika items via Insound. MP3: Anika - Yang Yang

Daytrotter just dropped a new session from Pattern Is Movement today. If you've been jonesin' for a new album from the bearded dynamic duo, then hopefully the performance of the two new jams "Light of the World" and "Make It Right" (as well as "Jenny Ono" from 2008's All Together ) will help appease your hunger until their upcoming release is ready. You can listen to and download the session for free HERE (w/membership). (Illustration by Johnnie Cluney)

Illustration by Johnnie Cluney Philadelphia's own Pattern Is Movement recently recorded a new Daytrotter session, which is now available . From the Daytrotter site: "The two new jams that they performed for this session - 'Light of the World' and 'Make It Right' - could be mantras that school children could recite to themselves each morning. They are simple lessons, or thoughts, that could make one a better person, or just glow a little bit more. Here we could be enriching ourselves and getting a little nasty at the [...]

Download his full set here. Star Slinger recently dropped by KEXP. Purchase Star Slinger items via Insound. MP3: Rihanna - We Found Love (Star Slinger Mix)

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