mp3: thanksgiving – thanksgiving ………… [buy thanksgiving]
in celebration of the day… here’s “thanksgiving”… by thanksgiving…. from the album thanksgiving. have a good one.

mp3: matt pond pa -hearts and minds
matt pond pa wants to give you a thanksgiving present. from the band…
Hello,
As a preamble to the American tradition of Thanksgiving, we are givingaway a batch of completely new songs in form of a digital EP called The Freeep.
To accompany this gift of goodwill is a brand new video [...]

mp3: belle and sebastian – here comes the sun ………… [buy the bbc sessions]
belle and sebastian released a collection of their bbc sessions this past tuesday and accompanying those sessions is a bonus disc containing a live performance recorded on 12/21/2001 in belfast. that live set kicks off with a cover of “here comes [...]

via flickr
mp3: bill callahan – diamond dancer (kut session)
i’ve written about this song a number of times now, but listening to this excellent studio session i couldn’t resist bringing it up once more. this was originally recorded on may 16, 2007 for austin’s kut radio, about two month’s after the release of woke on a [...]

[download the ep for free here.]
it seems the word “space” — as in outer space — has been used in nearly every review of miracles of modern science so far. calling themselves “a civil war string band shot into outer space on a disco ball spaceship” on their myspace page and performing in silver space [...]

mp3: the foreign press – dutch flowersmp3: cinemasophia – halls of black eyes
on the band’s myspace page, the foreign press list “the old sense of the word” among their influences. that alone would’ve been enough to get my attention, but it turns out they make some good music too. you can check them out at [...]

i’m probably being stupid, but i can’t get this video to embed properly for some reason… so just go to baeble music and watch the dodo’s 9/29 set at the spiegeltent… it’s quite a show.
my favorite song on visiter is probably “jodi” — and it’s great here too — but what i was trying to [...]

the cover of the week comes from the forthcoming cure tribute album just like heaven, due out in january. tribute albums are always a mixed bag, with one or two standouts (the brunettes’ “lovesong”), one or two atrocities (kitty karlyle’s “in between days”) and a lot of stuff in between… i’m putting it all here [...]

mp3: east river pipe – prettiest whore …… [buy mel]
i saw an ad this morning for the new green community exhibit at the national building museum featuring, among other things, the hydropower turbines they put in the east river a while back. i’ll probably have to check that out eventually, but it reminded me [...]

mp3: super xx man – medicationmp3: super xx man – medication (eric metronome remix)mp3: super xx man – medication (poddington bear remix) ……… [buy vol. xii: there'll be diamonds]
album opener “medication” is one of the stand out tracks on super xx man’s most recent release, volume xii: there’ll be diamonds. the song quickly sets the [...]