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Something a bit more recent (just yesterday):

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A couple of other things to let you know about:

Indie band Oh My God have released a new video, featuring one Miss Tila (Tequila). The song, "My Own Adventure", is off their latest album, The Night Undoes The Work Of The Day (CD) (mp3), which is well worth your attention.

Irish band The Guggenheim Grotto have issued a new album, The Universe Is Laughing. It's been available for download over at their website for a few weeks, and has just been made available on CD here.

For those who've heard their first two albums, this sounds like a cross between the two. That mildly electronic feel that Happy The Man had has been toned down on the new album, giving it a more loosely-produced, small band feel which fits them very well. I recommend giving it a listen.

Here's a taster, courtesy of the band:

The Guggenheim Grotto - "Wisdom"

NPR has a five song live set by Swedish singer The Tallest Man On Earth streaming on their site. It was recorded during a show at Mountain Stage earlier this year. Hear it here.

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Just a quick post to get everybody up to date on all the information that has been passed along to me in the past week or so.

First off, the biggest news. Jonny Rumble, who I mentioned a few posts back, is currently giving away their brilliant new album, JR, for FREE. I highly recommend you jump on over here and download it. Then head on over to their page, and sign up for their email list, so you can support them by catching a live show or two - or ordering the vinyl.

You gotta love free music - especially when it's this good.



Several bands (The Swell Season, The Shins, She & Him. . . ) have new music available for free download over at Levi's Pioneer Sessions. By the way, Glen & Markéta's song is a cover of Candi Staton's "Young Hearts Run Free", and it's excellent.



Frightened Rabbit have a new single and video out. "Living In Colour" is available for (paid) download over here, or you can try to get your hands on one of the (not yet available) extremely limited edition 7" single with individually hand-drawn sleeves!

Living In Colour from Soft City Lights on Vimeo.

NPR is currently streaming Herbie Hancock's new album, The Imagine Project. Among the many guests on this outing are The Chieftains and Lisa Hannigan. You can listen to it here. The album will be coming out Tuesday, and can be ordered here.

One more completely random note - if you were to get Bruce Campbell and William Shatner in the same movie, I don't care what the script is (buddy cops / zombie cow apocalypse / two older-than-twenty somethings starting a punk band. . . ) you'd make serious bank. I'm just saying.

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POST #211 (UPCOMING RELEASES)

Here's a couple of upcoming albums you might be interested in checking out:

On June 15th, Jonny Rumble will be releasing their fourth album, JR. Not heard of them? They're an indie-rock group out of Chicago that kind of has a similar feel to Arctic Monkeys (but a bit more psychedelic-rock) or Gomez (but a bit more rockin'). Here's a couple of tracks to give you a taster:

Jonny Rumble - "BRZRKR"
Jonny Rumble - "Cox Road"

pick up some albums:

Good For the Market, 2006 (buy)
Almost Dead, 2008 (buy)
JR, 2010 (pre-order vinyl)

Ray LaMontagne has just announced a new disc, coming August 17th. The new album, titled God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise, was recorded over a two-week period at Ray's home in Massachusetts. I don't have anything off the new album to share yet, so here's a couple of lesser-known cuts from him:

Ray LaMontagne - "Trouble" (Radio Remix)
Ray LaMontagne - "You Should Belong To Me" (live)

Ray's discs:

Trouble, 2004 (buy)
'Till the Sun Turns Black, 2006 (buy)
Gossip In the Grain, 2008 (buy)
God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise, 2010