We’re loving I Have To Speak With Rocky Balboa by the Happy Jawbone Family Band – an oddball concoction of idiosyncratic folk, pop, rock and God knows what else, that is anchored by some of the best lyrical wordplay we’ve heard for a good long while.
Byegone is the first single from Repave, the second album by Wisconsin band Volcano Choir, out on Jagjaguwar on September
Fox & Woman formed in 2010 when Jess Silva (vocals), Andrew Nelson(guitar, keys), and Emily Haltom (vocals, violin, keys) started playing at a weekly street poetry gathering in San Francisco’s Mission District. As an acoustic trio, they rehearsed and wrote songs in the basement of a local antiques store, discovering a shared desire to stretch pop song forms to accommodate unconventional rhythms and harmonies.
John Grain of the Mad Mackerel introduces the dreamy dark-wave of Shady Elders
Last week Shannon Hope released her self-titled EP, and it is a keeper we promise.