New music

• Dirty Projectors, free download of Acending Melody 7", Gorilla vs. Bear
• Spoon, free stream of Transference (Jan 19th), NPR
  
• Shearwater, "Castaways," The Golden Archipelago (Feb 23rd), Aquarium Drunkard
• Rogue Wave, "Good Morning," Permalight (Mar 2nd), MOKB

Hooray Friday!

- Check out Shearwater perform four songs as part of NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series. Last year's Rook got a lot of high praise, but not from this guy... just couldn't get into them.

- From another concert series, this one over at P-fork. the Hold Steady performs four diddies on Don't Look Down.

- I thought I had figured out our newly installed DVR, but woke up last Sunday AM to find that SNL hadn't recorded (stupid technology). Initially, I was bummed because I wanted to see TV on the Radio perform... especially since they dissed DC in their first set of tour dates. I later saw on quite a few sites/blogs that they sounded like dung, apparently due to SNLs union fetish. Then the world got a little better when I caught their interview/performance later in the week on The Colbert Report. And then the coup de grace... another round of tour dates, this time with DC getting some love. Ahhhh.

- Listen to Antony and the Johnsons perform three songs on MPR's The Current.

Hooray Friday!

- Stream The Vines' latest effort, Melodia out July 19th. Thanks to MOKB for the K.

- Merge Records is making three M. Ward demos available for download. I am fuel alway with her fingers on the pulse.

- If you don't make your way over to NPR's music section periodically, you are missing out. Besides Monday's Fleet Foxes concert at the Black Cat, you can also stream recent gigs from Jim James (solo acoustic in Austin, TX) and Shearwater. Put that in your pipe...