Mountain Man #6 - Daytrotter Session

http://mountainman.bandcamp.com/

Head over to the Daytrotter website and download for FREE the full session by the wonderful Mountain Man, it includes TWO new tracks! That's surely enough excitement for one day. Go get it quick and study the Daytrotter archives too for more great sessions if you haven't been there before, you are in for a treat.

I'm hopeful the girls will be back in the UK before too long, I'm thinking a couple of special Christmas shows would go down a treat...

Here is one of  new tracks to listen to:

Mountain Man -Timmy's Point by morrisday

Scary Mansion #2 - Chris Isaak "Wicked Game" Cover

http://www.myspace.com/scarymansion

A quick one, I'm not feeling very well today - beer festival Saturday is the reason!
Anyway, Scary Mansion were one of my early year discoveries. Leah Hayes's band are great, they played a few shows early Feb time if I recall correctly and disappeared since, well they've returned with a couple of covers, the second is of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" - it's quite a faithful cover but comes with Leah's gorgeous voice.

Get the Scary Mansion album 'Make Me Cry' - it's very, very good!
Scary Mansion - Wicked Game (Chris Isaak) by morrisday

The Joy Formidable #6 - I Don't Want To See You Like This

http://www.myspace.com/thejoyformidable
Pre-Order 'I Don't Want To See You Like This' here.

Finally it's time for the NME tour, now well under way, but there are still two weeks of dates to go. We have the first recording to listen to. As you would expect, it's friggin' awesome! The Joy Formidable have to be the best live band of 2009-2010. Catch them near you whilst you can.

A rare treat in "My Beerdrunk Soul..." being aired for the first ever time (I think) as well as the new single (listen to a longer than previously posted version of that below and the out of this world "Spectrum"

Still no official date for the album, but it's likely to be January, so keep some money from xmas for that!

Here's the longer album version of "I Don't Want To See You Like This"
The Joy Formidable - I Don't Want To See You Like This by morrisday

Here's the video to the single:

Sweet Lights - New Music "Introducing".

http://sweetlights.tumblr.com/
http://sweetlights.bandcamp.com/

Sweet Lights is Shai Halperin from Philadelphia. His songs are melancholic and beautifully arranged numbers throwing you back to the 70's.

You can listen to it in its entirety on the bandcamp link above... Try the wonderful "Are We Gonna Work it Out" and the beautiful "Waterwell".

Even better... (You'll need to act quick though) today (1st October) you can download the album for free. If not, it's still a very reasonable $5 for the full digital album.

Recorded and released by Shai, it's a highly impressive debut LP, that I've very much enjoyed listening to today.

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The Mynabirds #4 - Live at Spaceland, LA, 7th September 2010

www.myspace.com/themynabirds
http://themynabirds.com/

I've a great attachment to Laura's music under The Mynabirds name. She's produced a wonderful album and I feel that it deserves a lot of attention. Read back for a great interview and my album review...

Here is a ten track set drawn entirely from the album 'What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood'. BUY.
Like the Daytrotter session recently released, the material is possibly even better live, the songs really are brilliantly arranged and sound just great in the live atmospheric. Listen to "Right Place" for exactly what I mean - just breathtakingly beautiful.

Laura has some written some wonderful songs, her stage stage interaction is great, I really hope my live experience of The Mynabirds goes past these recordings and to a UK show!

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Gem Club - New Music "Introducing"

http://www.myspace.com/gemclub
http://iamgemclub.com/
http://gemclub.bandcamp.com/

'Acid and Everything' is full of sparse piano ballads with occasional string backing and to say it's beautiful is an understatement.

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