Cass McCombs - Windfall

by Eli Gunn-Jones

Cass McCombs performs "Windfall" at the Highland Park Masonic Lodge in Los Angeles on May 21st with the Calder Quartet, strings arrangement by Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend. Concert put on by Hobo FM.  Director: Eli Gunn-Jones / Cinematographer: Seth Cuddeback and Eli Gunn-Jones / Editor: Nicole Vaskell

Cass McCombs' recent lineup supporting him, including Brad Truax (Home / Soldiers of Fortune), Chris Cohen (Cryptacize / formerly of Deerhoof), and Parker Kindred (Joan As Police Woman / Antony and the Johnsons) and Cass is currently working on new material.

STREAM :: You Saved My Life (instrumental version) by CASS McCOMBS

Sharon Van Etten - Love More

Sharon Van Etten - Love More
Sharon Van Etten - Save Yourself (demo)

Brooklyn's singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten has announced the release of her second full-length "Epic," is due out October 5th via Ba Da Bing Records.  It was recorded at Philly’s Miner Street Studios and features Meg Baird (Espers), Cat Martino and Jessica Larrabee (She Keeps Bees). 

Sharon Van Etten - I Couldn’t Save You
Califone - Ro (feat. Orso)
Sam Amidon - Cabin in the Corner


Also, ' I Couldn't Save you' is an original song for Jagjaguwar’s first feature film release "The Builder" DVD which is due out on July 27th via Jagjaguwar. And Califone and Sam Amidon's tracks above are taken from a collection of songs "Music For The Builder," on the Jagjaguwar's web site, it features new, unreleased and demoed songs for the film.  Amidon's 'Cabin in the Corner,' a rendition of an Irish traditional that features the brother of The Builder's Colm O'Leary, Eamon, on bozouki and backing vocals and Califone's song features Orso.  Califone’s film "All My Friends Are Funeral Singers," official selection of SXSW and SUNDANCE 2010 is now available on DVD.


The Builder is the first full-length feature directed by R. Alverson, a carpenter and musician from Richmond, VA. It features music by Bon Iver, Gregor Samsa, Pan American, Robert Donne and Spokane (Alverson and co-producer Courtney Bowles' band, who have released 5 records on Jagjaguwar since 1999). Alverson's second feature, New Jerusalem, starring Will Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy) and The Builder's Colm O'Leary, was completed in late winter of 2010.

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Trailer for The Builder by R. Alverson

Gigi - The Hundredth Time

Gigi - The Hundredth Time


GIGI is the recording project of Vancouver-based songwriter Nick Krgovich and producer/engineer Colin Stewart. 'The Hundredth Time' is taken from Gigi's latest 7" released by K Records, previously appeared on "Maintenant" LP via Tomlab. The track contained the voices of Duffy Driediger & Ryan Peters (of Ladyhawk). The single is available via k mailorder dept. & digital shop.  Side A - The Hundredth Time / Side B - Some Second Best

Andrew Bird & Ian Schneller's Sonic Arboretum

Envision a Sonic Arboretum -- a symphonic field of poppies, a prairie of sound, a forest floor of hornlings -- all parts of one “ecosystem.”  Musician / composer Andrew Bird and artist / sculptor / inventor Ian Schneller (Shrimp Boat, Falstaff) of Specimen Products have collaborated to develop the Sonic Arboretum, debuting at the Guggenheim Museum’s Dark Sounds summer concert series on Thursday, August 5th.

Read more about Sonic Arboretum here!  More videos here!

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This video was taken the day Andrew Bird played through his new Specimen Janus Horn Speakers for the first time. The song he is playing is "Plasticities."  This is all done live in Specimen Guitar Shop, Chicago IL. (2007)

Dean & Britta "13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen"

On July 27th Double Feature will release a deluxe gatefold double-CD package by Dean & Britta - 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests. This limited edition (3,000 copies) package contains a 12-page booklet with an essay on the project by Dean, still photographs from Warhol’s films, and two discs of music: the original 13 studio recordings created for the Screen Test DVD, plus an additional 8 remixes by Sonic Boom, Scott Hardkiss, My Robot Friend, and Anthony LaMarca. The songs are a blend of instrumentals, originals and covers (including Bob Dylan’s “I’ll Keep it With Mine.”) This project was initially commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum. Dean & Britta created 13 songs and instrumentals to perform live in a multimedia show, with Andy Warhol's Screen Tests projected on a large screen above the band while they play.

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Trailer for "13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests" DVD.
The music is an excerpt from the song "Knives from Bavaria (Spoonful of Fun)" by Dean & Britta.