From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Black Prairie (Decemberists project) – Feast of the Hunter’s Moon – Red Rocking Chair (mp3)

02.24.2010

Red Rocking Chair [mp3] Decemberists’ Chris Funk on dobro, Nate Query on bass and Jenny Conlee on accordian are joined by Portland musicians Jon Neufeld on guitar and Annalisa Tornfelt on violin and baleful vocals (on a handful of tracks) to form Black Prairie, an instrumentally focused, bluegrass/olde-tyme influenced group spiked by klezmer and gypsy [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: DD/MM/YYYY, live @ Chessvolt Studios in LA with Video and Mp3s

02.21.2010

DD/MM/YYYY pleases immensely with their jagged, writhing, searing, serrated, punk-metal. It all comes out of the nicest bunch of Canadians you could ever imagine. We were super stoked to host the Toronto gang as our very last recording session at Chessvolt Studios, only days before the studio was officially taken by eminent domain (that means [...]

(Big Dad) Jeff Turmes: five horses, four riders; jack-A-Hammer (mp3)

02.21.2010

Jack-A-Hammer [mp3] Jeff Turmes, expert multi-instrumentalist and old-school bluesman, is back with a new solo album – mostly acoustic – clear and brimming with humid southern sweat and cotton fields, stark summer deserts, swaggering dreamy moonlit nights, gritty smarmful back alleys, quirky hole-in-the-wall Italian diners and even a Baroque blackbird sitting room. Turmes, who wrote, [...]

Økapi’s ode to Aldo Kapi – Love Him out on Illegal Art, Aldo Kapi [mp3]

02.19.2010

Aldo Kapi [mp3] This stuff’s tingly fun. From your squeaky bathtub rubber duck to the ballroom dancefloor to Disney and beyond, Filippo Paolini aka Økapi (like the giraffe-zebra hybrid rainforest mammal), directs an engaging journey through bits and pieces of audio masterfully spliced together, perfectly rhythmic with not a second of lagtime in Aldo Kapi. [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: Daphne Willis, Live @ Bright Street Studios with Videos and Mp3s

02.18.2010

Listening to Daphne Willis puts a smile on my face. The 22-year-old Chicago singer, earthy and easy to hang with, streams a wordy, contemporary sound out of serious pipes in a dramatic range which she effortlessly, masterfully displays … with funky verve. Willis has a lot to say. Her style seems to be influenced as [...]

Pop Lock n Drop it, Norweigan Singer/Songwriter Style

02.12.2010

Search the mighty You Tube for Huey‘s Pop Lock and Drop It and you’ll find renditions by everyone from Sponge Bob and The Chipmunks to little kids and pregnant ladies. Here’s the Huey video: And a radically different version from Norweigan singer/songwriter, Egil Olsen, who’s currently hanging out in LA, writing, recording and taking in [...]

New Thermals, Canada (mp3); tour; plus not so older Thermals, Now We Can See (mp3)

02.09.2010

Here’s a fun new anthem from Portland crew, The Thermals, who play LA this Thursday, Feb 11th. Their newest LP, Personal Life, comes out 9/7/10 on Kill Rock Stars. Buy the song, Canada, on iTunes HERE. Check tour dates HERE. Canada [mp3] For even more fun, and to get you ready for the show, here’s [...]

Luxury Wafers Exclusive: AU, live @ Kingsize Soundlabs with video and mp3s

02.01.2010

AU is Luke Wyland with Dana Valatka, two very healthy-appearing guys from Portland, Oregon. Together, the team physically invests itself in Wyland’s epic, heady arrangements to construct all-encompassing, golden originals, oft frenzied and furious, intense yet delightfully naive, all dripping with complete lushness. There’s so much going on in AU’s songs – which clock in [...]