New Josh Ritter – Bringing Home the Darlings

Josh Ritter released a new EP yesterday.  Bringing Home the Darlings, released on Pytheas Recordings, has six brand new songs that were mixed and recorded this winter at a small little studio in Brooklyn called Homeward Sound.

Along with the new release, Ritter also revealed the video for the song “Love Is Making Its Way Back Home” on Etsy. This crazy awesome stop-motion video was made with over 12,000 pieces of construction paper and had no effects added in post production.  Which means, everything that you see here is nothing more than photographs of paper with no effects whatsover.  Pretty amazing.

Josh Ritter – Love Is Making Its Way Back Home from Josh Ritter on Vimeo.

Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine

An all-star collection of artists have collaborated to pay tribute to the great folk troubadour John Prine.  The project titled, Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, was released earlier this week (June 22) on Prine’s very own Oh Boy Records.  The album includes many of the current “monsters of folk,”  with Conor Oberst and Jim James’ My Morning Jacket, along with several other indie-folk staples, like Justin Vernon, The Avett Brothers,  Josh Ritter and many more.  I have yet to hear the record but it is already receiving much love from the blogosphere and the greater indie community.  Looks like a fun little adventure for Prine and folk enthusiasts. Be on the look out for Prine himself as he will be on tour this summer in support of his own recent release, In Person and On State.

Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows Tracklist

1. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver – Bruised Orange (Chain Of Sorrow)

2. Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band – Wedding Day In Funeralville

3. My Morning Jacket – All The Best

4. Josh Ritter – Mexican Home

5. Lambchop – Six O’Clock News

6. Justin Townes Earle – Far From Me

7. The Avett Brothers – Spanish Pipedream

8. Old Crow Medicine Show – Angel From Montgomery

9. Sara Watkins – The Late John Garfield Blues

10. Drive-By Truckers – Daddy’s Little Pumpkin

11. Deer Tick featuring Liz Isenberg – Unwed Fathers

12. Those Darlins – Let’s Talk Dirty In Hawaiian

Ain’t Nothin’ for Free (5.4)

Boy, do I have a gold mine for you all this week! I’m a little giddy if you can’t tell.

Firstly, one of our favorites, Peter Bradley Adams, has one, “For You,” for download right now. You don’t even have to add yourself to one of his email lists or anything. And yes, I know that if you’ve used Pandora for more than two hours you’ve heard of him before, but you probably didn’t know about this, so here it is!

http://sarathan.com/free/peterbradleyadams/PBA/ForYou.mp3.zip

Second-of-ly, Urban Outfitters has its own nice little 25 song download on their site right now. There’s some pretty cool stuff on their like Surfer Blood and The Morning Benders.

I’d go for it if I were you (and I’m talking about the song mind you).

http://lstn.urbanoutfitters.com/9/

iTunes:

Single of the Week: “Cool my Heels” – Nikki Yanofsky (2.7) This is a nice poppy jazz song with some bright vocals.

Discovery Download: “Change of Time” – Josh Ritter (4.3) This is where it gets “awesome,” in the words of Tracy Jordan. Josh Ritter is one of the best song writers of our day. “The Temptation of Adam” might be my favorite song of all time. He keeps it up here even busting out Leviathan. If you like finger picking, lyrics, and a good vibe, you like Josh Ritter. Also, his new album is on sale at Starbucks right now.

Video of the Week: “Take Everything” – Greg Laswell (4.0) It keeps rolling here. A pretty cool, “in reverse” video to a very likable song. I really love Greg (@Justin does too! He interviewed him a while back), especially his voice. He’s a little like a cross of Mat Kearney and Andrew Bird and somewhere in between how good those two artist are as well. Definitely a find!

Canción de la Semana: “Muérdete la Lengua” – Francisca Valenzuela (2.5) This is a lot like a slower Addison Road song in Spanish. Maybe something like a Fiona Apple song without piano…is that even fair? I don’t, but anyways, it’s okay.

That’s all I’ve got!

Bleed on mi compadres!

Bradley

The Weekly Reaping (2.May.2010)

Thus far, May is taking the cake for 2010 when it comes to music releases.  Plenty of great releases this week from both new and veteran acts, including the fantastic Josh Ritter album, that is available for purchase on Amie Street for only $5.  Yet even with all these excellent releases, my top two most anticipated releases of the year are yet to come.

We finally got official notice that the great Christopher Nolan will be giving us another edition to his brilliantly revamped Batman franchise. No word yet on who the villian will be. It’s gonna be hard to top the the previous two performances by Cillian Murphy and Heath Ledger.

Apparently Letterman has decided to get into the music business.  His new record label is launching this summer with the release of their first signed band, Runner Runner.  I’m curious to see what kind of impact this might have on Late Night and the music featured on the show.

On a more unfortunate note, it was announced just the other day that the recent acquisition of Lala by Apple, will result in the shutting down of the music streaming site.  I’m pretty bummed, but hopefully it will lead to iTunes giving us more than a 30 second preview.  Here is a site worth checking out as a possible replacement, My Friends and Music.

4.May.2010

Broken Social Scene

Forgiveness Rock Record

Full Album Stream (courtesy of Spinner.com)

Greg Laswell

Take a Bow

The Hold Steady

Heaven is Whenever

Full Album Stream (courtesy of Spinner.com)

Josh Ritter

So Runs the World Away ♥

Josh Ritter – Change of Time

The New Pornographers

Together

Full Album Stream (courtesy of Spinner.com)

Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt

I Love You! I Love You! I Love You and I’m in Love with You! Have an Awesome Day! Have the Best Day of Your Life!!