Painted Desert

Austin & Heidi have been writing together lately. It couldn't make me any more excited. The two pull together some of the most mature songs I've heard in a while.







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Yours

Ain\'t It Just Like A Woman

Take Me Home

Ellenette

When It Don\'t Come Easy

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Natalie Prass

Nashville Scene wrote an article on her:
"While her delicate alto evokes clear benchmarks of influence — see early Rilo Kiley, Feist, Karen Carpenter, etc. — Prass never seems weighed down by the artists she’s absorbed. Instead, she has developed a refreshing guitar-grounded musical vocabulary and a knack for infectious and entrancing tunes. Still, it’s a spirit of invitation and friendship that continues to be Prass’ most pronounced attribute."




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Left & Right Side

Sam Quinn & Japan Ten

You may know Sam as half of "the everybodyfields". These days, he lives in Knoxville pursuing a solo career. Sam has a dry and strange sense of humor that typically plays off of very painful matters. His lyrics grab specific Knoxville scenery, observing the feelings that, for me, are rarely ever anything more than a sub-conscious feeling - he takes the feeling and turns it into a thought.



When I listen to his music, I'm a little jealous because I would have loved to say for myself: "Still the salt, it finds my wounds".


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Oceans



Fanboy



So Strong



Magazines



Hello



Gun



Mardi Gras



It Doesn't Matter



Suite: Motown



Help Me



I Can't Sleep



Late the Other Night

Jacob Metcalf

Jacob Metcalf is a Dallas, Texas native. He played at a house show at my friend, Chelsea Culbreath's, house on June 16th, 2010. His music has a very calm, breezy vibe to it. He was a pleasant surprise.

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Correspondence

mewithoutYou

mewithoutYou played at Exit/In on June 23rd, 2010.

mewithoutYou is...

Aaron Weiss (Lead Vocals)
Michael Weiss (Guitar)
Greg Jehanian (Bass Guitar)
Richard Mazzotta (Drums)





They are a Philadelphia-based experimental rock band. MewithoutYou's music is generally dominated by spoken-word vocals and free-ranging drums, bass, and guitar. On their third album, Brother, Sister, the band incorporated more varied instrumentation including percussion instruments, accordion, and harp. Aaron Weiss writes lyrics about issues such as unity or division in the church, suicide, money, war and love. They tour in a 42 foot 1976 MC8 Charter bus (that used to read "Altus Bulldogs" before the band painted over it in July 2009) that runs on vegetable oil.


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A Glass Can Only Spill What It Contains











January 1979










In A Sweater Poorly Knit






Timothy Hay










Messes of Men










The Sun and the Moon






C-Minor






Son of A Widow






Four Letter Word










The Fox, The Crow, & The Cookie






Tie Me Up! Untie Me!









The Beetle King On the Coconut Estate

Peter Barbee

Peter is very sure of himself. He goes down avenues and takes his songs with him. His hands always crawl to the right fret, right chord - and it seems to make a lot of sense how he constructs his songs. I appreciate his ear for music.








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Hear Me Out




Dark Design

Andrew Combs

Andrew Combs is a fervent Americana man. His lyrics are naked and extremely honest. He seems to be obsessed with Townes Van Zandt and Gram Parsons, maybe even Guy Clark, because... wow... I hear it all over his music.




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Too Stoned To Cry

Colorfeels--

I've been following Colorfeels around since mid-September of last year. I'm making a rock-doc about the process of recording their full-length album due late spring. I've gone back and forth between studios, whether it's Forge Seat or Ocean Way or Creative Workshop, and I've followed them to Exit/In and 12th & Porter and The Basement. If there's one thing I could say about these guys, it's that they are in love with music.

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Keepin' Me Alive