Whole bunch of cool shit coming out:

• The Heavy have a new album coming out soon.  Get a free m3 at their website.
• Avett Brothers new cd is coming out Sept 11.
• Mumford and Sons’ new cd is coming out Sept 24.  Check them out covering “With a Little Help From My Friends” in Chicago a couple days ago with Dawes.
• The Darkness’ new cd is out now!  You can stream it all at Rolling Stone.com.
• If you like Girl Talk, check out this mashup artist, E603, who has a new album worth listening. Via Berkeley Place.

Like Adele and Duffy getting more press and label attention after Amy Winehouse got famous, Mayer Hawthorne‘s success has given a bump to some new neo-soul or whatever you want to call this retro sounding music.
JD McPherson was recommended to me from Aunt Mary after hearing him on XRT for Cubs opening day. Finnally remembered to give it a listen and am upset that it took so long. In two of the videos there are reel-to-reel tape recorders; so he doesn’t want anyone to forget that he recorded everything analog. Anyway, this song is pretty addicting:

–get the song for freezies from his site too.

Nick Waterhouse is another musician I have gotten into with the same affinity for analog recording, horns, and old things (just check out his site/blog). Check out his video here or the video of him doing a bunch of songs for KEXP.

And speaking of Mayer Hawthorne’s popularity, check out this goofy song he created about Hennessy and Gingerale. Try and get it out of your head after hearing it.
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Per last night’s conversation, listen the below. Are the Lumineers good? Are they a cheap attempt to by record companies to capitalize on Mumford and Sons’ and/or Edward Sharpe’s popularity? Both? Still don’t know if I like it yet, better give a couple more listens:

Berkley Place (great blog, but also a great place for their “Picture of the day“) has a post about this band, Allo Darlin’, a cute band from australia. While the cd, streaming on bandcamp, is all right, it is an excuse to put up this song from them: