I’ve been listening to “Ten Thousand Words” non-stop since seeing the Brothers perform the song at The Orpheum.

Ten Thousand Words
Ten thousand words swarm around my head
Ten million more in books written beneath my bed
I wrote or read them all when searchin’ in the swarms
Still can’t find out how to hold my hands

Ain’t it like most people? I’m no different
We love to talk on things we don’t know about
Ain’t it like most people? I’m no different
We love to talk on things we don’t know about

Here’s a gift from “Music Man” Miles Tackett to promote Breakestra’s forthcoming album Dusk Till Dawn due out September 29th via Strut.

Miles of Breakestra – Family Rap feat. DJ Dusk (Z Trip Scratch Edit) > Show ‘N’ Prove
Miles – Good Vibrations
Breakestra – You Don’t Need a Dance (To Tha A.M. Drums Mix)

Breakestra and Simple Citizens @ El Rey Theatre 10/6 (buy tix)

Joey Barro

The Traditionist recently performed a session for Daytrotter. The group is led by Huntington Beach, CA-based singer-songwriter Joey Barro, formerly of Budge and the Antiques. The session was recorded at Studio Paradiso in San Francisco. Barro’s label Better Looking Records is offering several free downloads from his debut album Season to Season (click here).

The Traditionist – From A Cave (Daytrotter Sessions)
The Traditionist – I Know My Ocean

Download:
The Traditionist – Season to Season (iTunes)

Woodsman (Myspace)
Hometown: Denver, Colorado
Album: Collages (December)
Label: Mexican Summer
Woodsman – Sunglass

Woodsman and Young Prisms are playing L’KEG Gallery on January 5th and
January 6th at The Smell (more info).

Na Teef Know De Road of Teef means something along the lines of “the thief knows the way other thieves work,” and is the only official solo release by Pax Nicholas, aka Nicholas Addo-Nettey, a Ghanaian percussionist and singer who joined Fela Kuti’s Africa 70 band in 1971.

Na Teef… was recorded with members of Africa 70, in Ginger Baker’s (Cream) Lagos studio, and released in very limited amounts in 1973. Legend has it that Pax played it at some parties, and Fela saw how positively the crowd responded, and told him to never play it again.

The story of Na Teef… would have ended there had it not been for Frank Gossner (aka DJ Soulpusher of voodoofunk.com), who in 2005, found a copy hidden at a record store in Philly, tracked down Nicholas in Berlin, and brought the album to the attention of Daptone Records, who re-released earlier this month.

Track List:
1.) Na Teef Know The Road of Teef
2.) Ataa Onukpa
3.) Na Six Feet
4.) You

You can stream the album by clicking here.

Download:
Pax Nicholas – Na Teef Know De Road of Teef (emusic)

Autolux

Monday, September 21st
David Cross @ The Wiltern
The Icarus Line @ Silverlake Lounge

Tuesday, September 22nd
The Pink Mountaintops @ Echo

Wednesday, September 23rd
The Entrance Band @ Troubadour

Thursday, September 24th
East West Quintet @ Bootleg

Friday, September 25th
Autolux @ El Rey Theatre
Portugal. The Man @ Troubadour
Rodrigo Y Gabriela @ Orpheum Theatre

Saturday, September 26th
Cotton Jones @ Spaceland

Sunday, September 27th
Bon Iver @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery (6am Sunrise Show – Doors open 12m Saturday)
Longhair Illuminati Festival (Warpaint, Tweak Bird & more) @ Knitting Factory

The xx – Basic Space [Mount Kimbie Remix]
Swimming In Speakers – Near My Ear

Images By Kevin Pham

Brantley Senn (l) and Hardy Morris (r) of Dead Confederate

Lauren Larson of Ume // Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets

Hardy Morris (l) and Walker Howle (r) of Dead Confederate