Times New Viking

Memory Tapes
Album: Seek Magic (Order – UK)
Label: Acephale
MP3: Memory Tapes – Plain Material

Saintseneca
Album: Saintseneca – 7″ (Limited Edition – Pre-order 9/1)
Label: Paper Brigade
MP3: Saintseneca – God Bones

Times New Viking
Album: Born Again Revisited (Due Out – 9/22)
Label: Matador Records
MP3: Times New Viking – Move To California

Amoeba Records – Hollywood

1.) Soundtrack – Inglourious Basterds
2.) Dead Weather – Horehound
3.) Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall
4.) Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5.) Soundtrack – (500) Days Of Summer
6.) Brendan Benson – My Old Familiar Friend
7.) Maxwell – BLACKsummers’night
8.) Antlers – Hospice
9.) Modest Mouse – No One’s First, and You’re Next
10.) Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
*Week Ending – 8/17/2009

Waterloo Records – Austin

1.) Sarah Jarosz – Song Up In Her Head
2.) Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
3.) Hot Club of Cowtown – Wishful Thinking
4.) Black Joe Lewis – – Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is!
5.) Modest Mouse – No One’s First, and You’re Next
6.) Delbert McClinton – Acquired Taste
7.) Levon Helm – Electric Dirt
8.) Soundtrack – (500) Days Of Summer
9.) Regina Spektor – Far
10.) Dead Weather – Horehound
*Week Ending – 8/23/2009

MP3: The Antlers – Two

MP3: Fleetwood Mac – Dreams (Mingus Rude Edit)
MP3: The Very Best – Nsokoto
MP3: Grandaddy – Elevate Myself (Distotik Remix)

MP3: The New Mastersounds – Give Me a Minute, Pt. 2
MP3: Breakestra – Hiding
MP3: The Apples – Killing Dub
MP3: Poets Of Rhythm – Flight To St. Vincent

Images – Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times

[Via -Robert J. Lopez/LA Times ]
Four large wildfires blazed across Southern California late Thursday, destroying several structures on the Palos Verdes Peninsula and prompting evacuations there and in a densely populated area of La Cañada Flintridge.

At least 1,700 firefighters were battling fires in Portuguese Bend on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, in Hemet, just north of La Cañada Flintridge and above Azusa. In each case, the fires were fueled by dense, dry vegetation and record high temperatures, according to authorities. Continue Reading

MP3: Oh No – Hot Fire
MP3: Pixies – Dig For Fire
MP3: Broken Social Scene – Fire Eye’d Boy (The Late Show With David Letterman 06-28-06)

J. Tillman
Album: Year In The Kingdom (Due Out 9/22)
Label: Western Vinyl
MP3: J. Tillman – Though I Have Wronged You

Breakestra
Album: From Dusk Till Dawn (Due Out 9/29)
Label: Strut Records
MP3: Breakestra – Get It Right

Willie Nelson and Ben Bridwell sharing a moment in Maui during a MySpace “secret show” on Tuesday night.