Rollo & Grady Recommended New Releases – Tuesday, May 26th:
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Eating Us (Buy)
Citified – Absence (Buy)
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (Buy)
James Yuill – Turning Down Water for Air (Buy)
Julian Marley – Awake (Buy)
Doom – Born Like This (Buy)
Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens – What Have You Done, My Brother? (Buy)
Sir Richard Bishop – The Freak of Araby (Buy)

MP3: Sir Richard Bishop – Barbary
MP3: James Yuill – This Sweet Love
MP3: Doom – Yessir! (feat. Raekwon)
MP3: Black Moth Super Rainbow – Smile the Day After Today
MP3: Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens – What Have You Done
MP3: Citified – My Family Cup
MP3: Grizzly Bear – Cheerleader

WNYC Radio – Live In-Studio
May 21st, 2009
New York, New York
All We Ask
Two Weeks
While You Wait For The Others
Foreground

Grizzly Bear – June 19th @ the Wiltern (Buy Tix).

Pre-order Veckatimest (Click Here)

Australian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Xavier Rudd just announced his summer tour dates. Tour begins June 18th in Houston and ends in Toronto on July 23rd. Rudd is scheduled to play HOB in Hollywood on Friday, June 26th.

MP3: Xavier Rudd – Anni Kookoo (WEEM/MOKB studio 7/23/07)
MP3: Xavier Rudd – Central Avenue

Download:
Xavier Rudd – Dark Shades of Blue (iTunes)
Xavier Rudd – White Moth (iTunes)
Xavier Rudd – Solace (iTunes)

From Digital Music News:
Is Last.fm supplying confidential user information to the RIAA? Several months ago, TechCrunch accused CBS-owned Last.fm of doing just that, the beginning of a controversial firestorm. Last.fm executives vehemently denied the accusations, complete with some harsh words for TechCrunch. Other executives also panned the article, and dismissed the piece as unfair and simple yellow journalism.

But this story is not over. In a Friday post titled “Deny This, Last.fm,” TechCrunch pointed to a complicated data sharing arrangement involving CBS, based on new sources. The piece alleges that Last.fm shared the information internally with its corporate parent, without knowledge of the eventual destination. “CBS requested user data from Last.fm, including user name and IP address,” TechCrunch head Michael Arrington asserted. “CBS wanted the data to comply with a RIAA request but told Last.fm the data was going to be used for ‘internal use only’.” Continue Reading

King Khan

Tuesday, May 26th
Sadies @ Spaceland
R.I.S.E. @ Dakota Lounge

Wednesday, May 27th
moe. @ Roxy Theatre
Sun Kil Moon @ El Rey Theatre
The Prodigy @ Hollywood Palladium

Thursday, May 28th
The Wooden Birds @ Spaceland
moe. @ Roxy Theatre
Ben Harper @ Wiltern Theatre
Lucinda Williams @ House of Blues Anaheim
St Vincent @ El Rey Theatre

The Wooden Birds

R.I.S.E. (formerly Rising Appalachia), led by sisters Leah and Chloe are playing tomorrow night at the Dakota Lounge in Santa Monica. With an array of incredible collaborators, R.I.S.E. is joined by everything from stand up bass, to the jazz trumpet, djembe, baliphone, congas, didgeridoo, tablas, harmonica, beatboxing and live poets. Their live shows are supposed to be amazing.

The two tracks below are from their live LP, Evolutions in Sound.

MP3: R.I.S.E. (Rising Appalachia) – Rage Breeds Rage
MP3: R.I.S.E. (Rising Appalachia) – Ain’t No Sunshine (Bill Withers)

Download:
R.I.S.E. (Rising Appalachia) – Evolutions In Sound (iTunes)

From LA Times writer: Todd Martens
Multi-instrumentalist and former member of Wilco Jay Bennett died this weekend, according to a post on the website for Undertow Music Collective. He was 45.

Bennett released the solo effort “Whatever Happened I Apologize” via the Web late last year, and reported at that time that he was pursuing “another” master’s degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Yet it was Bennett’s time in Wilco that won him the most acclaim. Continue Reading

N.A.S.A. – Wednesday, August 12th – El Rey Theatre (Buy Tix)

MP3: N.A.S.A. – Money (Ft. David Byrne & Chuck D.)

Download:
N.A.S.A. – The Spirit of Apollo (iTunes)