Monday, July 6th
Eastern Conference Champions @ Fold

Tuesday, July 7th
Vieux Farka Toure @ Troubadour

Wednesday, July 8th
Dirty Projectors @ Troubadour
Old 97s @ The Music Box at the Fonda

Thursday, July 9th
Cave Country @ Spaceland

Friday, July 10th
Andrew Bird and Heartless Bastards @ Greek Theatre

Saturday, July 11th
Tortoise @ Troubadour

Sunday, July 12th
Ray Lamontange, Jenny Lewis and Blitzen Trapper @ The Hollywood Bowl

MP3: Vieux Farka Touré – Bullet the Blue Sky (U2 Cover)
MP3: Andrew Bird – Imitosis (Four Tet Remix)
MP3: Dirty Projectors – Rise Above
MP3: Blitzen Trapper – Wild Mountain Nation

MP3: Beck – Sunday Morning (The Velvet Underground Cover)
MP3: Beck – I’m Waiting For The Man (Velvet Underground Cover)

[Via – Erick Schonfeld – TechCrunch]
“Does embattled music streaming site imeem think it can take on iTunes? For the most part, nearly every streaming song on the site has a download button which links to both iTunes and the Amazon MP3 store. But it is quietly testing its own music download store which bypasses iTunes and Amazon and sells MP3s directly. For instance, this is the case with some Sub Pop artists, such as Iron and Wine and The Shins. When you hit the download button on songs for those artists, a window pops up showing the album where that song came from with with the option to download the entire album or any individual song for $0.99 (see screenshot above). You can then pay imeem directly by credit card or Paypal and download the song to your computer.” Continue reading article at TechCrunch

MP3: MGMT – Time To Pretend (DMoeFunk Club Mix)
MP3: Phoenix – Lisztomania (The Tremulance Remix)

After the success of Radiolarians I and II, Medeski Martin & Wood are back with the third installment of the series – Radiolarians III. Recorded in December, 2008, Radiolarians III sums up the themes and styles laid out in the previous two Radiolarians records.

Radiolarians III will be out August 4th via Indirecto.

MP3: Soul Toronados – Boot’s Groove
MP3: Issa Bagayogo – Ciew Mawele
MP3: Fort Knox Five – The Brazilian Hipster
MP3: The Quantic Soul Orchestra – Babarabatiri
MP3: Menahan Street Band – Home Again!
MP3: Sugarman 3 – Pure Cane
MP3: Opotopo – Belema
MP3: Interpretations – Trippin’

MP3: Brad Mehldau – Exit Music (For A Film)
MP3: Vampire Weekend – Exit Music (For A Film)
MP3: Cinematic Orchestra – Exit Music (For A Film)

Idle Hands

Tiny Vipers (Myspace)
Hometown: Seattle, Washington
Album: Life On Earth (Release Date 7/7)
Label: Sub Pop
MP3: Tiny Vipers – Development

Spanish Prisoners (Myspace)
Hometown:
Album: Los Angeles Guitar Dream EP (Free Download – Limited Time Only)
Label: Indie
MP3: Spanish Prisoners – Los Angeles Guitar Dream

Idle Hands (Myspace)
Hometown: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Album: The Hearts We Broke On The Way To The Show (Release Date 9/8)
Label: Pretty Kids Collective
MP3: The Idle Hands – Loaded