Chatham County Line ‘Crop Comes In’ from the album Wildwood:

We just came across this after a long night.

Hoping you might enjoy it as much as we do. Thank you – as always – Muzzle of Bees.

Be sure to check out their post on some overlooked bluegrass/folk albums from 2010.

Chatham County Line – Crop Comes In from:

One of our favorite blogs – Stereogum – posted a list of highly anticipated albums for 2011. Is your favorite band amongst the notables???

Check it here.

Some we are excited about:

- The Beastie Boys
- The Cars(seriously)
- The Cave Singers
- Fleet Foxes
- Iron and Wine
- Jessica Lea Mayfield
- The Shins
- Smith Westerns
- The Twilight Singers

You???

As part of Record Store Day – Black Friday, Iron and Wine aka Mr. Sam Beam offered up his new single ‘Walking Far From Home’ which also included two exclusive songs ‘Summer In Savannah’ and ‘Biting Your Tail’. . .

You can hear the title track over @ We All Want Someone To Shout For. . .

Below is ‘Biting Your Tail’:

Biting Your Tail – Iron and Wine

As previously mentioned – White Pines/Cotton Jones/Frontier Ruckus will be playing @ the Ladies Literary Club this Friday December 3rd. . .

December already!?!

It’s fair to say Cotton Jones and Frontier Ruckus have provided us with two of the better albums of 2010:

Cotton Jones – Tall Hours In The Glowstream

Frontier Ruckus – Deadmalls and Nightfalls

With the release of White Pines’ The Falls last Tuesday – it’s possible he could fall into the same category. . . So far so good. . .

The Info:

What: White Pines/Cotton Jones/Frontier Ruckus
When: Friday December 3
Where: Ladies Literary Club – Grand Rapids, MI
Time: Doors 6pm/Show 7pm
Cost: $10 Public/$5 Calvin student

Previews:

White Pines:

Cotton Jones:

Frontier Ruckus:

Check out the rest of the Halfway House Session here. . .

Gobble Gobble.

Say wha!?!

If you’re a brave enough soul to venture out on Black Friday – then be sure to make your local record store one of your stops for Record Store Day. . .

In Grand Rapids – that means Vertigo Music and The Corner Record Shop.

@ Vertigo:

For a list of special releases made available for Black Friday – click here or check out the video below:

Of course we are looking forward to The National’s High Violet Expanded Edition:

Bradford Cox – most affectionately known as the lead singer of Deerhunter – has released some home demos from his solo side project Atlas Sound. . .

The goodness is available for free – if you so desire. . .

Click here for Volume One and here for Volume Two. . .

Don’t forget to check out Deerhunter’s Halcyon Digest – sure to be on many ‘Best of 2010′ lists. . .

Sufjan Stevens breaking it down:

Cheers to The AudioPerv.

Be sure to pick up the Hope alum’s latest album – The Age of Adz.

Music fans sometimes protest when ‘their’ band grants permission for the use of their tunes in an advert – generally offering up the angry fist proclaiming ‘Sell out!!!’

In some cases it allows for a lesser known band to be discovered. . .

After all that’s how we first encountered the awesomeness that is The Walkmen. . .

We’d like to think this is evidence of that:

If anything – it’s a good song to soundtrack the early start to your weekend. . . no???

Listen/Download:

Gold Star – Sleep With All Your Friends

Sleep With All Your Friends hails from Copenhagen. . .

Check them out on GrooveShark and ‘Like’ them on Facebook. . .