Todd Snider "Time As We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker" - 2012 LP

Jerry Jeff Walker might have been the one to do it....JJW was the one that sent me exploring....that got me into Waylon....that made me wanna hear Buck Owens....I remember screaming "Red Neck Mother" at the top of my lungs the first time I got typsy....I remember blasting "Takin' It As It Comes" driving around the Hill Country in Tejas searching for game and bass fishin'.....Jerry Jeff was our anthem....our institution...and we were/are devoted followers....He changed my life in high school.  Apparently he had an impact on Todd Snider as well.  Snider's quirky/folk/wink with one eye stare down with the other-style is the perfect candidate to cover Jerry Jeff's impressive cataloge....Just as Phosphorescent did justice to Wille Nelson...Snider pays perfect homage to an American Legend:

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 Todd Snider "Hill Country Rain" mp3

 Todd Snider "Takin' It As It Comes" mp3

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Death Grips "The Money $tore" - 2012 LP

Did you see that spark in the sky last night? It wasn't lightning....It wasn't a shooting star...Last night a spaceship landed...As a matter of fact it was a spaceship from the fooooture...The ground shook and trembled....smoke was er'where....The spacship hatch slammed to the grOUnd...A mad Nigerian and two honkies exited....They said their name was Death Grips and they are from the planet Sacramento...I've never heard anything like this album.  It's an unreal unique blend of multiple genres....to the point that it paves its own.....it's not rap/it's not rock/it's kinda horror-core.....shit man...it's not for all but it is damn good....get your hardcore weird on:

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Death Grips "Get Got" mp3

Death Grips "Hustle Bones" mp3

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Horse Feathers "Cynic's New Year" - 2012 LP

Okay, great overlooked (well mainstream overlooked, which who gives a shit about the that) acoustic/chill/deep/introspective artists?...Elliot Smith?..duh....Nick Drake? Oh hell yes, Pink Moon is on all-time lists (mine included). Now cut 30 yrs later....The acoustic genre has further developed....there's freak folk/avant acoustic/folktronic....Horse Feathers are just plain and simple good musack....No matter what label you wanna stick on them these Portland, Oregon dudes are consistent.....this album is soooooo good from Kill Rock Stars Records:

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Horse Feathers "Nearly Old Friends" mp3

Horse Feathers "Better Company"  mp3

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Father John Misty "Nancy From Now On" - Music Video

Album of the year so far.....and such a rad new video from Father John Misty:

Sugarman 3 "What the World Needs Now" - 2012 LP

Pure funk.....bring it:

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Sugarman 3 "Witches Boogaloo" mp3

Sugarman 3 "Got to Get Back to My Baby" mp3

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Daptone Records