Raised on a Hare Krishna commune in Florida, educated at art school in Boston, and now making noise and living in Brooklyn, Prince Rama are the latest addition to the Paw Tracks roster. Their new album Shadow Temple is an epic shrine of swirling synths, pulsing guitars, and thunder drums. An ethereal chorus of voices and anthemic melodies create a reverb-washed mine of sonic artifacts drawing from southeast Asian rituals, …

Life’s quests forms the central theme in Kathryn Calder’s latest animated video called Slip Away which was directed by Dean Tzenos. As the song title suggests, we don’t always get what we want in our quests. Kathryn had the original idea for the video and the artwork is based on some of her own original work. You can see more her art featured on Are You My Mother (out Aug. …

Sarah Blasko recently performed at The Flowerpot in London, collaborating with Angus & Julia Stone as part of a Communion Club Night. The extension of the Communion umbrella to Australia has resulted in some fine artists joining the ranks for extra exposure in Europe. Sarah Blasko is certainly one to watch out for. Bjorn Yttling of Peter, Bjorn And John fame produced her latest album As Day Follows Night. Her …

The weekends have always been about chillin’ and relaxing, taking some time out, enjoying your freedom! Or at least that’s how I remember them from many moons ago. Here’s some Frukie goodness to help you along or to recover from the night before: Blitzen Trapper, one of my favourite tracks – Black River Killer

I recently mentioned about the release of Antony and the Johnsons new album, Swanlights. Here’s a taster from the album. This is Thank You For You Love, if you like it you can sign up to the mailing list and download it for free.

Dark Night Of The Soul is a music and visual art project instigated and helmed by Danger Mouse. This unique, unconventional endeavour unites a wonderful album length piece of music by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and a host of guest vocalists with a collection of original David Lynch photography. David Lynch’s imagery is wholly inspired by and based on the music providing a visual narrative to the record.

Introducing J Irvin Dally. $5 for his new EP, you can’t go wrong! Get Despistado. Dally will be hitting the road in early September on a US west coast tour. Full details are yet to be confirmed but in the meantime check him out.

In tribute to his home state, Casey Shea has covered the Modest Mouse song Florida. You can hear it now and download it for free (see below), maybe play it on rainy days:

Lost in the Trees managed to catch the attention of La Blogotheque. The band recently signed to Anti and have an album due out this month called All Alone in an Empty House which maybe inspired the setting for these videos.

Jasper Sloan Yip is a multi-genre singer/songwriter with a dynamic and versatile band behind him. His musical career began with the release of his solo debut “White Elephant” under the moniker “the Blenheim Street Project” in the summer of 2007. Recorded at home with a single broken microphone, “White Elephant” was the first and only public expression of Jasper’s songwriting. For the release, Jasper built a stage in the backyard …

Silver Apples play The Luminaire in Kilburn, London this Sunday – 8th August. Sonic Boom, will be joining Simeon on stage for a handful of tracks. Silver Apples are a psychedelic electronic music duo from New York City composed of Simeon Coxe III, who performs as Simeon, on a primitive synthesizer of his own devising (also named The Simeon), and until his death in 2005, drummer Danny Taylor. The group …

David Dondero is a modern-day troubadour, a minstrel, a bard, a rolling stone, a traveling wilbury — he gets around, and wherever he goes, he makes music. He’s been getting around to odd parts of America, making music — of a primarily transient, narrative, and acoustic variety, in the tradition of great American troubadours of decades past — since the early ’90s. Originally he did it with a band called …