Bless you!

Asthmatic Kitty is sneezing some pretty quality germs with its second various artist sampler, "Achoo! Volume 2." Now, not all these are contagious. You'll have to sift through some innocuous tunes, but since they are free its hard to complain. At least grab the stuff by Sufjan, My Brightest Diamond, the Castanets, and Half-handed Cloud.

Bonus track from the Kitty:
Cryptacize - Cosmic Sing-a-long [I love sing-a-longs and space]

Evin Wolverton spoils Feburary Album Writing Month

Evin Wolverton is destroying everyone's muse at FAWM.org by posting songs of unmatchable caliber--Why even bother writing songs anymore? Evin encouraged me to take the fawm challenge, but I think now I'll just burn all of my instruments and microphones.

He makes his superiority clear in the first two lines of "Elephant Bones"(MP3): "My Shit: intelligent / Your shit: irrelevant. / Things get malevolent / When you upset the bones of an elephant."

And to rub it all in our inferior faces, he is posting intentionally bad-song novelties like "This Song Sucks." In the words of fellow fawmer Tom DeSimone, "Man, your deliberately crappy song is way better than any of mine."

Silly self-effacing adulation aside, Evin really does have some of the best music on the site.
Go watch him wrap up the month with another seven songs yet to come. I know I'll be checking in everyday.

Hot Cold Treatment

I'm drinking an experimental cold cure: hot water, lime juice, cayenne pepper, slices of garlic, and a bit of honey. It tastes like burning. To cool me off I am turning to the clarion vocals of Victoria Bergsman (of The Concretes), rain-sticks, and the programming skills of The Though Alliance. Deepforest meets the female vocals of Peter, Bjorn & John's "Young Folks."

I need more tonic.

Mp3: REMOVED

Hey you internet addicts!

Rafter thinks you are just waiting to die.
[MP3]REMOVED

From the looks of the torrid 8-track tape orgy pictured above, he is clearly in love with a machine just like the rest of us.
Let's hug it out.