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I just finished the cover art for Matt Singer’s upcoming EP The Drought (08.26.08, Family Records) last night. The EP holds 6 tracks and was produced by Dan Jeselsohn in Brooklyn. I think it’s Matt’s best work yet and am very excited to share it with you soon. It’s a great collection of literary, intricate [...]

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The latest signing at Engine Room Recordings is Lowry, whose album Love Is Dead will be released in August in conjunction with their super exciting All Points West appearance with Grizzly Bear, Mates Of State, Andrew Bird and a little band called Radiohead. It’s a dream to have one of my bands for the first [...]

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That 5 song set The Bloodsugars just played on WOXY got such good response they shot to #1 on the WOXY Chart! Download the performance here, read more about it here.

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Goodness, two of my favorite radio stations both featuring The Bloodsugars (Engine Room Recordings) on the same day?
The boys played a 5 song set on WOXY which can be downloaded for free in it’s entirety by right-clicking here.
NPR featured ‘Purpose Was Again’ and reviewed the BQEP. An excerpt:
The Bloodsugars’s sound is either a descendant of [...]

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Family Records artist Wakey!Wakey! is being featured on Spin.com’s front page in the Catch Buzz column with a great write up. Excerpt below, full write up here.
Driven by a stern piano bounce — courtesy of frontman Mike Grubbs — indie-pop-on-Mozart quintet Wakey!Wakey! are quickly becoming the talk of the Big Apple with rhythm-heavy, heartfelt ballads, [...]

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Wow. Hard to believe July 15th will mark the 200th installment of the Cross-Pollination concert series Mr. Jay Goettelmann and I founded and have been curating since May of 2004. Last December we proudly read that the NY Times called it “an impressive feat of indie gumption”. With the help techy Mr. Jeff Schram we’ve [...]

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