1Ve: There is nothing I can discover on the internet about this musician aside from his page at The 61. This is a shame. Although the dreamy music is only suitable to a certain mood, and one can only take so much of it in one dose (kinda like Rufus Wainwright), it’s gorgeous and ethereal, an even sleepier riff on the sound of Flunk. The fact that someone in Sweden is sitting around making music like this and not getting it out in the world makes me sad.
Wasps by Ve
2Lindsay Rae Spurlock: I’ll probably go my whole life without shaking the bug for poppy, emotional female singer/songwriters (Lilith Fair forever, holmses). I’m frankly surprised, given her media exposure at this point on television and years gigging around, that nobody has scooped her up yet. The professional-quality recordings on 2008’s Heart On EP sound as if they could have come from a label already. I can practically watch the Grey’s Anatomy montage unfold over this particular track.
As For Now by Lindsay Rae Spurlock
3Bear Hunter: Caught this noisy rock band from Chico while I was back in Santa Cruz for a visit. They were making ears bleed in a tiny pub that was wholly unprepared for their energy and blasts of rock and roll. In fact, the speakers were cranked so loud that most people left. Too bad: they missed one of those miraculous misplaced shows that should have happened on a giant stage at ACL instead of a hole in the wall in Northern California.
4Shad: Okay, okay, he’s already signed. But I would offer whatever it took to steal him, and it’s a Canadian label besides. The U.S. needs to get schooled by this guy the way Sidney Crosby schooled us in overtime. Not only does this Toronto native have some of cleverest, most sincere rhymes in the business, his flow is impeccable. Seriously, the dictionary needs to scratch out whatever definition it has for ‘impeccable’ and just drop in the phrase “Check out this six-minute video by Shad. Shit. Sick.”
5Great Lakes Myth Society: It’s a bit of a mystery what happened to this Michigan band, so if anyone knows something, please enlighten me. They put out some fantastic big songs in a light-hearted, more Irish-sounding style of Arcade Fire, signed with someone called Quack! and promptly dropped off the face of the planet. The last I can find is a short slate of recordings from spring of 2008. I suppose they could just be holed up and recording somewhere, but if they’re not, I’d like my imaginary label to make that happen for them.
Summer Bonfire by Great Lakes Myth Society
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