Seth Kauffman - Evening Blessing

I've posted some of Seth's work before from "Floating Action." This guys sound is so earthy. Its real music. This album has a unique sound I find refreshing. It's a real musician playing real music. This album reassured me that there are people who still know how to make music out there.

The Chapel Hill, NC-based Seth Kauffman first came on the indie rock scene in the late '90s as a member of the roots soul group the Choosy Beggars. Lo-fi, ramshackle, and raw, the Beggars were everything Kauffman loved, but his musical life wasn't always this unrefined. Classical violin lessons began at the age of four, but when he took up the guitar at the age of 15, the blues came into his life, as did a love of groove. Clueing into the feeling of the music he was coming to love, Kauffman "de-learned" his classical training and began to attack numerous new instruments. With Bryan Cates he formed the Choosy Beggars, playing countless shows and releasing four albums. Outside of the band he was taking solo adventures to the African bush, the Swiss Alps, and Jamaica, enjoying the rhythms each journey offered. Back home, he combined ska, mento, blues, Latin jazz, and blues and began recording an album he classified as "lo-fi North Carolina funk." Writing, producing, and playing every instrument, Kauffman gave listeners their first taste in February of 2006 when he released the Powder EP exclusively through iTunes. Beck, G. Love, Tom Waits, the Wailers, the White Stripes, and others were names used to help describe his sound, but each only touched upon one small facet of this complex yet pure music. A month later he made his full-length debut on the Hightone label with Ting, named after a grapefruit soda Kauffman enjoyed while in Jamaica.

JD McPherson - North Side Gal (Live on 89.3 The Current)

Love this version of North Side Gal....J.D. McPherson ...you're sick bro! Wow.... Check it out!

Poolside performing "Take Me Home" Live on KCRW

Check out this awesome version of "Take Me Home", by Poolside that was done live on KCRW. I dig the sound of these guys. Feel good, dancing music...Enjoy!

Bomba De Luz - Howl At That Moon (Live on 89.3 The Current)

From St. Paul, Minnesota comes "Bomba De Luz." The first album from Bomba de Luz, a mixture of folk, rock, and jazz. From tender love songs to moments of heavy rock, Bomba de Luz's first release has elements of all genres, every mood and countless influences. Lydia Hoglund's vocals from this album would be "positively mesmerizing live."

Notice how young these musicians are.  I love it!

Check out Bomba De Luz performs "Howl At That Moon" live in the studios of 89.3 The Current.
Very good version.