LargeHeartedBoy — !!!'s THR!!!ER, Daughter's If You Leave, The Melvins' covers album Everybody Loves Sausages, Ola Podrida's Ghosts Go Blind, and Mark Kozelek and Jimmy Lavalle's collaborative album Perils From the Sea are all new albums I can recommend this week.... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Listen to The Wooden Birds - Two Matchsticks before it arrives on June 7. And we got a little bonus for you as well... The Wooden Birds are a band from Austin, Texas (with members also in Brooklyn, NY), led by former American Analog Set frontman, A... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — The fine folks over at Western Vinyl just sent us over this remix of folk-rockers Ola Podrida's "Monday Morning", from last year's Belly of the Lion, from producer Spencer Stephenson, aka Abacus. Stephenson's hard at work on a new release, which will... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Takka photos by Maryanne Ventrice DOWNLOAD: The Acorn - Restoration (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Acorn - No Ghost (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Ola Podrida - Monday Morning (Abacus remix) (MP3) The Acorn Ottawa group The Acorn's record, No Ghost, came out June 1st... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 07-08 Austin, TX - The Mohawk07-09 Houston, TX - Mango's 07-10 New Orleans, LA - Circle Bar 07-11 Tallahassee, FL - Engine Room 07-12 Athens, GA - Caledonia Lounge 07-13 Charlotte, NC - Snug Harbor 07-15 Hamden, CT - The Space 07-16 Brooklyn, NY - Un... more info

5 Acts — Austin, TX"This Old World"Ola Podrida on MySpaceOla Podrida on The Hype Machine more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 02-26 St. Louis, MO - Firebird02-27 Bloomington, IN - Russian Recording02-28 Oberlin, OH - Oberlin College03-02 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *03-03 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge *03-04 Boston, MA - TT The Bears *03-05 Montreal, Quebec ... more info

David Wingo, the man behind Ola Podrida, has clearly learned a thing or two from his past, back when he used to score films for his pal David Gordon Green. Slipping in the subtle evocative sound, establishing a sonic landscape, expanding out into swe... more info

The Yellow Stereo — This edition of the Graboid is all about the unknown, as I wouldn’t be surprised if you haven’t heard about many of these releases (I haven’t, at least).  Though, there are a few notable names scattered throughout including MF Doom and Ola P... more info

Said the Gramophone — Ola Podrida - "Donkey". Hard-strummed banjo, and David Wingo, one of my favourite songwriters, singing. He strums and sings louder & louder, and yet it's not because of mere urgency, the wish to communicate that he cares. He has to yell because the... more info