We All Want Someone To Shout For — I don’t know about you, but I’m not really one for Christmas music. Sure it’s fine on Christmas Day and Eve, but hearing Jingle Bells in November is just overkill. I do like when musicians give exciting takes on these songs though. Sufjan Steve... more info

Guardian Music — A Christmas treat from Tracey Thorn, whose album Love and Its Opposite blew us away this yearHere's Tracey Thorn covering Sufjan Stevens's Sister Winter (you can hear the original here). Enjoy it on our stream or download it with additional Christmas... more info

Abeano — One New Track James Blake silences the crowd as he supports Everything Everything. ‘Wilhelms Scream’ is another spellbinding vocal-loop of a track and we can report that this recording is not a fluke. We saw him last night and it was bl... more info

Altsounds — Fire Records are extremely excited to announce the signing of Danielson (aka Danielson Famile, Br. Danielson) and the release of their new album "Best of Gloucester County" - the follow up to 2006's acclaimed "Ships" album. The album features Sufj... more info

Altsounds — Having previously collaborated with the likes of Sufjan Stevens and Emil Nikolaisen (Serena Maneesh), it's no surprise that the new record from Norway's I Was A King features a bizarre cross-section of musical backgrounds as well, represented by ... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — We never really thought of Sufjan Stevens as a traditional holidays sort of guy. It's almost a step backward to go from making a symphony about the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to creating a Peanuts-inspired video where happy little kids sing about put... more info

NME - The Daily Download — A variety of free MP3 action for you today. First up, Monument Valley, aka London Ned Younger, a prodigious songwriter that’s drawn comparisons to Nick Drake and been welcomed into Ben Mumford’s Communion family. He just released the ‘No Air EP... more info

My Old Kentucky — Darren Jessee started Hotel Lights after many years of writing songs, playing drums and touring with Ben Folds Five. Darren co-wrote Brick and Song For The Dumped. After leaving the now-famous pop group, Jessee moved from North Carolina to New Yor... more info

melophobe — For the past two years, melophobe invited its contributors to vote for their favorite albums blindly, unaware of what other contributors were loving and loathing. In 2010, we got proactive. From January on, we shared music, and when voting time came,... more info

melophobe — I am all for artists workshopping their songs in concerts. It’s kind of like how comedians need to put in their stand up time before the big HBO special or holiday themed laugh fest. We loved seeing Sufjan Stevens last fall as he worked through The... more info