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Out This Week 5/7

- Source: KEXP 90.3 Blog

It's funny that while we're getting some of our brightest days right now here in Seattle, some of this week's most exciting new releases are some of the year's darkest.

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IRMA & SWAMP DOGG: The Canyon Sessions

- Source: Home of the Groove

Back in March, out of the blue, David Marchese from SPIN sent me this link to his impressive feature on Jerry 'Swamp Dogg' Williams, Jr., a truly independent and amazingingly prolific R&B artist, writer, producer, publisher, label-owner, and walking definition of "gonzo".

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The D.O.T. - Diary

- Source: The Four Oh Five

There are many people for whom Mike Skinner will always maintain a degree of relevance; those for whom Original Pirate Material and A Grand Don't Come For Free are almost ludicrously perfect snapshots of a particular moment in British culture, a flawless encapsulation of a certain type of person and the sort of life they lived a few years either side of the turn of the millennium.

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George Jones Dead at 81

- Source: Rolling Stone

George Jones , known as "the greatest voice in country music," died today at a Nashville Hospital after being hospitalized last week with a fever and irregular blood pressure, his publicist said today.

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Electro Chaabi In Cairo: Part II - The Wedding Of The Year

- Source: The Quietus

We're staying in the Mayfair Hotel off July 26 Street, situated on an island in the Nile. It has a large colonial entrance hall and a once grand marble staircase that speaks of different distant times while inside, sub, sub-divided rooms with rickety wardrobes, monastic beds and hopeful electrical wiring speak to a more realistic pragmatic present.

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The Staves, interview

- Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

They didn't realise it at the time, they say, but it was their middle–class upbringing in suburban north London, as the comprehensive–schooled daughters of a teacher and a banker, that planted the seeds for Dead & Born & Grown, their debut album of haunting, Americanatinged folk.

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Young Kato Announce New Single And Summer UK Tour Dates

- Source: Stereoboard

Since the release of the critically acclaimed 'Young Kato' EP in the summer of 2012, Young Kato have been touring the UK tirelessly with headline shows across the country and successful support slots with a wide array of bands, including Spector, Bastille, Swim Deep, We Are Scientists and Peace.

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The 10 Best Lou Reed Songs

- Source: Stereogum

Rock and roll has never lacked for singular characters, and amongst that cavalcade of the insanely great and greatly insane, Lewis Allen "Lou" Reed takes second chair to nobody.

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