As promised, we’d like to present the first (of several) Green Room Sessions filmed during the first ever Birds on a Wire festival. After recording this, Joe Pug proceeded to blow minds at the BellTower stage. We were honored to have him and hope you enjoy this session as much as we do.

Here’s Joe Pug playing “In the Meantime”

Joe Pug - In the Meantime from Stereopathic on Vimeo.

A friend of Stereopathic happened to be in the right place at the right time and caught this brand new Avett Brothers song live in Spokane, WA on Tuesday. If you’ve enjoyed the trajectory that Avett Brothers have been on with this last album, then you’ll love this song. Tell us what you think!

Ever since they opened up for Local Natives earlier this year, we’ve had a thing for The Holiday Friends. They played a song for us in the Green Room. and, as always, they were great. Check it out:

Holiday Friends - Turn the Light on from Stereopathic on Vimeo.

Stay tuned - we hope to start releasing some of our Birds on a Wire Green Room Sessions soon!

Found this in the ol’ inbox this morning:

Greetings!

We are pleased to announce the details of the next Justin Townes Earle record. Harlem River Blues will hit stores on September 14th.

Compared to the much-lauded Midnight at the MoviesHarlem River Blues is more mature and increasingly nuanced, while still embracing the raw voice and clean sound of previous standout tracks like “Mama’s Eyes.” Featuring guest appearances from Jason Isbell, Bryn Davies, Ketch Secor from Old Crow Medicine Show and Calexico’s Paul Niehaus, it’s rockin’ and reelin’ at times, sweet and slow at others - and it’s great….and it was produced by JTE and his old friend Skylar Wilson.

We’re counting the days till September 14th.

Justin Townes Earle: I Don’t Care (from the Yuma EP)

The Seattle Music Weekly posted a write-up on Moscow and it’s musicians.

“Even when I’m here in New York, the city is compressed down into a little village, a Moscow-sized place with the places I go and the people I know,” Ritter says. “Maybe there is something in the water there. It’s probably better than whatever’s in the water here.”

Read the entire article…

Exile on Main Street was released in remastered form yesterday. There’s a song on it called Ventilator Blues, which by the three-second mark is already one of the raunchiest, sleaziest, scariest things I’ve ever heard. One of Keith’s most visceral, physical, venal riffs.

Exile on Main Street

No one does hedonism like the Stones, and no one gets at the sheer exhaustion and the come-down like them, either. It’s a pointless way to live. But what a song. What a song.

brendan o’donnell could generally care less about non-American music. he makes occasional exceptions.

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Any of you Moscow music fans remember a band called Postal Joe?  The power pop trio ransacked the Palouse back in the days when John’s Alley sported a tiny corner stage and a ceiling about seven feet high. (They played the hottest cover of the Tiffany hit “I Think We’re Alone Now” I’ve ever heard.)  Drummer Mike Last, who also helped out on vocals, was Postal Joe’s catalyst, ranking somewhere just below the Band’s Levon Helm and the Eagles’ Don Henley on the list of coolest singing drummers of all time.  Unknown to many, he was (and is) also a heck of a writer, songwriter and poet.  Now, after years of drumming for a bunch of Northwest and Chicago-area bands, Mike has stepped to the front of the stage.  As lead singer and principle songwriter of the Eugene, Oregon folk rock three-piece the Stagger and Sway, his natural charisma and dusty poetics are unmistakably the main attraction.  The Stagger and Sway will share the (now much larger) John’s Alley stage this Saturday with fellow Eugeners John Shipe, Patrick Kavaney and the Last Drags.

“Wyoming” by the Stagger and Sway

– The Mark

UPDATE: The Stagger and Sway will instead be joined by Dan Jones and the Golden Motors. John Shipe, Patrick Kavaney and the Last Drags have canceled.

“Hot Pink UFOs” by Dan Jones and the Squids

The Pickathon owl is stoked about the 2010 lineup.

The good folks running Pickathon down in Portland, Oregon just released the full lineup for the music festival going down August 6-8. It’s just stacked like a brick, uh… henhouse… (family-friendly indie music blog) with Stereopathic favorites. Bonnie Prince Billy, Dr. Dog, Deep Dark Woods… good golly, just read the list. The Roadside Graves are dropping by here on August 6th on their way to a pair of sets at Pendarvis Farm, site of the three-day indie roots music festival.

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As a fan of Bay area hip hop/popsters WHY?’s breakthrough album Aloepecia, it would seem natural that the follow-up, 2009’s Eskimo Snow, would constitute an immediate purchase. Reports of the album not having the hip hop flavor of its predecessor detracted, though fans need not mourn, but rejoice. I’m certainly sorry I waited. Read more

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