Wilco - Star WarsWilco presents 'Star Wars', the Grammy award winning band's ninth studio album and its first since 2011's 'The Whole Love'. The new album was recorded at the band's Chicago loft and features 11 original Wilco penned tunes. If an unlikely predominant influence on 'The Whole Love' was Nick Lowe's bittersweet new wave, 'Stars Wars' brings together the unfamiliar but similarly adventurous bedfellows of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, the spacier end

Kid With Crooked Face

tactile and free

the sonic antics

with a message as fragmentary as an overheard conversation

rocksteady marionette stomp ('No Time')

16 year old barbadian wunderkind rapper Haleek Maul and rising Portland r&b crooner Shy Girls

albeit the timing of their meeting could hardly have been less ideal

With Tim and Cate

a boy / man with an old soul voice in the age of digital everything becoming something else

dug out somewhere between the mountains and the beach

Down the Tubes

while others consider them elitists