i’ve been dubbing a lot of what i’ve been listening to lately as post-americana. so many bands have been combining elements of post-rock and americana to produce sounds rooted in dirt and dust as easily as they are in clouds and space, often within the same song. collectives such as davenport and the jewelled antler collective are seeing their influences felt in this genre as well, with the emergence of the new folk movement from the forest.

regardless, if you are having problems figuring out what to buy next, check out the audio streams available over at husky rescue’s site. a band from finland totally destroying post-americana. very good stuff.

sometimes being early alphabetically pays off. perusing the labrador site lands this:

aerospace – tenderness is the plight of the weatherthan

another obvious one is the acid house kings, who have quite a bit available for your free investigation here, including mp3 downloads and a couple of videos. now, i would truly rather appreciate this if it was the king of acid house albums, but all the same, this is a great band. bands like this will one day kill modern classic rock radio.

yet another nice discovery on the labrador site is laurel music.

laurel music – dreams and lies

for fans of the messed up beats and sounds, check out proswell’s archive.org entry here. you might be familiar with carrot dossier or the merck mix, or other things as well. there’s quite a bit available here, so help yourself.

oh yeah, if you aren’t familiar with tarentel, please click here.

additionally click on this bird:

to check out some great downloads from the temporary residence site.

a great place to start is here:

the drift – invisible cities (edit)

when an edit comes in at just under 7 minutes, you know it’s worth checking out.