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Jam of the Day | Damien Jurado – Nothing Is The News

Photo by Sarah Jurado With its psychadelic guitars and haunted, echoing vocals, “Nothing Is The News” opens Damien Jurado’s Maraqopa with five and a half minutes of the bleakest, loneliest landscape possible. It’s a track for watching the sun rise over a barren but beautiful desert alone, a song that sets the tone for Jurado’s masterpiece … Read more

Jam of the Day | Gardens & Villa – Black Hills

The self-titled debut LP of Santa Barbara, California quintet Gardens & Villa was released in July (Secretly Canadian), and the record has been steadily growing on us all summer. The record’s first single is “Black Hills,” a grooving jam that evokes memories of some of Britt Daniel and Spoon’s earlier work, fused with a branch … Read more