Flashing forward, flashing back.

Anyone hankering for a cozy campfire vibe will be happy to know that highlights from Nathan Moore and Brad Barr's acoustic set at Pete's Candy Store are now finding their way onto YouTube. It was the perfect capper to a dizzying wedding weekend that had these boys playing music continuously in various capacities-- as Surprise Me Mr Davis, then as the tastiest wedding band on earth, and finally as a duo at Pete's in Williamsburg. There's not much I need to say about this amazing show that isn't readily apparent in the clips, so I'll let the songwriting and musicianship speak for itself on this haunting version of "Hollow" by Nathan Moore, followed by the pair's swoon-a-licious rendition of "Lost Man in a Foreign Country".



Check out Nathan's new album In His Own Worlds... and get yourself to the left coast early December to catch the delightful Davis experience in Northern Cali. You might just want to bring along your French-English dictionary...


Another nugget you might have missed in the Big Apple this fall is Do Make Say Think's powerful performance at the Wordless Music Series.



The Wordless Music Series is off to an amazing start this season, having just hosted a back-to-back Mum weekend, and a brilliant show from Grizzly Bear, whose drawing power is great enough to draw Paul Simon out to hear their rendition of Graceland. Word is that Feist recommended the Brooklyn-based quartet to Mr Simon. The Wordless Series will be featuring Jonny Greenwood's (Radiohead) debut of the Popcorn Superhet Receiver in January and there's talk of David Byrne doing a show in the spring.

Monuments frontman Gabe Berezin threw quite a party in DUMBO this past weekend, all in the heady name of Kurt Vonnegut. It featured some great performances from Suzan Hurtuk and All the Tired Horses, and of course from Monuments themselves. If you've never heard the math-y magic of Monuments, get ye to Trash Bar Nov 16th to get your first taste. Stay tuned for clips of the Vonnegut tribute...

And lastly, how's this for awesome: Smyer just released their debut album and they're making it available for FREE DOWNLOAD here... In the always-apt words of Gordon Hartin, "There are some things you can't download. Like a coca-cola. Music is already out there being downloaded, so we're giving it to the people and hoping it will translate into them coming to our shows." So do it-- on December 7th at the CD Release party at the Crash Mansion. And since you'll have downloaded the album already, you will know all the songs and feel like the coolest kid on the block.