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Sunny Day Sets Fire's album Summer Palace is out now and they are featured on the soundtrack of the documentary American Teen which is also out in theatres, umm, now. The time is now! This is sinister and great:

Jem (pictured above) was featured on the Sex and the City Soundtrack.  Her album Down To Earth comes out Sept.16th and she make flyaway hair look guud.

Cee-Knowledge aka "Doodlebug" of Digable Planets has collaborated with a new band called Astronauts of Antiquity:

Matthew Perryman Jones' new album Swallow the Sea comes out on 8/19. He is giving his last album away fer $1 at Noisetrade.

Phil and the Osophers (ha!) are a two-piece band from Brooklyn who played SXSW and the After the Jump Fest:

Ooooh, this one is lovely: St.Paul Minnesota's own Jeff Hanson makes baroque folk that's no joke: (Madam Owl will be released on 8/19)

Also giving it away is Capitol Jay, if you like what you hear download Strangers in the House at Limerick Records.