I just fell upon Band of Horses, a former Seattle band now based in South Carolina. Their influences and styles are all over the place, but there's a folky/country/poppiness to them, which I'm really digging right now. You can stream their latest album, Cease to Begin, on virb.com.

Band of Horses were on Letterman last week, but I didn't stay tuned. I guess I'll have to check them out.

I have and like their first album. I hear the new one is better.

Wifey is gone for a week and work is slowing up to the point that I'm home early everyday now so to kick things off this afternoon it's Otis Taylor 'White African', and who know what's on deck afterwards ... maybe a little Ben Harper burnin' one down or Johnny Lang smokin', John Hiatt and Stevie Ray are definitely on the menu.

It's gonna be a little loud though.

Diana Krall and Temptation streaming on Pandora tonight with my new Mojotoedout 80's, uuuuuuuuuuuunbelievable, I swear the band is in my basement, wait I just opened my eyes, just my Axioms...

Are you sure? The M80s are big enough to hide in

I just got Josh Ritter's latest album The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter in the mail today. My wife actually saw him live in Seattle when she deserted me was visiting her sister last weekend. It might me his best album yet.

So I got the full Kate Nash album, Made of Bricks. I like her all right. I wouldn't say she's a classic yet, but she has some strong songs. I look forward to hearing what songs she writes in a couple of years.

Oh, and Peter, I downloaded the free Band of Horses music video (live performance) on Xbox Live. I liked the song well, enough, but I'm too lazy to go look at which one it was. Anyway, I think I may have to pick up their album.

Absolutely nothing, I am out at the lake with my new M80s sitting in their boxes in my basement!