Jets Overhead have announced limited performances at the Winter Olympics, Candian Music Week, SXSW and Coachella.

Celebrate Thursday night with two of my favorite new MP3s one from We Are Wolves and the other from Nowhere Again.

Heard First: Emily Long who’s voice might best be described as one born as the lovechild of Lita Ford and Johnette Napolitano only with a little higher pitch. Check out the MP3 of her song, “Anyone Else” – it’s a fun, catchy and quite enjoyable track.

Less than a week into 2010 and everyone is slowing awakening from their holiday slumber. For those of you looking for a fresh voice to start the new year, I present to you: Bonfires.

Lissie has announced tour dates in support of her EP, Why You Runnin‘, which was released November 10, 2009 via Fat Possum. Most dates will be with City and Colour.

Make your Monday brighter by checking out some of the best MP3s that have crossed my in box in the last few weeks. Includes Lissie, Hurricane Bells, The Ropes and more.

In catching up on site stuff, I was going through e-mails when I came upon the video for Hurricane Bells’ “This Year”. Hello, Hurricane Bells. Perfect song for this rainy Tuesday night.

Hurricane Bells is Steve Schiltz from Longwave (singer/guitarist). He wrote and recorded his debut album Tonight is the Ghost with plans to self-releasing it. When a b-side from the album, “Monsters,” got picked up on the indie-friendly “Twilight/New Moon” movie soundtrack his personal basement project, Hurricane Bells, became much larger.

Daniel J. Nixon. He’s from Leek in The North, UK. And this is “Turn This Stone”. Nixon’s lyrics are raw and steeped in emotion. I’ve now played this track a half dozen times. I keep getting lost in the song – that doesn’t happen too much anymore. This song draws into my emotions with its straight-forward lyrics and simple accompaniment in a way that is similar to the first time I heard Hayden in 1995; although Nixon’s voice is smoother. It’s nice to remember the passion of youthful heartbreak and Nixon captures it eloquently in “Turn This Stone”.

Playing catch up … enjoy some new tunes this Monday. First, let me mention how much I’m enjoying listening to this track from Brooklyn’s Secondstar. Secondstar is a project by Liam Carey which is self-described as, “alt-folk-rock with guitar, banjo, layered vocals, some horns, drums, cello and whistling – with bunches of harmonies”. The song, [...]

The last two weeks I’ve been increasingly obsessed with Julian Casabancas “11th Dimension”. For the first time since Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” I’m running around like an eight-year-old kid on a sugar high. MP3 Julian Casabancas “11th Dimension”