Skrillex collaborator Pennybirdrabbit has just released her debut solo EP treehouse. The EP’s title track showcases the young songbird’s knack for pensive electonic atmosphere and beautiful heartspinning (and sort Bjorkesque) vocals.
Pennybirdrabbit – TreehousePennybirdrabbit 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.4
UK based folk duo Fossil Collective have offered up these free tracks to keep us calm and composed as we await their On and On EP, expected in October. Label mates with the likes of Benjamin Francis Leftwich and Little Comets on Dirty Hit Records, you could say they come from a good home. Follow this link to their site, stick your email in and it’s all yours. By Nathan Hetherington
Fossil Collective 
(Facebook)
Rating 8
Safely returned to the mid-August L.A. swelter, we took to the airwaves of Virgin Mobile Live on Friday to recap last weekend’s Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in San Francisco. The beautiful cloudy chill of Golden Gate Park played gracious host to an immaculate lineup of artists from all eras and most genres past, present, and future. Check out our recap below featuring music from some of our favorite Outside Lands artists as well as an interview we did backstage on Saturday with New York band Caveman.
SETLIST
Little Stevie Wonder – Fingertips (Part 2) [extended edit]
Tame Impala – Lucidity
MICS UP: Metallica – For Whom The Bell Tolls
Portugal. The Man – So American
Birdy – People Help the People (Cherry Ghost Cover)
Foo Fighters – Big Me
MICS UP: *Bruce Rave w/ Raves Fave
*Bloc Party – Team A
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
Caveman – Thankful
INTERVIEW w/ Caveman backstage at Outside Lands, SF 2012
Big Boi & Theophilus London – She Said OK (Feat. & Tre Luce) [Clean]
Click here for more coverage on Outside Lands 2012.
Outside Lands (Official)
This UK band is described as “glammed-up indie”, and are probably the last thing you can imagine being singed to Tori Amos’ new label as her first artists. They are great fun, and don’t we all relate to the line “Why do all those pretty girls I know have to be a little bit mental”? Feel free to substitute the word “boys” if you’d like. I think it’s safe to say we’ve all been there at least some of the time. By Bruce Rave
The Adventures Of… – Pretty Crazy GirlsThe Adventures Of… (Facebook)
*Check out Bruce’s Moheak Radio “Go Deep” show on Sunday nights 7-9 pm Pacific, 10-12 am Eastern, 3-5 am GMT. Also listen to past shows at Bruce’s blog and follow Bruce on Twitter.
Aiden Grimshaw keeps it on with “This Island”. The anthem is previewed here from the forthcoming (massive) Misty Eye release.
Aiden Grimshaw: 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
We’re fans of Ryan Leslie over here at b3sci. The R&B singer/songwriter-turned-rapper, his forthcoming record Les Is More will be a rap album, links up here with The Chef for the Sunday-afternoon-in-the-park-with-your-girl sounds of new track “Live Good”.
Ryan Leslie 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Check out the latest release from songstress SZA; the relaxed soulful track “Country”, excerpted from her upcoming “See.Sza.Run” EP. Into it.
SZA (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.2
Producer Noah Hyde puts on for his city remixing fellow Boisean?(Boiseite? Boisese?) Youth Lagoon’s great “Daydream”. Hyde selects for a deep subtle dance refashioning of the track that is really outstanding. Hat tip to our friends at Golden Scissors for the find.
Noah Hyde 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.3
Buffalo, NY DJ Dstar’s profile has certainly been rising in the electronic scene over the last year. Here, with an assist from Ann Arbor, MI DJ Benzi (rust belt connect!) Dstar takes that next step with a strong remix of The Cataracs’ Kaskade-sampling “All You” from earlier this year.
Dstar 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
We love The Soft Pack. The San Diego band much anticipated 2nd LP Strapped is only about five weeks out now (due Sept. 25). Second single “Tallboy” finds the band exploring a maybe more soulful side of their sound (organ, horns, syncopated melodies and rhythms) which we are totally loving. We’d rather listen to The Soft Pack than just about any other American rock band right now.
The Soft Pack (Facebook)
Rating 8.4
Kandle sends out a playful-anti-social s.o.s. on “Play With Fire”. The young songstress from Montreal graces her melodic and folky psych-rock with all the attitude of its architects. Get familiar with Kandle below.
Kandle 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.2
Inspired by a trip to the artic ghost town of Piramida, just a 1000km from the North Pole, Efterklang have a produced this rather grand first cut from their forthcoming album going by the same name. The results from sounds created with impressive findings like this, plus contributions from a number of other artists including a 60-piece girls’ choir, are somewhat impressive. The accompanying video for “Hollow Mountain” is directed by Oodls and is equally so… enjoy.
Piramida will be out on 4AD & Rumraket on September 24th and can be pre-ordered here. By Nathan Hetherington
Efterklang 
(Bandcamp)
Rating 8.3
