On the Pulse Vol. I

Mount Eerie

This marks the introduction of a new feature on Showered and Blue-Blazered, On The Pulse. The weekly installment will spotlight several musicians who are turning up the volume, offering a few words and more music. Let me know what you think, and please don't hesitate to send along any sounds that might make a good fit. - Jamie

Ha Ha Tonka
Springfield, Mo.'s Ha Ha Tonka wear their roots on their pearl-snapped shirts, the southern soil dusted across the rusty strings and creaking porches of 2007's Buckle in the Bible and this year's Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South. The quartet will embark on a cross-country tour beginning September 16.

Ha Ha Tonka - Hold Your Feet to the Fire

Mount Eerie
The sound that blows from Mount Eerie is far larger than its sole member. Recorded at various locations around Phil Elverum's hometown of Anacortes, Washington, the lush, often abstract scapes ebb and flow at the whim of this musical mad scientist and his artfully talented friends. Wind's Poem, Mount Eerie's third release, hit the streets on August 18 on P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd.

Mount Eerie - Stone's Ode

Princeton
Princeton wasted little time exposing its intellectual side on Bloomsbury, a four-song concept EP based upon the intellectual circle of English novelist Virgina Woolf. The high falutin themes were tempered by clever rock hooks, foreshadowing the debut long-player from the Los Angeles quartet, Cocoon of Love. Cocoon of Love is out now on Kanine, and the band is on the road with Ra Ra Riot.

Princeton - Calypso Gold