Cute lil’ Norweegie Sondre Lerche has a new EP out,
called Don’t Be Shallow. It’s got four
studio tracks and four live tracks, which are all
acoustical and shit:

Don’t Be Shallow
I Know, I Know
Living Lounge
Single Hand Affairs
Dead Passengers (live)
You Know So Well (live)
Sleep On Needles (live)
Night And Day (C. Porter)(live)

I wholeheartedly agree with Insound’s assessment that Sondre is “equal parts Brian Wilson, Cole Porter and Marc Bolan”, but at the same time, the Astralwerks site is correct in pointing out
that he’s “somewhere between Donovan, Burt Bacharach, and David Cassidy”.

I saw local Columbus band The Last Hotel this weekend, and they were refreshingly good. It’s so rare to find an actual indie pop/rock band
’round these parts, what with all the Thin Lizzy/AC-DC type shit that prevails here. Their EP
features several good poprockers, and a number of quieter, Jeff Buckley-esque tracks. Here’s one of the poprockers:

From the Three Gut site comes news that
the EP that Royal City was working on has blossomed into a full-fledged album, tentatively entitled Little Heart’s Ease. Should be out around May of Aught-Four.

Also from the 3gut site comes news that 3gut is now the Canadian home of Oneida, whose new album (the follow-up to Each One, Teach One, a.k.a. LIGHT! LIGHT! LIGHT! LIGHT! LIGHT !LIGHT!), titled Secret Wars, drops in January.

Additionally, Jagjaguwar is reporting that a 500-limited-edition vinyl of
Oneida’s Anthem On The Moon has just now been released by
Rocket Recordings.
Did I not tell you that this is the year of limited shit?

And finally, gaze upon the Aesthetic Apparatus-designed cover to Mr. Vanderslice’s forthcoming Cellar Door:

Word.