In addition to bringing you this week's featured artists, we're kicking off an effort to help fight hunger as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches.

We've teamed up with Food Bank For New York City to raise money for New Yorkers in need, and for the next week Amie Street will be donating 50% of proceeds from sales of all Cheap Lullaby Artists to the Food Bank. For every dollar donated to the Food Bank, 96 cents goes toward food acquisition, distribution and programs.

The Food Bank For NYC sources and then distributes food to more than 1,000 emergency and community food programs, assisting the approximately 1.3 million New Yorkers who access emergency food.

So discover some great new artists and help others enjoy a holiday meal!

Gramercy Arms

Gramercy Arms, the newest band on Cheap Lullaby Records, is a NYC-based super group consisting of members of Guided By Voices, Luna, Joan as Police Woman, and The Dambuilders. The group's self-titled debut features guest appearances from comic Sarah Silverman and members of Nada Surf, and is filled with "classic mid-70's American songcraft, gorgeous melancholy and an evocative sense of the West Coast's great musical triumphs" (Fresh Deer Meat).

Sounds Like: Teenage Fanclub + Primal Scream + The Beach Boys

Belle & Sebastian

A seven-piece band from Glasgow, Belle & Sebastian is perhaps the most critically celebrated Scottish band of all time, and is included in The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll as one of the most important acts of the 1990s. The BBC Sessions is a compilation of songs Belle & Sebastian performed on BBC radio over the years, from their first live recordings with Mark Radcliffe in 1996 to four widely bootlegged (and previously unreleased!) songs with John Peel in 2001.

Sounds Like: The Smiths + The Magnetic Fields + Nick Drake

Cindy Blackman

Cindy Blackman is one of the most versatile jazz drummers around. In addition to her fifteen-year stint as the touring drummer for Lenny Kravitz, Blackman has worked with Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Pharoah Sanders, Cassandra Wilson, Bill Laswell, and Buckethead. Music for the New Millennium (her tenth release as a bandleader) showcases Blackman's deep knowledge and understanding of the jazz tradition, with AllAboutJazz.com saying that her performance "reveals a stylistic allegiance to past masters while keeping an eye to the future."

Sounds Like: Wayne Shorter + Tony Williams + Herbie Hancock

Black Lips

Though the Black Lips have become notorious for incorporating fireworks, flaming guitars, bodily fluids and chickens into their live shows, they clearly take their studio recordings seriously. They've admitted to maturing a bit for their fifth album, and last year The New York Times called them "the hardest working band at SXSW" after they played more than a dozen shows in three days at the Austin, Texas music festival. Good Bad Not Evil is the place to start if you've never heard them before: Pitchfork says it's "the record where naysayers, disinterested friends and acquaintances, and anyone else within earshot has to sit up, shut up, and listen."

Sounds Like: The White Stripes + Jay Reatard + King Khan And The Shrines

The Kin

In 2003, Australian brothers Thorry and Isaac Koren performed together for the first time as a wedding present for their father; since then, they've realized their true calling as the pop rock band The Kin. The sound of their debut album Rise and Fall brings to mind some of the great stadium-rock bands, but Live at the Pussycat Club finds them in an intimate, acoustic setting. The album features fan favorites like "Romeo" and "New Day" in wonderful new incarnations, as well as three new tracks. Also, as a special offer, "The One" will be free for a week!

Sounds Like: Keane + Coldplay + U2

Sweet Baboo

Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo) describes his inspirations as "the country strum, flashes of keyboard wizardry, sweet, if slightly off key, harmonies and songs about girls, putting heads in vases, drinking, and sleeping." All these things are clearly heard on his first proper release, The Mighty Baboo -- a quirky album of equal parts psychedelic, country, folk, and schmaltz, with solo acoustic performances as well as lush studio arrangements.

Sounds Like: Devendra Banhart + Damien Rice + Daniel Johnston