" Take Off Your Sunglasses is a particularly lively track, vocally recalling the oft-name checked Violet Femmes and the more closely contemporary Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Musically, though, it's a grab bag of influences: you might hear a bit of Neil Young in the harmonica, The Plimsouls in the jangling guitar, The Pretenders or Tom Petty in the melodies, Jonathan Richman in the lyricism, and much more. At a mere 20 years old(!), Ezra Furman, like so many of these free-spirited songwriters, knows how to rock you vigorously but gently with lyrics aimed to make you laugh and break your heart."

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The new tune from DC's Middle Distance Runner has been selected for a Harley-Davidson ad campaign this month! Watch the commercial here, and download the song exclusively on Amie Street.

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What started as an eerie, plaintive, half-sung, half-whispered tune by The Long Lost comes out as two excellent, sparkling remixes in the hands of LA producer Flying Lotus.

Woebegone (Flying Lotus's Luckiest Charm) stands on its own as one of the finest electronic singles for fall/winter '08, with perfect timing for the cold weather. Flying Lotus's drums stutter and skip atop a simple guitar line, and he adds just a hint of processing to Laura Darlington's translucent vocals to make the whole thing icy and delicately textured.

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