You know it's officially spring when new music comes popping up faster than the leaves sprouting in Iowa during Spring-Winter, Winterish-Spring? In other words, fast. Very.

Donkeyboy's Crazy is the Coolest, Like Ever

It's seriously hard to believe that just a week ago "Crazy Something Normal" was released. And since then, the new Donkeyboy feel-good has been dominating the ITunes charts including a Late Night stint AND a music video that involves demonic spray cans and the boys looking wonderfully bad ass. 

Jena Malone Makes Art

**Warning, there's nudity**

Jena Malone channels something like classical art in The Shoe's video for "Dead Rabbit Hopes" and I don't think anyone is complaining unless you have an issue with yourself when you take your clothes off. She is stunning with nothing but flowers decorating her perfect and  -- dare I say -- perfect body you would almost think the video distracts from how lovely her voice is. But it doesn't, or at least to me versus the perverted male species. This is art and it is stunning.



Sharon van Etten "Taking Chances" on a Tarot Reading

This is includes all of my favorite things: close ups on Sharon's lovely face, mysticism, tarot cards, nail polish (albeit chipped) and a strangely profound message in between the lines. Despite the fact I saw the ending from a mile away, I absolutely adored getting lost in this video.

Lindsey Sterling Consorts with Mer-Creatures Now...

There are some musicians whose music just encompasses your spiritual beliefs; my list includes Julianna Barwick and especially the way Lindsey Sterling sets up her music videos. And her latest "Beyond the Veil," the "hip-hop violinist" evokes something between The Little Mermaid and Lord of the Rings as her violin gets stolen by a magical child-creature who can breathe underwater. This is just breathtakingly beautiful! Mission Creek, can we get her next year? Stirling's album "Shatter Me" comes out May 2nd.





Amazing New Videos

Jena Malone Sings and it is Wonderful!

I love Jena Malone; I love her nonchalant awesomeness, her dorky charming smile and never mind the fact she totally got to make out with Patrick Fugit in the movie Saved! Along with her musical partner, Lem Jay Ignacio under the band name "The Shoe," the band is coming out with their first album "I'm OK" in June. Until then, here's a teaser and it's so pretty!

Josh Groban Does it Again on Kimmel!



The Four Words I Never Thought I Would Say:

Mr. Little Jeans Album

Mr. Little Jeans album, Mr. Little Jeans album!!! I have been waiting for this day for so long. "Pocketknife" is coming out March 25th and it is complete with songs that have been out as singles since her "Angel" EP. It is full of Ms. Birkenes's best: Runaway, Oh Sailor, the recent Good Mistake, and my favorite Valentine including seven new songs I am literally dying to hear. March 25th, get here faster! (And it should... I have a date with Ages and Ages and Lake Street Dive that night!)

Speaking of New Albums...

Sharon van Etten album!!! Sharon van Etten Album!!! And as the first single to May 27th's release of "Are We There," Sharon puts out a new symphonic sound quite different to her lo-fi folky tunes from "Tramp." "Taking Chances" teeters a strange line between cheerful (as cheerful as van Etten's smoky music can be) and her signature lo-fi folk as she tempts everyone listening in running away with her. In a second, Ms. van Etten!