Onda Vaga

This Buenos Aires-based group is loads of fun. If you enjoying sitting around a campfire on the beach (or anywhere else, for that matter)and singing with friends you're going to enjoy the gregarious quality of the performance below. Check out their website here.

Deerhunter

Off this Atlanta-based band's 2010 album, Halcyon Digest:

Radio Citizen: Berlin Serengeti

I recently rediscovered this German group and think this album, released in 2006, sounds as fresh today as it did four years ago. Let me know if you agree.

The Greenhornes: I've Been Down

The Greenhornes are from Cincinnati, Ohio. This song is off a compilation album they released in 2005 called Sewed Soles.

Cotton Jones: Nicotine Canary

This is is a chilled-out and catchy song off this Maryland-based artist's 2009 Rio Ranger EP.

Julian Plenti: Skyscraper

Paul Banks is the lead singer / guitarist of the band Interpol. Julian Plenti is the pseudonym he uses for his solo work. Check out his website here.

Jane Birken: L'Aquoiboniste

A lovely, albeit off-beat song off the 1978 album Ex Fan Des Sixties, one of the many Jane Birken-Serge Gainsbourg collaborations.