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I've recently been listening to a lot of less-common stuff, namely Iron & Wine, The Decemberists, Of Montreal, The Shins, and a few others (most bands are slipping my mind right now).
However, above all else, I must recommend, nay command, that you check out Vollmar. It's my friend's older brother doing a strange alt-folk thing. He's signed to Blue Sanct (a small label out of Indiana), and he's quite good. They just finished up a very small tour of Europe recently. I had heard his first release a couple years ago, when he had just finished it, but I was more of a pop-metal guy back then. Now that I'm appreciating stuff that isn't forcefed to me via MTV, I gave it another listen and I was suitably impressed. It blew my mind, quite honestly. Reminded me of Iron & Wine, but with much less polished production and vocals that vascillate between etheral and angelic and amateurish and naive. Truly intriguing stuff, in my humble opinion.
Haven't seen many shows recently, though I did get a chance to see a co-workers project The Fortunate Unhappy, which is a very psychadelic folk kind of sound, featuring some very interesting covers (they're on MySpace).
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