Kevin Bronson on December 6th, 2010

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[Keeping this installment local …]

‣ Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes, “40 Day Dream (iTunes session).” Been a busy year for Alex Ebert (pictured at Sunset Junction) and crew. Their new iTunes session, features five recast versions of songs from “Up From Below.” – including a particularly aching “40 Day Dream” – as well as a newly recorded track, the gospel-inflected “Fire & Water.” Oh, and Ebert debuted a solo song, “Truth,” via RollingStone.com. Is a solo tour in the works? ESMZ play the KROQ holiday show at the Gibson Amphitheatre on Sunday. And who woulda thunk that 18 months ago? … Oh, you want to hear “Fire & Water?” Here goes:

‣ Snow & Voices, “So Freely” and “I Am a Storm” (Narcovice remix).” I posted about Snow & Voices’ third album “Anything That Moves” back in May. But last month, a couple new sounds emerged: “So Freely,” a cover from the 1972 album by Tir Na Nog, “A Tear and a Smile.” Pretty. On a dramatically different tip, a new remixer named Narcovice tweaked S&V’s album track “I Am a Storm” into a dancefloor thumper. Pretty stormy.
‣ Death Kit, “Devadasi.” Sending you to Rawkblog for this one. The L.A. band (fronted by August Brown, one of my former colleagues at the Times) will release this song as a 7-inch in February on Tucson-based Fort Lowell Records.