Follow-ups, flash­backs, rar­i­ties & oddities

Ellie Goulding is one of many singer-songwriters who chose to go syn­th­pop in recent years. Maybe she went a bit too far, but it’s still fun, just not very classy. (via Break On A Cloud)

Wayne Tomsett sings like the imag­i­nary lovechild of Brian Molko and Tracy Chapman.

This was unex­pected. Enter Mark Stanley. He’s good at startling.

Mesita inno­vates with great courage. Wow, what do we call this? Awesome.

Erika Wennerstrom’s band, the Heartless Bastards cre­ate a mes­mer­iz­ing sound­scape that could be the per­fect back­ground music for a cra­zier David Lynch scene.

Finally, one more song by Peter Doran. He describes it as “Tribal-pounding-energetic-Alt Rock Goodness.” It is.