(Ana T. Fernandez)

WeLikeItIndie has two songs from the new record from John Henry & The Engine.

DC9 At Night has a song from Audrey Auld.

Mainstream Isn’t So Bad has something from Cory Chisel.

Can You See The Sunset From The Southside has a nice new (!?) design and lofi mountain music songs from Austin Lucas.

My Big Mouth Strikes Again has something from the new Canadian “superduo” Human Highway.

Future Sounds has a Neil Young influenced track from Brooklyn based The Weight.

(“Tangle Theory” by Joshua Gorchov)

Athens 66 has mixed feelings about William F. Gibbs.

Hero Hill gives props to the new Alejandro Escovedo record.

Leather Canary has the new song from Blitzen Trapper (just about the only blog approved indie rock act I can stomach).

Cowboy Trance gets all nostalgic for Setting Sun.

(Art by Jorge Mascarenhas)

I really like what I hear from UK singer-songwriter Laura Marling. Treble agrees and has the video for her new single.

Hard To Find a Friend has a song from Cheyenne lead singer Beau Jennings solo debut record.

3Hive has something new from Daniel Ahearn, he’s the guy behind the band Ill Lit.

Consequence of Sound has the rambling folk of English singer-songwriter Nathan Clarke.

Filles Sourires, the Netherlands based blog of French chick singers, comes up big again with songs from Loane’s new record.

(b better in the morning by David Choe)

Carry You Away has the coffe house and advertising friendly folk rock of Landon Pigg.

Above The Fold has news about Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez.

There’s a raging debate over at Song By Toad as to whether Chris Denny is ace or the bullocks (not sure what that all means but it sounds funny).

Good Rockin’ Toinight (possibly one of the oddest mp3 blogs) has two songs from Hayes Carll and that’s never a bad thing.

Muruch has two songs from Canadian alt folk singer Brooke Miller.

(Wash Out Your Dirty Eyes by Keiti Ota)

I’m still liking everything I hear from Russian Red, Cable & Tweed mostly agrees but questions her choice of Cyndi Lauper covers.

3Hive expounds on the Joe Pug phenomena (fyi Joe will be performing at the next Songs:Illinois House Concert on June 6 – email me if you’re interested in attending).

The fiendishly good blog Anyone’s Guess has some lofi folk from Nathan Moomah.

Quarterlifeparty has 2 songs from the Wye Oak spinoff Noble Lake.

(Presence Crossing by Pat Rocha)

Usually these mp3 blog weekend wrapups are devoted to posts with mp3′s. But I love an anti corporate mp3 blog spiel as much as the next guy. Here’s The Post-Rockist trying to work his way through feelings of bitterness, jealousy, boredom and hostility towards the music blogging scene.

Nine Bullets has something new from the Appalachian new grassy group Medford’s Black Record Collection.

Things I’d Rather Being Doing has a great interview with Big Dipper.

IckMusic has the AAA pop stylings of Jon Regen.

I don’t fully understand the hoopla around of the Karen Dalton’s of the world. Why explore lost acts from the 60′s when we have so many undiscovered treasures from the present? Anyone’s Guess shares with us the music of NYC based singer songwriter Sharen Van Etten and her homemade music/packaging. The song “Picking Up Rocks” is worth the trip over there all my itself.

Lines Through Lines has two songs and a middling review of the new record from The Weepies.

(Bird With Snake by Stefanie Augustine)

Homo Eclectic has more from The Chapin Sisters.

The Yellow Stereo has two songs from The Oaks.

Instrumental Analysis has a new song from Teitur.

Who the Bloody Hell Are They? discover the “sweet folk” of Sarah Humphries.

Nine Bullets is in the running for blog post of the year with his look at the traditional song “Moonshiner”.

Demo’s from Hank Williams over at For The Sake Of The Song, Hell ya!

We Like It Indie (and others) liked Spanish singer songwriter Russian Red this week.

I somehow missed out on Delta Spirit, if you did too check out this post by Anyone’s Guess.

P.S. and an aside: I have liked what I heard from Christopher Denny but never posted about his music. I was put off by the production which to me mangled and jumbled his Buddy Holly meets Roy Orbison delivery. Thanks to a recent Daytrotter session you can hear what Christopher sounds like stripped down and raw.

Mp3Hugger has the beguiling music of burgeoning folksy UK pop stars…or something like that.

HearYa has two from the Austin “sensation” Leatherbag.

Muroch name-checks my favorite Irish band (the Waterboys) in her review of Freddie Stevenson so I had to check him out; you should too.

There was some good record news this week re: a Whiskeytown deluxe repackaging of Strangers Almanac, Captain Obvious gives a nice preview.

Obscure Sound has a nice review of the upcoming record by Phoebe Killdeer & The Short Straws.

Indie Muse has a couple songs off the new EP from Jim Ward (ex-Sparta).

BBQ Chicken Robot has three songs from the new Laura Cantrell cd of cover songs.

The Scope Of The Scene (and Songs:Illinois for that matter) wrote about Samamidon way back when, here they revisit this slightly puzzling new folk artist.

The bookmarkworthy site Ick Music introduces us to Canadian dream poppers Kensington Prairie.

(“fat bat man” by Anthony Lister)

Wow someone else has written about Old Man Luedecke, imagine that! In this case it’s the newish canadian mp3 blog A Limerick Ox.

To The Dogs Or Whoever has the lovely, enchanting English folk of Karine Polwart.

Another very new blog (with a very clean layout – I’m jealous) called A Free Man (with the subtitle “Simply Music”) has another song from that Sarah Borges and The Broken Singles record I wrote about a while back.

Bring Me Up has the overly polished, but catchy piano pop of Justin Hopkins.