The Lodger, featured on SFFMv149 this week, re Ben Siddall (vocals, guitars, songs), Joe Margetts (bass guitar), Bruce Renshaw (drums, percussion, vocals) with Timothy Corbridge (lap steel, 2nd guitar) joining the band live.

The Lodger – Getting Special HWD Remix

Saturday Looks Good To Me‘s new album, Fill Up The Room, drops next Tuesday and is generating a great deal of buzz for the band. SLGTM is lead by singer/songwriter Fred Thomas and filled in by a rotating cast of members to fit the constant shuffle of style and genres that Thomas exeriments in. Across seven albums, Thomas has explored sounds from Motown to the Beach Boys.

Saturday Looks Good To Me – Hands in the Snow
Saturday Looks Good To Me – Can’t Ever Sleep
Saturday Looks Good To Me – Lift Me Up
Saturday Looks Good To Me – Disaster
Make a Plan is available as a download on the band’s Myspace page.

More tracks from LA electro artist Sam Sparro

Sam Sparro – S.A.M.S.P.A.R.R.O
Sam Sparro – Cottonmouth

Go to Sam Sparro’s Myspace for the making of the Cottonmouth video, and some great behind-the-scenes pictures of this cheecky vid.

Romantica are a five-piece from Minneapolis (well, four from Minnesota, one from Belfast, Ireland) that play a blend of Americana music that incorporates country, blues, and folksounds. From their bio:

ROMANTICA / (ro-mantik-ah) / n. / The fantastic tricks of gypsy men : one who is inclined toward the sensations of mystery and excitement associated with human love : one who is characterized by an idealized view of reality : suggestive of inspiration, deep feeling, subjectivity : a band of musicians originating in Minneapolis, in 2002, who are characterized by deeply felt poetic imagery enshrined in effortlessly emotive popular melodies suggestive of folk, country, and pop music histories; in similar traditions with Ryan Adams, Damien Rice and The Wallflowers.

Opening for Ryan Adams this past weekend, Romantica’s lead singer and songwriter Ben Kyle was joined for a new track by Ry. The performance is streaming on their myspace page now.

Romantica – Queen Of Hearts
Romantica – I Need You Tonigh

Chris Stills is the son of Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Buffalo Springfield), and French singer/songwriter Veronique Sanson. He sings in both English and French on his new self-titled album album.

Chris Stills – Flying High (English)
Chris Stills – Kitty Kathy (French)
Chris Stills’ Myspace page has more.