This week is a big one for releases from artists we love and have been playing a lot lately like Parquet Courts and La Luz along with a whole crate of great new Nashville music from Erin Rae (the video below features our own Emily Young!), Halfnoise, Elel, Jackson + Sellers, and an artist that has been in Nashville a bunch this year Pink Sweat$ (whose show we are presenting at Brooklyn Bowl in Dec.). There’s also a fantastic interview with our Record of the Week artist My Morning Jacket who we can lay some claim to as a couple of band members live in Nashville now.

We start with the latest from one of the best songwriters of his generation – Michael Kiwanuka (thanks to Song Exploder for letting us in on the fact that we’ve been mispronouncing his name for years). This song feels like a continuation of the grand, thoughtful, orchestral approach that led his last album to winning the UK’s top critical honor the Mercury Prize. This song “Beautiful Life” is taken from a new Netflix documentary – Convergence: Courage in a Crisis.

• Michael Kiwanuka “Beautiful Life”
• Jackson + Sellers “Has Been”
• Jive Talk “This Town” (Celia’s pick)
• Beirut “Fisher Island Sound” (Ayisha Jaffer’s pick)
• Halfnoise “Last Day on Earth”
• Elel “UFO”
• Pink Sweat$  “Nothing Feels Better”
• My Morning Jacket Record of the Week Interview
• Erin Rae “Modern Woman”
• Parquet Courts “Homo Sapien”
• La Luz “Goodbye Ghost”
• Animal Collective “Prester John”