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Angela Correa, from Echo Park, California, records soft, lovely music under the name Correatown. Her EP, Echoes was released January 22, and is like an appetizer of what she will bring on her unreleased full length album. I just heard about her and missed her EP release party last weekend, but she'll play a few shows in the Northwest and Northeast before heading to SXSW. Angela provided the singing voice for Jenna Fischer in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. See her myspace page for the "Let's Duet" video from Walk Hard, tour dates, more music, and a video for "Racing Tides", a track from her EP.

The Broken West are hard at work on their follow-up to last year's critically acclaimed I Can't Go On, I'll Go On, yet another album that I mistakenly bypassed on my favorites list. The band is attempting to blog about the progress they are making on their yet to be named next album, and unfortunately for them, the heat broke in their recording studio. Stay tuned for more.

Silversun Pickups released exclusive iTunes remixes of "Lazy Eye" and "Little Lover's So Polite" in December off of their outstanding 2006 release, Carnavas. The band will play a free show in Mammoth on March 29, more details here. Hopefully they're finding time to write songs for a new album.

After the success of her wonderful Christmas show, Aimee Mann will return to her residency at Largo on February 5. Nellie McKay, who was a guest on her Christmas show (which we posted about here), will appear at Largo on February 1 and presented by KCRW on February 8.

The lovely Shana Levy and her band Let's Go Sailing will play at one of our favorite venues, the Troubadour on March 6 with Nicole Adkins.


correatown: all the world (i tell myself) [buy]
the broken west: so it goes [buy]
silversun pickups: checkered floor [buy]
let's go sailing: all i want from you is love [live KCRW] [buy]