KCRW recently broadcast a solo performance by Ryan Adams that was recorded at Apogee Berkeley Street Studios in front of a live audience.  Check out a few of the songs below and watch/listen to the full set HERE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFCyysF7sfg&feature=uploademail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLrxb1IIRqA&feature=relmfu

Dum Dum Girls made their network television debut last night, showing up on the “Jimmy Fallon Show” to play their song, Bedroom Eyes, off of their #1 College-Radio album, “Only in Dreams” on Sub Pop. Watch the performance below via the Audio Perv. The song truly takes flight at 2:21.  You might assert from this performance that they are merely the Goth Go-Gos.  But we hear more depth in the lyrics to go with the arresting audio amalgam of the Shangri-Las, Ramone(a)s, Cramps, and Mazzy Star.

About the song, Bedroom Eyes, Sub Pop tells that [lead singer] “Dee Dee wrote ‘Bedroom Eyes’ after returning from a European tour, jet-lagged and lonely. ‘I was home alone,’ she says. ‘Insomnia was taking its toll; I felt absolutely crazy. I looked up poetry on the subject and found a Dante Gabriel Rosetti poem and the song was born from that.’” A poetry reader? We’re in.

Iron & Wine showed up on Leno last night to play the recently revealed “Wedding Version” of their song, Flightless Bird, American Mouth.  The track can be found on the soundtrack to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 1.  Check out the performance below (courtesy of the Audio Perv).  Sam Beam and band continue to deftly iron their live act and wine and dine us with live musical brilliance.

After you check out last night’s performance, check out the band’s earlier performance of Tree by the River on Leno.  Stunning stuff.

Last year’s Plants And Animals’ album, “La La Land,” was one of our favorite albums of 2010. So anticipation runs high at Chez Lefort for their newly announced third album, “The End Of That.”  Recorded outside of Paris (bien sur!), the new album will be released on February 28th on Secret City. The band has just released the first track, Lightshow, which bodes well for the album as you can hear (or download) below. The new album’s song list follows.

Plants and Animals – Lightshow by SecretCityRecords

The End Of That:

1. Before
2. The End of That
3. Song for Love
4. Lightshow
5. Crisis!
6. 2010
7. HC
8. Why & Why
9. Control Me
10. No Idea
11. Runaways