• LA-singer songwriter Derek Thomas just got back from a month-long tour of Nicaragua and Costa Rica performing at restaurants, hotels and hostels. To finance his travels he is currently promoting his newest 13-track full-length album Beyond The Trestles.

The man is on top of the LA-scene and we for sure gonna keep tabs on Mr Thomas. The vibe and the feeling is there, it’s Americana greatness with a soul-surf touch. Don’t miss his awesome tune Honey Whiskey.

• Cancer is a danish duo with a hurtful, vibrant Antony and the Johnsons kind of swing. It´s haunting stuff from the bottom of the darkest well. Cancer is Nikolaj Manuel Vonsild and Kristian Finne Kristensen. Check out their epic song Same Color As Digital Photography.

• We love War On Drugs. Well, Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon) don´t. The WOD played high n’ loud next to the man on a gig the other night and he promised to write a song called ”War On Drugs Can Suck My Cock”. Well, he did. Pretty damn good too – in its passive-aggressive splendor.

• Timothy Showalter makes his Strand of Oaks twirl our world around. Huge music for huge emotions. If you dig Phosphorescent, My Morning Jacket, The War on Drugs – you’ll dig this.

Check out devestating song JM from 2014-album Heal out on Dead Oceans.

• On this Election Day of Sweden we give ya’ll Elias Bjerstedt and his band Emmet. The band released their debut album This is Emmett’s new record and it’s an Americana arrow into the heart of any Buffalo.

This rings out from the porches of the Appalaches, twisted with the melancholy state of their hometown Malmö.

Elias Bjerstedt is a huge Dylan-fan, and aren’t we all. Cheers to Bob, and check out great tune Montana below. And vote against racism today folks!

• With guitar pickering a la Jose Gonzalez the brit singer-songwriter Nick Mulvey got us on our knees, beggin for more.

The man got his debut LP First Mind out, receving a short list nomination for the Mercury Music Prize Album of the Year.

Check out the great song: Fever To The Form.

• This band from Cincinnati, Ohio, have been making records since 2005. Still out on the road with amazing front singer Erika Wennerstrom who digs deep in every tune.

The music is a classic reminder of heavy weights Sabbath, Airplane and Bolan, but still with the special swing of the The Heartless Bastards. The band now lives in Austin, Texas and hangs out with Partisan Records.

Check out the badass song Down In The Canyon. And the hour is getting late…

• Ty Segall is up our alley for sure. A guitar-fuzzer with both feet in the 70’s psycho-garage scene and productive as hell. His 2014-album Manipulator is getting up high on a-many End of year lists. Very rightly so.

This San Fran 27 year old guitar-drummer man just keeps on giving. Check out this new tune Feel live on Conan.

• ”I’ll be your actress, though I don’t know what it means.” A couple of seconds into this new tune and you´re hooked. The humming of the chorus is perfect, the escalation of the song never ends.

Married couple Dawn Larsh and Armando Vega found each other on the road and became The Tallest Tree. Check out their ukulele greatness in this gem of a song, I’ll Be Your (For You).

• Sometimes you hit gold. And let me tell you, Mister Eli Rhodes is Bonanza Creek, Klondike in the hard whipped year of 1896.

His EP Running Out Of Jesus is one of this years best albums, no doubt in my mind. It´s his first solo effort, let’s pray for more.