People doing good stuff for other people makes us happy. Edward Sharpe & Magnetic Zeroes helped raise money to get the Gulu a new farm, so some village people recorded themselves singing the band’s song, “Home.” We like this. Read up about The Voice Project organization. “Home” in Gulu from The Voice Project on Vimeo.

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Ya Ho Wha 13 were the band formed out of the pre-dawn practice sessions that served also as morning meditation for the Source Family, the L.A.-area religious sect that ran their own health food restaurant during the ‘70s. Drag City has collected nine unreleased songs for this month’s Magnificence in the Memory. This interview by Dan Collins.

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If you really want to impress your guests from out of town, skip Universal CityWalk and take them to see El Ten Eleven at whatever little club is keen enough to be hosting them. (Tonight it was Home, the upscale but cozy diner in Silver Lake.) Your guests may be skeptical when they see two nondescript men take the stage. But they’ll begin nodding when the local duo lays down a fuzzed-out groove a la Death From Above 1979. Then bassist/double-neck guitarist Kristian Dunn will make with the looping, and your guests will really start to feel like they’re on vacation.

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