Whenever I receive an email from Daytrotter listing off their incomprehensible onslaught of new sessions available for download every week I’m always overjoyed to see a Nashville band among the ranks. This was, once again, proven true when the weekly heads-up let me know that Infinity Cat’s own JEFF the Brotherhood had a session up and ready for consumption. The music itself draws mainly from Heavy Days but they managed to slip a track in from Castle Storm as well.

The Daytrotter sound fits the bands aesthetic quite well. With that in mind, you should go grab it now.

If you’re a fan of intense, driving, minor-key rock n’ roll, then Heartbeater should be your new favorite local band. With a lack of pretension and a wealth of songs, these young men have made a name for themselves in a fairly short amount of time. In their current incarnation for less then a year, the quartet has released an EP and are in the midst working on a full length. Heartbeater recently gave us a few minutes of their time.

WOTT: Give us the down-low on Heartbeater. How’d you get together? What do you have in store for everybody in 2010?

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