Technically, The Magic Wands don’t call themselves a Nashville band and probably would never claim such roots if asked point blank. However, those of us with an idea of the history of bands that have come and gone through our area know that ‘Chris Valentine’ was once a staple of our fine community and we totally understand the disassociation.

Long story short, The Magic Wands make some good song and they’ve just debuted their Daytrotter Session.. well worth streaming or downloading.

Brite Revolution is an up-and-coming website devoted to the idea of doing social good while giving music fans something they want (and a few things they didn’t know they wanted). The basic gist is that you sign up for an account, pay a monthly subscription and get access to a load of music from a particular pool of artists. A portion of your subscription goes to a variety of charities – one of your choosing, one of the artists involved choosing. So, how do you get people to subscribe to a service of such a sort? Offer exclusive material of course! They’ve got tracks from the likes of The Silver Seas, Heypenny, Milktooth, Space Capone and a whole host of others. Granted, the majority of offerings they have available aren’t going to appeal to everyone but for those that it does ring a bell for are going to be privy to a lot of new music and a warm fuzzy feeling knowing part of that money went to doing something worthwhile. At the very least, browse the site to get an idea of the offerings they’ve got laid out – it is a novel, and respectable, idea.

The debut record from Slowmotions is now available for free download or on limited edition CD (stocked at Grimeys and The Groove as well). But who is Slowmotions? It’s the product of late night, dream induced musings of one Andrew Brassell – best known as one-third of And The Relatives.

Quick Potions is sixteen tracks of electronics, heavy personal sampling and traditional pop/rock structures all mixed together. It’s not an easy album to pin down but it’s filled with instrumental segues transitioning between ethereal pop tracks and, personally, I couldn’t recommend it enough. Granted, it’s the fifth release from my little label experiment but who said we can’t be biased?

Long story short, there’s a full album of great tracks from an artist that’s been featured on previous WOTT podcasts that you can get entirely for free. You should do so now.