"Green Eyed Love" is the downbeat album-closer from Michigan soul singer Mayer Hawthorne's Stones Throw debut LP, A Strange Arrangement. On first blush its lyrics seem to suggest he's got a thing…   Read Story »

At Seattle's biggest music festival, rain is not unexpected; still, the downpours at Bumbershoot '09 were scary even for this neck of the Pacific Northwest. No bands got electrocuted, but the sound…   Read Story »

Los Angeles-via-Ann Arbor singer/DJ/producer/multi-instrumentalist Mayer Hawthorne basically does everything on A Strange Arrangement, his debut full-length for Stones Throw. He has a sort of…   Read Story »