Caterwauling Brooklyn experimentalists Dirty Projectors have collaborated with Bjork; a track from their new Album Ascending Melody can be downloaded for free at their official website!

Aziz Ansari earned a place in Tourfilter's heart with his depiction of a Pitchfork-terrorizing "Indie Marketing Guru" in a send-up of the dawn of the MP3 blog era; he tours regularly with a hilarious conventional stand-up act.

Author of numerous musical paeans to boston, Jonathan Richman's lyrics are sweet, sad, funny, and readily comprehensible; his melodies are witty and pretty; his live show is intimate. here's a video of Richman performing crowd favorite "I Was Dancing At A Lesbian Bar" on Conan.