Hailing from Tulsa, Oklahoma, twenty-something singer-songwriter Jonathan Van Risseghem summons daydreamy pop-melodicism that betrays influence from such diverse sources as Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine and more AOR fare like Train’s “Drops of Jupiter.”

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MusicZeitgeist.com’s top ten music spins for the second week of May, 2009

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Singer/songwriter and founder of the Constant Change Music label Keram Malicki-Sanchez (aka “Keram”) has posted a new live video from the Robot Pride Day festival in Toronto that took place this year at the El Mocambo in Toronto, Canada. He is joined onstage by former Blue Dog Pict band-mate Pete Devlin (electric guitar) and tabla master Ritesh Das of the Toronto Tabla Ensemble.

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