nite jewel

As Ramona Gonzalez hinted on preview tracks "She's Always Watching You" and "One Second of Love" (not to mention that gorgeous Stevie Wonder cover), gone are the beloved lo-fi 8-track bedroom recordings that elicited all of those "Debbie Deb on cough syrup" comparisons 4 years ago: this is some evolved/grown-up shit...

Ramona Gonzalez of Nite Jewel recorded this starkly beautiful and touching version of one of the best Stevie songs, in honor of our good friend Yourstru.ly's beloved sister Lauren. Read YT's letter to Ramona here. Every purchase of YT x Nite Jewel's She's Always Watching You 7" comes with a $1 donation to the Lauren Abramson Memorial Fund...

Here's the b-side from Nite Jewel's new 7" single: On the dusky, melancholy "Sister," Cole MGN's softly lilting bassline anchors what is probably Ramona Gonzalez's most fragile and emotionally exposed song to date, a direction that she'll hopefully explore further on her forthcoming Secretly Canadian LP, due in 2012...

Here's the latest from Jason Grier's "(anti)love jams" project Heart Shaped Rock, which features some of his female friends on vocals. We posted up the first Nite Jewel contribution last summer, and now Grier has unveiled a few more HSR jams, including this one featuring Estonian bedroom disco songstress Maria Minerva...

Directed by Jose Wolff + Delaney Bishop.

Presenting our second annual SXSW throwdown with Mexican Summer records on Friday, March 18, at KLUB KRUCIAL on 6th St. from around noon until 2 AM. Free beer until it's gone. 21+. More details + set times coming soon... _____________ mp3:

New West Coast bedroom disco-funk from Nite Jewel and L.A.'s "Ambassador of Boogie Funk" himself, DāM-FunK. This track appears alongside a Samps remix on the b-side of Nite Jewel's new It Goes Through Your Head 12", out soon on Mexican Summer...

Directed by Ola Vasiljeva. Taken from Nite Jewel's Am I Real? EP, out now on Stones Throw. mp3:

We're extremely psyched to announced that we've teamed up with our good friends at Yours Truly to present an evening with Panda Bear, along with special guest Nite Jewel, live at Oakland's Fox Theater on Monday, September 6. We've each got a pair of tickets to give away for the show; just leave a comment below or head over to YT if you'd like to attend, and we'll pick the winners this Friday... R