Another quick FF – check out more of my friends’ Kickstarter projects – both of these albums will be well worth a listen, plus some of their KS rewards are fun (e.g., go bowling or skiing with the artist, or have a band record a running critique of the movie of your choice!):

If you don’t know Boston SteamCrunk band Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys, get youself over to their Bandcamp page to sample their wild tunes. But then come back and pledge to help them finish mixing and mastering their new studio album:

Laura Cortese is a fiddler and singer who has been carving out her own style – you won’t believe what she can do both melodically and rhythmically with just her fiddle and voice! Now she needs to finish mixing and mastering her new CD with many special string players (think “folk string quartet”):