I’ve watched the above video of Junip captured beautifully by the folks at Big Ass Lens at least a dozen times since seeing it for the first time. If you have yet to explore to beauty of the José González led Junip, then please take the time to pick up a copy of their record, Fields. It’s fantastic.

Elsewhere:

Saddle Creek announces that Bright Eyes will release The People’s Key on February 15, 2011. Bright Eyes now has a twitter account.

Afternoon Records announced they will be releasing Yellow Ostrich’s excellent album, The Mistress, on high-quality yellow vinyl on 2/15. Pre-order your copy of the album here.

Stereogum premieres “Swim Club” from the Cave Singers forthcoming album, No Witch, their first on Jagjaguwar.

Deerhoof’s “Hey I Can” is up for listen at the Japanese website Qetic!

My favorite track from Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros live show, “Fire & Water” is now available exclusively as part of an iTunes session.

Amazon MP3 has some amazing albums on the cheap: including The National, Kanye West, Arcade Fire, Pink Floyd, Mavis Staples, Sade, LCD Soundsystem, Robert Plant and many more.

We kicked off our Saturday by seeing the Fleet Foxes for the third time this year. They were absolutely incredible, one of my favorites sets of the day as the band continues to top themselves each time I see them. On top of that, their onstage banter/comedy was unexpected, but very funny.

The Drive-By Truckers put on a tight demonstration of Southern Rock the way it should be. The highlight was the extended story intro of “18 Wheels of Love,” which if you haven’t seen live, hope you do the next time you catch DBT. I caught Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears on the recommendation of many and was glad I did. They guy makes no secret his desire to be the next James Brown, and if this young Texan keeps at it, he’s got the pipes and musical talent to make him famous. Britt Daniel was in the crowd for this set, which is fitting enough, consider Britt worked on Black Joe’s record.

Erykah Badu started her set in typical diva fashion – late. Despite her tardiness, I was absolutely enamored with her set. It was my first time seeing her and it was great watching her huge band and huge beats, all powered by her huge hair! Going from one extreme to the other, I next checked out John Fogerty, whose set was a nod to the greatness he created with Credence Clearwater Revival. Honestly, people all around lost their heads as Fogerty rolled out one CCR tune after another. It was just about as close as I’ll ever get to seeing and hearing a band that was on heavy rotation during my youth.

Going into this festival, the headliners did very little for me. I wasn’t really interested or excited about seeing any of them. On Friday, I stuck around and was rewarded with a great closing set from Manu Chao. Last night offered the dilemma of choosing between Robert Plant & Allison Kraus or seeing Beck. All day I was set on seeing the former as I’d never seen them before and have seen Beck plenty of times. That changed around 6pm when the excitement around the festival convinced me that seeing Beck was the right thing to do. I’m glad I did. Starting his set out with “Loser” was an absolute shock (didn’t think he played that anymore) and a catapult into a set that was filled with generous samples from his catalog including Modern Guilt material for the first time, which sounded great. It ended up being my favorite set of the day. Make sure you check him out on this tour.

Fleet Foxes

José González

Drive-By Truckers

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears

Erykah Badu

John Fogerty

Iron & Wine

Beck