Jenny Lewis: Acid Tongue

I'm a big fan of Jenny Lewis (also of Rilo Kiley) and her first solo record, Rabbit Fur Coat (with the Watson Twins). That album featured such great songs as The Big Guns, Rise Up with Fists!! and a fantastic cover of The Traveling Wilbury's Handle with Care featuring Death Cab's Ben Gibbard, Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and She &amp Him's M. Ward. Rabbit Fur Coat was released on the New York-based Oberst/Krenkel-founded label Team Love .

Released on 9/23, Acid Tongue (click for production and label credits) is Jenny's second solo album and it's got some great stuff, I particularly like the title track which features just an acoustic guitar and a bass playing behing Jenny and the backing vocal talents of (Lewis' boyfriend) Jonathan Rice and Chris Robinson (of the Black Crowes).

Newport Folk Festival on NPR Music

NPR Music has an area devoted to the Newport Folk Festival where you can hear streaming live performances from She and Him, Jim James (of My Morning Jacket), Steve Earle, Jakob Dylan, Calexico, Willy Mason and Gillian Welch. Former Phish frontman Trey Anastasio also played an acoustic solo set taking up the "folk challenge".

The Lilywhite Sessions: She and Him

The Lillywhite Sessions at Avatar Studios is a new aspect of The World Cafe Radio Show on National Public Radio. Featuring Record Producer Steve Lillywhite, the shows are taped live at the legendary Avatar Recording Studios in New York City.

The first session, featuring She & Him (the duo featuring M.Ward and Zooey Deschanel), aired Wednesday June 11, 2008. In the second hour of this first installment, World Cafe host David Dye interviewed Lillywhite, focusing on the U2 album War, one of the producer's many notable achievements. The second installment, a session with UK electronic duo Goldfrapp, will air July 9.

Here's the NPR Music World Cafe piece on the She & Him sessions with a 3-song 17 minute streaming set list.