Welcome to Vol. 1 of the JamBase Digital Sampler. We've compiled 10 tracks for download from artists that we think you'll enjoy. If you like what you hear then purchase the album, and if you see one of the aritsts in your area, we encourage you to get out there and GO SEE LIVE MUSIC.   artist title album down load itunes store buy album The Mars Volta Vermacide Amputechture JJ Grey & Mofro War Country Ghetto Dr. Dog My Old Ways We All Belong Rodrigo Y Gabriela Diablo Rojo Rodrigo Y Gabriela Tom Waits Bottom of the World Orphans Elvis Perkins While You Were Sleeping Ash Wednesday Xavier Rudd Energy Song Food In The Belly Assembly of Dust Telling Sue Recollection Backyard Tire Fire Downtime Vagabonds and Hooligans Antibalas I.C.E. Security Subscribe to the JamBase Digital Sampler podcast More information about the artists: The Mars Volta is the creative partnership formed in 2001 between bandleader/composer/guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and lyricist/vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala. The Mars Volta's first recorded output was the three-song Tremulant EP, more... Growing up in the swamplands of northern Florida, down home roots, rock and soul artist JJ Grey became a realist early on. "You fall in love with a pig," he says, "and then one day your granddad knocks it in the head more... Dr. Dog has been creating music in various incarnations in their hometown of Philadelphia for nearly six years now. From the humble beginnings of THE PSYCHEDELIC SWAMP, a concept album more... Rodrigo (Sanchez) and Gabriela (Quintero) are two fast-fingered, Dublin-based, Mexicans with a unique sound created on acoustic guitars. Their music is difficult to define, straddling both world and rock, more... Tom Waits, according to the esteemed American critic Robert Hilburn, is “clearly one of the most important figures of the modern pop era”. Such sentiments are not mere hyperbole; in a career that now spans more... Elvis Perkins’ debut album, Ash Wednesday, feels both lived in and lived through. He combines emotional intimacy with a warm-hearted studio sound that recalls Nick Drake and Astral Weeks-era Van Morrison. more... Angst, lust, sorrow, aggro and ego will have their say. Gratitude is a path less travelled in the emotional landscape of modern music. It may be the strange, potent quality that unites Xavier Rudd more... Hearing Assembly of Dust has the flush of meeting a stranger who will inform your life in profound & happy ways, someone whose wise council might help you see the world in a fresh light. more... As their moniker suggests, Backyard Tire Fire churns out a barely-controlled conflagration— starting off low and slow, flaring into a flat-out blaze at the whim of a breeze, then drawing back down into a pungent, more... True, some bands are simply meant to lead, and Brooklyn’s Antibalas--as tough and diverse as the city that birthed them nearly a decade ago--has continued to do just that. The group, whose name means “bulletproof” more... Subscribe to the JamBase Digital Sampler podcast