New Music From jj, Cat Power, Bethany Cosentino

I just got back from Ireland and boy are my arms pale and mottled! No (yes), but it’s gorgeous there, and I wish there were a way, at the end of all trips, to see the cumulative amount of [whatever] you’d consumed there. In this case, butter, whiskey, and air inhaled sharply while riding in rental-car passenger seats on inconceivably narrow country roads. (Bowls, bowls, gallons!) But everything turned out great. Anyway, what did I miss?

Also, the lovely Swedish duo jj are giving away a five-track EP (here’s a nice sample), Cat Power premieres new music on NPR, Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino covers “Rhiannon,” and this young woman does not like buttons.