Risa Binder has just released her debut album Paper Heart this week, and recently took the time to stop by with her band for a performance and interview. The Columbia, MD native, who moved to Brooklyn, NY around eight years ago, started writing songs about the things going on in her life at the age of nine. She grew up a pop music fan, but totally fell in love with country music while attending college. She was going to appear in a show about women in country music, and while doing research on Loretta Lynn, discovered how incredible she was.More With Risa

It’s time for Alex Maas of The Black Angels to sit down and chat with us to tell us about the Austin, TX band and give us a lowdown about the band, how they separate themselves from the rest of Austin bands and how important Last.fm is to them.The Word of Alex

The musician behind Penguin Prison is New York City’s own Chris Glover. Out now is the self-titled album on Downtown Records. Click-thru and listen to Chris talk about the album and primarily about the song that’s got people talking. He also takes us through the making of the video for “Don’t F@#k With My Money”. His three-song performance is also included.Chris Plays & Chats

Check in with Taylor Goldsmith, brother Griffin, Wylie Gelber and Tay Strathairn as we find out more about the latest Dawes album Nothing Is Wrong. Jackson Browne and Benmont Tench make guest appearances on this solid follow-up to their debut.Dawes Chat

Following their three-song session, Dave, Josh & Jimmie from Every Avenue sat down with us to talk about their latest album Bad Habits. Also, check out their performance which we’ve once again posted inside.Every Word, Every Song, From Every Avenue

The Snow Patrol feature this week comes to a close with Gary Lightbody sitting down with us to talk about the making of the new album Fallen Empires. The sixth studio comes out here in the U.S. this Tuesday, January 10th, and the night before you can watch the band perform live from the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theatre as part of our on-going series Live On Letterman. Get all the details here. Then jump in and catch Gary’s chat and the performance too!Dig Snow Patrol

Suzanne Santo and Ben Jaffe, who head-up Honeyhoney, stopped by the Last.fm Presents studio with their band recently, while they were in New York City for a show at The Mercury Lounge. They performed a few tunes off the new album, which gives us a little twang, a little Americana and a little good old rootsy country music.

Watch them do their current single “Turn That Finger Around,” a song written in Suzanne’s backyard around a riff that Ben was working on. The rest of the performance is also here, as well as our sit-down chat with Suzanne and Ben.Use That Finger To Click

The Drums returned to our studio, a little over a year since their initial session with Last.fm Presents. This time around the quirky indie-pop band has a new album to spotlight, Portamento.

Since that last session, however, there have been some changes in their camp. First off, guitarist Adam Kessler left the band just a few days after we first met them. New faces in the band include Myles Matheny (bass/guitar/backing vocals) and a familiar face to me, Danny Lee Allen (drums) who was behind the kit with We Are Scientists when they came by in July of last year.

Click thru to see their stellar performance and chat with Last.fm Presents.Dance To The Beat Of The Drums

This week’s featured artist Megan Washington, goes by the stage name of simply, Washington.

She was born in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea and lived there until the age of 11. Her family moved to Brisbane, Australia were she did her schooling, and currently lives in Melbourne. Her debut album I Believe You Liar got it’s U.S. release this past November.  The song “How To Tame Lions” has already garnered some high praise in Australia. In December 2009 she won the inaugural Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition for the song. Last year at the ARIA Music Awards it was nominated for Single Of The Year. At the awards she won two awards, being named Best Female Artist & Breakthrough Artist. The album was nominated for Album Of The Year and Best Adult Alternative Album.

Click thru for a performance from her and guitarist Matt Dublin playing that song as well as two others. Megan also sat down and chatted with us.Award Winning Stuff

Indie-rock darlings Yuck stopped by the Last.fm Presents studio in New York recently and performed four songs from their brilliant, critically acclaimed, self-titled debut album. They also sat down for a conversation.

Watch them do “Soothe Me,” which is now featured as part of the deluxe edition bonus CD. By the time the song was finally finished, it was too late to be included on the original release. Yuck also performed three additional songs from the album and chatted with us.Yeah For Yuck

The Wombats came back strong in 2011 with their sophomore album This Modern Glitch. They began work on the album in early 2009, shortly after coming off the road supporting their debut album. With the exception of a few festival appearance and shows here and there, the band concentrated mainly on the album. This was necessary even more so, considering there was no material ready to record going into the sessions. No songs had ever been played live, like they were for A Guide To Love, Loss & Desperation. If you dig super-catchy Britpop/rock with keyboards, it doesn’t get any better than this.Watch The Wombats

From right here in New York City, we’ve got the five-piece band Caveman all week as one of our featured artists. Their debut album CoCo Beware, produced by French Kicks member Nick Stumpf, is out now.

Matt Iwanusa, Jimmy Carbonetti, Stefan Marolachakis, Sam Hopkins and Jeff Berrall settled in to play us four songs from the album and chatted with us afterwards. Wonderful vocals and harmonies, shimmering guitars, atmospheric keyboards, strong bass lines held together by a steady back beat make Caveman a band not to be missed.Enter Caveman

Just the fact alone that Scott H. Biram was sitting in our studio recording a Discover session, is amazing in itself. Back on March 25, 2003, Scott was hit head on by an 18-wheeler truck and driven right over. He suffered a broken femur, knee, arm and several internal injuries. Metal pins & rods were put in all of the broken bones, and on top of that, a foot and a half of his intestines were removed.

Even more amazing is that only a handful of weeks after this life-threatening wreck, he was back on the stage performing in a wheelchair with an IV attached to his arm. He spent the next seven months in and out of the hospital. (Strangely enough, two original songs that he released on the record LO:FI Mojo, were called “Truck Driver” and “Wreck My Car”).The Dirty Old One Man Band